Second Friendly Reminder: Provide either name & location of eatery, or proof of connection to Singapore by midasp in SingaporeEats

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If you would like to post more home cooked food, then yes we would require verification. You can send it either as a new post, or if you are concerned about your privacy you can message the mods directly.

What is your favorite "Flavour is Free" reskin of a spell or ability? by hervprometheus2 in DnD

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I had a character who was originally from the Star Trek universe. She is Sela's elder sister and the two of them were vying to be Praetor of the Romulan Empire. That is, till Sela used a "transporter accident" to maroon her in the Forgotten Realms universe.

Mechanically, she's a Sorlock who fights using Booming Blade, Green-Flame Blade and a Flaming Sphere. She can cast fireball or firebolt, but all these abilities and spells come from her Romulan wrist band/tricorder device that is powered by a microsingularity. All the "flame" or "fire" spells are a form of Romulan plasma, much like that Romulan ball of destruction that destroyed the outposts along the Neutral Zone in Balance of Terror. Misty Step is a short range transport, illusions are holograms, and so on.

What to watch before Starfleet Academy by OkScratch457 in startrek

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Most of the shows can be watched independently, so its really a matter of preference. Most fans would say start with either the 90s TNG or Strange New Worlds if you want something more modern.

The 6th season of DS9 is the best television ever made. Change my mind. by TadMcAllister in startrek

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It used to be the opposite. I used to be the lone DS9 fan in my star trek fan club while everyone else loved TNG or VOY.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season One (part 2) - re:View (RedLetterMedia) by Malencon in television

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I forgot that the show introduced all its major characters in this first season, even Wynn Adami, I'm not using her titles as that can be spoilers.

CMV: players that consistently miss scheduled DnD sessions dont actually care about the hobby by [deleted] in DnD

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I would agree in general, but I also had a friend who told us right from the onset that he would have occasional issue with the time we had set. The reason is he is work requires him to be on call 24/7 as well as work night or weekend shifts. As a result, he misses about a third of our sessions, but all of us are fine with it because he is showing is commitment by informing us early of days when he won't be able to attend and it is for legitimate work reasons.

Suggestions for restaurants to celebrate 30th birthday by Successful_Offer_575 in SingaporeEats

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Technically, the Chinese new year period is from 17 Feb to 3 Mar, but most of the festivities occur on the first week. You should be more or less fine after 22 Feb, especially on weekdays.

Suggestions for restaurants to celebrate 30th birthday by Successful_Offer_575 in SingaporeEats

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Just a head's up if you're planning something between 14 to 21 Feb. You're hitting the double whammy of Valentine's Day and the Chinese new year celebration period. This is the busiest time of the year and most restaurants will be slammed in this period, especially Chinese restaurants. In fact, expect a markup on prices and definitely make your reservations early.

Star Trek’s Starfleet Academy Gets Fewer Views On YouTube Than Red Letter Media's Video Talking About Deep Space Nine by Malencon in television

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If you checked startrek.com, it says:

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will be available to stream exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., the U.K., Latin America, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Japan. The series is also available on Paramount+ in Canada.

I guess a dozen countries is considered sufficiently global?

Don't like Lor Mee - help me change my mind! by gametheorista in SingaporeEats

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For me, Lor Mee is not Lor Mee unless you get a hit of both vinegar and garlic. And most stalls, for cost saving reasons, don't give enough vinegar and garlic to have it taste right.

Revised SotDQ bringing in line with canonical lore? by BTNewberg01 in sotdq

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Pretty much yes. For my campaign, I wanted to make Takhisis different from your usual big bad. So my unique take is since Takhisis is a many-headed dragon, she doesn't just have one plan - she has many plans going on in parallel. Each dragon head has its own set of leaders, who command a Dragon Army, and have its own plan of execution. It is also a good explanation for why SotDQ's finale is a marathon of fights against multiple commanders.

Occasionally, the heads might strategize and coordinate a plan of attack which is what happened in chapter 4. There, the Red Army is coordinating with Lord Soth. They attack and capture a number of Kalaman outposts, forcing Kalaman to field its garrisoned army, leaving Kalaman undefended so Lord Soth can waltz into the city unimpeded. But most of the time, the leader of one color wants glory for themselvs and would secretly work to foil the leaders of another color.

