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Hypothesis: the holodeck makes the worms, but they're dead. It makes them appear to wriggle around because in the context of a ~*world of illusion*~ making some dead worms wriggle a little doesn't really sound too hard. Worf would probably still say the worms suck if he tried eating them.
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HAmbONE posted:If you are not under the age of 18 you shouldn't be playing (i don't either)
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Feb 12, 2016 20:45
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HAmbONE posted:SOME people get to explore strange new worlds and seek out new life. The rest is all infrastructure and research. Going on a cruise and not doing anything is boring, going on a cruise and not doing anything while high is boring. id fix up an old junker ship like the millennium falcon and go explore the galaxy on my own, with my own rag tang crew. nuts to the federation
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Feb 12, 2016 20:58
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loquacius posted:Hypothesis: the holodeck makes the worms, but they're dead. It makes them appear to wriggle around because in the context of a ~*world of illusion*~ making some dead worms wriggle a little doesn't really sound too hard. Worf would probably still say the worms suck if he tried eating them. the only reason they dont try to make life with the replicator is because its supposed to come out hosed up from all the jpeg artifacts in the DNA or whatever. those worms are alive, they are squirming around like that because they are an abomination of life that is in constant pain 
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Feb 12, 2016 21:00
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Rutibex posted:can replicators make weed? cuz if so i dont really need a holodeck I think every ship in starfleet has a hydroponics facility.
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Feb 12, 2016 21:57
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Rutibex posted:id fix up an old junker ship like the millennium falcon and go explore the galaxy on my own, with my own rag tang crew. nuts to the federation A good point but would you be exploring? Also what would you be exploring for? Space ships and space fuel cost mad space bucks.
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Feb 12, 2016 23:35
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The holodeck could be like Rocksmith but for actual physical activities. Go rock climbing at 10% difficulty until you rank up and eventually get to the point where you can do the entire drat thing on your own. Same with jogging and running, feel like you're doing an entire 10 mile jog or something but it scales so that you feel like a pro runner until you really are one. Thatd be badass
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Feb 13, 2016 03:12
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HAmbONE posted:A good point but would you be exploring? Also what would you be exploring for? Space ships and space fuel cost mad space bucks. i'd go looking for that planet full of primitive Vulcans, they seem bright enough that i could make a deal with one of their kings or something to uplift their civilization with technology. give or take 5-10 years to educate them, and get heavy space industry up and running using replicators (you only need to start with a small one, then just make it replicate the parts for a bigger one, and so on until you get ones big enough to replicate ships!) i'd go around to all the primitive planets that the federation refuses to help, and i'd use my new space army to press gang them, like Caesar from Fallout New Vegas
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Feb 13, 2016 03:31
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lol if you don't say "computer, end program" every few days and feel disappointed erry time
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one of the things i like about star trek is, for what is really a pretty 'soft' scifi they do try to corral all the cheats, saying what if the universe let you do this and this, and everything else is ramifications of that, like proper hard scifi does. the holodeck is one of those things. subspace is a one of those cheat things in star trek, really the main one. according to the TNG tech manual, if you interfere a graviton beam and a subspace field at a focus, it applies spacial stress to that point. you can then simply change the focus of the beam interference pattern to move that stress point. it's pretty easy to visualise this, too, which is great. so this little effect gives you tractor beams, deflector array, forcefields, the inertial dampening field (which is really a weak forcefield that saturates every room on the ship, holding the objects in place by applying a counterforce exactly opposing ship accelleration) and tangible holodeck objects. being able to essentially selectively move objects on the microscale too means more than being able to have any texture; the senses of smell and taste both test microsurface detail, which you can fake purely through precise enough force fields. its cool
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Feb 13, 2016 04:36
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chaosbreather posted:one of the things i like about star trek is, for what is really a pretty 'soft' scifi they do try to corral all the cheats, saying what if the universe let you do this and this, and everything else is ramifications of that, like proper hard scifi does. I tried to read this and I am only sure of one thing: it is NOT cool.
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Nude Bog Lurker posted:lol if you don't say "computer, end program" every few days and feel disappointed erry time computer, arch gently caress
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Feb 13, 2016 05:27
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CrashCat posted:computer, arch Now if you did that one day and it worked... Would you walk through?
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HAmbONE posted:Now if you did that one day and it worked... Obviously.
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Feb 14, 2016 17:53
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Applewhite posted:Obviously. I guess you could test the water simply by holding an extremity out through the arch. It only takes a few seconds I think for holodeck creations to "dissolve?" outside the operational limits
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Feb 14, 2016 18:01
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HAmbONE posted:Now if you did that one day and it worked...
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Feb 14, 2016 18:07
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CrashCat posted:Nah, you use the access panel to get yourself cool poo poo. But not like that idiot program that tried to take over the whole ship, you gotta avoid attention If I found out I was a program I'd make the computer give me a bigger dick.
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Feb 14, 2016 18:12
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Applewhite posted:If I found out I was a program I'd make the computer give me a bigger dick. Make sure after you make modifications that you set yourself as Read-only edit: not modications HAmbONE fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Feb 15, 2016 |
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Feb 14, 2016 18:20
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HAmbONE posted:Make sure after you make modications that you set yourself as Read-only That doesn't sound like a good idea, you'd just reverse Groundhog Day and wake up every day thinking it was the day you were set to read only while the rest of the world went on as usual
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ANIME IS BLOOD posted:That doesn't sound like a good idea, you'd just reverse Groundhog Day and wake up every day thinking it was the day you were set to read only while the rest of the world went on as usual I'm hard light all night long, no need to sleep
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