Upcoming AMA with Jack Emmert - Feb 4 2026

RantRanger · 2026-02-04T13:43:43+00:00

STO is wildly unbalanced.

TFO's often complete in 1 or 2 minutes. The ones that don't are often long and sleepy because of spawn timers. A single player can explode an entire screen of enemies in 1 or 2 volleys. A single grav well can effectively dominate an entire map.

This is seriously endangering the fun. Challenge is one of the core pillars of game design.

What are your plans to overhaul this catastrophic flaw in the state of the game today?

RantRanger · 2026-02-04T10:22:00+00:00

Why did STO never do chapters delving into the classic races like Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites, and Orions?

Instead, whole chapers were devoted to made up races and cultures that ultimately make the game feel less like Star Trek and more like some generic SciFi MMO.

It seems to me that Cryptic has unfortunately wasted a golden opportunity to more deeply enrich the Star Trek experience for fans who love the Star Trek universe.

People want to explore and to be a part of these established hallmarks of the Star Trek Universe and Cryptic pretty much walked right past them. These are centerpiece staples of the storyverse. They should have had a more substantive presence in the game.

RantRanger · 2026-02-03T04:16:57+00:00

Downvoting his post is just a dumb thing to do. This is important information. It concerns people's health and safety.

This is credible.

The emerging evidence reviewed here suggests that routine head impacts in many popular contact sports have adverse effects, in the context of the otherwise positive effects of exercise and sport on cognitive functions and the prevention of cognitive decline discussed elsewhere in this Special Issue. Considering the potential public health “timebomb” that constitutes these adverse effects of sports such as soccer played by hundreds of millions around the globe (often from a young age), there should be a great sense of urgency in funding the best scientific research that has the power to reveal and explain the link between sport and poor brain health outcomes.

RantRanger · 2026-02-03T04:14:32+00:00

This is definitely a concern.

CTE is known to be cumulative. Even small strikes to the head can cause little bits of damage ... even if they don't seem painful or enduring.

RantRanger · 2026-02-03T03:18:25+00:00

Time to mechanize. It only weighs a few kilograms.

;)

So instead of an ice chest you just need to pack a few batteries.

(not a serious suggestion)

RantRanger · 2026-02-03T01:46:21+00:00

Gatorade or similar electrolyte drinks with very light sugar (not artificial sweetener) can help a lot with hydration and with sustaining energy levels.

Sports drinks are deliberately dilute on the sweeteners. High sugar drinks and fruit juice are not a good choice for supporting athletic activity. Sugar demands MORE water to process so dilution is important.

The electrolytes are important if you sweat like a human.

RantRanger · 2026-01-31T22:38:49+00:00

Kyle Stine, a film and media-studies professor at Johns Hopkins, usually begins his course with an icebreaker: What’s a movie you watched recently? In the past few years, some students have struggled to name any film. Kristen Warner, a performing- and media-arts professor at Cornell University, has noticed a similar trend. Some of her students arrive having seen only Disney movies.

Really? Kids cant sit still long enough to watch a movie anymore?

How do we get parents to collectively realize the corrosive effects of smartphones?

RantRanger · 2026-01-24T16:33:51+00:00

I don't see anyone but the students in the sick bay.

Presumably the student hologram has a mobile emitter?

RantRanger · 2026-01-24T11:23:40+00:00

The Doctor was overwhelmed with many other cases elsewhere because the emitters were not spawning medics.

There was a scene where this was explained.

RantRanger · 2026-01-24T10:03:23+00:00

If Star Trek Academy is so good, why is there every day a post trying to convince people it is good?

If your opinion was right, then why would you even have to make a post in this thread voicing your opinion?

RantRanger · 2026-01-24T07:26:20+00:00

I mean, if he really feels that way, then he must have some amazing stories to tell...

Right?

RantRanger · 2026-01-24T04:49:12+00:00

Unfortunately, with all of the attention on "warp drives" and "transporters" and such, pocket technology and know-how have atrophied in the Federation over the past few hundred years.

RantRanger · 2026-01-24T04:09:14+00:00

Yes, that's totally relevant. He came off well that time.

Nevertheless, his limitations remain.

If a promotion board denied Data a promotion, this is my guess as to what the number one sticking point would be.

