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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
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I was just about to ask where it was posted...
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what about someone in a stargate shirt
That's who you get your supply from
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.
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Just keep applying C4 until you hit that 3%.
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.
Stargate shirt would be my homie
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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.
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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."
It's a bit of a shame for Star Wars that Darth Vader and stormtroopers have become so iconic.
I chuckle whenever I think of the dude who got arrested for following around ICE agents with a speaker playing the Imperial March.
This dude understood the assignment, and had the balls to pass the test.
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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.
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Much less unironic cardassian empire or dominion fans than the multitude of empire fans.
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Star Trek is just infinitely better and it’s a shame it’s always compared to Star Wars
Star Trek and Star Wars are apples and oranges. One doesn't have to be better because they're totally different things.
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So you're saying you'd participate in the Star Trek wars, rather than the Star Wars trek?
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Where does 40k fall on this spectrum? Is it just a nope by default or is it dependent on faction or memetics.
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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.
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.
Where do we put Babylon 5 shirts on this scale?
If you value your lives, be somewhere else.
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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.
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Star Trek fans will help you fix the problem—Star Wars fans might become the problem 😂
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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.
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