SteleTrovilo

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The topic was asking for examples; got any?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I decided to try to stop swearing in college, to see if it would improve my attitude - and to see if anyone would notice.

Both turned out to be true. People found me pleasant to work with and hang around. I recommend it, personally!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If you're a crew member on the Enterprise D, you have died. Probably more than once. Between Timescape, Cause and Effect, Yesterday's Enterprise, and All Good Things, the ENT-D has been blown to smithereens with all crew on board multiple times.

Voyager did this too, but far fewer times that I recall.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's actually much more similar to how they kept using Majel Barrett as the voice of the computer across multiple series.

And it makes sense in-universe for The Doctor to be 800 years old and still working; it's not like they're contriving a way for Harry Kim or Phlox to be there, much as we may want to see them again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had no idea it was even released.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Voyager S1E3, "Parallax". It didn't make much of an impression on me as a kid, but watching again recently - and knowing the direction that the characters grow - it's actually a pretty compelling character-based drama. And the Maqui-Federation tension is thick here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've had the impression that in the Mirror Universe, it was only the humans/terrans which behaved differently. Everyone else we see seems like their usual selves (accounting for different circumstances of course).

The DS9 episodes throw a wrench in this of course, with Kira being a very different person and the oppressed terrans being sympathetic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In regard to the Breen, I would note that Star Trek Adventures: Klingon Core Rulebook says "They only present themselves to non-Breen in full-body suits that hide their identities, and their bodies disintegrate when they die while wearing those suits. While this is an admirable trait – it means Breen cannot be taken prisoner, an attitude in line with the teachings of Kahless – it has made it impossible to determine the true face of the Breen." This is a pretty cool explanation for how Worf could be right even after Kira and Dukat stole their suits.

I know STA isn't canon but I still like this reasoning.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Hacker News works fine. Can't vouch for the others, since I don't touch corporate "AI" if I can help it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This is the second Star Trek season premiere that features the destruction of a Soong-type android, after Picard S1E1 "Rememberance" introduced and murdered Dahj.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Splatoon 1 actually had local multiplayer - it was 2-player only, but for those of us with kids, it was good enough. Split screen multiplayer in Splatoon 2/3 would've been great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Pretty much nothing you said is true, it was not "designed from the ground up to be frustrating" and the other statements are too vague to even bother attacking. "Not even wrong" is the phrase that comes to mind.

You didn't even mention an example of a game which would count as "something good".

 

I always thought that the idea of Enterprise was intriguing, and that the characters had a lot of potential. I don't think the show lived up to its own possibilities. But that's where books can make up the difference, maybe!

So, can anyone recommend some Enterprise novels that are worth reading?

(Especially if they have nothing to do with the "Temporal Cold War" and aren't simple jailbreak stories. The show already has those angles covered.)

 

I'm getting back into fighting games! And I don't want to wear out my gamepads or joycons, so can you recommend a good control stick?

A few criteria:

  • Wireless would be ideal
  • Compatible with PC mainly, but Switch and Playstation would be excellent too.
  • I'm mainly into BlazBlue and Injustice right now, not sure if that would affect my choices.
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