I just finished watching Space Babies - I have to say, I missed this. It’s been a long time since Doctor Who was fun - I love all Doctor Who, even the bad ones (especially the bad ones) but my heart is really with the bizarre, campy, man-in-a-rubber-suit style episodes like this one. If anyone was worried this was going to get Disney-fied, this is RTD at the most RTD. I might as well have been watching the Ninth Doctor take Rose to the End of the World. Ncuti is the Doctor the very instant he steps on screen, and the Doctor/Ruby chemistry is absolutely perfect. I don’t love her being a mystery box but as long as the explanation is suitably weird I’ll go with it.
A bit of a new experience for me in that this time I got to watch it with my daughter — she’s nine and a huge Trek fan. She liked Church on Ruby Road and we watched a bit of other doctors, but I wasn’t sure she’d take to this, but she was just beaming the whole time. Bit of a new experience for me because other than some Tom Baker episodes on old VHS tapes, I was an adult by the time I came to DW. It’s fun to see it through the eyes of a child.
Also, uh, did the Doctor just suggest that the world of Star Trek is real in his universe?
My least favourite type of RTD episode is the Goofy RTD Episode, and this was definitely that. I doubt it will end up ranking too highly on my list by the end of the season.
That said, I always appreciate social commentary that’s about as subtle as a sledgehammer, and the episode delivered on that. And Ncuti Gatwa’s physical presence is something special - I don’t think we’ve seen that kind of physicality since Matt Smith.
Also, uh, did the Doctor just suggest that the world of Star Trek is real in his universe?
This is obviously a sign that setting up this discussion thread was the right decision.
They are generating “reviews” which have absolutely no basis in reality, for products they have had 0 interaction with. They are deceiving consumers in order to gain a financial benefit. This is fraud, they belong in prison.
Imagine how quickly search results would improve if shitheads like this were getting sued and arrested on a regular basis.
I can’t find product comparing article that are not ai anymore. I noticed it while shopping for a cellphone. Every site had not only 90% same text, they even had the same hallucinated specifications errors. Like non existent features or wrong RAM sizes. AI overuse sucks. Hopefully we figure out how to properly use it soon.
100%z It’s a tool… one with specific ideal use-cases, all which involve human oversight, but it’s being treated as a panacea… and a way to replace skilled labor with worse-than-unskilled technology.
The Chibnall/Whittaker era…I don’t think they’re are many people who would say it’s their favourite, but there were at least a few pretty good installments in there.
I don’t know how you could get past Capaldi’s first series and not see what an incredible Doctor he is.
I tried so hard to like things in the Chibnall era –– I was so excited when Whittaker was cast and I think she did the best she could – but after reading Elizabeth Sandifer’s evisceration of the Chibnall ethos in her piece on Kerblam! (which I think also applies to ENT, tbh) I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’m not really going to get there.
At the same time, “Demons of the Punjab” is probably a top 10 episode for me, I really love it.
“It Takes You Away” is delightfully weird, the New Years specials are generally pretty solid, “Fugitive of the Judoon” is pretty good even though the greater arc-stuff is not, and I have good memories of “The Haunting of Villa Diodati” and “Can You Hear Me?” even though I haven’t revisited them since the first run.
As an aside, Guy Delisle’s “Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea” as an animator collaborating with SEK Studio is a fascinating read. SEK not so secretly animated some singular episode of A:TLA and a couple other things you may or may not be familiar with like Stan Lee’s Mighty 7, basically by being an outsourcing of an outsourcing, which seems to be the case here.
This is very cool. Wordpress also has activitypub integration. I would love it if I could comment “directly” on blog posts with a Mastodon (or Lemmy!) account.
I tried a few of the federated magazine links they listed, but I can’t resolve them in Lemmy. I know Lemmy doesn’t do person follows (yet?), so if that’s how they’re presented, that makes sense.
But yeah, federation between Mastodon and Lemmy is pretty unidirectional. Users on (most) Mastodon instances can use their accounts to post to Lemmy and follow Lemmy users, but it doesn’t really work in the other direction.
That’s what I’ve noticed. At one point, I recall being able to at least search for a Mastodon user from Lemmy and have them come up in search results (no posts and couldn’t follow). I just spot checked that, and it doesn’t seem to do that anymore. I know little about Mastodon so can’t even speculate which side the problem may be on.
At one point, I recall being able to at least search for a Mastodon user from Lemmy and have them come up in search results (no posts and couldn’t follow).
Hmm, I think that still works provided the Mastodon user has interacted with Lemmy in some way. It will pull up their bio and posts/comments made on Lemmy, but that’s it.
I think the difficulty lies in the way the two platforms treat user accounts. On Mastodon, it’s pretty straightforward - a user is a user.
On Lemmy, the users are users, and the community federates to Mastodon as a “group” that boosts/retweets every single post and comment that users make to that community. It’s not really ideal, but I’m not sure if it can be improved considering the radically different structure of each platform. This is what the Quark’s feed looks like on Mastodon:
!A screenshot of @quarks as seen on Mastodon, showing the various users being “boosted”.
Interesting. Could be they’ve never interacted with Lemmy then. I just tried to pull up George Takei’s Mastodon account from Lemmy, and no results. (@georgetakei). I vaguely recall searching for another user in the past (months ago), and they did come up in search. Unless I’m just doing it wrong (always a possibility).
It’s not really ideal, but I’m not sure if it can be improved considering the radically different structure of each platform.
Yeah. I don’t know what changes would need to be made to Lemmy to support following users. There is a person_follow table in the DB, though, so maybe the framework is there but incomplete?
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