Dammit, where are all the video clips of Garak’s appearances in Star Trek Online??? Youtube, you are letting me down…
It’s him! It’s Garak~~~
Alive and well in Star Trek Online. Greying and chubby, bless his heart. Look at him, he’s awful~~~~~~
I’m curious about the green scales on the neck. What’s happening there, do you think?
Garak goes CRAAAAAAAAAAAAZY
The Plot!
While on a salvage mission to another DS9-type station, Garak gets infected by a psychotropic drug that turns him into a slasher!
“I feel like the best way to earn Garak’s respect is to either pull a gun on him or literally try to kill him. It won’t work, ever, but he’ll appreciate the effort.”
this is such a good
Oh, wow, a) it’s Garak being all hey I’m gonna shoot you and Quark being all exasperated about it, and then it’s b) Garak being all hey now I’m not going to shoot you! and Quark is happy and totally forgets it was even a thing?? and ALSO c) the comments on this video are fucking hysterical, like–
preach on children, preach on~
Andrew Robinson Interview Star Trek Deep Space Nine
That Vulcan Maquis (Sakonna?) couldn’t get into Dukat’s head because he didn’t want her there. Could Lwaxana? Similarly, I’m sure Garak’s had anti-telepath training. What does that unexpected ~~bounce~~ feel like? Does Lwaxana comment?
Anonymous asked:
howtofightwrite answered:
The tricky thing about people who come from Special Forces backgrounds is, they tend to be very adaptable. A lot of the time, people get the perception that Special Forces get lots of specialized training that no one else has access to, and this allows them to be more effective. That’s kinda true, but it can easily lead to a distorted perspective of what makes them useful and effective.
What makes special operators useful isn’t their rote ability to kill people. It’s not the specific techniques they’re trained in (though, those do help). It’s the mindset their training screens for and then encourages. You can, as it turns out, teach nearly anyone how to use a gun. The hard part is finding someone who can think on their feet and come up with solutions to their current problems quickly.
This brings us back to your question. Someone who’s trained in hand to hand will take a little time to get used to the idea of a sword. It’s just not something they’ve spent a lot of time with. Someone who has trained in knife fighting will have to learn a new approach as well. But, these are things you can learn from, and adapt to. For someone coming out of a special forces background, their training and outlook should put them in a much better situation to identify and address weaknesses that come with learning a new skill. It won’t always, but it does put them in the right mindset.
Special operators aren’t unbeatable, they’re not omnipotent, but they have been trained to identify problems and find ways to solve them. I’m not being euphemistic here. I don’t mean, “problems” in the sense of, “oh, hey, I need to kill those guys.” That is a part of it, but also things like: “I need these pages somewhere I can see them quickly;” proceeds to tape them to the wall. When you’re approaching a character like this, it’s someone who is very good at identifying problems, both life threatening, annoying, and everything in between, and then looking for a way to solve them.
Also, from what I’ve seen, if an ex-operator doesn’t have any problems to solve, they’ll get bored, then set their sights higher, and start working towards a new goal. Again, this is part of the mindset.
Now, we are talking about human beings. Just like everyone else, sometimes they’ll miss details, overlook something, or forget pieces of salient information. They’ll try not to, particularly on forgetting things, and if they identify it as a problem, they’ll try to find some way to work around it, but it happens.
This also means, any mistakes they make, when learning a new martial style, are something they’ll seek to learn from. Someone from that background will make mistakes in training, the same kinds of things anyone will, poor initial stance, imperfect technique, the kinds of mistakes you will see from every student in that field. The difference, and why this question is so tricky, is that they will work to address those mistakes as quickly as possible, and to their best to learn everything they can from those mistakes.
As for making mistakes in the field? Yes, that can happen. But it will be based, entirely, on the situation at hand, and the information they have. If they’re trying to solve a problem and they don’t know about something, they can’t account for it, and they can end up with a solution that does not work. But, that’s not going to be a problem with a sword or their technique (usually).
-Starke
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I’m an apprentice tattoo artist. An artist who owns a few shops invited me to their team.
I’ve got a long way to go. I’m still learning basic shading techniques. Working with a tattoo pen adds depth to the traditional flat plane I’m used to working on.
One is never too old to learn a new skill.
At times I feel like a complete newb.
So, here is a meme that I love. I’m sharing it for everyone who is learning something new.
