Me, upon seeing the response: Hahahaha! Man that was fast. Dude always has the perfect reply ready.

5 minutes later: tries to squint through Klingon makeup 🤔

One trip to IMDB and Memory Alpha later: …holy shit.

The next day: I should post a reply.

Now: We’re in now now.

The other cart:

bump

PUT IT BACK!

thump

STOP IT

jam

I AM WARNING YOU MISTER!

rattles crooked wheel

Goals require long term work, commitment, and developing new habits.

This is why I’m doomed.

You know what worked for me? Getting passably good at singing the Bowie parts. It’s like the parts that want to get stuck are in opposition with the Bowie parts and there’s some mental tussling then suddenly the song is over and you’re free.

It also works well at confusing the shit out of people at parties who all want to sing along yet seemingly never got the memo that the song is a duet.

Me: watches TNG episode

Risa: memes that exact episode

Me: trek-equivalent-of-fry-suspicious.gif

You jest, but she gives a wicked purple nurple.

If they were president, they’d be Swimmy Carter.

Thank you for this. I found the lack of Post in the post disturbing.

Ask and ye shall receive.

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It will be painful and slow, but I appreciate the support lol. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do myself, as stuff got in the way of consistently watching DS9 and even getting into Voyager (being a teenager), Enterprise (being an adult on night shift), and any of the streaming stuff (being an adult both burnt out on streaming subscriptions and way behind in the lore). It makes sense to go through things together with her, but… yeah only watching like 3 episodes a week is excruciating lol. Especially since I am a natural born binge-watcher.

…I have no idea if I’m looking at an actual show clip or a very well made fan thing. All I know is that I need to watch Lower Decks. But it’s also something that my SO would appreciate, and it’s hard enough to make time to get through TNG (her first Trek). Gah!

I’m with you. I don’t like the default Lemmy UI at all, but it’s the most feature-complete as far as I can tell. I was a longtime Apollo user, so while Voyager feels similar at first glance it’s mostly skin-deep. Kbin really does a great job with the look and feel, but there are a lot of frustrating bugs. I believe the dev has Been Going Through Some Shit (per his posts in kbinMeta) and I do not begrudge him taking care of personal life before a side project that blew up over the summer. So the result is that I mostly browse with kbin and switch to Lemmy if I need to do more than a text reply.

Hello fellow kbin enjoyer! In case you were unaware, in-line kbin images only show in kbin for some reason. Kinda like how we get links in place of in-line Lemmy images, except Lemmy users don’t even see the links (at least not in the default mobile web UI or Voyager app). To get around it, I will either copy and paste the image URL in a comment edit, or just make the reply from a Lemmy account.

Now I’m wondering if the desktop interfaces work differently.

e: in case anyone is curious about the differences:

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After 13 years I finally got my partner to start watching TNG. It may take us another 13 years to finish, but it’s a start.

American here. My ISP blackholes certain sites at the DNS level. Easy enough to work around, but it’s there.

Season 2, The Dauphin. Enterprise plays taxi for a new head of state, Wesley does the teenager in love thing, falling for a cute nerd. I just watched this one but had to look up the title.

Shower crying is a good way to reset your body, mind, and soul when facing the prospect of doing the same thing over and over every fucking day for the next 30 years or so.

If I keep saving all of these gifs I’m going to run out of storage. But… I can’t just pass up gold like this.

This reminds me of the time my mom came storming into the living room while I was watching TNG.

“What the hell are you watching? Why do they keep talking about turbo lips?”

Lift, mom. Lift.

“…oh. I was gonna say…”

So, a little backstory… kbin bugs out a lot when trying to post to a federated instance. Error messages when things went through fine, no error messages but nothing shows up on the host instance, error message with nothing on the host but still seeing upvotes/interaction (???) from my profile page. So I finally got around to creating an alt account and posting the above. The concept was a literal shower thought, the image put together while I was falling asleep, and the title after I had already fallen asleep multiple times and dropped my phone on my face. (I seriously couldn’t think of anything good and went with the next semi-coherent thought.) Thanks Stamets for the template!