Ew. That kind of steampunk is so drab and it's why the genre has gotten so stale and dull. If I see another top hat with pointless gears glued to it, someone is going to get a pair of shears through an eye.
Steampunk done right is awesome.
Unfortunately, as you alluded to, some people's idea of "right" means "take something that looks vaguely old-fashioned that you can buy from Hot Topic, slap some fake gears on it, and wear striped tights and a corset."
I kinda want to slap those people.
Space Barbie Extraordinaire. Got a question about Space Barbie? Just ask.
Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
More intricuit detail!
^this is why I like Enterprise, more of a mechanical tech look
Ew. That kind of steampunk is so drab and it's why the genre has gotten so stale and dull. If I see another top hat with pointless gears glued to it, someone is going to get a pair of shears through an eye.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned it yet, but how about the custom of aliens speaking the intergalactic language of commerce... American English.
I'm also not fond of the classic "ray guns are automatically better than normal guns" concept, as most ray guns are displayed as being far inferior to modern weapons.
Ew. That kind of steampunk is so drab and it's why the genre has gotten so stale and dull. If I see another top hat with pointless gears glued to it, someone is going to get a pair of shears through an eye.
Steampunk done right is awesome.
Unfortunately, as you alluded to, some people's idea of "right" means "take something that looks vaguely old-fashioned that you can buy from Hot Topic, slap some fake gears on it, and wear striped tights and a corset."
I kinda want to slap those people.
I love steampunk, but this fills me with holy wrath.
More intricuit detail!
^this is why I like Enterprise, more of a mechanical tech look
Ew. That kind of steampunk is so drab and it's why the genre has gotten so stale and dull. If I see another top hat with pointless gears glued to it, someone is going to get a pair of shears through an eye.
> @lordrezeon said: > I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned it yet, but how about the custom of aliens speaking the intergalactic language of commerce... American English.
Necessary Weasel. Either you're going to have some kind of lingua franca rendered as English for the audience's benefit (c.f. Galactic Basic in Star Wars), you'll have a universal translator of some kind, or you're going to have to do what the Stargate movie did and spend half the episode waiting for your miraculously omnicompetent linguist to figure out the language before you can do a goddamn thing.
"Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
— Sabaton, "Great War"
Ships and stations with windows, seriously they're a structural weakness.
Also putting your command centre on top of the ship protected by plot armour
"The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
I am not surprised once the ai took a dive into the net and came out traumarized so hard it went nuts
Hast thou not gone against sincerity
Hast thou not felt ashamed of thy words and deeds
Hast thou not lacked vigor
Hast thou exerted all possible efforts
Hast thou not become slothful
I am not surprised once the ai took a dive into the net and came out traumarized so hard it went nuts
That was what was so believable about Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Ultron connects to the internet for less than twenty seconds and immediately figures out that humanity needs to be wiped out.
Space Barbie Extraordinaire. Got a question about Space Barbie? Just ask.
Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
I am not surprised once the ai took a dive into the net and came out traumarized so hard it went nuts
That was what was so believable about Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Ultron connects to the internet for less than twenty seconds and immediately figures out that humanity needs to be wiped out.
skynet only took a millisecond; ultron sucks at browsing
Depends on the version of Skynet. Original Timeline, Terminator 2 Timeline, Terminator 3 Timeline, Terminator Salvation Timeline, Terminator Genisys Timeline, and all the other fun timelines all exist differently.
Space Barbie Extraordinaire. Got a question about Space Barbie? Just ask.
Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
> @shadowfang240 said: > themadprofessor#9835 wrote: » > > k20vtec wrote: » > > I am not surprised once the ai took a dive into the net and came out traumarized so hard it went nuts > > > > > That was what was so believable about Avengers: Age of Ultron. > > Ultron connects to the internet for less than twenty seconds and immediately figures out that humanity needs to be wiped out. > > > > > skynet only took a millisecond; ultron sucks at browsing
Ultron ehhh... was lost in that one weird page he was really ashamed of visiting
Hast thou not gone against sincerity
Hast thou not felt ashamed of thy words and deeds
Hast thou not lacked vigor
Hast thou exerted all possible efforts
Hast thou not become slothful
> @mustrumridcully0 said: > When it comes to A(S)Is, I prefer The Machine. And even Samaritan. They actually do what they are supposed to... But one is too ruthless.
