[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

RED TRIANGLE! RED TRIANGLE!

I need a Lower Deck gif to compliment that shout.

We should wear our otherness with pride. You can pick one from the link below.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 31 minutes ago

After watching TOS and TNG and being quite meh on every second episode, this show hits me as hard as the X-Files on my first watch. 90s shows are the millenials' holy grail. I greatly enjoy that we don't observe one crew, but have stellar, likeable or problematic favs in Ferengi, Bajoran and Cardassians. There the 'gray moralty' peaked.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 45 minutes ago

I don't think we are on the same wavelenght, but good for you if you are served well, I guess.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

You've made a friend.

arena fan from Oblivion

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Star Trek's Putln (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/tenforward@lemmy.world

Even Quark chose not to follow him.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago

I'm all for it.

I'm not american so I'm puzzled by 26 volume. What's that? 26 shots?

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 13 points 20 hours ago

Like all of us, boomers have something good to show, but rarely know what. One of the funniest memory with my dad was when on some celebration I put on a D'n'B track and we challenged each other in our footwork. All sweaty, smiling, laughing, and others were wathcing us as we drop our feet to high BPM in tact to the rhytm. This old man danced like he knew how, and I barely followed his energy.

The shame is - I can't recall, what track I put on. Probably Stompox but maybe something from Future Prophecies.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago

A little corn is one thing, but after-KFC stuff it's either a whole log or a half-wet salut shit-shooting with whomps of just gas inbetween. The last one is the hardest to stomack.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 21 hours ago

So 1025 upvotes? I would probably throw up seeing scat, but I'm to sacrifice myself for a silly internet event.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 5 points 21 hours ago

It's 'name your own price', so if you choose not to support the indie dev, it's free. I've kinda liked that move since bandcamp.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 14 points 21 hours ago

Shitposting IRL? Just how we never thought about that? Western mind can't absorb the supreme North Korean tactics.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 81 points 21 hours ago

Illegal delivery services are my fav ones. People are physically running or riding like slaves to get you tendies from a KFC across the street. No, you are probably not a person who needs that due to some health conditions, you are privileged to buy their labor cheap and further their abuse.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 23 points 21 hours ago

There are also at least three ubers where I'm at. It's more about a business model.

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I guess the meta is installing them via Lutris\Bottles and then launching them via Steam to have a modern controller support and overlay, is that's so? Does emulation make it better in any way (it seems easier)? What would you use playing them now?

I've watched a couple of vids on games from NFSU to Pro Street forming some kind of a saga, and felt nostalgic enough to once again jump in this cringe pool.

I won't spoil my own opinion on these games besides one point: Pro Street was probably the last one to have a decent, influential OST. Won't lie, they've introduced me to my current favs and made me research their genres further. For that I can excuse EA, or rather BlackBox from crticizing too much, although wanting to play their older games instead of new ones says it all.

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For your civil discussions

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/tenforward@lemmy.world

The Gamma Quadrant is now the Kazakh Quadrant. I don't make the rules. Wait for Sasha Baron Cohen to film another movie about how we mistakenly see guests from the wormhole.

PS: Nechayeva is probably the most annoying character in the franchise.

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For right there we see him stating he can not read clues from women or he's not signaled enough to notice it.

Does it mean he's more accustomed to signals from men or he's just completely senseless?

I don't really question my gay sadistic Odo headcannon, but I find that quote to be a welcome guest in many redpill threads,

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I'm yet to do my first one if this post dosen't count, so I'm learning here.

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After writing a lot about it referencing my last playthroughs, I started it once again via OpenMW with official expansions and nude mode only, for it became kind of a habit.

So, initially it looks like an RPG, and we see these stacks of numbers in a character sheet affecting our speaking capabilities or our impotency to kill a crab, okay. If we dive more into it, we'd learn our ways not only around that, but also to become the most potent mass killer Nirn ever had. Alchemy loops to boost your intelligence and brew a better potion of intelligence are known for 20 years already, even in Skyrim, and the ways this game is completely broken are meta-knowledge making us love it even more.

But is it only an RPG?

More, than in other TES games, I encountered a lot of NSFL content. No, I don't talk about Suran's harlots, but about customs of danmers and the Sixth House.

We can go back to the Planescape: Torment, the game that starts in a morgue that people don't play these days (sorrely), russian Pathologic that hbomberguy praised and where kids with dog heads exchange stuff for razors and drugs, or that cringe project called Hatred, but non of them combined have the same amount of what is now considered non-publishable.

