The "The Weather Changes More Often than the Thread Title" Complaint Thread

LeatherGryphon · August 11

butterflyfish said:

Richard Haseltine said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Pretty good series. (Spoilers) Especially the plot with the competing five species from one planet that were building massive spheres throughout space and sending a giant raygun to obliterate Earth**. And even the time-travel plot had it's good parts, but the alien Nazis in WWII plot in the final year kinda left me cold. Admittedly, It's been decades since I've seen it, so my memory may be muddled. But in earlier years I liked the trip to a destroyed far future universe during the time war. Also, I particularly liked watching Orlando get obliterated. ZAAAAP! And the scene of the "spheres" collapsing out of our dimension. Good series.

**Note: I think they must have been using an Eludium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

Weren't the spheres built by a differnt race of extra-dimensional thingies that could detect probabilities and so plot to bring about their aims, who were using the five species from one planet as their catspaws?

Something like that. The Suliban, I think they were called. It's hard to remember.... It's been a long time.

Clever, "It's been a long time. singing guitar guy "

Somehow I remember the Suliban as genetically engineered "normal-ish" (i.e. our universe) aliens, to give them the ability of perfect camouflage, being directed from some shadowy figure/thing from the future in the long threaded time-war. But yeah, there was some sort of outside dimensional organization associated with the spheres whose purpose was to convert our space into a more habitable "space" for the outsiders so they could get a foothold in our universe. All very confusing. And don't get me started on the Klingon "disease" that cleared up the canon issue of their appearance, and let's not mention Dr. Phlox's sex habits. All the plots in the series seemed to be interwoven throughout the whole series. Good writing, but very confusing, especially when you throw in time travel and alternate universes and hidden motives. It is a series that you MUST watch in sequential order to even have a chance of grokking it.

A Few Moments later:

Sorry, I had to do it. I asked GoogleAI what it thought of this.

butterflyfish · August 11

LeatherGryphon said:

butterflyfish said:

Richard Haseltine said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Pretty good series. (Spoilers) Especially the plot with the competing five species from one planet that were building massive spheres throughout space and sending a giant raygun to obliterate Earth**. And even the time-travel plot had it's good parts, but the alien Nazis in WWII plot in the final year kinda left me cold. Admittedly, It's been decades since I've seen it, so my memory may be muddled. But in earlier years I liked the trip to a destroyed far future universe during the time war. Also, I particularly liked watching Orlando get obliterated. ZAAAAP! And the scene of the "spheres" collapsing out of our dimension. Good series.

**Note: I think they must have been using an Eludium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

Weren't the spheres built by a differnt race of extra-dimensional thingies that could detect probabilities and so plot to bring about their aims, who were using the five species from one planet as their catspaws?

Something like that. The Suliban, I think they were called. It's hard to remember.... It's been a long time.

Clever, "It's been a long time.  "

Somehow I remember the Suliban as genetically engineered "normal-ish" (i.e. our universe) aliens, to give them the ability of perfect camouflage, being directed from some shadowy figure/thing from the future in the long threaded time-war. But yeah, there was some sort of outside dimensional organization associated with the spheres whose purpose was to convert our space into a more habitable "space" for the outsiders so they could get a foothold in our universe. All very confusing. And don't get me started on the Klingon "disease" that cleared up the canon issue of their appearance, and let's not mention Dr. Phlox's sex habits. All the plots in the series seemed to be interwoven throughout the whole series. Good writing, but very confusing, especially when you throw in time travel and alternate universes and hidden motives. It is a series that you MUST watch in sequential order to even have a chance of grokking it.

A Few Moments later:

Sorry, I had to do it. I asked GoogleAI what it thought of this.

Ah, OK. I was conflating multiple arcs. And maybe Species 8472 from Voyager. I forgot about the Space Nazis. I do remember the augment virus. I thought it was clever, really. I need to watch this show again. Except I don't have Paramount Plus, because their app interface sucks and always crashes. I guesss I could buy the show. How much could it possibly cost? *wanders off* Looks like $50 - $90 depending on where you get it and whether you want DVD or Blu-ray.

