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Even at 16x, it's still well within safe background levels.

1 hour ago, TheGamingBaconator said:

you could even make him do hand gestures.

A the middle fingering possibilities...

7 hours ago, Psychotic Ninja said:

↑ You asked for it

You sure this time?

If it was a small tube, and they were doing more than just the CPU, and if it was only a partial tube, then it wouldn't be outlandish...

6 hours ago, Mira said:

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Hear hear!

5 hours ago, kerdios said:

There -->

5 hours ago, Psychotic Ninja said:

↓ Here

 

Well, which is it? Make up your minds!

Nice.

4 hours ago, Psychotic Ninja said:

Going for any excuse to be right, I see.

Where?

Ross may be getting additional support against the software as a service philosophy as a whole:

14 hours ago, kerdios said:

-1 implies it already passed, but it didn't, maybe you meant only sqrt(-1) days away? (I don't know how to add latex)

You apparently haven't dealt with going past the maximum 32-bit integer number (2,147,483,647) available to a PC... (this error is what causes currency/HP, etc maximum number restrictions in most games) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,147,483,647

4 hours ago, kerdios said:

May 35th

Only -1 days away...

6 hours ago, Annie said:

but marxism leninism as a political ideology has been the most effective thus far at eliminating poverty and liberating working and marginalized people.

In what way exactly do you measure these things?

6 hours ago, Annie said:

the u.s. is a fascist superpower and needs to fall for the betterment of mankind

[citation needed]

14 hours ago, Psychotic Ninja said:

When?

15 hours ago, Psychotic Ninja said:

I said no dammit!

 

Maybe you did, maybe you didn't. Who's to say?

8 hours ago, Psychotic Ninja said:

No

Maybe.

4 hours ago, kerdios said:

yes

Why? This such a good time for a maybe.

Did someone say no?

12 hours ago, kerdios said:

because of the hassle

You sure it's not because of the implication?

On 4/27/2020 at 5:05 PM, kerdios said:

I wish there was a way to watch those incognito, now I have to manually delete that from my history to avoid recomendations based on it

Why are you watching while signed in?

What?

16 hours ago, Ross Scott said:

It ALSO dramatically changes their development more than any other option. 

I'm really not convinced that it would change anything any more than the other options... Both sides of the conflict seem to have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, and while this does push things to change slightly, there really isn't any more or less change that could happen.

9 hours ago, Im_CIA said:

 

 

 

What a nice thing to say!

8 hours ago, Psychotic Ninja said:

Already did that... Now I'm in again.

17 hours ago, Ross Scott said:

I'd say we're in debatable territory here. 

Very true. If we weren't, this wouldn't be any fun!

17 hours ago, Ross Scott said:

Scenario A - sent the drugs + the parts:

That would have kicked the can down the road, but had almost no change to the culture.  You can argue the Federation would have artificially prolonged their unsustainable path, but the inhabitants may all but forget about The Federation and it would just delay things, not change the change the course of history drastically.  Culture contamination would be very minor.  Hell, this was what Picard was originally going to do anyway!  He didn't seem to think it was a violation of the Prime Directive initially!

Honestly, I think they would've had a much higher opinion of Starfleet if he did that, and the interaction would've been far more memorable to the society. I also think that's why he didn't do it, because it would've impacted them more than doing what he actually did.

Think about it... Positively or negatively influencing are both possible, and what he did comes about as close to neither positive or negatively influencing them as possible. He made Starfleet look like they wanted nothing to do with the situation, and made it obvious to both sides that Starfleet would not help them. He forced them to do things on their own, and prevented them from ever seeing Starfleet as someone they could "exploit" to further their societies.