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[Nate the Great]

In honor of St. Patrick's day have some music!


When Irish Eyes Are Smiling


I've probably posted "Pretty Irish Girl" before, but today I found the record that Disney made at the time including a prologue by Janet Munro and duet of both of them.



And of course someone upped the Irishness of the song to "heavy metal jig" levels.


Here's a modern day cover done as a duet by actual professional singers. Not bad at all.


Why Rex Allen (one of the early singing cowboys like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers) would do a Western cover is beyond me. It doesn't even sound all that much like a country song, it's more like folk music.


Michael Flatley and Riverdance do an Irish step dance.


Melodysheep presents the Lucky Charms remix "Magically Delicious."



"We Can Fly Away" from Magical Legend of the Leprechauns. Truly an underrated classic. I'm not the only one that wishes Emma Townshend had done a full version of this song.


All the Irish Drinking Songs from the third season of the American Whose Line is it Anyway

[Nate the Great]

I'm sure I've posted the Meco Star Trek theme before, but I want to talk more about the album cover.


Does that look like a valid Starfleet design to you?


My first problem is the purple nacelles. Purple isn't a Starfleet color, that's for the Dominion (which of course didn't exist yet). And while I could see purple as a contrast to the blackness of space, the album cover has an awful lot of blue in it, which washes out the purple.


I find the deflector dish design rather questionable. That vertical strut would interfere with the operation of the thing.



The saucer is actually rather accurate to the Consitution-class refit design.



As another meaningless aside, how much do you like the "brick" pattern of grays and whites for the hull plates? I'm never quite sure how to feel about it. I can't really think of an alternative way to indicate texture, but there has to be one.

[Nate the Great]

Building LEGO cars that can climb walls.


Going from longer wheelbases to hinges to extendable stilts is more entertaining than I thought. And the crashes don't hurt, of course.

[Nate the Great]

Low % Speedrun of OOT.


Normal speedruns of OOT are getting very short, so if you want to see the more unusual tricks you need alternate categories. Enter Low % i.e. collecting as few items/weapons as possible.


Even after twenty years, I'm still learning new things. Like how the Megaton Hammer can take out bombable patches of dirt.

[Nate the Great]

Steve Shives takes on the issue of the Maquis.


I'm not in a preaching mood right now, but you might be interested in the video.

[Nate the Great]

I haven't seen Rise of Skywalker yet. I'll get around to it one of these days. Anyway, apparently in one scene R2-D2 must restore C-3PO's memories. A fan made a tribute video of clips from all nine movies to represent what said memory dump might consist of.



I'll skip the usually rant of how much Star Wars as fallen. I'd rather go back to the days of Star Trek VS Star Wars when both were quality products and there weren't any "Babylon 5" snobs mucking things up.

[Nate the Great]

Animated Battle Breakdown of "Journey to Battle."


While I enjoy the modified 1701 model and don't mind the blue warp coils on the inside of the nacelles, for some reason the blue "grills" on the rear of the nacelles bother me.



A big problem is the discussion of phaser fire at warp. That's not possible, phaser blasts are limited to the speed of light and can't be used at warp.



Oh, and that Orion ship is ugly as sin. Far too fancy for TOS. Furthermore Memory Alpha already has a picture of what a TOS Orion ship looks like. This guy admits that he designed it from scratch.