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The artifact was sold to the Weston and Thomson families for $18 million after the fur-trading-company-turned-department-store's collapse last year. Within 24 hours of the December purchase, they donated it to the Manitoba Museum, the Archives of Manitoba, the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ont.

 

Among the other sessions will be a conversation with actress Jeri Ryan, known for her role in the Star Trek universe, about contemporary female role models in TV and in science fiction in particular, plus a chat between Zucker and Nicholas Meyer, director of several Star Trek films. The festival will also host a special preview screening of an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The fourth season of the series will debut, following the event, on July 23, on Paramount+.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I enjoyed a couple of seasons of Ben Sisko's heavily-implied-to-be-dead dad.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Obviously you're going to cloak the facility where you keep your most hardened criminals.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Here is also the post with the arrival that I didn’t cross-post here because I wasn’t sure it was related to this comm. I think this one is also a bit on the off-topic side

Strong disagree - stuff like this is a core pillar of a healthy community.

And hey, if you ever have any non-Trek projects that you think Trekkies might nevertheless find interesting...well, that's exactly why c/quarks exists.

And kudos for this. I could never have the patience.

 

National strategy, which could be revised, is light on details for AI safety

In the newer content, things are scaled up to about 150% of normal size, which seems to me like a pretty good balance between accuracy and playability.

The older content? Not so much...

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The article says exactly what they wanted to do...

It was only recently that I learned that programmable matter has been a (theoretical) concept for decades - pretty cool if there have been some new developments in the field.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I play a lot of NMS. I don't know if it's going to scratch your specific itch, but it's a lot of fun if you can get on its level.

YMMV, but I think it's pretty light on grinding. I log in for maybe 10-20 minutes a day, and am able to keep up with whatever events are going on just fine. The story episodes are much longer, but you can go through those at your own pace easily enough.

As for the stuff in the article about the game being a little dated and clunky after all these years...that's a big "yup" from me.

It's not exactly what you're describing, but I have an absolutely miserable time with the generic, one-word titles that seemed so prevalent in the '90s in particular.

"Vortex"

"Whispers"

"Emanations"

"Resolutions"

"Anomaly"

And on and on and on...

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That wasn't my take - collectibility is a pretty core component of CCGs, but that can be accomplished easily with basic probability tables, without any blockchain bullshit.

My biggest concern is what they're going to do to monetize it - this sort of game is pretty prone to exploitation.

Something like the Marvel Snap model could be pretty good, though.

I've heard nothing but good things, and should really catch up.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fun!

Star Trek IV is a bit of a left-field choice, but I'm not mad about it.

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