Well I mean, age is a disadvantage to most things except life wisdom, and there’s not really many sports centered on that. But if we make the definition “games”, then there is. Chess, for one? Until you start losing your memory in the old age, one would think experience just improves chess play. Hard to really call it a sport though. I think something like archery or shooting in general might not be too bad. You’re pretty stationary, it’s not about reaction times (unless you’re doing skeet or something) and it’s mostly about technique. Like that Turkish Olympic winner? He could’ve been 50, easily.

But what is always definitely a disadvantage is inexperience, I would say. Which is what youth basically is.

I wouldn’t disagree with it being like art, but also, you can objectively measure quite a lot of sports, I think. In some sports/roles age isn’t as much of a disadvantage I think, but probably in quite a few sports it is.

Middle-aged professional athletes, perhaps?

I used to send a complaint for faulty products to companies in my late teens/early 20’s as I was low on money. Like once I got some energy drink in a bottle made for Pepsi. Same volume, no difference, but a mistake, so got 5€ for it so “won” like 3€ for that. I’d pick out products like that if I saw them in a shop for that very purpose.

Once I genuinely was annoyed though, as a soft drink company that filled the vending machine at our school had filled it wrong and I got what was essentially Fanta he I wanted an energy drink and it was fucking hard waking up that morning.

Well that’s not going to work out.

can either be allowing it or simply not disallowing it

Exactly.

When I go take a shit, did you allow it, or not disallow it? Neither, because you have no agency over me, so it’d be a stupid fucking sentence.

I’m not saying he thinks he owns his daughters like some 16th century inbred minor noble.

But connotations and implications can exist even when they weren’t particularly intentional by the writer (or speaker.)

“I let them”

Dudes showing internally he thinks he controls their votes. That he could’ve not let them had he chosen so.

So his daughters should be thankful for such a benevolent patriarch. /S

“The gnome himself was visibly startled,” police said, referring to the gnome having its hands covering its mouth.

The only cops I’d be willing to say aren’t necessarily all bastards, would be the Dutch cops. Got to love their sense of humour.

“Wololoo”

Does Tuvok actually say Vulcans have no emotion? I recall no such thing. I recall them suppressing emotions and not displaying them, but the lore was always that they were a really violent society up until they invented meditation, basically. Right?

Anyway, no matter why or what for we know they technically have no emotions in a practical sense, but Tuvok still displays understanding of the importance of emotions a lot of the time.

Like in this clip

Like “logically” (the “logic” in the show is usually slightly reductive) dancing for someone doesn’t change anything. But… we know that it does. So it is logical to do that even if you don’t feel the emotions to do it. Although Tuvok does, he just suppresses them, like a good Vulcan.

This was a theme for a lot of 90’s scifi.

I always pretend there’s just three seasons to Sliders, for instance.

No no, not “forgotten”.

Seen. I haven’t seen SeaQuest.

Is Lexx “forgotten?” I mean I guess it was mor niche than I felt, because of having watched it from TV as like a late night addition to a new-ish young person channel here in Finland.

We actually got quite a lot of the Canadian scifis, Stargate obviously being the supreme one. I watched Hot Tub Time Machine yesterday, which came out in 2010, and this reference made me laugh out loud, because in 2010 all the Jacobs (and me) would’ve been collectively jonesing for more Stargate, the last seasons and movies (Universe doesn’t count) had just run out. I don’t think we ever got SeaQuest, because I knew all the shows that were on the five-ish channels we had.

I don’t like animated ones as much. I enjoy 80’s-90’s scifi a lot because it’s “bad”. Like the boring one camera angles makes it so you can basically listen to most of TNG for example.

On the other hand shows like Sliders had a bit more action in them and usually kinda large elaborate set pieces. God it was good for the first three series, then… well, without Gimli, son of Gloin, I mean, Pavarotti, I mean, professor Arturo, it just went downhill pretty fast. I’m not even sure I actually have ever watched sliders further than s3 really.

Don’t you dare say Sliders sucked. It was balls to the wall amazing. Just… not all the way through.

Put even for the first 3 seasons, Sliders actually doesn’t work as well as TNG with the stilted long one camera takes. Insofar as being something on the second screen that’s just playing. I don’t enjoy music.

90’s scifi is more like about the hopefulness of the writers than it is about how big of a special effects budget they had. Sort of like old Who. Although I have to admit I have not seen all of old Who. I’ve been meaning to, but…

I don’t think I have seen Odyssey 5 though, that’s a bit new. I don’t know if it ever aired here, I doubt it. That’s too new for “90’s scifi” though, but seems like worth a watch, actually. But I imagine it to be closer to the later seasons of Stargate than the earlier seasons of TNG, in terms of camera angles and other such stuff. Gonna check that out though, thanks. And others which I haven’t seen as well

Tldr 90s scifi is sort of half “supposed” to suck lol. The jilted camera angles and slightly poor production values are to me what I feel like the “warmth” that hifi snobs talk about with their LP-players and whatnot. U know?

I didn’t read that whole comment, because I don’t want any spoilers as I might try this show as it’s one of the rare 90’s scifis I don’t think I’ve seen.

Yeah binging 90’s scifi is very soothing.

Until you hit those depressingly real near future depictions.

Set in “the near future” (the year 2018 in the first season)

Uff.

True enough

Why on Earth is this surprising?

Ask “Do you want to get thinner?” to any obese person… What will they say?

I find it far less disturbing.

Yeah looking at the history it’s very problematic, but England has always retained a some sense of… morality. Fuck monarchy and all, but I find it very challenging to imagine the UK going as insane as the US is currently.

Like when you read shit like this, I know who I favour historically:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bamber_Bridge

Well, I guess, but… you could argue that Zionists are mostly seen to be purely Jewish due to the nature of the movement.