They have it. “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” contains the words “and” and “at”. Other phrases include words like “his”, “eyes”, “opened”, “when”, “the”, “walls”, “fell”, “on”, “ocean”, etc. That’s the binary. What’s interesting is that they seem incapable of understanding binary on its own anymore, and only know C++.
There’s a lot of good EU news today.
The bad news is that North Macedonia’s membership negotiations have stalled due to a standoff with Bulgaria.
The Tamarian language is like C++ whilst normal language is binary, or assembly. Sure, all C++ is based on assembly and assembly is based on binary, but once you’ve invented a higher-level language, you’re not gonna have much patience for lower-level languages anymore; that’s for the compiler to worry about. You might still use binary - or, more realistically, hexadecimal - for limited purposes like RGB codes, but outside of that it’s all higher-level, baby.
Option 3: stop the depressurization process but also seal Dukat in, then wait to see if the mistress survives before deciding what to do with Dukat.
But that’s my point: the movie itself might be shit, but the trailer does the intended job of telling me what the movie’s about: Rob Schneider turns into a carrot, wacky hijinks ensue. The South Park joke works as well as it does because that format works so well at making you instantly imagine the plot of the movie (and how inane it must be).
If your movie’s so shit that you think the only way to trick people into watching it is telling them less about it, you’ve already fucked up and deceptive/vague marketing won’t save it.
I’ve seen brief ads and trailers for the movie and I still have no idea what it’s about or why I might want to go see it. Tom Cruise plays an old guy who… does stuff, I guess? And John Goodman’s in it? But, like… what is it? I genuinely don’t know.
I think the art of making a trailer has been lost somehow. My “return to monke” hot take is that trailers were better when they followed the “in a world where…” format, or the “…but now, he’s about to find out…” format. At least they communicated what movies were about.
I watched a Rory Sutherland video the other day and he mentioned a very clever ad for electric cars: a person starts their petrol-powered toothbrush and starts choking on the exhaust fumes, then they turn on their petrol-powered razor and are deafened… the ad points out that most machines in your life are already electric, your car was only ever a matter of time.
Not the whole transportation business. Most of it perhaps, but not all.
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So it’s the Group of Seven again when he wants a favor, huh? Why didn’t he just ask his G8 buddy Putin?
And I assume the Klingon hearts are located in the spots where Worf stabbed Gowron, coz Gowron died almost immediately.
Bashir frequently talks about having mistaken a preganglionic fiber for a postganglionic nerve, but have you ever noticed that he never mentions what species he’s talking about? It’s like he assumes it’s obvious.
Q refreshes his uniform while also goading him on, such that Picard rejects Q’s assistance
You know, when you put it like that, it’s kinda obvious that Q was looking for an excuse to introduce the Enterprise to the Borg, but didn’t want Picard to know that he was doing it as a favor to warn the Federation about the Borg. But since almost by definition, any intervention by the Q Continuum consitutes temporal meddling, the real question I want answered is: what was the timeline like WITHOUT Q doing that, and what about that timeline made him care enough about Picard and/or the Federation to want to make the change in the first place?
Or is “in the first place” an erroneous way to look at it, when it comes to the Q? Was that what Q was trying to communicate in “All Good Things”? Was he trying to get Picard to think like a Q, in order to have his “favorite pet” understand his POV well enough to be a proper friend to him?
Which means that, barring mishap, she’d easily live to SNW’s time. Vulcans live over 200 years, and SNW S4 is less than 110 years after ENT S3, if I’ve got my dates right (2154-2262).
Damn, I didn’t know.
It doesn’t seem to be that the ICC has anything against prosecuting non-Africans, only that the USA seems to sanction them heavily when they do.
Andorians APPARENTLY live 120-135 years. So Shran’s a long shot, but Vulcans are easy to do, especially T’Pol.
Bones, Sarek, Scotty and Spock appeared in TNG; T’Pol being in SNW wouldn’t be any weirder. Vulcans live a long time and she seemed to be quite young in ENT.
Whatever happened to that rapprochement Turkiye and Israel were attempting a few years back? I mean, obviously it didn’t last, but I don’t remember why not exactly.
You know what I miss in SNW? I miss the way Spock would crouch on the transporter pad in TOS, as if he expected for something to go wrong and that he might materialize a few feet above ground, and he wanted to be prepared to roll on impact. I think he’s done it once or twice in SNW, but not lately.
Well, it’s important to remember that Picard wasn’t the only one there trying to figure the other guy out. Dathon was trying, too. So it’s like a C++ user spending enough time observing an assembly coder that he was able to invent ONE novel C++ command.