The stand-alone episodes are good, and the Burnham/Spock family dynamics, but the main arc gets really frustrating in the second half.
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I’ve been finally catching up on recent Star Trek series. I have…mixed feelings about Picard Season One
I’ve been finally catching up on recent #StarTrek series. I have…mixed feelings about Picard Season One.
I really liked Outer Wilds
In response to a post about “chill games”
I really liked Outer Wilds. A space exploration game that starts in a forest, where you can toast marshmallows on multiple planets, the whole system is in a time loop, environments change drastically between the early and later parts of the loop, and you find other astronauts by listening for the music they’re playing.
Todo: add link from review
school, parenting, covid-adjacent, violence reference
I’m not big on zombies, but I really like Mira Grant’s (Seanan Maguire’s) Newsflesh series. That said, there’s one story I don’t ever want to read again. The one set in a post-Rising elementary school, showing all the anti-zombie precautions the school takes…and then how they all fail horribly in an extended metaphor for school mass shootings.
This picture of individual barriers around each student’s desk…
Laminated hands and car desks: How schools are welcoming kids back
