captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government” 1 week ago:
I have heard a hypothesis that his ketamine habit has burned through a bit too much frontal lobe.
- Comment on Could you imagine a Nintendo title being advertised like this today? (Conker's Bad Fur Day, 2001) 1 week ago:
I’m referring to a phenomenon of the late Bronze age in which poorly identified people came from the sea to attack the likes of ancient Egypt. Writings of the time do not identify who they were, where they came from, exactly what their mission was, but basically bronze age civilization was coming apart and these folks decided to be on the side of entropy.
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 1 week ago:
At this point I build my desktops and I’ll buy Framework laptops.
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 1 week ago:
Ugh.
- Comment on Could you imagine a Nintendo title being advertised like this today? (Conker's Bad Fur Day, 2001) 1 week ago:
The ONLY game that I’m capable of being pissed about on the Nintendo eShop is Night Trap. Because the President of Nintendo of America testified before congress that Night Trap would never be available for play on Nintendo hardware. I am physically unable to forgive the sheer amount of lying that happened that day.
I am going to trot out the perhaps tired old question of why we’re less squeamish of teenagers or children playing violence-based games than we are sex-based games, why we’re more comfortable with a 15 year old boy thinking about bullets going into heads than penises going into vaginas. But. Society has failed, answers are noise, nothing matters. Bring on the sea people.
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 2 weeks ago:
I find it’s about 5 pages in, sometimes as little as three depending on whether or not someone on lemmynsfw started a new community and self-spammed it.
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 2 weeks ago:
neither did I see star trek
I don’t believe you.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
What happens to a man when he shares his feelings? Has that ever gone well for any male since the evolution of meiosis?
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
Funny you should phrase it like that.
My uncle is a machinist specializing in automotive engine repair and modification. Over dinner last month, he mentioned that he’s used to seeing middle age customers for hot rod engine builds, midlife crisis “Always wanted to do this” kind of guys, but lately he’s been seeing men in their teens and twenties come in wanting heads ported and polished and shit like that.
They’re not spending money on women because women have made themselves impossible to want, so young men are turning their attention to things like cars.
- Comment on How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 2 weeks ago:
I figure it’s not a factor of my age, it’s a factor of the house’s age.
You see some old houses they say something like “This house was built in 1840 by Mister Plutis Astercock for his family” and they mean he knocked some trees over, sawed it into boards and nailed it together with his own hands. Just…right there in town. Down the street from the post office. Try that now and they’ll broadcast your evisceration on PBS. I’m a trained carpenter god dammit there are five families living in houses I built. No, now the only place you’re allowed to build your own house with your own hands is out in the cousinfucks.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
Never don’t downvote posts with the word “patriarchy” in them. The right says “DEI hire” the left says “Patriarchy.”
- Comment on *agressively keeps pressing 0* 2 weeks ago:
“To activate your product, call 1800-ACT-VATE” Okay…dial dial dial ringing ringing ringing…
Thank you for calling Product Company. Para espanol, marue nueve. For sales, press one. For billing, press two. To make a payment, press three. For warranty support, press four. For sponsorships and media inquiries, press five."
Uhhhh…four?
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
Let’s put it another way:
“Why aren’t men using electrical appliances anymore?”
“Well, since the Republicans shut down Underwriter’s Labs 40 years ago they’re just too dangerous. A poll conducted by Pew Research in 2062 found only 30% of men between the ages of 20 and 40 have attempted to use a kitchen appliance and of those 30% none polled did so without being shocked, burned or lacerated. Of the men polled, none of them reported cooking indoors more than twice a year; they either exclusively seek food that requires no preparation or those who have access to the outdoors cook over wood fires. One in ten report eating canned or frozen food cold on at least a weekly basis.”
“There’s just nothing you can do to get men to seek mental health services, is there?”
How is individual talk therapy supposed to fix industry deregulation due to crony capitalism?
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I live in a town that is mostly a suburb of a military base. They’ve been cutting down as much forest as they can to cram in oversized McMansions to accomodate the influx of people moving out of the cities. Deer and raccoons have been running rampant in my neighborhood because their habitats out in the woods are being destroyed for subdivisions and shopping centers. The county recently failed to get the general assembly to budge on water restrictions on the two rivers the county government is authorized to pull water from, so they’re starting to pressure my town (which has its own waterworks that pulls from a different river than the county) to share ours. None of the people coming into the area are joining a community; none exists here. People here build tall opaque fences on their property lines and watch Netflix alone. There is no community, only a crowd.
And then a therapist is going to ask a stupid and unhelpful question like “How does that make you feel?”
My car doesn’t start most of the time and when it does it doesn’t run for very long, I’ve missed work three times last week alone because of car troubles, he’s threatening to fire me if I don’t get it right but I don’t have the money for a mechanic. “How does that make you feel?”
Feelings are the raw ore from which bad decisions are forged. How I fell is wrong and irrelevant. What am I supposed to DO?
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
Explain to me in actual words what a therapist is going to accomplish.
