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Latest Blog Entries
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→ “Today, September 8, 2026 marks the 60th anniversary of Star Trek’s premiere on American network television”, Michael Okuda on X
Star Trek turns 60 today. The franchise’s social media accounts have been hyping this up constantly for months now and there are many collaborations with all kinds of companies, trying to sell Star Trek-themed products that are mostly junk. In stark contrast to this forced celebratory bullshit, the anniversary of my favourite TV franchise just fills me with sadness, since any Star Trek produced since 2005 has become progressively worse, with “Starfleet Academy“ being an absolute farce from the very beginning and the one show still in production, “Strange New Worlds”, decending into utter silliness like musical and muppet episodes. It all makes me weary and sad and the only thing I am wishing for at this point is that they’ll finally let the mutilated corpse of this franchise rest. But that won’t ever happen, because too many people’s careers depend on continuing this disgraceful charade.
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No Shit: “Squadron 42” Is Delayed Again
Chris Roberts has announced that Squadron 42 is delayed again. He blames Rockstar, which is releasing Grand Theft Auto VI, the most anticipated game in video game history, right when he finally wanted to give his fans his long-awaited single player magnum opus. That is solid reasoning; no game would survive going head-to-head with GTA VI, its genre and platform are completely irrelevant in this calculation.
Problem is, I don't buy that Squadron 42 is actually ready. If I had a billion dollars, I’d be willing to bet that Chris would have delayed that thing no matter what. That game was planned to be released in 2015. I once wrote a rather objective little story at the end of 2016 when Roberts delayed it for the second time and got massive shit for being too negative on him — what delicious irony. Earlier that year, a Cloud Imperium Games developer had implied in a live stream that all missions in the game were actually done. Ten years later, the game still isn’t out. And this time, it’s GTA’s fault. Sure…
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Metellus Numidicus on Marriage
Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people in a public oration that had kind Nature allowed us to exist without the help of women, we should be delivered from a very troublesome companion; and he could recommend matrimony, only as the sacrifice of private pleasure to public duty.
— Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I, p. 167, footnote 1
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