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On 3/23/2023 at 5:15 PM, Dobber said:
Obviously they have plans to settle the "best captain" debate with genetig engineering. Captain James Tiberius Picard has a nice ring to it.
On 3/16/2023 at 2:13 PM, Roy Focker said:It was a good episode in the fact that I was engaged the whole time but there some flaws.
Did Riker forget he once had sex with this week's guest star?
In fairness, when you're Riker that's an awful lot of people to remember.
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Short and fat... I dub thee Mall Cop Prowl!
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3 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:
Thanks Bob Budiansky! I'll take names like Optimus Prime, Jazz, Prowl, or Hound over John, Rick, Bob, or Bill any day. 😁
If we're gonna rag on Machine Robo naming sensibilities...
He also gave us names like Ratchet, Hook, and Thrust. There's a lot of Transformers with just a random noun for a name, and Blue Jet would be right at home.
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11 hours ago, camk4evr said:
I know him mostly from Destiny as well.
Same. I dropped into the Tower last night and joined the memorial procession. Everyone's walking up to Zavala to pay their respects.
Not many more voices that've been with the game that long. Amanda, Shaxx, and Eva are it, I believe.
12 hours ago, camk4evr said:Apparently he actually played the game as well.
That's actually really cool!
12 hours ago, camk4evr said:as a warlock, I believe.
Well, no one's perfect.
Everything I've heard is that he was just one of the nicest guys you could work with, and the world is darker for his passing. Even if he DID main warlock.
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51 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:
It's not that I don't want games based on MASK and Silverhawks (and, while I'm at it, Dino Riders, EXO Squad, and SWAT Cats), but I think they'd work better in another genre than beat'em up.
This is true. And MASK, at least, would need to be multimode, because we wanna drive the jetcars AND run around blasting people with laser eyes.
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I want a Silverhawks game. And a MASK game.
I'm just sayin'.
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So I swung by the toys while in Target the other day, and was somewhat surprised. Between the empty pegs and the pegs full of last year's robots and the Cyberverse/Earth Spark/whatever stuff(which is always fully-stocked).... there was a single Metalhawk.
It's a surprisingly good toy. No surprise, so was Cyclonus. But right off the bat... torso is not gold, golden, metallic, or anything appropriate. It's yellow, and a particularly cheesy shade thereof. Like, I'd be embarrassed to see a Bumblebee this particular shade. This is most of what you see in-box, so he makes a particularly poor first impression. I kinda want to see if I can remove the torso pieces and paint 'em a decent yellow.
Metalhawk is a reworking of Cyclonus, but... they've touched almost every part, including pieces that they really didn't have to(like the rear thrusters covering his feet in vehicle mode). The only places that I see which are obviously from Cyclonus are the thighs, main wing, and upper arm*. It is more like reused engineering than a remold. Based on the few parts that ARE reused, that may have been required. I can see evidence of heavy mold wear. They got their money's worth out of Cyclonus's tooling. This might explain some of the part changes that seem to be, frankly, a bad allocation of tooling costs.
The wings are hilarious, since they are still in two parts but the new subwing component is shaped to come around the edges to add wingtip missiles. The subwing is ALSO shaped to block the transformation hinge so no one tries to fold it in so his wings are smaller in robot mode. I'm trying to figure out how this makes sense, and just coming up blank(it doesn't seem to be mold degradation).
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*Right, right, I said something about the upper arm... That includes the shoulders. They are VERY obviously Cyclonus's shoulders, and Cyclonus has very distinctive shoulders(if not outright iconic). I'm very disappointed in this. They reworked so many pieces to make sure he doesn't look even remotely like Cyclonus, then got to the distinctively-Cyclonus shoulders and went "Yeah, these are fine". They don't even look like they belong here, but more like some bizarre assembly accident resulted in Cyclonus' shoulders being bolted to Metalhawk somehow. We got new foot-thrusters, but not new SHOULDERS? The second-worst part is that most of the visible mold degradation is in... you guessed it, the shoulder parts.
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There's an interesting point in there. He doesn't LIKE Seven. There's a case to be made that he actively hates her, for no good reason whatsoever
But he TRUSTS her. His personal dislike does not interfere with his command decisions.
He simply assumes that she is a member of his crew and can be assumed to not fly off the handle and help a couple of elderly loons execute a harebrained scheme to steal his vessel right from under him, regardless of how he personally feels about Borg, ex-Borg, and semi-Borg.
Because that's how we roll in the future. We shouldn't be racists at all, but if we're going to do we can at least be civil about it.
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And will it acknowledge the cartoon series?
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Man, remember when Starfleet vessels had therapists on board to help the crew deal with traumatic experiences in a healthy manner instead of running around with massive PTSD?
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29 minutes ago, Thom said:
What was the whole point of making him an android anyway!? One of the goofiest things.
"We wrote him as dead at end of season, but now we're making a second season! Quick, find a fix!"
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1 hour ago, Chronocidal said:
I think I'm more baffled that whatever they're doing at any level is purposefully not adhering to any other standard that makes VR work across multiple platforms. Maybe the PSVR2 is correcting that? I don't know. PC hardware is pretty much compatible across the board, with some minor background software management to do the necessary translations.
