Xbox was so great when it launched. Thanks for bringing us decent length controller cables, hard drives, and Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay 👌

Nowadays, uhh thanks for making an unnecessary media center I guess 🤷‍♀️

The steam discussions are as spirited and divisive as I expected lol.

Too many problems that show it's wearing a skin suit like a serial killer pretending to be your neighbor to be invited inside the house. It's simply not Trek.

1. Resource bottlenecks - Not a thing in Trek.
2. Crew Morale / Hunger - Not a thing.
3. Logistics and transport - Not a thing.
4. The "drop" system is borderline P2W mechanics manifest.

The mediocrity as I understand was from the rift that developed in the team about the vision of the game being a sandbox vs a campaign.

However, I witnessed a new divide among the team which was less well-known; as more core game developers (such as myself) were recruited to help finish the game, a cultural gap emerged between the newer ‘gameplay’ team and the older ‘Sim’ team. The former group (which went on to spearhead Darkspore) was primarily concerned with how Spore played as a game. Were the mechanics engaging? Did the player’s choices matter? Was the game replayable? In contrast, the ‘Sim’ team carried the traditional Maxis DNA and was more comfortable with Spore as a toy box. Could the players express themselves? Was sharing one’s creations with other players meaningful? Did the game spark the imagination?

These cultural divides ruined Spore’s chances to be a focused, cohesive experience.

http://www.designer-notes.com/2013/09/

I can’t wait to spend that much for the “burning pile of post-scarcity money” card from Lower Decks s5e2

All things considered, he succeeded in his goals.

The concrete plant was under insured and so his “rival” that owned it ended up eating a few hundred thousand dollars in damages.

Still a complete lunatic, but a competent one as well.

Can't forget mothballing the entire navy and banning the printing press 👌

Source: one time a Turkish guy I worked with explained the fall of the empire. He blamed it on rejecting technology 🤷‍♀️

I love this meme. There's one I saw once where he's trying to explain why he blasted those parasite badmirals. Wish I saved it at the time.

Me: wow we already have that? can't wait to be approved!

The comm:

As for paleontology, I personally think it’s just a bunch of hogwash if we go further back than around 5,000 years

Me: 🤮

I had no idea they were related, but apparently they were (thanks 😉). But that too was soon retconned:

According to comments by Michael and Denise Okuda, when mentioning of the speed limit was abandoned a few years after "Force of Nature", it was assumed that newer ships, such as the USS Voyager and USS Defiant, had improved environmentally friendly warp drive systems, that did not cause damage to the spatial continuum.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Variable_geometry_pylon