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Eh. It's as it's always been. Just with more fruit. Give it a while and you'll get vinegar as the community turns on itself with teeth bared, as it usually does.

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I suppose, but it does seem to have gotten more cloying, with a few "WTF Party Foul" threads here and there.

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Frankly it's the push to console that I really dislike about that game.

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I disagree with your assessment of me!

I do not have good insight! That's why I wear glasses.

emgro isn't that new...

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Psssst, Heroid

>.>

(send me a copy)

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Found it.

I suppose it's not too shabby, but DS9's In the Pale Moonlight was in a lot of ways better: it took an established universe and honorable characters, and stood them on their ears, making the viewer question whether the means can truly justify the ends. It's narrated by one of the principals, and follows him through his thought process as he justifies himself for the rather horrible things he does.

All mine did was expand on a backstory. But thanks.

I didn't, but it shared the same title.

No, not really. I did put it up on Virtueverse somewhere, I think, but I don't really recall how much I put onto my page there.

Hrm. I hope it's not the story from a few years ago?

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I though he said chaud fleur because chou-fleur isn't pronounced that way.

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Probably true, but not knowing French, it was more amusing when I typed it into Google Translate that way and learned the word for cauliflower.

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-What are you, the president of his fan club?
-No. That would be your mother.

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wow mom jokes from sidney
what did u do to sidney


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It's from the video. While mom jokes might be below sidney, quoting odd bits of things that are humorous out of context is perfectly in line with sidney's MO.

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Ah, ma petit chou fleur...

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...Except possibly cutting myself.

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That would turn today into not just any Sunday, but a Bloody Sunday

-What are you, the president of his fan club?
-No. That would be your mother.

Move to a real city where cars are unneeded.

Finances may be an issue at first, but save up for it. It'll take a while, but you're young. You can do anything you put your mind to (barring some specific things).

Okay, optimism quota reached.

Ironforge, Undercity, and Orgrimmar don't crash on my eight-year-old computer.

Nor do Cap Au Diable and Atlas Park.

I mean, yeah, it gets poor frame rates, but.

Then again, my computer, Iris, is magic, so.

Better than Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Cinderella Man, Frost/Nixon, or Ransom?

Yes. That was Enterprise at its best, and it was about as good as a mediocre to bad DS9 or TNG episode.

What's sadder still is that they had to go into a wholly different universe to get to that level, disconnected to any previous story arcs, and never really visited it again.

Ugh. I missed that line, and now I know of it, it saddens me. Enterprise, even on its best days, barely got to the levels of TOS/TNG/DS9's worst--and they had plenty of bad ones.

Well, I'm glad they kept references to the established continuity at a minimum--it works better that way, since they can re-do and ignore a lot of the cruft that's been built up over the years.

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what about the star trek with scott bakula?

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The less it's mentioned (in general) the better.

Technically, since it happens before the events of the Original Series, which is what this one deals with... presumably nothing's changed; the movie, however, doesn't even really acknowledge the existence of Bakula's series.

Thankfully.

The New Yorker.

The guy's always harsh, but he often has very good points.

Also: the computer interfaces are much more sensible, too--while the screens in TNG, DS9, and VOY looked neat, the LCARS was rather silly. In this reboot, they're sensible.

The sound was well done, too~sound cuts out in space for some scenes, or is muffled, depending on where the viewer is and the dramatic tenseness of the scene.

Re: Uhura's costume. It's delightfully retro; the crime is her character's arc in the movie. While completely understandable in context (with a nice call out to some behind-the-scenes stuff from the original series--this movie is filled with nicely-placed references), it wastes her character.

Definitely worth seeing.

I liked the new Star Trek. A lot.

It's a brilliant bridge from the established continuity to this new reboot; and this new reboot manages to create a (ahem) space of its own that works.

The Enterprise looks sleeker, more muscular than before; the interiors look less sterile, soft, and bright, and more industrial, brilliant, and chromed. Engineering is no longer centered around a single glowing column with circuits hidden away in panels, but spread out in a massive bay filled with incomprehensible machinery laid bare.

The starships are uglier in their internals, prettier on their bridges; everything is sharp and shiny, emphasized by the frequent glossiness and lens flares.

The characters are all given refreshing treatments that hearken to the originals without being imitations: we have a more delightfully rougish Kirk (whose shirt, alas, never gets torn in the fistfights), a drier and more rebellious Spock, a McCoy that's ornery yet warm. Chekov, before an underutilized character whose purpose was to fall for a woman headed to a deadly planet, get bugs shoved in his ear, and tell Sulu when the next rest area was has been upgraded to a brilliant systems guy who knows how to best operate the ship; Sulu is a livelier, better combatant. Scotty, who makes his appearace rather late, is even funnier than ever.

My only complaint with the characters is with Uhura. She's upgraded from a space secretary and has awesome scenes before she trades it all in (sigh, it's a frequent disappointment with any female character) to become the pretty girlfriend.

It's less reserved and intellectual compared to the Star Treks that went before it; it's more action-oriented, and, in a way, less concerned with philosophy and morality. It is, in some ways, a response to BSG's reboot. While BSG's reboot took a action-oriented series and converted it to a meditative and philosophical one with a modern military design ethic, Star Trek's takes a meditative one and converts it into an action-oriented world with modern muscle car design.

It's well worth seeing, if only because everything is so beautiful, coupled with a fairly tightly-written script and interesting direction.

Also, Kirk wears his bruises well.

No offense, but wasn't this apparent from the previews already?

I know this is a joke, but I. So. Want. This. Feature.

"Halt, villain!" FWOOSH.
"Die, an hero!" Zzzzzzzzzap!
KAPOW! CRASH!

ZING!

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Statesman: "Hell no. We're gonna Rickroll that dick. He stills owes me $20."

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I am so tempted to use this in my sig.

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I had to.

Adjusted Targeting, ToHit Buff set. At 6, it's reduce all mez effects; I don't recall the exact number, but I think it's 7.5%. It has some other buffs too, but I slotted it on my Emp/Rad's Tactics primarily for the mez reduction.