LeatherGryphon · August 11

Complaint: Once, just once, I'd like to be able to use a bottle of glue twice without it going wonky on me.

miladyderyni_173d399f47 · August 11

butterflyfish said:

LeatherGryphon said:

butterflyfish said:

Richard Haseltine said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Pretty good series. (Spoilers) Especially the plot with the competing five species from one planet that were building massive spheres throughout space and sending a giant raygun to obliterate Earth**. And even the time-travel plot had it's good parts, but the alien Nazis in WWII plot in the final year kinda left me cold. Admittedly, It's been decades since I've seen it, so my memory may be muddled. But in earlier years I liked the trip to a destroyed far future universe during the time war. Also, I particularly liked watching Orlando get obliterated. ZAAAAP! And the scene of the "spheres" collapsing out of our dimension. Good series.

**Note: I think they must have been using an Eludium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

Weren't the spheres built by a differnt race of extra-dimensional thingies that could detect probabilities and so plot to bring about their aims, who were using the five species from one planet as their catspaws?

Something like that. The Suliban, I think they were called. It's hard to remember.... It's been a long time.

Clever, "It's been a long time.  "

Somehow I remember the Suliban as genetically engineered "normal-ish" (i.e. our universe) aliens, to give them the ability of perfect camouflage, being directed from some shadowy figure/thing from the future in the long threaded time-war. But yeah, there was some sort of outside dimensional organization associated with the spheres whose purpose was to convert our space into a more habitable "space" for the outsiders so they could get a foothold in our universe. All very confusing. And don't get me started on the Klingon "disease" that cleared up the canon issue of their appearance, and let's not mention Dr. Phlox's sex habits. All the plots in the series seemed to be interwoven throughout the whole series. Good writing, but very confusing, especially when you throw in time travel and alternate universes and hidden motives. It is a series that you MUST watch in sequential order to even have a chance of grokking it.

A Few Moments later:

Sorry, I had to do it. I asked GoogleAI what it thought of this.

Ah, OK. I was conflating multiple arcs. And maybe Species 8472 from Voyager. I forgot about the Space Nazis. I do remember the augment virus. I thought it was clever, really. I need to watch this show again. Except I don't have Paramount Plus, because their app interface sucks and always crashes. I guesss I could buy the show. How much could it possibly cost? *wanders off* Looks like $50 - $90 depending on where you get it and whether you want DVD or Blu-ray.

Check with your local library. Ours has just about every Star Trek series for loan.

butterflyfish · August 11

miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

butterflyfish said:

LeatherGryphon said:

butterflyfish said:

Richard Haseltine said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Pretty good series. (Spoilers) Especially the plot with the competing five species from one planet that were building massive spheres throughout space and sending a giant raygun to obliterate Earth**. And even the time-travel plot had it's good parts, but the alien Nazis in WWII plot in the final year kinda left me cold. Admittedly, It's been decades since I've seen it, so my memory may be muddled. But in earlier years I liked the trip to a destroyed far future universe during the time war. Also, I particularly liked watching Orlando get obliterated. ZAAAAP! And the scene of the "spheres" collapsing out of our dimension. Good series.

**Note: I think they must have been using an Eludium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

Weren't the spheres built by a differnt race of extra-dimensional thingies that could detect probabilities and so plot to bring about their aims, who were using the five species from one planet as their catspaws?

Something like that. The Suliban, I think they were called. It's hard to remember.... It's been a long time.

