[ SECRET POST #2242 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2242 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

20. http://i50.tinypic.com/6drejt.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

THIS THIS THIS.

Steve is not a caveman. If anything, he'd probably be more baffled by societal changes than technological ones.

[(Anonymous)]

What fandom? It can't be the Philadelphia Experiment, can it? (<_<) *Is curious now!* :)

[(Anonymous)]

This! Sure, he's behind on pop culture reference and on several technologically-advanced appliances (on Tony Stark levels of technology), but he's not going to set himself on fire just by being near a microwave.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not hard to figure out what button does what. You press this, it does that. Easy.

The part he'd have trouble with is all the unspoken etiquette that everyone else takes for granted. He'd be the guy forwarding all the stupid chain e-mails he gets because he's never seen them before and thinks they're funny.

[loracarol]

I agree! Especially now with touch screens, which are pretty easy to figure out.

...Or at least, I figure out touchscreens a lot easier then other types of electronics... I mean. You touch it, and it happens! How cool is that? :D

[silverr]

I don't read in the fandom, but after all the World Expositions and "technology of the future" exhibits had been around for years -- if anything, he might be surprised that we don't have Stark's flying cars yet.

I agree that the social changes would be more difficult to take in stride.

[greenvelvetcake]

Eh, I know plenty of very intelligent people (typically older people I work with) who just aren't technologically adept.

[kaijinscendre]

My mother has LIVED through these years and has a touchphone but she can still only use the most basic features. She has been using the internet forever and she still uses google to go to websites (no matter how much I tell her not to).

[insanenoodlyguy]

This. Steve's brain was enhanced as much as the rest of him. If anything he picks up things faster then normal.

[maverickz3r0]

Considering as he fought Hydra, and managed to pilot Red Skull's giant futuristic plane into crashing somewhere safe with next to no difficulty, I really doubt modern technology would baffle him.

The stuff Tony uses, on the other hand...well, I like to imagine he'd figure it out eventually, especially if all the Avengers move into the tower like fandom likes to think, but it's probably more complicated than average.

[sockpants]

I generally agree, but sometimes it's just funny to see a fic with him poking confusedly at an iPhone like "what does this button do?"

It gets annoying if there's too much of it though, or if it goes on and on forever. He might be a bit confused at first, but he'd probably figure it out pretty quickly.

[sugar_spun]

I'm fairly positive it's coming from experiences derived from grandparents and old people who tend to not be technologically adept, even if they're otherwise just as smart and capable as when you were young.

I think Steve has more motivation than most elderly people do, since he doesn't have a stable home life that doesn't require newfound gadgetry. He very much needs to adapt, so he will.

I think both sides have a fair point--it's extremely difficult to guess how someone coming from an era as different as WWII suddenly moved to the present day (in fact, an even more advanced present day than what we currently have) would actually respond. Not being able to adapt might be feasible.

And then I bring nothing.

[scrubber]

Wait, whaaaaaaaaaaaaattt???

An entire thread addressing the content of the secret instead of howling about the unauthorized use of the word "retarded"? Fandom Secrets!

/puts hand on your forehead

/do people actually even do that in real life

/I'm 99% sure they don't

[(Anonymous)]

"It appears to run on some kind of electricity!"

Sorry, but canon says he's not necessarily the quickest on the uptake with this stuff; and since the entire joke of Steve in the Avengers is "early man struggles to connect with modern life", the comparison with people's grandmothers upthread is bang on.

[otakugal15]

....this seems to be a thing in The Avengers fandom. Both Thor and Steve tend to be written as dumbasses when it comes to things. Or that's the impression I keep getting.

So glad I didn't get head-over-heels into that fandom. I'd have been annoyed within a week. :/

Same goes for the slut!shaming of Tony, which also seems to be a thing. *sigh*

Anything else that seems to stick out like that? Anything with Bruce? Natasha? Clint? Coulson and Fury?

Anything?

Bueller?

[illiadandoddity]

So agreed! I can see him having a few hang-ups here and there where things aren't intuitive, but completely unable to understand? No way!

