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    The only Star Trek or Star Wars shirt I currently own is black with yellow gold lettering saying “Star Trek” in the Star Wars font. I think it makes some people uncomfortable. My S.O. hates it. I think it’s hilarious and I know immediately what type of “nerd” I’m dealing with based on people’s reactions to it. I suspect most people don’t realize it’s a joke or they are worried that I don’t know it’s a joke.

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      3 hours ago

      Nice. I have one with a pic of the Enterprise and “Star Wars #1 Fan”

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      I have a Space Invaders shirt with warbirds and the Enterprise as your ship at the bottom. Sadly no one has recognized it as trek yet

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        That’s fucking amazing. I love it. I want games like that for real now (they say, knowing full well that historically games made from movie and TV IP have been largely awful, alas):

        • Asteroids, but with Star Wars ships.
        • Galaga, but you fly voyager through Borg space, trans warp conduits, etc. Occasionally you pick up a clone or alternate timeline Voyager to fight along side you.
        • Space invaders I think would also be a good with a Starship Troopers skin and bugs lobbing rocks at your bases, could also be good in the style of Scorched Earth (or Worms Armageddon).
        • An Apple II style text only adventure game in Deep Space Nine.
        • A farming/trading/city sim on Babylon 5.
        • Civilization, but it’s Babylon 5, Star Trek, or Star Wars, Dune, etc.
        • Old school 2.5D Zelda adventure game, but it’s Firefly or The Expanse.
        • A Mario Bros. game but it’s Farscape.
        • Mario kart, also Farscape.
        • Leisure Suit Larry in the style of Lexx.
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    I think part of it is also that a random stranger in a star wars shirt can be anyone. A random stranger in a star trek shirt is a nerd, and therefore more likely to be a cool dude.

      • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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        On Kirk’s ship that means you die on an away mission. On Picard’s it means you give a Borg cube the middle finger while charging straight at it and somehow survive

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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      Here, I’ll copy/paste it.

      With Imgur and Reddit having all the silly restrictions, I’m not sure why more people don’t upload their images directly to Lemmy?

    • ashughes@feddit.uk
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      I really don’t understand why a user base predisposed to Lemmy is okay with using a proprietary centralized service that isn’t globally accessible. I might understand it if Lemmy didn’t support image uploads, but it does.

      It’s like you’re not okay with your text being censored by private corporations and governments, but here, take my images and please make sure some people can’t see it.

      I get that some probably have muscle memory for certain services but it just seems like the majority here don’t even care to unlearn it.

      • uber_chicken@lemmy.world
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        Probably just habit. Or maybe a bot account?

        I’m in England, so maybe the government have blocked it 👍😭 Sign of things to come I guess

  • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The only sci-fi T-shirt I have is covered in Storm Troopers … maybe I should think about upgrading (both me and my other half are Trek fans)

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      Star Wars shirts are a lot more common for cheap in stores like Walmart, to be bought on a whim. Star Trek shirts have to be specifically sought out online or at conventions or something, and tend to cost more.

      That’s why I, a trekkie, own more Star Wars shirts than Star Trek ones.

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        Yeah, I got mine in a thrift store … makes sense.

        I would like a Trek t-shirt, but being outside the US I’m sure it’s even more difficult to find one :-/

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          Nah, plenty of geeky online stores in all places around the world.

          But they do tend to have a limited selection of Star Trek shirts compared to Star Wars.

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      yeah not a good look to have pictures of space nazi soldiers on your chest

  • Damage@feddit.it
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    There’s a guy at a customer’s IT that regularly wears a Rebel Alliance hoodie. I’ve been wary of him since I first saw him.