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thetrekkersparky

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  • "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

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  • I assumed it was a Patreon because of the name, but its still a for profit company asking their customers for donations in the form of a monthly subscription so they can sell you more games. You don't get anything tangible out of it, just a private Discord and a badge on your name.

    Its skeezy no matter how you spin it.

  • "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade

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  • Gog has been my preference for a few years now, but there's no way I'm subscribing to a patreon that gets me literally nothing. I honestly assumed at first you'd get something out of it at first, like a free game from the preservation program every month or something similar to Amazon Prime's giveaways. Its honestly cause me to start to re evaluate how much I purchase from them. Its kinda skeezy.

  • Steam alternatives?

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  • Its not Foss, but gog.com is based in Europe. It offers DRM free games. Lots of old games, but also tons of new games as well.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x07 “Ko’Zeine”

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  • This was most definitely my least favourite. Why show what Kionians look like in episode 1 when you're just going to make them all look human in episode 7. Just seems lazy to me.

    Genesis and Caleb's story was better, but seemed out of character for Genesis. I also disliked the suggestion that men & women can't be friends without falling in love with each other.

  • B.C. organization enters debate on government-run grocery amid rising food costs

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  • Meat from our local grocer is always at least 40-60% cheaper.

  • Did you know that the Internet Archive has classic sci-fi radio dramas?

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  • Nice. I'll give them a shot. Thanks.

  • Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy

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  • Its the best way. Its cheaper, you have plenty of user reviews to check first, and you get a completed game, without bugs.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x06 "Come, Let's Away"

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  • I'm starting to like the Venari Ral quite a bit actually. They seem to be more like actual mustache twirling pirates rather than a tyranical government masquerading as pirates like the chain was. I'm waiting for Calebs mom to be re-introduced as his right hand in the finale.

  • Trill Symbiont Lifespans

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  • I really like this take. I did get the impression that Dax is also kinda the wild child of the symbiotes too, for many of the reasons you listed. They are also very passionate about their friends. They chose to uphold a blood oath that even the Klingons didn't consider binding, they stood by Sisko for 3 lifetimes, they refused to break the confidence of one of Curzon's married lovers, at the risk of their life, and they protected Jake's book, for many centuries. They hold onto these generational bonds, even though its taboo for the Trill.

  • Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN

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  • AAA games are just too expensive and many are just not finished at release now. I'm not forking out top dollar for a half finished game. Outer Worlds 2 is still $89.99 CAD. That is absolutely insane in my opinion. I enjoyed the first one, but I also bought it on sale. Indy games nowadays are generally a better bang for your buck anyways and theyre only $30-40 regular price and they are also generally at a finished state or at the very least very honest about the state they are in.

    I'll probably pick the game up in 2 years when its $20 on Steam or something.

  • How long does it take for pregnancy to become noticeable?

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  • Or not a teenager worried and stressed out about how and when to talk to their parents or something.

  • Epstein Files Jan 30, 2026 Release - Archived from Justice.gov

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  • From my understanding nobody knows. The DOJ said it was already removed, but the NYTimes claimed they found 40 images of CSAM. The DOJ said they immediately removed them Saturday, but a lot of files that didn't contain CSAM were also removed. I've extracted the 101GB torrent and haven't come accross any yet, but there's a ton of files in there too. People have yet been able to download the entire ZIP and are trying to scrape everything individually as far as I know.

    As for the legality, I'm not a Lawyer and I don't live in the states, but It's all information that's been released to the public by the US DOJ as required by a court order, so it's a call that only you can make. With the amount of data that's already disapeared I'm personally choosing to host it regardless, and I'll seed whatever anyone else can salvage of dataset 9 too.

  • I can be considered Trekkie or just a viewer?

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  • From what I've been told Trekker was the OG term and Gene started calling fans Trekkies at conventions because he thought it sounded better. I don't know if it's true or not.

  • Epstein Files Jan 30, 2026 Release - Archived from Justice.gov

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  • I'm downloading 8-11 now, I'm seeding 1-7+12 now. I've tried checking up on reddit, but every other time i check in the post is nuked or something. My home server never goes down and I'm outside USA. I'm working on the 100GB+ #9 right now and I'll seed whatever you can get up here too.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso"

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  • I very much enjoyed this one. I've always loved Klingon culture and Worf was always my favourite main cast member. In TNG/DS9 we often saw a juxtaposition between Klingon honour and victory/power at any cost that often took over. I really found it heartening that Klingons post burn are willing to risk extinction for their culture when 800 years ago many wouldn't think twice to using dishonourable means to get a seat on the council.

  • How to Gently Move Your Non-Tech-Savvy Parents Away from American Big Tech (Without Starting a Family War)

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  • So my grandparents had somehow signed up for a free trial of office or 365 or whatever. They ended up getting locked put of opening documents because they didn't want to give the computer their credit card. I was able to fairly easily convince them that Libre office was the was to go. They were pretty thrilled.

    I'm thinking of giving them a linux PC to try out at some point as they mostly use it for Facebook and excel spreadsheets anyway.

  • The 2026 Linux Summer Games - Dankpods compares performance in games across Windows and Linux on 12 machines

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  • I understand why he did it that way, but I completely disagree with the assessment that was all an end user should do after installing a fresh is on a new PC. Whenever I start up a fresh install of Windows or Linux I always make sure everything is working properly before I really do anything else. Is my GPU working properly, is my printer working, can I hear sound, etc. I just assumed that was standard.

  • Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going?

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  • Its been 8-10 months I think. I haven't had any major problems that weren't caused or complicated by my own ignorance of Linux as a whole. I've learned a lot. I have gotten every game I wanted to play so far to run, one way or another. I set up my own home lab server for streaming and cloud storage complete with a VPN to allow remote access. I have also set up a Windows VM for some stubborn software that my partner uses from time to time (I honestly thought this would be harder than it was.) I also am in the process of indoctrinating several coworkers. I'm currently running 1 PC with Bazzite, 1 with fedora KDE, 2 with Mint, and a server running Ubuntu server and using casaOS as an interface.

    I've really enjoyed the learning curve. My future plans were to change my server from CasaOS to something else, and to build a new gaming PC and try CachyOS, but that might get put to the side while hardware prices cool off a bit.

  • Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a combat deep dive and release date

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  • I agree. Gaming has gotten to the point that its honestly better just to wait the 6 months, let the studio debug and actually have a finished product and then buy it when its 20% off.

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