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I grew up watching reruns of TOS. I watched TWOK on either it's debut on ABC or one of the reruns long before TNG was ever a thing. So, that thing is steeped in nostalgia for me. Whenever I watch it, I'm 5 or 6 sitting in front of our 27 in console TV.
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Jan 27, 2017 06:35
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Rhyno posted:What the hell is going on with the film streaming rights? Nothing on Netflix and now Amazon wants to charge per movie to watch? Now Hulu only has 2, 3, and 5 for some dumb reason.
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I genuinely do not understand people who do this. Physical movies have drawbacks in taking up space, cost, etc., but they're still a better solution than everything else available. If you stream, you're at the mercy of the streaming service's given catalog that month. If you purchase through iTunes or whatever, you're usually paying the same as you would for a blu-ray without the added value of the bonus features. If you're pure digital, just a library of MP4s, then you run into the same lack of features as streaming, with the bonus negative of those movies taking up poo poo tons of space on cloud storage, hdds, etc. Just buy blu-rays 
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If not for my Xbox i wouldn't even have a way to play physical media and except for Lego Dimensions there's never a disc in it.
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Jan 27, 2017 07:24
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bull3964 posted:It's annoying. However, if you post in this tread and don't own the movies already, I don't know WTF. I own them in a box that I left behind at my family's house when I moved out along with all the other physical media I own and never ended up bothering to go back for because why bother they were on Netflix back then. I should buy them on Google Play, I guess.
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If it's just DVD quality, Handbrake and MakeMKV work just fine to rip your DVDs. I don't have a PS4 but the .mkv output works fine on an external HD on my Xbone all for free. If it's Blu Ray it's just a few bucks for MakeMKV to do Blu Ray. It's the best of both worlds! You have physical and digital copies! Spoeank fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I genuinely do not understand people who do this. Physical movies have drawbacks in taking up space, cost, etc., but they're still a better solution than everything else available. If you stream, you're at the mercy of the streaming service's given catalog that month. If you purchase through iTunes or whatever, you're usually paying the same as you would for a blu-ray without the added value of the bonus features. If you're pure digital, just a library of MP4s, then you run into the same lack of features as streaming, with the bonus negative of those movies taking up poo poo tons of space on cloud storage, hdds, etc. I am slowly building a blu ray collection of my favorite movies. Most movies are rarely available on streaming services, and while Netflix is near blu ray quality, it still isn't.
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Jan 27, 2017 08:23
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I love how easy it is to convince Kira to rebel against the Bajoran government.
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Jan 27, 2017 08:25
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"But Kira... what if they're the bad guys?" "No, you can't be right!"/"The younglings!" "But... what if?" "Lock and load motherfuckers!"
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Jan 27, 2017 08:54
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Over on Star Trek Online, you can give the new NX-Refit a TOS-era hull plating if you want, it's an interesting thing to see.
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Jan 27, 2017 09:07
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Pakled posted:I love how easy it is to convince Kira to rebel against the Bajoran government. Is it bad that I'm not even sure which episode you're referring to?
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I genuinely do not understand people who do this. Physical movies have drawbacks in taking up space, cost, etc., but they're still a better solution than everything else available. If you stream, you're at the mercy of the streaming service's given catalog that month. If you purchase through iTunes or whatever, you're usually paying the same as you would for a blu-ray without the added value of the bonus features. If you're pure digital, just a library of MP4s, then you run into the same lack of features as streaming, with the bonus negative of those movies taking up poo poo tons of space on cloud storage, hdds, etc. Mr. Kelly, I've been a big fan of your work. 
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Duckbag posted:Is it bad that I'm not even sure which episode you're referring to? I don't blame you for being confused, it happened like four or five times over the course of the series. You'd think she'd face some kind of charges for this.
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MikeJF posted:Over on Star Trek Online, you can give the new NX-Refit a TOS-era hull plating if you want, it's an interesting thing to see. Looks like someone squished a ship down into half its original volume.
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Jan 27, 2017 18:09
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MikeJF posted:Over on Star Trek Online, you can give the new NX-Refit a TOS-era hull plating if you want, it's an interesting thing to see. Oh I like that, actually. More than the proper 1701. Not sure what it's doing in an episode of Babylon 5 though.
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Jan 27, 2017 18:25
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sunday at work posted:Looks like someone squished a ship down into half its original volume. It's funny you mention ship size. I don't know if they ever fixed it, but when the game launched the interiors where nonsensically scaled up.    Captain: Helm, set a course for two oh three mark eight. Helmsman: Sorry captain, did you say something? Captain: SET A COURSE FOR TWO OH THREE MARK EIGHT!
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Doggles posted:It's funny you mention ship size. I don't know if they ever fixed it, but when the game launched the interiors where nonsensically scaled up. most MMOs have gigantic rear end spaces everywhere there are likely to be a lot of players
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Doggles posted:It's funny you mention ship size. I don't know if they ever fixed it, but when the game launched the interiors where nonsensically scaled up. It was still pretty bad when I played last year. The Defiant bridge is the only one that isn't absolutely massive.
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skasion posted:most MMOs have gigantic rear end spaces everywhere there are likely to be a lot of players If I remember correctly, starship bridges in STO aren't exactly big hubs of activity. Other players can only come to your bridge if you specifically invite them, and even then there's nothing for them to really do there.
