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I'm three hours in to the audiobook and I am enjoying it but my desire to listen to Harry Dresden the World's Saddest Wizard is not without it's limits.

Crazy shit. Anyway I just finished Minute by minute account of a hypothetical nuclear war that begins with a "bolt out of the blue" ICBM launch by North Korea combined with some pretty extensive research and citations. It's a very tight package with the audiobook clocking in at under...

It's not a great episode. unrelated -

The vote was yes for berserkers and beastlords but the official ruleset has not been released.

You can't patent food or drink. You can trademark a logo and you can patent a unique process or piece of technology that lets you make the thing but that's about it. unrelated - Finland and alcohol bring you The Beatles Yellow Submarine Even if Coke had an initial patent that shit would...

No complaints but I too am surprised.

That might have gotten a pass in 2017 when Discovery launched today it's viewership poison.

Objectivity is going to be tough given STD still had some goodwill to work with when it launched and this was showing up to the party already hated.

Voyager's ratings were low enough that the local affiliate stopped airing them. Two or three seasons in the show just went away. The show eventually came back (and with a marathon to catch everyone up) but putting another Star Trek series on the network could not have been a good idea.

My liking the mirror universe stuff way late isn't really much praise given it's not the show's proper characters or story.

Back when it was airing, despite liking Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap, I didn't get more than a few episodes in before bailing. All my nerd friends bailed on it too. I did end up watching some of the final episodes of season four and then the finale when it originally aired and the show seemed...

I know I can't throw stones given Seven was in a skintight suit in nearly even scene she was in but those decontamination gel scenes in Enterprise were ridiculous.