If you want to circle back to rewatches and Star Trek, I checked out TOS on Amazon Prime a couple years ago. (“Updated” FX, though not Special Edition level, still certainly a choice)

Discovered they omitted the final episode Turnabout Intruder, where Kirk says a woman will never be Captain 😬

Yo, we talkin’ Gustave Doré up in here? www.openculture.com/2023/10/beho...

This isn't going to happen until the party leadership changes hands. Establishment Democrats (Schumer, Durbin, etc.) are still playing by outdated rules

Biden still thought he could negotiate with Republicans FFS. What decade is he living in?

Boutique distributor Thunderbean Animation blogs their similar experiences and I savor every post cartoonresearch.com/index.php/ca...

Well see you need to remember that these events didn’t happen here and now, but a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…

Also making a film to sell some big epic you want it to look like there’s deep backstory. He retconned things all the time. Wasn’t until the Special Editions we saw the problem

The problem is Apple wants to stay a trendsetter so they announce this new look everyone should adopt

Except it’s transitional for tech we don’t have yet. They blur the line between mobile and desktop but what does that ultimately look like? Is it the future we really want?

I updated my iPhone for an app and had to update my iMac to connect to my phone

Liquid Glass looks so stupid on desktop

“Hey, added all this to look slick on phones, even if the layering obscures things and probably hurts performance on older devices!”

… thanks?

A big part of what I'm raging at is the mobile-first push. Websites are unique with their own advantages. Designing for phones is like authors writing for status updates first

Imagine reading Stephen King's latest book 140 characters at a time 😵‍💫

Yeah, overdoing Skeuomorphic elements can look like a distracting collage and ineffectively display information

But dammit I miss shadows, gradients, and textures! They threw the baby out with the bathwater

There was actually a movement in the 2010s for Flat 2.0 careerfoundry.com/en/blog/ux-d...

Tired: Stupid Watergate
Wired: Stupid Imperialism

No, but if you believe in “no such thing as bad press” you’re giving them free advertising

My brother watched an interview with a heroin addict who said she started using because the movie Sid & Nancy “made it look so glamorous”

Adblock. If publishers won’t have standards they don’t get attention🤷🏼‍♂️

I’ve heard similar to “the opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference.” Both are passionate responses. Passion can be monetized and exploited. Advertisers scraping the bottom of the barrel will take what they can get

Arsenic wallpaper, lead paint, asbestos-filtered cigarettes, early fads with radioactivity/x-rays/electricity…

Bet there’s plenty of similar stories lost to history

So I get to pay some middleman to tell somebody else where I live so they can hassle me about giving them 5 stars, be expected to tip on top of the restaurant and delivery fees, and trust deputized “private contractors” with my food?

Lots of competitors. Dunno what makes any better than the others?

None of that ever sounded remotely appealing to me

“Get in this stranger’s car, give them your address, better tip because you know they’re barely covering gas… oh and you’re expected to rate the person controlling the locks.”

Then they start handling your food

Hell to the no

The amount of tools is surprising, even though we did all flee a hellsite where the new owner wanted to remove the Block button and sell verification for $8

Being algorithm-free is so refreshing yet surreal that it’s an outlier today