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Have you considered that, perhaps, the people who are interested in mechanics and numbers and builds are not, in fact, trying to recreate an MMO experience in their tabletop RPG?

Do you have a link to the post that your account was suspended over? I have a feeling we're not getting the whole picture here. Regardless, I'm not sure how you see this as "abusive" on their part. You were encouraging a boycott against them, on their own forums. Why should they feel obligated...

Woo HCI!

Rather than the bubble bursting this strikes me as more of a Wild West to civilization transition. The platform is simply maturing, and that's a good thing.

Why would the bubble burst? It's not being supported by imaginary dollars, and Kickstarter projects have a couple years of delivered results. I don't even think there is a bubble to burst in the first place.

The internet is telling me that the ship visiting Alcatraz isn't the Enterprise.

Only a couple. IIRC, there was another year pretty recently where we didn't hear of layoffs in the D&D team.

Also - interestingly, I think - I'd wager the warp-slingshot technique is probably retired at this point. I don't think modern audiences would find that explanation for time travel plausible enough.

Especially pertinent since the film takes place more than a century from now, and is easily the equivalent of someone from the year 1900 making fun of us for calling this wrestling. My favorite thoughts on language: "The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows...

Again, 10 full-time employees dedicated to DDI would surprise me, especially given that there are no apps in active development at the moment. I can see 10 if they were supporting an in-house software development team (and I've worked with teams smaller than that on application suite products)...

Around here we affectionately refer to him by his proper name: Benedict "I s!*% the queen" Cumberbatch

That's not a totally barren opinion (if a bit extreme), but there's a gulf of difference between lamenting a film franchise not reaching its full potential, and cursing its caretakers. Star Trek was not a ground-breaking film. But I didn't want it to be ground-breaking. I don't think a lot of...

That's fine. It doesn't strike me as sloppy, per se. Just sort of kitchen-sink-ish. But that makes perfect sense when you're talking about a film and television franchise that's nearly 50 years old. That was the idea, I expect. You're not supposed to see every facet of the ship. The Narada...

How "recently" are we talking, here? Because the group is definitely at 80,000+ members right now.

Sure, but your reasoning seems to boil down to, "Because I think it's dumb." Basically. You can travel through time by slingshotting, or you can travel through time and alternate universes by passing through a black hole/wormhole/red matter singularity. But you don't get to lay the "blame" for...

Uh-huh. Yeah, but why do that when he can do what he did? Abrams' reboot technique was brilliant. It was consistent with Star Trek lore, it rebooted the series in a way that acknowledged everything that came before it, and it provided a very neat way to start over with the same characters but...

I'd be surprised if this was the case. I'm not aware of any forum community where updates to your account don't propagate until you log in. The only reason you're not added to the group until you create an account is that there's nothing to add before that point.

That's because Back to the Future employed single-timeline time travel. There was only one timeline, and whether you moved forward or backward you had to deal with any changes made to it. Star Trek does not use single-timeline time travel. It uses alternate timelines/parallel universes. When...

As others have noted, it appears to be almost perfectly accurate. You can list the members of the group, 10 to a page. The number of pages lines up almost perfectly with the reported number of DDI group members divided by 10.

This is not a plot hole. This is how alternate-timeline-time-travel works in fiction. No one thinks this is a plot hole, except you. Why do you think it's a plot hole?