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 College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 6 days ago:
I’m a flight instructor. We get prosecuted if we’re that bad at our jobs.
- Comment on Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying 6 days ago:
Some fans of Lexx.
- Comment on How to be attractive 1 week ago:
Splash on some 100LL. Eau de Boomer Brain
- Comment on Might a well bring it full circle 1 week ago:
Who won?
- Comment on Might a well bring it full circle 1 week ago:
Is anyone else here enough of a 90’s kid to remember the TBS show Dinner and a Movie? The theme song for it just popped into my head. Doot, doo do beans and cornbread doot doo do beans and cornbread.
- Comment on When you actually pay attention to the lyrics of the song you're listening: 1 week ago:
That’s Another Day In Paradise by Phil Collins.
I first heard the song as a child, on the radio being driven around by my parents. Didn’t really take the verses on board, and the chorus is simply repeats of “Oh, think twice. It’s another day for you and me in paradise.” With that big romantic hook and the warm breezy feel, as a kid I interpreted it as a groom asking his bride to consider extending their tropical honeymoon. I filed it in the same mental folder with Fields Of Gold.
It’s a song about abject poverty, about haves and have nots. Verses are about beggers on the street calling out to the wealthy who pretend not to see them. It lands like a brick.
- Comment on When you actually pay attention to the lyrics of the song you're listening: 1 week ago:
Reagan used Born in the USA as a campaign song.
- Comment on When you actually pay attention to the lyrics of the song you're listening: 1 week ago:
Tell mister tally man, I can’t go, I owe six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch to the company store.
- Comment on The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles. 1 week ago:
In Star Trek IV, The Undiscovered Country, exactly that happened. It is kind of a unique scene, because it had to be a bitch to film.
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 1 week ago:
Don’t buy the product. Don’t give them the sale.
Televisions aren’t mandatory, you can do without.
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 1 week ago:
I’m from North Carolina. No West Coast echo chamber here. Lemme splain.
The first thing we have to do is acknowledge this: Republicans are racist, sexist and homophobic. Their god has told them over and over again that black people are evil, women are inferior and gays deserve to die. The people who disagree with them on that are their enemy, that they are currently fighting and winning a holy war against.
“The Left” are their enemy. Back during the Obama administration, The Left would self-describe with the term “woke.” So The Right started using this as a slur for The Left. Being okay with black people is woke. Being okay with gays is woke. Being okay with trans is a whole new flavor of woke. These same kinds of people tend to also be into environmentalism and such. That is also woke, of their enemy. Hence giant pickup trucks and performative fuel wasting.
“But these people you’re talking about tend to like old Star Trek, and it’s been progressive since the 1960’s!” Yeah they mostly don’t see that. Because in both TOS and TNG, a white man is in charge, even if there are women and blacks on the crew. Old Trek tends to devolve into feats of military badassery or at the very least brinksmanship. Picard had a habit of out-badassing Romulans over the telephone. What about DS9? Didn’t watch it; stars a black man. Don’t like that show. What about Voyager? Watched a few episodes when Jeri Ryan joined the cast, didn’t get into it. Enterprise? Wasn’t on any channels I could get at the time.
Meanwhile, there has been a decline in Star Trek’s maturity level. TNG was a very mature show, and not in the Game of Thrones “They get their tits out” sense of the word. TNG is a show about high functioning grownups. I’ve heard it called “competency porn.” There’s an episode where Data is acting Captain of the ship, with Worf as his acting FO. Worf acts impatient with Data, and Data asks to speak with him in the ready room, and delivers a reprimand. He speaks in a stern but not raised voice. There is no shouting. Worf accepts his reprimand, comes to agree with Data’s way of thinking. Data dismisses him, and then checks in on a personal note, regretting if having to reprimand him has damaged their friendship, and Worf replies that he acknowledges he was out of line and that he’d like to remain friends. They behave like the kind of professional adults that should be in command of a warship.
That started slipping in the later shows, ENT went kind of sophomoric with all the attempts at sex appeal. JJ Abrams made a couple movies, during one Uhura tells Kirk during a critical shuttle flight to wait so that she could have a lover’s spat with Spock. On Discovery, they gossiped and backtalked like high schoolers, and then there’s a gag on Starfleet Academy where a cadet sheepishly admits to having swallowed her combadge. Apparently she put it in her mouth like a teething toddler.
