Yeah. Sadly it's a trap that no one is immune to. Correlation doesn't necessarily imply Causation.
Do you think Jackson Delacroix Vance grew the beard so he would look less like the result of Adam Lambert fucking a Cabbage Patch doll?
I'm honesty sitting here trying to remember the last Ubisoft game I actually enjoyed. And I mean truly "couldn't put down" enjoyed. Some of the older Assassin's Creed games were fun, but the same endless gameplay loop was meh, even then.
I'd almost have to go back all the way to those original Rainbow Six games for something that felt (to me) fresh and innovative.
You mean making the exact same cookie-cutter game loop for more than a decade isn't a good idea!?
Dazed and Confused
If this list proves anything it's that the meaning of the phrase "cult classic" is entirely meaningless now.
Great. That means it's only a matter of time before Hank Hill and his Hillbilly Sask Party decides to do the same thing in Saskatchewan...
Since we already know, thanks to Pulaski's ageing incident, and the Picard, Ro, Guinan Kid incident, that cures are as easy as stamping a previous pattern onto them during transport, technically any one of them would be better than an actual doctor.
Throw them into the pattern buffer, upload the last stored healthy pattern from their most recent beam-out. voila...all fixed.
Early on in TNG he even says he can detect if humans are lying from the minute physical changes (although the writers clearly drop that later
We can't have TOO many reasons to get rid of Troi...
It's not just an impact. Everything we are IS brain chemistry. Emotions, thoughts, wants, desires, likes, dislikes, skills, talents... they're all just a combination of chemicals and firing synapses in the brain. We are biological meat bags. There's no such thing as a soul.