This is strangely calming.

🫧

Oh my god, they were roommates!

The game wasn’t too bad for what it was, but since the start it’s been fairly riddled with bugs and glitches that were never addressed. They also wired in a “your choices” system that players were meant to be able to use to match the choices they made against those of other players, but it was broken from the start and the website needed for that to work soon disappeared.

The company posted the game and pretty much abandoned it soon after, and just two years later it’s being withdrawn from sale and any new player who wants it will have to pirate it.

This game had the potential to be so much better, and could even have kicked off a series of new Trek stories in the classic Telltale style, but the company really failed at making it happen.

If they’re the same track pads as on the Steam Deck they don’t actually physically click in anywhere, but they have really good pressure sensitivity and can be configured to deliver a haptic feedback “click” back to your thumb when you press hard enough. It feels just like clicking a physical button, but it’s all a clever electronic illusion.

To test this on a Deck, try clicking with the unit switched off and keep trying as you hit the power button and it starts up.

Hmph. Be my lover. Heh. Get with my friends. Heh. A Jedi wannas not these things.

Counterpoint: Yes.

Including credit is cool.

My wife and I are a couple of old SNL nerds who both fondly remember watching this episode when it first broadcast. We often joke that if we ended up filthy rich somehow we’d get a real one of these made for us.

There’s a quote from Nichelle Nichols’ 1994 autobiography Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories which pops up a lot in discussions about the TOS skirts:

In later years, especially as the women’s movement took hold in the seventies, people began to ask me about my costume. Some thought it “demeaning” for a woman in the command crew to be dressed so sexily. It always surprised me because I never saw it that way. After all, the show was created in the age of the miniskirt, and the crew women’s uniforms were very comfortable. Contrary to what many may think today, no one really saw it as demeaning back then. In fact, the miniskirt was a symbol of sexual liberation. More to the point, though, in the twenty-third century, you are respected for your abilities regardless of what you do or do not wear.

My sibling in spacetime, it is time to empty your wastebasket.

Congratulations on adding three pushups to your weightlifting regimen.

I recently handed out a stack of floppy disks to attendees of a 2600 meeting. I got this joke IRL from a bunch of people, many of whom were older than me but some of whom were younger than said disks.

Like anyone believes for a nanosecond he didn’t make that image himself.

Somebody rich please buy the bridge and send it to James Cawley.

The tech sector loves to outsource this kind of thing to traumatized and underpaid people overseas.

Who ordered the materia sandwich?

Cool! I’d be happy to learn what you think of it.

All piracy is popularity.

If we’re ranking by importance, this Dick Butt erasure will not stand.