EnsignRedshirt [he/him] @ EnsignRedshirt @hexbear.net

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Ambitious, but I do really like the idea of doing something interesting with the characters when the players aren’t present, and have that affect the game at times where there’s crossover. Neat!

Elon Musk got me to stop using Twitter.

Oof, this might be the thing that gets me to lose myself in a Paradox game.

"Ma'am, please don't sit on my snack tray."

The Orville is a deeply sincere homage made by someone who clearly both loves and understands Star Trek. It is, in many ways, more true to form than some of the recent Trek shows and movies, and it deserves to be considered an honorary part of the franchise. I hope we see more of it.

It’s important to agree on quorum for an RPG campaign. If the GM and a minimum threshold of players show up, it’s game on.

I do enjoy the start of game retconning caused by missing players. “Oh no, our wizard has contracted horrible diarrhea and is currently locked in the bathroom, but thankfully our druid appears to be arriving via parachute as we speak.”

I'm actually two kids in a trenchcoat, but good luck proving it.

Give us full 20+ episode seasons, cowards! I want bottle episodes, slice of life stories, maybe a few two-parters here and there. Star Trek was born as an episodic network tv show meant to run from fall to summer. Let it breathe.

Yeah, it depends on the criteria. The Nazis were only around for a few years, whereas the British did their thing for centuries. The Nazis were a rookie prodigy who retired after a single red-hot season, the British were a multi-season MVP with way more points on the board.

Without flaws, we would all have achieved nirvana, and would be freed from the cycle of birth and rebirth. There would be no people and no society, because we would no longer be chained to the flawed and impermanent material world. Simple as.

He and Bashir should have hooked up at least once.

Bahaha, in the mirror universe, Elon Musk died a pauper while trying to prevent the eugenics wars.

It rules that the Mirror Universe guy was a Musk fan. Possibly not an intentional dig, but it's pitch-perfect in retrospect. I love Lorca. What a fun character.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not sure you aren't a Nazi, either.

But yeah, the Hitler and slavery apologia is also really bad and you should probably stop that if you're not a Nazi.

Some may consider these statements to be (insert trendy prefix, here) phobic, but they are also factual

The first is subjective, the second is a counterfactual. By definition, neither can be factual statements.

Being fired on the spot hardly ever happens. Usually the problem is that employers demand additional work for no increase in pay or better working conditions while maintaining a toxic or outright dangerous work environment because they know most people won't quit or even complain. That goes double for immigrants who are either undocumented, and have little recourse, or need their job to maintain their visa. Being fired on the spot sounds sort of quaint compared to what we usually see happening in American workplaces.

“Online” needs to be broken down into “dating app” and “met playing World of Warcraft”

Data: check

Beautiful: check

I’m no expert, but this looks pretty cut and dried.

I haven’t been following it closely, but my understanding is that it wasn’t just a feature that people wanted, it was something that Blizzard promised with their whole chest when they announced Overwatch 2, and was essentially the main justification for making a sequel instead of continuing to support and improve the original. Absolutely wild that they went “yeah, sorry, too much work, but be sure to buy a battle pass this season” several months after they released.