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@miki funny enough, this is the only trek game I've liked so far. There's something about attack wing that's just... awesome (might be because of the special dice. The attack dice are 8-sided with 3 sides which hit, one which is a critical hit, 2 blanks, and 2 "battlestations" symbols. The Battlestation symbols are normally misses, but if your ship went to battlestations they count as hits (the defense dice are sided similarly, with battlestations results which can be converted the same way but into evasive maneuvers). Target Locks can be spent to fire your weapon upgrades, or if used with your phasers you can spend the target lock token to re-roll your misses. very flavorful representation of the show

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@miki this game is really fun though. We replayed the Mutara Nebula battle from Wrath of Khan, but thought it would be cooler to have 8 players duke it out as two teams of four. My side won and I'm happy to say I emerged unscathed

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@miki in this game you have to set maneuvers on your ship's dial, reveal them as you move, and use templates to represent the move. There's a lot of strategy involved; for example, you can't pre-measure the table so if you're not careful you may bump into an asteroid field, or even an enemy ship

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@miki nope http://wizkidsgames.com/startrek/star-trek-attack-wing/

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@miki cube's coming out this year. If you try the game out you'll see all the ships have very interesting abilities that make them unique. For example, the Enterprise D is the only ship with a 360-degree firing arc (until the borg come out, but theirs will be different), the Defiant doesn't really take any critical damage, and the Excelsior gets a special Scan ability for free.

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@miki eh, forgot to @-reply you

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@scootaloo123 bai

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@miki it's the coolest game I've played to date. The starter set comes with three ships that can play against each other, some maneuver templates to represent banks and turns, and special dice. You choose your ships, and put captains, crew and other upgrades on them. Then you duke it out with a friend on a 3'x3' play area. The set even comes with a planet and asteroids that you can set up for the game, but you have to be careful not to run into them

Crusader 8 That really annoying kid you know

@scootaloo123 I can play every character. I'm only good with four characters.

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@miki I played the Star Trek Attack Wing today and actually used the Red Shirt crew upgrade, and it promptly got disabled by my opponent's ship

Crusader 8 That really annoying kid you know

@scootaloo123 my fave is King Dedede

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@snowcone or at least, I feel based on your language that you dismiss my argument as unrealistic because you're throwing the "X will always happen" defense

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@snowcone You may not be directly ver batum (sp?) saying it's not people's responsibility to follow the law, but you've been giving me rebuttal after rebuttal every time I try to say or suggest that it is the responsibility of each person not to commit crime. Your general suggestion which can be inferred from your responses, is, "it's not going away, so the responsibility lies with potential victims." At the very least, even if you are not trying to say that, since we are discussing a problem your end thus far seems to be a resignation to the risk-reduction solution. solution is a misnomer of course, because as long as individuals only try to reduce the risk, of course said acts of violence will always occur. There's a difference in saying something automatic will always occur (like gravity) and something involving a decision will always occur. maybe you already do, but you seem dismissive of any argument I make that we should actually solve problems and not treat symptoms.

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@snowcone actually "therefore prepare for x" was your claim (on a side note) so my phrasing was still correct. I'm not sure whose position it is that the rape statistic will never change, or who decided it was the default position (because anyone can call their own position the "default position") but if it's a claim they have to prove it. I dont have to disprove it wont change, if they say it wont change they have to show why.

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@snowcone another thing too, and here's an analogy I hope you enjoy, but I shouldn't need to be expected to wear a bulletproof vest when I walk outside. If I agree that I have the burden of responsibility to reduce my own risk as a victim, and it's not the responsibility of others to *not* shoot me, then I should always wear a vest since I should expect that people will always try and shoot me no matter the law or how much society discourages murder.

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@snowcone I had to go to sleep. I'm taken aback by your argument is that "there will always be X, therefore, my claim." If you were saying "there will always be thunderstorms, so we should use umbrellas" I would have no issue. This will sound like hyperbole, but I challenge you to defend your argument that there will always be violence in the world. you may not mean this, but what you're saying will "always happen" is based on people choosing to do these things. I know you just said that your argument doesn't mean we shouldn't try to stop it anyway, but I really would like to hear how desensitizing violence into an unpreventable statistic does anything towards understanding it, stopping it, helping people avoid it, or helping develop social awareness as to decrease likelihood of people rationalizing that it's okay to do such things. you and I could agree it's true, but if society agrees that violence never goes away, it helps justify the actions of members in that society.

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@snowcone you understand that any attempt to explain that Y's behavior cause X to do such-and-such to Y is still saying it's Y's fault? You may not intend it to be that way, but that's how it ends up being. Suppose Y did not do the things one claims "raised her chances", would X still act against Y? If yes, then the correlation is unfounded, if no, then you are saying her actions caused it and shifting causation to the victim. If what she does can't be helped, but neither can he, only one of them is doing harmful and thus the aggressor is still solely to blame. Or if she can't help her mixed signals, but the man can still choose and does so, it is still solely his fault and she's done nothing wrong. Trying to deliberate body language and things that raise or lower chances misses the point that the aggression resulting is irreversible and largely unpunished, and surprisingly defended by our society.

Crusader 8 Matt

@mrmattimation I may have been too riled up from previous convos to detect sarcasm. I literally just got back from my friend's house and we were talking about how close Ken Ham is to setting back our country another few hundred years in education

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@mrmattimation are they chocolate

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@mrmattimation my programming cannot detect these "jokes"

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@mrmattimation doesn't excuse bullying behavior of others. When group X commits wrongdoing against victim Y, and you try to justify actions of X by suggesting/claiming qualities/traits of Y solicited clearly immoral actions, you are victim-blaming and adding to the problem. It's like when stupid men say "well she wouldnt be ****ed if she wasn't wearing that short skirt" society's pigs try to make it the victim's fault and excuse degenerative acts of immorality.

Crusader 8 Matt

@mrmattimation it's mostly the older, more socially inept internet dwelling bronies who act like that. This is literally a kid. I highly doubt he was mouthing off brony indoctrination.

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@xeleanorxrigbyx If I bully you for your kind of shirt, and the authority over both of us bans your shirt, what message does this send? what a bunch of idiots.

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@oracle no one can ever try anyway according to a green swamp muppet

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@snowcone Are you talking about the Man Trap, where the guy's wife was replaced by a salt monster?

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@snowcone I hate how in spooks-are-real stories, the skeptics are made to be either idiots or buttwipes. Then they act even dumber when they're forced to acknowledge the supernatural. In real life, a true skeptic would be intrigued by honest physical evidence of the supernatural