Bro - they went out of business because A) amazon stole their consumer base and B) Mitt Romney’s vultures did a leveraged buyout where they made Toys R Us pay all of the debt service while he looted anything not bolted down and sold all of the real estate to themselves then leased it back to TRU at inflated no-bid prices.

Thanks for not just downvoting like everyone else. People take this stuff too personally.

Even in spite of my complaints, I’ll still watch it with the family. I’m just bummed out that the qualities that made Star Trek so endearing are watered down or lost to the changing tastes of a new generation of media consumers and the insufferable corporate assholes who just don’t get it.

Yeah I dont want to deal with nexus

The funny thing about when leopards eat republican faces is that they no longer have eyelids to close to the other atrocities that their despot inflicts upon us all

Still $40 for me. I’ll keep an eye out though. I dont like buying the same game multiple times so I’m definitely not paying full msrp.

Yeah my backlog is big enough that I never have to worry about Denuevo because if a game has it, I immediately lose interest.

It’s just action sci-fi with a thin veneer of star trek universe on top. What made Trek so good was how it could present a moral dilemma that required the human spirit and willingness to sacrifice for the greater good to overcome. It also had cool aliens and tech and shit, which new trek does fairly well. But really the thing that gets me is how bad the writers are. They’re inconsistent. They push endless fan service. They pander. They focus on action too much. They take the easy way out when it’s clear someone in the writers room attempted to sneak in a satisfying narrative only for a suit to ruin it for everyone. FFS Lower Decks had better stories than SNW because they were able to sneak them in under the guise of it being farcical (and lower budget meant less suit involvement).

Flashy technology to macguffin the solution to a problem isn’t satisfying to watch. Plot-armor-mooted-heroism against all odds to solve a problem isn’t interesting. The ensemble cast of Mary Sues doesn’t make for good drama. The thinly veiled fanservice fueled corporate cash grab is insulting.

Republican stranglehold on finances makes bollards price prohibitive.

Thanks for the heads up. Maybe if it hits sub$10 on Steam I’ll do that. It sucks I can’t get the DRM free copy on GOG to play with mods. I haven’t played since 2011 when I had a 360 and that was just vanilla.

As for yarr, I do for media files but never for executable code. I dont trust those fuckers.

On the topic of modding skyrim… is it possible to purchase skyrim these days in a form that is moddable? Even the GOG releases are all 1.6 or whatever that’s too new for the built in mod support.

It’s had a few good episodes. That’s why I said SNW is the best of the bunch. But it’s still a low ratio of good to bad. The current crop of executives, producers and writers need to go. The only way for that to happen is a hard reset on the finances.

It’s like when your grandmother is in hospice care on chemo. Sure, they can extend her life for a few months with drugs and invasive treatments. But what about the quality of her life? She’s bedridden in a soulless understaffed hospital that’s sole purpose is to suck every last insurance dollar out of her. Her family doesn’t want to see her in that state so she’s ignored and lonely and losing her mind.

That’s star trek right now. Let it die.

edit: then to further the analogy, we can reboot grandma again later with a better healthcare system

Not a troll. A real person with an opinion that new star trek doesn’t scratch that itch.

It’s not star trek. It’s all sci-fi flavored action with no moral dilemma or demonstration that the human spirit can evolve. Let it die.

edit: and shameless pandering to fans - looking at you Picard

I bet they said the same shit too “I understand you dont like this and want to protest it, but you inconvenienced me and therefore are wrong!”

SNW is the closest thing to Trek. I did enjoy Lower Decks. But otherwise… I’m OK with that. New Trek is pretty awful.

Thanks for posting but holy crap has Jim Davis been phoning it in.

Theoretically sure. But the regime he sold it to go toppled like three times over. So it’s not the same people anymore and the context he could provide is out of date and … checks notes still based on his treasonous actions.

Either option works if you pirate it to avoid giving Larry Ellison’s son money.

Hmm… could be either a fun take or a one trick pony.

I like roguelikes where you have to make difficult choices while only an inch from death. Vampire survivors was a bit too brainless for me to consider it a roguelike and that’s what they compare this against.

My guess is imbecilic war crimes. Easy to do that from the oval office.