How is it coming along? I’ve heard it’s fairly buggy at times, but that might be outdated information by now. I keep meaning to try it, but I always end up falling down the KSP rabbit hole when I want to do space stuff!

One of them was me! ;-) I’ve actually been playing a good bit the last month or so, but the last week it’s been a lot of hours, usually with the stream running on another screen!

One of my favorite games! My spouse and I both got have quite a number of hours into it.

Yeah, that is odd that they didn’t do any more there. It would be nice if they did something, it’s not like it’s there’s a lot of extra work to release the songs digitally! SNW only got a season 1 and 3 soundtrack release so far too. They did do the Subspace Rhapsody record though, so that was nice.

It looks like another nice steelbook! Hopefully they continue doing them for the next two seasons as well. It’s odd that they’ve ignored physical soundtrack releases for SNW though, especially since they’ve done a few others.

That controller will be an easy buy for me! I don’t do a lot of couch gaming because I don’t like standard controllers, but I’ll happily use one of these. The Steam Machine and VR headset aren’t that exciting to me, but I’m sure there’s a market for them.

Apparently in later Discovery they actually used a starship, the USS Federation, as the Federation headquarters. It appears the Athena is just for the academy though.

It’s rare that I find a game that I want to buy anymore, so I’m probably often in that percentage. I’m still regularly playing games I’ve owned for over ten years now, and usually don’t see a lot of reason to keep buying more. I did buy two this year, one on launch and one on a sale. I also picked up a few DLCs for two of my long-time favorites.

Fortunately the WRC rights went back to NACON after that one game, so they won’t be affected!

Actually they don’t! The rights went back to NACON a few months ago. Good timing, although I know not everyone likes the older WRC games either.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/fia-world-rally-championship-wrc-games-return-to-nacon/

I don’t think they usually worry too much about continuity. They’ll try to make things line up and explain inconsistencies sometimes, but there’s a lot of times the writers say “wibbly wobbly, timey wimey” and try to tell a fun story without being locked into things. Seeing that approach for so many years is probably why I normally don’t mind the inconsistencies between the various Star Trek shows!

They could definitely figure out a way to make it work! It could be pretty fun, and I would at least have a big grin on my face when I first saw the TARDIS on the Enterprise bridge!

And yes, I’ve noticed that too. The world of Doctor Who wouldn’t be a great place to live compared to Star Trek, at least from what we’ve been shown. Even the tone of the episodes is often darker, there are quite a few classic and modern episodes that are just family friendly horror. Trek has done some of that over the years, but it seems Who leans into it more, or at least I notice it more!

It would make a lot of people annoyed, and open up a huge number of issues with trying to match up timelines, but… I would watch a crossover. I would probably enjoy it too, as long as they had a good story to tell with it! I would think it would be best done as a streaming movie or something though.

I thought it was pretty interesting. Of course first episodes are usually weighed down a little by setting everything up, but it seemed they did a pretty good job of it anyway.

Even though I don’t know any of the actors other than the former Trek actors and Wrenn Schmidt, the accents and voices are fortunately different enough that it’s not hard to keep up with so far. I do hope they don’t expand the cast too much farther though, or they could risk more casual listeners being unable to keep track of the various characters.

Khan is definitely not on my list of things I would like Star Trek to focus on, but I hope this series does well enough that they consider doing some more varied stories within the format in the future. And of course I plan on continuing to listen to this one too, and I hope they tell some interesting stories.

Already finished! It was pretty interesting, I’m looking forward to the rest of them.

I originally wondered about that when BlueBrixx lost their license. I can’t imagine how much they’ll cost, but I’m curious to see what sets they do.

American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 at the moment, finally with head tracking! It’s so much better, to the point that I would find it hard to go back.

Yeah, that is sad. I enjoy seeing futuristic aliens and ships too, but I guess I’ve never really understood why a lot of these shows have to look like movies now. I would be perfectly happy to see them cut those fancy effects way back and spend some of that money on some good writers to make a few more episodes. I’ve found I very rarely remember how good the CGI monster or alien building looked, but I often remember what the characters said.

No, I’m not as old as I sound! ;-)

All of the above! ;-)

Seriously though, I just like to give things a try before deciding for myself what I think of it.

It is a hot take, I know! 😂