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Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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I've been getting rid of some old crap on my hard drives and have found some fairly amusing stuff that was OpSec back in the day. Given this sort of stuff is around a year and a half old, would it be fair to say it no longer needs to be kept a secret and can be shared for the amusement of all?

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Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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These are not getting nearly enough love.

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Jun 7, 2008

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I was always under the impression that the Borg Queen wasn't a self aware leader as such for the collective, she was an avatar of the hive mind. Instead of a disembodied cacophony of voices speaking to you, you got the queen instead.

Of course she didn't really act like you'd expect a hive mind to act, but then again it wouldn't have made for a very interesting film.

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Jun 7, 2008

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Is there a Fleet/T6 Guramba siege destroyer yet?

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Jun 7, 2008

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Axe-man posted:

Both of my grandfathers died so that the conservative bronies and furries could live. :patriot:

One of my grandfathers was too young and the other was on the German side. Does this make me more evil than the average Denalt?

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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Any cool ships in the winter giveaway this year?

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Jun 7, 2008

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Asimo posted:

Hooray. Kinda slow (6 turn) but decently durable and with the same massive shield mod as the other elachi ships. Bridge officer layout isn't... bad, though mostly you're going to want to slap the universal into tac since a single lt. tac isn't going to cut it, so it isn't appreciably different from a lot of the other recent cruisers (lt./lt.com tac; com/ens eng; lt.com sci). The console is of course useless; if it had a Gal/Ody style mobility boost paired with it then it might have been useful, but they probably didn't want to take the effort to add that when it could be used on the other two elachi boats. And it continues the trend of special cruisers having torpedo-related T6 traits for some loving reason. I guess Cryptic wants to encourage cruiser captains to use them, but not actually enough so to do something about the weapon arc issues that makes it pointless to do so. :geno: This is probably the first case where the fighters might be be as good or better than the frigates too; beam overload 2 and HYT3 on them, versus CRF2/spread2 with half as many ships out.

It's definitely the best dreadnought cruiser so far, but when the competition is the Gal-X and the Bulwark this isn't exactly a hard hurdle.

Looks pretty sweet though.

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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Having browsed many a game forum in my time I have to say that so far the STO forum pubbies are easily the biggest loving crybabies of the lot. How the hell do these people cope in life when people are mean to them?

Oh yeah, they don't.

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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Given how it seems they are caving to more delicate player's sensibilities due to steadily losing more and more players, it makes me wonder if STO is going down the same route that Second Life took, and will eventually become a hellhole for ERPists, furries and other horrid types and no one else while the game fades into obscurity.

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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JuffoWup posted:

World of Tanks War Thunder is a pretty laid back f2p game. Well, the company is, the players are a special breed though.

Fixed that for you.

So have we passed the point of no return in STO's decline yet?

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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In light of the lack of good things coming out of STO lately I feel compelled to share the greatest video you will ever see with all of you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clLqaaGJJZ8

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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Whoever made this is a genius.

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=22442921#post22442921

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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I'm at work and cannot read the wiki because I forgot my password, can someone PM me what everyone is talking about on the leaks page please? Cheers.

Edit - Welp.

Lord Ludikrous fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Mar 4, 2015

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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Jethro_E7 posted:

Well, so for the KDF that's $10. It's a crap ship, really just for the leech.

It was actually a very good ship, especially for klankroms.

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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BombermanX posted:

These threads are golden. Good job everybody! Apparently using the name "Spock" could be against the terms, but you won't receive a warning via email when you get badnamed. Not sure what's up with that. Ghost Spock got renamed to Ghostly Spooky. Poor guy! GMs ARE JERKS!

Hopefully we can still get away with Mister Spak.

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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Goat Pillager posted:



There are no words.

This is a very old honeypot, not much worse than some of the ones Fran did back in the day. I think some of our newer members have not quite experienced just how awful ERPists used to be back in the day along with the lengths some brave goons went to reel them in, and I'd also like to remind everyone that nearly everybody in Dental/NoP had a catgirl at one point. I don't know why it was a thing, but it was a thing.

Aleth posted:

I heard Pulse is actually bobfrommarketing.

Harsh.

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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SDRD posted:

So you are saying he did this a while ago and it was extremely awful. And just yesterday he was posing in a loving fur suit on rise (also very awful). And, as others have said, this might not be that old at all (but still very awful). How about we agree that Pulse is very awful?

Pulse is a cool dude who has helped a lot of goons and done a lot of honey potting for us.

Incidentally I can't help but notice you have only ever made 9 posts on this forum, all of them in this thread with your first post asking to get into Dental. You've been a very patient J4G, it would be a shame to spoil it all by trying too hard.

