Ah yes, I loved Lower Decks.

Just for handy reference, here's the prior article to which you are referring:

Yep, I was in fact living in Boston when this went down. I remember hearing about some kind of scare, and areas of transit being closed, then later that night finding out the real cause, to great amusement.

You captured my feelings pretty well. I also prefer Papa Johns for franchise pizza, but will order Dominos from time to time, and have come to truly despise any pizza from the Hut.

I have to say, I enjoyed their Pizza Tracker innovation when it first showed up at least 5 years ago, well ahead of the competition.

A Starfleet Academy series could really work, if they handled it right.

The article is missing any information on context, which puts the game in a very different light.

Add Google's augmented reality glasses and you could take it to the next level.

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Guide to multiple choice tests: It's C.

This mix of (western!) Barbie video games is relevant to your very sane arguments.

Yet I don't personally find that barbarian nonsense to be strength. If anything, convincing boys that strength should be understood in that manner (physical, uncivilized) makes them all the less prepared to succeed in the modern world.

There's a pretty good "historical" overview of the Directive at Memory Alpha that includes Kirk's various reasons for breaking it.

Sounds pretty dumb, but just to be fair, I don't find most of the male-centered RPGs any less dumb. "Let's pretend to be Conan the Barbarian" isn't inherently better than learning to master the social order of fetching a mate. Both are rather retrograde fantasies, and at least the latter has some bearing upon the…

As an integrated TV? I don't get it. I can't possibly envision that turning out successful. People don't want to buy a new TV set just for apps and whatnot. The TV itself is a big family decision, based on a number of factors like physical fit for the living room, and tends to be retained for much longer than small…

I think they'll just need to continually innovate in the area of filtering and searching, so that bad Kickstarter projects are out of your way when you're not looking for them, and those with real community support show up more prominently throughout.

True, point taken. I don't mean to be so strong towards the genre as a whole. I'm just reacting to her account of what pulled her into these games.

The bootstrapping idea of creating your characteristics in a vacuum—which I honestly find to be a particularly absurd ideological fantasy—is why I generally can't stand WRPGs.

Yeah, I'd watch Sextroid.

Board game adaptation are pretty much the only gaming I've enjoyed on my iPad (Neuroshima Hex!). It's the only genre that I find well suited to the device, and since it's just a matter of adapting existing games that are already well-designed on paper, the usual problem of less than impressive iOS devs is mitigated.