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Once upon a when, we've had a data breach (maybe).
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Some people use regular browsing mode, but may have chosen to disable all cookies in their settings. Sometimes, these people will end up tearing their hair out because a lot of websites just don't work at all, like many online stores, as many e-commerce platforms don't do bugger all without using cookies.
Me, I've got "Self-Destructing Cookies" plugins in my various browsers. Which lets me accept all cookies everywhere, smug in the knowledge that they will be deleted the instant I close that browser tab. I can even set it to delete the cookies only when I close the whole browser window, which is helpful with online stores.
And I can whitelist sites like the board, so the plugin doesn't mess with those cookies at all.
And you must use the same browser, on the same machine. Unless you're using something like a cookie manager that syncs to all your devices and things, your apple browser on your ipad won't have the delicious cookies chrome has on your PC. And unless google now manages cookies between your devices (who knows what the fuck they do), even chrome on your Android won't have the same cookies as chrome on your notebook, or chrome on your other Android.
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If you've visited the forum at any time after November 18, 2020, you will have seen the message about a supposed data breach that may have exposed passwords. I know you will have seen it because, until today, there was a big general announcement right at the top of the everything.
Seeing how it's been nearly 18 months since that, with no further alarms getting rung, and how everyone has had 758,214 opportunities to take a minute to think about the security of their passwords, I've taken that notice down.
Follow this link for all the info that has transpired about the whole mess.
Seeing how it's been nearly 18 months since that, with no further alarms getting rung, and how everyone has had 758,214 opportunities to take a minute to think about the security of their passwords, I've taken that notice down.
Follow this link for all the info that has transpired about the whole mess.
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The Expanse
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Just finished. Wow.
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So season 5 is out today, it appears.
Curiously, Amazon Prime is letting me see it. It is unusual for them to be more competent than Netflix (I only get new Disco episodes one day after you lot, even though I'm in a time zone in the future!).
Curiously, Amazon Prime is letting me see it. It is unusual for them to be more competent than Netflix (I only get new Disco episodes one day after you lot, even though I'm in a time zone in the future!).
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
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Watched all three already
There's also a good chat available about 5:01
I'm all plugged in now, fully committed... There's also a podcast called TyandThatGuy with one of the writers and Amos.
There's also a good chat available about 5:01
I'm all plugged in now, fully committed... There's also a podcast called TyandThatGuy with one of the writers and Amos.
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Late to this party bu am just starting season 5. I watched season 1 ages ago and didn't really dig it, but game it another try and got hooked. The fact that space actually acts like space (within reason) is fantastic.
When an old man dies a library burns...
"Every accident involving machinery begins with a single defect. Never forget that defect can be between your ears." - E.J. Potter
"I feel like I'm in "my little pony" HELL!!!!" -Goose
"Well, he never ever smiled, but he always seemed pleased."
"keep about your wits, Know yourself and who you came in with"
"Every accident involving machinery begins with a single defect. Never forget that defect can be between your ears." - E.J. Potter
"I feel like I'm in "my little pony" HELL!!!!" -Goose
"Well, he never ever smiled, but he always seemed pleased."
"keep about your wits, Know yourself and who you came in with"
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Season 5 is really really good. I'm on episode 7.
I read an interview that stated the pilot originally had no sound in space but it didn't get good reviews, so space sounds it is.
I read an interview that stated the pilot originally had no sound in space but it didn't get good reviews, so space sounds it is.
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Hm. Curious. I hadn't noticed. I had had the impression that the sounds we, the audience, hear are the sounds persons aboard a ship would hear. Or a person inside a suit, with the breathing and all. The point-of-hear just never is in the vacuum proper.
As for the season 5 finale.
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The season finale greatly disappointed me.
It's not bad. On it's own, it's good. It's just not as good as the rest of season 5.
For one, everyone meeting at the UN, everyone being happy until they are hit around the head with one of several season 6 cliffhangers. That felt wrong. And one of my favorite characters got dead. Suddenly and unexpectedly, which is realistic. Just in the narrative, it wasn't really handled.
Of course, there is good reason for the weird scene with everyone meeting at the UN, and why Alec's death felt so crammed in retroactively.
Because it was. Filming for the season had wrapped when allegations of sexual harassment, from multiple women, were leveled against the actor. The producers decided against shooting as much as an extra second with the guy, so his "death scene" was assembled from previously shot material. I suppose the protagonists' final scene was similarly improvised.
The season's final scene, meanwhile. It's just one more cliffhanger, of which this episode seemed to have more than it's share. Would have preferred to see those scattered over several episodes.
Since season 6 had already been ordered before filming began on season 5, afaik, I see no reason why they couldn't have done that.
It's not bad. On it's own, it's good. It's just not as good as the rest of season 5.
For one, everyone meeting at the UN, everyone being happy until they are hit around the head with one of several season 6 cliffhangers. That felt wrong. And one of my favorite characters got dead. Suddenly and unexpectedly, which is realistic. Just in the narrative, it wasn't really handled.
Of course, there is good reason for the weird scene with everyone meeting at the UN, and why Alec's death felt so crammed in retroactively.
