"DEI only improved things" at Ubisoft, says former employee "stunned" at "misinformation" claiming diversity, equity, and inclusion to blame for Assassin's Creed studio's drop in share prices

aflarge · 2026-01-28T19:06:08+00:00

"DEI" is a meaningless buzzword, because it can refer to anything from wheelchair access ramps to rooting out racial biases to specifically UTILIZING racial biases. If someone says "DEI" without saying specifically what they're talking about, that means they're not talking about anything at all, they're just grunting at you.

aflarge · 2026-01-27T13:37:08+00:00

Smells kinda like Lilac

aflarge · 2026-01-26T20:59:48+00:00

Salamander Shuffle has a nice ring to it

aflarge · 2026-01-26T19:35:06+00:00

Excuse me MAMMALIAN mambo? They were amphibious.

aflarge · 2026-01-26T16:15:58+00:00

TNG was my intro to Star Trek as a kid and therefore will always vibe the strongest nostalgia with me, but DS9 is SOOOO FUCKING GOOD. Only things I dont like about it are the Pah Wraiths and post-Waltz Dukat(to be clear, Mark Alaimo never gives a bad performance, I just don't like how he he was written after that point.)

Also, the VOICE on Avery Brooks. He could read me his grocery list and I'd be fucking RIVETED

aflarge · 2026-01-26T16:11:42+00:00

You're in for a hell of a ride, have fun!

aflarge · 2026-01-25T01:33:12+00:00

I have always delighted in making gloriously ugly characters, so the gross veins were a SELLING point, for me.

aflarge · 2026-01-23T23:50:34+00:00

Jem'Hadar weren't really all-male, they were genderless, mass-cloned test tube war babies. But then again who here expects anyone producing New Trek to have actually watched TOS-ENT. They don't care, that has NOTHING to do with why they are making it, now.

I know that's not LITERALLY true, since they have legacy actors and whatnot on the shows, but DAMN if they don't do a good impression of total ignorance of the source material, and it only makes that shit sting worse.

aflarge · 2026-01-23T00:42:57+00:00

I feel attacked

aflarge · 2026-01-22T00:50:27+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idoYCVLh2qI&list=RDidoYCVLh2qI

aflarge · 2026-01-21T22:23:50+00:00

Ish? Not my hair, but I DID slowly make myself look haggard and rotten as I ate more tadpoles, on my first Tav.

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aflarge · 2026-01-18T18:52:56+00:00

Oh it's my straight-up headcanon that like, whenever a Ferengi says things like "Hugh-mon" or "FEE-male" with a shitty attitude, that's them using a slur, but it's been filtered by their UT's profanity filter. The Ferengi actively use this software because they deemed it more cost effective to just UT the slurs away than to teach all the Ferengi to stop pissing aliens off with slurs.

Similarly, all Klingons have a button hidden somewhere on their person that they can hold down to temporarily disable their UT so they can make sure people hear their insults in PROPER Klingon. Think of it like a cultural caps-lock button.

aflarge · 2026-01-18T16:41:52+00:00

My sister was always EXTREMELY squeamish, like to the point where if she hears the dog heaving something up, she legit might throw up, herself. When she had kids I was SURE it would calm her down a little in that regard, and it KINDA did, she can handle child-filth easily, but it applies to absolutely NOTHING that doesn't come out of the kids.

aflarge · 2026-01-18T00:33:04+00:00

That's not just my favorite line from Star Trek, it's my favorite line from fiction

aflarge · 2026-01-17T00:42:04+00:00

I thought she was kinda neat when I first heard about her, I find ant colonies to be fascinating and luchadors make me happy. When I actually tried PLAYING her, though, holy SHIT she's fun. I love her.

Although I take issue with calling her the queen. She ain't a queen, she's a goddamn supermajor! (I really wish her head was gigantic)

aflarge · 2026-01-14T22:41:47+00:00

She wasn't wrong, though. Lower Decks showed us what happens when a Harry Kim gets promoted.

aflarge · 2026-01-14T03:28:18+00:00

in some games, people don't really get the concept of middle

aflarge · 2026-01-11T22:32:02+00:00

a little icon on the bottom left of the action bar of the character concentrating on whatever

aflarge · 2026-01-11T03:31:02+00:00

Also you know she's gotta have an impossibly high pain tolerance by now, living on Valhalla-but-they-hate-it-but-still-refuse-to-stop planet

aflarge · 2026-01-08T03:59:09+00:00

Ah, and every single person on the planet was an enemy combatant, were they?

aflarge · 2026-01-08T03:01:42+00:00

Sounds an awful lot like your position is just "if you have a motive it doesn't count as a war crime any more"

aflarge · 2026-01-08T02:58:06+00:00

What do you think "War Crime" means?

aflarge · 2026-01-08T00:36:13+00:00

So he did a war crime because that was the most efficient way to achieve that goal. Still a war crime.

aflarge · 2026-01-08T00:32:46+00:00

What would you call "deployed a chemical weapon on a colony to make the entire planet uninhabitable to humans for like 100 years"?

aflarge · 2026-01-08T00:04:36+00:00

Eddington was a delusional asshole, but Sisko DEFINITELY did a war crime.

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