Is it just me, or are the following instructions extremely stupid?
> Describe a religious, social, academic, or community ritual or ceremony that you know well. As you write, pretend you are producing a multisensory documentary by describing what you have heard, seen, felt, tasted, and smelled. In other words, be as objective as possible; do not include personal responses to what you have experienced.
@Jolenealaska - I'm so tempted to put a comment under yours, something like "You don't need a plasma steriliser if you've got a nuclear reactor you can put it in".
"Federation ship Enterprise, surrender and prepare to be boarded!"
I love this scene in Yesterday's Enterprise and have frequently considered the possibility of Worf delivering that line. Michael Dorn's voice would have been instantly recognizable to fans (that's always fun, to be a bit more in ...
I like Star Trek, but that's too in depth for me :)
I'm fairly sure the only answer to the question has it right
In other words, you care about it more than the writers ;)
I saw one of the best episodes the other day, I don't recall the name, but it's where Picard is captured by the Cardassians, and the Cardassian torturer tries to make Picard admit there are 5 lights when there are only 4
> Actor David Warner took over the role of Gul Madred on three days' notice. He couldn't learn his lines in that short time, so he had to use cue cards. "Every line I said, I actually was reading it over Patrick Stewart's shoulder or they put it down there for me to do it. After I finished it, I thought it worked, which obviously it did."
@ElendilTheTall "There are four lights" is one of the most iconic lines in all of the Star Trek universe. Sir Patrick Stewart is amazingly, incredibly, indescribably awesome.
Nobody (cast or writers) knew how it was going to end
Even keeping Sir Stewart for the next season was "in the air"
@ElendilTheTall the weirdness about the whole thing is that I am nobody there. It's funny how differently we are treated after we've paid a few "dues". Know what I mean?
@Jolenealaska Over in sf.se? Yeah, well. Science fiction and fantasy is a fractious topic at best, only marginally suited for an SE site, and the majority of its citizens show up, ask a single question, and then vanish forever.
But yes, coming to a new SE site is a bizarre experience. It's all so familiar, yet the policies and practices are subtly different and you have to re-introduce yourself all over again.
@BESW Hmm...I read every question tagged ST:TNG since that is the only subject I can discuss with any geeky knowledge. Of everything I'd really like to know about the thinking of the authors, the question that was closed is the one that fascinates me.
1. They were good spectacle, and vitally important in setting the stage for other films I like much better which wouldn't have ever been considered if LotR hadn't been such a success.
@BESW hmmm, ambiguous enough to pass, but you could've gained a distinction by denouncing them as the filthy money-grabbing rape of a masterpiece that they were. Proceed.
@BESW Also a pass, but you could have again gained a distinction by following Elendil's First Law, never eat anything with less than two legs or more than four.
I do the cooking for my family, but it's a combination of "healthy vegetarian," "simple, cheap ingredients," and "can't spend a lot of time in the kitchen" which I've found makes it hard for me to find a cooking community.
@ElendilTheTall "filthy money-grabbing rape of a masterpiece" Is the 1998 Les Miserables with Liam Neeson - Terrible, terrible film (despite excellent acting) - Hugo would be appalled.
Moderate heat, eggs at room temperature, non-stick egg pan (8" is good, with gently sloping sides) with a tight lid. Melt butter in the egg pan until it stops foaming. Crack your eggs into a bowl so you've got more control when you add them to the egg pan. Cook uncovered until just the bottoms of...
This is the kind of thing I do: brown rice in a rice cooker with onion, garlic, soy sauce, Tabasco, pepper, and imitation Worcestershire; sauté onion, garlic, carrot, and Tender Bits in olive oil (we have an awesome cast iron pan); mix together and fry to taste.
@ElendilTheTall I've recently heard that egg trick. I haven't tried it yet. I wonder if something related to that might be an answer to a question I just posted.
@Jolenealaska Very nice. Every now and then I think I should get a carton of eggs and do fun things with them, but twelve eggs between two people makes it hard to finish before they go bad.
@BESW A flat of eggs from the grocery...expiration date about a month out...sometimes I eat them long past that date...I keep them in the fridge...you?
> "Bricky Roads They Trappers Grass, Stoney Walls They Trappers Wind, Iron Stove It Trappers Fire. Trappers Is We By The Works Of Hands, And Forgets Us We Were Ever Free."
@BESW I would happily buy Betrayal at Krondor from that site, but I'm afraid it will be all buggy like the free downloads I have tried of that title. Have you ever installed and played games from that site?
Ok, knowing what you know about what makes a game fun for me (completely turn based is a basic requirement) What game would either of you recommend that tells an awesome story? Old graphics don't bother me at all.
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Riven is a puzzle adventure game and the sequel to Myst. Developed by Cyan Worlds, it was initially published by Red Orb Entertainment, a division of Brøderbund. Riven was distributed on five compact discs and released on October 29, 1997, in North America; it was later released on a single DVD-ROM, with improved audio and a fourteen-minute "making-of" video. In addition to the PC ...
@ElendilTheTall Name one game today which requires the equivalent of extrapolating the numbers 11 through 24 of a base-five non-Arabic numeral system from its first ten digits.