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Well, that one was as... unusual as the premise suggested, and then some.

She was piloting the ship because they were bringing her to Earth. She was literally the same being they collected from Egypt in the prologue, just having been decanted from that sarcophagus since she was now needed active. She doesn't look anything like the Mondochiwans we see in the prologue...

No, she's literally the Fifth Element, the unique and special being destined to defeat the great evil once every 5,000 years. I have no idea where you're getting the idea that she's a Mondochiwan soldier.

That is what pretty much everyone in the thread has been referring to - the ability to save at any time to resume later without losing progress. You're the first to reference savescumming.

When did that ever bring peace to the entire galaxy?

Yeah, but size isn't mass, especially when it's a big hollow object. A deliberately designed metal ship would use significantly less mass than a hollowed-out asteroid of equivalent internal volume.

Why do you need to know whether it's a zero or one? So long as you're getting some signal through, and can tell "right now there's a signal coming through, and now the line is dead", you can just revert to Morse code - brief or long bursts of signal are dots and dashes. Or zeros and ones if...

Will he be The Last Starfighter?

Yeah, while an asteroid solves a lot of problems in terms of better shielding against things like radiation and high-velocity particle collisions, it's also a lot harder to move than a similarly-sized ship. Also, I seem to recall seeing that our current understanding of large asteroid formation...

But by the same token, if there's an infinity of pre-FTL civilisations that get visited by such show-offs, there's also an infinity of civilisations that never happen to get noticed.

Kinda makes you wonder what resources we don't have in abundance that a culture developing elsewhere might consider to be an obvious essential to cultural or technological development. Getting too caught up on what worked for us to the extent of assuming it's what any civilisation would need may...

Hmm, Dennis E Taylor's Bobiverse series might work, then. They're not without conflict and ups and downs, but they're very much about building a better galaxy.

A show ahead of its time, in the sense that it wanted to be the antithesis of conventional superhero stories at a time when conventional superhero tropes weren't yet really in the public consciousness.

I've never heard the terms. Hopepunk sounds straightforward, but what is solarpunk?

I know it would be unrealistically expensive, but we should really just be pumping out another JWST each year, purely so that we have capacity to actually set some onto specific studies for more extended periods.

Altered Carbon. The second season still hit some interesting subject matter, but it didn't have as strong a story or characters as the first season.

I can't think of any recent games which had obnoxiously ungenerous save checkpoints, and some modern consoles make things even easier in that respect (if you put the PS5 into Sleep mode instead of shutting it down completely it'll preserve your game state in memory so you can pick up exactly...

The other trick, as I recall, was doing the damage over a greater duration rather than all at once. It worked out cheaper, and an enemy hit with high enough damage would go into a stunned animation and wouldn't recover before they died, so it was just as effective at taking an enemy out of the...

I just hope they still have the same five voice actors with occasional OOC line readings accidentally left in.

Yeah, the effects aren't great these days, but Reeve's physical performance is what sells it. Not just how he changes mannerisms in each persona, which is borderline magical in itself, but the way he transitions from walking to flying and vice versa looks so natural that you hardly question that...