You want a toe? I can get you a toe - out of Quark’s replicator!

Thanks! ☕🫖

🍻 I like that. Thanks.

They’re terrible.

“You know what, forget it. I’ll walk.”

The first episode of the 70s BSG had me hooked. Humanity all alone in the universe facing extinction.

And…in the second (third?) epsiode they put their feet up in a space pub full of thriving sentient aliens.

The tone whiplash was strong.

Like the bab5 scene where Londo sings the Hokey Pokey and gets irate because it’s a totally mid-tier song that 'everybody" knows.

“…and then they put their left hand out! They’ve undone their previous progress! It makes no sense!”

It’s a great rant. Now I need a Babylon 5 rewatch. Thanks!

Yes. Enterprise was canceled just as it found it’s stride.

and I challenge you to watch it again and defend its virtues.

“Barf” is a half dog played by John Candy. I rest my case, your honor.

My kid watches it continuously, and they and I find it hilarious.

And yes, people do roll their eyes at my Monty Python quotes.

Now I need a “Spaceballs: The Money” duffel bag!

What’s the best way to get an intro to these tools?

Find a website with a free chat bot and ask it for guidance on learning these tools. If that doesn’t work, try another site. Keep asking for guidance to run up their chat bot bill until it blocks your IP range. Rinse and repeat with a new bot, or a VPN.

That’s the most fun way to learn about this stuff.

Oh, the best way? I have no idea.

There is PeerTube. But to your point, full time creators need money, and monetization isn’t solved on PeerTube,

There’s also DropOut.tv, which has many comedians from the former College Humor comedy group.

DropOut.tv doesn’t really do educational content, but their funny stuff is unrivaled and very varied. Their game show, Game Changer is the best thing happening to streaming, right now.

There’s even a (fan) DropOut bot here on Lemmy that creates dedicated threads for the dozen or so of us DropOut fans to discuss episodes when they drop.

And both DropOut and Nebula now have deep back catalogs. I few years ago I felt like I could run out of things to watch. Now I only ever rewatch favorite episodes. Most Game Changer episodes are good enough to watch twice, and then watch the “making of” video afterwards.

It’s still not YouTube where it’s physically impossible to watch everything, but for my watching habits, there’s enough created that it feels like there’s always going to be stuff I haven’t gotten to. DropOut has a new high quality episode of a flagship show most week days.

Nebula is more like YouTube, where between all the different creators, there’s usually more new content available in a given day than I could consume, if I wanted to.

Curiousity Stream is also an alternative to YouTube. The video quality feels lower across the board than Nebula or DropOut, but it also has some fun stuff, and any competition to YouTube is probably a good thing.

Nebula is a fantastic alternative to YouTube.

It seems like they pay their creators much better, which is enough reason alone, for some of us.

Nearly every video on Nebula has a nice little extra for Nebula viewers. Most are just a quick thank-you, but some are much more substantial.

Legal Eagle sometimes fully drops lawyer mode in post-video bits for Nebula subscribers. This amuses me because I wasn’t sure he could before I joined Nebula. Haha.

Extra History and Extra Credits often have full extra videos on vaguely related topics, I think.

And Nebula is amazingly good for travel videos. Anyone who loves trains should at least try Nebula.

DropOut is my goto for humor, but Abolish Everything on Nebula also regularly provides a solid laugh. Also, DropOut and Nebula folks cameo across companies a bit. No non-compete contracts there, I suspect.

Obviously, Nebula has much smaller set of content creators, than YouTube.

I appreciate that too though. Average video quality is way higher.

I agree! There’s no shame in being a forever- Ensign.

Yes. And perhaps, given time, accessing the wrong version of certain sensitive historic events could even be tracked that way.

If I were to hazard a guess - probably just different interesting and worthwile things.

The result gave lloD his first major title more than two decades after he began competing. It was also the first time a Peach player had won a Melee major since Armada claimed Super Smash Con in 2018.

So close, damn it.

I hope Dr. lloD respects their moral obligation to crush people - at least in casual games - while playing as “Dr Mario”.