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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Goat Pillager posted:


Why is it from someone else's perspective and not his?

This screenshot was taken by someone who associated with goons and was currently being honeypotted by Pulse, which only a few of us knew about. Incidentally this person was expelled from our company for some other unrelated poo poo they pulled and decided to release screenshots of their conversation before we could spring the honeytrap in an attempt to make Pulse look bad. Which it appears some people have fallen for hook, line and sinker.

Goat Pillager posted:

Why are you returning out of the blue from nowhere to suddenly defend him?

As you might have noticed with thread title changes and the odd update to the OP, whilst I haven't logged into STO in a while I do follow what is going on, and I am very aware of current events. I am particularly disinclined to let people poo poo up the thread by spreading bullshit about someone when I know full well it isn't true.

Goat Pillager posted:

Why has Pulse not posted himself in response to any of this?

When have you ever seen Pulse post about anything?

Goat Pillager posted:

I should also point out that there are several other posts above pointing out that the log is in fact real, and that he is also a sponsored J4G at best.

I have read the log, difficult task as it was with the formatting, and have no doubts about its authenticity, and what I see are people getting really mad about butts and dongs. With an ancient honeypot screenshot conveniently trotted out completely out of context just as certain people are getting really really mad about butts and dongs, and a J4G trying really hard to talk poo poo about Pulse while the same people who were mad about butts and dongs are doing their best to sharpen their pitchforks and stoke the flames.

So to sum it up: its an old screenshot, those in charge know all about it and the context behind it, and stop getting so mad about butts and dongs.

Goat Pillager posted:

While I am certain more attempts to sweep this under the rug will come about, I have to say that I thought we usually sprayed down furry ERPists amongst the pubbie hoard, and kicked the ones found in goons, not harbored and white knighted them.

You are quite correct, furry ERPists found amongst goons are given the boot, and the reason this isn't happening with Pulse is because he isn't a furry. There is no grand conspiracy to be busted open here, and there is no masterful cover up operation in motion.

Also seriously, if you people can't tell the difference between this and an actual furry avatar then I really don't know what to loving say to you. I imagine you also honestly believe I am a 3 foot tall oiled up leatherdaddy bodybuilder as well.

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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Goat Pillager posted:

Well, that was certainly a large care posting that explained a great deal.

As to this whole butts and dongs thing, I sent Grimrak a two line message about said topic after a few people mentioned it to me in passing, and since I am usually one of very few online regularly, and not the most diplomatic about things, I passed it on.

Also it sorted itself out.

It escapes me why people assume anyone actually cares about this.

Its not unreasonable to assume someone really cares about it when they try to dig up what they believe to be dirt on the person who is the source of their annoyance.

Goat Pillager posted:

Anyways, since you are here, I will pass along something else that comes up now and then: Your ship guides on the wiki are pretty out of date, any plans to come back to came and update them?

No. I am having far too much fun in War Thunder and really don't have the time nor inclination to learn all the new mechanics and write large guides for them including all the new ships since released. Someone else is quite welcome to take over and update it if they want to.

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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BombermanX posted:

I remember fran. What ever happened to her? I remember picking on her just because she was a cat and then connecting with her on Drozana. Weird poo poo. Loved herself some coffee.

I think just life in general happened, she was a single mother with two kids and had less time and patience for this lovely game than most of us did.

plehsistential posted:

real talk pulse should be banned cause he likes anime and once linked me a shocking and disturbing anime gif tia

No, the shame of having bought a lifetime Neverwinter account is enough penance for one man to bear in a lifetime.

Lord Ludikrous
Jun 7, 2008

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hakimashou posted:

I will fail on PURPOSE one or all STFs if:

-I say hi or hello folks,how is everyone today? in chat and no one has the decency to respond.

So if I called him a oval office that would be ok? I mean I responded right?

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Jun 7, 2008

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Preechr posted:

FYI, Stonewall fleet were the people who brought us the official Enemies List back in the day, with denalts and suspected denalt names featured prominently. I have no idea why; I can't remember doing anything to them. As far as I know, we've never trolled an outright LGBT fleet on purpose.

I remember this, but I don't think their fleet was anything to do with LGBT at that time. It was because some of them ran into Dentals on Drozana/got blown up repeatedly in the PvPs back in the day if memory serves.

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Jun 7, 2008

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Jun 7, 2008

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Testosterone levels have recently experienced a massive spike.

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Jun 7, 2008

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Axe-man posted:

The ship they give you can be made into a pretty boss Enterprise D, it is pretty decent, it has nice Boff layouts and better turn than the old t5.

Yes it is essentially the first good Galaxy class ship in the game, and as far as a free ship goes its quite welcome.



