Captain Aggravated @ captain_aggravated @sh.itjust.works

Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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My mother got into it. I'm not going to.

A puzzle game that puts RNG in between the player and the ability to attempt a solution is something I'm not willing to tolerate.

how is it different from playing Riven with one of your sticks of RAM poorly seated so the computer crashes on a semi-regular basis resetting your progress?

No. Not for me. I'd be more interested in wearing the corner fire hydrant in my ass than playing that.

Somehow, it's a surprise to people that I'm a competent trumpet player. As if every high school in the state doesn't have a band class. Fully half of my graduating class in high school were musicians of some kind between chorus, orchestra and band classes. But somehow nobody expects a random dude in his mid-30's to pick up a trumpet and play a few bars of Ravel's Bolero.

Learn how to echolocate!

Bingo, or Jenga?

Ehh, I think it's more fair to say we had our turn at making up abbreviations that made sense in our world as it briefly existed.

That commercial "IDK, my BFF Jill?" Was targeted at us, but 100 years ago telegraphers and ham radio operators were inventing abbreviations and slang in Morse code. 73 OM

Haven't ever done that with anything as big as a Kennedy50 cent commemorative dinner plate, but I could do it with a quarter once upon a time.

When a cat loafs, the things that stick up on either side of her back? Those are her knees.

Hand blown vacuum tubes, a power supply rated in PSI...

Hairless and thin furred cats really show off how much of their head is just eyeball. He's got the cheekbones of an SR-71.

Compared to whatever the Switch 2 runs...yeah 100%.

Controlled Flight Into Terrain, or CFIT, is the case of being extremely specific. It's not a mid-air collision with another aircraft, in-flight breakup or fire, flight control failure, crew incapacitation or anything like that. CFIT means the crew was present and alert, the aircraft was functioning correctly and hadn't departed controlled flight, they're flying along and all of a sudden the ground happens.

It's almost always a case of egregious amounts of pilot error. Failures in judgement such as deciding to fly down a canyon because it looked so cool when Luke Skywalker did it, and then being unable to climb out and slamming into a wall. Failure of navigation in the mountains. Failure to maintain minimum altitude on an instrument approach (Look up that Cross Air flight that killed the German pop band Passion Fruit) Failure to compute takeoff and climb performance and flying an airplane straight into the mountain off the end of the runway because you needed 900 feet per mile and at this density altitude you could only manage 750. Or, one of my favorites, the Korean Air Cargo 747 captain that chased a broken ADI straight into a forest outside London.

We put the fear of death in the music industry with Pentium 2 computers running Windows 98 and 56k dial up modems. They try to pull too much shit and we WILL do without them.

The guy who named it was running away from it in a panic at the time. "AH FUCK! GORILLA! GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA!"

Well, that'll piss some folks off I think. I actually appreciate things like the crowd at the opening joust rocking out to We Will Rock You. The banquet dance scene is better executed; they start out with the old time dance and then fade into modern club dancing, as if to say "Here's what's actually taking place" versus "Here's how the characters feel about it in terms a modern audience can understand."

I think I'm more talking about how a lot of the sets look like styrofoam? Especially castle interiors or other masonry? There's just something very 80's Gragthar The Destroyer about it.

On a similar vein, there's indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, true airspeed, and ground speed. Aviation comes with a hard requirement of 5th grade math.

I got gas from Sheetz today and it put up a silent and stilla ad on the display while the pump was running.

touch boards are so shit they barely work wothout assistance.

you might be thinking of Rust.

websites that scroll wrong, and then they stop dead on some animation. Automatic nope on the product.

"Going out" means go somewhere very loud.

No.