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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?"
Are any of the "real" characters going to be there virtually? And, if so, how does one know whether one is chatting up the real Beverley or an imposter?
mysql> select * from human where (human.trekkie=1 and human.techie=0);
Empty set (0.00 sec)
Oddly enough, treckies chances of getting laid at this convention are identical to those of getting laid at a real convention.
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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# Canmephians for a better Linux Kernel
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Rather than going to a traditional sci-fi convention where I would fail to get laid, I can attend an online convention and fail to get cybersex. Computers really have improved my life...
One of my favorite ways to have fun. I dress up in my Jedi robes with my lightsaber, and crash the real convetions. Had a friend who would dress up as Solo too. Damn the trekkies would go apeshit. But then we took it too far, and my friend started in on someone dressed up as Scotty about how the Falcon could outrun that ugly looking enterprise... The second largest ST convetion riot in North America.
Ouch.
Finally, I can look like a Terran!
What's worse? Not getting cybersex or finding out you just did it with some guy pretending to be a Ferengi female. *shudder*
With full 3D conventions here now, can a holodeck really be that far off?
Yes.
Next question?
Welcome to the future, ladies and gentlemen.
"To make apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." -Carl Sagan
Anyone else notice that this ST convention is going to be on the same three days (August 2nd - 4th) in Las Vegas as Defcon X is going to be? Drunk techies and trekies in Las Vegas = biggest, nerdiest party ever.
sigs are dumb.
As an avid fan, I was interested and decided to sign up. I happened to mistakingly clicked on their privacy policy and I found this buried in the bottom:
VCLLC may also sell, transfer or otherwise disclose user information, including PII, in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of substantially all assets, or other fundamental corporate change.
So, if they all of sudden become a porn spewing outfit, they have all those email addys and what they call "PII" (personally identifiable information -- like your address and phone number)at their disposal.
Stupid internet.
...to see a small groups of Vorlons crash the party and start talking cryptic trash to the trekkies. :-)
"How do you think this Convention is going to end?"
"In fire."
Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
With full 3D conventions here now, can a holodeck really be that far off?
Is it some unofficial rule that the last sentence in a story (either of the submitter or the posters making) has to be incredibly banal and idiotic?? This one about takes the cake...yeesh.