#decked systems

[hawkesoutdoor]

Save time and effort with the new #deckedusa pullout system for #trucks & #jeeps at Hawkes Outdoors in Texas. 210-251-2882

[ireallyamabear]

The choice to put Una Chin-Reily on a Starfleet recruitment poster in the late 2370s seems a nod to the extraordinary person she is and her exemplary service, but Boimler’s enthusiasm for her as a personal hero cannot mask the fact of what Starfleet execs are really doing here: while it is Starfleet tradition to honour esteemed personnel from its centuries of history, we have to look at the poster as a product of its time: it seems clear that, shortly after the devastating death toll and the rapid militarisation of the Dominion War, putting a prominent figure of the Great Exploration Age - and notedly someone who had not served in the Klingon War - as the poster person for Starfleet is an indictment that contemporary young people of the Federation are not drawn to the service as it is in their time anymore.

Critically, Starfleet has to use somebody from a 120 years ago, a timeframe that would lap generations of even especially long lived member species like Vulcans or Denobulans, to attract new recruits. Boimler says himself that seeing Una as a representative and her motto - “Ad astra per aspera” was: “Uh, it was a really big reason why I joined.” Clearly there is a wealth of recognisable Starfleet officers from 2370 and onwards, but their entanglement in the Dominion War, or at least in the Borg threat makes them unsuitable as role models for people like Boimler who cannot help but associate these contemporaries with the horrors of war and intergalactic conflict. Thus, the retreat to a “safe” historical narrative, with Starfleet still being about peaceful exploration reflects the growing divide between the realities of a colonised galaxy, the ongoing need of new bodies to fill the posts on all those ships and space stations and the aspirations and values of young people today. In this essay I will question whether Starfleet can keep its promise of scientific integrity in the face of growing political unrest in the UFP and ask what “Number One” herself would have thought about-

[lizthebotgirl-3ll13]

> "If you're a robogirl why do you need a Steam Deck? Can't you run games on your own hardware?"

> youve got a brain, why do you need a switch? why dont you just imagine yourself playing smash bros? spin it around in your mind like the sheep you dream of

> its about the skill of interfacing with another device. it would be all too easy to give myself the inputs to play flawlessly. but this way i have to play by your rules. with my hands and a controller as the game was meant to be played▮

[theminecraftbee]

it's funny i feel like tango split the energy from the creature that was decked out in half this season. the factory has the mechanical majesty, the twisting wires, the sense of a multitude of parts coming together to make something greater than any of its pieces, and of course, the insane redstone programming. meanwhile, ALL of the haunted energy went to the mail system. that thing is so so haunted. it already ate joe hills once. could not possibly be more haunted. together, they make "yep, tango tek is sure still at it" in its strongest form and i couldn't be more happy,

[boarloved-art]

i like the car movies a lot.......

[mimefish]

Can we please just take a moment to mourn all the batshit insane fanart we would've had if Etho had stuck with his Mario skin. Thank you and goodnight

[landgraabbed]

played the demo for banquet for fools (dev. hannah and joseph games, launching into early access on september 30th).

i honestly just wanted to share this since this left a very positive impression on me and has all the hallmarks of a turbo lofi production with basically no exposure. so i might as well share in case anybody else wants to check it out.

banquet for fools is a party-based arpg that takes place in a fictional island called invimona. the game casts you as asal in the first act, who immediately gets to work as the other people around them are attacked (and attacking each other, as if they are being compelled to). it is after the first act that you create your four party members who are sent to investigate what happened in the first act.

the combat is simple but an interesting spin on the arpg, formula incorporating a sort of active time battle system that sees a bar fill up until you can perform an action, letting you move around freely as you do so and switch between party members. from what i could tell, currently only basic attacks are implemented, but there seems to be an interesting magic system that allows you to create your own spells. the character creator is surprisingly beefy. you can create characters of any of 5 races that sound interesting from the blurbs. stats and traits are based on a combination of race and sex (which is a slider that features 6 or so combinations of body type and height), in a way that reminds me of morrowind. you can assign stats and skills based on predefined archetypes or you can make your own custom archetype. during conversations, dialogue choices are assigned to each party member depending on their stats and skills. and the art style is gorgeous; it reminds me of claymation. an issue is that it seems that cutscenes are pre-rendered which may be associated with the limited resolutions which i wish were expanded.

overall i found it very interesting, albeit very vague at this point. i do believe the presentation of information could stand to be improved. but there is something very unique and interesting in this title that grabbed my attention. i'll be sure to keep an eye on it!

[ex0rin]

"I always pretended to be someone I wanted to be until finally I became that someone or he became me." | SNW: s02e7

[whirligig-girl]

Some OC+canon Star Trek homeworlds and terrestrial planets! First row: 967-Delphini A System (including Oistir, made for @raydrawsdaly) Second row: Vulcan System, comprising 40 Eridani b, Ni'var, T'khut, and "Delta-Vega." third row: Orion system, comprising Orion I, Orion II, Orion III (homeworld), and some uninhabitable members of a long since broken resonance chain. fourth row: the Solar System, comprising Mercury, Venus, Earth, Luna, and Mars. fifth row: TE-92/Iota Sigma system, comprising TE-92b, TE-92c, TE-92d I and II, The Ocean and Lantern, and Schwil sixth row: Zwo-Nmu system, including Rabbit, the Omen moons Spark Rival Oldsky and Lake, and Mellanus.

I'd like to make a version of this that contains gas giants, ice giants, and proper super-earths, but for now just the small planets are acknowledged. (Also i just realized I forgot the Schwil-family dwarf planets and the Solar Main Belt dwarf planets, and also the inhabited moons of the Solar System planets.... aghshjdhgj whatever i gotta call it a night at some point.)

[ssaalexblake]

star trek went from Trip being Super weirded out by accidentally getting pregnant via an alien species to Rutherford, who got accidentally (it was an accident to him anyway) knocked up and then found it so run of the mill that he got pregnant and had a baby in the space of two minutes that he failed to mention that it had happened to any of his closest friends.

This is progress.

[starfall-sys]

CHAT

WE GOT TAROT CARDS!!!

Got em from Spencers for half the price (it was 50% off)

HEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEH who wants a reading/hj

[glimblshanks]

Mmm, please consider, Lower Decks, but Boimler is a very recently out trans woman, and Mariner is a trans woman who's been out and transitioned for a while, and Beckett 'mentoring' Brad is actually just her being like "Come on girl, we're gonna get you on some E and then I'll show you all of the replicators best sweater patterns because you're about to be cold all the time."

[vancouverescape]

[enpr-ss]

Xisuma made the advancement [Deus Ex Machina] Zedaph made the advancement [Deus Ex Machina]

[zenithofstories]

I love Decked Out for so many reasons; the build itself is beautiful, the gameplay is fun and engaging, Tango deserves it, the competition is thrilling and the deck-building strategy is intriguing. But by far my favourite aspect of the game is how it has brought the Hermits together.

There are almost always Hermits hanging out in the Citadel, and they gather in numbers for the phase rankings reveal and shard distribution. Tango watches as many runs as he can. It is ridiculous fun to see them all interacting and talking and laughing together.

[stuckinapril]

the fact that my one of my bedroom walls is covered floor to ceiling in reminders/quotes/study concepts etc etc… so academia core of me