Poll Halloween Week --- sport your costumes with an image
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If friends are having a party I'll dig out my old Superman costume (hasn't happened the past couple years for obvious reasons). If we get trick-or-treaters my sister or I will hand out candy (we don't get many as we live on a steep hill). Otherwise I'll watch a few Halloween episodes of favourite TV shows, listen to my Halloween Youtube playlist and eat any leftover candy slowly over the following months. We also carved pumpkins with my niece and nephew this year.
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Awww... who's an adorable little vampire?
I'm sure Demetri would be able to get closer to a lot more victims that way...
Halloween has pretty much been a bust the last few years for me. Gone are the days of Trick or Treating, both for myself obviously, but also for taking the kids. Dressing up for parties are also a thing of the past when I used to throw on my homemade Anakin Skywalker Costume and the wife, her TOS yeoman uniform and we'd go as Star Wars vs. Star Trek. I haven't even bothered with buying candy as our neighborhood has been practically devoid of the little beggars the past few years.
Unlike when I was growing up or even when the kids were, Halloween seems to have become a dying holiday. While a lot of it started with the whole poisoned candy moral panic and then was reinforced by abduction scares, but also the culture of America I think has changed it and a lot of people don't want to interact anymore, especially with strangers, as we become more divided and rely on technological interaction more. It also doesn't help in spread-out suburban areas where cars are mandatory as when I was growing up in a dense city it was a lot easier to collect a large booty by hitting tons of houses while on foot.
Covid last year likely put the final nail in Halloween's coffin (no pun intended) making social gatherings a scary proposition even without a frightening costume.
So I personally won't be doing anything different that day then a normal Sunday and if this all sounds like a lament, considering Halloween used to be my favorite holiday, it is.
Unlike when I was growing up or even when the kids were, Halloween seems to have become a dying holiday. While a lot of it started with the whole poisoned candy moral panic and then was reinforced by abduction scares, but also the culture of America I think has changed it and a lot of people don't want to interact anymore, especially with strangers, as we become more divided and rely on technological interaction more. It also doesn't help in spread-out suburban areas where cars are mandatory as when I was growing up in a dense city it was a lot easier to collect a large booty by hitting tons of houses while on foot.
Covid last year likely put the final nail in Halloween's coffin (no pun intended) making social gatherings a scary proposition even without a frightening costume.
So I personally won't be doing anything different that day then a normal Sunday and if this all sounds like a lament, considering Halloween used to be my favorite holiday, it is.
sorry if you did not get a big welcome to the board --- sorta comment since yesterday --- but yeah welcome to the board -- it is good you are here- @There Be Whales Here --- still I know that it is hard make friends at first on a new board-- and what with the state of about 3+ star trek series' going on it is kind spreading the trek world thin-- enjoy yourself here as you are doing I hope--- don't worry things with the holidays are to cheer us up I guess during the most depressing time of year - the bleak gray and dark getting darker part of the year.
we are a nice crowd of people --- so you will fit right in-- no worries -- on the forum we have all changed our avatar's and did a name change from our normal nerd name-- (I am know as think -- usually -- not that I don't like being know as evil but --- it is only a passing phase of a kind of temporary insanity thing going on for me when halloween happens-- my image and name will change back after that "holiday".
welcome to halloween treks and treats -
sorry if you did not get a big welcome to the board --- sorta comment since yesterday --- but yeah welcome to the board -- it is good you are here- @There Be Whales Here --- still I know that it is hard make friends at first on a new board-- and what with the state of about 3+ star trek series' going on it is kind spreading the trek world thin-- enjoy yourself here as you are doing I hope--- don't worry things with the holidays are to cheer us up I guess during the most depressing time of year - the bleak gray and dark getting darker part of the year.
we are a nice crowd of people --- so you will fit right in-- no worries -- on the forum we have all changed our avatar's and did a name change from our normal nerd name-- (I am know as think -- usually -- not that I don't like being know as evil but --- it is only a passing phase of a kind of temporary insanity thing going on for me when halloween happens-- my image and name will change back after that "holiday".
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welcome to halloween treks and treats -
Thank you for the welcome and it is much appreciated. Having been a member of several non-Trek forums over the years, I realize it will take awhile to establish myself. I just don't know how much I can put in here since my online time is limited and I'm fairly active and entrenched on another forum...but I'm trying
. Unfortunately I have gotten the impression I may have already rubbed some the wrong way based upon their responses to my personal opinions about the current Trek shows, but as a long-time Trekkie I know all too well how defensive fans can be about their passion.
Not celebrating holidays are always disappointing to me, but since I usually have to work a lot of them anyway, the impression they don't really having any meaning is not totally unexpected.
I do concur from what I've seen so far that the membership seems knowledgeable, nice and of course passionate and I have no doubt that much like other forums, I'll make friends here as well. That is assuming I keep my opinions of STD to myself
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Thank you for the welcome and it is much appreciated. Having been a member of several non-Trek forums over the years, I realize it will take awhile to establish myself. I just don't know how much I can put in here since my online time is limited and I'm fairly active and entrenched on another forum...but I'm trying
Unfortunately I have gotten the impression I may have already rubbed some the wrong way based upon their responses to my personal opinions about the current Trek shows, but as a long-time Trekkie I know all too well how defensive fans can be about their passion.
Not celebrating holidays are always disappointing to me, but since I usually have to work a lot of them anyway, the impression they don't really having any meaning is not totally unexpected.
I do concur from what I've seen so far that the membership seems knowledgeable, nice and of course passionate and I have no doubt that much like other forums, I'll make friends here as well. That is assuming I keep my opinions of STD to myself
There’s a big difference between a different opinion of something and then the debate that happens compared to trolling,.. trolling is debated in it’s own thread about trolling,.. and we all have our opinions but a troll will not care what the others opinion is only just wanting to get a reaction to some kind of abuse that they have done,..
I say this not because people with opinions are trolls, they are not,. But if one is trolled by a troll,.. one should just ignore that as those statements will probably get discussed in a trolling thread or, a highly secretive moderator trolling thread in their secret threads area,..
This forum is great with things like that,.. I have found,.
Trek on trekbbs is an obsession,.. I too was on or “entrenched” in a different trek forum simulation type game group,.. and came here with some sort of extra time exploring other trek areas on the internet for that game group,. Years later I am glad I really stuck to this forum,.. it seems like a simple change but it’s a good change,.. and I have become a part of this forum for trek people.
Really this forum takes place on Talos IV as an experiment in the abstract abilities of human thought within the illusion of time those thoughts might imagine, so. yeah,.
Cat practicing how to scare people on Halloween.
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