tigeruppercut
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- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 1 day ago:
I’m less familiar with old Trek (TOS), so maybe it’s an unfair comparison, but the slapstick elements of percussive maintenance in SW seem wildly less serious than the types of repairs happening in say TNG. I can’t think of a time Geordi had an mechanical problem he couldn’t figure out and smacked it to get it working again.
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 2 days ago:
It’s one thing to not understand your car alternator when you can call a tow truck, and quite another when you’re traveling light years in interplanetary space. Plus we do see things getting fixed, but it’s never in detail. In Star Trek you get plausible technobabble: “We can’t go to warp because all the relays are blown on the nacelles, and it’ll take at least 4 hours to replace them.” In SW you get “We can’t go to light speed for some undefined reason. Let’s watch Chewie moan angrily while smacking something with a wrench, then R2 shoves something in a hole and gets blown across the room via electric shock. And now the hyperdrive works.”
- Comment on Where does technology come from in Star Wars? 2 days ago:
I think I read somewhere that during the filming for the original trilogy scenes they read Chewie’s lines in English so the actors would know what they were reacting to. Not sure if it was the same for R2
- Comment on Rhubarb 2 days ago:
I’ve only seen the spoken version of this
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 2 days ago:
Not sure about the UK, but the prep school circuit in the US gives a bump for getting into elite universities, and the connections made there can be just as lucrative as the ones in colleges.
- Comment on venomous 3 days ago:
All mammals lay eggs. Most of them just lay eggs inside themselves.
- Comment on Piss off! 3 days ago:
I mean, humans are about 150 or 200 freedom units, and various breeds of cow weigh 10x that or more
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 4 days ago:
Just wait til they stick these on international flights. You’ll stand 14 hours and you’ll love it, peasant.
- Comment on Inspired by a friends current vacation 4 days ago:
I enjoy it even when it’s not wilderness camping-- drive up to a site with a level of facilities you’re comfortable with (toilet, sinks, etc), have a little bbq, do some stargazing, sleep with some nature sounds, drive home. I know those kinds of places aren’t near everyone but camping doesn’t have to be bushwhacking or backpacking.
- Comment on Wait, that game is still playable online? 5 days ago:
I’m pretty sure you can still find people playing Doom deathmatch online, although these days it might be more limited to various events rather than finding random folks online any given day. The modding community is still going strong after 30 years though
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 6 days ago:
I’d guess most people tend to tie grannies rather than squares just because you tend to repeat which hand is wrapping which strand over the other.
- Comment on LOVE THEM 1 week ago:
Who wants to sing?
- Comment on Tity more tity, the Greed is sickening 1 week ago:
- Comment on Jo jay! 1 week ago:
Disappointed there are jeans without beans
- Comment on Dammit dad 1 week ago:
I always assumed it was close to scalding, like to the point where an adult (or a bear) would be able to blow on it a few times and eat it, but Goldilocks being a dumb child was just burning her tongue.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 1 week ago:
Conan had Jewish Hitler on at one point. I think Sarah Silverman talked about it on a podcast recently but I can’t remember which one right now
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 1 week ago:
If you’re into retro FPS gaming at all you should do yourself a favor and play Blood-- I think it’s where I learned the word akimbo, as there’s a powerup that lets you shoot double guns for awhile. That’s not why you should play it though; it’s a classic in its own right, and was built on the Build engine (along with Duke 3d and Shadow Warrior).
- Comment on Max changing name back to HBO 1 week ago:
Max Power?
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Prodigy' Season 3 Passed On By Netflix; Seasons 1-2 To Leave Soon 2 weeks ago:
Typical really. Not the best Trek (which is a tough bar to clear for a show marketed to younger viewers), but a good story nonetheless. I’ve been doing a rewatch recently accompanied by the good folks over at the Greatest Trek podcast
- Comment on Spoon 2 weeks ago:
That whole series is pretty good. Off the top of my head this one about a werewolf was memorable
- Comment on Spoon 2 weeks ago:
What if it’s rusty?
- Comment on Spoon 2 weeks ago:
Thought it was going to be this story
Incidentally that series also has an episode with Trevor Moore
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 2 weeks ago:
Oops all trek memes
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 2 weeks ago:
I’m always surprised when trek memes that show up outside the trek comms aren’t posted by @ummthatguy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Uncultured 2 weeks ago:
Ah, but once you know of the aglets, do you know what you put the aglets through? Maybe you should be friends with people who don’t know aglets but do know the word for the holes
- Comment on Inflation markers 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty easy to make biltong on your own too. I’ve done it with strips of meat hanging in a cardboard box with a fan pointed at it
- Comment on Beans 3 weeks ago:
best Olympic fact?
- Comment on Beans 3 weeks ago:
Just in case you were curious about a picture picture:
- Comment on Beans 3 weeks ago:
Never had this feeling this with scrambled chicken periods, but I found it once at the bottom of a bowl of cold cod cum
- Comment on Still haven't adapted 3 weeks ago:
You have to be in the right place for no dst. I personally hate having sunrise be 430 (first light at 3) and sunset at 800, and shifting those times by an hour feels so much more natural to most people’s lives
