IcedRaktajino

joined 5 months ago
[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Definitely different experiences, but yeah, agree. Generally, I only like to listen to the audiobook after I've read it (unless there's no other option). It's difficult for me to not miss important plot points when I'm listening to it, but that's probably just my ADHD.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

If you do, post it!

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 33 points 2 months ago (7 children)

He could just be on vacation? Someone just pointed out earlier today he hasn't posted in 2 weeks.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 49 points 2 months ago (11 children)

No clue, but it very easily could have come from the one I grew up in.

The_Picard_Maneuver is MIA, so I dove into my ~2014 era meme folder and am posting some golden oldies

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago

I was literally wondering that this morning! Noticed the non-political shitposts had largely dried up, and realized I hadn't seen TPM for a good minute. Come back, we need you.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I just started this one yesterday. Enjoying it so far. I'm only a few chapters in, but it definitely fills in a lot of blanks from PIC S1 like "Who is Raffi and why are she and Picard suddenly BFFs?" After reading her introduction, yeah, I'd want to be best friends with her, too.

It puts so much of the first season into context that I felt was missing when I watched it.

Thanks for the recomendation.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Lol, well, maybe if Eeyore would can it once in a while and just let people enjoy things....

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The genre doesn't exist, but it should: "Bedtime Stories: Narrated by Morgan Freeman and Stepehn Fry".

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Seriously, this. I can't stand to read "the classics" but I love reading things that interest me. Would be nice if schools recognized that and encouraged reading just for the sake of it rather than forcing kids to trudge through endless stanzas of "ye art incorrect and thou must protest this injustice. Oh Horatio! Oh, lamentation this! Lamentation that!" Like, fuck, I lost the plot 3 pages of lamentations ago.

Just let kids do book reports on Harry Potter (or whatever's cool these days). At least they're reading and their brain cells are firing.

Provided it's got a decent narrator, audiobooks are like literal bedtime stories, and a lot of players have "sleep mode" that will either set a timer or stop it after the current chapter. Seems like an easy way to get people into them, IMO.

I have two of Stephen Fry's autobiographies on audiobook and would basically let his smooth voice lull me to sleep. 😆

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ugh, I had the Sega Master System version (same game) and it was pretty awful.

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