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  • duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,980 Arc User
    edited December 2018
    But seriously, why is this a thing?

    Fun. Fun things are, after all, fun and I think it takes an effort to look at gorn puns, designating Q as your first officer, and adopting a macro-tardigrade who made his own starfleet uniform as some mysterious thing which defies immediate explanation (ie. I think those who've questioned "why" understand the purpose of this quite well but felt inclined to make the comment anyway. Subtex: why should this be a thing.)

    Though if you need more incentives, Kael mentioned that the agency updates to come (first to be sent on Christmas) will work their way to foreshadowing (in some way) the next content drop. If cute doodles and story blurbs (which Kael wrote himself) for the "awwws" and "lols" aren't for you then you can stay tuned for teases for the continuing Age of Discovery.
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    OOOoo I got a letter from the Tardigrade Adoption Agency just now. :)
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  • grendelthewise#0990 grendelthewise Member Posts: 640 Arc User
    I did the adoption thing and can't see what the benefit of this is. Anyone what to tell me
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    It is just for fun.
    To tell you the truth, it looks like something safe for kids to do over the holidays. LOL!
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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    edited December 2018
    Got an email earlier today saying that more detailed updates would be forthcoming in the next week or so.
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  • tvirxtvirx Member Posts: 92 Arc User
    Gods forbid that there be any fun to be had here! #Roasttardigradeforsupper
  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,404 Arc User
    edited December 2018
    and adopting a macro-tardigrade who made his own starfleet uniform as some mysterious thing which defies immediate explanation
    It's funny because the original script of Discovery had Ripper as a full-fledged Starfleet officer on the ship and Stamets' superior, with his own uniform with his badge on a stash.

    This proved to be too expensive, sadly. Then, they ignored that fact and instead of finally giving us a fully-alien well-written important character in a Star Trek series, they went with the more expensive and unnecessary redesign of the Klingon stuff.

    Also, the first update:
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    #TASforSTO
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    tvirx wrote: »
    #Roasttardigradeforsupper

    Goes well with Minty Raktajino Sauce.
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  • duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,980 Arc User
    edited December 2018
    where2r1 wrote: »
    tvirx wrote: »
    #Roasttardigradeforsupper

    Goes well with Minty Raktajino Sauce.

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    and adopting a macro-tardigrade who made his own starfleet uniform as some mysterious thing which defies immediate explanation
    It's funny because the original script of Discovery had Ripper as a full-fledged Starfleet officer on the ship and Stamets' superior, with his own uniform with his badge on a stash.

    You are explaining this to someone with a uniformed Tardigrade as his avatar...chances are he's encountered the story in his travels about the internet. ;)
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    MMMMMM....even better....Roasted Tardigrade Veal.
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  • malaproposmalapropos Member Posts: 29 Arc User
    So having had the first email bits from this, I find there's something important missing in them... They need an unsubscribe link.
  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    Well, it's not well written, and use odd combination of wording in them.
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    Oh NOOo! My Arty Tardi got into the mud!!! He's a mess...someone else can adopt him now.
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  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    party helped set up a party... well at least I didn't have to blow up the balloons.

    where2r1 wrote: »
    Oh NOOo! My Arty Tardi got into the mud!!! He's a mess...someone else can adopt him now.

    just spray em with the Garden hose. wait do they even still use garden hoses in whatever century we're in at this point.


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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    edited January 2019
    Supposedly, Arty sculpted a bust of "his favorite caretaker" out of the clay block he found in his playpen.
    Well....the e-mail said "pile of clay".

    Now, Frtoaster thinks that looks sculpture looks like Picard...4 pips on the collar and all.

    So, the identity of Arty Tardi's favorite caretaker is Jean-Luc Picard.

    https://i.imgur.com/cUbl5MP.jpg

    Any other clues to Picard popping up with the other Tardigrade e-mails???
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    where2r1 wrote: »
    https://i.imgur.com/cUbl5MP.jpg

    Any other clues to Picard popping up with the other Tardigrade e-mails???

    @duncanidaho11 ??? What say you?? You are getting all the e-mails, aren't you?

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  • duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,980 Arc User
    edited January 2019
    where2r1 wrote: »
    where2r1 wrote: »
    https://i.imgur.com/cUbl5MP.jpg

    Any other clues to Picard popping up with the other Tardigrade e-mails???

    @duncanidaho11 ??? What say you?? You are getting all the e-mails, aren't you?

