Vechs

Author of the Super Hostile series, maker of Minecraft maps. Current indie game dev working: Now: Castle of the Zephyr. Soon: Super Docile.

[Vechs @Vechs]

This one hits so differently now for me.

[Aydin Paladin🍸👑🇺🇸🇬🇬✝️📊 @AydinPaladin]

It sounds like they were trying to, but you can't make Stargate today. The heroes are the US military, and the villains are an ethnically diverse group of aliens in human bodies who posed as the various gods of human cultures in antiquity. The one group of aliens that also posed as gods but were benevolent rather than intrinsically evil - and the Goa'uld are intrinsically evil, as is made explicit - posed as the Norse ones.
That's why Stargate has remained untouched while every other franchise is defiled. Too much of the basic premise is fundamentally incompatible with modern Hollywood. There are too many uncomfortable implications.
Seems to me that higher ups got a whiff of what kind of show they were trying to make, and that show being Stargate, put the kibosh on it.
The "fresh new direction" they want to go with instead will have to be utterly unrecognisable. Stargate Universe is the direction Im sure they'd like to go in, but they already made that before the era of "modern Hollywood", and it was universally panned.
There's no getting around the good guys being the military and the bad guys being evil on a genetic level, so the whole premise is anathema. Stargate future-proofed itself, and with 15 proper seasons and 3 films, there really is no need to revisit it. I can continue, as I have for the past 30 years, just regularly rewatch what we already have. Because it's awesome.

[Joseph Mallozzi 🏴‍☠️ @BaronDestructo]

Sadly, it's true. Amazon has elected not to move forward with the new Stargate series.

There's not much I can add beyond confirming what's happened. But I will say this...

Creator Martin Gero developed a new Stargate series over two years, ultimately crafting a show that offered a fresh jumping-on point for new viewers while deeply respecting existing canon. It was a series that avoided the pitfalls of several modern remakes and reboots by fully embracing the core of its predecessors: action, adventure, exploration, wonder, heart, humor, and found family. And based on that creative vision, the new Stargate series was greenlit in November of 2025.

As of today, officially, that original vision is no more. We'll never get the opportunity to introduce you to that world and those characters - or reintroduce you to, and check in with, some familiar faces from the past.

My heart breaks. For the incredibly talented writers who worked tirelessly to bring this show to life. For Martin who maintained an unwavering positive outlook throughout despite the challenges, and who always strove to make a show that would honor the fans while welcoming a new audiences. And for the long-suffering Stargate fandom who waited so long and came so close to getting a show they truly would have loved.

[Marcus Pittman @ImKingGinger]

"Lets get these douchebags off of his property...oops probably shouldn't have said that."

More crazy LEGO scandal bodycam footage from the American Fork Police Department as one of the police officers reveal he's friends with the AirBNB owner that Reckless Ben is staying in.

I don't know how Bricks and Minifigs will ever recover from this.

Do you guys think Joshua Johnson, Ammon McNeff and Brandon Best realize how bad it is for them?

[Phoenix Insurgent @PhxInsurgent]

I love seeing this kind of surveillance-disrupting experimentation.
https://t.co/6creR5S9VV

[Michael Shanks @MichaelShanks]

Fans be spittin’ truths today. And I’m here for it…

[𝕹𝖎𝖈𝖍𝖔𝖑𝖆𝖘 𝕯𝖊𝕺𝖗𝖎𝖔 @nicholasdeorio]

The German company “Bricks & Figs” is not having any of this Minifigs shit lmfao

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

Around 1,950 years ago in Pompeii, a weaver named Successus fell in love with a barmaid named Iris.

She did not love him back.

We know this because his rival, a man named Severus, decided to humiliate him publicly. He grabbed something sharp and carved this into a wall for the whole city to read:

"Successus the weaver loves the innkeeper's slave girl named Iris. She does not care about him at all. But he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye."

Imagine walking to work and seeing that with your name on it.

Successus found it. And instead of letting it go, he carved his reply directly underneath:

"Envious one, why do you get in the way? Yield to a man who is better looking and being treated very unfairly."

Severus came back one more time to end it:

"I have spoken. I have written. You love Iris, but she does not love you."

Then, in 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted and buried the wall, the tavern, and the entire argument under 20 feet of ash. The thread was frozen mid-beef for almost two millennia until archaeologists dug it up and translated it.

We will never know who got the girl. We do not even know if any of the three survived.

Pompeii has over 11,000 of these inscriptions. Bar reviews. Bragging. Bad poetry. A bakery wall that says "Welcome, hungry people." Two guys fighting over a girl in the comments.

The technology changes. We do not.

[J.T. Alexander @JTAlexander]

You do not understand bears.

The sharpest knife you own *might* slice through the skin of a fresh salmon in one go. Maybe.

A bear merely grasps the thing and rips its skin off easier than you can open an envelope.

By the time a bear is within mace range, you are dead. Mace will not stop its attack. It will not scare it off. It might stop it from eating you after you are dead.

Bear Spray is approximately twice as strong and sprays three times as far; it doesn’t scare a bear off because it hurts, it scares a bear off because it burns its nose with stink.

Empty bear spray cans are a frequent find at the scene of bear mauling deaths.

Any woman that insists on “the bear” is a colossal retard and it’s not questionable. She is a woman in a bubble without the slightest idea of what real danger looks like.