Funny thing about the right wing, a lot of them have served in the military, or if they haven’t, they fetishize it. Old Trek was made by WWII veterans; Roddenberry flew B-17s for the USAAF and Doohan stormed Juno Beach on D-Day. Starfleet is a space navy, one that has gone more and less military over time but it’s still a military setting. Another aspect that makes Trek interesting and palatable to the right. Military service and especially combat makes one a “real man.”
There is no shortage of Hollywood types doing interviews listing off all the various “progressive” messages they intend to shoehorn into their works, Alex Kurtzman is among them. The thing is…they’re not delivering a message. Old Trek delivered messages. New Trek virtue signals. In the same way The Right tunes their trucks to run rich, “rolling coal” to performatively waste fuel, to be seen doing something The Enemy doesn’t like, New Trek (and indeed most of what Hollywood has done over the last decade) have been full of performative faggotry. “The cast is mostly female, trans and brown and practically all of them are gay except for one token white dude whose job it is to be always wrong.” The Left likes it because they think The Right won’t.
I want you to think about this: The Left is depicting themselves in these shows, yeah? By making all the characters brown and gay and retarded? No seriously, the more “Progressive messaging” and “representation” they cram into these shows, the characters get dumber and more childish. They’re depicting themselves as stupid pathetic children. Which makes it very easy for The Right to demonize them as dumbass manbabies who never grew up and shouldn’t be in charge of anything important.
Explain to me why they’re doing that.
- Comment on Ouch 1 week ago:
Jesus I’ve done that with a Galaxy S10e. I have a Pixel 10 Pro XL now. It’s heavier than the nation of Andorra. If I drop it on my face I think it genuinely might cave my skull in.
- Comment on it really do be like that 1 week ago:
I think that’s the idea.
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 1 week ago:
TNG’s naysayers in the 80’s were upset they weren’t going to get to see more of their favorite characters. Imagine being told now in 2026 that they’re gonna reboot Friends with none of the original actors. It almost doesn’t make sense because the six friends WERE the show; just make another sitcom. And the first two seasons of TNG were pretty bad; in 1989 it was pretty easy for those naysayers to say told ya so.
The thing is, TNG had a solid premise, which was broadly the same premise as the proven original series. There were glimmers of greatness, diamonds in the rough, like Picard proving in court that Data is a person. It just had to exhaust obsolete old plots and executive producers and find its footing as its own show; by season 4 they had made some of the best television ever broadcast.
ENT had a different problem. It was the fifth series made in the franchise, fans were used to meeting new crews in new situations by now. But ENT came out and told us it “wasn’t our father’s Star Trek.” For the first two seasons, the show was just titled “Enterprise” and not “Star Trek: Enterprise.” It eschewed the traditional orchestral intro music for a pop ballad with vocals. And…the show’s values are worse. I think I just convinced myself that they set it as a prequel so they had an excuse to make the crew worse people. Archer would definitely have killed the Gorn. Could you imagine on TNG Geordi and Worf sitting around in a damaged shuttlecraft drinking whiskey and discussing how hot Troi’s ass is? That happened on ENT. Not only did they bring on another hyperintelligent but emotionally stunted hot chick with huge tits in a catsuit having learned the wrong lesson from Seven of Nine, but the entire crew spent at least some time in their skivvies, often rubbing baby oil on each other.
So ENT declared an intent to return the franchise to its classic premise after DS9 and Voyager in one hand, while masturbating half erect in with the other. Trek fans who watched the show for Kirk refusing to kill the Gorn, or offering his hand to the Klingon Captain on Genesis, or…list two Picard speeches here. Weren’t going to get it from Enterprise. You’d get Hoshi holding her tits in her hands though.
TNG had naysayers before it launched, who were proved wrong. ENT started out with the audience on board and lost people along the way.
So now we arrive at the present and they’re canceling Starfleet Academy. Trekkies seem torn into two factions about this:
There’s the diversity fetishists who are angry that a demographic list show was canceled. I remember once upon a time how, gay people for example, would ask to see more realistic, positive, nuanced gay characters in media and not just Straight Female Protagonist’s Flamboyantly Gay Friend. Now there is media made to pander to that audience, and it boils down to “there’s a woman and a gay and a brown and a fat and an autistic and a…” Elsewhere on Lemmy there was a thread about how mecha anime tended to feature gay characters and about half of the thread was like “What? GAY? WHERE!!! I want to see gay!” Them. The people who do not care if there’s a story or not, they just want to have the colors of the pride flag listed out loud.
