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No, it’s just trauma and not wanting that to come up at the game table. Simple as that. I had a group before the pandemic where just about everyone had some kind of trauma and this is 100000% not the kind of thing they or I would enjoy.

Gamers™ are known for not having a nuanced understanding of mental health (because, y’know, the only emotion men have is anger) and we’re just seeing it here. Thankfully I have a hairtrigger block button :)

PLEASE ASK YOUR FUCKING PLAYERS BEFORE YOU DO THIS

Just reading this is triggering trauma from an entire school career (k-12) of bullying. I’d leave a game if this was put on me without consent.

Not a bad take, your $0.02 is worth more than a lot of other people’s (not saying the takes here are bad, just a general statement). I’m far, far on the opposite end of the extreme of some people in this thread; I was comfortable on a single 11" MacBook Air screen". Part of that is certainly my ADHD/autism, in that I can hyperfocus on the thing that’s in the foreground and just swap everything else to disk when I’m not looking at it. I appreciate the recognition that it is all about taste; so many folks tend to state their preferences like they’re objective fact.

I must be the only person on the planet who doesn’t feel the need to have a septillion screens 🤷‍♀️

Church, and mosque, not as religious symbols but as a community centers reminds lonely isolated people that they can go now and they will find people there to chat a little bit with.

Unless they’re gay, or trans, or polyamorous, or …

Largely? Entirely. #FuckRickBerman

I’m saying Q is the god-alike, not the Prophets / Sisko.

Also without Odo, similarly unfortunately. And yes, I would. Hopefully better than on S3 PIC though… eesh

Q could fingersnap the Prophets out of existence. While powerful, and indeed nonlinear (which Q is as well), their influence is more or less strictly limited to the Celestial Temple.

There’s that episode of TNG where he has to confront, get along with, and work peacefully with the Cardassians. I forget which one it is, but he does not handle it well.

Oh, and also remember he’s seen so much combat (235 separate engagements) that Starfleet recognized him as an expert in starship combat. Saw his friend (Nog) mutilated by the Jem’Hadar (The Siege of AR-558). Watched his other friend die slowly after being attacked by the Jem’Hadar (Muniz). Almost died with his situationship (Bashir) inside of a spy’s (Sloan’s) mind. Constantly injured his shoulder or other parts of his body while trying to relax (kayaking, raquetball, darts).

I could go on…

That sounds like a scene Rick Berman would’ve argued for. Garak and Bashir? No way; Garak and underaged Cardassian girl? Absolutely.

Why not both?

Sisko would’ve punched Madred the same way he punched Q, with Q being the closest thing Star Trek has to an actual god.

I mean, much as I’d like Sisko to come back in anything regarding DS9, that Brooks doesn’t want to do it is actually convenient for the story: Sisko’s in the Celestial Temple with the Prophets, let him stay there. LD has shown we can have a great DS9 episode without him.

It’s a shame he’s not interested, but there are plenty of BIPOC actors who’d love to have a chance at being in Trek.

Came here to say the same thing. It’s gotta be satire. Almost everything is spelled correctly, just a lot of "bone apple tea"s, some of which don’t even make sense. Additionally, look at how neat the writing is! This is not typically the mark of someone who has problems with language.

Go on…?

Another perspective on the books point: Where do you think all that information on the internet (in the beginning) came from? There wasn’t a wikipedia, there wasn’t a google. That information came from books. And experts who didn’t need to reference books… because they wrote the books everyone else referenced.

Remember that the reason that there is no public transport or non-car options is because of the auto industry lobby. They have actively worked to eliminate rail and other means of public transit throughout North America and in every other country where they have a presence (e.g. Germany). The US used to have trains crisscrossing the entire nation. One of the few truly cross-country commuter lines that Amtrak still has is, fittingly, called the Empire Builder. Horrors of colonialism and imperialism aside, it’s a fitting name because trains really did build the US. They supplanted and replaced the Pony Express for delivering mail (and thus communication, something that older empires couldn’t manage) among so many other things, like freight and even livestock–and, of course, people.

Where’d they go? How come there are so few left? Ask GM, Ford, and so on.

If you were a better hunter, they wouldn’t pity you and provide you food to eat.