I think it would do a lot of people a lot of good to internalize a basic core principle of “if you tell someone to fuck off, you waive the right to be mad at them for fucking off, and personally accept responsibility for whatever comes of them fucking off”
This is a principle with a lot of applications: if you block somebody’s number, you’re not really allowed to be mad that they’ve stopped calling you. If you break up with somebody, you can’t really be upset with them for not dating you anymore. If you fire an employee, you relinquish all right to be pissed at them for not showing up to work. And, crucially, if you vote the Democrats out of power, then you don’t get to be upset that the Democrats didn’t have the votes to retain enough power to stop Republicans from speedrunning outright fascism. When you tell people to fuck off, you should first consider what would happen if that directive was actually enforced
hey if you’re a federal worker you may want to use a vpn and check to see if the “american accountability foundation” (elon) doxxed you. suggesting a vpn bc there’s an IP logger on the domain.
info includes black and white photos of targets, social media posts, and political donation history among other things. do not access the site from company devices or during work hours.
weird vibes aren’t exactly rare at an antique mall but this one stall w/haunted energy had a sign with phrasing that has been stuck in my head for days lol
Look, the reason Star Trek aliens are just humans with funny foreheads isn’t because they’re lazy, it’s because Star Trek as a franchise pre-dates both CGI and The Muppet Show, and by the time the technology existed to routinely depict non-humanoid aliens on a TV show budget, it was too late – forehead aliens had already been established as part of Star Trek’s defining aesthetic.
People don’t understand how expensive this shit is.
We look at Spock and that looks like the bare minimum… But at the time, his ear prosthetics were insanely expensive. Episodes with multiple Romulans ended up with romulans wearing helmets because that many ear prosthetics were prohibitively expensive for their miniscule budget.
Their budget was so tight that they accidentally broke the Romulan Bird of Prey model, and couldn’t afford to replace it.
But on their tiny budget, they tried very hard to do things that were truly alien and imaginative. And these are the very aliens everyone uses to make fun of Trek.
(The “Salt Vampire,” Tholians, Horta, and Gorn).
Meanwhile, they also occasionally pushed the prosthetics aliens as far as they could
(Andorians, tellerite, talosian)
You got to admit, that talosian is amazing work, especially for the 1960s.
Budget continues to be the limiting factor up to and including Discovery and Picard. While those two have access to make up techniques and SFX tools that didn’t exist yet even as recently as went Enterprise went off the air, they’re still very much limited by budget and how much suffering the actors can handle.
And these actors absolutely do suffer:
This is a Hirogen. When they were created they were to be Trek’s answer to The Predator. They were to be huge. Beyond human limitations, into special effects huge. They cast actors who were already pushibg sasquatch size, bulked them up, then used perspective tricks to make them look ten feet tall. They made two sets- one normal sized with normal sized props for the hirogen actors, and one that was oversized, with oversized props for Tuvok and Seven.
These suits were giant solid pieces of rubber. Tim Russ said that every second they weren’t filming, Tiny Ron (one of the hirogen actors in this episode, better known as The Grand Nagus’ body guard) needed to be sitting so he wouldn’t die. Russ said that sweat would flowing down his gloves because that was the only escape from the suit. It would be pulling in his boots and pants.
Everything about the Hirogen was untenable. The costumes were made easier, and their size was reduced back to normal human. The cost was too high, both on the budget, and on the actors.
Voyager also tried a completely CGI aliens:
Species 8472, who came from outside the universe. The result was a mixed bag. Great in concept, but realistically was beyond the abilities of a television budget from the late nineties/early two thousands. They didn’t age as well as other aspects of that era of Trek.
Now into Modern Trek, we have Saru. He goes a step beyond most prosthetic aliens, but imagine what Doug Jones goes through to bring him to life? Not just how many hours in the make-up chair, but also his suit, hands, shoes. Imagine how sore he must be at the end of each day!
Behind every “forehead alien” in Trek is an actor who’s had to indure many many hours in the make-up chair, and tens of thousands of dollars to make those prosthetics. And it’s only been extremely recently that the technology has been affordably practical enough that they won’t get made fun of for trying non-humanoid aliens.
I’m sure all the dead people will be very happy to hear you support the destruction of USAID because USAID bolsters imperialism. They’ll no doubt be delighted to be dead in a way that cleaves to your personal principles instead of alive in a way that bolsters imperialism. You heartless, soulless freaks.
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