“Speak softly and carry a big stick—you will go far.” If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power." - Theodore Roosevelt.

Greetings all. In preparation for the next STO content update, I've been playing around with the latest version of Raytracing on my STO Cinematic FX Rehsade pre set. Works well in game as well as taking screenshots. Pretty happy with the results so far. @thomasthecat.bsky.social

A reminder that Pride Month is every month! Happy July 🌈 #StarTrek #KLI #KlingonLanguage #KlingonLanguageInstitute www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAP0...

TOS-style hand held engineering tool made for DS9 Trials and Tribble-ations

a.co/d/08Hr5Ec6 @chriskempshall.bsky.social is writing an in-universe history about Star Wars fighter pilots. Literally a dream come true. If you haven't read his incredible RISE AND FALL OF THE GALACTIC EMPIRE, you've simply got to. I am sure this one will be just as good, with 1000% more pew pew

Notably quotable

*discussing a Rocky Horror clip with @thomasthecat.bsky.social* Thomas: who was the blond again? Me: that’s Rocky. Thomas: ohhh, I thought he was Frank-N-Furter Me: no dear, he’s actually Frank-N-Furter’s Monster

I love how someone did this as a gag comic but pretty much everyone who read it was like "This gets to the essence of who Batman is better than anything."

STO Players! Tribble has been updated with some polish to Sector Space related to Deep Space Encounters! We've lowered the brightness of the area map background and updated the icon visuals based on your feedback!

Man it'd be cool if @dropout.tv hired the folks from the recent G4 reboot to do their take on video game programming. The G4 reboot was so much fun.

One of my favorite shirts I have. DS9: The Far Side of the World. It was from a charity sale by @greatesttrek.com and based on a tweet by @thomasthecat.bsky.social

I had the great honor to interview Raph Koster about Star Wars Galaxies, its incredibly ambitious vision for a Star Wars sandbox MMO, and the infamous game design challenge of the "Jedi problem" Thanks @raphkoster.bsky.social for making the time and sorry it took so long for this to see daylight!

science besties! #startreklowerdecks #startrek

👑 photos by @thomasthecat.bsky.social 💜

K'vort head changes vs the normal B'rel:

K'Vort Birb update: another customization option will be included, thanks to @pundus.art

Our town held a ball last night and we looked real nice 💜 @thomasthecat.bsky.social

My latest piece "Nyota" is now available as a print on my shop! ko-fi.com/s/2dd53c0307

This Summer, remember what's important. The Risa Lohlunat festival is live now in Star Trek Online. Visit playstartrekonline.com to find out how you can help unadopted starfaring life. https://youtu.be/NIzVwAlSu04

New wallpaper drop 🚀 Shields up! Red Alert! This weeks its the red alert version of the Enterprise E Vessel Status Free download: lcarsworkshop.com #wallpaper #scifi #startrek #startrektng

A mighty entity becomes aware of tears in the fabric of time, as leaders of rival empires face a war in deadlock... ⚔️ #StarTrekOnline lore blog, this time written by the talented @lilinnaion.bsky.social ✍️ Incredible art by @albertcorderoart.bsky.social 🎨 www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/arti...

Shameless self-plug incoming 🫣 Thank you, @flothesnitchy.bsky.social and @thomasthecat.bsky.social for giving me this opportunity to write a lore blog and for revising and editing it! Thank you, @albertcorderoart.bsky.social for the super cool artwork to accompany it! #StarTrekOnline

Penegal arriving in Earth orbit… 😌💖

The people who shipped @thomasthecat.bsky.social and I are allowed to celebrate our canonization 😌💜

SCIENCE AND SWORDS MY FAVORITE

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This is a great deal on some of our most interesting ships like the Vovin and Cnidarian Defender! Also, a bit of trivia: I'm pretty sure the Risian Weather Control ship was one of the last from-scratch builds I ever did for STO!

A reminder that all of Volume I and the first seven chapters of Volume II are available in audio form.

PGI just keeps knocking it out of the park again and again and again with MechWarrior 5 - go support these amazing folks right now!

I'll never ever get tired of the mech bay in MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries, it's one of the most genious things to really let you sink into the scale and the atmosphere of running multiple missions and repairing and outfitting your massive battle-hardened mechs (also saying hi to Fahad)

Eyes in the Dark.

I created some textures for the Starfleet badge and decided to share with you all: www.patreon.com/diogovincenz... #startrek #textures #llap #starfleet #freeasset #asset

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I have 3 monitors and they all look like this

Marcel Vos excellent analysis videos of Rollercoaster tycoon really do show how under the hood a game really is a loooot of spreadsheets

"What's it like being a game dev-" "Spreadsheets." "So do you get to make a lot of coo-" "Spreadsheets." "But I bet it doesn't actually feel like wo-" "Spreadsheets."

Another texturing update. Close to the finish line with this one now: www.patreon.com/diogovincenz... #startrek #llap #ussenterprise #scifi #texturing #uvmap #starship

The ship that kicked off a new generation of Star Trek, the Kelvin arrives! youtu.be/_qrtsUyXclQ #STO #StarTrekOnline

“You may not understand because you’re centuries beyond anything as crude as television.”

I've been taking screenshots of the PC Dilithium Exchange for the #StarTrekOnline #DilExWatch, I just haven't posted any...until today. We're now under 12 million backlogged desired Zen! The backlog sits at 11,926,162 desired Zen, ~$119,261.62 USD equivalent at $1 = 100 Zen.

STO's Tribble Test Server is back up by the way! Go check out Deep Space Encounters and try your most ridiculous builds! We need your feedback to make sure our next release is as good as we can make it!

This happened to me once on the other end. I think it was at Star Trek: Mission Chicago, we had a STO panel and someone asked if we ever thought about adding LCARS from PICARD to the game. I declined politely, that it would be a lot of effort, etc. Turns out he was a scenic artist on the show!

Interested in group chats about: - Star Wars - Star Trek - Spicy Witchy Books - World History - What to do when your dice are plotting against you in a TTRPG campaign - Asajj Ventress

this too was a 67 joke btw

I know I haven’t been around Bluesky much the past two months, but that’s because I’ve been writing a new novel that ties together America’s Gilded Age, British Imperialism, and Meiji Japan. The first draft is complete. Even if no one ever reads it, it exists and it is mine.

The "All Good Things" future Enterprise D was the four foot version with temporary additions. The central nacelle strut had an additional shuttlebay.

reimagined NX class (commission)