The Daktaklakpak are without doubt one of my favourite star control races, due to their utilization of lexical intercourse. Whilst star control III is not considered canon, the Daktaklakpak carry the game with their beautiful writing and humour, which carries on the humor established in Star Control II the Ur Quan Masters.
The Daktaklakpak have joined the Hegemonix Crux in order to quickly acquire precursor relics to prevent the species designated Eternal1s from Engaging in destruction of all sentient life in the galaxy. Their language structure seems nonsensical at first, until you realise that they are defining code structured response based upon their internal programming which is taken from their species name. So their actions taken are based upon the pre programmed language structure defined by their full name.
We know that the Daktaklakpak have reprogrammed themselves which has instilled bugs into their program leading to them not carrying out their mission which is the maintenance of precursor technology and revival systems such as the CUD. It is probable that the Daktaklakpak lack both sentience and sapience, meaning that they can survive the Eternal Ones feeding, but due to their reprogramming they are now under the delusion that they have sentience. My main bugbear with the star control franchise is the utilization of sentience rather than sapience.
Their star ship is the Vivisector which latches on to enemy ships and drills into them. In the annoying SCIII 3d battlefield, they are sometimes irritating to fight.
When I first played Star Control 2 and enjoying melee mode, the ship I loved the most was the Androsynth Guardian. The combination of bubbles and a speedy death dealing meteor was without doubt the most interesting combination of weapons, and I yearned to see the Androsynth in game.
What little we know of the Androsynth has been pieced together from archived text manuals.
The Androsynth adopted homeworld as of Star Control II is Eta Vulpeculae II, a Telluric world. The Androsynth were created on Earth as human synthetic hybrid clones and subjected to slavery as they were stripped of their human rights. After the clone revolt that freed their people, the Androsynth fled into hyperspace, making their home on Eta Vulpeculae II.
Fifteen years passed and the Ur-Quan invaded Androsynth space subjugating their species. The Androsynth chose to serve the Ur-Quan hierarchy as combat thralls. Utilizing their Guardian starships with deadly efficiency against the Alliance of Free Stars who opposed the hierarchy.
It was a sad tragedy for me to find the Androsynth planet a ruined mess, no matter how quickly I seemed to get there. In a 1996 IRC Chat, Fwiffo stated: “In regards to the Androsynth: They were snagged by the entity who/which projected its fingers into our dimension (which looked to us as the Orz.”
Despite this, the frustration showed by the Orz when asking about the androsynth seems to indicate that it’s likely they found some way to escape, which frustrates the Orz no end.
The Androsynth Guardian is an exceptional ship, and probably one of the best designs in the game. It utilizes a molecular acid sphere launcher, which shoots bubbles of acid that track enemies and move erratically. Whilst on the outset a little slow and clunky, the ship can transform into a blazing meteor which massively increases manouverability. This meteor can be used to inflict damage, close distance and escape, allowing the guardian to fight effectively in almost every situation.
Video isn’t dead. Recently I got talking with my friend Nick Box, who is a bit of a legend in the UK Indy Cinema world – I’d worked with him on several titles from his company Dead Good Films like – and he told me about his quest to open a video store. Nick’s dream was to create his own cave of treasures, a shop where you could find all those amazing titles you just can’t get anywhere else. Videos, Beta-Max and more can now be acquired, retro style deep in the recesses of “The Crypt” in Blackpool.
The Crypt just happens to be owned by Kurt Dirt, known for his bizarre performance art and work on several Troma films. Naturally, as fellow cinemaphiles we did what we could to help bring the dream to life, and like Frankenstein’s monster, a little juice got the whole thing up and running. Nick’s created something marvellous with Dead Format, and I cannot wait to see it flourish. I’d like to share with you a small podcast of the Dead Format podcast featuring Stuart Fitzsimmons, who I’ve also had the pleasure of working with on Mycophobia. I’m so happy that finally, one of my good friends is helping live this dream. I hope Dead Format will be around for many years to come.
My god it’s been a long time since I’ve written a blog! So – I’ve been working recently on increasing the scope of what I do on the website and I’d like to share some of the content of my other creatives who have been doing great things in the world. I’ve started a series of channels on the website, which I’ll be building a page for soon, and I’ve been building pages for those of my friends who’ve been involved in content creation for a while.
Rebecca Gold – is a series by Ian David Diaz which tells the story of a rogue female assassin. It’s a great webseries and I helped working on it! Eggs over Willis – is a labour of hate by my old friend Adam Willis, who hates eggs and forces himself to eat them for your amusement. The Cider Drinker – is the channel of my good friend Rikki who helps me work on Chan Walrus: Space Adventurer, and is one of the best friends I’ve ever had. He gives the rundown on every single cider he can get his hands on! Channel Pup – Is the channel of my good friend Will who I force to act for me from time to time.
