• @logicbomb@lemmy.world
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    277 months ago

    That seems like a serious gambit. After all you might be part of the program. Much safer to ask for the arch.

    • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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      187 months ago

      Fun fact though, more than likely if you’re part of the program, you don’t have privileges to ask for an arch or to stop the program.

            • Flying Squid
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              127 months ago

              While we’re talking about that episode, I don’t think Pulaski gets enough credit for pulling off that Victorian look like a boss.

              • JWBananas
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                67 months ago

                While we’re talking about that episode, I don’t think Pulaski gets enough credit for pulling off that Victorian look like a boss.

      • AJMaxwell
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        87 months ago

        If we are part of the program, we wouldn’t even be able to see the arch or the door unless expressly written into the program.

      • @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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        27 months ago

        Im gonna risk ending the program gambling on the fact you are the fake one.

        Why? You know why. You know what you did. Sinner.

  • IninewCrow
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    157 months ago

    Walk outside? … I’m sitting on my couch and I could ask the same thing.

    • @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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      97 months ago

      Do not end program or you will fall to the floor, snaccs will disappear, and the cleaning crew will come to empty the biofilters.

      • IninewCrow
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        47 months ago

        Cleaning crew mistakes you as remnants of the biofilter

        • @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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          27 months ago

          I note it in my logs as an honest mistake & can’t blame lower decks.

          However I file a dispute that the safety protocols should not be as strict bcs it flagging me as ‘potentially not trash’ mere moments before sweet incineration was a major letdown & it totally messed up my day.

  • pancakes
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    127 months ago

    I almost did that but I’m on the toilet and that could be awkward if it was a holodeck simulation.

      • @grayman@lemmy.world
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        27 months ago

        Nah. Broccoli proved you can live in the holodeck. If they can make water (also widely proven), they can dematerialize chocolate peanut bars and the stinky lemonade.

        • @Davidchan@lemmynsfw.com
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          47 months ago

          According to Lower Decks the holodecks have filters the ensigns have to clean. One can just imagine what then hell a holodeck is filtering and collecting.

  • Rom [he/him]
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    The program fades, the familiar grid of the holodeck fills your vision, and your life outside the simulation quickly returns to you. You step outside into the corridor and see your buddy Lieutenant Ross. Capitalism? Genocide? Climate change? What are you talking about? Come on, we’re about to go make first contact with a new civilization.

  • Flying Squid
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    67 months ago

    Nah. No way would someone choose to make this reality a holodeck program.

    • Transporter Room 3
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      77 months ago

      It’s an educational program to show how rampant greed and pettiness leads to societal and ecological collapse as those who have stomp on those who have-not, in order to grab everything they can before they blink out of existence from their short, meaningless lives.

      A educational program for children.

    • @Technus@lemmy.zip
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      47 months ago

      Unless it’s a historical documentary which could explain why we’re all stuck on this wild ride and powerless to change its course

  • synae[he/him]
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    27 months ago

    Probably should say it as soon as you wake up

  • @xia
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    17 months ago

    Mythology claims tremendous power in a name. Maybe it predates the term “computer” and even the English language. What if arcane ancient magical incantations were just requests in a regular/structured syntax? What if there is nobody alive outside of the holodeck? Maybe they all retreated into the holodeck thousands of years ago. Who knows what kind of inhospitable alien environment you might suddenly find yourself thrust into.