Yeah Christ, the complaint here is overstimulation and the capitalization/commercialization of peoples’ attention spans, a topic which spans far greater breadth than just “colors”. What a weird specific aspect to zero in on. I don’t disagree that colors attribute to the issue but man, OP needs to take a step back and huff into a paper bag.

This is some hyperbolic shit right here.

Coffee’s been around for hundreds of years. You think there’s really going to be an about face on it after all this time?

I don’t think anyone has a problem with bottle episodes. It’s the bottle episodes specifically starring Vic Fontaine which stretches the premise thin to incredulity that I think people–or at least I–have an issue with. Do another Ferengi or Klingon thing if need be. But attaching such sentiment to a character that the show really really wants you to like doesn’t work for me. Again, he’s a love him or hate him character. At least Ezri’s episodes, while shoehorned, made sense for why they needed to be there if they had to have her as a replacement at all. Vic was just an insert the writers specficially wanted for no good reason.

Most people here are ignoring the main reason: the writers were just a bunch of baseball loving rat pack fans who took their love of those things maybe a little too far. In the case of baseball, we only had Take Me Out to Holosuite to deal with (which is a great episode–provided you like baseball, I suppose). In the case of the rat pack, we inexplicably got Vic Fontaine who you either love or hate. I wouldn’t hate Vic Fontaine so much myself if they didn’t force him to basically take up the space that Quark’s Bar was supposed to be, and for him to be an integral part of the show so late in the series. And yes, the musical numbers take up too much time, if you ask me.

If you’re getting wear on the heel then a different lie on the stick may help. You’d want a lower lie potentially.

Absolutely the biggest issue for Lemmy (and any other federated threadlike site). This whole reddit “implosion” business (though it really is doing just fine still) has done wonders for user growth, but it’s gonna take at least another few hundred thousand+ people on here before there’s enough random distribution to make smaller niche hobby communities viable.

It’s definitely not old reddit. But absolutely hate the new reddit crowd. So much low effort bullshit that’s making this place feel like /r/funny.

I do agree not enough of the niche stuff I’m into has built up though. Personally enjoy local/regional and hobby stuff. So far, regional communities are big enough to have much discussion or content, and the hobby stuff I’m into hasn’t really moved over much other than the various tech stuff which is something, at least.

The issue is it takes a lot of users to hit a point where enough niche communities can exist. Until then it’s just gonna be this lame tryhard shit with people trying to force lemmy memes about beans or some dude who can’t poop.

Yeah I doubt he comes too. Sounds like he really wants to be in Detroit, but Wahlstrom for him–if ithappened–wouldn’t be the worst flip. Granted it’d take more than him, and with DeBrincat being so particular it sounds like he wouldn’t wanna sign with the Isles long term anyway.

Last I’ve seen of him was this article from May.

Granted depending on this DeBrincat deal or any other trade it’s hard to say if he’ll be on the roster again.