Captain Benzie

Ahoy there! I'm Captain Benzie, and I make mobile gaming content (mainly for @EveEchoes 🚀) and I do it using entirely my phone!! 📱 I love space, mobile gaming, and I want to see people get the most out of the games they play!! youtu.be/n575aHf2_yo

You can find me on YouTube, Discord, Instagram, and recently TikTok. Look for @CptBenzie and you'll find me.

Twitter, I'm sorry. Every day I get notifications to check out posts from people I don't follow, spouting the most hateful, ignorant bullshit. My feed hardly shows my friends, and every other post is an advert with a community note warning attached. For my health, I'm out.

@EveOnline Well, I run several series on Wormhole Life so I have to say, uh, all of it! Love the risk and danger of ratting, huffing, and exploring - but also love a good old scrap!! Nothing like a good old C13 though!!

While huffing gas is ill-advised IRL, in New Eden it can be a great path to early riches. Venture into a C2 wormhole and start 'huffing' your way to a big payday! Not into harvesting? Well then relic & data sites are always an option! What's your favorite w-space activity?

@petehofs @jessphillips Nothing in the law stops him voting, and criminals are still people with rights

The delay was designed I just watched the last 5 Tory members walk through at the last minute. Told to slow it down.

@EveOnline That's most likely a Draugur since it's small weapons and 5 drones. Unless those drones were in the cargo for whatever reason.

The Loot Fairy can be cruel but is always fair! Can you guess what ship this was from the remains alone? Bonus points if you can guess the region in which it was destroyed! We'll pull a few entries by Friday & winners will receive a SKIN for the mysterious ship #Tweetfleet

@Web3zy Honestly one of my favourites. Even 13 year old me when I first watched it understood the parody 😂 we actually talked about it in GCSE History too, when studying WW2 and the concept of Propaganda.

@CptBenzie This movie is incredible. The only thing that failed were my depends adult diapers when I pissed myself laughing so hard, while watching this movie.

"Missing the Point Entirely: A Thread"

.@cnviolations

@HariSel57511397 So you think this is a utopian society? Tell me, how do you feel about the unisex showers?

This extends to the overall Terran Federation as well. We see clean, beautiful streets. Life seems good for Rico in his polite high school. This is a far cry from the crime ridden and drug addicted cities we know today. Where are the homeless encampments, the ghettos?

Why the first Starship Troopers movie failed as a parody, a thread: Watching the movie, it was clear the director was aiming for a campy, over-the-top depiction of the Terran Federation. Perhaps not an outright mockery, but certainly a drastic departure from the serious novel.

@WillardFoxton I love that this entire thread is basically "The Point" sailing completely past his head, skimming off the sides of his smooth brain like a stone skipping a lake. The "See! I can't even LIKE the thing that's designed to be different and alien to prove a point" wrecked me 😂

Can’t believe this dog-brained motherfucker is getting to be the main character on twitter with a take from 1997. At least bean dad was original!

Yes. That's the point of the film. "Fascism seeks to make something an 'other' so that it can unite in hatred of it"

Amazon's Sale on Content Creation equipment includes electric toothbrushes??

