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I’ve spent a lot of time in RPGs, and the last time I RPed in a G was around the time George Bush’s dad was president.

They named the bill wrong - it should be Kids’ Act for Online Safety- KAOS.

My last game was exhausting. Years of cryptic lore, mediocre tie-in properties we pretended were good, pvp you could opt out of midstream by switching off your router, a sandbox that one player characterized as “as wide as the universe and one inch deep.”

So, I thought I’d try something completely different, and that different thing, god help me, is Evony.

Yes, and bring back Chase… Masterson?

Try to train a human comedian to make jokes without ever allowing him to hear another comedian’s jokes, never watching a movie, never reading a book or magazine, never watching a TV show. I expect the jokes would be pretty weak.

Say it in dots: … .- .–. .–. -.-- / -… … .-. - … -… .- -.-- / - . .-. .-. -.-- / …-. .- .-. .-. . .-… .-…

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The question about Cardassian weapons got me trying to remember what they used in STO. Even though it's not canon, I though it might be of interest:

the Cardassian Keldon Cruiser is well-engineered to tackle nearly any combat scenario. It comes pre-equipped with Spiral Wave Disruptor Beam Arrays. These fire a unique energy type that combines the special effects of Phasers and Disruptors, as well as having slightly higher damage and accuracy than other beam weapons.

Iirc, the whole series is free on youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC046BB28463E1459&si=VgOVDi5OHGJcwhGF

Fans of Matt Berry and/or Richard Ayoade might want to check it out.

Jessica went nuclear when they did that. It was inspirational and the FCC’s website got the “hug of death” for at least hours.

Oh man, the author is as ruthless as the Gorn:

Now, 56 years later,

When I looked, aebeltrae’s translation agreed with my print dictionary with the exception of the last syllable, which I couldn’t find. The linked dictionary on this page does have the last syllable “Sam”, so it looks like they nailed it.

Can’t blame this one on the communists. This is all hypercapitalism at work.

I’m not getting Sam? The transliteration looks right, but I don’t see it in the dictionary.

e2a: Fun toys:

• Write in plqaD script: http://klingonska.org/writing/play/ (Qapla’. Qu’DunvaD ghunwI’ DISam.)
• Klingon-English Dictionary (google it - I think the link I have is shady, but they’re out there. also available on amazon)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language
• ChatGPT is pretty good at translating Klingon.

They have ads in Elvish and Star Wars Galactic Standard, too. If nobody translates it before I get home, I’ll break out the old dictionary. https://www.thestable.com.au/we-are-more-castra-the-worlds-first-elvish-ads/

https://startrek.website/c/startrekonline

Why is there a picture of Margaret Cho?

I don’t hate it. I hate Nazis. I don’t hate the theme song from ‘Enterprise.’

¿Por qué no los dos?

TAS > Lower Decks on both? side eye

The two recent series that stick out for me are IKS Gorkon by Keith R.A. DeCandido and Typhon Pact.

If you liked the Klingon-centric episodes of DS9 and were left wanting more, the Gorkon series fills that void.

Typhon Pact salvages the Ezri Dax character, has a lot of good Riker bits, and features “the Romulan Star Empire, the Breen Confederacy, the Tholian Assembly, the Gorn Hegemony, [&] the Tzenkethi.”