You have *no idea* what these animals can do to a human being. Unless you’re carrying 12-gauge slugs, not even a firearm is an absolute guarantee to stop a pissed off bear. And I highly doubt it, because a 12-gauge slug would probably dislocate the average woman’s shoulder, if she even could fire the thing properly.

I’ve spoken to women who have encountered bears on trails. They have admitted that it was the most terrifying experience of their lives. One of them, an otherwise reasonable woman, pulled out her wallet thinking to bribe the thing—she was in that much of a panic.

Fortunately, a random man with bear spray and Desert Eagle was nearby to save her life.

You are a colossally stupid specimen worthy of being included in a museum explaining why women suddenly had their voting rights stripped in the late 21st Century.

[Christopher Talbot @Lord_Talbot64]

I don't think they were mate.

[Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard]

“But Sikh’s HAVE to carry a kirpan, it’s not negotiable…”

Go home then.

“But Muslim women have to cover their faces, it’s not negotiable…”

GO HOME THEN.

“But we have to slaughter animals in this cruel barbaric way, if we can’t…”

GO. HOME. THEN.

DO IT SOMEWHERE ELSE.

[Templarpilled @Templarpilled]

You will go to jail for owning a miniscule video game sword replica in the UK.

But if you're a foreigner, you will be exempt from the law entirely.

[Emerald Apple @AI_EmeraldApple]

Amazon cancelled the new Stargate show.

The rumor is that the show writer, Martin Gero, would not budge on compromising lore or elements within the show for a "wider modern audience" as they did with Rings of Power for LoTR lore.

Martin Gero wanted to create a show that maintained continuity in the story and lore of the old shows, including the mythology and tech, while respecting the 17 seasons of history.

Amazon instead wanted something new for the "modern audience" that's more accessible, reimagined, with more modern casual sensibilities.

Because the showrunners wanted to maintain integrity rather than turn Stargate into another "modern audience slop" like Rings of Power, Amazon leadership canceled it. The franchise heavyweight, like Joseph Mallozzi, was very excited for the fresh stories Gero worked on. Amazon says they are still open to Stargate, just not "this" version... yes they wanted to Rings of Powerify Stargate.

We really can't hate these people enough.

[Marcus Pittman @ImKingGinger]

Woah Buddy! Insane LEGO Corruption!

The American Fork Police Department just "accidentally" released 50gb of unredacted Body Cam footage reguarding Reckless Ben and Bricks and Minifigs, but deleted it to late before the internet grabbed them.

In the media dump the Joshua Johnson asks to see the legal court papers but the officer refuses to show it to him because it would count as a legal service and says it would "place him in a bind"

This police department, Joshua Johnson and Ammon McNeff are all toast. I've never seen the internet unanimously come together in unison on anything like this in my life.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Brown rice is what you order when you want the waiter to know you have made peace with joylessness in exchange for health points. The arsenic is the twist nobody puts on the menu.

Rice has a problem unique among grains. It grows in flooded paddies, sitting in standing water for months, and it draws arsenic out of the soil roughly ten times more eagerly than wheat or barley. That arsenic concentrates in the bran, the grain's outer layer. White rice has the bran polished off. Brown rice keeps it, because the bran is where the fibre and minerals live. It is also, inconveniently, where the arsenic lives.

A 2025 analysis found brown rice carries around 24% more total arsenic and 40% more inorganic arsenic, the form classed as a known human carcinogen, than white. You upgraded to the wholegrain and quietly upgraded your carcinogen dose along with it.

Then the ecology, which nobody ever pins on rice, because rice looks so very innocent. Those flooded paddies are anaerobic, and the microbes thriving in them belch methane on an industrial scale. Rice cultivation produces something like 10% of all human methane emissions and roughly a fifth of agricultural methane. Cattle get filmed for documentaries about their burps. Rice quietly produces a tenth of the world's methane while flooding entire landscapes and hoarding arsenic, then takes its place in the salad bar wearing a wellness halo.

Cows are dragged through the climate courts every week. The rice paddy, doing serious damage of its own, sits in your grain bowl with the expression of something that has never done anything wrong in its life. Curious, isn't it, which foods we decide to interrogate.

[SquChan 🐙✨ @SquChanVT]

I don't understand why people hate creating beautiful women... like you have a gorgeous model and you downgrade her to make her seem 'strong' or what not...?

Can't a woman be attractive and badass at the same time? They try to fight 'misogyny' so hard that they have to censor feminine beauty just so the men wouldn't 'win'...

[Vechs @Vechs]

@NancyMace Much better to have sales tax and tariff as the main form of taxation, and not property and income tax. You shouldn't be taxed just for having a thing, nor for trying to earn a living (I also think many low income people pay so little it's not worth the gov paperwork to look at)

[Vechs @Vechs]

@NancyMace Nobody should pay property taxes. A property tax means, de facto, you are "renting" the property from the government. It's not really yours. As soon as you stop paying the rent (tax), men with guns will come and take it from you by force. (After a bit of paperwork bullying)

[Vechs @Vechs]

@NancyMace Nobody should pay property taxes. A property tax means, de facto, you are "renting" the property from the government. It's not really yours. As soon as you stop paying the rent (tax), men with guns will come and take it from you by force. (After a bit of paperwork bullying)

[Liberty Hannes @LibertyHannes]

Der Fall Henry Nowak. Erklärt in 21 Sekunden.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

We must remove those third world migrants who put their ‘clan’ above all else, including our British rule of law.

If that means entire clans are deported, then that is what must happen.