Clever, "It's been a long time.  "

Somehow I remember the Suliban as genetically engineered "normal-ish" (i.e. our universe) aliens, to give them the ability of perfect camouflage, being directed from some shadowy figure/thing from the future in the long threaded time-war. But yeah, there was some sort of outside dimensional organization associated with the spheres whose purpose was to convert our space into a more habitable "space" for the outsiders so they could get a foothold in our universe. All very confusing. And don't get me started on the Klingon "disease" that cleared up the canon issue of their appearance, and let's not mention Dr. Phlox's sex habits. All the plots in the series seemed to be interwoven throughout the whole series. Good writing, but very confusing, especially when you throw in time travel and alternate universes and hidden motives. It is a series that you MUST watch in sequential order to even have a chance of grokking it.

A Few Moments later:

Sorry, I had to do it. I asked GoogleAI what it thought of this.

Ah, OK. I was conflating multiple arcs. And maybe Species 8472 from Voyager. I forgot about the Space Nazis. I do remember the augment virus. I thought it was clever, really. I need to watch this show again. Except I don't have Paramount Plus, because their app interface sucks and always crashes. I guesss I could buy the show. How much could it possibly cost? *wanders off* Looks like $50 - $90 depending on where you get it and whether you want DVD or Blu-ray.

Check with your local library. Ours has just about every Star Trek series for loan.

Interesting idea. I'll have to check. Thanks.

DanaTA · August 11

butterflyfish said:

Richard Haseltine said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Pretty good series. (Spoilers) Especially the plot with the competing five species from one planet that were building massive spheres throughout space and sending a giant raygun to obliterate Earth**. And even the time-travel plot had it's good parts, but the alien Nazis in WWII plot in the final year kinda left me cold. Admittedly, It's been decades since I've seen it, so my memory may be muddled. But in earlier years I liked the trip to a destroyed far future universe during the time war. Also, I particularly liked watching Orlando get obliterated. ZAAAAP! And the scene of the "spheres" collapsing out of our dimension. Good series.

**Note: I think they must have been using an Eludium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

Weren't the spheres built by a differnt race of extra-dimensional thingies that could detect probabilities and so plot to bring about their aims, who were using the five species from one planet as their catspaws?

Something like that. The Suliban, I think they were called. It's hard to remember.... It's been a long time.

Quite a while. But...I have the boxed set of DVDs. Maybe it's time to watch it all again. I have all The Origial Series (two episodes per DVD), boxed set of The Next Generation, boxed set of DS9, boxed set of Voyager, and boxed set of Enterprise. I revisit them now and then.

TJohn · August 11

LeatherGryphon said:

Complaint: Once, just once, I'd like to be able to use a bottle of glue twice without it going wonky on me.

Just a quick warning about glues:

Elmer's Glue-All tastes a little funny, so I really can't recommend it.

TJohn · August 11

A.I. Meme Alert.

Torquinox · August 11

LeatherGryphon said:

Complaint: Once, just once, I'd like to be able to use a bottle of glue twice without it going wonky on me.

Depends on the type of glue. I find cyanoacrylates (superglues) cure in the tube or bottle shortly after you open it. Bigger tubes take longer, but it just means more gets thrown away. So I buy small tubes in packs of 4 or whatever, knowing I'll only get one or two uses out of each one. epoxy glues last longer because they have to be mixed, but they're usually very toxic. PVC glues are the worst, imo. You can feel the vapors from those melting your braincells, so I wear an organic vapor mask when using them.

butterflyfish · August 11

DanaTA said:

butterflyfish said:

Richard Haseltine said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Pretty good series. (Spoilers) Especially the plot with the competing five species from one planet that were building massive spheres throughout space and sending a giant raygun to obliterate Earth**. And even the time-travel plot had it's good parts, but the alien Nazis in WWII plot in the final year kinda left me cold. Admittedly, It's been decades since I've seen it, so my memory may be muddled. But in earlier years I liked the trip to a destroyed far future universe during the time war. Also, I particularly liked watching Orlando get obliterated. ZAAAAP! And the scene of the "spheres" collapsing out of our dimension. Good series.

**Note: I think they must have been using an Eludium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

Weren't the spheres built by a differnt race of extra-dimensional thingies that could detect probabilities and so plot to bring about their aims, who were using the five species from one planet as their catspaws?