    I'm only getting Arty, Lt., and Party! For some reason Kael didn't auto-subscribe me to all the tardis. :disappointed:

    The Picard thing though...hmm....Kael did say that these would tease upcoming content so based on this limited information, sans, context, I think we can say that an X-Men cross over in STO is confirmed! :tongue:

    That or Dune, I think Gurney Halleck would be a good foster parent to a huggle bug. (cue Arty doodling over a baliset)
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  • nommo#5819 nommo Member Posts: 1,105 Arc User
    So far the couple of announcements I've received are, cute, but still not understanding the purpose of this overall unless it is to be cute just for cuteness's sake. Nevertheless, it's nice of Cryptic to toss these tardigrades some work since their 'Ant-Man and the Wasp' casting.
  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    edited January 2019
    Well, I guess, we will just have to wait and see.

    I am gonna have to give it up to @frtoaster if he is right about that hint pointing to Patrick Stewart.

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  • frtoasterfrtoaster Member Posts: 3,352 Arc User
    nommo#5819 wrote: »
    So far the couple of announcements I've received are, cute, but still not understanding the purpose of this overall unless it is to be cute just for cuteness's sake. Nevertheless, it's nice of Cryptic to toss these tardigrades some work since their 'Ant-Man and the Wasp' casting.

    I think that was the entire point.

    I'm only getting Arty, Lt., and Party! For some reason Kael didn't auto-subscribe me to all the tardis. :disappointed:

    The Picard thing though...hmm....Kael did say that these would tease upcoming content so based on this limited information, sans, context, I think we can say that an X-Men cross over in STO is confirmed! :tongue:

    That or Dune, I think Gurney Halleck would be a good foster parent to a huggle bug. (cue Arty doodling over a baliset)

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  • destroyer#8844 destroyer Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    I did not get an email update about Lt. Tardigrade this week, did any of you get updates? If you did could you please post a picture of it so I can see what it says?
  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    I got some e-mail about Discovery...nothing about my Tardigrade. :(
    Are they using the Tardigrade e-mail list to send me PWE e-mail???
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  • phoenix841phoenix841 Member Posts: 487 Arc User
    pottsey5g wrote: »
    phoenix841 wrote: »
    pottsey5g wrote: »
    Nice marketing mailing list bait.
    Due to the new GDPR laws they cannot use the email for marketing mailing list without a high risk of receiving a very large fine. They are no longer allowed to without explicit clear consent to use our personal information for anything other then what we agreed with. As there was no agreement on sighing up for them to use personal information for anything else they cannot use our information for anything else. If they do legally they are in a very bad position and will get reported and most likely fined.
    Given neither PWE nor Cryptic are located in the EU, I'm curious how that can be enforced?
    I'm also not in the EU, so I really don't understand.

    Also, I got Lt. Tardigrade as well.
    No idea how they do it but they do. There was a big revamp in data protection laws May this year and basically if they want to trade in the EU they have to follow the rules. Given that they have a web presence in the EU, sell to people in the EU and use EU currency they come under the new data protection laws which are great for end consumers like ourselves.

    As an example Uber isn’t a EU company yet just last month they were fined.

    I'm not saying they can't fine them, but how are they going to enforce it?
    As your example with Uber, all Uber drivers are not employees, but contractors (I know there was some litigation on that issue, but I don't know if the classification has changed). What are they going to do, pull over all Uber drivers and seize their vehicles?
    Same with PWE, what are they going to do, block their websites?
    Without a way to enforce it, it's toothless.
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  • phoenix841phoenix841 Member Posts: 487 Arc User
    pottsey5g wrote: »
    phoenix841 wrote: »
    pottsey5g wrote: »
    Nice marketing mailing list bait.
    Due to the new GDPR laws they cannot use the email for marketing mailing list without a high risk of receiving a very large fine. They are no longer allowed to without explicit clear consent to use our personal information for anything other then what we agreed with. As there was no agreement on sighing up for them to use personal information for anything else they cannot use our information for anything else. If they do legally they are in a very bad position and will get reported and most likely fined.
    Given neither PWE nor Cryptic are located in the EU, I'm curious how that can be enforced?
    I'm also not in the EU, so I really don't understand.

    Also, I got Lt. Tardigrade as well.
    No idea how they do it but they do. There was a big revamp in data protection laws May this year and basically if they want to trade in the EU they have to follow the rules. Given that they have a web presence in the EU, sell to people in the EU and use EU currency they come under the new data protection laws which are great for end consumers like ourselves.

    As an example Uber isn’t a EU company yet just last month they were fined.

    I'm not saying they can't fine them, but how are they going to enforce it?
    As your example with Uber, all Uber drivers are not employees, but contractors (I know there was some litigation on that issue, but I don't know if the classification has changed). What are they going to do, pull over all Uber drivers and seize their vehicles?
    Same with PWE, what are they going to do, block their websites?
    Without a way to enforce it, it's toothless.
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