Well... Kahless photobombed my selfie... nevermind...^^


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Hi Mom! Wish you were here! (did i do this right? does this warp drive make my ass look fat?)

What's that Harry? You've been electrocuted? You need help? Sure! But first let me take a selfie!!
:lol:

Quote by Lars1091

We're waiting for the reallife recreation of that selfie, Dex :P

YES!!!! THIS!!!! :silly:

We're waiting for the reallife recreation of that selfie, Dex :P

nice 6pack!

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@Yaris8: Congratulations, you are the winner of this events STO Selfie competition.
Your managing to take a selfie just as poor Harry Kim was being electrocuted made many of us chuckle. Which in turn burnt an image on our mind of your memorable selfie.

@Chemistryset: a deserving place for a unique image of your poor toon being thrown out into the depth of space. Another one that made us chuckle.. and if you look closely .. im sure you have a cup of coffee still in your hand?

@Akrilon: Not only were we impressed at the angle of the picture, and the almost stomach churning vertigo we encountered while looking down at the drop.. (and the handsome trill spots helped) your detailed back story of the picture gave the selfie a deeper and exciting meaning.

@Knightchucky: We didnt know iphones still existed in STO world, and we were impressed that you managed to make your toon appear as if he were in a bathroom mirror taking a selfie.
For that, We had to invent a whole new award, for Original Selfie.

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How take a selfie inGame:

C:\Program Files\Cryptic Studios\Star Trek Online\Live\screenshots

Now to put your image/s on this thread:

• You will need to upload your screen grab picture.. or your real life selfie to a hosting site, there are many good ones around like tinypic, photobucket etc.. but ive found this one to be the more simple.. postimage.org

• Browse to the picture you want, and then in the drop down menu resize it to 600x800, so it will fit on a message board.

• Once that's uploaded it will give you the links you will need to post your image on this thread.
• Copy the "Direct Link", then hit reply here in this thread..

• Hit the "Image Link" button, above all the emoticons, then paste your link in it..
• you can add a fancy caption if you like!

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1st, 2nd and 3rd mini prizes will be rewarded for the best selfies, winners will be announced on this thread & during the New Member Mixer event that is taking place ingame 1st March.

CLICK HERE to see the New Member Mixer event Details.

PLUS, You can start the ball rolling to get some bonus points toward the days event in the "Wheres the Membership Dept Game"


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Many thanks to Voleron for letting me steal his Prt Scr jpeg

The plans are still up in the air, but the BF and I are planning going this year

I've posted my ship specs.

Really appreciate any advice

Working in a pharmacy I've learned one thing. Insurance companies will go out of the way to say no to a patient. It's utterly heartbreaking to say the medication you need isn't covered, that treatment will be expensive or out of reach, that they don't have a right to feel better. That being said it's way to early to determine if it will be covered or not.

Sounds fun! Can't wait.

Quote by Baothezar

I wanted to know how long the protection last and whether or not that if you were exposed while on the treatment would infection still happens after the effects wore off.

That's the part that has me worried. Its going to be a long while before we can gauge this thing's longterm efficacy. The article says its expected duration will last for years, perhaps decades though.

Quote by Baothezar

Annyywayys. From my understanding of the article, the proposed treatment uses a modified virus that use the machinery of cells to create mimic receptors that would bind onto the virus and render it inert. So this isn't a traditional "Vaccine" where it would use attenuated viruses to stimulate the body to produce antibodies against the real thing. I wanted to know how long the protection last and whether or not that if you were exposed while on the treatment would infection still happens after the effects wore off. My thought on this was that what if we were able to simply produce the mimic receptors with out the use of virus?

From what i gathered, they're using the engineered virus as a delivery to target the specific receptors. Ideally, yeah, i agree getting the virus part out of there would probably sit better with everyone, but im hoping its just a mode of delivery engineered in virus form.


I could also foresee a lot of medical tourism for this if it isn't insured in the US/crazy cost prohibitive. At the same time, if you aren't at risk (though risk factors are seemingly decreed arbitrarily), you wouldn't end up needing it.

New Set up as of last night!

