I still think the 40-hour work week is inherently tied to the idea of the american nuclear family. The answer is that there simply isn’t the time to do any of these things unless one person is doing the 40-hours a week office job and the other is doing the 40-hours a week “taking care of shit with the house/kids” job.

I haven’t busted out the special feature on my blu-ray in a while but from what I remember, TNG used far fewer special effects. They were mostly practical (physical models on strings or poles, for example). One example of a complete replacement that stands out in my mind is the crytalline entity. They talked about how bad the model looked in HD so they were forced to try and recreate it, but just modelling it as it was looked pretty bad too so they added some extra spines. I can’t find the blu-ray specials but I did find a news segment interviewing the studio that did the actual production work. Really cool vid, I hadn’t seen it before. https://youtu.be/dPHP5izB8MU

Edit: I heard about the Star Wars thing hahaha. George is gonna look like SUCH an ass if it turns out he was just lying the whole time.

I posted this in another comment but I think you’d enjoy it if you haven’t already read it. https://blog.trekcore.com/2013/07/voyagers-visual-effects-creating-the-cg-voyager-with-rob-bonchune/

And this doc relied a good bit on fan funding. Good luck getting Paramount to okay recreating all that by hand.

DS9 (and probably voyager, but definitely DS9 per some documentaries) was filmed on 35mm and then transfered to D-2 tape at 480i. Shots that required CGI were transfered to D-1 tape (both store an uncompressed digital recording, but D-1 stores component video instead of composite with D-2.) CGI shots got transferred to separate D-1 tapes and sent to Paramount to be finalized and merged onto the lower-quality D-2 tapes. Nevermind that they had several very low resolution assets that would be used depending on visual fidelity needed (computers were slow and didn’t have a lot of memory or storage.) Here’s a cool interview with the Senior CG Supervisor for Voyager talking about the work they did making the assets. https://blog.trekcore.com/2013/07/voyagers-visual-effects-creating-the-cg-voyager-with-rob-bonchune/

Also also - the DS9 doc “What We Left Behind” has some non-CGI shots from DS9 properly restored and remastered. I remember the scene where they’re all walking to the holodeck in the casino heist episode was featured, I’m sure there were some others.

Halitosis was already the medical term for bad breath, with evidence of its use in England. All that word did was give an American businessman/marketer a polite euphemism to talk about something that was considered taboo at the time (body odors were associated with poor hygiene and lower status people). It does seem like they pushed hard with marketing to make it into a more widespread “problem” though.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160712170405/http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/thanks-to-chemistry/listerine.aspx

I was born in the late 80s, grew up in the 90s and 2000s, and it’s both fascinating and terrifying to me how much of what I thought was just “standard” stuff was influenced by marketing 50-100 years before I was even born. Santa Clause as a jolly old man with rosy cheeks and a snow white beard wasn’t a big thing until Coca-Cola made it part of their advertising in the 30s. The bacon with breakfast thing was the result of a food packaging company in the 1920s hiring a man named Edward Bernays to help them sell more bacon. Bernays was allegedly so good at marketing/manipulation that people like Hitler and Goebbels kept copies of his books. Orange juice became a thing because orange producers in Florida in the early 1900s made too many oranges for the market (in an attempt to beat out California as the country’s orange production state), and juicing them was considered a better alternative to reducing production.

Have you seen Archer? It’s an animated comedy but it hits some of the same vibes, at least for the first 3-4 seasons. Things get… weird after that.

Same here. There’s just something about the gang that helps me see the good. They’re objectively terrible people but at the end of the day they always stick together.

I’m doing a Dexter rewatch over the holidays. Apparently there are a bunch of sequels/prequels now and I wanna refresh my memory before diving into those shows.;

Sorry, I need leatherbound pounds to go with my wallet. Next!

Voyager has that “found family” vibe that most of the shows don’t really.

Burn Notice. I dont know what it is but it’s like watching a version of “How It’s Made” from a fictional universe. All of the voiceovers about spycraft are bullshit but my brain just buys it for whatever reason.

Also, can’t belive I forgot this, but “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”. A lot of that feeling, for me, is being carried by the music though.

Perhaps a nice stylish codpiece to make it more “realistic”!

Corinth is famous for it’s leather!

Is it a textural thing? I wish very much that I liked mushrooms, as they seem like such a good alternative to meat, but I cant stand the texture of them. Makes me gag.

That nvme drive just hanging out next to the power cord is giving me a type of anxiety I never knew I had, thanks.

A smallish (6U) rack mount that you can bolt into the wall. Even if they rip it down it’ll weigh a ton and have locked doors (with ventilation obvi),

OP already acknowledged in their edit that logging in with a local IP ‘fixed’ the issue.