I agree that lower hull made me cringe. One of the things I loved about the Akira was that it was a carrier torpedo boat. She was sleek something any engineer would be proud of.

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She's always been my favourite class of ship since her inception. I'm incredibly pleased that they didn't go the Fisher-Price route with her and that they have the new, upgraded standard Akira skin out that they announced, today.

After seeing the bottom of the ship, I take it all back. They did Fisher-Price it. I would have been so pleased if they would have done justice to Alex Jaeger's initial design by creating a simple, single deck through and through hangar with doors at the leading and trailing edges of the saucer.

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finally managed to get it to install , so far its ok ( ish) only thing i'm unable to figure out is Cortana ...she no want to talk to me apparently its not available in my region, but when i check it should work in UK... *bangs head on desk*

i spent the last few hours trying to fix that (and also loss of sound...and of course lots of "old" site tech using activex no longer work in Edge or firefox) UGHD!

anyway, rant over - for cortana - change ALL your settings (location, region, language, keyboard) to English US...then run cortana...set her up, then once she's up n running, change your settings back to English UK, should be ok then

:P :P

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finally managed to get it to install , so far its ok ( ish) only thing i'm unable to figure out is Cortana ...she no want to talk to me apparently its not available in my region, but when i check it should work in UK... *bangs head on desk*

I know that whole typing thing is a pain but ubaright.

finally managed to get it to install , so far its ok ( ish) only thing i'm unable to figure out is Cortana ...she no want to talk to me apparently its not available in my region, but when i check it should work in UK... *bangs head on desk*

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I'm debating about upgrading my Win8.1 laptop to Win10 to give it a whirl. It's an old dinosaur that I put 8.1 on because I had an extra license when XP was going end of life. It's an old Dell D630. I wonder if it would even take the upgrade. Guess I better check out the system analyzer thing to see if Win10 will work on it or not. It's surprisingly peppy in Win8.1 and I have it pretty much maxed out. It's like a tank and just won't die.

The system requirements are actually pretty low (which is great considering the dinosaur I'm using). My only complaint after having it installed for two days is that I can't access my external hard drive. It installs a generic driver but it just won't access the drive. I've already checked on the manufacturer's site and they don't have anything out yet. Hopefully, MS shakes a leg and updates their stuff.

Other than that, I've been pretty happy with it. I've gone through and removed Cortana and One Drive. If you choose to remove Cortana, Microsoft -claims- that it's part of the OS, blah, blah, blah. So I installed Classic Shell and have a Win 7 Start menu back.

I'm debating about upgrading my Win8.1 laptop to Win10 to give it a whirl. It's an old dinosaur that I put 8.1 on because I had an extra license when XP was going end of life. It's an old Dell D630. I wonder if it would even take the upgrade. Guess I better check out the system analyzer thing to see if Win10 will work on it or not. It's surprisingly peppy in Win8.1 and I have it pretty much maxed out. It's like a tank and just won't die.

Those are all valid concerns and I'm really appreciative that the admiralty is thinking this through in its entirety. A hastened decision could definitely lead to a the armada requiring quite a bit of unneeded effort on the part of Stonewall--mainly the additional moderation and application of our rules/guidelines. Plus, getting buy in from the other fleets might be really tough and it could come across that we're bullying them or being overbearing. It could easily shatter the armada and create an environment where the other fleets start to become a revolving door of joining and leaving.

Maybe a fleet poll or contest to name the Armada Channel? BaconArmada ?

Thanks for the update!

Nominations sent. :woohoo:

lol when i saw my post appear in the news feed it was a *face palm* moment

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See its all bout loading from the Top ( ....omg there really is no way of saying that without it sounding quite like its ..erm ..well ya know :whistle: :whistle:
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this got me excited :blush:

See its all bout loading from the Top ( ....omg there really is no way of saying that without it sounding quite like its ..erm ..well ya know :whistle: :whistle:
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So I own a copy of Windows 7 which came installed on my pc. It's my since I paid for it and I have a CD. I wonder when I will start seeing that little icon.

I just manually downloaded it from the Microsoft Website and installed it from there so I didn't have to wait.

If you're on a Mac, don't make the mistake that I made and uninstall Windows 7 from Parallels first. You have to have Windows installed for the upgrade to work, otherwise it tries to charge you.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

What a fancy Bump Voleron!!

It was discussed as Dex said, and I apologize that its taken as long to let you all know whats happening.

As you know we at Stonewall value our community spirit, and the family we have created for ourselves in our down time.
Some of Us feel (I was one of them) we will loose that family spirit, and wont know who is who if we open the Armada chat in the same chat channel, that goes hand in hand with the worry that our CoC will be out of place.. our FCs and Admirals may take more time to check if a person who breaches Stonewalls CoC, is in our Fleet.. or in another fleet.. giving them added responsibility's... or do we have a right to make the other fleets live by our guidelines in chat, spoilers, PG13? etc.
As well as new members asking for an invite.. what fleet are they wanting.. is it us? etc etc.. lots to think about.

There fore it was decided that we open up another separate channel, much like our events channel we used during pride, and invited anyone from in the game to join in.
Members may join at there own risk, with an understanding that it may not be monitored & moderated in the same way as Stonewall Chat,.. so we will see how that goes once we add more fleets into our Armada... we obviously don't want it becoming like STO Zone chat (if youve ever seen that) so we will see how it goes and maybe.. if we need to strike up some agreed rules with the other fleets when they join.

Nick Will be working on opening this separate channel (StonewallArmada) very soon, and I will let you know when it goes live. :cheer:

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The second issue you raise is Michael’s series of thoughts on the way to sickbay. As a victim of a violent act it is sadly unsurprising that he would have these victim blaming thoughts, “what did I do wrong”, “did I deserve it” and so on. However, Michael is also trained as a psychologist, so on an intellectual level he should be aware that these thoughts are inappropriate and potentially harmful. I would have absolutely loved to see you explore the inner conflict there, would the inner therapist win out, or would those tactics seem hollow, how would he grow professionally from this experience? Though I recognize that this is your work and not a choose your own adventure specifically tailored to me, I still would be eager to see that section expanded on, even if it were just in a conversation here on the forum.

I know this post is old and what not but in case some have read, i'll just note that regardless of what qualification one has as a therapist, counselor, or psychologist or what training you have received in the real world or fictional world, it doesn't make you impervious to the pain, discomfort or trauma you would received.
Plus being a victim in those cases like the one in my story, you aren't always rational in the heat of those moments, those thoughts are always there in the back of ones mind each days, it only comes out when certain situation are present at that time to which it floods in the choices you make from the initial hit to even later on.

Even professional therapist, counselors and psychologist need helped from someone who is qualified just as much to ensure that they are handling things appropriately in that moment.

Writing Chapter 7 at the moment whilst writing a 2nd story which is based 2 years from the 1st.

I'l keep you all informed of how it goes

LOL I just rebuilt my entire system from scratch with all new parts over the 4th of July Weekend so I'm more then willing to wait for it to "notify" me that I can progress.