>> ^AeroMechanical:

I think I used to have one of those on my car.
proton torpedoes?

first i was like: stupid cowpokes don't know james bond can dish it out.
then i was like: ok, the attack on the street was kinda lame. well, the whole middle part looked too damn cheesy.
finally i was like: james bond gets photon torpedoes on his wrist?! cool. please torpedo indiana for the last 2 movies then plz make a new bond flick. the new bond is the best.

This won't always work. A better system is one in which the numbers are words as well. There was one I recall in which 1 was Tea (the T growing from the 1), 2 was Noah (don't ask) etc etc.
So to remember the banana you imagine it torpedoing a cup of tea. It worked for numbers greater than 10 and had a system for remembering large passages of text. It used to be advertised copiously in the British press.

@westy

I agree with you on some things, but I can't let you get away with saying Star Trek Online looks terrible, I played that game when it launched, and it looked absolutely incredible (Visually) The on-planet landscapes could've used a bit more work, but space itself was jaw-dropping at some parts.

Also, I don't know if it's just your rig or what.. but almost all MMo's have little-to-no stability issues a few months after their launch. WoW started off rocky.. whenever I played it though, I never had any lag spikes, same with my current LoTRO, previous FFXI, etc. The only exception to this was Vanguard, and that's because it wasn't finished before they were forced to launch it.. and because of that, never got the subscriptions needed to fuel its continuing development and if it hasn't already, will soon die a horrible painful death.

Anyway, back to STO, The game itself was all about star trek. They made their devs watch the entire series of every generation of star trek t.v. shows and all the movies before they were even allowed to talk about what they wanted to do with the game.

The ships were all inspired by trek-cannon, the quests had the exploration elements, and fighting of klingons, phasers, torpedos, even sexy mini-skirts. I don't see how you can really say that it had nothing to do with the universe.

Meh... Call me when they get photon torpedoes.

I don't understand why they didn't just wait until they were out of international waters and inside israeli waters and simply torpedo the whole thing. Or, like slightly more normal people, just wait to raid it until they were in their own water, then it could be justified unlike now when IDF is the aggressor.

>> ^conan:

Huh? If the Falcon was the sperm then what the hell were those torpedos?


The real father's sperm? The other part they left out was that they are swingers.

Huh? If the Falcon was the sperm then what the hell were those torpedos?

I don't think I'm ever going to hear the sound of the photon torpedoes firing in the same way ever again...

>> ^Raaagh:
>> ^StukaFox:
It's all fun and games until someone gives that cat a Zero and directions to Pearl Harbor!

That comment doesn't deserve an upvote.


You're more of a torpedo-bomber kinda guy, I take it?

"That SUV just cut me off!! Mr. Worf, fire a photon torpedo!"

>> ^rychan:
It's funny thinking of the entire Star Trek TNG cast driving themselves to work every morning. Hard to get an ego when you're fighting LA traffic every morning.

Reminds me of a mediocre book I've read roughly 15 years ago, "San Andreas" by Alistair MacLean. It's based during World War 2 and in it, the hero manages to ram a German U-boat with a damaged Navy hospital ship. The German captain simply was too eager and too much of an idiot.

Same here: if you're in a 45kts speedboat and get your bow rammed off by a bloody whaler, you're an overly eager idiot.

But maybe it'll escalate to the next level and they'll finally arm their Batmarine with mini-torpedoes.

^ The real person to blame was the Speaker who was unable to properly control his session, so I'll happily call him a pussy.

But when you get right down to it, generally speaking the vast majority of the Dems we have in office are pussies, for lack of a better word. They had a super majority, controlled both the House and the Senate with filibuster proof majorities, they could have ramrodded through ANY bill they wanted if they had just been willing to nut up say "damn the torpedoes!" and not worry about upsetting their corporate overlords. We could have had a fully funded, completely universal, national healthcare service the day after Al Franken was sworn in, if they only had the courage to do what is best for the citizens, not what's least damaging to mega-corporations.

Yeah they passed a healthcare reform bill, that has been picked apart left and right, in order to needlessly "compromise" with conservatives. Whether this bill will provide any real relief for the citizens of this country, will be for time to tell.

I personally have my doubts.

The official story is that he had maneuvers that night, loading the torpedo bay.

"We need a culture of courage in Washington instead of a culture of cowardice."

I couldn't agree with that man more. Democrats are proving over and over and over again that they are cowardly and I am becoming more and more and more disillusioned over my hopes for the Obama administration and a democratically controlled Congress.

Frankly, Obama's 180 on this (or perhaps more accurately 90 right turn) shows he does NOT have the courage of his convictions, and is willing to simply give up on something because it is hard. That is NOT the man I voted for and it eats me up inside to see him do this.

Goddammit, the one things modern "Republicans" have in spades is the cojones to take the bold steps and initiatives, dam the torpedos, and run in a direction until they by-GOD get what they want. Unfortunately they wanted a war for profit and the elevation of corporate profits over the safety and health of America's citizens.

If Democrats could find the same sack as Republicans had under GW, this debate would be over and done with. Use their tactics! Call supporters of the status quo unpatriotic, show up with guns to anti-healthcare rallies! Pay priests and pastors HUGE sums of cash to get them to tell their congregations Jesus would want public healthcare! Get country music stars to write songs for you! Christ people, republicans wrote the godsdamn playbook on this, just friggin COPY IT!