Captain Aggravated @ captain_aggravated @sh.itjust.works

Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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Is his eye okay?

Stopped thinking

Using Nautilus or Dolphin.

Nobody cares about me, why should I care about anyone else? I'm disposable, so are the rest of you.

Empathy is a really stupid idea when all you'll ever be is what people can extract from you.

The middle school I went to in the 90's had bike racks. They were old and corroded, most were kinda shoved to the side. I never once saw a bike locked to them, and I got the feeling that you'd get in trouble if you did.

That school was about 60 years old, and was once the town high school, it was in amongst the residential side of town. They opened a new middle school out on commercial land back behind the Best Buy out on the stroad that's only known by its US route number. They installed no bike racks there.

And then making cars impossibly expensive, teenage boys uninsurable as drivers, wages hilariously low, and reliable transportation a prerequisite for employment.

Yeah I'm more or less with the Republicans on this one. Either you're suffering from gender dysphoria, and you should seek treatment from qualified mental health personnel, or you went on Tumblr as a tweenager and instead of being a greaser or punk or goth you're "trans." Either way, this is not your employer or coworker's problem.

Things I am likely to say to my team at work:

"I emailed you an STL. Please print two of them, and be ready to print 18 more if the customer approves."

"Put on your safety glasses."

"The lathe's coolant pump is not working, I think it may be the contactor. Take a look at it when you first clock in tomorrow and let me know what parts we need if any; I'm going to need it up and running by Thursday."

"Safety glasses go on the front of your head, not the top."

"SomeCo has our steel order ready, take the company truck and pick it up. Make sure to get a copy of the P.O."

"Put. On. Your safety glasses."

"How's it coming on those base plates? Can we get started on the brackets yet or are we still waiting?"

"If you get vitreous humor on my drill press, you're the one that's gonna clean it up."

If you can't handle being spoken to in this manner, you are not going to last long on my team.

Call me whatever you want at this point, but if it comes down to "A [type of person] has shown up at my job, what topics should I avoid?" it's time to start updating the resume.

It's pretty easy to give up trying to build a future for yourself when it has been made abundantly clear to you that your future is not part of the grand plan.

SuperTuxKart is such a strange combination of flavors.

The big commercial kart racer I played a lot was Diddy Kong Racing on the N64, and compared to DKR:

• SuperTuxKart's graphics look better. Higher resolution, higher frame rate, reminds me a lot of Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. "Oh hey this looks pretty good" for a Windows 7 era PC game that could run on an eMachine, still slightly jank here and there.
• SuperTuxKart's music isn't as good, but DKR's music was made by David Wise, so DKR sets a very high bar.
• SuperTuxKart's menus are Windows 95 "300 games on one CD!" level. Static backgrounds, janky music that's played too loud by default, amateurish icons, irritating stock sound effects, nostalgic in a way but wears out its welcome pretty quick.
• STK has a world/campaign mode where you drive around a little environment to pick what tracks/events you're going to run, and it's kind of awful. That's DKR's big gimmick, that you're on an island you can explore. There are even races that take place in the lobby space. STK's lobby space is a bunch of weirdly scattered doors. It's at that "There, it works" state that so many FOSS projects are published at.

Overall, my experience with SuperTuxKart is finally getting into an actual race and being pleasantly surprised with how good it looks and plays given how crap the window dressing is.

Hahaha okay so let me bring you up to speed on the modern dating scene:

More than half of young men aren't even trying to get laid anymore because of how fucking preposterous the dating scene is. Let that sink in.

Your prospective date heard one of her friends say "Oh! You should go out with my divorced dad!" and she's actually entertaining this possibility. Why didn't she find a man closer to her own age? What's wrong with her?

What does success even look like here? For her or you?

If I was you, I'd start that process now, dual boot for a bit. Make the transition gradually.

What you're going through right now is the process of discovering the phone numbers you can stop answering. The flat tires you can stop changing, the computers you can stop fixing, the lunches you can stop lending, the favors you can stop doing.

zygote.

You're a man. No one has ever, or will ever care about you. That's how it works.

I taught flight school at a busy uncontrolled airport for 2 years.

But yes, in the semi-rare event you find yourself approaching another aircraft of the same maneuverability head-on, you are to both avoid the collision by turning right.

Pilot here. We just say left and right and don't bother with port and starboard.