Something like that. The Suliban, I think they were called. It's hard to remember.... It's been a long time.

Quite a while. But...I have the boxed set of DVDs. Maybe it's time to watch it all again. I have all The Origial Series (two episodes per DVD), boxed set of The Next Generation, boxed set of DS9, boxed set of Voyager, and boxed set of Enterprise. I revisit them now and then.

Ooh, nice! I don't have any Trek on disc. Yet.

DanaTA · August 11

Torquinox said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Complaint: Once, just once, I'd like to be able to use a bottle of glue twice without it going wonky on me.

Depends on the type of glue. I find cyanoacrylates (superglues) cure in the tube or bottle shortly after you open it. Bigger tubes take longer, but it just means more gets thrown away. So I buy small tubes in packs of 4 or whatever, knowing I'll only get one or two uses out of each one. epoxy glues last longer because they have to be mixed, but they're usually very toxic. PVC glues are the worst, imo. You can feel the vapors from those melting your braincells, so I wear an organic vapor mask when using them.

Try Starbond ca glues. I have a couple of bottles I've had for more than a year...they still work, aren't a solid cylinder.

LeatherGryphon · August 11

DanaTA said:

Torquinox said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Complaint: Once, just once, I'd like to be able to use a bottle of glue twice without it going wonky on me.

Depends on the type of glue. I find cyanoacrylates (superglues) cure in the tube or bottle shortly after you open it. Bigger tubes take longer, but it just means more gets thrown away. So I buy small tubes in packs of 4 or whatever, knowing I'll only get one or two uses out of each one. epoxy glues last longer because they have to be mixed, but they're usually very toxic. PVC glues are the worst, imo. You can feel the vapors from those melting your braincells, so I wear an organic vapor mask when using them.

Try Starbond ca glues. I have a couple of bottles I've had for more than a year...they still work, aren't a solid cylinder.

I never seem to have good luck with cyanoacrylate glues. I dunno, weird materials, poor preparation, poor technique? However, I do like the original, thick, "Gorilla Glue" but the once pliable bottle can now be used as a hammer. This was the 2nd time I tried Gorilla Glue, the first bottle was sealed with its proper little cap, but a few months later, no joy. For this second bottle after the 1st use, I sealed it well, by driving a small nail tightly down the spout. Today I broke the nail trying to get it out. Perhaps I should use a longer nail and actually use it as a handle when the bottle turns into a hammer.I do have a multi year-old bottle of "Elmer's Rubber Cement" that's still viable, but that's only good for kindergardners making flowers from construction paper. I needed it only once a couple of years ago, after the first multi decade old bottle finally fossilized.

Xyetzt · August 11

memcneil70 said:

@Xyetzt, that is just sweet as all get out. But I can't place the Beagle.

Porthos?

Xyetzt · August 11

Since I accidentally double posted, I keep imagining a green illegal alien in the bush that I can see out my window. I have no proof so I cannot report the green illegal alien. It might be the bush with the wind and the blinds not fully closed.

edit: misspelled blinds.

TJohn · August 12

It's 9:06. Do you know where you are?

LeatherGryphon · August 12

TJohn said:

It's 9:06. Do you know where you are?

I am here, and it is now.

NylonGirl · August 12

TJohn said:

It's 9:06. Do you know where you are?

If you flip that over, it's still 9:06...

kyoto kid · August 12

LeatherGryphon said:

butterflyfish said:

Richard Haseltine said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Pretty good series. (Spoilers) Especially the plot with the competing five species from one planet that were building massive spheres throughout space and sending a giant raygun to obliterate Earth**. And even the time-travel plot had it's good parts, but the alien Nazis in WWII plot in the final year kinda left me cold. Admittedly, It's been decades since I've seen it, so my memory may be muddled. But in earlier years I liked the trip to a destroyed far future universe during the time war. Also, I particularly liked watching Orlando get obliterated. ZAAAAP! And the scene of the "spheres" collapsing out of our dimension. Good series.

