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The one after that is a classic too! "Is There No Truth In Beauty?"

It's the 2nd episode guest starring Diana Muldaur (a fan favorite, and Dr. Pulaski in TNG), as Dr. Miranda Jones this time.

Season 3 is where I noticed in my last rewatch that they really dial it up like they were desperate to keep the audience interested. So many love interests, fight scenes, and experimental camera-work. Apparently they also had their budget slashed and one less day to finish each episode.

There are some great episodes in S3, but there are also a few that I wonder what the hell they were thinking, lol.

They produce a lot of elevator-centric content.

_{It was in my script.}

I mean, no problem!

Rainbow rocks

Idiots. My pw’s *******, but all you guys see is stars.

Damn, you're right

It would be rude not to.

Oh no, it's completely free to play. What I meant was that when a game is over, the winning player gains rating points and the losing player loses rating points, proportional to the rating difference between them.

Since I had lost that game, I lost rating (elo) points. But, since the system recognized that it was against a cheater, which isn't fair, it gave me the points back when they banned him so that my rating would be unaffected.

It's the rating system for competitive gaming that was originally developed for chess, but has since been applied to all sorts of gaming, sports, etc. sometimes you might even hear people refer to a game's matchmaking rating as "elo", even it's not called that.

Also, fun fact: it's not an acronym, it's a guy's name:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system

Funny story time:

I had someone cheat against me the other day (without me realizing it, because I don't have the game sense to tell), then offer a draw in a clearly winning position. I guess they were trying to avoid detection, but I decided that I didn't want their handout, declined the draw offer, and resigned.

The system immediately flagged them as cheating and refunded my elo, so I guess all's well that ends well.

Picard opened with the Amar: Krazy Kat variation and the dog couldn't help himself.

(I had no idea this opening existed. I just googled, assuming there had to be one with "cat" in the name)

It's ok, we're two steps past them now. I think we're safe.

Holy hell

O-O-O-O-O-O#

Jesus christ, lol

They're going to tell me to google something. I can feel it.

I tried to print out their application, but for some reason my printer bricked itself after I bought some 3rd party ink.