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Jan 27, 2017 19:00
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Pakled posted:If I remember correctly, starship bridges in STO aren't exactly big hubs of activity. Other players can only come to your bridge if you specifically invite them, and even then there's nothing for them to really do there. And that's where you'd be wrong... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swB-CbSZZdw&t=109s
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The scale in STO and a few other MMOs is mostly a camera and legibility thing. They want you to still see all the Star Trek poo poo without having to phase it out when your camera clips through it every few seconds. Of course then your cramped Klingon war bird is the size of Grand Central Station and it kind of ruins things.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It was still pretty bad when I played last year. The Defiant bridge is the only one that isn't absolutely massive. There's also "canon" Voyager and TOS interiors that are well-scaled. They *can* make interiors that aren't gigantic open space, but their 3rd-person camera is lovely and their artists are lazy so most interiors look like those screenshots. I think you can invite 25 (or maybe it's 15) people to a ship interior so it's possible to fill a bridge with people.
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Baronjutter posted:I can tell you a health problems and genetics of a person in a far away starship or on the surface of a planet, but I usually have no idea when my own crew are injured, missing, or there's an intruder. Well, the computer knows, it just doesn't tell you unless you specifically ask. Worf: "Direct hit! Hull breach detected on deck 10." Computer: "Ensign Jones and lieutenant Geeblebork are no longer on board the Enterprise." 
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Doggles posted:Captain: Helm, set a course for two oh three mark eight. Cavernous MMO environments with no one in them, now I wonder if Swery was intentionally poking fun at that in Deadly Premonition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B23FBOEUrF4&t=38s
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Bates posted:Worf: "Direct hit! Hull breach detected on deck 10." I hope it would just be a long deadpan list. Ensign Jones is no longer on board the Enterprise. Commander Smith is no longer on board the Enterprise. Lieutenant Commander Shumacher is no longer on board the Enterprise. Lieutenant Yates is no longer on board the Enterprise. Shut that drat thing off!
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I just imagine the Enterprise/Starfleet computer is like Holly in Red Dwarf. "Computer, where is Ensign Barlow?" "Oh yeah, Klingons transported him off the ship 2 hours ago" "Why didn't you let anyone know until now?" "Nobody asked until now"
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Crazy idea, actually have a bridge station and crewman assigned to monitoring that that and reporting relevant information to the bridge or sickbay.
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Cojawfee posted:I hope it would just be a long deadpan list. It got a sincere chuckle from me. Voyager is still Very Bad (I'm hopping around voyager eps before Netflix Canada loses all trek once the new series comes out, I hate myself)
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Why would you pay for Voyager when you can see it on Space for free or watch reruns of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda or stab yourself in the throat
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My dad loves Andromeda.
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Tighclops posted:Why would you pay for Voyager when you can see it on Space for free Sado-masochism. The only possible answer.
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Wheat Loaf posted:My dad loves Andromeda. Season 1 is pretty good. Then Kevin Sorbo got creative control and Dylan Hunt became Space Christ.
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When it started it was like "ok, this is Star Trek but if it got all hosed up and mashed up with 70's BSG" but then yeah they fired the dude from DS9 who did all the world-building and it went increasingly off the rails from thereKazinsal posted:Season 1 is pretty good. Then Kevin Sorbo got creative control and Dylan Hunt became Space Christ. Your dad loves the AI Avatar's boobs Also didn't Sorbo have a stroke or something that turned him into a religious fanatic
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Andromeda bums me out, because I saw the first episode at one point when I was a kid and really loving liked it. For some reason though, I never remembered the name and thought it didn't get picked up or something so I never saw it again until years later when a friend of mine who was an enthusiast of the show, told me I had to watch Andromeda. A little bit through the first ep and I realize that this was that great sci fi show I saw once as a kid and oh my god it got multiple seasons made. Heaven. I didn't make it very far before I just stopped watching.
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Wheat Loaf posted:My dad loves Andromeda. My Uncle who was super into Catholic Mysticism was really into it too. I remember watching the first episode and the Batfaced Alien really grossed me out, it was just such a massively ugly makeup job.
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The_Doctor posted:Oh I like that, actually. More than the proper 1701. Not sure what it's doing in an episode of Babylon 5 though. That's the Krenim time lab, and to be honest the Krenim Timeship in Voyager was basically taken straight out of Babylon 5. Pakled posted:If I remember correctly, starship bridges in STO aren't exactly big hubs of activity. Other players can only come to your bridge if you specifically invite them, and even then there's nothing for them to really do there. They had no idea back when they started, though, they figured they might get used as MMO hubs at some point. STO was thrown together on an insane schedule, they were just kinda hoping things might come in useful half the time. MikeJF fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Jan 28, 2017 |
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MikeJF posted:They had no idea back when they started, though, they figured they might get used as MMO hubs at some point. STO was thrown together on an insane schedule, they were just kinda hoping things might come in useful half the time. I've always felt like STO is a big missed opportunity. I want something that's more like Skyrim Trek, or hell, maybe a Bioware RPG. The bridge crew game might be fun but I don't have VR so 
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Oh yeah, it was a big example of CBS not looking after the franchise. They gave the MMO rights to Perpetual for four years to develop, who did jack all, then yanked it from them and told cryptic they could have the licence if they shat out something playable in a year and a half. Which is basically impossible and the game's development is still 95% untangling the mess the game's codebase is. But yeah, there wasn't enough time or will to develop any actual cool trek-like gameplay, it was just 'oh god take the Champions Online engine and make something that vaguely works'
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WickedHate posted:I've always felt like STO is a big missed opportunity. I want something that's more like Skyrim Trek, or hell, maybe a Bioware RPG. The bridge crew game might be fun but I don't have VR so Star Control II is the best Star Trek game
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