When I can set that up for my AppleTV to block ads on YouTube, I’ll be happy to use it.

Shit site has gone to shit. Shocker.

Much, much larger.

Holly Hunter and now Paul Giamatti. They must have some major money for this project. I can’t wait!!

Both. I tend to let the -arr apps decide.

100% agreed. I mean, he is Pencilhead! I always wondered what became of Son of Pencilhead.

That’s a testament to Jones’s acting as well. I thoroughly enjoyed Action Saru in that scene.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coda

She will be the most amazingly vertically challenged Starfleet officer yet! Well…except for Nog.

I want to play a new fun Star Trek game! And this one fits the bill nicely especially because previous games made by these devs were hours of enjoyment. I trust in their ability to tell a great story!

Yes, they actually do. They’re tokens of ownership that can easily be converted to money. It’s called an asset.

This is why this world is so fucked. People quibble over definitions of things while the rich assholes running the show get richer.

And so many in this thread want to keep it that way.

Oh well, not like I can convince anyone here of anything, nor do I care to try. Keep believeing what you want.

Let’s take that logic outward a step…

Stocks are digital these days. Cryptocurrency is digital. So you’re basically saying those should be licensed to people, not owned.

Ownership has nothing to do with the tangibility of the thing in the age of the Internet. And to say otherwise is missing the point of ownership in the first place.

If I outright buy a movie, whether digital or not, I should own it – be able to download it, play it whenever I want, in perpetuity. If I subscribe to a service such as Disney+, then I fully know that I am purchasing a license to view their content.

The logistics of providing such ownership is the cost of doing business, just like it is for Blu-ray. I would argue that ownership should be even easier, logistically, for digital goods because there is no actual manufacturing effort involved (aside from initial production of, say, a movie).

The only reason companies want to license digital goods, instead of providing ownership to those who buy it, is greed (edit: and control).

Of course any article can be biased, but this one has cited sources, at least. It would take further digging to determine if those sources are credible.

https://libcom.org/article/starvation-army-twelve-reasons-reject-salvation-army

In my opinion and based on my past reading on the subject, the simple fact that it’s a religious organization is enough to dissuade me from giving them anything. It is no small statistic that religious organizations are corrupt, hypocritical, expect obedience over tolerance, anti-union, anti-LGBTQ, ultra-conservative, and generally support the notion that people must be submissive to their authority.

I’ll continue to donate to secular organizations that do genuine good.

But it doesn’t function flawlessly, at least not yet. I know of one pretty big online networking bug that affects me – You currently cannot connect directly to a password-ed server (by IP), it won’t prompt for the password and it simply denies entry. And since the multiplayer server browser is pure garbage, you can’t even properly search for the password-ed server because the search only filters the current page you’re on, and even pagination is flat broke.

This game has a lot to get fixed. This is my major hit list that I’d like to see fixed/enhanced:

• Fix it so a client can directly connect to a server that requires a password without having to use the server browser
• Fix the server browser so pagination works properly
• Fix the server browser so keyword searching actually filters across all registered servers, not just the currently-loaded page
• Fix the server so when purposefully not registering as a public server, it doesn’t show in the server list (my private server is not supposed to be listed, but I had a random stranger connect…and since I cannot password the server yet due to the bug listed above, they got on and built stuff before I could kick them – and I cannot destroy anything they made)
• Enhance it so an admin can destroy all content irrespective of guild
• Fix the in-game chat so it actually scrolls properly and can be user-scrolled up and down
• Fix the pal AI and pathing, it’s atrocious
• Enhance it so you can dedicate a specific pal to a specific job
• Fix it so party pals will properly attack incoming raids outside of the base circle
• Enhance it so storage bins can be labeled (without having to use signs)
• Enhance it so if there is a security code on a door or storage box, it doesn’t allow other guild members access without knowing the security code (this would require a level of ownership to each crafted item)
• Enhance it so stacks can be divided by an arbitrary user-defined number instead of only by half
• Enhance it so signs can be placed on foundation pieces
• Fix it so pals that fight intruders cannot destroy buildings and other crafted/placed items
• Fix it so wooden “security” walls are are not so easily destroyed by a simple pal invader
• Fix it so other pals and players cannot become invisible
• Fix it so in-dungeon bosses cannot use an ability that would place them outside the arena, thus requiring restarting the fight (in other words, fix the collision detection so properly bound the boss to the arena)

I’m sure I’m forgetting numerous other issues.

I think this is great and anything I can see Patrick Stewart in, I will. I don’t share the opinion that Picard series was bad. I don’t see Picard as a one-dimensional must always be the same character. People change over time. And Picard has also changed. Like it or not.

Bring on the movie!

This is perfect.

I don’t know what you mean by ISPs in the US don’t have NATs. They most certainly do NAT at the gateway device. But they also typically provide a way to DMZ to your own router instead. I don’t have to deal with double NAT simply because I effectively have my ISP gateway in bridge mode (forwarding all traffic to a specific device, in this case, my personal router).

Note: I have gigabit FTTH from AT&T. I left cable internet the moment fiber service was made available.

City on the Edge of Forever is the best TOS episode in my opinion, and surpasses 90% or more of all Star Trek across all the series.

It’s good to know he knows his Star Trek. But I still wouldn’t want a Tarantino Trek movie — unless, of course, Avery Brooks reprises his role and recites Ezekiel 25:17 and has a phaser with Bad Motherfucker etched on it. That’s a Trek movie I’d watch.

What? Speak up! I didn’t hear you.

Second only to Code of Honor as the worst TNG episodes.