Frontier

Saw this today and thought it would be interesting to my friends at ABTF. Mods, this is outside our usual topic (fit) so please delete if not appropriate.

https://adelinedimond.medium.com/boobs-the-last-frontier-of-body-shaming-b0eb628e1de2#_=_

I don't think it's a very good movie, but it is the best of the TOS movies, as a "trek movie".

It:

Recycles music from previous "episodes"

Has terrible special effects

It heavily features "the big three" (Kirk, Spock, McCoy) as central characters whilst almost ignoring everyone else.

It has Kirk as the big Hero.

There's a fist fight, a hand phaser fight, there's some "alien animals" (horses with a horn on their heads but not unicorns). There's a weird "sexy" alien lady.

The Klingons are along for the ride. Who and why? Doesn't matter. He wants to fight The Enterprise!

In all this, Spock has another family member he forgot to mention, and a Giant Alien Head (of dubious special effectness) is sending telepathic signals across the universe and Spock's Brother hears him.

He steals the Enterprise and everyone's brainwashed into doing weird stuff Except Kirk And Friends.

Kirk ends up arguing with an energy being pretending to be a god, before they shoot him in the face and beam up. They have a laugh with the Klingons about how things would be good if we were friends, and they warp away.

Oh, also they travel to "the centre of the galaxy" and meet The Great Barrier - not to be confused with "the edge of the galaxy" and "The Galactic Barrier" but in both instances they travelled the distance in hours when it takes decades but whatever.

I mean, hell, it even features a sentient computer sent from ancient earth that has picked up emotions - only luckily this time Klaa kills it before anyone notices (it screams when it gets hit - it's an in-joke to V'Ger)

That's Star Trek: The Original Series in a nutshell. That's every episode of Star Trek ever, in a movie.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier represents "Star Trek" better than any other film in the franchise.

Star Trek Insurrection for TNG is similar - that is "the best" TNG film; that is what happens when you put a TNG episode on a big screen. Just as Star Trek 5 is what you get when you put a TOS episode on the big screen, with Insurrection you've got a magical tech thing that gives super-powers, a renegade Admiral working with The Enemy, a Peaceful People that are having rights violated, a moral dilemma, a crappy space fight, bad special effects, something to do with cloaking devices and holographic "primitive race" techniques... and in the end we all learn a lesson. That is TNG on the big screen. Insurrection is the closest to TNG than any oth

Normally, it works fine.

Join team, travel somewhere, pop out with em.

But since Odyssey, my other half and I can't, no matter what, stay in the same instance.

We've tried relogging, travelling to a different planet, changing systems .... literally everything.

He can't even travel with me in Betsy because either he gets stuck in the countdown after I launch, or he gets stuck in Witchspace before crashing out.

Please. Just give us an option to change instance, to join the friends we're playing with.

There was nothing wrong with the old one, now I can't see what ship is loaded with what modules unless I make that the active ship. that useless little scrollbar at the bottom of ship pictures THAT DON'T LOOK LIKE MY SHIP is infuriating to use, find the stored items thoroughly confusing. At this point I think I'm going to load up Horizons when I need to do ship management, just because the UI is so bad.

Edit: and holy shit it's intuitive fitting weapons and internals, I can hardly tell if I'm buying, selling or swapping a module

Sometimes a few months can feel like years, and my bet is that many reading this will recognize this feeling in regards to the BSC scene lately. (This is especially true for HOGL, the project that with lightning speed probably has set a record for amount of CEX's per week to get listed on. What a pace!)

But for all the lucrative fun and games in the scene, we’ve all seen numerous problems plaguing the space, from expensive and improductive business models on launchpads, sniper bots, and BSC dexes (Pancakeswap) pushing through a counterproductive v2 liquidity update.

All of these are issues that have hampered the long-term growth for good projects, and even though projects more oriented towards ”launch and leave” will always exist, a good number of good ideas that could have thrived have had one unnecessary spanner in the works thrown into their machinery.

