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Techies and Trekkies Unite!
emmetropia writes: "Startrek.com has announced that there is going going to be an Online Convention in early August. Every attendee will be able to make themselves look like any of your favorite ST species, Borg, Klingon, Vulcan, Terran, Ferengi, etc etc. The servers for the event are supposed to be able to handle up to 100,000 users, which would mean a rather large convention, let's just hope it doesn't suffer the same fate as Final Fantasy. With full 3D conventions here now, can a holodeck really be that far off?"
UGH! No Linux/Mac interface. Geesh, they should of just used the Quake 2 engine instead. You know that was portable.
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Oddly enough, I'd fucking kill myself before going to a Star Trek convention - virtual or real.
Is there a more pathetic breed of fans than Star Trek? (Ok, ok, Open Source fans come close). Sad, fat, smelly wankers who think that Star Trek is, like, really high-brow... and that people who watch it are somehow more enlightened.
Hey lamers: Star Trek is TV for thickos; it's soap opera on a starship with story lines that mangle theoretical physics almost beyond recognition (to make their wannabe nerd fans feel clever) and mix it with trite moral lessons (to make wannabe philosophers feel superior). In truth Star Trek is a bland mushy paste designed to be fed to shut-ins unable to cope with the complexities of the real world and real relationships, and who don't have the brains to really understand the scientific concepts so dreadfully abused by the writers.
Oh yeah, and Gene Roddenberry... he was a hack ... and not a very good one.