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Captain Aggravated

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Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

  • CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court

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  • Where was that half billion going to come from? Each of the previous Subnautica games sold around 5 million copies at $30 a pop, so their entire gross revenue was $300 million, tops. And that's gross revenue, not net profit.

    So, where's that kind of money going to come from? 5 million people bought copies of Subnautica in better economic times than this, you planning on raising the price or selling the game to more people?

  • Should I wave the Iranian flag at a protest in America

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  • Flying the Stars and Stripes upside down is a distress call. And at least in my neck of the woods, authorities will respond to it; on occasion the students at high schools tasked with hoisting the flag in the morning will sometimes attach it upside down, and police or fire show up to ask what's wrong.

  • What slang term did you learn as a kid that is no longer in use?

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  • The closest it came to being used as a slur in the US is to accuse someone of clumsiness. We never called people suffering from nervous system diseases "spastics." Don't put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby.

  • What slang term did you learn as a kid that is no longer in use?

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  • "Spastic" and even "spaz" is used in the US but isn't considered an ablest slur here. My understanding is the British used it as a slur for cerebral palsy or parkinson's disease patients, where in the US it simply means an uncoordinated jerky motion and/or clumsiness. Let's not mince words, the United States of America is perfectly capable of generating slurs; but this one isn't ours.

  • What slang term did you learn as a kid that is no longer in use?

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  • And the act of traveling on said highway was...surfing. For some reason. The 90's were stupid, and I'm from there.

  • What slang term did you learn as a kid that is no longer in use?

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  • Syke. Or psych. Early 90's kid slang, had a definition akin to just kidding or fooled you but more mean spirited. Said to mark the previous statement as intended purely to mess with the listener's mind or psych them out. Similar in spirit to ending a sarcastically spoken sentence with "NOT!" though distinct.

    "Yeah man, you can drive my car. Psych! You're not touching my ride."

    The more I type about it, the less "psych" looks like a valid English word.

  • What slang term did you learn as a kid that is no longer in use?

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  • Limey detected. That's a Bri'ish thing.

  • What TV show traumatized you as a kid?

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  • It wasn't a TV show, it was a commercial. For acrylic nails.

    So I was like 5, this would have been in 1991 or so, there was a commercial on daytime television among the blue star ointment and dirt devil vacuums for some brand of acrylic nails that were easy to put on and take off, and they contrasted this against the "other brand" that showed a woman peeling it off and it had this stringy yellow goo underneath. I didn't understand what fake nails were, so I thought it was just a woman casually tearing her fingernail off.

    To this day I compulsively trim my nails very short, I cannot stand the thought of bending my fingernails back.

  • What TV show traumatized you as a kid?

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  • Why do I remember that specific visual from that episode and basically nothing else? The...mall was in the pinball machine?

    There was the episode with Gilbert Gottfried who was a radio announcer, there was an episode about a ghost monster thing in the pool that the kid turned orange with chemicals....some 30 year old neurons are firing over here folks, and they ain't firing that bright.

  • Retro yet?

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  • The first iPhone didn't have access to an app store, it was basically an iPod and a feature phone that got Tuvixed.

  • Court tells Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton to reinstate fired CEO and let him handle its Early Access release | VGC

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  • 21st century satire is a pissy little bitch, ain't it?

  • Court tells Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton to reinstate fired CEO and let him handle its Early Access release | VGC

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  • Never assume reasonableness when businessman will suffice.

  • Court tells Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton to reinstate fired CEO and let him handle its Early Access release | VGC

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  • My understanding was it was for getting the game out on early access by a certain date, which they were going to hit, which is why they were unceremoniously and illegally fired.

  • Ok... i need this.

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  • No I want the one that says "Ketchup" with a picture of grapes on it.

  • Court tells Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton to reinstate fired CEO and let him handle its Early Access release | VGC

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  • As much as I like Subnautica, I'm not buying Subnautica 2 if Krafton stands a chance at seeing any of the revenue. I might be the only human capable of voting with my wallet, and I'm going to use this power.