Good choice (and good show). Additional examples:
— EDI anyone? Starts as a shackled AI whom everyone is suspicious of. Then (inevitably) circumstances force her to be unshackled and she immediately proceeds to... remain completely loyal and become quite possibly the most moral person on the entire crew.
— The Tachikomas in Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex. The cast becomes fearful of their rapid advancement in intelligence and decommissions them, only to have three of them break out and... save the lives of Batou and Motoko because with their intelligence came the capacity for self-sacrifice.
"Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
— Sabaton, "Great War"
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
> @shadowfang240 said: > nanobots ARE magical - to those who don't understand how they work, much like any other piece of technology > > now you wanna talk REAL magic in sci-fi? how about resurrection blood?
Yeah, like in nBSG! :P
"Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
— Sabaton, "Great War"
No what was magical was Guinan's hat. That was a great hat she wore.
Space Barbie Extraordinaire. Got a question about Space Barbie? Just ask.
Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch." "We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Passion and Serenity are one.
I gain power by understanding both.
In the chaos of their battle, I bring order.
I am a shadow, darkness born from light.
The Force is united within me.
> @shadowfang240 said: > i was referring to khan's blood in ID...was there resurrection blood in BSG too?
Yep. Well, not RESURRECTION blood technically, but they used a blood transfusion from Helo and Boomer's child to cure Roslin's cancer.
"Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
— Sabaton, "Great War"
> @shadowfang240 said:
> i was referring to khan's blood in ID...was there resurrection blood in BSG too?
Yep. Well, not RESURRECTION blood technically, but they used a blood transfusion from Helo and Boomer's child to cure Roslin's cancer.
We all have a little Cylon inside us.
Technically, yeah - since the show claimed the baby was Mitochondrial Eve. Personally, and thinking of Boomer/Athena, I wouldn't mind reversing the inside/outside relationship there...
In one of the Draco's Tavern stories, Niven posited that any computer advanced enough to be truly intelligent would go catatonic within weeks of initial activation. Neither Rick Schumann nor the chirpsithtra he asked about it knew for sure whether that was because there simply wasn't enough sensor bandwidth to provide input for such a mind at computer speeds, or because they just thought out every possible idea in the universe and then got bored.
David Brin's solution, in the short story "Lungfish", suggested that humanity might one day deal with AI by raising them as if they were children, teaching them human virtues like compassion and love through example - much the same way we try to teach our own offspring. (The story also includes a group of alien von Neumann machines, whose ponderings suggest humanity's approach might have been unique in galactic history - but of course Seeker's databanks might have been damaged when the machines fought for their factions, aeons ago...)
The idea that there's something special about humanity that elevates them above all the other species. Frequently, humanity is a central, if not THE central, species in the galactic community, oft-times actually FOUNDING said galactic community. I know that scifi is written by humans for humans, so naturally we make ourselves out to be better, but I'd love to have a fiction where we are the new kids on the block in a pre-existing and well-functioning community and are just like every other galactic community member species. Put us out on the periphery. Make us earn the respect of our galactic peers. Make us not special.
"Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
— Sabaton, "Great War"
Different societies with incompatible values all 'putting aside their differences in the spirit of cooperation' ie. everybody wants to join some Federation lead super-alliance.
First off, that's essentially joining the Federation, and if those species wanted to that, they'd have done so already.
More practically, if this were a TV show it'd be all heartwarming and give fuzzy feelings, but as an MMO it just removes bad guys from your rogue's gallery until now we have to fight the random made-up bad guys that you just made up.
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Steampunk done right is awesome.
Unfortunately, as you alluded to, some people's idea of "right" means "take something that looks vaguely old-fashioned that you can buy from Hot Topic, slap some fake gears on it, and wear striped tights and a corset."
I kinda want to slap those people.
Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
I'm also not fond of the classic "ray guns are automatically better than normal guns" concept, as most ray guns are displayed as being far inferior to modern weapons.
I love steampunk, but this fills me with holy wrath.
Wonderful.
> I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned it yet, but how about the custom of aliens speaking the intergalactic language of commerce... American English.
Necessary Weasel. Either you're going to have some kind of lingua franca rendered as English for the audience's benefit (c.f. Galactic Basic in Star Wars), you'll have a universal translator of some kind, or you're going to have to do what the Stargate movie did and spend half the episode waiting for your miraculously omnicompetent linguist to figure out the language before you can do a goddamn thing.
