Trekie Gulchers?
With the significant response to the "Leonard Nimoy Dies" post, I am now quite curious how many of us Gulchers also call ourselves Trekies?
I'm certainly in.
I'm certainly in.
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What about Python?
We have the universe to discover and O'Neill habitats to build.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Neill...
http://www.ozmirage.org/anic/?p=224
"the order of the day is to work hard, play hard, enjoy the fruits of our labor, and live the good life, building prosperity, one space ship at a time." (at least until manufacturing ramps up, that is ;^)
I got into Piers because my first judo instructor (sensei) also taught Piers judo, and he is mentioned in some of Piers' books. So...I had to read everything he wrote after that.
I did like the one about the devil though "For Love of Evil". In the end, after all the other incarnations have been plagued by all the powerful and mischievous stuff the devil has done, as the human prepares to take over for the outgoing devil, the outgoing devil tells the new devil the secret to being the devil. "You just have the ability to lie".
Which Anthony did you read? If you liked the Myth books, his first couple of Xanth novels, beginning with Spell for Chameleon might appeal to you. They are just loaded with puns about Florida ... I mean Xanth. I read all his stuff from 15-20 yrs old. It might not appeal to me as much anymore either.
He is a cool guy. My son wanted to be an author, and also read all Anthony's stuff. He wrote him, and Anthony responded right back, with some encouraging words about becoming an author. I think he may have offered to read a draft.
Yes, Robert Asprin’s Myth series. It’s been quite a few years since I read that series as well. I did start with a book from the Xanth series. I don’t remember the title; I just know I didn’t finish it.
I thought I try the series you mentioned earlier. That’s cool he wrote back. I'm that way with Orson Scott Card. I loved the Ender’s series, but I could never get into the Seventh Son series.
Really liked Enders Game and the follow-on books, following Ender. My son wants me to read the branch following Bean. He says it was all about Bean. However, after my boy led me astray with the Brent Weeks' Way of the Shadows, I'm not jumping in (fine first book, with inverse deus ex-machinae ending, then a dive into the sewer to make sure the series continues).
I quite liked Peter Brett's the Warded Man series. Some very tangible characters, not just elites. Also a clever twist on how the world works. Hope he works out an ending that isn't just silly.
'Kinda' want to read'em again,
don't want to 'hafta' buy'em again.
"Looks like I'm going to have to but the White Album again." -- Agent K, 'Men in Black'
The two shows I was not allowed to watch were Star Trek and Dark Shadows. So, of course they shaped my childhood.
http://kli.org/
Loved it when they made Klingons into something interesting and potentially viable as an institution of Darwinism in the New Generation, rather than a caricature of the USSR, as fun as it was to hate them.
Can you actually play 3D chess?
Have you actually engaged in a table-top battle simulator?
Did you ever play any of the old unlicensed RPG's?
Have you ever attended a convention? Did you get autographs?
Can you even answer the question: Kirk or Picard?
Did you ever engage in the CCG (collectible card game)?
For me, the answers are:
Yes.
Yes. Still have the original one that got banned by the official Trek memorabilia store.
Yes. Have it, but noone to play with. :(
No. Never have had the money.
Nope. This one's a trick question ;)
Yes. By far the hardest card to get was Data.
I can honestly answer yes to every one of those.
Whether that is good or bad is anyone's guess.
Star Fleet Battles was one of my favorite tabletop games ever. My friends forbade me to play Romulans or Klingons with cloak because I could pull an ambush on anyone. :)
The people I played with preferred the FASA Starfleet Combat Simulator to Starfleet Battles for more realistic play and better matchups. I agree that in Starfleet battles the cloak was pretty tough. In the FASA one, the Klingon Bird of Prey was the only Klingon ship with cloak and it took some real luck to tangle with the Constellation- or Enterprise-class heavy cruisers and live. Probably the nastiest ships were the Federation and Romulan battleship classes. We had fun using those against outposts.
We also tried playing a double-blind - a cloaked Bird of Prey vs a cloaked Romulan Warbird. We had to abandon the cloaks because it was almost impossible to guess where the other person was!
We all enjoy that, me most of all. I wind up running the game so I am not restricted to one character, I get to play all the NPCs. Its a bit of work, but its also a ton of fun.
Although MS managed to make the "reverse compatibility" a gold plated exercise in frustration if you are more than 2 OS versions ahead. So it would take some serious tweaking to work on Win7 and I don't know if it will work on Win8 at all.
I have an Autographed Warf picture.
Did attend a convention for 1 day in college.
No simulator, RPG or CCG.