What is the context for the top frame? I assume that is Ewan McGregor.

Iceland, followed closely by Finland.

So I played it for a while several years ago and kinda got bored with it. I got to the bottom of the mine and had married one of the characters, and my farm (such as it was) was mostly automated so not much to do there. I know there are a bunch of story moments but I got tired of wandering around randomly trying to meet the conditions to trigger them. I wanted it to happen organically without looking it up. I just felt like I ran out of things to do and there was no point to keep playing.

At the same time, I want to play it on my Steam Deck because I did enjoy what I did play!

After watching it completely through within the last few years, I can say I rank it higher than Voyager.

I’m more partial to The Power of Failing, but I’ll take any Mineral. Did you see the two new songs they released for the 25th?

Whatever Commodore 64 ran, back when I was a little kid in the early 90s.

Anathallo

Mineral

Neither together anymore, although Mineral did play some reunion shows in 2019.

Yeah I have a game that pause is space, so I mapped one of the back buttons to that and it’s perfect.

That’s what I thought too, and then I got sucked in. I watched it a few weeks ago, I usually love her Star Wars stuff but this felt too long…nope.

Hmmm I think my expectations were set incorrectly for this show. From the rumblings I heard before the premiere, it was on a similair level as Andor and was kind of a murder mystery thing. It is nothing like Andor (so far) and the murder ‘mystery’ was solved (at least for the viewers) at the end of the first episode. I was excited about the possibility of ‘Law & Order in space with Jedi’ since it seemed like a fresh genre for Star Wars but this…is more like ‘generic Star Wars plot line #45’. I plan to keep watching because the High Republic era is interesting, but the story has been bleh so far for me.

Also weird that Carrie-Anne Moss figured so prominently in the hype & advertising just to be killed off in the first few minutes. If I was excited that she was in the show (I was ambivalent towards it myself) I would be super mad about that.

I’m afraid Andor has ruined me when it comes to Star Wars media. :-/

So, I’m not a big fan personally. Like, I get why people love it but it just doesn’t do anything for me. And I’m a dad to boot.

That video was fantastic.

Islets. First Metroidvania I’ve ever tried and I love it.

Yeah that first line irritates me. What is weird about Mara Jade? She was great and the Thrawn Trilogy should be episodes 7-9.

Yep, me too. Played it as a teenager in the late 90s. I already backed it as well!

Ur-Quan Masters Mega Mod, Talos Principle 2, and Pictopix.

…hair

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She disguised herself as a Cardassian disguised as a Bajoran on a super deep cover operation.

I thought she WAS in the Academy but ended up leaving…

Edit: Yep, according to Memory Alpha:

Beginning in 2366, Torres attended Starfleet Academy, where she participated on the Academy decathlon team. She later admitted that after quitting “The track and field coach was furious with me” (VOY: “Basics, Part II”)

She also had to dodge several punches in the lab, which Chakotay later joked about, saying, “Only you, B’Elanna, could start a brawl in Astrotheory 101.” (VOY: “Future’s End, Part II”)

Interstellar history was, according to Torres, “the one subject I almost failed at the Academy.” (VOY: “Year of Heck”)

Also among her Academy training was EV suit simulations. She thought “they felt peaceful, like floating in the womb,” but years later, in actual practice, she said she felt “a little sick to [her] stomach.” (VOY: “Day of Honor”)

During her time at the Academy, B’Elanna dated Maxwell Burke; however, their relationship did not last long. (VOY: “Equinox”)

Ultimately, B’Elanna had a hard time fitting in, often getting into trouble with instructors and faculty. Within two years at the Academy, she was suspended once and had four disciplinary hearings against her. Even though quite a brilliant student and promising engineer, she eventually dropped out of the Academy in 2368, at the age of nineteen. (VOY: “Caretaker”, “Eye of the Needle”, “Parallax”, “Extreme Risk”)

One of Torres’ teachers at the Academy was Commander Zakarian, who taught Survival Strategies (VOY: “Caretaker”); another was Professor Chapman. Torres and Chapman argued constantly; she even later admitted that “I was always questioning his, his methods, his assumptions, and he was always slapping me down like some upstart kid.” She was later surprised to learn that Chapman thought she was one of the most promising students he had ever taught and was disappointed when she dropped out. He had placed a note in her permanent record saying he would support her if she ever reapplied. (VOY: “Parallax”)