— Sabaton, "Great War"
Check out https://unitedfederationofpla.net/s/
Also putting your command centre on top of the ship protected by plot armour
-Lord Commander Solar Macharius
Hast thou not felt ashamed of thy words and deeds
Hast thou not lacked vigor
Hast thou exerted all possible efforts
Hast thou not become slothful
That was what was so believable about Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Ultron connects to the internet for less than twenty seconds and immediately figures out that humanity needs to be wiped out.
Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
skynet only took a millisecond; ultron sucks at browsing
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Depends on the version of Skynet. Original Timeline, Terminator 2 Timeline, Terminator 3 Timeline, Terminator Salvation Timeline, Terminator Genisys Timeline, and all the other fun timelines all exist differently.
Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
> themadprofessor#9835 wrote: »
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> k20vtec wrote: »
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> I am not surprised once the ai took a dive into the net and came out traumarized so hard it went nuts
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> That was what was so believable about Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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> Ultron connects to the internet for less than twenty seconds and immediately figures out that humanity needs to be wiped out.
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> skynet only took a millisecond; ultron sucks at browsing
Ultron ehhh... was lost in that one weird page he was really ashamed of visiting
Hast thou not felt ashamed of thy words and deeds
Hast thou not lacked vigor
Hast thou exerted all possible efforts
Hast thou not become slothful
> When it comes to A(S)Is, I prefer The Machine. And even Samaritan. They actually do what they are supposed to... But one is too ruthless.
Good choice (and good show). Additional examples:
— EDI anyone? Starts as a shackled AI whom everyone is suspicious of. Then (inevitably) circumstances force her to be unshackled and she immediately proceeds to... remain completely loyal and become quite possibly the most moral person on the entire crew.
— The Tachikomas in Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex. The cast becomes fearful of their rapid advancement in intelligence and decommissions them, only to have three of them break out and... save the lives of Batou and Motoko because with their intelligence came the capacity for self-sacrifice.
— Sabaton, "Great War"
Check out https://unitedfederationofpla.net/s/
(But the movie features the idea of magical nanobots again, and that's a feature we can use less off.)
now you wanna talk REAL magic in sci-fi? how about resurrection blood?
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
> nanobots ARE magical - to those who don't understand how they work, much like any other piece of technology
>
> now you wanna talk REAL magic in sci-fi? how about resurrection blood?
Yeah, like in nBSG! :P
— Sabaton, "Great War"
Check out https://unitedfederationofpla.net/s/
Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
> i was referring to khan's blood in ID...was there resurrection blood in BSG too?
Yep. Well, not RESURRECTION blood technically, but they used a blood transfusion from Helo and Boomer's child to cure Roslin's cancer.
— Sabaton, "Great War"
Check out https://unitedfederationofpla.net/s/
My character Tsin'xing
In one of the Draco's Tavern stories, Niven posited that any computer advanced enough to be truly intelligent would go catatonic within weeks of initial activation. Neither Rick Schumann nor the chirpsithtra he asked about it knew for sure whether that was because there simply wasn't enough sensor bandwidth to provide input for such a mind at computer speeds, or because they just thought out every possible idea in the universe and then got bored.
David Brin's solution, in the short story "Lungfish", suggested that humanity might one day deal with AI by raising them as if they were children, teaching them human virtues like compassion and love through example - much the same way we try to teach our own offspring. (The story also includes a group of alien von Neumann machines, whose ponderings suggest humanity's approach might have been unique in galactic history - but of course Seeker's databanks might have been damaged when the machines fought for their factions, aeons ago...)
Babylon 5.
Trials of Blood and Fire
Moving On Parts 1-3 - Part 4
In Cold Blood
— Sabaton, "Great War"
Check out https://unitedfederationofpla.net/s/
What I'd like to see a lot less of in STO:
Different societies with incompatible values all 'putting aside their differences in the spirit of cooperation' ie. everybody wants to join some Federation lead super-alliance.
First off, that's essentially joining the Federation, and if those species wanted to that, they'd have done so already.
More practically, if this were a TV show it'd be all heartwarming and give fuzzy feelings, but as an MMO it just removes bad guys from your rogue's gallery until now we have to fight the random made-up bad guys that you just made up.