Tar_Alcaran

I was one of those idiots who paid for the kickstarter, got some free ships, played the “game”… and then made quite a bit of money selling those ships and never looking at the game ever again.

Measles is something like 4 to 5 times more infectious than covid. So yeah, there really isn’t much more to do

The difference between “meh” and “great” is in the quality. The difference between those and “get it away from me” is definitely in the eater.

Well, there goes the neighborhood.

how true is trump’s claim…

Zero percent. The answer is always zero percent

Isn’t the all-time high now?

The only issue is saw with OpenRA’s engine was the odd unit pathing every now and then

It was pretty iffy in the original too

But that would require some kind of massive gravity well. Oh, I know! We’ll create some kind large black hole, and the…

A name in the Native American language

There is no single native American language. There are over 200 of them, and used to be around 300-400, in 57 different families and over two dozen completely isolated languages (which might not be, but it’s hard to find out). And they’d likely be at the very least somewhat mutually culturally insensitive.

So that might be even more difficult than using English, which at least has the benefit of being popular now.

I don’t want the mental image of Odo and Quark enjoying their benefits. I don’t want to judge or shame, but changeling Oomox makes me want to throw up a little.

True, there are microphones, because I specifically remember the main character taking a walk through a new forest, because the thin trees couldn’t possibly hide a microphone.

Loud, rich Christians.

Everyone who “does their own research”

It’s about total control from the perfect totalitarian state. Mass surveillance is a small part, and control of language is also a part. But it’s also about control of truth and history, and eventually even control of the inner mind.

The cameras are only a tiny part.

If I’m getting more troglodytes stuck in my Tholian web, they’re getting the Rays! This is why we have a Min Cage people!

I can’t hold all the orangesPADDs

Calling Car tok with Martok bout yer Wartok

Telegraphs have existed long before internet ever did. And heliographs predate those by a fair bit.

And then there’s the Hydraulic Telegraph from 2400 years ago.

One solution might be to shine lasers on a distant object, like the moon:

The moon is 1.26 light seconds away. That’s a 2520 ms ping.

This is one is officially beyond me.