“Adam discovers that the video game on his Game Gear matches the events around him and finds he can control some events through his Sega.”

I’m not sure what’s more surreal. The plot synopses of this film, of the fact that Wikipedia’s editors referred to it as, “His Sega”.

In the swirl of Karate Kid, Three Ninjas, and Surf Ninjas, I had somehow completely forgotten the Sega tie in with this movie.

Wait, is that the plot of Surf Ninjas? 😂

Tell me where in the world is former emperor Georgiou~? ♫

(Don’t be weird in the comments with the hot takes, I’m just happy I found a joke that scanned with “Carmen Sandiego”.)

These videos were originally uploaded by The Spoony Experiment. They use clips from the “Star Trek: The Next Generation – A Klingon Challenge” VHS board game. A single actor in Klingon makeup has taken over the off hours set of the Enterprise and challenges players to Trek themed challenges at random intervals. During your turn he’d sometimes jump out and say “Experience Bij!” It’s the Klingon equivalent of, “Take this punishment!” and would usually make you lose a turn.

The Spoony Experiment typically posted scripted skit-based media reviews, similar to the Angry Video Game Nerd, the Nostalgia Critic, and other online contemporaries. These sorts of reviews can take a while to produce, so he’d occasionally post an Experience Bij video during a gap in his upload schedule. It’s was usually a mashup of the TNG game clips and an unrelated, ostensibly grating piece of media. They were meant to be a bit of a non-sequitur and were just there to let fans know his channel was still active.

I can’t believe you eight nine.

If your replicated coffee goes cold while you read reports on your PADD, do you have to breakdown and re-replicated the coffee and mug just to get it hot again? (Assuming Kes isn’t nearby to freshen it up for you.)

Seems fishy.

It’s pickled! Had to get it extra purple! 🙌

A third of those screenshots is the Favorites Bar. Is that turned on by default these days? Turning that off helps slims things down a bit.

It’s not a big power user feature, and one typically doesn’t sit there using the touch screen for minutes on end. It’s more useful for dismissing alerts or quickly focusing IM windows. It’s just nice in small moments where you’re juggling multiple things at your desk or just sitting back down. Being able to not think and jab your browser window to scroll down a bit is a natural gesture, even on a laptop.

At the start of the episode I was worried Game Changer would get hooked on chasing spectacle and loose some of those classic moments it’s known for.

Those fears were immediately put to rest when Brendan “I don’t know how to talk to a dog” Mulligan had to interact with a cat.

Just mashing together shape primitives and Thingiverse parts in TinkerCAD is entirely underrated. It’s still primarily what I use unless I need particularly curvy corner.

Fusion360 and FreeCAD are the CAD versions of Photoshop and GIMP (if Photoshop had a restricted free tier). They’re both trying to be a legit piece of CAD software, so there’s a bit of a learning curve coming from TinkerCAD. I found it easier to “feel my way around” Fusion360’s UI. FreeCAD has a layer of, “How did Open Source devs decide to be different here?” on top of learning something new.

I still cannot believe NASA managed to re-establish a connection with Voyager 1.

That scene from The Martian where JPL had a hardware copy of Pathfinder on Earth? That’s not apocryphal. NASA keeps a lot of engineering models around for a variety of purposes including this sort of hardware troubleshooting.

It’s a practice they started after Voyager. They shot that patch off into space based off of old documentation, blueprints, and internal memos.