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Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer
That viewscreen really annoys me, probably because it's all lumpy in the name of looking 'biological'. It's not like symmetries are particularly rare in nature.

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Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer

Servicio en Espanol posted:

For Season 10, the Undine ought to get into it with the Dominion so you have two races of shapeshifters engaged in a serious, sustained campaign of impersonating each other

Shapeshifting becomes a martial art that begins to look like toons doing wild takes at its extremes.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer

I hope someone's posted Tovan Khev at least once already.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
Is the pathing in the fire temple still hosed beyond belief?

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
Shorter answer: the only thing they have in common is the presence of spaceships. If you were to bring one in contact with the other, the resulting explosion of sperg would make Star Trek/Star Wars flamewars look like a damp squib.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer
'PC'? Wow, keep this up and he's going to start blaming feminism.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer
'multiple schools to level up in' didn't just lose me, it gave me a mighty shove out the airlock.

And if it doesn't still tether you to Memory Alpha, I'll be surprised.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer

Mogomra posted:

MikeJF posted this in the Star Trek TVIV thread


I figured I'd post this here because it's awesome. Real OP material.

PVP touched on that too, back in the day.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer

MikeJF posted:

Ahahahahaha the Xindi-Aquatic Doff's face.



It looks like Morn is finally tired of listening to people's poo poo.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer

SKY COQ posted:

Can we get an item that nullifies the party nullifier

Ask them to make sure that the nullifier affects comet cocktails.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
It's been so long since I've set foot near publords, I forget.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
I hope it's the Kazon.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer

Tunicate posted:

Personally, I think DS9. Is basically babylon 5 averaged. None of the real stinker episodes, but less of the really good ones.

That's generally why I didn't care much for DS9: in broad strokes, it felt like B5 given a thorough pounding with a Trek stamp. The episodes my friends loved, with the fleets and the phasers flying all over were crap: senseless fizzing and special effects wankery filling in a quarter of an episode. The ones I did like were where they made honest effort to pull up the rug and look at what was underneath Roddenberry's utopia. gently caress the arguments over whether the Defiant is a ripoff of the White Star, let's watch an actually good time travel episode or two to look at the chaos of the 21st century or pull a chair out for the pulps-- and not in that sanitized way Picard always did in his holodeck cosplays. That hilarious exchange between Garak and Quark, comparing the Federation to root beer. gently caress, Sisko bloodying Q's nose.

Eh, okay. While I didn't really care for DS9 as a series, it was head and shoulders above what came afterward. When the original actor for Janeway quit, they claimed she hadn't realized the rigors of episodic filming. I think it was the apparent lack of a series bible and the whiplash of characterization from episode to episode that made her decide her integrity was worth more than the paycheque.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
I'll take your word on it. I don't want to live with having seen definitive proof that Voyager could have been even worse.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
I think what annoys me the most is that they're ripping off someone else's lovely, popular character.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
His tone is poo poo, but I don't disagree with him. Leaving the iconic ships in a state where they're permanently outclassed by whatever they dream up for publish 10 and beyond would probably upset a good number of players. Not that Cryptic wouldn't have figured that out for themselves.

Posting your lovely manifesto to the forums is shouting into the wind, though.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer

SKY COQ posted:

By the same token though, the Galaxy class is, in universe, a 50 year-old ship.

I don't disagree. I'm just noting that they sold some people with the promise of flying familiar boats, and the putative threat of 'having' to mothball their toys in order to keep up with the new hotness is going to upset some of them. It's not like there isn't precedent for upgrading ships with modules, or reskinning them with holographic disguises, either.

Not that canon in MMOs is worth a squirt of piss in practice, or that STO's isn't a mess to begin with. The number of USS Other Series Reference or IKS Borderline Obscenity I've seen while tooling around, or the ridiculous bios that get posted here is indicative of that.

I do wonder what would happen if CBS, for whatever reason, put the kibosh on T6 or later upgrades for the older-series vessels. I doubt there would be much impact to Cryptic's bottom line, since the real whales are probably buying everything as it comes down the pike, but good god I can smell the stink being raised from here.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
I think he misspelled 'sandwich'.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer
People like to talk about how awful /trade chat in WoW is, and sure, since you've got a bunch of manchildren masturbating into their Guy Fawkes masks, it's plenty stupid and offensive.

STO chat though... good god, it's depressing. There's this awful, grating smugness, between the armchair experts in every field and the constant joust of series warriors that makes me embarrassed to be a part of the sci-fi fandom.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer
I want to ask that dude if the stigmata holes are big enough to see through when he covers his eyes.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer
SA isn't the powerhouse that it was ten years ago, but we do have a culture (such as it is) and take a very dim view of people who sign up solely for the fringe benefits of membership. Once upon a time, the legends say, we had file forums filled with music, movies and porn. Now, nobody new ever asks 'where da movies at?'

We still have active groups in a number of MMOs, but like SA-Mart, most of them don't want you if you haven't been around at least several months and making yourself a part of the forums community, because scammers and spies happen. Simply stated, SA guilds and fleets are for SA Goons. If you aren't active on the forums, then you're clearly not a Goon. Your ten bucks only goes so far.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer
Refurbed cube.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
At Oddy size, that thing would look more like a grouper.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
Wasn't there one named Penis at some point?

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
Jesus, is Lake into Amway or something?

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer

Okay. Forget that one mid-tier escort, this one looks like you're flying a toilet seat.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer

Gammatron 64 posted:

In addition to playable Holograms, the game really needs an Abraham Lincoln costume option so I can play as space Lincoln. And have a ship that is just Abe Lincoln sitting on his Lincoln throne flying through space.

Holy poo poo, yes.

I would call mine the USS GAY BAR.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer

So, would the effect created by using both of those temporal consoles together be a Manheim Steamroller?

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer

A Fancy Bloke posted:

I wonder what the temperment of his balls is

Rustled, by the sound of it.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
And that guy who splits into parts and flies around.

Edit: Aw, poo poo. The giant tribbles.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
That was great.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer

Ibanez Murderface posted:

I am looking forward to the delicious Whovian tears that come as a result!

I've been watching since Doctor Longscarf picked up the torch, and I think it's goddamn hilarious. :D

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
The scope of that man's fantasy life is incredible.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer

LordCo posted:

I don't know if I can do that, but it's worth a shot. No, it's more than that... I HAVE to do this!

You do the Time Lord's work, my son.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

Not keen on keening.


Grimey Drawer
I briefly returned to farm up a couple of Raisa cruisers and discovered that I really, really didn't care for the new doff interface or the replacement crafting system. I tried to relearn space combat in the Dyson sphere, but that lost me within minutes. So I figured I'd sit tight and wait for the upcoming expansion.

Now, the only reason I haven't uninstalled is sheer lethargy.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
So tired. can't find butan. :(

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer

Asimo posted:

Yeah, not quite. :downs:



I can't get over the iron sights mounted at the back of the saucer.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer

Asimo posted:

(I used a model photo since all the movie shots were horrible. That's for hanging it up. :ssh:)

Bieeardo, his face red.

Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer

CommissarMega posted:

Yeah, but the Spathi are effective, competent and likeable.

Dammit, now I want a Star Control MMO.

"We are the Ur-Quan Dent-al. We cleanse our destiny."

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Bieeanshee
Aug 21, 2000

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Grimey Drawer
I imagine the Mirror Universe Borg to be a bunch of neckbeards Beowulf clustered to a queen who looks like a naked and petrified Natalie Portman.

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