If this headset is so much better, I think they're losing out on a lot of sales by not making it just work with PCs from the start.. but that assumes they're interested in sales that don't push PS5 demand along with it. When it comes to these huge corporations, I have to assume they have some kind of background analysis that is designed to maximize their margins, regardless of how beneficial it is to the end user.
PSVR1 has a SteamVR driver, despite being kinda weird. But it was developed by hobbyists, not Sony.
I expect to see a PSVR2 driver for SteamVR, but no telling when. It's nice hardware, and I'd like to see it liberated. I do understand why Sony doesn't have an interest in supporting this themselves, though they did put out packages for developers wanting to support the PS4 and PS5 controllers if I recall correctly. They clearly aren't COMPLETELY indifferent to Windows gaming.
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34 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:
This... is utterly baffling. Why on earth would they forcibly kill off the games the original PSVR headset was used for? Think I'm sticking with PCs for anything VR related.
I am assuming that the PSVR1 API exposes too many low-level details about hardware that functions very differently. I'm sure Sony didn't want to break compatibility, especially as it is a major feature of the PS5.
But I also know that pretty much every aspect of the PSVR2 is fundamentally different. They don't even have the same number of screens(PSVR1 had a single LCD, PSVR2 has independent OLED panels). Unless they were careful with the design of the original API to abstract every facet of the hardware away, it could easily be impossible to make hardware that is back-compatible while also being a meaningful improvement.
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16 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
In Star Trek IV, Kirk et. al. had a LOT of mitigating factors that prevented them from experiencing the full consequences of their actions... the biggest of which was probably not having just saved Earth, but having just saved the son of the hugely influential Ambassador Sarek.
I've always been annoyed by the "odd movie rule", mostly due to Search For Spock.
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8 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
"Kirk was the problem."
Somewhere, there's a boardroom of Starfleet admirals nodding along.
That's the name of the largest meeting room in the Department of Temporal Affairs.
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14 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:
Kosher shuttlecraft. Can't be used to haul ham and ham products.
Makes sense. No flaws in this reasoning.
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29 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:
I'm not sure which incident you're specifically referring to, but I'm sure there are probably explanations for it provided.
"Transporter splits Kirk into two people."
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45 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:
Quark gets caught all the time, and has a rather extensive criminal record.
Yeah, well... Quark always did think he was much hotter crap than he actually was.
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4 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:
His criminal record makes Quark look like a rank amateur.
Quark resents that. Amateurs have criminal records, professionals don't get caught.
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1 hour ago, Seto Kaiba said:
Namely, that the lighthearted camaraderie that audiences are used to seeing among Starfleet crews in Star Trek is almost totally absent from Star Trek: Discovery. We see bits of it here and there, on the USS Shenzhou early in the first episode and among the crew of the USS Enterprise, but the crew of the USS Discovery seem to absolutely LOATHE each other.
It seems worth noting that cameraderie even existed in Voyager, where half the crew was supposed to be arrested by the other half.
Granted, it's considered a large flaw in the show that they brushed aside a justifiable interpersonal conflict to put the maquis into Starfleet uniforms, but if people who are ACTUALLY enemies can set it aside and work together that easily, why can't Discovery's crew?
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10 hours ago, Lolicon said:
Discovery getting canned after this season? I've never heard of such a shocking injustice that I cared so little about!
Shocking injustice that it wasn't canned years ago?
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9 hours ago, Thom said:
In theory, the Shrike doesn't actually need any offensive weapons at all as long as it has the portal device, not if any weapon fired at it can be redirected right back at its launcher.
Oh, that's BRUTAL with phaser fire.
They're supposed to be matched to the frequency of the shields so starships can fire out through their shields. If you can send them back by thinking with portals, it'll be landing on an effectively unshielded vessel.
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Assuming that's canon this week, of course.
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11 hours ago, mikeszekely said:
That said, he can't hold his gun at all. His fists are too low to his forearms. It's ok, though. There are 5mm ports on GoGanoh's forearms, and the kabuto weapon can plug into one of them as a shield or an arm cannon. Use your imagination.
Heck yeah! Who needs functional hands when you have arm-guns?
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3 hours ago, pengbuzz said:
Kirk and Spock keep disappearing out of the main aisle though... need to go search for them.
So what you're saying is you need the search for Spock?
9 hours ago, mechaninac said:Too bad both these abominations can't be fully excised from existence... ignominy and indifference will have to suffice; unfortunately, the brand and live-franchise damage will long outlast them
Nah. If the next person in charge declares them non-canon for convenience, people take such declarations weirdly seriously for a franchise that historically has trouble keeping things consistent from week to week.
Star Trek: Picard (CBS All-Access)
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In fairness to DS9's writers, the concept was supposed to be incredibly repugnant both in-universe and out-of-universe. And probably intended to make people think a little harder about real-world organizations that are only slightly less secretive.
Unfortunately, those same writers overestimated their audience. Though fairly heavy with the "this is incredibly bad and wouldn't be tolerated by any decent being if they knew" angle, a large chunk of the audience still managed to come away from it going "this is sooooo cool!" and it's become a big stupid thing.