**Note: I think they must have been using an Eludium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

Weren't the spheres built by a differnt race of extra-dimensional thingies that could detect probabilities and so plot to bring about their aims, who were using the five species from one planet as their catspaws?

Something like that. The Suliban, I think they were called. It's hard to remember.... It's been a long time.

Clever, "It's been a long time.  "

Somehow I remember the Suliban as genetically engineered "normal-ish" (i.e. our universe) aliens, to give them the ability of perfect camouflage, being directed from some shadowy figure/thing from the future in the long threaded time-war. But yeah, there was some sort of outside dimensional organization associated with the spheres whose purpose was to convert our space into a more habitable "space" for the outsiders so they could get a foothold in our universe. All very confusing. And don't get me started on the Klingon "disease" that cleared up the canon issue of their appearance, and let's not mention Dr. Phlox's sex habits. All the plots in the series seemed to be interwoven throughout the whole series. Good writing, but very confusing, especially when you throw in time travel and alternate universes and hidden motives. It is a series that you MUST watch in sequential order to even have a chance of grokking it.

A Few Moments later:

Sorry, I had to do it. I asked GoogleAI what it thought of this.

...I was into the series at first loved the idea of the nascent Federation without the Prime Directive (of course that didn't seem to matter much to JT Kirk in TOS). Loved the characters , particularly Dr. Phlox, and many of the early episodes.. However, I lost it with the introduction of the temporal Civil War plotline and stopped watching. I could take the slingshots around the sun to go back in time in TOS and 4th film. Bit this just bollixed up the entire ST canon for me as it supposedly happened before TOS amd all the later series/films.

Best to leave time travel to H.G. Wells, Doc Brown, and The Doctor.

TJohn said:

It's 9:06. Do you know where you are?

20:44 here, and yep

Gordig · August 12

NylonGirl said:

TJohn said:

It's 9:06. Do you know where you are?

If you flip that over, it's still 9:06...

False. It becomes 90:6.

richardandtracy · August 12

LeatherGryphon said:

Complaint: Once, just once, I'd like to be able to use a bottle of glue twice without it going wonky on me.

Depends on the glue. I had a 1 litre bottle of pva wood glue that lasted nearly 20 years.

For CA glues , I tend to get it in either single use tubes or as a 50cc tube for a sanding sealer used on the lathe for giving a hard surface on soft pen blank materials (like on these ones: https://www.theturnersworkshop.co.uk/products/axminster-acrylic-pen-blanks-pkt-6?variant=54000056566102). The 50cc containers last well (couple of years - reduced by humidity because CA uses water to cure), but I do find I need a polythene peg/rod in the spout to prevent it gumming up and sometimes need a pair of pliars to unscrew the lid.

I've stopped/paused pen making from kits, so I don't need so much epoxy, and I'm finding in the heat of my workshop the A & B components are dribbling from their tubes even with the tube caps firmly screwed on and mixing in the container I store them in. And, due to wrong ratios, it's making a horrible mess. I'll probably need to get rid of the entire container.

Regards,

Richard

garrett_3d · August 12

COMPLAINT: Firefox has been bugging me on my laptop for months to update from 150 to the newest version. I tried 153 on my gaming PC when it first came out and immediately uninstalled it, what a load of trash! I managed to prevent the update check the same day. But could I remember how to on my laptop a while later? No.

NON-COMPLAINT: Yay! I just figured out why I couldn't do it on my laptop. Because gpedit was broken and wouldn't run. Now I've fixed that by uninstalling and reinstalling it so I could do something else, it occurred to me that I had to create a new 32 bit dWord in the software tab to prevent the update naggery. So my middle finger is positively rigid in the direction of Mozilla and I'm feeling smug again.

garrett_3d · August 12

NON-COMPLAINT (on the basis that I don't use G9): Is it just me, or do most G9 human characters look the same with only minor tweaks? Browsing through the Artist pages on the Urban sale. All of Feng's G9 females look almost the same. Are PAs getting lazier with G9? There's much more variety with G8.

