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I have a stupid piece of technology for you: the artificial gravity in Star Trek- in the Jefferies Tubes. Much is made of how awful it is to climb around in there, why is there even gravity? (Besides the show being filmed on Earth.)
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S40CheckingAccount posted:I have a stupid piece of technology for you: the artificial gravity in Star Trek- in the Jefferies Tubes. Much is made of how awful it is to climb around in there, why is there even gravity? (Besides the show being filmed on Earth.) moving in zero G and doing maintenance in zero G takes longer.
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May 25, 2025 15:34
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The bigger question is just where exactly are they?
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May 25, 2025 16:11
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Madurai posted:Let's just assume "spice" is a slang term for any cargo with a very high value-per-volume ratio. Sex arses are also spice was confirmed in the expanded universe only to be taken out by the mouse when they acquired Star Wars.
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May 26, 2025 03:48
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S40CheckingAccount posted:I have a stupid piece of technology for you: the artificial gravity in Star Trek- in the Jefferies Tubes. Much is made of how awful it is to climb around in there, why is there even gravity? (Besides the show being filmed on Earth.) Because if you don’t make the crew do horrible scut work it’s bad for Discipline.
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May 26, 2025 04:41
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The Lone Badger posted:Because if you don’t make the crew do horrible scut work it’s bad for Discipline. Periodic reminder of my favorite scene in TWOK: the guy in the corridors of SFHQ using a floor buffer.
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May 26, 2025 16:00
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Who wants spice when you can smoke some death sticks? (I think it was death sticks in the bar)
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May 26, 2025 17:52
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HAmbONE posted:Who wants spice when you can smoke some death sticks? The character that offers the death sticks to Obi Wan is named Elan Sleazebaggano.
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May 26, 2025 18:01
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HAmbONE posted:Who wants spice when you can smoke some death sticks? How do you know you smoke them? Maybe they're like really hardcore Pixy Stix
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May 26, 2025 18:17
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Asterite34 posted:How do you know you smoke them? Maybe they're like really hardcore Pixy Stix So you boof them, like coke.
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May 27, 2025 13:16
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Asterite34 posted:How do you know you smoke them? Maybe they're like really hardcore Pixy Stix I figured they were just space cigarettes
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May 28, 2025 00:34
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The titular Tek from Tekwar is something only someone who has never done drugs could come up with because it requires so much infrastructure to operate.
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Jun 12, 2025 04:45
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Barudak posted:The titular Tek from Tekwar is something only someone who has never done drugs could come up with because it requires so much infrastructure to operate. Counterpoint: all the weird potheads who make doing weed needlessly complicated.
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Jun 12, 2025 06:06
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Barudak posted:The titular Tek from Tekwar is something only someone who has never done drugs could come up with because it requires so much infrastructure to operate. I think William Shatner has probably done drugs. He's just a weirdo.
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Jun 12, 2025 06:21
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Barudak posted:The titular Tek from Tekwar is something only someone who has never done drugs could come up with because it requires so much infrastructure to operate. I've learned about Tekwar from a couple of things but one thing nobody has ever explained is how exactly does Tek work as a repeat business for a Tek dealer? Because it is like a program right? Does it just stop working after a certain amount of time?
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Jun 12, 2025 12:47
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muscles like this! posted:I've learned about Tekwar from a couple of things but one thing nobody has ever explained is how exactly does Tek work as a repeat business for a Tek dealer? Because it is like a program right? Does it just stop working after a certain amount of time? The dystopian future where even drugs have DRM and a subscription model
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Jun 12, 2025 12:51
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Defiance Industries posted:I think William Shatner has probably done drugs. He's just a weirdo. how much of the books did he write anyway and not the ghost writer?
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I think he probably just spat a couple ideas out on the table. But "there's a drug in this book... and it's a computer!!!!" is exactly the kind of input he'd have.
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Skinner warned us, we didn't learn about TekWar!
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Skinner warned us, we didn't learn about TekWar! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-krIPfk2OIA No time like the present.
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Asterite34 posted:How do you know you smoke them? Maybe they're like really hardcore Pixy Stix
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theflyingexecutive posted:I bet a full 95% of rural Tattooians are spice addicts. He was p chill about going to the Imperial Academy too. there are several places in the world where it's normal the majority of the people are addicted to something and they are probably a more pure natural high than cigarettes and vapes
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muscles like this! posted:I've learned about Tekwar from a couple of things but one thing nobody has ever explained is how exactly does Tek work as a repeat business for a Tek dealer? Because it is like a program right? Does it just stop working after a certain amount of time? So the infrastructure is still good, but you need more Tek (the patches) to make the Tek (the vr rig) convincing enough you believe its real. You gotta occassionally upgrade your Tek (the rig) to keep up with the latest Tek (the patches) and presumably someone, somewhere, got clean due to struggling with incompatible hardware glitches. Theres a fun concept in the start of the first book when he finds out his wife left him because he went to jail and was a Tek addict where he thinks she came back and says she still loves him but she needs him to get his life back together and it turns out thats his current Tek trip. He then just kind quits Tek and its fine. Honestly the most disappointing part of TekWar is, presumably, when you do Tek you feel as if the moments while Tekked up? Tekking? E-Tek-ulating? are real but nobody ever has dysphoria from incongruent memories or uses it to become like, a combat god or something. Barudak fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jul 19, 2025 |
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Barudak posted:So the infrastructure is still good, but you need more Tek (the patches) to make the Tek (the vr rig) convincing enough you believe its real. You gotta occassionally upgrade your Tek (the rig) to keep up with the latest Tek (the patches) and presumably someone, somewhere, got clean due to struggling with incompatible hardware glitches. e: Wait is the main character really called Jake Cardigan e2: I was going to make fun of the office of clandestine operations being called the office of clandestine operations but then I remembered the name of the agency that protects US politicians. Splicer fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Jul 19, 2025 |
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Splicer posted:Just because it feels real doesn't mean it's realistic. You could probably use tek to feel like you're a combat god right up until you try to hit a guy and break your own arm because you've spent the past three years playing super puzzle fighter Tek Edition And that would be infinitely more fun, of having Jake Cardigan (I cannot believe thats his name either but yes, that is his name) trundle some Tekk'd up lunatics who think they know how to use guns but all they have is unearned confidence. Hell it's give you a good explanation of where all these low level flunkies come from. Like this is TekWars problem; it has a bunch of cool ideas that it doesn't understand are cool and instead retreats back to the safety of 1960s/70s era pulp detective material. Barudak fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Jul 19, 2025 |
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Isn't Jake a "nickname" for John in that book?
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Defiance Industries posted:Isn't Jake a "nickname" for John in that book? I don't remember that, but I also do not wish to dredge up more memories of a book series I borrowed from the library due to desparation and how cool the cover of the first one was. The subsequent ones, get, uh, a little stupid. Like Tek Vengeance, which shows us that in the future of 2120, there are still public pay phones and somehow, in what might be the wildest bit of sci-fi in the series, a US public phone is clean and maintained.
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Apparently the novelization of Star Trek VI says that the Enterprise crew is able to figure out how to track the cloaked-but-firing Bird of Prey because that capability requires an extra large reactor that it can't effectively hide the exhaust from. Further books apparently confirm what I theorised, that cloaking and sensors are in a constant arms race, and when the Klingons (or Romulans) develop and use a ship that can fire while cloaked, the Federation (or someone else) has figured out how to detect it in a week. Makes sense too that they'd be rather motivated to figure it out.
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