John the Ripper

Greetings once again my friends, I'm so so sorry that I dropped off the site for a few months. I was just sooo caught up with school, and home life, and everything else in my life that I couldn't find time for this. Now hopefully, I will be able to come back with at least some regularity now that school is almost over.

Can we at least spare the Russian mail-order brides themselves?

Speaking of which, when did you get those emails? I've had email for like 3 years now and I've never gotten a Russian Bride offer.

*Complete Edit* yeah my idea would be pretty much Freelancer but with Star Trek, on foot controls, and customization up the wazoo.

So I was sitting in my room incredibly bored when an interesting idea came to my head, what if someone did an Oblivion style RPG in the star Trek universe? Think about it a first person view from a super customizable character, going around the Star Trek galaxy doing long intricate side quests one foot, in their customizable and fully explorable ship, anywhere. To top it off they could be able to do nearly everything. Sick of the Federation and their rules? Join the Romulans or the Klingons. Don't like them either? Go rouge and become a pirate. But unlike Oblivion, if you join a certain faction, say the Klingon Empire, it actually affects interations with Key NPCs. Blow up a few Romulan Warbirds or join a faction they hate, and they might put a bounty on your head and Romulans on space stations or planets will either ignore you completely or maybe even attack you, and the possibility for a really awesome quest will go right out the air lock. But unlike Oblivion where you can simply do a fetch quest or some speechcraft and get out of it, this will very hard to change, lie if you want to defect to the romulans you need to like level an Earth city or something. But that's not something you can do over and over again if you try to do it more then once both factions will be unhappy with you.

And the best part, your actions might effect everything, so if you say, destroy a major space station (Something that would require help from NPC allies), it will effect the economy or defencive capabilities of one of the planets or even the entire system and next time you come the place could be an all out war zone or be the home of a completely different species that might try and wage war on your faction. All of this driven by a randomized AI director like in L4D so that one planet in one playthrough might not be there in another, with the only real constant being certain VERY important people places and ships (I mean who wouldn't want to meet up with the TNG era Enterprise and fight romulans?). Does this sound good to anyone?

Because they wanted to make a running joke that would last for centuries? But in all seriousness, pretty much what the guy above me said.

You can add TrekkieGirl to the list. Sent me a PM today with a link to coloholics.com or some such nonsense. Let me know if I should forward the PM to someone. Thanks.

I got one to, I've only gotten two spam messages so far but dear lord they are annoying. Thank you for nuking the annoying little {Can't use that word on these forums} guys.

Yeah that movie looked AMAZING, I thought I had seen some good graphics in my day but DAMN. I have to say I liked Zoe Saldana better in Avatar, its mostly cause she was stepping into such a humongous set of boots with Star Trek and the writers didn't really do Uhura justice if you ask me. And the fact that she was a blue alien cat person in Avatar sort of helped a little.

Get Mass Effect first, then get Dragon Age, they're both really really good.

hello everyone have you missed me? Sorry I sort of dissappeared like that I got really caught up in a bunch of pre-christmas stuff and then Christmas stuff, and then I got into some family stuff it's complicated. So has anything big happened since I've been gone?

HELLO!!! I'm back, sorry for being gone so long, I was sort of grounded for a bit, and then I had a whole bunch of Holiday stuff I had to do. So how is everyone doing?

I just saw it, now THAT'S a trip, usually you need a few illegal substances to see what Bones saw.

*EDIT* Scratch that I found what you were actually talking about (You were talking about the song white rabbit, right) and that's some crazy stuff.

Alice Cooper is good but I'm not so much a fan of Rob Zombie. Ohh yeah you know what I just found out? Canada is officially awesome, for it is the birth place of William Shatner (You guys probably already know that, but I think it's cool).

I've never been one for grunge rock, it's pretty good (There are very few music styles that truelly dislike), but my favorite is classic rock like the Beatles, The Who or Queen (Queen kicks all kinds of ***).

Leila have I mentioned that you are awesome? Cause this has cemented it a bit more for me.

I've always wnted to go to Canada, but I don't have the time, money, transportation, or legal papers to go to another country.

I wonder what will happen first: Me bowling a 300 game or me winning 2 consecutive Minesweeper games in expert

I've never understood the scoring rules of Bowling, but good for you.

That is one of the oddest things I've ever heard about.

Ohh well if you're up in the mountains that's a different story, I'm down in the desert.

I'm in Southern California and all it did was rain here.

It's just that no one seemed to notice, so I assumed that no one was paying attention.

Well I'm not even close to an expert, but if my knowledge means anything that's a pretty good deal. The decision is yours but I'd probably take it if I had $160, and a place to put it.

Yes sir that would be the one, it's my favorite poem.

The latest sci-fi need edge-of-the-seat action? The difference between us and them:

 

Star Wars will invent six cultures to hop into spankin' new and very cool starfighters to bust up the galaxy's latest terror.

 

Star Trek will invent one culture that disallows its women to wear clothes.

 

And Stargate will take Star Trek's culture so that they can nuke the bad guys that are forcing this culture's women to wear clothes.

Leila you are simply awesome. Also did no one know the poem I posted?

My favorite of Poe's wokrs follows thus

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea;

But we loved with a love that was more than love -

I and my Annabel Lee;

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsman came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulcher

In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,

Went envying her and me

Yes! that was the reason

(as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we

Of many far wiser than we

And neither the angels in heaven above,

Nor the demons down under the sea,

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,

In the sepulcher there by the sea,

In her tomb by the sounding sea

Yeah I love the old nintendo games, but I find it really hard to play the 2-d ones.