That and I think the people getting breakfast that early are on a business trip rather than on vacation

See, I preferred to save that for the end, so it ended on a high note. Being stuck with boring ice in the end just left me feeling like the whole thing was a bummer.

Like chewing a stick of Fruit Stripe gum

That’s a whole other question. The replicators of TNG era weren’t protein resequencers like they were in Enterprise. They were simple matter/energy conversion. They would reclaim the matter and store any remaining energy in the ship’s reserves.

In Voyager they said the holodecks ran on a completely separate power supply than the rest of the ship, so maybe they never really intermingled with the replicator systems

That’s what I mean, I didn’t!

The plastic wasn’t a danger unless you were doing something absurd like putting plastic in your mouth and then tightening your lips to a dangerous degree. And that would be very easy to stop doing, you just… Don’t hold so tight with your mouth.

It’s not like you eat these like drinking a thick milkshake. You suck too hard, you pull all the flavor out and are left with flavorless ice. I would always rather have flavored juice left over

It’s not a person, the holodecks are just designed in a horrifying way. We learned from an early TNG episode that when the holodecks do an uncontrolled shut down, they reclaim all the matter within them. It requires a special intentional function to leave the people behind.

So don’t worry about it, they’re self-cleaning

I can’t be the only one who didn’t hurt himself on these as a kid.

Like… I wasn’t the smartest kid in the world, but learning to be careful with anything you put in your mouth, that was a lesson I learned early.

Wtf were you people doing with these, anyway? It took me only like 3 tries before I decided these weren’t worth trying to open with my teeth. It was scissors from that point on.

I didn’t hate watching it. If you just enjoy the fun parts and don’t think too hard about how it all works out how it could have been better, it’s not a terrible time.

But I was just putting something on Netflix, I wasn’t really expecting or looking for the highest of quality

I thought Morbius was not as much fun to watch

I mean it should be fairly obvious, but sometimes a person is at home while browsing, and might like to see these. Other times they are at work while browsing and could actually get into trouble for viewing them

This is about the “not safe for work” tag, isn’t it?

Sounds like something a Herbert would say

Is this supposed to be a static image with a fake play button in it? Because that’s all I’m getting. No animation, no changing pixels, and no illusion of movement