Because it was. Filming for the season had wrapped when allegations of sexual harassment, from multiple women, were leveled against the actor. The producers decided against shooting as much as an extra second with the guy, so his "death scene" was assembled from previously shot material. I suppose the protagonists' final scene was similarly improvised.
The season's final scene, meanwhile. It's just one more cliffhanger, of which this episode seemed to have more than it's share. Would have preferred to see those scattered over several episodes.
Since season 6 had already been ordered before filming began on season 5, afaik, I see no reason why they couldn't have done that.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
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I said I have a big stick.
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Must not click the spoilers link....
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I saw that in a Kyle the science guy thing on youtube as well I think.
When an old man dies a library burns...
"Every accident involving machinery begins with a single defect. Never forget that defect can be between your ears." - E.J. Potter
"I feel like I'm in "my little pony" HELL!!!!" -Goose
"Well, he never ever smiled, but he always seemed pleased."
"keep about your wits, Know yourself and who you came in with"
"Every accident involving machinery begins with a single defect. Never forget that defect can be between your ears." - E.J. Potter
"I feel like I'm in "my little pony" HELL!!!!" -Goose
"Well, he never ever smiled, but he always seemed pleased."
"keep about your wits, Know yourself and who you came in with"
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Bo_9
- Ayatollah of Mayhem
- Location: Filthy little worn-out, broken down, see through soul.
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I think it's this one -
When an old man dies a library burns...
"Every accident involving machinery begins with a single defect. Never forget that defect can be between your ears." - E.J. Potter
"I feel like I'm in "my little pony" HELL!!!!" -Goose
"Well, he never ever smiled, but he always seemed pleased."
"keep about your wits, Know yourself and who you came in with"
"Every accident involving machinery begins with a single defect. Never forget that defect can be between your ears." - E.J. Potter
"I feel like I'm in "my little pony" HELL!!!!" -Goose
"Well, he never ever smiled, but he always seemed pleased."
"keep about your wits, Know yourself and who you came in with"
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- Yap. Doomed for all eternity.
- Location: Indy
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I watched all of Season 6 yesterday. While I'm happy to have some level of "closure", why bother with some of the other story arcs, just to leave them unfulfilled? For example:
I know, I know, read the books.
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1. Why show us the happenings on Laconia, and the "dogs"?
2. What's with the Ring Entites?
3. What happened when the big Ring maker ship started powering up?
Seems like a lot of wasted screen time.
2. What's with the Ring Entites?
3. What happened when the big Ring maker ship started powering up?
Seems like a lot of wasted screen time.
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Option 1: remember the "7 seasons and a movie" thing people had been hoping to get out of Community? Amazon could certainly afford it after just six seasons, though the cast will be charging Dath Bezo's actual arm and leg for it.
No, I'm thinking that they might have agreed to a contractual stipulation that they had to leave a few loose threads at the end of however many seasons they agreed on then.
Bollocks, why would they?
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When Amazon "picked up" the show, that wasn't like another local station might pick up a show back in the days of three networks, not even how a networks might pick up another network's castoff. Back then, in the US, you lot had actual anti-trust legislation, laws that actually forced large businesses to compete in more than just name.
CBS never "made" Star Trek. Outside news, they were not allowed. At least not to the degree that they could have filled their schedule with in-house productions. The law forced them to buy shows from independent producers like DesiLu.
But James Corey didn't sell the TV rights to his books to DesiLu, or any other independent producer. He sold them to the channel that would air them, SyFy. So when Amazon Prime "picked up" the show, I'm betting that there were an bunch of negotiations. I can't believe that SyFy didn't have some "get outta x free" card to play there. After which, anyone wanting to keep the show going would only not have needed SyFy's blessing, or at least the receipt. But also the go-ahead from Corey, or any other party Corey may have transferred/lost the rights to.
CBS never "made" Star Trek. Outside news, they were not allowed. At least not to the degree that they could have filled their schedule with in-house productions. The law forced them to buy shows from independent producers like DesiLu.
But James Corey didn't sell the TV rights to his books to DesiLu, or any other independent producer. He sold them to the channel that would air them, SyFy. So when Amazon Prime "picked up" the show, I'm betting that there were an bunch of negotiations. I can't believe that SyFy didn't have some "get outta x free" card to play there. After which, anyone wanting to keep the show going would only not have needed SyFy's blessing, or at least the receipt. But also the go-ahead from Corey, or any other party Corey may have transferred/lost the rights to.
Option 2: Amazon themselves might have wanted to keep the options open to make a spinoff movie or show.
Option 3: I'm totally wrong about the streaming business model, and Amazon might even have wanted to keep the options open for a seventh season, or more even, but didn't want to decide until the very, very last moment. The latter is usually when a show's sets are struck, so if option 3 is actually correct, I fear they said "nopes".
Option 4: spectacularly awful meddling from corporate. Which would not, in any way, rule out any of the other options, of course. But the larger a corporation, the less the right hand knows about what the left hand is doing, and far worse.
Someone may have decided "we want loose ends!", while another person, entirely independent of any such decision, just thought that, having read and understood the books better than anyone around them (which, in colloquial corporate, means they read a few chapters years ago, or got the highlights via blinkist, or chatted to someone who had read almost half of the series), they knew just what had to go in to the last season. And went a 'meddlin.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
I said I have a big stick.