Besides encountering racism and cop's attention at any step (even if you are a dunmer, because you are still not a native), we have stories of imperials coming from Ilunibi and dying horribly due to corprus, that seems like a radiation poisoning. We have a cult that eats flesh and is one second from overthrowing the government, killing everyone who doesn't meet their criteria. We have all dunmers having dreams that make them insane and irrate, one step from starting a murder spree. We have gods, who by a treachery took their powers, and the center of the island being guarded by their weakening powers and literal bone ash from local funerals. We have a real gestapo from local officials, and we can participate in glory kills that are a custom of this wicked land, with us still be a member of churches and guilds. And don't even start talkimg about Fyr cloning himself into daughers, fucking them, and having a whole dungeon for adventurers to find either their award or a sudden death. Or that one quest when you search for a sex slave. And that all continues in a completely corrupt world where a duel or a bribe can significantly change the political landscape.

There's so much I can put Horror, Thriller, Grindhouse lables on, or those I don't even know. I'm glad it happened in my life and I can replay it now on any system, even on mobile phone. But it's even more vile than Fallout and it's one of the reasons it clicked with me. Morrowind is very russian, and it's popularity on our 4chan clones cements this. If your friend ever get vocal about moving here, get them Morrowind as a testing experience and then ask, if they still want that. Guess, they wouldn't, for their own good.

I would love to hear your stories about how beautiful or grim this game is.

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(Sorry if it's a miss, this community looked the most fitting)

After mentioning them somewhere in comments, I actually bought Shokz after years of sitting curious. There are a few brands that do them, so it doesn't matter what's the brand is. I bought what I've heard of and the cheapest model I could find at that.

So, what's the trick? As I'm cycling, walking and running a lot, I needed a headphone solution to be aware of my surroundings. They don't cover ears and don't actually emmit sound - they vibrate and make your bones serve as a membrane.

The obvious minus is that in a bus or other loud setting you can't hear shit. That's by design. And, logically but somehow absurdly, by shutting your ear with a finger, you can make yourself hear it okay. I did a full circle here, returning to the old headphones isolation problem, heh.

But what impressed me more, they do feel like some kind of a cyberpunk prosthetic. You can wear them all day and even the cheapest one that promises 6hr of activity lasts days on the idle. But as you call someone or watch a vid – here they are, with a little to no latency. Honestly, I feel like if there'd be implants, that's one of the basic ones we can try first. It's hands-free device with a bonus of being more stealthy and not isolating you from the world.

As a cheapskate audiophile who stayed with cords for a long time, I can say that the sound is okay. Keeping in mind that producers can't control the skull of a wearer, they can't nail the ideal sound, but I'm impressed with how nice IDM and metal plays on them - something akin to budget Senh, AKG and Audiotechnica. And unlike cheap Sony, they don't put up low freqs, that's a plus. BUT when I shared it with others, people in body reported less effectiveness due to thickness of skin and under-dermal stuff, so it's better to test it if you aren't skinny as a skeleton.

After being so open about plus sides, I'm to talk minuses. Since the software is proprietary, it doesn't have many controls and is very weird sometimes. As I bought a model that was for internal chinese market originally, it talked to me in Chinese, and it can only be switched to another language before any pairing, so only after unpairing I could've chosen English – and the same combination of button presses when paired was reserved to calling the last called number, so I fucked up a lazy weekend morning for a friend of mine calling them 4-5 times, damn it. Ah, and it supports dual pairing with a PC and a smartphone, but as I tested it this function worked weird and I sometimes manually disconnected them. Walking&working distance from a source device is around the second or third room, that fits most office and home listening cases. I could've probably wished for it to have an option to pick lesser distance since I don't usually have even a meter between my smartphones and them.

Ah, and going back to the bus problem - the obvious downside that you want to turn them to 100% volume that you don't feel, but your ears do. After the first day when I needed to move a lot in loud contexts and thus put them on max, I had a headache, because although I didn't register the volume, my head had a first row concert experience. So if you use these, keep that in mind too.

Have you tried them, is there a topic I haven't covered? As you can tell, I'm happy with them, so I would be biased. It's just with VR stuff, even from Apple, I feel like we underlook existing tech that already serves us as expander of our life experiences and powers.

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Said a terrorist, securing a black plastic bag over one's head for their transportation.

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To leave Borg and Necromorphs fight each other, so we can kill the winner

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VR PORN (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/tenforward@lemmy.world

Testing newly smuggled equipment is exciting!

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/tenforward@lemmy.world

What do you think of these and others characters of Star Trek if they ever granted such artifact?

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