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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago

Truly, the Swiss army knife of explosives.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Any Prime Directive was broken a long time ago when a stargate was plopped down on the planet and someone using it claimed themselves as gods. SG-1 shouldn't even be wandering around if anyone was adhering to rules from the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Give and get!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

P90 vs space blaster stick.

P90 WINS!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Damn, someone should've told Dr. Frasier that it's just a weapon of terror...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean... a weapon of terror still has to, y'know, kill people... it's not very terrifying if it doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

it's like a balisong: it looks very intimidating when you flourish it, you can of course kill people with it since it is a knife and people generally dislike knives in their lungs, but you're more likely to cut your fingers than anything else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fun fact, when I bought my K-bar I was with my grandmother and she asked me why I didnt get a butterfly knife instead. I literally quoted the weapon of terror line, also I pointed out how I have destroyed many pocket knives and its probably better to just get a solid piece of steel.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Too soon! RIP

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

SG-1 is a great show to watch, especially lately - it makes you feel like there might still be people that care about the world.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just when you get to the episodes where the meddling civilian oversight committees screws everything up until the brave military breaks the law to save the day, be sure you don't learn the lesson they're trying to teach you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Depends on what lesson you think they're trying to teach. "When you know the right thing to do, don't let people use rules and obstructions to stop you from doing it." can be a good lesson.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Throughout history, a terrible number of people have died because some zealot thought they were doing the right thing.

If a police officer "knows" someone is guilty, what do you think about breaking the rules to ensure they are punished?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Rule .366. Ability begets responsibility.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Would the prime directive apply if SG-1 is interacting with humans originally sourced and trafficked from Earth?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

depending on if we're on a point in the timeline before they acquire hyperdrive or not (assuming the hyperdrive effectively counts as the same as a warp drive for prime directive purposes) the prime directive might not apply just because it would be a prewarp culture interacting with another prewarp culture.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's fair to say the prime detective in Stargate would involve Stargates and not warp drives.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

It always applies. But they always have some leeway in the shows. Sometimes they're more relaxed and sometimes they're more strict. Depends on how far along they are compared to the federation, civilization wise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

assuming we're talking about some interdimensional shenanigans where the two universes meet: the federation would presumably have to treat the SG universe as separate from themselves, since they have naquadah nukes and stuff which makes it slightly annoying for the federation to claim that this earth falls under federation government. Not to mention civil unrest and stuff.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Asgard approved!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Anyone know where I can stream SG-1? It's been an age lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yandex is a russian search engine with very little filtering. If you type the name of any show (and the magic words: "watch online") , the first results are usually free websites for watching whatever

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Awesome, I will check it out, thanks!!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

If you (or anyone else that's reading this) are going to do illegal and questionable shit on the Internet, you might as well go whole hog and set up your own piracy and content distribution system on your home network.

1). First and foremost, you need to do this shit behind a VPN. You're specifically looking for a VPN with port forwarding so you'll get better download speeds on your torrents. I'm using ProtonVPN because when I was setting my rig up for the first time about a year ago, that was the top recommendation. Just do a little research and type in "best VPN for torrenting" into your favorite search engine. Set up your VPN as instructed. You'll want to make special note of the "openvpn" username/password. You'll need it later.

2). Next, you'll need hardware. While any old laptop that's been sitting around collecting dust is probably fine, you'll run out of storage on it pretty fast if you want anything more than a few shows and movies. If you're running out of storage space, I would recommend a Network Attached Storage device (NAS). There's lots of brands to choose from, but I'm partial to Synology.

3). Next (regardless of hardware) you'll want to be familiar with Docker and the container model. Essentially, containers allow you to run a little piece of software in a self contained virtual environment. All you have to do is tell docker the containers' dependencies and configuration and it'll spin up the container you ask for it.

4). Next you'll want to get smart on the arr stack. This is a set of services that run in docker containers that can completely automate your piracy activities. At a high level, you specify the TV shows and movies you're interested in, then the arr stack will search for the torrent, download it, and move it to where your content distribution service is scanning for new media.

5). Not sure where else to put this, but I'd recommend gluetun for the VPN client (this is where you'll need your openvpn credentials), qBittorent for your torrent client and Jellyfin for your media distribution. These are all services that can run in Docker containers. I'd recommend using the docker containers from https://fleet.linuxserver.io/ since they tend to standardize the configuration of their docker containers.

Resources:

https://old.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/rikthc/list_of_recommended_vpns_2022/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megathread

https://wiki.servarr.com/

https://trash-guides.info/

https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki


It's a lot to distill from into a single Lemmy comment, but hopefully this sets you on the right path!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

yaharrrrrrrr

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pluto.tv has a legal 24/7 stream if you're in the usa

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Very late response but thank you, I tried them earlier and it seemed to not have it so I'll check again!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm just waiting sometimes searching for an in depth guide, or an easy to use tool, to upscale my sg-1 dvd's directly from original non compressed quality, to a more palatable resolution before they are compressed and converted to mkv. Tools being FOSS is a soft requirement, it kind of has to run on Linux, or I need to find an older dual core Intel Mac in storage or run windows in a vm.

I don't have any computers with a DVD drive any more, but I'm not opposed to buying one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not turn to the high seas? If you own the DVDs, there's no moral reason not to and you'll save yourself lots of effort.

Plus I don't think ripping DVDs is any more legal than downloading a copy.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

German Amazon has it free with ads.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

To he fair the Federation was born from NASA and SG-1 came from a military program

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm completely clueless. What's the bottom half from? What's the context?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Stargate SG-1

It's a really fantastic show and it holds up as well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's from Stargate, but I'm not sure the context of this specific image.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's pretty much the plot of at least up to where I've seen so far. Go through Stargate find isolated human culture who worship aliens as gods, say hey they're not gods, join the resistance! Here have free guns.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If the first movie is similar the humans were taken from Earth millennia ago, so not really a prime directive issue I wouldn't think. Not only are they not an indigenous species, they've technically already made first contact. John Star Trek would rescue them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I think the relevant context here is it's a recognizable shot of the cast of Stargate SG-1, as the text over both images contrasts the two shows' attitudes.

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