Things what are making me cranky
Mar. 15th, 2014 04:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobel1) TNG rewatch. Am up to mid season 4, and I am seriously considering skipping the current episode. It's one that I vaguely recall being displeased with back when I was super obsessed with TNG, and I was ... totally clueless about some of the things involved. Now it's just EW DO NOT WANT.
So in a previous episode, Geordie had to figure out how to do something particular with the engines, and to help him he went into the holodeck and conjured up a recreation of the main engineer-type person involved with the engine design, so they could bounce ideas off each other. And Geordie totes fell in love with her. Now, said engineer is visiting the Enterprise in person, and Geordie is ... extremely gah. Because he is all ♥_♥ at her, and she is just "wtf did you do with my engines :[ and you know way too much about me that is weird."
So Geordie invites her to a one on one meeting to discuss their agenda, you know, all businessy and such.
...in his quarters.
With "cozy" lighting.
And gentle music.
And he has changed out of uniform.
And when she goes "uh this is not appropriate I will leave" he *sulks*.
I just. Yes, the other characters (well, Guinan, at least, which is the only one he has confessed some of the situation to) do not approve either, but more in a fond that's-so-cute sort of way. Not in a "holy fuck what is wrong with you STOP BEING SKEEVY" way.
...
Yeah.
2) TNG rewatch, less specifically but in context of disability representation. TNG is pretty good, as far as things go, about gender balance and race balance -- not perfect by any means, but it is not entirely (straight) white males. There is, for example, a recurring black female transporter chief. With lines, even.
It won't win any awards for being the best at these things -- the command staff is still mostly white male humans -- but it's miles better than, say, Reboot.
But disabilitywise...
There is Geordie, yes. There are things that verge on non-visible disabilities, like Data's lack of emotion or like the time(s) Troi loses her empathic powers or like various forms of PTSD. There is a reference by Picard to an instructor he had at the Academy who used a wheelchair. And ...
...
nothing else, at least not that I've encountered. And I want more, dammit.
3) SW:TOR. I stopped playing for a while, and desubscribed, so I count as a FTP user. (Well, Preferred, but still.) And I've gone back, but as a free user there are so many *restrictions*. Some of it is fine, like having access to stuff at level 10 rather than level 1, or restricted access to PvP stuff I don't care about.
But.
6 character slots, with limited species options.
Inventory slots expandable only with "cartel coins", not in-game currency
Revives in the field limited to five per *character* (total)
Slower XP gain.
No rested XP bonus.
Can't equip purple-level items without spending cartel coins
And so on.
It's all a way to encourage purchases with RL money, of course. But ...
There is a part of me that wants to resubscribe to get the game the way I remember it being.
There is a part of me that resents being not-very-subtly maneuvered into it.
And of course I don't know if my interest will *last*.
4) My total lack of interest in GW2. I can't explain it. I should want to play. I just ... don't.
5) The fact that it is too hot. Seriously, 82? In March? The thought of summer scares me.
6) Being almost entirely out of girl scout cookies.
So in a previous episode, Geordie had to figure out how to do something particular with the engines, and to help him he went into the holodeck and conjured up a recreation of the main engineer-type person involved with the engine design, so they could bounce ideas off each other. And Geordie totes fell in love with her. Now, said engineer is visiting the Enterprise in person, and Geordie is ... extremely gah. Because he is all ♥_♥ at her, and she is just "wtf did you do with my engines :[ and you know way too much about me that is weird."
So Geordie invites her to a one on one meeting to discuss their agenda, you know, all businessy and such.
...in his quarters.
With "cozy" lighting.
And gentle music.
And he has changed out of uniform.
And when she goes "uh this is not appropriate I will leave" he *sulks*.
I just. Yes, the other characters (well, Guinan, at least, which is the only one he has confessed some of the situation to) do not approve either, but more in a fond that's-so-cute sort of way. Not in a "holy fuck what is wrong with you STOP BEING SKEEVY" way.
...
Yeah.
2) TNG rewatch, less specifically but in context of disability representation. TNG is pretty good, as far as things go, about gender balance and race balance -- not perfect by any means, but it is not entirely (straight) white males. There is, for example, a recurring black female transporter chief. With lines, even.
It won't win any awards for being the best at these things -- the command staff is still mostly white male humans -- but it's miles better than, say, Reboot.
But disabilitywise...
There is Geordie, yes. There are things that verge on non-visible disabilities, like Data's lack of emotion or like the time(s) Troi loses her empathic powers or like various forms of PTSD. There is a reference by Picard to an instructor he had at the Academy who used a wheelchair. And ...
...
nothing else, at least not that I've encountered. And I want more, dammit.
3) SW:TOR. I stopped playing for a while, and desubscribed, so I count as a FTP user. (Well, Preferred, but still.) And I've gone back, but as a free user there are so many *restrictions*. Some of it is fine, like having access to stuff at level 10 rather than level 1, or restricted access to PvP stuff I don't care about.
But.
6 character slots, with limited species options.
Inventory slots expandable only with "cartel coins", not in-game currency
Revives in the field limited to five per *character* (total)
Slower XP gain.
No rested XP bonus.
Can't equip purple-level items without spending cartel coins
And so on.
It's all a way to encourage purchases with RL money, of course. But ...
There is a part of me that wants to resubscribe to get the game the way I remember it being.
There is a part of me that resents being not-very-subtly maneuvered into it.
And of course I don't know if my interest will *last*.
4) My total lack of interest in GW2. I can't explain it. I should want to play. I just ... don't.
5) The fact that it is too hot. Seriously, 82? In March? The thought of summer scares me.
6) Being almost entirely out of girl scout cookies.