So Sajid Javid has finally admitted that the covid death rates are bogus. He has finally pointed out that there are comorbidities which have played their part in huge death counts, but that’s not all there is to this miasma of nonsense. So let’s have a think about what other issues there are…
From the very beginning the statistics have been sketchy. What right do I have to say this? Well I’ve been trained in statistics. So how can I show you easily. Simple! If we are being honest about statistics, we have to show both the number and percentage when discussing things. Imagine this: Breaking news! Coronavirus death rates are up 300% from yesterday! Instantly, there is a panic. 300% is a lot. Let’s say yesterday one person was listed as a covid death, then the next day, 3 people allegedly died from the virus. 4 people isn’t a lot for a pandemic, but with such high percentages, it sounds scary.
You should note that when they mention coronavirus, they are not necessarily referring to covid, as there are many strains of coronavirus, so with the statistical adaptions they made in order to skew this and take advantage of people’s fear, we have around 28 days from having any form of coronavirus infection, a person has died. Now this doesn’t even mean that they died from the coronavirus or from covid. What it means is that they died within 28 days of having any form of coronavirus. Is it even a contributing factor? Possibly not, but it’s still listed as a covid death statistic. When you consider how common coronaviruses are, the fact LFTs can pick up multiple strains and the media wanting to keep everyone in a mad state of panic, we have a massive fear campaign.
Do I think people have died of covid? Without a doubt. I’ve worked on the front lines during the pandemic and volunteered to work infected units due to my immunity. I know it can be dangerous.
Let’s break things down:
How do we know how someone has died? – We perform an autopsy. The autopsy or post-mortem is an analysis of the body after death to find out the cause of death. Ask yourself, how many autopsies have actually been done to come up with the numbers we see. If we do not know for sure, then numbers are just estimates. We cannot work with unreliable data, however everyone has been drinking unreliable data for the past few years, so they’re used to it.
Coronavirus or Covid? Covid is one form of coronavirus, known as SARS-COV-2. The other two dangerous forms of coronavirus are MERS-COV and SARS-COV. Then we have HCOV-OC43, HCOV-HKU1, HCOV-229E and HCOV-NL63. Covid deaths refers specifically to deaths from Covid, or SARS-COV-2, and Coronavirus deaths are defined as anyone who has died from any form of Coronavirus, which includes the other forms. If Covid numbers are high, then Covid is dangerous. If Coronavirus numbers are high, that’s normal. But we also have to take into account the extension of rules that allow for higher statistics and more public panic.
Numbers and statistics. I mentioned this earlier: You need a number and a percentage, and what’s more they need to be properly defined. “Today there have been 20 Covid deaths, up by 100% from yesterday where there were 10.” Is good definition, though if timeframes were properly included, we’d have it close to perfect. We know the numbers, we know the percentages and we know the comparison. As I mentioned earlier, if you just see a percentage or number, you are not getting the bigger picture, especially if it’s not defined. “Coronavirus deaths are up 247% from last week!” Could mean coronavirus deaths this week could be being added together from one specific day last week. We’re also talking coronavirus deaths not Covid deaths. So Covid might be down whereas coronavirus is up. The less definition, the more bogus the statistics.
Phrasing: If A reporter says, “138 more people died from Covid today than yesterday!” this can actually mean one of two things. Firstly that yesterday, there were 1000 Covid deaths, and today there have been 1138 Covid deaths, or this could also mean that yesterday there were 1000 covid deaths and today there have been 138 covid deaths, a drop of 862. But this statement will always sound like it was more, and you will have noticed this in the news.
Basically
We’ve been being exploited, lied to, and manipulated by a sick media and politicians for a long time. We have no accurate information on Covid or Coronavirus. Considering that LFT tests are not accurate, PCR testing can have issues, there are few autopsies and little evidence that Covid poses a real risk to people who have no co-morbidities. I can only think that this is not a pandemic, rather it is a test of public fear. If masks worked and were effective, Boris would not backtrack on them. He wouldn’t backtrack on them because it would not be in the public’s best interest. If this was a real pandemic, the army would be on the streets and the logistics corps would be delivering supplies.
I will leave you with information on a real pandemic. This is an article about The Black Death. It was one of the worst pandemics in known history, and bodies were piled high in the streets. People painted crosses on the doors of people with the plague in red or black. Carts would go by pushed by people calling out “Bring out your dead.” Families were devastated, friendships destroyed, everything in the world was ruin. In this time of the great, terrifying Covid-19 pandemic Politicians frolic maskless and drunk. Love him or hate him, Paul Joseph Watson gets it right. This nonsense has been going on, and we’ve all been played for fools…
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