Interesting how old designs from the 70s and 80s look better than almost everything Cryptic (and a lot of other Star Trek games) put out.

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Jun 7, 2008

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Dick Bass posted:

Akira and Steamrunner are really the only non-awful designs since the Galaxy. Why they designed Voyager to look like a flying poo poo trowel is beyond me. Star Trek is broken.

Quite partial to the Sovereign myself, at least before they stuck loads of extra bits on it for Nemesis.

On another note, why is chadhughes145 aka the guy who did a really bad anti-Dental song with his band in gooneration and NoP?

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Jun 7, 2008

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Northerneye posted:

Sponsored by Sterie and Railrokh.

You've missed quite alout since you went to go play War Thunder more.

I see, I wonder what other horrible pubbies have been let in over the last 18 months.

Violent Kitten posted:

http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1204858/when-fail-becomes-a-heroic-movement/p1
A thread where he goes :psyduck: then tries to backtrack when people don't agree with his bile.

:catstare: Then again horrible pubbie is such a relative term.

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Jun 7, 2008

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...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand Catstar got banned.

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Jun 7, 2008

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g0del posted:

You could fly them when you hit 40, or you could save them unopened so you can link them in chat to make pubbies jealous, or you could sell them (make sure to buy the EC limit increase first) and have enough to buy a different lockbox ship and plasmonic leech plus a few other essentials.

As Asimo said, none of those ships are really great currently, though you can certainly make any of them work if you ask for advice in chat. Simply knowing which equipment/BOFF skills to use will give you a huge leg up over the average pubbie.

Best thing to do is fly a Jem'hadar dreadnought with strike ship pets and pissbeams.

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Jun 7, 2008

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Pissbeams or not, the Galor is hella fast and has a good shield modifier and a decent boff layout.

Feels strange to say it but looking at the fleet T6 options, the Galaxy dreadnought looks like the best cruiser choice. Decent boff layout, a hangar deck, a bloop gun and can presumably use a cloaking device console.

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Jun 7, 2008

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DancingShade posted:

Even over the eclipse?

Apart from not being as ugly as the eclipse of course.

Having not used either ship and going purely from stats, I suppose it boils down to whether you prefer the agility of the Eclipse or a hangar deck. Although I actually quite like the look of the Eclipse, its different and at least follows some kind of consistent aesthetic whereas the Galaxy-X is some fanboy dream with all sorts of OMG SO RAD poo poo bolted on.

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Jun 7, 2008

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Asimo posted:

The presidio's also a lot more mobile and a little more durable, and while command boff skills are crap the actual command ship special thing is a nice bonus. Probably better than the lance, though you don't get access to weapon system efficiency.

But yeah the T6 Gal-X/Yamato is now... pretty... good? Giving it a Lt.Com tac seat was really all it needed to actually be functional. The Romulan variant is massively underrated too, since that Lt.Com universal seat is incredibly useful.

The Eclipse is still pretty good for what it is, but ever since surgical strikes got nerfed all it really has going for it is OSS3. It's still really mobile and has a built-in cloak and it's perfectly fine and fun to fly though, yeah.

I'm still getting back into the swing of the game and taking as best advantage as I can of the bonus xp to get as many of my mains up to level 60 while it lasts, I've not really delved into a lot of the new mechanics yet. Can you use the black Avenger hull material with the Eclipse? Seems like it would suit it very well.

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Jun 7, 2008

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g0del posted:

The Assimilated Module and Cutting Beam are still decent equipment, and I think about the only things left from Omega rep which people still use.

I've been out of the loop for a while but having used them on my Andromeda and Galor the Borg space set still seems to be the good all rounder. I don't know what the new rep sets are like though.

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Jun 7, 2008

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give me thread posted:

Sorry guys for getting completely off topic, but what's the music playing in that exploding sollvax video in the OP?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tezVVVSdQLw

Shazam has lead me to this album: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013PMZ9A/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp

But that version is full of gunfire in the background while the one in the video is clean.

I just wanna sample it, so looking for a decent source. Can't find anything on discogs.com

Ask and thou shalt receive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxubQBkLWyY

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Jun 7, 2008

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:siren:The best escort is now in the game:siren:

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Jun 7, 2008

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Have to agree with the folks in 'Gooneration, looking pimp as gently caress does beat superior specs.

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Jun 7, 2008

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Yes I have been watching JJTrek, why do you ask?

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Jun 7, 2008

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They've now enabled embedding of webms. Looks like I'll be updating the OP somewhat.

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g0del posted:

How is he planning on stopping it exactly?

It's been a while since we had a good RP war. If memory serves the last one ended up with goons chasing a guy around map edges in empty star systems.

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