@MunyaG7 @daddyhope @RediTlhabi No interview for HSBC either

Hi @RediTlhabi I was not exclusively referring to South African banks, but the African banking system as an ecosystem. But since you mentioned South Africa, let me share some personal experiences and what others have shared. Opening a bank account in South Africa is still done the old school way of paper work, which is unnecessary. There is too much paperwork to be filled which repetitively asks for the same information. In Europe and England specifically, you can apply for a bank account online and it will be opened immediately, cards are send to you within 48 hours without having to step into a branch. There is no need for all that paperwork and going into branches. Branches are a dying concept in banking as most stuff has gone digital, they are still there, but dying nonetheless. The other issue is that Exchange Control is over regulated, mainly because we have dead economies as opposed to just policing for money laundering as they say. I can wire £20,000 to you from my UK account, and I can increase the limit if need be without Exchange Control applications. My sister-in -law in South Africa had a payment of US$200 for a present for her grandchild in America delayed for two weeks, she was asked to tell the bank her great grandfather’s first girlfriend’s name. It is difficult to transact across the borders in Africa, so it encourages money laundering. Most foreign nationals in South Africa now use Wahala because of the bank restrictions and difficulties and it is the South African economy that loses at times. Wahala is a financial service that offers alternatives or workarounds for dealing with banking restrictions in Africa. Let us say a Malawian pilot wants to buy a R10 million house in South Africa, if they were in Europe they would have moved their money without hassle. But in Africa, they will have to look for a Malawian in South Africa who wants the equivalent of R10 million in Malawi and then they trade. It means that the South African economy has lost R10 million through unofficial externalisation, and this happens everyday across the continent because of over-regulation. The pilot would have moved his money officially without hassles and the Malawian Government gets the charges for moving the money, and the South African economy gets investment through the house sale. It is even worse, the Malawian pilot moves the money via Wahala and buys a house from a white South African going to Australia who gets the money out, which means the SA economy has lost R20 million through unofficial externalisation to Malawi and official externalisation to Australia. Overregulation, cumbersome paperwork, and outdated processes hinder banking efficiency and cross-border transactions, ultimately impacting economic growth and financial inclusion. I have experienced delays in accessing my money after a bank account is opened, delays caused by unnecessary things like device verification taking seven days. It means that money that I was supposed to spend in the economy is parked in a bank account for 7 days. Then bank charges, it is ridiculous, I have been changed thousands of rands in bank charges in an account that is less than four months old. It encourages mattress banking especially in townships because those charges are punitive to the poor. I know a guy who opened an account in Zimbabwe and deposited US$200, he didn’t use the account for 19 months, when he wanted to transact, he discovered that he owed the bank money through bank charges. The US$200 was wiped by bank charges. I bank with Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds banks in Britain, I have never been charged a penny for transacting using both accounts which I have had since my varsity days in England. The other thing is ATM cash withdrawals, I get charged for using my Nedbank ATM card at an ABSA cash machine, that is backward. In Britain you can withdraw money from any bank’s ATM without charges. I could have shared more but I have run out of space.

I decided to talk about how I'm #autistic and #adhd this weekend and the support has been fantastic. I do intend to keep talking about this alongside my @EveOnline content too. Such a wonderful community! 🤗 Neurodivergence: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

@CCPShortfall Harder to get to Leeds, but more exciting! I'll look it up and calendar it!!

@CptBenzie There's EVELeeds in March, I should be there

Just found out that it's #EVELondon TOMORROW and my broke ass can't afford a last minute day out in London! Sorry folks 😭😭😭 I honestly thought it was like March/May...

@bungeeman17 Congratulations!! 🎉🎉

Not sure why, but she said 'yes'!

@chribba Have a load of the EVE CCG Cards, though one day I'll finish it. Sad that I never got to play the OG boardgame! youtu.be/UbxUixN641g

Some old adverts for the EVE card game - The Second Genesis, it's expansion - The Exiled, and the first board game - EVE: Conquests #eveonline #tweetfleet

@fesshole Looking through these comments I'm now coming to terms with "Ginger Knocking" simply being a phrase that apparently nobody else used...

On the way home from a pub with my mate, we spoke about how we all used to play 'ding dong dash' when we were kids. There was a short pause before we said in unison 'should we'. Spent the next hour pissing off the locals. We're both 53.

@EveOnline Yup, I'm right between Captain Bastard and Captain Bitchtits

The EVE Monument stands as a symbol of innovation, camaraderie, and the incredible potential of virtual worlds. We're elated every time we see a player finding themselves on it! Have you looked up your character name, either virtually or in person? #Tweetfleet #EVEOnline