Wanted On Voyage Puns

A user over at r/startrek has had enough of the complaints that the new show Star Trek: Discovery is laying it on too thick with all the social justicey stuff, and posts a brief essay outlining Gene Roddenberry's thoughts on the matter. Since you're reading this in SRD and not bestof, I'm sure you can guess how it's turning out.

One user tries to explain their objection to "the progressive stack."

Another waxes at length on the political spectrum.

A third calls BS on the idea that OP is arguing against a straw man, but others aren't satisfied with their proof.

The popcorn is still pretty fresh, so there's likely to be more drama developing in that thread as the day goes on.

Main thread

I can accept that the content is hard.

I can accept that the time frame to complete Voyage allows for hero advancement and strengthening, thereby making it feasible to overtune the content as players have time to overpower it.

I can accept that multiple runs are at times required in Peaks to grab all of the loot.

And I can accept that, either because Lilith wants the content to be oppressively difficult or they simply don’t test their tuning enough, certain relics are essential and therefore multiple restarts may be required.

But for the love of all things holy can we please make it so that once you’ve entered the content once, the little intro and interjections stop? Many people had to restart dozens upon dozens of times and each and every time you have to mash through the little conversation the Maulers have. Then you get to the first button and “oh look a button” pops up...then you get to the ice and each time you get “watch out - no backtracking.” We know... we knew the first time it popped up and the second time and the twelfth time. Folks are already crazy frustrated, yes perhaps due to their own impatience, but compounding that frustration with these dialogs seems ill-conceived.

TL;DR: keep intros and interjections to Voyage and Peaks to the first entry into the content. You can even still put the messages into the log if you’d like so people can still read it if they’ve forgotten.

For me it was the kling... wait Hirogen and Vaadwaur

My father was an electrical engineer by trade. He taught me a little about everything. Engineering, electronics, computers, carpentry, plumbing, you name it, he did it all.

In 2012 he passed away and in his workshop I rediscovered the TRS-80 clone he and a co-worker built from scratch starting in 1982. They didn't complete it until 1985, after 1,150 hours of reverse engineering work! They built nearly everything from scratch. The main circuit board is just a thing of absolute beauty! Hand built.

The week after my father passed away, I brought her to my place, cleaned her up and after a bit of troubleshooting and re-soldering a single wire, she fired right up! You cannot imagine my joy when the screen lit up with "Extended Color Basic 1.0"!

I spent countless hours on this machine in my youth. And now that I'm older and wiser (a computer guy by trade for over 20 years, Thanks Dad!) the sheer magnitude of this undertaking just overwhelms me. And she still fucking works!

https://imgur.com/a/PqBcMDP

EDIT: I want to send a big thanks for all the replies here. It means a lot to me, more than you can imagine. Ironically, today is Dad's birthday. Hard to believe it's 7 years he's been gone.

I spent about 2 hours this afternoon getting her running again. She's been sitting safely in a cabinet since 2012.

Here's she is in all her 32k color glory, just a few minutes ago.

https://imgur.com/a/I4UORCI

John trailed off, realizing it was pointless, as once he saw the light of a thousand mushroom clouds he knew the earth had already been gone for 3 minutes...