    I'm American, I strongly believe in collateral damage, I will willingly make the children of the Unknown Worlds Entertainment staff go hungry. That's the choice Unknown Worlds' higher-ups made going into business with shifty Asian shit-for-fucks promising executive bonuses bigger than the gross revenue of anything their studio has made.

    Subnautica was Unknown Worlds Entertainment's biggest seller. I don't have exact sales figures but Wikipedia says "over 5 million copies." Assuming every copy sold at the full retail price of $30, that's a gross revenue of $150 million. Below Zero sold for the same price and probably fewer copies, so the entire Subnautica franchise has grossed an estimated $300 million total. They have other games which are small potatoes compared to Subnautica. So, you're the CEO of Unknown Worlds, you know your games pull about $150 million gross each. What kind of smoke do the Koreans blow up your ass to convince you your next game is going to do so well they'll be able to cover $250 million in bonuses while still covering rent, bills and normal wages?

  • What movie do you think is really underrated?

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  • I think I can answer that: movies that form a cult tend to land with a demographic, often one it wasn't originally sold to. Clue, for example. Didn't really land with its intended audience of baby boomers in the mid-80's in large part due to the "one of three endings" theater gimmick. The movie found its audience with young millennials on Comedy Central, especially in its repaired "all three endings" format which increased the runtime and kept the frenetic farcical energy in the last act up longer.

    What demographic was going to form a cult around Mom And Dad Save The World? It's a movie by and about boomers, targeting the Gen X stupidity fad. Clue was ahead of its time, MADSTW is precisely OF its time. It's not what the secret cabal of gay theater kids always wanted like Rocky Horror Picture Show. And MADSTW is unfortunately competent, so the "so bad it's good" MST3K/Red Letter Media crowd won't touch it. That and Jeffrey Jones has been canceled so there's a bunch of people who won't watch it out of principle now. So there's no group this movie will land with.

  • What movie do you think is really underrated?

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  • By that logic we're going to have to burn down Beetlejuice and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

  • Bird leaf

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  • The spindle housing of a drill press is called a quill, oddly enough.

  • A mecha story with nothing

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  • Battletech is basically all of that except gay. I'm trying to think of any gay characters in Battletech...Rhonda Snord? Maybe a couple of the clanners?

    Katherine Steiner-Davion (Victor's crazy sister; not her grandmother, Actual Katrina Steiner) might be considered aromantic...or a psychopath, which I think is an overriding factor.

    I wonder if it's more illegal to be gay in the Draconis Combine or in the Capellan Confederation.

    There's a "rumored" lesbian love affair between Heather Durant and Terens Amaris which results in house Amaris ruling over the Rim Worlds Republic, teeing up her great x5 grandson Stefan to essentially ruin civilization forever. So that's...kind of canon.

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Pillar Nightstand

  • Off My Chest @lemmy.world
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    I heard a retiree's house burned down, and liked it.

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Does Prusas textured sheet...work at all?

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    DNF must stand for Does Not Finish

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Counterintuitively, I did this to eliminate the need for supports

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    HOLIDAY GIFT PROJECT CONTEST THREAD

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    How do you log out of a SMB share in Dolphin?

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    I installed a sound card in my Fedora box. In 2025.

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
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    I fixed my beard trimmer

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
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    Took my ham radio out of my truck

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
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    My microwave has a nag feature

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Science nerds of Lemmy: Is there an upper limit on the volume of a "confined gas"?

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    I toolboxed.

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    A case for my grandfather's flag and medals

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Writing was invented before reading.

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Walnut cabinet + Hutch

  • Dullsters @dullsters.net
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    I tried to rearrange my TV cabinet.

  • Woodworking @lemmy.ca
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    Oops I did it again

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What is the inane song you have written for your cat?

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Strange graphical issue after a power failure