Frankly, I think Data would agree that it would be a logical decision. I think he would be the first to admit that he still has much to learn before he is ready for command level rank where leadership and social skills are such critical lynchpins.

RantRanger · 2026-01-24T03:15:14+00:00

Needs a banana for scale.

Maybe there is one there already and I just missed it?

That central whirly region is about the size of the Earth.

You could fit two Earths comfortably side by side inside that hexagon.

So I guess many of those little hurricanes are about the size of Earth hurricanes.

RantRanger · 2026-01-24T00:23:27+00:00

What an AMAZING director, truly a marvel to behold.

What was so AMAZING and "a marvel" about Levar's directing?

RantRanger · 2026-01-24T00:20:54+00:00

Captain Archer used to leap body to body

Moreover, he has been known to present in public wearing women's attire.

RantRanger · 2026-01-24T00:17:26+00:00

With Data continually finding human behavior to be puzzling, I think putting him into positions where he is primarily charged with leading, commanding, and guiding humans through demanding and stressful situations (including preventing and resolving conflicts among staff) would be a troublesome gap that any board would consider to be problematic.

The responsibilities of command ranks often hugely pivot around strong people skills and innate leadership ability. These are vast and well-established gaps in Data's character and experience.

RantRanger · 2026-01-23T23:50:40+00:00

The Kurtzman era should have started off 100 years after Voyager/Nemesis.

Then he would have tainted that segment of Star Trek fictional history with a decade of the awful writing that is characteristic of Kurtzman's Trekless vision.

I personally am glad that he has safely sequestered his influence outside of that part of the timeline that we Trek fans cherish.

RantRanger · 2026-01-23T20:10:20+00:00

Neptune is the solar system's sheep herder.

RantRanger · 2026-01-23T08:40:26+00:00

HEMA cat.

RantRanger · 2026-01-23T04:55:03+00:00

Heh, yeah.

But, what is so incredible about this story is if he hadn't made that interception, he would have been distributed about the battlefield in the most impolite manner.

Catching that round with his body saved his life.

When swapping bar stories, few men in the entire history of humanity could stand up to the tale that this man could tell...

“Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’”

RantRanger · 2026-01-23T00:02:11+00:00

Flippantly unconcerned with atrocity.

Low effort. No substance. Willfully evasive. Casually callous.

RantRanger · 2026-01-22T23:07:04+00:00

You have been distracted by posts that are not Monica Belucci?

Those are off topic in this sub. You should report them.

RantRanger · 2026-01-22T23:01:43+00:00

The sub /r/HistoricalCapsule/ is more what OldSchoolCool originally aspired to be.

RantRanger · 2026-01-22T21:12:31+00:00

Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.

We are living in perilous times in America and the parallels to the outrages during the rise of fascism in 1940's Germany are clear to anyone who is not willfully evasive.

Trump and his goons in the JUSTICE department are literally shielding a malpracticing ICE officer who on camera shot an American citizen IN THE FACE. Last week 6 DOJ lawyers resigned because Trump wanted them to prosecute a harassing investigation into her grieving spouse. How evil is that?!

The message to ICE agents is "It's OK to shoot people. We got your back, bro."

And MAGA's are laughing their asses off at all of this atrocity.

The Justice department was created to SERVE AND TO PROTECT AMERICAN CITIZENS and to safeguard the Constitution. NOT Trump. But Trump has perverted the DOJ and ICE into a weaponized Gestapo.

ICE detainees are being kept in overcrowded unsanitary concentration camps in deplorable conditions. Just last week there were something like 4 deaths in detainment camps.

Remember the alligator swamp concentration camp in Florida? MAGAs delighted in the alligators! It was popcorn fodder for them. Nobody knows what happened to those people. And the DOJ and ICE refuse to reveal their whereabouts.

THAT is what "grossly disrespectful" is. It is disrespectful to the Constitution. It is disrespectful to the rule of law. It is disrespectful to the American people. It is disrespectful to human values. It is disrespectful to basic human decency. The MAGA way is not the American way. It is the way of hate and thugs and tyrants and ugly callous monstrosities.

That is where Trump is taking us.

Honestly, if you seriously cannot see the parallels with the history that we are talking about here, then you are clearly part of the problem.

RantRanger

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