![]() ![]() It's things like this, and the more direct ports from Stellaris, that make Infinite feel a little unfinished. Although to be fair that last one also happened in the show. Like a decidedly un-silent notification for a "silent alarm", or the strange bug that caused the voiceover to claim a character had died every five minutes, or the time I ended up with two Rikers. Something Infinite should have over any mod is polish, and while it does feel less clunky than New Horizons, there are still more issues than there should be at launch. It's also, paradoxically, the cheaper option if you don't already own a full deck of Stellaris DLC. This means, for example, that the Borg are more akin to the terrifying invader from nowhere they are in the show, rather than another player faction. Stellaris already has a Star Trek mod, so why should you pay for a game when a mod is free? Well Stellaris's New Horizons mod is a sprawling epic that covers the entirety of Star Trek history and every faction in the galaxy, while Infinite is focused on the Alpha and Beta quadrants of the Next Generation era, and frankly I think it's better for it. I once ended up in a situation where the Enterprise was valiantly holding the line against an unstoppable Borg sphere, only to be rescued by Benjamin Sisko commanding a fleet of Voyagers.Īt this point I have to talk about the targ in the room. Other major and minor Trek characters can also emerge in this fashion, meaning that, entirely organically, I once ended up in a situation where the Enterprise was valiantly holding the line against an unstoppable Borg sphere, only to be rescued by Benjamin Sisko commanding a fleet of Voyagers. Sending the Enterprise out to do various tasks will reward you with a Next Generation crew member, who might give you a generic empire bonus, or might physically appear as a recruitable leader. Completing the first step will reward you with a jack of all trades super ship that is equally adept at science, war and diplomacy. One of the best of these mission chains is the Enterprise itself. I've not actually ever come across someone like yourself who doesn't refute that, but is just basically being very nitpicky and IMO unrealistic.(Image credit: Paradox Interactive) Continuing mission Just because you want to jeer at people who don't know what you know doesn't mean there aren't other reasons to jeer at the same scene.Īs I said though, most people who jeer at the scene do so on the mistaken assumption that the software scene on screen didn't exist. > You specifically called out "older people even working in IT", which includes me. Same thing, with the only difference being Unix refers to a variety of operating systems not just one particular OS.Īnd you're making a big deal about how she probably wouldn't have known IRIX and all this, but that doesn't really make sense and it's extremely nitpicky. It's pretty similar to the hypothetical situation of a kid finding a mac and saying "This is a Macintosh, I know this" and using the finder to browse and look for a program to run. She didn't say she knew a program which exists on one version of Unix, she just said she recognized the type of system. > Knowing Unix is not the same as knowing to use a program which only exists on one version of Unix I don't think that's a ridiculous response to what you're claiming at all. I'm just disagreeing with you, and pointing out that IMO your point doesn't have much merit. > And you are being hard on me, and it's kind of ridiculous. The Hyperbolic Browser was the clear winner, with Windows Explorer coming in second, and the DOS command-line doing pretty well until it came to comparison questions like "Which planet is also the name of a car brand?" where both categories in the ontology needed to be compared. On a related note, The Great CHI ’97 Browse-Off was a non-rigorous head-to-head contest between different hierarchical browsers. ![]() Here's what the IRIX 2D file browser looked like in 1990: Just because you want to jeer at people who don't know what you know doesn't mean there aren't other reasons to jeer at the same scene. You specifically called out "older people even working in IT", which includes me. Knowing Unix is not the same as knowing to use a program which only exists on one version of Unix, and which was not distributed with the OS, and which was less helpful at file system exploration than both the 2d file manager and 1970s-based Unix shell tools. And you are being hard on me, and it's kind of ridiculous.
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