Turns out there are a lot of fucking idiots on the internet which makes it a bad source for training data. How could we have possibly known?

Delete your comments to make Reddit less useful to other users.

BGG is user reported game length and weight. If you’re learning the game you’ll need to plan for it to take a little longer, as the times usually represent experienced players.

I would suggest grabbing your phone and quickly looking up the game on BGG before you start to see its length and complexity rating. Would take less than a minute and would give you a broad idea of what you’re in for.

Going by BGG Terraforming Mars is a 2 hour game. New players learning the rules and building engines instead of pushing objectives can lengthen the game, but 4 hours is pushing it and there’s either a problem with AP, people not paying attention, or people not taking their turn.

If that’s regularly the case I can see why OP doesn’t want to play longer heavier games. 2 hours of Terraforming Mars is fun, 4 hours is a slog.

I use the times on BGG, as they are submitted by users.

That was because Gene Rodenberry wouldn’t let them have inter-personal conflict

Stories are a lot easier to write if you don’t have to come up with an ending.

It’s like Spiderman. Someone really needs to do a movie about how that all started, I don’t think it’s been done before.

It’s holograms and force fields, that’s why if you take anything out of the holodeck it disappears.

Like it’s either get a crew member to do it or you end up with an evil AI and barely any in between.

Sometimes it’s both.

I don’t like Discovery because of the nonsense with the Klingons. I don’t know why they changed their look again, but mostly I like to be able to do other things when watching TV, like cleaning up or making food, and hate the subtitles.

I understand if I’m watching a movie and a scene takes place in France with a bunch of Frenchmen speaking in French accents that “in universe” they are actually speaking French and it’s being translated to English for my benefit. The long drawn out subtitled scenes just killed the show for me. Give me a dubbed Discovery and I’ll happily give it a go.

Starfleet officers just shit their pants and teleport it out into space.

That’s a Leprechaun who stole gold from the Gods and as punishment must live a life of suffering.

This list is missing Polasky. She wouldn’t beat the EMH, but she would tear a strip off you if you got injured doing something stupid.

Going to have to agree. He was never intended to need a good bedside manner because he was never supposed to be doing long term patient care. So they never bothered to program it.

He was designed for emergencies: “Do this. Do it now. Moving on.”

Q has made little pocket realities before that don’t seem to affect the rest of the universe.

Portal or Arkham Asylum, something that surprised me in unexpected ways.

Portal because I thought I was getting a neat puzzle game (I was), but GLADoS blew me out of the water.

Arkham Asylum because of how effectively some of the Scarecrow sequences messed with me specifically (making me think my game had glitched, etc.)

Londo = space Hitler

… Shit, wrong magazine.

I don’t think Kirk ever tried to coerce a woman, who stated she wasn’t interested, into dating him