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 Mama mia 3 hours ago:
I don’t know, does this count as stolen valor?
- Comment on Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs 4 hours ago:
This checks out but dude you need Charter.
- Comment on No shitpost, just posting the best soda in America 8 hours ago:
a bit like how artifical cherry or grape flavor was ruined by Robitussin.
- Comment on Well, I guess that settles it 1 day ago:
Good? No, he murderd a lot of innocent people.
Old? He was in his 20’s? Did he live to see his 30th birthday?
boy? Apparently.
- Comment on Well, I guess that settles it 1 day ago:
So was Timothy McVeigh.
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 2 days ago:
I tend to buy straight from vendors. like I ordered some underwear straight from Hanes the other day.
- Comment on Motivational, inspiring 3 days ago:
reading this to the tune of harder better faster stronger…also doesn’t help.
- Comment on Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"? 3 days ago:
The basic building blocks of the internet were designed by DARPA, and it was designed with that military mentality of “If the ruskies nuke any part of our infrastructure, the rest of it should keep running.” You can chop large parts of the internet off and those parts stop working but the rest of it keeps going. Here’s an extreme example: I can unplug my cable modem and disconnect my house from the internet completely, yet I can still access the web pages hosted by my switch, Wi-Fi router and NAS through my local area network.
- Comment on Captain America (1990) | The alternate cut of the film appears to have been found 3 days ago:
like, 3 different times?
- Comment on Then what happened? 3 days ago:
Timing is the most important element of comedy.
- Comment on If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted? 4 days ago:
I want to go on Jeopardy and never use the phrase “who is” or “what is.” “Mitochondria is…what again?”
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 4 days ago:
Lufia: Rise of the Sinistrals. JRPG for the SNES published by Quintet. VERY large game for the era, there are a LOT of towns with dungeons to go through. Gets a little grindy mid-way through, it also manages to fit such a large quest with such a large game map on the cartridge by having relatively little variety in visuals. There’s one town tileset, there’s one dungeon tileset that gets palette swapped, there’s one cave tileset that gets palette swapped, there’s a relatively small number of music tracks you’ll be hearing a lot.
The North American release of its sequel had a very late game dungeon that was corrupted, and technically possible to move through but you’d have to have played the PAL version to know what you’re doing. One of the few broken games I’m aware of to get a Nintendo seal of quality. Lufia II is actually a prequel, you play out the full adventure of the legendary heroes you play in the cold open of Lufia. There’s a cool detail between the two games, in the first, when the legendary heroes were legendary, the dialog is spoken very formal and pompous. In the second game, when we’ve been with them this whole time and they’re just people, the same dialog plays out the same way but it’s much more casual. “Come forth and show thyself!” becomes “Come out and show yourself.” Probably my favorite detail of the whole series.
- Comment on nuclear 4 days ago:
So. When I was in my junior year of college, the dorm I lived in was built more like a high occupancy apartment rather than a college dorm room, it had a living room and a kitchenette. No built-in stove but we were allowed to have a hot plate, so I went to K-Mart and bought a double burner one.
For some reason, one of my roommates had a cereal bowl that was in the shape of a saucepan. It was made of plastic, but it was black and had a handle. One day I walk into the apartment to an ungodly chemical smell and exactly the image above.
- Comment on Crisco in a Terracotta: Decoding the (Mostly) Useless Candle Meme 5 days ago:
It’s supposed to be a space heater. The idea is candles do produce quite a bit of heat but in a cold room the heat of a few candles will rise in narrow columns to the ceiling where it will be basically be useless. Put a terra cotta pot over it and it will catch that heat inside it and start functioning as a radiant heater, allowing people in the room to enjoy the heat from some candles.
- Comment on Crisco in a Terracotta: Decoding the (Mostly) Useless Candle Meme 5 days ago:
If you heat the room with a candle, you probably won’t notice the difference. Most of the heat will likely rise to the ceiling leaving you still mostly pretty cold, even if the room is 52.4 degrees rather than 52.2. Trying to directly warm yourself with a candle doesn’t really work either; the “habitable zone” of a bonfire is pretty big, you can be several feet from the flames and feel comfortably warm. A candle is so small that the distance between “can’t feel any heat at all” and “first degree burn” is thinner than your hand.
Putting a terra cotta pot over it will warm the pot to the point it feels warm, it lets you meaningfully experience the heat of the candle. That same energy will be spread out on a large surface which will feel comfortably warm to the touch.
I saw people start to come up with these contraptions after those Texas deep freezes where an entire state was caught so thoroughly off guard by long sleeve weather that they started teaching each other how to shit in buckets.
If a Youtube video gains any attention, the idea cancer will soon follow. “Hey you might be able to improvise an emergency heater out of these things you probably have around the house” becomes “finger family pregnant frozen spiderman builds artisanal crisco emergency heater.”
- Comment on Crisco in a Terracotta: Decoding the (Mostly) Useless Candle Meme 5 days ago:
I remember the Modern Rogue (based in Austin, Texas) did an episode on it.
- Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one 6 days ago:
Absolutely the only benefit to slot headed screws is how easy they are to make, which is why they’re what a home machinist would make when creating his own fasteners, and why any aliens out there that use threaded fasteners have probably also tried and learned to hate them.
Most other shapes of driver aren’t cut, they’re stamped.
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 6 days ago:
Sure, here’s her genome. Feel free to compile one yourself.
- Comment on I'm an educator and have to tell my students the same lie every day. 1 week ago:
Then you’ll find me in your corner.
- Comment on I'm an educator and have to tell my students the same lie every day. 1 week ago:
There was a point in time a man could support a family working as a cashier at a grocery store.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 1 week ago:
Given my experience with it in Satisfactory it’s rather heavy.
- Comment on I don't have a purpose in life and feel like a robot. This cannot be good for my mental health, but I don't know how or what to change. How do I change? 1 week ago:
Do we do that here? Do we make friends on this platform?
- Comment on Is this the end? 1 week ago:
Blu-ray is such a crap format.
- Comment on Mitochondria 1 week ago:
I don’t think it’s possible for the stories Shakespeare told to become obsolete because he wasn’t the first or last to tell them. It is my understanding that not a single one of Shakespeare’s plays were original works, he retold folk tales, legends, historical events etc. (Hamlet is a Danish legend, Henry V was his attempt at a documentary…) and his versions were good enough and written down enough to become canonized as classics.
But, to a modern audience, Shakespeare’s language is 400 years out of date, and not only is it obsolete language, but it’s Whedonesque obsolete language. Shakespeare wrote in quippy punny poetry and the bases for a lot of his puns, a lot of the cultural references he makes, we just don’t get anymore. Because of all that, I think it’s a similar task as reading Chaucer in the original middle English, you can kind of muddle through but you have to keep stopping and figuring out what the hell you just read.
I’m not saying Shakespeare’s plays are worthless and should be discarded, but I don’t think an average teenager should be expected to read and understand it the way he might a 20th century novel. I think we owe it to students to, the way we do with Chaucer, offer the original and a more modern translation.
If it’s used as a reading comprehension exercise I would recommend the script for Ten Things I Hate About You instead of The Taming Of The Shrew, for pretty much exactly this reason.
- Comment on Mitochondria 1 week ago:
I can tell you are confused.
The scenario I got in high school was “Here, one or more high school students, is a copy of Hamlet as Shakespeare wrote it preserved down to the punctuation and page layout. Read it just like you read To Kill A Mockingbird.” I assert that this is a poorly designed exercise in reading comprehension for modern 21st century English. This exercise will not substantially improve anyone’s ability to understand, say, the Pilot’s Operating Handbook for a Cessna 172.
I would say exactly the same thing of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, if it was presented to teenagers in its original Middle English. It isn’t though; textbooks are printed with the Canterbury Tales translated into modern-ish English. At the very least
And broghte hire hoom with hym in his contree
becomes
And brought her home with him into his country
We don’t do that with Shakespeare though; it has to be enjoyed in the original nonsense. Which I take as evidence it’s an aesthetic choice rather than a practical one.
I would assert that - if you’re trying to increase proficiency in reading normal 21st century English as a general life skill - you wouldn’t design the lesson like my English teacher did. If that was your goal you’d probably use a modern translation, maybe you’d study Ten Things I Hate About You rather than The Taming Of The Shrew.
Which is why I’ll also assert that Literature classes as taught in later high school and into college aren’t really designed to be communication proficiency classes but art appreciation classes. Which should be electives like band, orchestra, painting or photography, not required classes like math and science.
The English literature classes I took from my teenage years on all assumed you were proficient at reading.
- Comment on Mitochondria 1 week ago:
Reducing but not eliminating the amount of time people drive would mean less practical experience which means rusty drivers. I recommend recurring training.
- Comment on Mitochondria 1 week ago:
No, I do live in an area where drivers’ ed is pathetically short and simple though.
- Comment on Mitochondria 1 week ago:
Yes it very specifically is. The origin of this thread was someone asking me what I would cut out of the curriculum. Are you always this dishonest?
- Comment on Mitochondria 1 week ago:
Much of the language Shakespeare uses is obsolete to a modern English speaker. Let’s start with his use of the archaic second person singular thee thy thou and move on from there to words we don’t use anymore like “contumely” or “orisons” and then arrive at metaphors that haven’t made sense since the industrial revolution. Shakespeare wrote in English v. 2.3.1, here in the 21st century we speak English v. 6.13.2.
- Comment on Mitochondria 1 week ago:
How many hours of the average American’s life will be spent behind the wheel of a car?
How many hours of the average American’s life will be spent examining 400 year old stage plays?
If they get something wrong behind the wheel of a car, what’s the worst that can happen?
If they get something wrong examining a 400 year old stage play, what’s the worst that can happen?
I propose that teaching Shakespeare instead of more in depth driver’s ed isn’t entirely ethical.