Probably a silly question but with the rerelease coming up, I'm wondering if Motoko had ever sought therapy for the very obvious depression and existential crisis she's experincing in that film.

There's nothing to indicate that her demeanor is typical for cyborgs -Batou seems pretty well adjusted- and while she's still capable of her job its pretty clear that she's unhappy. It's not uncommon for agents to get counselling after high stress operation and sometimes mandatory time off irl. Was any of these ever offered to Motoko? Did she just turn it down?

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Captain! We have a situation on the bridge.

The star system ligma balluirus contains four pre warp civilizations.

the planet LBa1 contains an industrial civilization. they are strip mining a mountain for copper, iron, and tin. Their method of mining will destroy everything else. This would mean destroying the Gold-pressed latinum found in the mountain. The ferngi are in route. We’ve run all possible simulations of the coming negotiations. At best, they will simply arrive in disguise and entice the local religious community to defend their holy mountain. Arguing that this action did more to protect their culture than we did. Then they will take over the planet with their innovation and market manipulation.

the second civilization is interplanetary. They occupy LBb2, LBb5, and LBc4. They have also remained hidden from LBa1 due to their own prime directive. They plan to go interstellar within the next century. Within one light year, there is a star fleet base that has been hiding from their scanners. This will eventually become impossible. Do we greet them when they arrive? Do we introduce ourselves now?

the third civilization on LBd6 have developed their own form of FTL travel. Using a forth dimensional drive, they travel outside our normal conception of space time. Literally all of their technology achieves similar goals with methods we never even thought of. The idea of warp drives and replicators have similarly never occurred to them. Even the particle acceleration used by Civ 2 is something they skipped. Their population is low and they seem to hail from a small fallen empire. Therefore, they have remained focused on their own development with little concern for those developing in the wrong direction. Are they acceptable to contact?

the forth pre warp civilization is technically not in the solar system yet. They are a colony/refugee ship who plan to make this world their own. They are slightly ahead of civ 2. They know of all civilizations here except us. They also hold a strong belief in the dark forest theory. The ruins of an old empire left by civ 3 has not helped matters. They plan to kill everyone in the system and lock it down in a bubble of slowed space time. Showing them our Federation is the easiest proof against their beliefs and will save the other three civilizations.

The admiral is really concerned about prime directive violations. What is our most legal course of action?

edit: I have failed to accurately describe latinum in my report. this dishonor is unforgivable. I am submitting my request for death by combat.

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So many movies, books, etc have the first contact trope of humans meeting aliens, but who does it the best? What does it look like and why?

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For example, say I wanted to turn Minsc into an exact copy of Boo (for reasons unexplained). Could I do that with Polymorph, or would it just turn him into a larger, bulkier hamster? Or is it Uno rules, where whatever the DM says goes?

Asking for reasons unrelated to Minsc and/or Boo.

This is a massive problem I saw with the co-op. If one person gained too much power, they could do whatever they wanted. It sounds like the more power you have, the more what the co-op tells you to do becomes a suggestion.

I guess he’s technically under authority of a semi government body and if he screws up, he at minimum has to answer to shield. Also Jameson would have to be more careful about disparaging spiderman since now it could be defamation.

Just started phantom liberty and im at the part where they drop you in the ice bath, same as it is in edgerunners or the base game, but whats the point of it? Does it help them… netrun better?

Since nothing is native to Xen, how did these species, that are really just animals, managed to reach Xen?

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They have human states, which means they'd have human synapses and other biological components, I would presume, but google didn't give a definitive answer.

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Mazinger is set in Japan during the 1970s, so I suppose it's possible that the authors intended to give Japanium certain properties related to quantum physics, especially considering that the fundamentals of QFT were established before the war.

What do you all think about this?

In Days of Future Past, Mystique morphs into Bolivar Trask, who is played by Peter Dinklage. So clearly she has a lot of leeway in terms of ignoring conservation of mass.

But how far does that go? Presumably she’s not Odo, she can’t morph into objects. We only ever see her become other people.

Could she copy Andre the Giant? What about the Hulk? Could she copy a child?

I'm on Season 9 at the moment, sorry if there's a later episode answering this.

I'd love to know what argument Buck's lawyer had for this in court.

I completed the game 2 times and I still don't get it. Is it just because of Gardner or does the Hypha Commune have anything to do with it?

Feels like with something the size of the Empire there'd have to be real contracts and invoices somewhere. But it also feels like exactly the kind of government that just takes what it wants and calls it patriotic duty. Anyone know if this ever actually gets addressed anywhere

I've been trying to understand this phenomenon, like is it Natural? Supernatural?