Then there’s the folks who liked old Star Trek. Who remember Starfleet Academy depicted as a prestigious military academy that expected excellence in all fields out of their students. Wrath of Kahn opens up with Lieutenant Saavik being taught a lesson about facing death at Starfleet Academy. As a cadet, Wesley Crusher is involved in a fatal accident flying a banned maneuver and a cover-up about said accident, and he receives a strong dressing down, not only about the importance of following regulations but about integrity. The graduates of Starfleet Academy are not only extremely capable military officers, technicians that can operate and maintain the highly advanced systems of a starship, are adept at combat at any scale from hand to hand to theater naval engagement, they’re accomplished athletes, published scientists, many are classically trained musicians, they spend their free time playing 3D chess, cosplaying as Sherlock Holmes and putting on stage plays.
And then here comes the new TV show where a fat young woman walks up to Robert Picardo and sheepishly admits to having swallowed her combadge, and he replies “What, already?!” and you think “Oh, this is a show made by retards, about retards, for retards.”
- Comment on Someone tell the world to slowdown so I can catch up to the events of the previous 12 hours properly 1 week ago:
Maybe if someone gave him some TP for his bunghole, it wouldn’t have come to this.
- Comment on I've had enough shimmying along ledges and squeezing through cracks sideways to last me a lifetime 1 week ago:
The earliest game I remember hiding loading screens was Wind Waker on the Gamecube. It’s the entire reason the game was set on an ocean, they could load and unload assets between islands while the player is in control sailing.
- Comment on Robots will solve wealth inequality, they say 1 week ago:
It requires truly abandoning the idea that one must work for one’s pay. That basic assumption has to completely die before you can enter that world of technological post-scarcity. I don’t think that reckoning is going to arrive peacefully.
- Comment on Pigbutt Worm 1 week ago:
What’s more, this ass is so shit.
- Comment on Population per capita of US states 1 week ago:
In a time of war, should we really be sharing sensitive information like this?
- Comment on This is heresy but lol 1 week ago:
One that basically doesn’t have a definition. It has started to only mean the chuggadachuggadachuggada Nordic throat attack music…
It now only means Taranchula, it used to also include Limozeen.
- Comment on This is heresy but lol 1 week ago:
Well here’s Wikipedia. Beyond this I’m going to assert you find a source that says “Bon Jovi was never considered metal.”
- Comment on This is heresy but lol 1 week ago:
Hmm.
- Comment on CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL 1 week ago:
Polio has not been eradicated the way Smallpox has. There is no smallpox anywhere. There are Polio patients, relatively rare as they are.
- Comment on Truth 1 week ago:
I don’t consider them disposable, exactly. I don’t exactly intend them to be handed down through the generations (Exhibit A: I have no children) but I intend to keep them in service as long as any $40 logo tee is.
- Comment on This is heresy but lol 1 week ago:
I would swear that the definition of “metal” has changed. There was a point in time Bon Jovi and Def Leppard were considered metal. Nowadays it seems that “metal” music is required to sound like your head is submerged in the oil sump of a diesel engine.
And you know what? I like metal heads, they tend to be cool folk who…appreciate their senses differently than I do somehow.
- Comment on Truth 1 week ago:
I buy my shirts by the pound from a wholesaler. A buck or two a pop. They adequately keep the sawdust out of my chest hair.
- Comment on CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL 1 week ago:
Used. They don’t do oral polio vaccines anymore AFAIK.
- Comment on UK-linked components identified in US Tomahawk missile used in Iranian school strike that killed multiple children 1 week ago:
Made. Past tense. Ball sold off the canning jar business awhile ago, they license the name for it but they have nothing to do with the jars you’ll find for sale today. They do still make commercial food and beverage packaging; a lot of regular everyday aluminum beverage cans will sport the Ball logo somewhere.
- Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. 1 week ago:
I wonder if the 2.2l from an S10 could be swapped in? Like an LS swap but more pathetic.
- Comment on CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL 1 week ago:
Yeah that’s exactly it. I’ve never seen one of those…fresh. I think they stopped using that kind of vaccine before I was born, again I never got vaccinated against smallpox, joys of being born in the 80’s. Was it an open sore? Or did it just…sink in?
