I like Stonewall being a "multi-verse" kind of hub for members. It offers members a set of friendly faces wherever they go. I also like that Nick has stated it won't necessarily be the same officers, even though affiliated. Not that I have a problem with the officers (I don't!), but it is exhausting and draining managing one guild in one game.. let alone multiple games!

I like the sense of community in Stonewall these days. I hope that remains consistent in STO, and spreads constructively to other guilds in other games

Played some during the sto server down event, really liking the beta.

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I really like this discussion. I've belonged to a few guilds and player groups on other MMO's but none were ever like this. None were dedictated, supportive, and easy going all at the same time. And of course none where comprised of (almost completely) gay trekkies; a very rare breed (or so I thought lol).

I had to stop and think for a second about how I actaully came upon SWF because I couldn't remember at first. I've been a part of it for so long (at least 9 months before the game actually launched). I know I didn't google "gay star trek online guild" cheifly because I really didn't think there actually were a lot of other gay Trekies. I think I was looking for a definitive map of the star trek galaxy that was going to be in the game. I found a pretty good looking map in the picture search results and when I clicked on the link it took me to a SWF forum post by you, Nick :). I read and posted on a few more of the topics and I was hooked.

I'm feel very lucky to have found this community and look forward to continuing to be an active part in it. I feel that our next step should be to build a good group on SWTOR and see how that goes before heavily committing any upcoming MMO's. With regards to pre-existing MMO I'm wondering if anyone has thought about putting an offical presence on World of Warcraft or City of Heroes? Those are the three MMO's I play and I'm gonna have to really work on fitting SWTOR in but I'm totally going to. As for regional events and IRL's I'm totally down, SF pride sounds fun and @ Brandon; I would love to assist with any CA or Las Vegas events. We still gotta go to Jeri Ryan's Husbands's restaurant! lol.

Oh Jason, I'm so glad you found us too! So few have been around for as long as you have and you have been here for sometime! As can be seen by the "Order of the Founder" ribbon below your avatar. You've been here since the very beginning and it's great have your opinion on how the fleet should proceed farther! I'm very glad that you found my post. God knows what it was about though cause I can't for the life of me remember posting an in-game map.

Going into SWTOR should defiantly be our first milestone. We should proceed carefully, watching how things work, what problems we face and once the guild is stable, take a long time to review how things went, what the difficult parts were and how to streamline the process in the future.

As for World of Warcraft, I believe there is a rather large GLBT guild in it alread. I've been working under a policy of non-competition when it comes to MMOs. If a GLBT guild already exists in a MMO, instead of starting a new competeing guild, we will direct our members to it and help strengthen it. Right now for WoW, that's The Stonewall Family, who we had some limited contact with when STO launched. As for CoH, I thought there were several GLBT guilds in it and isn't the game on its slow march to death?

Just to note that if I were to make actual lists, I would format them to be more legible than the Bajoran sample I created above.

I'm a bit of a linguistics geek. And few things bug me more in STO when someone has, say, a Vulcan or Trill character with an English name, esp when there's no backstory included to explain why this would be the case. There is also the challenge of figuring out a good name for a character when there is little to no canon for naming conventions in that species.

What I'm proposing is that I offer little naming "dictionaries" for the fleet, and anyone else interested, so that if you're stuck naming your Lethean captain or Tellarite BO or whatever, there's a handy list to pull from that will give you a name that sounds canon. I can put together these lists by feeding lists of names into a random word generator. The cool thing with this is that we can combine lists of canon names with lists of names that Stonewall users have given their captains and BOs, so that, not only will the name lists feel canon, but will also have a uniquely Stonewall flavour to them.

To give you an example of what I'm talking about, I fed a list of Bajoran names (for which there's plenty of canon) into a name generator, and ended up with this list:

BASSIM BRILKALA KORA GETTOS
HORANDI LEETTA MERAD SURMAR
IBUS BODAB BEMARA RAZAHNA
SURMAT HOLIBOK BASSA YNDAN
JOMAK HELAN UNGTAK YASSA
OSSARIN HELENA GALENNU HORAN
BRIKA TRAMONSA EBLAR SOLKA'S
ELIBOK BARA PALIBOK ORTARAM
ZIYAN KIRCO TENIS ORTARO
WOBARA KIRAM ISHAYRA KLIBOK
GENTT RENA TRANI SARO
TALIS LATRISH BODAR KIRAT
WINAR RANTT ADAN MARENA
OSSA ZAYDIS RAZA DEKORAT
HORILKA ALES BELENTT LARN
BARO WOBAR PELA YNDI
MIRRO GRAN NAPREL GENAYDIS
LAATH YNDAMOR OPAZA BALNORA
ROMAC GIRA MARIK TEETTA
TOLEM ROANE NAPREN LATRIKA
ADAR IJARN GANJOHL ESSIM
BARKA SOLEM MIKARA TORTARR
GANA NALA ERMAR NEREM
YNDAMI BRISH FALNA POLEM
ROMARIS BRILLRA GERO HOVAL

So, if you want to name your Bajoran a name that sounds Bajoran without using a name of an existing character, you can just pull two names from this list and bingo, authentic-sounding Bajoran name. That way, your Bajoran can have a nice name like Solem Latrika, rather than John Smith (or would that be Smith John? :-P ).

I especially want to do this for species that don't really have much canon for them. I think this can be a handy resource and service for a lot of folks, not just Stonewall folks.

If you have any interest in my providing this service, let me know, and I'll start on some lists. Once I propose what species I'm going to do the first dictionary for, I'll solicit names from the fleet the names you have given captains and BOs of that species, and then produce the list. In order for me to produce lists for species without much canon, I would need names from you folks to provide a sufficient number of phonological seeds for the word generator.