For weeks, $HOGL has signalled professionalization and serious development work, with HOGL dev – Sean – announcing doxxing and setting up a formal business operation to guarantee the success of the project, with numerous partnerships with big social media channels and the development of a NFT marketplace, and instrumental to the establishment of the ”BSC Alliance”, connecting fair and trusted devs from several projects. However, in a Medium article from earlier this week, Sean is now clearly signalling that HOGL aims even higher:

>”Today, we are incredibly excited to announce the development of HOGL’s very own presale launch platform. Right now there is not enough competition for this market. HOGL will be similar to DXsale with lower base fee’s than DXsale/Unicrypt and the fee’s will also be locked in vestments to ensure projects can thrive without early sell pressure from the launchpad thats supposed to be helping.
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>We will also be implementing rewards for people who hold HOGL, more details will be provided soon. Currently it is likely we will allow a partial payment in HOGL that will be burned.
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>HOGL has already onboarded multiple developers to work on this project over the coming month. It will be a clean, modern, safe, direct competitor to DXsale. Our aim is to do everything they have done, but bigger, safer and better.
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>We want to make sure that DeFi is here to stay, with such limited options for launchpads, those that are prominent are easily able to take advantage of both developers and consumers, HOGL’s launchpad is aiming to be e

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1. Nuke eject! Do ittttt. Will save your arse in desperate situations.
2. Warp fall kit. Also: do itttttttt. Landing warp fall kills won't cause nuke titans to eject. The shield thing is dumb and mostly slow.
3. Grenadier mains: Softball rocks. SMR rocks.
4. Angel City: Use a sniper rifle like the kraber or DMR on top of the billboard tower to snipe mortar spectres.
5. Kodai: In the first wave use a pulse blade main to illuminate enemies. Your support score will often rival or over-shadow your combat score, giving you mo' money to spend on traps and whatnot.
6. Electric smoke grenades: The AI is dumb and will run into the cloud. Satchels are good for wrecking some titans though.
7. Grapple mains are great. You often need to traverse the map quickly. Learn to slingshot yourself.
8. A rifle with a threat scope is great on maps with lots of smoke grenades.
9. Enhanced auto-titan is dumb. You should never leave your titan unless it's for something important like fixing a turret. Nuke eject always.
10. Titan terminations are slow and dumb UNLESS: You're Monarch with battery thief, OR you need the temporary bit of invincibility to survive a hairy situation.
11. You can grab and pull stalkers to you with your grappling hook.
12. You can hitchhike on plasma/cloak drones with your grappling hook(v fun).
13. Legion is a BEAST. Only Titan I run with overcore. The executioner perk on short range instakills low health titans, bypassing the doom state. Meaning it can kill several enemies at once, and it won't make nuke titans blow up if you time it correctly.
14. Ronin has a ridiculously overpowered core once you hit Aegis level 24. Pair with highlander kit for basically unlimited swordcore time + infinite shields.
15. Monarch is awesome. I run her with "counter ready". Her best weapon is the smoke, no joke. Spam that smoke, steal batteries as needed.
16. Northstar: Run piercing shot or twin tether traps. The former for "alley maps" like Rise. The latter for more open maps like Homestead.
17. If you're Ronin, use swordblock while phasing so you don't blow up on exit.
18. Ronin: Use phaseshift while reloading to effectively make yourself invulnerable for a short while.
19. Northstar: Flight core kinda sucks against titans as it leaves you too exposed.
20. Play to your teammates strengths. For example if you're playing with a Monarch main, leave enemy titans in a doomed state so they can steal the batteries.
21. Don't walk in front of your teammates. Especially N

Last night, I had the misfortune of having my DBX nosedive into the ground and self destruct whilst gathering mats in my SRV during another exploration journey.

After posting about it, one helpful soul (/u/TheOfficialRadium) suggested I reach out to Frontier support. Well not only did they respond within 24 hours, they reinstated my DBX so I could call it in and escape the planetary confines - without losing the hours and hours of exploration data is accrued.

As I'm posting this, I've just left the planet and continued my journey to unlock my exploration Elite.

Support teams usually don't get much recognition, but in this case they definitely deserve it.