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Information
On March 1st we shall be holding our 3rd New Member Mixer! To start things off I'd like everyone to get geared up for this smashing new event. :D

This Forum Event will be held right up to the March 1st. We will be posting pictures from our great adventure across the galaxy and we hope you all can figure out where and who is in these pictures! Keep in mind that these might be a clue for something bigger...

Story

Personal Log: It has been a few months now since the Membership Department has held their last New Member Mixer. Admiral William Janeway has finally let us have shore leave. Since I've been back in active duty I have not had much time to explore the finer things in this galaxy. Captain Travis has decided to get his groove on somewhere that some would say he "Heard profit in the wind". Captain Gareth has decided to brush up on being a doctor. I for one am taking Captain Itoine to see help deal with the repercussions Dominion takeover a few years ago... This shore leave is a... What? Our Admiral is missing!? Not again... Captain Scott out.

Rules

There will be 10 pictures that will be posted on here with 1-3 members of our Memberships Department. Pictures will be posted at different times all the way up to March 1st so keep tuning in to figure out the puzzle. Points will be awarded for correct submissions.
Five points for guessing the location and the officer(s) in the picture.
Two points for guessing either:
the location
the officer(s)

Please submit your answers in game to @frozenlily or send a website message. Do not post your answers in this thread so as not to help your competition!!!

At the end of the Event on March 1st the decrypted images and correct answers will be revealed, along with a list of who submitted correct answers and the points awarded to them.


Prizes


*These will be awarded to the people who got the most right answers.
**These Prizes are subject to change depending on participation levels
***Captain Itoine is one of my avatars ;)

1st Place!


10 Master keys + Forum Event Winner Award + Bonus Points

2nd Place!

XII Vaadwuar Kit Set (Tac, Sci and Eng) + Forum Event Participant Award + Bonus Points

3rd Place!

Vaadwaur Mini-Tank Companion[Rare] + Forum Event Participant Award + Bonus Points

Participant!

Forum Event Participant Award + Bonus Points


Bonus Point!?

Yes! For being 1st, 2nd, or 3rd you'll get an awesome bonus to our Points Prize Pool!! Additionally for Participating you will be awarded at the end of the event Bonus Points to accumulate towards our New Member Mixer and our other Forum Event, But first, let me take a selfie. Participating in the events will entitle you to the chance to win:

Grand Prize! Vaadwaur Astika Heavy Battlecruiser [T6]

Timeship Shuttle
Timeship Shuttle Pet
Danube Runabout Pet
Outfit Box: Risian and Winter Clothing
Ground Trait: Hunter Instincts
Ground Trait: Conduit
Ground Trait Bombardier

plus many more great prizes!

Please keep an eye out for our lovely mug shots and the pictures that follow :D

Good luck everyone!!

We haz the same cube case! its so sexy!

Quote by Frozenlily

When I was growing up in school all 7 gay guys in my school were white, skinny, shallow people. I hated for being the 2nd skinniest and being 1/4 Maet and I they never dated me or wanted to ever talk to me... :D lol

We had about 15 girls who were gay in our school. One is African American and dated one of my good red heads we call Brave ;D and the rest are white with one as 1/2 Navite American and 1/2 jewish.

These two girls are the only african americans and native americans in my school. I only got along with the native american one because we knew eachother since grade 5. From my perspective everyone in my city treats them equal. But when I moved out to the hill billy region of no mans land... there is older Native American LGBT that are treated sooooo poorly. I'm just like her for living in an all white place. I am very thankful my Great Grandparents are native American and I wish I could've met them to learn more. I also wish I could've grown up with different cultures than what I did grow up with. Maybe the growing up experiance would've been different for myself, and the two girls.

I think it was my saving grace growing up in the military, because I was constantly confronted with people, cultures, and ideas that were different to me. The only thing that really went under was my knowing I was gay, but having absolutely no avenue or maturity to fully explore that growing up, it formed the opinion that it was to be kept secret. It was when my father got out of the army that I first explored my homosexuality and also the first time I saw how divided the world really is, especially within the community. Sex was one thing, but it seemed somewhat a fetish to bang some white boy, or vice versa. Rarely did anything develop into a social thing. Though I find that has changed alot, alot also hasn't changed at all. And in light of all of our progress, it is easy to forget to go those two blocks beyond our 'neighborhood' to see how the folks across town are doing, if you know what I mean.

