Sarcastic Star Trek

[cbmeeks]

This sounds funny to me. But play Star Trek on the TI with the speech synthesizer. When the game starts, it says "Welcome aboard. Captain..."

 

LOL. Seriously, it sounds like the game is saying you're not a real captain. Who does he think he is?

 

 

[iKarith]

Not only that, a lot of TI games say things like "Nice shooting, Captain!" Except, since when is the captain doing the aiming and firing? I thought he gave orders to crew for that.

[mizapf]

Concerning sarcasm ... I found this article in "Der Postillon" (a satirical German magazine): http://www.der-postillon.com/2011/05/groteil-der-frauen-tauscht-regelmaig.html#more

 

Translation:

 

Majority of women regularly fake sarcasm

 

Munich (dpo) - According to a recent survey of the institute Opinion Control, a majority of women seems capable to achieve sarcasm in only few occasions. About 56 percent of women in a stable relationship admit to fake a viciously-subtle ridicule and mockery which is otherwise only known of true sarcasm.

 

"We found that particularly in long-term relationship women do not really reach sarcasm very often, if at all, because they just do not despise their partner suffciently anymore", as Prof. Werner Schmonzip explained to Der Postillion.

"This is a true danger, since from that time when you stop to insult your partner by dry, spontaneous remarks, the necessary tension fades, which is essential for keeping a relationship alive." For that reason, many women resort to fake sarcasm as the only way out. According to Schmonzig, the problem can be partly traced to many men who, by nature, achieve sarcasm casually: "Many of them just take a fake bitchiness for real instead of trying to get to a common sarcasm with their partner." In addition, many of them still cling to the medieval notion that there is no such thing as female sarcasm - although virtually everyone knows how marvellously cruel a female sarcasm may be, just by watching the inflated nostrils of a woman during an intense experience of sarcasm.

[+OLD CS1]

Yeah. Sometimes I have to say "if you're serious then you need to lighten up, but if you're joking then 'HA HA' we just had a good time."

[Rossman]

TI-Trek was one of the first games I played when I put the TI back into service. I lost the first game - meteor storm when I was nearly out of fuel and heading for a starbase. I wasn't pleased. I damn near invoked the Jim Kirk solution to the Kobayashi Maru test and reporgrammed the thing so that if I ran out of power I'd get a magical top-up. I'd probably also give every photon torpedo the energy equivalent of a quantum torpedo. Your puny anti-matter weapons are no match. Eat plasma, Klingons!

 

+1 to the sarcastic tone of "captain". My daughter, hearing that for the first time, commented on the tonality - going as far as repeating it while holding up inverted commas with her hands. I also like how the Klingons immediately trash talk you when the game starts ("you will die"). Who knew both would become trends in the subsequent two decades. The speech in that game was more socially forward looking than we realized...