Picked up the Bluray series off eBay. Physical media seems like the way to go, to really own anything
... Ripped to a media server. It'll be a cold day in hell before I can be arsed to stand up and put media into a machine anymore.
Physical media seems like the way to go, to really own anything
That or sailing the digital sea, which ig you could consider a bunch of DRM-free files on a drive you own to still be "physical media"
Same. Bummed that we'll probably never get remasters of DS9 and Voyager.
There is a nice DS9 upscaling project that is very good (not as good as a proper remaster, but still impressive).
https://ds9redefined.wordpress.com/videos/
They only provide download instructions (sftp) via discord, unfortunately. (https://discord.gg/qTgXcG9T). It's very large (300+ GB for the series).
They are working on Voyager now.
Iirc, the studio(s) likely wouldn't be able to do much better for Voyager as they didn't record Voyager onto film like the others. They cheaped out and recorded direct to VHS
direct to VHS
No. Videotape, sure, but not VHS.
Fuck capitalism
Ew no. I might get some kind of disease.
Okay, fuck dragons instead
what am i a car?
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The artworks are wild.
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Dunno what kind of economic model we'd need if we had star trek -level replication technology.
We could just explore, try to learn new interesting things, and have campy holodeck adventures with Mark Twain.
I don't think the current rich people would approve. But screw'em if we have replicators
That sounds cute until some rich asshole sets up his own anti-matter reactor to run their own holodecks with content and filters removed. I'm thinking he sets it up on a remote asteroid and invites his other rich asshole friends. Except he secretly records them and uses it to set up a blackmail network.
He'd probably have to have some weird alien name like, Kah-Epstein.
We'd probably need a very similar model.
Replicators don't replaces services, just goods. Most people aren't willing to render services for free.
The replicators also use enormous amounts of energy. They're basically nukes in reverse. They "solve" this problem with anti-matter but the anti-matter reaction seems to require trilithium. And as we know from several episodes, trilithium is definitely not an unlimited resources.
The economy might not involve anyone hand-making widgets but there would be a lot of economics around acquiring, processing and distributing trilithium.
Well shoot. I hadn't even included the problem that latinum can't be replicated.
Post-scarcity society, the only currency would be good vibes my dude.
I always thought the "you wouldn't download a car" ads were based on an assumption that star trek replicator technology would be evil (with the public argument that it would put people out of jobs and the real reason being it would be harder to base a wealth-based hierarchy and system of middlemen on).
The original ad was "you wouldn't steal a car," literally claiming that downloading a movie is morally equivalent to carjacking.
From the people who brought us private sex islands, in both underage and cult varieties. Fucking hate Hollywood dictating morality to everyone else.
I'm wondering what the limiting factor would be in my day to day lives.
I want a burrito, easy, I want 10 burritos, still easy. 100? A bit concerning, but sure? Five, Hundred, burritos? Getting alarming
I tell the replicator to manufacture a billion burritos and society as we know it grinds to a halt.
I know where you’re going with this and it is 100% what our internet famous generations would do today. In the era of “will it smash”, we test “will it crash”, all for views. The key thing about this movie though, it was after war and we humans were tired of fighting for scraps. So one would hope we wouldn’t need to see if our replicator will make 100 burritos because “why do you need them?”.
At this rate, replicators will be in a subscription model.
Not if I invent them first. FREE SHIT FOR EVERYONE! I like chaos.
The federation is like living at your parent’s house. Things are free under their roof, but if you want to drink with Quark, you’re going to have to trade your star fleet allowance for latinum.
I like to imagine they've all got unlimited credit lines but they play along with the Ferengi to respect their culture. Their system might fall apart if they are forced to acknowledge it only works with artificial scarcity.
Definitely no social commentary there btw.
Ahoy
Arrr, matey!
The real problem is Paramount+ won't accept any of my worthless gold.
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