NON-COMPLAINT: Currently getting paid to sit in my truck (or semi unit for you 'Muricans) and do nothing all day because there's no work on this week. Hence I can bother you lot

TJohn · August 12

So "'Muricans".

I guess some things are okay to say. And some are not.

I'm not personally offended. But I gotta ask?

Should I be?

garrett_3d · August 12

No offense intended in the slightest. If people take offense at that, then they obviously take life too seriously.

LeatherGryphon · August 12

Is that better or worse than seriously taking life too obviously?

Not offended, and none intended, but language sloppiness exists on both sides of the pond. Although, and as an example, I have a particular wince at words with slaughtered or missing "R's". That, and wimpy or missing "T's" in the middle of words, especially double T's. The word is "butter", not "buh-ah". (*Oh, the pain, the pain.*)

butterflyfish · August 12

LeatherGryphon said:

I have a particular wince at words with slaughtered or missing "R's".

Uh-oh... *hides ova heah in Massachusetts* ... OK my "R's" are there, but they get a little weak when I talk fast.

NylonGirl · August 12

I don't have time to be offended. I'm too busy driving my fairly large vehicle with eight cylinders and lots of fire blowing out of the many tailpipes, while holding great disdain for fuel economy and automatic transmissions.

DanaTA · August 12

LeatherGryphon said:

DanaTA said:

Torquinox said:

LeatherGryphon said:

Complaint: Once, just once, I'd like to be able to use a bottle of glue twice without it going wonky on me.

Depends on the type of glue. I find cyanoacrylates (superglues) cure in the tube or bottle shortly after you open it. Bigger tubes take longer, but it just means more gets thrown away. So I buy small tubes in packs of 4 or whatever, knowing I'll only get one or two uses out of each one. epoxy glues last longer because they have to be mixed, but they're usually very toxic. PVC glues are the worst, imo. You can feel the vapors from those melting your braincells, so I wear an organic vapor mask when using them.

Try Starbond ca glues. I have a couple of bottles I've had for more than a year...they still work, aren't a solid cylinder.

I never seem to have good luck with cyanoacrylate glues. I dunno, weird materials, poor preparation, poor technique? However, I do like the original, thick, "Gorilla Glue" but the once pliable bottle can now be used as a hammer. This was the 2nd time I tried Gorilla Glue, the first bottle was sealed with its proper little cap, but a few months later, no joy. For this second bottle after the 1st use, I sealed it well, by driving a small nail tightly down the spout. Today I broke the nail trying to get it out. Perhaps I should use a longer nail and actually use it as a handle when the bottle turns into a hammer.I do have a multi year-old bottle of "Elmer's Rubber Cement" that's still viable, but that's only good for kindergardners making flowers from construction paper. I needed it only once a couple of years ago, after the first multi decade old bottle finally fossilized.

Many ca glues sit on the store shelves too long. CA glues do have an expiration date, so to speak. Starbond sells directly and only fresh, so the glues last longer. And, a tip...store it in the refrigerator. Take it out a little while before use to let it acclimate to room temperature. (I neither work for nor get advertising money from Starbond...I just think their products are great, as do many in the woodworking field and others.)

Torquinox · August 12

@DanaTA you make a good case for their products. I'll keep all that in mind!

TJohn · August 12

LeatherGryphon said:

Is that better or worse than seriously taking life too obviously?

Not offended, and none intended, but language sloppiness exists on both sides of the pond. Although, and as an example, I have a particular wince at words with slaughtered or missing "R's". That, and wimpy or missing "T's" in the middle of words, especially double T's. The word is "butter", not "buh-ah". (*Oh, the pain, the pain.*)

You forgot the unnecessary "U"as in favour and labour. Don't blame me, I think Noah Webster changed that spelling.

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