[dreemyweird]

Well, I don't think he would be interested much in this kind of stuff. Cap is not about technology. Also I agree with the anon above who was talking about etiquette and the sociteal changes.

Sometimes I'm trying to imagine me favourite characters/historical figures travelling forward in time to the 21th century, and I always, always end up imagining them lost, lonely and depressed.

And for the last three years I've had this recurring creepy fantasy of finding myself in the 1976's town (the one where I currently live, but thirty-seven years ago). It started when I read The Door to December. It's not even a nightmare, just a disturbing image. How I would be utterly lost in time, and how I'd be knowing everything that would happen, and how by today I would be an elderly person. It makes me shiver.

Digressing from the topic completely: apart from all the epic friendship and general epicality, that's what appeals to me in BTTF. I wish there were more works about time travel angst.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. I can see him being amazed by how much technology has advanced (especially since he's around Tony and his really amazing stuff, not just around 'normal' present-day technology), and of course he won't look at a cmoputer and know in a second how it works, but he's a smart guy, he can figure it out fairly quickly. He's not too stupid to use a cell phone months after waking up again.

[diet_poison]

I think it would be interesting and adorable to see him kind of learn how to use all that stuff for the first time, and his reactions to it. lbr, if one of us got transported 70 years into the future, we'd be pretty intrigued and likely blown away by some of the technology.

That said, it wouldn't take him forever to figure out how to use it. Like you said, he's a smart guy.

[(Anonymous)]

I still regret that I didn't get any fills for my prompt of "The Avengers thing Steve is scared of technology. Actually, he just doesn't want to keep breaking things like he did the first five smart phones SHIELD gave to him. Bonus points if Jarvis tells everyone that when allowed to use voice commands Steve is really kinda fuckin brilliant"

[ariakas]

Eh.... it'd take a while. Not just my grandparents, but my parents have a hell of a time using new technology and they're hardly "old" - they just haven't used it before.

Moreover, have you ever tried to teach a youngin' DOS prompts? It's not as if they have "aging brains", yet sometimes it's pulling teeth. Why? They're just not used to it. Whereas us olds have been for years. You'd be surprised at the amount of time you've spent learning the basics of the technology you use, and more importantly, how dependent that knowledge is on knowledge of the version that came just before it. He wouldn't have had that.

...Of course I'm not in the Avengers fandom, but it wouldn't annoy me so long as it wasn't overplayed. I think the people in this thread who are all "oh he'd use a cell phone right after waking up! you just push a button!" would be the ones in for a shock. My dad's only 50, he's had a cell phone for years, and he still can't use the goddamn thing for more than making and answering a call. Why? Never used computers. Captain America never would have either.

[(Anonymous)]

i think you're underplaying how much new shit there is out there now. and a lot of it is pointless and in some cases bizarre, and much if it isn't completely intuitive to somebody who hasn't seen the previous 50 versions. while i don't know if he would find every new technological thing baffling on its own, he might be pretty resistant to wanting to figure stuff out in general because of how much of it there is. maybe not forever, the longer he lives in the present the more naturally acclimated he would become. but as for those fics where he's not long out of storage? i can definitely buy it.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

That's not a WWII motrocycles, but then again, none of the motorcycles in Captain America were WWII motorcycles. I suspect they were police Harleys with the set-dressing equivalent of Star Trek rubber foreheads.

They stuck out because they were among the most memorable parts of the film, that, and the comic musical number in the middle.

[(Anonymous)]

You'd think that, wouldn't you? But it's got nothing to do with intelligence.

My dad has a PhD in physics. He is an engineer. He worked at JPL. He does enormous math problems on scraps of paper for fun. And he's not even that old.

But I cannot for the life of me get him to understand the concept of browser tabs. He accidentally opened the same YouTube video twice in two tabs, and then got all baffled because "It's never done this before! Where did the other screen go?!" And then I had to explain to him why he should close one of the tabs instead of playing them both overtop of each other. Oh, and he shoves headphone earbuds into his ear canals horizontally, against all logic.

So, yeah. I kind of love "how do is computer"-Steve. It reminds me of all the geniuses in my family who still talk about the Internet like it's sentient ("It's asking me to download something!") and shout into cell phones. Bless them.