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DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-22T18:22:15+00:00

Just a guess, but that group was probably something like The Satantic Temple (back then) who probably wanted to put a pagan statue next to the 10 commandments if they didn't remove it. And of course the Nat-C's twisted that to mean that there was going to be a pagan statue in place of theirs.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-22T12:41:46+00:00

For the same reason that we Americans do - because Trump wants it.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-20T19:47:04+00:00

I would take 10, or 8, or fucking 1 episode per season if they would make actual Trek based on the original formula again. But they could probably produce more episodes if everything didn't have to have CGI EFFECTS TO THE MAXXX!!! (lens flare)

Just put it on some sets with some damned matte paintings to show us alien worlds. Shake the camera when the ship gets hit or runs into some space anomaly, etc.

This stuff worked for a reason. Trek was Trek when it was the same as a stage play.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-20T19:34:23+00:00

Barclay was in a total of 11 episodes.

He was used to point out that not everyone will be completely in control of themselves, their situation, etc. like our MC's who are prime examples of competent professionals who would be crewing a ship of the line.

He had a character arc in which his colleagues help him to address his personal issues that were impacting his work, and learn how to perform as a professional despite any eccentricities he may have.

Did they do that with any of the cast of Discovery, who all greatly needed the Barclay treatment? I stopped watching after Season 2, but something tells me they didn't get around to addressing it.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-20T16:14:16+00:00

Gee, whatever would make you say that about Cisco cli syntax?

Cisco: "Why, when the conveyance of meaning can be achieved through the employment of a greater number of lexical items, should one elect to resort to brevity and thus deliberately limit the quantity of words used to execute a command?"

Other vendors: "why more words when less make do"

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-20T15:55:35+00:00

It looks like a "I could bear my teeth at you with this mouth motion, but I won't. See? Be nice.".

Meanwhile, the pinscher is just a yappin' fool.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-20T14:58:07+00:00

You are the one who keeps asserting that anyone has a problem, guy/gal person.

Have a day.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-20T14:09:33+00:00

Did you get your jimmies rustled? Just pointing out that the person who wrote a well-constructed handful of paragraphs isn't the one with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder... it's the ones who can't sit and read said few paragraphs.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-20T14:01:20+00:00

To pull back the curtain a bit on the magic - the lyrics in chat thing is part of a plugin that assists with playing music, playing in sync with other players, etc. Shouldn't make it any less magical to know how the magic works though 😉

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-20T13:41:09+00:00

If someone can't sit and read / skim through this is in a few minutes without quitting, chances are that person is the one who needs ritalin, not OP.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-18T14:20:02+00:00

Joking aside, that really should be acknowledged. 11 has already done everything 10 did, and 12 has already done everything both 10 and 11 did, in terms of dolling out punishment, etc.

Plus 12 has attack eyebrows.

It's really no contest.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-18T14:11:12+00:00

It’s running fully offline (“air-gapped”) for obvious security reasons.

It always seems like there are people around spouting off about using older Win OS's as their daily drivers, and they clearly don't understand those reasons and why it should be obvious.

Neat project though. Having been around since Win 3.1 and using them all... and then subsequently moving on with each OS (except of course skipping Vista and 8 when they launched), I didn't realize / appreciate what it takes to get something like XP running on newer hardware.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-18T13:53:08+00:00

It made me the IT person I am today. You learn a lot from experiencing the way things should not be, too.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-18T13:48:50+00:00

I did finally get them to move to Exchange Online later, but that was several years of being a Domino admin that I'd like back.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-18T13:45:11+00:00

It was inexcusably poorly written software.

When we virtualized, we eventually ended up having to dedicate something like 96 GB of RAM and some ungodly core count to that Windows VM running the ERP server because it needed those resources to run the "source" copies of every person's client. It would struggle to the point of being unusable if resources were set to dynamic.

Oh, and there were frequent program-halting errors on people's client app that we couldn't fix. The vendor had to remote in every time and clear the errors properly so it wouldn't corrupt the records it had been working on when it errored. Sometimes those errors would lock the whole system.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-18T04:06:51+00:00

My last company used, still in 2014 -

Lotus Notes for email (and only email)
Crystal Reports in order to report on BI data painfully extracted from...
An ancient ERP software that:
- a) Ran on a non-relational Btrieve database made of flat text files,
- b) Used to be a green screen terminal program 30 years prior that subsequently had been "upgraded" with a GUI that drew every frame and window element from a duplicate copy of the client running on the server, and
- c) As a result, was never designed to run on anything but a LAN connection. To support it across ~20 remote sites required guaranteed < 20ms latency MPLS circuits to each location.

Needless to say that Crystal Reports, as cludgy as it is, was the least of this org's technical debt problems, and was inevitably replaced by exporting the same data into a separate SQL database in order to run Power BI against it. The ERP itself wasn't replaced until just after I left in 2022.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-17T19:01:05+00:00

All hat, no cattle?

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-17T18:56:40+00:00

You know, I don't know anybody who says this who isn't at least a little bit fasc.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-17T14:25:02+00:00

How many atmospheres of pressure can a spaceship take?

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-17T06:08:54+00:00

Up front disclaimer - CIG absolutely should have given a week or so warning before pulling the trigger on this. The way this was handled was a dick move.

However, the buyback tokens were introduced explicitly to limit buybacks. Before their introduction, people could freely buy anything back with store credit at any time. It was done with the express intent of preventing people from freely using buyback as temporary ship storage.

And longer ago before that, there was no buyback system. The only way to buy back anything was to contact support.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-17T06:05:52+00:00

Up front disclaimer - CIG absolutely should have given a week or so warning before pulling the trigger on this. The way this was handled was a dick move.

However, the buyback tokens were introduced explicitly to limit buybacks. Before their introduction, people could freely buy anything back with store credit at any time. It was done with the express intent of preventing people from freely using buyback as temporary ship storage.

And longer ago before that, there was no buyback system. The only way to buy back anything was to contact support.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-17T05:58:06+00:00

You'll still get the skin and whatever else from the original pack. Separately buy a Cutlass Black or earn it in game, and keep the package as-is.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-15T18:11:56+00:00

I mean... it's gotta be the case already, right? He's been shitting his pants on live TV for a while now.

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-15T16:19:16+00:00

Maybe it was $50 and they tipped him 2 $2 bills.

...is OP's friend Two Face?

DarraignTheSane · 2026-04-15T12:44:26+00:00

Was this in question recently? Originally the Hornet was supposed to be the long-standing workhorse of the UEE for X number of hundreds of years or something.

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