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  • Back in the 80s I bought a few of the Star Fleet Battles board game manuals. Loved going through them all and imagining how complex a game could be, but never was able to actually set up any gaming sessions (after all it was even more niche than D&D, and very dry in the tons of rules). When I ran across the Star Fleet Command series years later, it was like I could finally participate in what I had dreamed about. Granted it didn’t have all the rules (maybe that’s a good thing) and it was set in the “standard” familiar universe and many of the board game unique races and ships weren’t there, but it felt like playing the spirit of the board game, setting up scenarios and seeing what you could do.

    FWIW, anyone who isn’t familiar with the board game, the Andromedans are probably where some of the ideas used with Borg came from. The alternate history and ship developments due to the wars that break out are also great.







  • Does Tolkien have any writings about what happened when the dwarves dug too deep, or is that just a side note mentioned to explain why things are found that way? Gandalf had heard some rumors, but wasn’t sure if they were true. That would have been an interesting documentary of first hand “oh shit! RUN!”


  • Rhaedas@fedia.iotome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    5 days ago

    Dodged a bullet. You don’t want anyone with that kind of personality. Sure, other girls might think that internally, but for her to say it out loud to her friends, while you’re within earshot…she ain’t worth shit.








  • For some reason this subject always hits a nerve, but I found this take pretty funny. Almost like when you experiment with regex matching randomly and find everything but what you really want to get.

    It also wouldn’t be a joke or topic if the definition had been clarified better than it was initially. They should have used the term “dynamical dominance”, implying whether or not a body is the primary object left in its orbital area after formation. And this has its own issues, as solar systems change over time.