@hermit DS9 is fantastic. I really love that one and hope we get a hi-def upscale of it someday.
The less said about nu-trek the better, I think. It's funny - as fans we talk a lot about old episodes, good and bad, and stuff that was great or cringey from the old shows but no one - _no one_, talks about the new stuff except youtubers who make money by talking about how bad it is.
I think First Contact has some neat moments and if you like it, you should definitely watch the Enterprise episode "Regeneration" (S02E23), in which some Starfleet researchers find fragments, and inert Borg drones, leftover from when the Enterprise blew up the Borg sphere in First Contact. Even if you don't like Enterprise, make it a point to see this episode anyway. You can skip the country song opening of Enterprise though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs_0smiUVb4
@hermit I want to like it more than I actually do. Inmo that's when Trek started to become less cerebral and more focused on action and childish bursts of emotion, though some people will say that happened further down the line.
This is also just my opinion but visualizing the voice of the Borg as that severed head /queen is less interesting/frightening than a mechanical/distorted chorus of voices ( see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufHHzzMO7sM&t=80s)
I'd still rather have stuff at its level of quality rather than what we're getting these days. Thankfully I never saw all of Enterprise or Voyager so there is at least some "new" (to me anyway) Trek for me to watch.
@hermit It's hard for me to pick my absolute favorite so I'll list some of the ones I really liked, which are "Elementary Dear Data" (s02e03), "Chain of Command" (s06e10, s06e11), "Ship in a Bottle" (S06E12), "Gambit" (S07E04, S07E05), and "The Drumhead" (S04E21).
@Edge@deadheat Interesting. In addition to levels, Weiss also has the mechanic of your deck affecting them. Any time you do a deck refresh you take one point of damage but when are hit by an attack, there's a chance to Cancel Damage if you draw a certain special card from your deck called the Climax card. These can also be used for various other effects but some players only keep them in the deck to Cancel Damage.
When you take damage, cards are drawn from your deck into your Clock area to reflect the points of damage taken, and when the Clock is full, you level up (which sounds good on paper, but at level 4 you lose the game).
@Zerglingman@deadheat From what I just read it sounds like a hot-blooded anime battle. Which is cool. Weiss is a bit more random but with weird exceptions to the rules (Shiyoko cards can be played with any deck, Milky Holmes detectives keep pumping each other up, some decks can send your cards to the Memory Zone, etc.)
@Edge@deadheat Interesting. Weiss is heavily influenced by luck to the point that sometimes even non-meta players can win due to upsets. The object of the game is to force the opponent to level 4 (a losing state) but as their level increases, they are able to employ more powerful cards (lv. 3 and lv. 2 cards are more powerful than lv.1) which means that they become more dangerous as they get closer to lv. 4.
There are also joke cards that can't be used in the game. For example, the president of Bushiroad is a level 6 card. To use a level 6 card, you'd need to be level 6, but that's impossible as the game ends once one of the players has reached level 4. image.png
@Edge@deadheat To be honest, I'm not an especially strong player when it comes to Weiss. I mostly run waifu decks. I've made waifu decks for G4 from Milky Holmes and Yoshiko Tsushima (Yohane) from Nijigasaki. Eventually I want to make an all-blue deck for Kafuu Chino from Gochiusa as well, but I haven't had as much time to focus on that as I would like.
@deadheat As someone who runs Weiss Schwarz decks (note: Bushiroad makes a card game called Weiss Schwarz, in which you can make one IP fight another IP. If you want Star Wars to fight Godzilla, or Idolmaster to fight Love Live, etc. this is the card game for you), I would love to see Bushiroad carve out more of a space in this place. Right now I have to drive hours to another city just to find an opponent to clash against.
I can't comment on some of their other things like Buddyfight or Vanguard as I have not played them.
I'm not sure if this occupies the same space as Magic though. From what I've heard, that's more Force of Will, and I don't know if FoW is thriving here.
@deadheat Yes. They also make a lot of anime and other things for their IPs so voice actresses and actors for Milky Holmes, Milky Holmes Feather, D4DJ, Aqours, Nijigasaki, etc. are performing in this.
@beardalaxy@beardalaxy@SuperSnekFriend@LittleTom It's good but I think they should also offer the mods from the site via torrent. That way even if the site goes down the mods can still remain available.
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