If there's no interest, I won't be able to properly do the lists, as I won't have sufficient material to provide the word generators.

Please let me know here or in-game if you'd be interested in my providing this service.

Thanks
Peace

I'm not sold on the American BH yet. But Sam Witwer is the best part of it. (And not just because he's eye candy. He just seems like the best actor on it, aside from Jacob from Lost.)

Sam was also in (kind of) the Force Unleashed video games.

Episode 176 - The Next Generation - "The Most Toys" - 05/07/1990



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Found from the above link in the related videos section

An obsessed collector is determined to add Data to his private collection of unique items. Guest star Saul Rubinek as Kivas Fajo.

Enjoy!

that whole show is shirtless men. I think the WB stands for White Boys network :) It is the most homo-erotic show on air (after the Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency)

You should've seen him on Smallville. (I'm a little embarrassed to say that I watched that show.) But he was shirtless a lot!

Where do I see the Fleet going? Its taken me some time to sit down and think exactly what I think and what I hope.

I for one, am very excited to see this question being asked so openly! I think it’s the way the best guilds need to operate, the ones that last the longest would include involvement from all its members.

Anyway, on to what I think; the MMO developers seem to be taking things in small steps these days with an ever changing MMO marketplace. Its also the way I work, while it is good to have aspirations of where we want to be, I don’t want to get too distracted in that to not give the here and now the best of my efforts and make it the best experience possible. As I have read, people are talking about expanding to MMOs. Not everyone plays just one game, there may be a few, especially with some going free to play. I think it would be great to give a home to our current members in other games, but only if they prove popular enough with our fleet to justify putting in the time and effort to expand. As it has been mentioned, something comes out, something goes free to play and people go “oh shiney” and flock to it, to soon get bored and abandon it.

I see right now our focus being STO with a keen eye on the horizon to Star Wars. However, something has come our way which has a few people interested! Champions Online. While I am reluctant to say, lets go jump on the band wagon, it would be interesting to see who would go over to play that game. I know I will probably using it as my STO backup or when I need a little break.

I believe we have a great community here already and I wouldn’t like to see us expand too far, too fast to the point of fracture. There could be such a thing as too big a guild! Unless its micromanaged, but thinking of that is starting to give me a headache already.

Back to the here and now, the Fleet is my main focus, I won’t be going anywhere soon and hope to provide the best experience for all our other and future members. I have said it before and will say it again, we have the best people in the game right here. I want to look at improving and refining what we do and can do before we think about expansion. For example, I am looking at the Academy right now and want to make it the best for the fleet as I know everyone else is with their own sections (which is why its taking some time…. That and my total lack of computer skills).

We have a great future ahead of us though, and I just think we should take it a step at a time… enjoy the journey.

and yes same name, the anniversary events have been keeping me from it though.

Yeah the vampire was in Battlestar galactica too. He looks much better in Being Human. Especially since he is naked more often :)

I like Stonewall being a "multi-verse" kind of hub for members. It offers members a set of friendly faces wherever they go. I also like that Nick has stated it won't necessarily be the same officers, even though affiliated. Not that I have a problem with the officers (I don't!), but it is exhausting and draining managing one guild in one game.. let alone multiple games!

I like the sense of community in Stonewall these days. I hope that remains consistent in STO, and spreads constructively to other guilds in other games

Sam Witwer has been my biggest TV crush since I first saw him on BSG, then later on Smallville.

Russell Tovey is probably in the top 5... that is why I am so torn about starting to watch these series... I hate vampire/werewolf/gore-fest shows :S

The Vampire character in the US version I believe had a reoccurring role in Smallvile.

I was so happpy when I heard they are making a US version. Honestly, I like the US version more, if only cause I understand what the hell their talking about now. A couple new episodes of the UK version have aired since the US version started and I haven't even bothered to watch them, but I watch the US version as soon as I can.

I think the actors/actress for the main characters that they choose were great. I've seen the guy who's playing the vampire in some other things too and I thought he was good before.

I really like this discussion. I've belonged to a few guilds and player groups on other MMO's but none were ever like this. None were dedictated, supportive, and easy going all at the same time. And of course none where comprised of (almost completely) gay trekkies; a very rare breed (or so I thought lol).

I had to stop and think for a second about how I actaully came upon SWF because I couldn't remember at first. I've been a part of it for so long (at least 9 months before the game actually launched). I know I didn't google "gay star trek online guild" cheifly because I really didn't think there actually were a lot of other gay Trekies. I think I was looking for a definitive map of the star trek galaxy that was going to be in the game. I found a pretty good looking map in the picture search results and when I clicked on the link it took me to a SWF forum post by you, Nick :). I read and posted on a few more of the topics and I was hooked.

I'm feel very lucky to have found this community and look forward to continuing to be an active part in it. I feel that our next step should be to build a good group on SWTOR and see how that goes before heavily committing any upcoming MMO's. With regards to pre-existing MMO I'm wondering if anyone has thought about putting an offical presence on World of Warcraft or City of Heroes? Those are the three MMO's I play and I'm gonna have to really work on fitting SWTOR in but I'm totally going to. As for regional events and IRL's I'm totally down, SF pride sounds fun and @ Brandon; I would love to assist with any CA or Las Vegas events. We still gotta go to Jeri Ryan's Husbands's restaurant! lol.

Anyone else watching this? So far I kind of like it. I actually like the BBC original better. But here is also an article that I wrote for my school newspaper reviewing the show.

http://media.www.thegrandviews.com/media/storage/paper1329/news/2011/02/04/Opinion/Vampire.Werewolf.Ghost.Roommates.In.being.Human-3973488.shtml

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