Funny how the only times western governments are willing to engage in even the slightest pushback against the onslaught of degeneracy, it's always to protect women's special status. Never for anything else.

Fuck I hope that happens. It's been a long time coming.

He basically got Flanderized.

Yeah....but that's not the episode this thread is about.

I'm gonna switch my VPN location to Israel just to fuck with the results.

It always bothered me a bit how the existence of that Dyson Sphere and the extinct species that created it were just never mentioned again. That is such a monumental discovery several tech orders of magnitude greater than even the most advanced species the Federation had ever encountered, and it's an episode of the week plot device.

Some. But an even larger portion are working for China, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. The Muslim jewposting is obvious. But the Chinese posters are more insidious, as they know that stuff is a great distraction from all the nefarious shit they're doing themselves behind the scenes. Such as China's funding of DEI in western entertainment being an order of magnitude larger than Israel's.

Which is funny, because women of any age can't actually take care of themselves at all. Even 'strong independent women' are still utterly reliant on a mountain of handouts and freebie programs using money forcibly confiscated from productive men. That and women never actually emotionally or psychologically develop past around the age of 15.

One of the most intriguing, and depressing to me, things about what the Left has done over the past several decades is getting the right to think everything is some kind of false flag or glow op. It's ended up being a major factor in paralyzing the right into doing nothing at all. Everyone knows that if they do anything, they will be immediately called a CIA operative by everyone on their own side 10 seconds after they do it. No action will ever inspire others to stand up and take action in turn. Any action will always be met with everyone on their own side distancing themselves from the actor and they'll be ostracized and said they were really doing it to help the enemy.

Some guy in his late 50s with terminal cancer could decide that since he's gonna die soon anyways, he's gonna take one for the team and sort out this murderer ape once and for all since the 'justice' system won't do it. And 4 minutes after he does, there will be a myriad of Twitter posts talking about how when he was in college, his roomate's brother in law applied to be an analyst for the CIA and that his 4th grade social studies teacher was Mrs. Bergenstein, so we all know who is really responsible for it. False flag confirmed.

Image posts are better anyways. I should have t click on yet another link, go through yet another series of captcha bullshit, glean through a bunch of superfluous nonsense, just to see what an OP was talking about.

I genuinely hope him and his whole family are RULE 2ed .

What was the sexual orientation of said frogs?

Depends on who's writing the fight.

But as per your fun-ruining observation, I'll actually answer the question. I think no, Batman wins 9 times out of 10, especially if he has any amount of preparation or knowledge about Snake.

I've got three sci-fi recommendations.

The Frontlines series by Marko Kloos. Kloos is an old regular of the Firing Line and High Road gun forums, around the same time as Larry Correia, so he's pretty based. Frontlines is a bit of a mix between Starship Troopers, Halo ODSTs, and Judge Dredd. Set in a mild dystopian future where earth's nations have coalesced into roughly 3 factions, the North American Commonwealth, the Sino-Russian Alliance, and basically everyone else. Most citizens live in Mega City style slums with soy based food rations and comblock housing. One way to get out of that life is to join the military. The protagonist does so, and there is a pretty entertaining basic training sequence similar to Starship Troopers. The worldbuilding of the series is really good in my opinion, especially in relation to the military stuff. Wormhole based FTL has been achieved and humans have terraformed and colonized many different worlds, and the war between the NAC and SRA is mostly taking place out there, since neither side wants to nuke Earth, so they fight proxy wars on backwater worlds. The bulk of the series is actually about an alien threat they encounter that begins to wage war on humanity, but the series does a great job of taking its time setting things up. The whole first book doesn't even involve aliens for like 95% of its run. It's basically about the protagonist getting some war experience on earth fighting rebels and rioters in the Dredd style Mega Cities. Shit happens and he finally gets to go to space, and that's where they alien stuff starts. If you saw the Love, Death, and Robots episode Lucky 13, that episode was written by Kloos and is actually a short story within the Frontline universe. Though in typical Netflix fashion, the actual character in Lucky 13 is a hot White chick pilot, not a strong black woman. The series is finished if that's a concern, though there is a spinoff in progress as well.

Second series is The Eden Chronicles by S.M. Anderson. Sort of a Ayn Rand meets Sliders deal. Earth has basically fallen to the globalist commie forces and the US government starts taking a very hardline tyrannical approach to basically everything. Full communism, assigned jobs, slave labor camps, etc. A small group of John Galt/Francisco D'Anconia types who are all experts in their fields predicted this would happen decades ago and began an escape plan. The physicist of the bunch found a way to teleport to alternate adjacent dimensions of Earth, and found one that never saw the rise of the human species, so it's basically a pristine empty wilderness earth. The group then spent the next few decades slowly building a large mass of followers and resources from like minded people via social networking, who were willing to uplift their lives and go to the new earth, Eden, to start fresh with a very conservatarian individualist political system. Stuff happens that complicates everyone getting there, but once they do, they find out that there is more than one alternate earth, and the other one has a very militant one-world-government that also knows how to traverse to other earths, except their technology is roughly on the level of the early to mid 1800s. So there's a lot of 'inferior but numerically superior vs. advanced but small numbers' sci-fi action stuff going on. And yes, why they are at 1800s tech but know how to get to other earths is explained in a pretty interesting way. This one is also finished, and the last book released not too long ago, so I actually haven't listened to it yet.

