That came out four years later.

Precisely. And he rejected objective facts. Everyone lost that day, it was quite sad.

From the words of Gul Dukat:

A true victory is to make your enemy see they were wrong to oppose you in the first place. To force them to acknowledge your greatness.

It’s not just about putting somebody away physically. It is about making them break down and admit what they did, and admit that you figured it out because you are superior.

Me, but when I gave the stripper money in Duke Nukem 3D.

I did a written review of it a while ago, and my conclusion was that a lot of the gameplay was serviceable but not particularly standout, which made it feel a bit bland. There were a number of small things that piled up, with one example being that any time you told a companion to special attack you had to sit through a short cutscene. It had great writing and characters, which makes it the first game I’d reccomend in spite of the so so gameplay, because I thought the character and world stuff was so strong.

While I didn’t have expectations, I think the marketing also greatly mislead other people. The game is structured like a classic BioWare RPG, rather than a modern Fallout game. I also found the marketing connection with Fallout New Vegas to be misleading because there was no connection of actual lead development staff with those games, but instead it was with Fallout 1 and 2. If you know that, and are familiar with the writing and design habits you can feel that difference. Some people may have felt it and been confused or disappointed that it didn’t have the New Vegas vibe.

They replaced map specific factions with one type of each team (SAS vs Phoenix terrorists) globally in CS2. Which is pretty lame but probably makes it easier to theme buyable skins.

Skins, especially CT skins have long represented real organizations. The game isn’t coordinated with them.

CS:GO they’ve been the CT team for the Dust maps.

This game has an all time peak of 20 players. I don’t think it is exactly reaching a major audience. Pretty obvious it’s a quick low quality game capitalizing on shock value and politics over anything else.

I wonder if it is the best use of a counter terrorism taskforce to seek out a game at all, and such a small fry game at that. This smells of doing something just to justify somebody’s job rather than actually doing any public good.

Counter-Strike.

Up and at them.

If we are looking at it from the cold business angle, there has to be an acknowledgement of the different audiences and the different ways that different kinds of entertainment are monetized.

A Disney movie goes into theaters to make money on its own, then it goes onto Disney+ as part of the big lineup. The main audience is children. Children don’t have the kind of demand of franchises that adults do. It is much easier to get children to accept reboots.

That 2019 live action Lion King movie that nobody ever even talks about? It made a billion and a half in theaters. Why? Simple. It had animals and loud noises in it, kids don’t need much more than that.

A Star Trek show is not going to be making any theater money. All the money spent on it is in the hope that it attracts enough subscribers to make the costs worth it. That’s harder math and it’s with a more niche and picky audience.

I was in the middle of writing up a lot of math, but the TLDR is that a TNG reboot is not as appealing as a new show. A TNG adjacent show can cash in on TNG memberberries while having the freedom to be creative to try and pull in new subscribers.

TNG has aged well and despite some dated elements it is still within the comfort zone of modern audiences. TNG created the baseline for how following Trek shows for decades would look and operate which gives it a connection to all of those shows for people to grab onto. TOS is both older and of a significantly different wavelength. I personally love it, but a lot of people bounce off of it. That is why there is more openness to rebooting it. Also, the JJ Abrams movies have broken the seal, as it were, on the idea of recasting TOS characters, making it less of a major step. This is why people at large talk about it.

SNW also slowly and softly incorporated the building blocks for a TOS reboot spread out of time, rather than just dumping the idea out all at once. This assembly was made more palatable by fitting the process inside of a pretty good Trek show.

In terms of canon, it is much easier to introduce a TOS reboot than a TNG reboot. A lot of things in TOS have had to be explained away in convoluted ways or mostly ignored by the rest of the franchise. TOS is more ripe to be retuned with details that fit better into what Trek has become. TNG has a much tighter connection to the rest of the shows.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think either TOS or TNG should be remade. A new Trek show should always expand or move Trek forward in some way. I am tired of reboots, reimaginings, and rehashes.

I’ve presented you with the proof that early Reddit was populated with large numbers of sockpuppet accounts by the owners, creating whole cloth communities to draw in users, which is not something that is happening on Lemmy.

The entire reason the Digg mass exodus was viable was people leaving Digg found these “preexisting” Reddit communities and felt more comfortable joining in.

Lemmy doesn’t have that socketpuppet population to springboard with, so growth is slower and unpopulated communities are not falsely full of fake users.

Shenanigans.

Yes Lemmy is smaller and doesn’t have instantly fully formed communities. Reddit has been around for almost 2 decades. Lemmy is newer, smaller, and actively fights the sorts of shenanigans that Reddit initially used to get big.

If you want more niche activity, make posts and interact with posts. Lemmy is user driven- that means you. It isn’t a giant megasite where you can just expect to be a passive receiver of endless content.

Khan was from the 1990s. La’an was born in, what, the 2230s?

Assuming the augmentation dilutes with generations of intermixing with normal humans, I’d presume that by the time La’an comes around that she has so little difference from baseline human DNA that Starfleet doesn’t care.

It’s a judgment call, and I suppose that you can’t put an exact line on when the augmentation is diluted enough, but in the eyes of Starfleet she is clearly past it. The spirit of the anti-augmentation laws are prevent new augments, which is supposed to prevent a case of some kind of augment takeover. La’an having a distant family line to augments doesn’t seem to pose any kind of risk like that.

Una was straight up an augment. Her DNA was directly tinkered with before birth. That’s exactly was Starfleet, or more precisely humanity is fearful of.

I don’t think we can really look for some kind of codified judicial procedure for a situation like this. The anti-augment laws exist out of fear, and that balances against the more enlightened nature of humanity in the future. Simply, people in charge are afraid of what is Una in a way they aren’t of La’an.

Like the VZ.52 that these are partially based on, and like many other top magazine designs, the sights are offset to the left side. The concept has been used on many successful guns.