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 We can play that game too 2 hours ago:
Their parents didn’t hit them hard enough.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 3 hours ago:
Okay, we’ll rename American football to Cricket.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 4 hours ago:
How many moon landings have been done in metric?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it 5 hours ago:
An Ask Lemmy topic recently was “what are some video games that don’t exist.” I gave three answers, but held one back because it does technically exist.
SQIJ! for the ZX Spectrum was designed to be terrible by a programmer that, as I understand it, was contractually obligated to program a game, but had grown to hate the company. He wrote a game that turned the caps lock on so none of the movement keys worked, and if you edit the code with a memory poke to turn caps lock off, you’ll find there’s no game. It was written in BASIC, and the first line is the most passive aggressive thing I’ve ever read:
1 goto 2 - Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 5 hours ago:
Well you see, Americans called the game with goalies “soccer” because that’s what the British called it back when we were crown colonies, so when we invented the game with linebackers, we called that “football.” then everyone else heard our word and decided to change the game with goalies’ name to “football.” So as usual, America continues to be correct, and the rest of the world is bound and determined to fuck it up.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 5 hours ago:
You know, I’ve got one of those who doesn’t have any power. His lack of hilariousness is at a maximum.
- Comment on We can play that game too 6 hours ago:
There will never be another general election in the United States.
- Comment on Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough 1 day ago:
So, do you remember back in like, 2004, when “feature phones” like the LG EnV or the Sidekick came out? It had a little more OS to it than a typical flip phone, they often had full keyboards, integration with intant messengers at the time, web browsers, etc? Some were more media focused and had mp3 oriented features, some were social machines for emailing and texting, some were more camera oriented, some more game oriented, you could get a phone that fit your interests.
Microsoft intended to shoulder into that market circa 2008. The year after the iPhone launched. It then took them two years and a billion dollars to develop. Through in-fighting with development of their OTHER mobile product, Windows Phone. And finally in 2010, the era of the iPhone 4, they released the Kin.
The Kin did not perform well, it was very mediocre hardware.
It had no app store or software library at all.
It couldn’t access several instant messengers that were popular at the time.
The few people who did buy one returned them.
It wasn’t Verizon’s fault that Microsoft pulled a Microsoft and poured tons of money into arriving at a trend too late to compete with an overpriced mediocre product.
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 1 day ago:
So, my understanding of auroras is, the planet’s magnetic field draws particles emitted by the sun toward the poles, and as those particles interact with the atmosphere they glow. So without a star and thus without solar wind, where do the aurora come from?
- Comment on Getting too expensive 2 days ago:
It’s not compatible with newer motherboards. Anybody with the last couple generations of computers can’t use it.
- Comment on Rate my Grandma's setup 3 days ago:
Okay chat, today we’re playing Dress Slacks, we’re going for the hemmed cuffs%
- Comment on Its all over 3 days ago:
I can burp. But not during a swallow. Esophagus is half-duplex.
- Comment on Its all over 4 days ago:
I’ve always had it with soda, and I thought I had swallowed in such a way that the CO2 was all trying to fizz out at once. Feels like you’ve stubbed your esophagus.
- Comment on Choose wisely: Chocolate that taste like shit or Shit that taste like chocolate 5 days ago:
Hershey’s does not taste like shit.
It tastes like vomit. Get your facts straight.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 5 days ago:
I want it to work like a hit and miss engine. Big ol flywheel, the exhaust valve is held open until the RPM dips low enough then you get a power stroke, just a nice controlled fusion event that releases a whackton of energy, bring the RPM up a bit…
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 5 days ago:
I would swear I saw Tom Scott interview one lab that was planning on building a fusion generator that worked like a diesel engine. Like, the fusion reaction drives a piston.
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 5 days ago:
It’s like DVDs. DVDs looked great in 2002, compared to VHS or even broadcast TV, your new 32 inch “big screen” never looked as good playing a DVD over S-video. That same DVD in that same player attached by HDMI to a 45 inch 4k LCD looks grainy and horrid.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 1 week ago:
I miss casual flight sims that were designed to be played with a joystick. Not so much Janes F-15 1997 or whatever, i’m more talking about Crimson Skies. I want more Crimson Skies.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 1 week ago:
The number of “cheat codes” that were actually just bonus content. Like I remember there were codes in Diddy Kong Racing where you could change all the power-up balloons to any color, like all red or all blue. I also remember there were codes in Mechwarrior II that unlocked a few mechs. Like, there were NPCs in a few missions that were a Tarantula, a Battlemaster, and there were elementals in one level. You could cheat to play as them, but the Battlemaster crashed the game.
Good times.
- Comment on Forever young 1 week ago:
once the last boomer is cold l.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
But you see things vividly in your dreams?
Like, I’m a 1 on this scale. I remember and imagine very visually. I can picture an apple sitting on a plate on a table and it looks real. In fact, my mind imagined it being slid onto the table, and the apple rocked on the plate as it slid to a stop. My imagination has a physics engine.
I also dream vividly, the experience feels very lifelike. The few lucid dreams I had tended to fade quickly when I realized I was dreaming. I’d love to be able to cause, and then maintain, that state.
- Comment on The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this. 1 week ago:
For those who are a 4 or 5 on this diagram: What are your dreams like?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’ve got a Linux machine attached to my TV right now. It’s basically a Steam, Kodi and Firefox box.
- Comment on challenge 1 week ago:
Just looking out for you, make sure you make it all two hours.
- Comment on Silly goose 1 week ago:
see that’s society actually functioning.
- Comment on Avocado 2 weeks ago:
The number of steps on the side of the peel and the sides of the fruit don’t match, and why would the concave sections for the pit be on the convex sides of the fruit? Unless these are a bunch of individual square pieces that were pulled out individually and then lined up, so the part around the pit “collapsed” to the table, but the tops of the domed part are oriented wrong…it’s some kinda bullshit.
- Comment on This comic is missing a chunk of asbestos. 2 weeks ago:
The /// parts are carrying a lot of weight in this one.
- Comment on An experimental setting. 2 weeks ago:
Question: What?
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 2 weeks ago:
38 year old here:
I’m gonna give it to the zoomers for coming up with some solid slang with Rizz.
- Comment on challenge 2 weeks ago:
truck doors have hinges. I have been known to fix those.