“Doctor doctor you’ve got to do something! Third spaces don’t exist, there’s no loitering signs everywhere you’ll be arrested for standing around talking, everyone my age had kids and their lives fell off, bars charge $9.50 for an ounce of bourbon and expect a tip and they play Nickelback loud enough to be heard from the moon so I’ve just been sitting at home alone drinking diet soda and playing Subnautica over and over again and while I utterly love this game it’s getting a little stale and Below Zero isn’t…good at all? So I guess I’m a little bored.”
“…Here’s a prescription for an SSRI, that’ll be $900.”
- Comment on How is everyone doing with their home improvements? 2 weeks ago:
I’m in year two of planning to replace the windows, this month it’s been a dying relative and an upcoming dental surgery that’s put it off.
- Comment on Fucking pigeons 2 weeks ago:
I think the few sticks arranged around this egg are mostly there to act as chocks to keep the egg from rolling too far. This was easier than evolving square eggs.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 2 weeks ago:
I think the folks suing are going to be the ones whose commissions were stolen. I’m kinda hoping someone gets their head sewn to the carpet over this, it’s a very business major thing to have done.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 2 weeks ago:
Society died but people kept having children anyway.
- Comment on How Star Trek: Lower Decks Managed To Get Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock To Appear, And Why She’s Only Credited By Her First Name 2 weeks ago:
I’m at least slightly okay with the first decontamination scene between Trip and T’Pol. I can appreciate the idea that they planned the whole “starting out with a lot of open disdain for each other but growing together” arc and starting them out with some belligerent sexual tension. Because this is the thirstiest Trek they achieved this with a blue light, some underwear and a can of lotion, but at least there’s an idea there.
The scene that makes me say “okay guys dial it back a bit” is…the crew are locked in their rooms, and Hoshi manages to break out into an air duct in the ceiling, which she falls out of, which somehow tears her top off, so she shows up at Malcolm’s door with her tits in her hands saying “just shut up and give me a shirt.” It’s not really a character moment between the two, it’s not like they’re kinda into each other but because of their ranks they’re trying to stay professional but they keep ending up in each other’s personal space…it’s just “We took one of the lead actresses shirt off. That’s the “””“”““joke””“”“”“.”
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the best way I’ve seen it illustrated:
Imagine walking into a physical retail store, something like Best Buy. You want to buy a TV. A blue shit salesman talks to you for awhile, helping you pick out the TV you want with the features you like. He says “Okay, so take this slip to the register, pay for it there and they’ll bring out the TV to your car.” The slip has the salesman’s name on it so he gets a commission on the sale.
On your way to the register, a slimy guy in a suit says “Hey let me see that sales ticket, maybe I’ve got a coupon for that TV, save you some money.” So you hand him the sales slip, he says “Yeah, here’s one for $2 off on this $900 television.” And he hands you that coupon plus a sales ticket…not the original one, another one with HIS name on it instead of the salesman. The slimy guy in the suit is stealing the salesman’s commission.
Now imagine doing this with software on the internet and you’ve got a class action lawsuit from Legal Eagle.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 2 weeks ago:
yeah, never shit again would also be useful.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 2 weeks ago:
the pink one, thenbevery oligarch will never stop shitting.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 2 weeks ago:
yeah, because Timothy McVeigh.
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 3 weeks ago:
We don’t need a comedy, or a romance, or a drama, thriller, sitcom, etc. spin-off of Star Trek.
Am I remembering this correctly or is this from the Mandela universe I’m originally from…after the reboot of Battlestar Galactica finished, they made a prequel to it which was a soap opera/personal drama set on Capricus or whatever the planet was called? For some reason?
Why am I also reminded of the Geico cave man commercials that some idiot also made a TV show about?
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 3 weeks ago:
It’s great, go play it, and I suggest going in as blind as you can.
I once saw a playthrough by Let’s Play Easy Mode, I don’t know how he acquired a copy of the game while knowing as little as he did about it. He correctly guessed there’d be swimming in it and realized about six minutes in that it was a survival game.
I like to give this one hint, which I think is enough guidance to keep you from looking up the wiki and encountering actual spoilers: The answer to “well, now what?” is “go deeper.”
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 3 weeks ago:
I did that a lot with Subnautica but I think I’ve worn it out. I would make up challenge runs for myself to spice it up and I’ve run out of those. It was my “I want to play a video game right now” game. I kinda wish I had fewer objections to Subnautica 2, because there’s things I like about that game and things I don’t and the don’ts slightly outweigh the things that do.
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 1 month ago:
Now I want to make an oil-based spread and call it “The Product In This Container Is Absolutely Not Butter” and see how it sells.
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 1 month ago:
I switched to oat milk simply because it lasts longer in the fridge. Cow’s milk is not designed for any kind of shelf life at all.
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 1 month ago:
Actual genuine scientists tend to be the nerd type excited about whatever it is they’re studying. They can’t wait to tell you about the frequency oscillations of some quasar or the courtship rituals of hagfish or whatever.
The journals they have to publish in are shady as a cave though.
- Comment on lewd noodles 1 month ago:
Look out it’s a hidewinder.