Anyone else reading this (or read this)? It’s basically the TNG crew role playing DS9… hilarity ensues:
http://larptrek.com/larptrek/1/
I think Troi as Quark might be my favorite. Stick with it, it gets funny.
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omg, this is great. slow loading, but really great. thanks for sharing this!
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I’m 12 in now. It grows on you. Like a space fungus. Like a good space fungus.
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I agree.
Linux shellscript for downloading the images.
#!/bin/sh
PAGE=1
TEXT="$( wget -t5 -T5 -nv -O- http://larptrek.com/larptrek/1/ )“
while true
do
echo “$TEXT”|
grep -o 'http://larptrek.com/wp-content/uploads/\S*.jpg’|
grep -v – ‘-[0-9]+x[0-9]+.jpg’|
wget -t5 -T5 -nv -i- -N
PAGE=$(( PAGE + 1 ))
URL=”$(
echo “$TEXT”|
grep -o “http://larptrek.com/larptrek/$PAGE\S*/”| head -n1
)“
test -z “$URL” && exit
TEXT=”$( wget -t5 -T5 -nv -O- “$URL” )"
done
Run it in a directory where you want the files to be.
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i’m on #34 now. i guess i’m binging it, haha
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I’m up to #62. My work is suffering but no one seems to notice. Engage thrusters!
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Ditto, good thing I spotted the mouse over text early on!
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Also, note that it just ends. I managed to get to the last one. Maybe one day he’ll revisit it, because it’s a ton of fun.
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I don’t think he will. He left a comment on the last one (#198)
Josh Millard on January 14, 2016 @ 8:27 am Reply
Busy! Very busy. Creative projects in general have been a little more on the backburner on average the last year, aside even from any dreamed-of return to this one specifically; taking over MetaFilter has been super interesting and gratifying but it also means I’m, well, running a small business now. Unexpected change in my life and I’m still recalibrating a lot of stuff.
Not a month goes by where I don’t have some sort of “yeah, but what if I just wrote up a couple strips and…” thought. It never quite takes. I don’t know if it ever will.
In a slightly maudlin episode as the end of last year approached I considered capping everything off with a jump to actual DS9 character portraits musing (somewhat less overtly than in my author-insert episode around the 175 range) about the nature of destiny and free will and whatnot, but that looked like an especially big bit of work to bite off given all the new screencaps I’d have to go hunting for, and I didn’t have a bright throughline on it to motivate the effort amidst a very busy holiday season. So, holding pattern.
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I’m up to 161. I don’t want them to end. 
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