Last series is Undying Mercenaries by B.V Larson. This one is a lot more schlocky and pulpy than the others, but it's fun. It's basically a retelling of the fall of the Roman Empire, but from the perspective of the barbarians. Except the Roman Empire is a vast galactic empire of aliens, and the barbarians are humans. Every species in the empire is expected to contribute one specific product or service to the empire. Most species are too haughty or 'evolved' to be much good at violence anymore, so the service that humans get selected for after earth gets forcibly annexed is being soldiers because we're really good at it. We have to get flown to other planets by another species, since we're not allowed to have our own ships (that's a service a different species has to contribute), but humans are used as the army of the empire to conquer even more worlds. And there is a technology that allows someone's entire brain to be scanned and implanted into a clone upon death, so every time a human soldier is killed in combat, they wake up in clone pod, hence the undying part. The series is about humans slowly gaining more influence and power as the alien galactic empire is collapsing from internal cultural and political rot. Tons of over the top sci-fi action, main character is a bit of a Kirk with getting to bang a new chick pretty much every volume, but it's a fun high stakes in a comic book way silly sci-fi action and drama fest. If Frontlines is a lot like Starship Troopers the novel, Undying Mercenaries is a lot like Starship Troopers the movie, at least in terms of tone and feel. 22 books in and it's not finished yet.

All are available on audiobook.I recommend them in the same order I listed them. Frontlines is my favorite, Eden Chronicles is just under it, and Undying Mercenaries is fun but not really that thought provoking.

Murphy started out as a shit character, kind of got better and more tolerable, and then went back to getting worse by the end. She peaked right around the time of the motorcycle jousting ride, and then it was a downhill slide from there. The shit she pulled with her self-appointed ownership of the Swords was absolutely insufferable. She has some endearing qualities and moments, and a lot of a really awful qualities and moments too. But she never really gets called out on the shit ones. She never has that moment of her attitude biting her in the ass and having to own up to being arrogant and condescending. That's what bothered me most about her to be honest.

You are not wrong about Murphy being a pretty shit person and borderline abusive. You are wrong that the "series revolves around it". She is a main character, but the series revolves around Harry and he is the driving force behind all of the stories. I get the feeling you probably read the first two books, which are universally acknowledged as the worst in the series, and then gave up. For the rest of the series, Murphy gets slightly better in some ways, and doesn't in others. But everything else does get way better.

Mohammedans are expressly allowed to break Sharia if it is in the pursuit of undermining and conquering infidel nations.

Would be nice if he'd set one of those B-21's sights on it.

You aren't even aware of what the term 'filler' actually means.

I wish the American Right was half as based as the left accuses us of being.

And yet, each episode in decisively not a segment of a much longer movie, ala the Stranger Things effect. They are all still self-contained episodes. It's not binary. A show doesn't have to be entirely episodic or entirely serialized. DS9 was a great blend of the two styles, where the world they existed in persisted and had consequences, with little use of the Voyager Magic Reset Button, but many/most of the episodes are still their own stories that can be watched in isolation. No one thinks so fondly of S01/E04 of Stranger Things and just goes back to watch only that. Or just the 3rd episode of Terminal List. People do still go back and watch singular episodes of DS9, from all of the seasons, despite them being part of an overall narrative.

You aren't interested in it. You do not get to speak for everyone else.

Are you just young or something? Do you not remember the days before modern '8 hour movies cut into 12 episodes' TV shows where a series had many one-off adventures or fun side episodes that aren't connected to the main plot? Your use of the term useless implies other episodes are useful. Useful to what? If the standard is in service to some overarching plot, then that's a faulty standard. TV wasn't made like that back then. Plenty of us in fact absolutely hate the fact that modern TV is just one long running plot with no fun side stories. That's like saying the SG-1 episode "Window of Opportunity" is 'useless' because it's not about the war with the Goa'uld. If you meant to imply that it's not enjoyable by calling it useless, well that's just like your opinion man. But really though, it is. Plenty of people had fun watching the crew just have a fun day doing a holographic heist plot. You didn't. Sorry about that. But that's a you problem, not a problem with the show.

Lol is this gonna be a regular thing now? Weekly posts looking at a 20+ year old series through modern eyes and complaining about it, despite being to many fans the best Star Trek series with a ton of spectacular episodes? You're basically doing the same things as the wokists. They look back at some movie from the 90s and bitch about how 'problematic' it was, while you're looking back at something from that time and complaining about it being woke.

If anyone here wants an actual intelligent review of DS9, Raz0rfist has an ongoing series called 'Depths of DS9' where he spends about 45 minutes talking about each episode. He's almost done with Season 5 at this point. And he's pretty astute with his criticism, as he is with most things. No series is perfect. There are some missteps and dogshit episodes. Bar Association in particular comes to mind as one of the worst episodes IMO.

But these thread smacks of OP just not liking the show, so he's cherry picking little 3 or 4 minutes clips out of hundreds of hours to grind an axe. You wanna talk about Duet or The Visitor? Siege of AR-558? Hard Time? Sacrifice of Angels? Civil Defense? For the Uniform? Trials and Tribbliations?

It's ok not to like something. But your opinion is not objective fact. There are just as many people here who aren't woke who loved the show for good reasons. Sorry if you're big mad about that. Maybe you should go talk to Worf again...

I think there were two Trill serving on that ship, but one of them got killed.