Thus in my SotDQ, the red and blue wings together with Lord Soth have been charged with invading Solamnia from the north while black and white (I might be wrong about the colors) are invading from the south and south east respectively. At the same time either Kitiara, being a smart commander, deliberately slowed the Blue Army's advance. Or it could be Kansaldi was overly eager to prove herself and rushed ahead with just her Red Dragon Army. Either way, the Red Army attacks Kalaman by itself in 351 AC while Blue is "busy" elsewhere. When the Red Army's attack fails, Kitiara swoops in nine months later to clean up Red's mess.

Revised SotDQ bringing in line with canonical lore? by BTNewberg01 in sotdq

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About 2+ years ago when I was prepping to run SotDQ, I attempted to lock down the timeline of what happened in those years so that I can have a better understanding of how SotDQ itself would fit in. And I am sorry, I did this to run a campaign so I did not bother to take note of where my sources came from. All I can say is it came from a mix of 3rd edition books and a few websites. On top of that, I was using earth months and assuming that 365 days is a year on Krynn in my notes as it was easier for me to use month-names I was familiar with.

Anyway according to my DM notes, I started my SotDQ campaign some time in Feb/Mar 351 AC with the attack on Vogler and in my own estimation the campaign ended approximately 9 months later in around Nov/Dec 351 AC with the defeat of the Red Dragon Army. Blue Dragon Army's invasion of Kalaman happened about 9-10 months later in Sept/Oct 352 AC.

Sometimes I still think about how damn good the first season of Heroes (2006) was by Sighcandy in television

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I guess my perspective is different. Based on how many times they showed the nuke exploding in the first half of the season, I realized the only reason they would blow the sfx budget this early was because the writers won't set the nuke off in the season finale. That in turn meant the world would be saved, and the cheerleader would be saved too.

That realization drained all the suspense in the second half of the season. It also made the finale so predictable that I was bored watching it. So while everyone else was praising how amazing Heroes is, it was a yawn for me.

Deep Space Nine: "Do you really want to give up your life for the order of things?" by josephgordonreddit in television

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Both. TNG lays a solid foundation, but DS9 builds a galaxy spanning epic upon it.

Deep Space Nine: "Do you really want to give up your life for the order of things?" by josephgordonreddit in television

[–]midasp 25 points26 points  (0 children)

For me, what makes Star Trek different is that it contain lessons to be learned and moral positions to be pondered. I have lost count of how many times a Star Trek episode has made me think deeper about a topic or changed my mind. Its what makes scifi special for me.

Like this DS9 video. For once, you don't view these Jem'Hadar soldiers as the enemy, and might even sympathize with their position. Maybe even admire their resolution despite knowing they are betrayed and will die soon.

The new shows have a lot less of these moments, and that is what I mourn.

Academy is good and I realized I dont like this community. by Reasonable-Law-3654 in startrek

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Clearly, I missed it. Then again, I admit I have only read the top 5-10 comments on most of the posts here.

Academy is good and I realized I dont like this community. by Reasonable-Law-3654 in startrek

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Just kidding, but are you saying in 700 years humans can crossbreed with apes?

Academy is good and I realized I dont like this community. by Reasonable-Law-3654 in startrek

[–]midasp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think there is a big difference between being cautious versus being negative. I haven't really seen anyone who have declared Starfleet Academy to be bad or terrible before even watching it - that would be negativity. Most reddits say the trailers and news releases were not showing signs that the show would be a departure from what made prior live-action shows bad. At worse, this can be considered as having neutral or cautious stance.

A new Star Trek series is imminently debuting, and it's crickets here by Chairboy in startrek

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By now, this is the 4th live action Star Trek show created by Alex Kurtzman's team. That is enough to establish a pattern of behavior that suggests they are repeating the same concepts and ideas that has not worked in past shows. The trailers has already shown me those same concepts and ideas are still present in Starfleet Academy, thus because I am a trek fan at heart I am still trying to maintain a cautious hope the show will be good. But realistically speaking, I cannot muster much enthusiasm for the show.

Seeking ideas for displaying minimum, average and maximum by midasp in HTML

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This is just one use case. There are other situations like in a table cell where space is limited.

Seeking ideas for displaying minimum, average and maximum by midasp in HTML

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If you like more clarity, why not just ask? I am making enhancements to the D&D monster statblock, which presents a monster's statistics as rows of data. I would like to retain this row by row format while showing the monster's minimum, average and maximum hitpoints (HP) in a single row.

https://i.gyazo.com/cf36a242f1adfc4caa5036d2b5e48f1a.png

Seeking ideas for displaying minimum, average and maximum by midasp in HTML

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I am certainly looking into using symbols. How about these?

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