The shirt:
Wow, I genuinely LOLed at that. And woke my wife.
I’ve always felt Sheeran looked a lot like Weyoun 6
Eh, I’m not seeing it.
lol fucking autocorrect
This is glorious
Maybe he looks more like Weyoun 4?
Star Wars is so heavily merchandised that you really can’t tell anything about someone wearing a shirt with Yoda on it, impulse buy at a Wal-Mart. But show me someone wearing a Riker T-Shirt, and I’ll show you someone who went to a convention or decided to order a shirt off of a website. More likely to be one of us harmless earnest dorks who knows who did what at Tenagra.
Lucas when the merch prevailed
Lucas, with Kenner.
I saw this posted before elsewhere (but can’t find it now). In that version, it was stated this was posted in a Star Wars forum, which makes it doubly hilarious if true.
Not quite. It was posted on Tumblr, by a star wars focused account, with star wars tags, so mainly star wars fans saw it (at first).
At no point during the poll was star wars in the lead, but the poll did breach containment and got seen by most of the nerd community there, which definitely did not help the voting spread.
It had to be tumblr because of the useless included comment as a modern day laugh track
This is such an accurate assessment, wow
Ah, thanks for the background!
I was just about to ask where it was posted…
With the laugh track edited out:
Can someone tell me what my reaction to this poll should be?
uncontrollable laughter
Thank you, the laugh track detracts from the rest of it.
Thank you! I thought it was just me
Sokath, his eyes uncovered.
Temba, his arms wide
Darmok and Jelad, on the ocean
what about someone in a stargate shirt
Treat them nice, they probably think all problems are solved with C4.
C4 solves every problem you have but also has a 97% chance of creating an even worse problem.
Makes me think of Jason from The Good Place.
I’m telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Any time I had a problem, and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.
Just keep applying C4 until you hit that 3%.
That’s who you get your supply from
They better tell me where to find one.
And if another person tells me Chulak without giving me gate access, their butt is going to have a foothold situation.
Indeed.
All three together for an interesting round of fuck/mary/kill.
What about a Lexx shirt
Horny on main.
What about a Space Cases shirt?
790 shirt, Xev shirt, Xev shirt, or Lyekka shirt?
Cool person. A Wormhole Xtreme shirt…super hoopy frood
Hoopy frood t-shirt, towel and a dressing gown?
Stargate shirt would be my homie
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I married her, but I guess that’s a personal choice
Jail. Straight to jail.
Suspected rabid imperialist of their favorite air force propaganda less than zero trust.
I get where you’re coming from, but I’d like to draw your attention to this particular exchange from SG-1 S01E16:
Colonel, the United States is not in the business of interfering in other people’s affairs.
…Since when?
They were always a little coy about the propaganda angle.
Stargate SG-1 is a lot more anarchist than Star Trek ever gets. Most of its episodes are about a group of people that almost always relies on knowledge/expertise rather than rank for decisions, trying to do their best to give societies the tools for their own liberation.
In Star Trek, it is presented as enlightened that the protagonists will let a genocide happen if its victims are too primitive to have rights (“prime directive”). In Stargate, every injustice is worth fighting against and every person is worthy of fighting it.
In Star Trek, challenging a captain’s bad decision is misconduct. In Stargate it’s common sense. In Star Trek, slavery gets being reinvented by the good guys because beings aren’t worthy of rights until proven otherwise. In Stargate, slavery requires a revolt.
The main propaganda of Stargate is that the US would facilitate this behavior, rather than seeking its own imperial supremacy.
I understand doubting whether people have this interpretation. At least an uncritical watcher of Star Trek will act like a
white saviorstarfleet officer and help until they find some reason to judge you. Uncritical Stargate watchers might actually believe the US military tries to help people structurally and support them.Shal’kek nem’ron.
Alternative interpretation: SG-1 team is basically the galaxy class cia, fomenting usa-friendly regime change on every planet they encounter.
Formenting in-group-friendly regime change can be good or bad, depending on what sort of behavior is construed as “-friendly”. Some of my best friends forment in-group-friendly regime change.
SG-1 destroyed what would have been a very profitable ally because they were space nazis, and they helped space native Americans protect their land against destructive US mining practices.
Like with any show it’s best to enjoy it critically. I enjoy SG-1 despite it positively depicting a space CIA just like I enjoy TNG despite it positively depicting a space British Royal Navy flagship.
Yup.
Not all Star Trek fans are deep thinkers.
Not many Star Wars fans are deep thinkers.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
That’s not fair! The poor blokes won’t even understand they’re being made fun if!
Tbh I was going to reply but I couldn’t think of anything. (I’m a Farscape fan, not sure if that’s related?)
I’m pretty sure that Farscape fans fall into an entirely different Venn diagram.
One that overlaps with stargate?
Or sits within it
Where does 40k fall on this spectrum? Is it just a nope by default or is it dependent on faction or memetics.
HEAVILY dependent on faction
I feel like anyone who wears an Orks shirt would probably be a pretty chill person IRL
I feel this is a very clever joke but I don’t know enough lore to appreciate it.
Less a joke about the lore and more a joke about how some people get really weird about some factions, like the Death Corps of Krieg and the Black Templars who are fan favorites but also attract a very fashy side of the fan base. Personally I’m more of an Armageddon Steel Legion, Blood Ravens, Adeptus Mechanacus type of guy.
People who play Black Templars are always going to be either the most horrible or the sweetest person you have ever met with no inbetween
Inquisition!
Salamanders forever!!!
You can trust anyone with an admech shirt.
Trust me.
So long as they don’t try to jack my shit by claiming it’s the blessed by the machine god then we’re good.
Star Wars is too widely popular for much to be inferred by the shirt, whereas Star Trek fans tend to be more alike : nerdy, generally nice.
For me it would depend on what kind of Star Trek shirt it was. If it’s just a shirt that says Star Trek then not really. But if they’re wearing a fucking Starfleet uniform I will trust them with my goddamn life.
I wouldn’t trust them until they told me which ST series they loved.
“I’ve only seen the Section 31 movie.”
Valid.
A lot of Star Wars fans are either idolizing the Empire and the Dark Side for their positions of power and control, or the Space Wizards who go out of their way to be naive and get struck down for the better good. If they’re not wearing rebel gear, they’re not default trustworthy.
If someone watches enough Trek to wear the gear and is open about it, they are at least not against diversity and equality in their fantasy choices.
Also, a lot of normies like Star Wars as a normal action franchise, so there’s some general randomness to the sample. Star Trek pretty specifically appeals to that specific type of nerd, there’s a lot more consistency in the results you can expect.
Me, staring at a guy in a Star Wars shirt: “Bet he thinks he’s the center of the universe.”
Me, staring at a guy in a Redshirt: “This is the kind of person that’ll catch a phaser for me.”
Star Trek fans will help you fix the problem—Star Wars fans might become the problem 😂
I’ve met just as many idiotic Star Trek fans as Star wars. There usually is a big crossover.
I have 2 Trek shirts, 3 Star Wars, 2 Doctor Who, and a Stargate shirt. Where do I fall?
But one of my Trek shirts is a blue Andorian Mining Consortium shirt, (They run from no one) and it’s so awesome.
If I was bleeding out in the street, and you approached me to help in a Doctor Who shirt, I would pretend I’d already died.
Damn didn’t know the doctor who fandom was so hated
RamptantParanoia is sans Brackium Emendo, what is there to worry about?
Depends on the day I suppose.
You can’t wear them all at once
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