This post is to give some information on the Stonewall Times and to invite feedback on evolving the magazine for the community.

Our 5(+1 issue per) year mission
To boldly entertain, inform and bind our Stonewall community

Our charter
The Times sits within the Operations department reporting to the Chief of Operation's office but we have an independent editorial function.

We are a bunch of writers, artists, editors and copywriters who serve to create each issue with love :blush: No Orion slaveboys/girls are harmed in the making of each issue.

The magazine complements the site forums and social media streams (Facebook/Twitter/G+) in PDF form so you can read it offline at your convenience. It forms a record of our fleet events and members for posterity and is filed in Memory Alpha's periodicals for scholarly reference.

We aim to have a bi-monthly edition each year but generally this is determined by the availabilty of our team and also contributions submitted. Contributions are open from all members of the fleet and in any subject matter area. Have a look at the various sections below (or submit a new one!)

The Times' sections
Here is a list of the various components that may feature in an issue.

News	Any news of interest to the fleet community
STO	News and updates to the game
Stonewall Fleet	News and updates from the fleet, its departments, events, socials, etc
Captain's Chair	A Q&A of one of the command officers of the fleet (Fleet Captain/Admiral)
Game guides	Impart your knowledge, share how to get past those damned platforms, or the hidden accolades in missions here
Galactic Grapevine	gossip from the 4 quadrants!
Science Corner	Featuring articles of intellectual format, and/or pretty shots of stars burning a blaze of glory upon the night sky
Starship Centrefold/Calendar	Submit your ships to feature as the centrefold or as a monthly calendar for members to print and proudly display
Subspace snippets	Anything goes here!
Convention Corner	News from ST or other SciFi conventions, fleet meets (at the annual Las Vegas con)
Recipe PADD	Shove Neelix off his prime time cooking slot and share your own culinary masterpiece!
Foundry Review and Q&A	Have you played an awesome Foundry episode? Would you like to have it reviewed by Admiral Voleron? Let us know!
Gamesmaster	Fleet Admiral Nick's guide to upcoming and new games
SWTOR	Share your mastery of the Force with the rest of the fleet, get more apprentices into the path to the Light/Dark sides
Guild Wars	A section to showcase your enjoyment of the game
Fiction	Fan stories authored by our membership
Televisualisations/Entertainment	TV/stream/film/music reviews
Rainbow's End	Articles and news related to the LGBT scene
Captain's Log: Supplemental	A little feature to tell us all about your captains from STO

Past issues
Collect them all here!

Contribute
So if you would like to help out, remember your contributions are always welcome, no matter how small or how elaborate! ;)

Feedback is also welcome and volunteers (journalists, reporters, artists, photographers, selfie-takers) to help grow the team defintely needed. We have excellent hug insurance benefit (supplied by our wonderful @Eurrsk) and you will be part of the institution that is the Stonewall Times.

Thanks for reading up to this far and get in touch!

Hugs from your current Editor,
Cal
x

Twitter: @CastleGayskull
Email: callunx@gmail.com

Quote by Tlek

I wonder, who is going to be the bigger problem, the religious right saying it's a vaccine to make people gay, the bug chasers saying it's a gift and not a disease, or the medical system charging some exorbitant price for it and making sure it won't be covered by insurances due to some reason they can come up with.

The FDA is going to be the biggest problem. It's going to take at least 10 to 15 years with all the red tape that has to be gone through. With the different demographics affected by HIV/AIDS these days, only the extreme fringe of the right wing would be stupid enough to say that it'll allow people to be gay. They say stupid stuff like it now so no one will really pay them any mind.

Since it'll be a vaccine instead of a "treatment", the multibillion dollar pharmaceutical industry will be slow to pick it up. But eventually a company will. They'll charge those in the U.S. hundred if not thousands for it while everyone outside of the U.S. will pay pennies on the dollar.