BeccaStareyes

BeccaStareyes

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4 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'The Fifth ... · 0 replies · +4 points

Spoilers, whole trilogy, playing off the Interlude.

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5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Snuff': Pa... · 1 reply · +1 points

Do you have a place where you've compiled these, as I am fond of Sorting Hat Chats, and would like to see the other entries, besides the Watch?

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thud!': Pa... · 0 replies · +4 points

True, good point.

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thud!': Pa... · 3 replies · +9 points

Or both. That if Carrot had stayed in his dad's mine or in another dwarf community and was the dwarf equivalent the ideal life, he'd get a lot of slack. Or the biological-dwarfs in the Watch who live in a human-founded city among humans, working for a mostly non-dwarf leadership get allowances that Carrot doesn't as long as they still run around in leather and chainmail on their days off.

5 years ago @ Mark Reads - Mark Reads 'Thud!': Pa... · 2 replies · +11 points

I was going to note that. He did the same thing in a more focused way when Colon was getting all racist towards Klatchians. (And I can't even tell if Nobby does it on purpose, or he just has a mind that's a bit weird so is trying to make sense of some of the paper-thin justifications. Or a bit of both.)

6 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Babylon ... · 0 replies · +6 points

Considering she transformed her species partially, I can imagine the whole thing feeling not okay on some serious level. I'm not clear how many of the details Delenn knew about before starting this, but even a whole MD's worth of human anatomy and physiology courses probably doesn't capture the... sense of having a body that feels a certain way. Heck, Dr. Franklin may even be of limited help in 'am I dying' -- he knows what healthy Minbari and healthy humans look like, but Delenn's medical care will be an educated guess at the time for anyone. (Which makes sense why a Minbari doctor may well be useless if they don't know anything about humans. Dr. Franklin did take the effort to establish some knowledge of Minbari.)

[S2x09 spoilers] Gur fhocybg jvgu ure naq Vinabin fhttrfgf gung fur rvgure qvqa'g xabj jung jbhyq unccra jryy rabhtu gb erfrnepu guvat yvxr 'uhzna unve: ubj qbrf vg jbex' be ernyyl qvqa'g guvax guebhtu jung punatvat gb n cneg-nyvra uloevq jbhyq or yvxr ba gur jrveqarff fpnyr. Fur qvq frrz gb or njner bs ubj greevslvat guvf punatr jbhyq or, ohg gung znl unir orra gbjneqf jung pbhyq tb jebat.

[s3]V jbaqre vs bgure Zvaonev nggrzcgrq vg orsber, naq zrffvyl snvyrq. Nsgre nyy, n pybfrq gvzr ybbc znxrf vg rnfvre gb svther bhg gur evtug crefba ng gur evtug cynpr va gur evtug gvzr.

6 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Babylon ... · 1 reply · +5 points

I have not been impressed with Amazon's subtitles. It's not the first spelling error I've noticed.

6 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Babylon ... · 1 reply · +8 points

Yeah, at best you get Anna's video letter to Liz... which is presented in the context that makes it about John, even if the original context was partially 'Anna is excited for new discoveries on the SS Ominous Name'.

6 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Babylon ... · 0 replies · +7 points

Yeah, that was my thought as well. Sure, any hard evidence has to rely on proper documentation, but electronic files can be duplicated. Given the suspect's testimony implies a possible inside job, it might be wise to make a copy of the data and keep it offline and let the rest undergo whatever standard policy is on archival. (Because if I were a conspirator, I'd be sending an agent to give B5 a computer bug that happens to purge 'random' backups from the security files, as well as some nominal cover.)

(And now I'm on a long tangent on the admissibility of computer files in an age when they can be altered, which could mean that any unofficial copy Sheridan made becomes inadmissible in court.)

6 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Babylon ... · 0 replies · +6 points

I mean, remember reading how much the crew on the International Space Station were happy when growing lettuce for an experiment in hydroponics in space, because plants were such a novelty, even more so than fresh veggies. (From what I understand, there's limited ability to bring up fresh food with a supply ship, and it can last a few days or weeks. Then it's back to pre-packaged food.)

Babylon 5 is a space station and people live there. I can imagine providing some budget for garden features that might not be the most efficient use of space for food and oxygen, but are good for morale. (And, yeah, clandestine meetings. It is a diplomatic station.)