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@purplehippo @camoceltic Make them drink american alcohol.
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@purplehippo It's not even the kind of english accent that you can pass off as kind of scottish (several of the northern ones you kind of can)
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The fact that Cryptic would go out of their way to tell people they're shelving any further content for Victory is Life when they made several promises about things we'll never see, to go on and make the kind of lazy copypaste stuff we see in the Discovery intro for STO at this point means to regain my trust at this point with regards to STO, Cryptic is basically going to have to make Mirror of Discovery be worth it, and to be worth it it's going to have to be better than Legacy of Romulus.
I really don't see that happening.
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It got there with a lot of copy pasting and some notably bad voice acting in places, but it got there all the same.
Victory is Life really needs a lot of its dangling plot threads resolved, though. There's "leaving some stuff to be hooks for future content" and then theres "being too lazy and rushed to give the character arcs in your story a proper climax and falling action."
What happens with Bashir? What fallout with the Tzenkethi is there for Neth Parr's defection and the revelation about the admiral? How does the Hur'q society deal with the rogue elements that remain? What about the vorta lady I forget the name of? Or Kira and Odo?
That's just scraping the surface. It's not a terrible story, probably STO's second best after Legacy of Romulus really, and that's why its unresolved nature is so vexing.
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STO's Discovery stuff is actually decently well done for the most part, if you can stomach that it's based on Discovery, but it is incredibly short, and I don't give it any marks for the introduction because it's just a copy-paste of the stock STO introduction mad-libbed for Discovery. They also fling you into the main storyline (and timeline) after far too little time, and the missions you can complete then rely on you having information about the game you're not going to if you're a newbie at that point. They didn't even use a new explanation for you getting into the main timeline, that one's taken part and parcel from the STO timeline stuff from Agents of Yesterday.
Tilly's character is pretty annoying in the prime universe version, which I'm not sure I dock or give marks for, it's authentic to the character on the series. I actually like the mirror terran version, I have to admit, if only because she's probably the first terran character in STO that comes across as conniving and manipulative enough to actually get where she is in such a supposedly lofty position. Mirror Leeta we saw a lot of before just came across as a child on a perma-tempertantrum.
The new ships are nothing special but they work well enough and they're plenty accurate to the show. Having the beginner's ship level with them is probably smart, and I'd argue we really just need to do away with T1-T4 and make them all just ships like that - Cryptic won't, because it makes less money that way, but it'd be much better for the overall design. I'd argue the same with T5 too, but that would never happen. Personally, I'd say the ships level from T1-T5 and then you buy an upgrade to get to T5U, and then T6 are the proper pay endgame things. Gotta milk your fans, though.
By the by I'm probably happier with Mirror of Discovery than Victory is Life because it's not trying to overreach - it's got a clear arc without a lot of extra stuff going on that means they might actually resolve this one.
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@camoceltic
> You cannot pet the doggos
0/10 worst game ever
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@jeff m.s. is getting so large that even though they have at least one paid moderator it will be too be too big to have any meaningful oversight. At some point if it keeps growing then it will become a threat model, because an unmoderatable space will be an easy dwelling for bad hombreys.
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@bob Theres a lot of desire in the mastodon crowd to be the next twitter
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@purplehippo Yeah, I've been pondering trying quitim, which was Hannes' quitter-like go at making an instagram equivalent. I might spin up something like that for people to use that's more image-centric.
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@camoceltic It's quite consistent though: it's what offends a small cadre of corporate Americans (and they are corporate, Imgur makes in a month more than most people do in their career). It is literally systematic oppression of the masses by an elite. We see this play out in most places that gain popularity: people seek to seize control of it, and then impose their own views on it, using it to promote their own agendas. We see this even locally with the fediverse, although, thankfully, we can just turf the instances that engage in this from those we federate with.
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@camoceltic yeah and thats pretty tane compared to most "redhead monday" or similar posts
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@purplehippo They exist to justify each other, and in many case one feeds the other just so they can both continue to exist. You see this with many extremist dichtomies.
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@purplehippo At the end of the day sexuality is the object being repressed, until they come to terms with it, they'll have these problems.
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@purplehippo And we wonder why american society is so fucked up...
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@purplehippo You sure can tell it's an American-run site in what it censors and what it doesn't. Gorey pictures of tragedy, outright racism, hatred towards their respective outgroup, that's fine. But don't let them look at pictures of swimsuit models ... that's bad!
There are plenty of people who would point out that this is because they rely on advertising revenue and while true, what advertisers accept, and what they do not, is just holding a mirror to the culture itself. America and to a lesser extent the UK has always made porn and sex morally objectionable.
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By the way, them converting gifs to m4vs has nothing to do with file quality and everything to do with what their algorithm can and cannot read.
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brb, dying
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Honestly, I see the way that people deal with flat-earthers or anti-vaxxers as the ultimate indictment of "science" as an institution. These people are not looking for greater understanding, they are looking to follow and adhere to an orthodoxy that gives them a feeling of moral superiority over others.
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@bob ive been saying they do this for years, no one wanted to believe me...
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@infernalturtle mastodons latest changes kinda broke ostatus federation q bit. Specifically we arent getting the direct notifications (salmon) just the general publishing (PuSH), and mastodon does not publish directed notices with PuSH so you will not receive them
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