ginger tea works too - just don't get ginger ale; most of the time it doesn't have any real ginger in it at all, and the amount of sugar in soda - especially AMERICAN soda - can make things worse
*alex and the rangers beam up as well - and seconds later multiple blinding flashes go off across the planet, followed by rising mushroom clouds* alex: greymane to exeter - spikes are taken care of; we can go back to DS9 now (RATTLER, get in here! you're up)
*alex and team finishes planting charges on the last spike* okay, that should be the last one...let's get the hell out of here so we can blow these without getting vaporized by a 20 kiloton explosion
(that's because borg in games can't be OP like they are in the shows...which is also why a sovereign can badly wound a borg cube in armada) alex: pffft...the borg are pussies now - we've trashed them so badly, they're on the verge of extinction
(that's because the borg are stupid and only send ONE vessel at a time...maybe three at most - i think there were two cubes and the queen's diamond at the assimilation of species 10026)
alex: if the reapers are already this far into the galaxy, given they should've hit the delta or beta quadrant first...yes, there are probably already more (since, you know...andromeda is supposed to be east-ish of the milky way, galactically-speaking)
alex: understatement of the millennium...*he mutters to himself as he motions the rangers to lower their weapons and finish setting the charges, which they do* and on to the fourth spike (how many of these damn things did rose even put on this dogforsaken rock?)
*alex and every ranger immediately about-faces and points their weapons at the jem'hadar* alex: JESUS CHRIST, don't come up on someone like that without announcing yourself!
yeah, i'd like to know what average they're basing that around, though - because the majority of the game's players are still utter n00blords who are lucky if they can breach 5K
(you have REPEATEDLY proven yourself extremely unreliable in showing up when people are waiting on you - i am here every day, barring situations like lost power or a busted computer i wasn't about to risk yet another several days of having to sit around with my thumb up my TRIBBLE and someone needs to do husks if they're…
(also, make sure you are using the correct term and don't actually mean empathize - sympathize and empathize are not synonyms of each other https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/grammar/style-and-usage/what-s-the-difference-between-sympathy-and-empathy.html )
(okay, since west is apparently sulking...) *after setting the charges on the first spike, alex and his spec-ops team moves on to the next one and repeats the process*
32 minutes for just a ship is a little worse than the summer and winter events, which only take 3-5 minutes - and even the anniversary tends to be rather short but this isn't JUST a ship they're giving - it's also weapons and upgrades, so...not sure that balances it out, really, but they ARE giving more than just the ship
*alex beams down to the surface with a squad of rangers near one of the spikes* alex: okay, here's the first one - prep charges and keep an eye out for any husks coming to defend it *the ranger acknowledges with a nod, then starts giving orders via paw signals to the rest of the team*
*alex gets to his feet and gathers up the empty dishes and food he failed to finish, then recycles it all* i'm going to prepare my team and then head down to destroy the reaper spikes - tell honored hornytoad to be ready and meet me when i head down, or he's getting left behind
alex: sorry, but um...when did anyone try to psychologically manipulate someone into questioning their sanity? because that's what 'gaslighting' means *he asks while still munching the popcorn that appeared out of nowhere*
(both of you need to look up gaslighting...it doesn't mean whatever you think it means based on what's been said so far) *alex is calmly munching on popcorn - which he did not get up and replicate, so where the hell did it come from?*