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No, it’s just trauma and not wanting that to come up at the game table. Simple as that. I had a group before the pandemic where just about everyone had some kind of trauma and this is 100000% not the kind of thing they or I would enjoy.

Yes. I’m strongly in favor of noncommercial clauses in licenses. Because fuck capitalism.

Gamers™ are known for not having a nuanced understanding of mental health (because, y’know, the only emotion men have is anger) and we’re just seeing it here. Thankfully I have a hairtrigger block button :)

PLEASE ASK YOUR FUCKING PLAYERS BEFORE YOU DO THIS

Just reading this is triggering trauma from an entire school career (k-12) of bullying. I’d leave a game if this was put on me without consent.

Not a bad take, your $0.02 is worth more than a lot of other people’s (not saying the takes here are bad, just a general statement). I’m far, far on the opposite end of the extreme of some people in this thread; I was comfortable on a single 11" MacBook Air screen". Part of that is certainly my ADHD/autism, in that I can hyperfocus on the thing that’s in the foreground and just swap everything else to disk when I’m not looking at it. I appreciate the recognition that it is all about taste; so many folks tend to state their preferences like they’re objective fact.

I must be the only person on the planet who doesn’t feel the need to have a septillion screens 🤷‍♀️

It’s easy, just find some folks to unconditionally fulfill every need of yours without any expectation of anything in return, and live your entire life in that circumstance so you don’t know stress

Largely? Entirely. #FuckRickBerman

I’m saying Q is the god-alike, not the Prophets / Sisko.

The fact that so many people so firmly believe that MS is one of the good guys now is just bewildering to me. Like were they not alive in the 90s? This is classic embrace, extend, extinguish, as you say.

The only thing Microsoft is investing in is marketing to fool people into thinking they’re your friend. Remember that Copilot is automated open source license violation at scale. They’re building a tool to take your work, without crediting you, so others can use it without compensating you.

This is “love” in the same way an abusive relationship is “love”.

Insofar as “FOSS” is a specific, delineated, reified thing you can point to and describe, it doesn’t reject profit and capitalism when devs use licenses that enable corporations to use their work for free. That’s enablement, not rejection.

Yes I would, because then it’s easier to shoot him in the head.

Steve Ballmer also throws chairs at employees.

Also without Odo, similarly unfortunately. And yes, I would. Hopefully better than on S3 PIC though… eesh

Q could fingersnap the Prophets out of existence. While powerful, and indeed nonlinear (which Q is as well), their influence is more or less strictly limited to the Celestial Temple.

There’s that episode of TNG where he has to confront, get along with, and work peacefully with the Cardassians. I forget which one it is, but he does not handle it well.

Oh, and also remember he’s seen so much combat (235 separate engagements) that Starfleet recognized him as an expert in starship combat. Saw his friend (Nog) mutilated by the Jem’Hadar (The Siege of AR-558). Watched his other friend die slowly after being attacked by the Jem’Hadar (Muniz). Almost died with his situationship (Bashir) inside of a spy’s (Sloan’s) mind. Constantly injured his shoulder or other parts of his body while trying to relax (kayaking, raquetball, darts).

I could go on…

That sounds like a scene Rick Berman would’ve argued for. Garak and Bashir? No way; Garak and underaged Cardassian girl? Absolutely.

Why not both?

Sisko would’ve punched Madred the same way he punched Q, with Q being the closest thing Star Trek has to an actual god.