Andrew Roach @ajroach42@retro.social

- the check engine light on the car just came on
- I might need you to come get me? I’m at [indecipherable autocorrect gibberish]
- the car is shaking
- it’s fine now, don’t come get me.

Now I’m confused, and a little more worried than I would have been otherwise.

Man, apparently any take on Starship Troopers is a Hot Take.

I haven't seen my mentions blow up like this since the last time I went on a several page rant about whatever computer project had struck my fancy that day.

@toilettrouble I have not.

I owned it at some point in the past, but I've always struggled with Heinlein.

@adamk678 I keep accusing various shape shifting party members of being my nemesis in disguise.

Beyond that, though, we share the same goals. So I'm tagging along with them.

And then, beyond that, voting as a privilege\\military service being the only path to citizenship...

It's such a powerful, dangerous idea.

The whole film could be read as a warning against the encroaching combination of advertising and fascism.

But I know plenty of people who would watch this and see some kind of fantasy, and ideal society.

Anyway, I watched it a few days ago, and it's still siting with me.

A film of Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet would either be 1) Exactly as brutal and horrifying as starship troopers, 2) an action flick for kids, with all of the consequences sanitized away.

The more I think about this, the more it's bothering me.

It felt like Space Patrol or Tom Corbett, with the principal characters all still playing an idealized 1950s rendition of heroism and patriotism, while the rest of the world played by real rules, with real pain.

I found myself thinking back to Rip Foster Rides the Grey Planet (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20147?msg=welcome_stranger) and thinking about how those characters would have acted in the face of the same situations.

It would have been the same movie.

Seriously, the kind of satire that Starship Troopers pulled off was impressive.

But it was so well done that I can imagine people mistaking it as sincere. There were moments when it felt sincere.

The dialog is what gave it away. In the big, tense scenes, it was too wholesome. Too Gee-whiz, 1950s, Space Cadet-y. Crafted to remind you that this isn't how people talk.

@RawPecans He looks like a gizmo.

Do you groom 3-500 dogs that look remarkably like that one, and are all named Gizmo?

I rejoined my old D&D (5e) game last night, playing a character who's motivation is to find my last character and kill him.

My last character is already dead, my current character refuses to believe it.

Damn this is a weird movie.

@kinosocial no Manos?

I’m by myself this evening, so I’m watching starship troopers with dinner.

This is my first time watching this flick, and I don’t know what I expected, but a parody of fascism isn’t it.

@jk this is a good meme.

@saxnot For the new guy? Yeah, we pulled a task list out of jira, and supplemented it with his training notes.

But that doesn't really give us an accurate picture of how he spent every hour of every day, which is what they asked for. Which is a dumb thing to ask for.

@ckeen Nah. I'm on a contract, I've been working with the company since June. I transition to regular/full-time employment next Monday.