God, I’m glad someone got it, I was worried

‘Anyway’ is the correct form. ‘Anyways’ is the same, but informal/‘incorrect’.

I suspect subtlety is lost on them.

She said: “It’s really important to recognize that some of these things, especially with such historical and cultural value to an entire country and people – you can’t really put a number on that.”

God it makes me so happy when people respect the value of history.

The whole campaign reeked of “play to not lose” rather than “play to win”.

Dewey Defeats Truman moment

The woman is from Signalis, I believe.

I believe the frizzen, under IDEAL conditions, keeps the powder in the pan until the lock ignites it. Wouldn’t want to bet my survival on it though, lmao

I think it’s from the workshops of NULN

Ah!

Vision zone. Where I prefer to be when idle. I can see and hear things fairly vividly, what others might call daydreaming. I mean, it IS daydreaming, except I do it at night too, it’s the only way I can relax enough to sleep. I tend to flit between subjects rapidly. Sometimes the endeavor is creative, or planning, stored away for later use - most times, it’s simply self-indulgent. Fantasies of making a difference, usually. I’m hard to reach when I’m like this, and if I slip into this when talking, I quickly lose what I’m talking about.

Talk zone. I’m extremely introverted, but very words-oriented. I can have long conversations where the words are not vocalized, even inside my head, but are nonetheless ‘present’ and engaged in dialogue. When typing up this comment, this is where I am, for example, running over the words in my mind like a printer setting type. I said “a printer setting type” out loud, and briefly flitted up to a more vision-oriented zone, consumed with the image of a printer running his fingers along type that very satisfyingly ‘clicks’ into place. This is also where I’m most social towards others, though it can very quickly drop down into tension if I don’t know them well and/or lack subjects of interest to speak on.

Tension zone. Where I mask. Everything else shuts off. All that remains is hyperawareness of the current situation and a burning desperation to escape it in a way that does not make me feel guilty for shirking responsibilities or hurting the feelings of others who’ve done nothing with malice, and often acted with kindness. I’m very attentive when my mind is here, so most people consider me polite, amicable, and helpful; in reality, I’m screaming behind my eyes every moment. It’s a state of alertness, it’s exhausting, and I hate it. There’s no overlap or easy transition between here and the other two.

To be entirely fair, the nature of 40k as a vehicle for selling miniatures (and thus changing with the tastes of the market, or what the execs think the market likes) has meant that its tone has changed radically over the years. But that’s really the trouble with a long-running universe without a clear guiding vision. Everyone scrapes together bits and pieces from the era they got into it, and then looks at that as the ‘truest’ version of the universe.

For what it’s worth, I’m generally in agreement that the grimdarkness of the grimdark future is what sets 40k most apart from other settings, and trying to shift that over to a more Warhammer Fantasy tone of “Things are BAD but there are still people Fighting The Good Fight” isn’t the right direction to take it. Especially after trying to kill off Warhammer Fantasy. I love Ciaphias Cain, but his popularity is a contributor to this too.

I still remember my introductions to 40k - a demo disc with Dawn of War on it, and subsequently, when enthusing to a friend about it, being shown a hodgepodge of collectibles and a Tyranid rulebook which had BIG fucking Aliens vibes. Good shit. Remorseless fanatics, lost and brutalized worlds, warrior-monks of a religion of war (but not blind berserking rage), hardened conscripts against horrors they only dimly glanced? Fuck, that was such a new and novel aesthetic. I was entranced from the start.

Orks are good guys. They just want to have a good fight. A utilitarian calculus would clearly show that the entire universe being ruled by Orks would maximize sentient happiness!

I actually like Papa Blueberry getting to wake up and say “What the fuck” to really emphasize that even the ancient space crusader thinks this future is FUCKED, but I have no faith in Gee Dubs to go anywhere worthwhile with it.

MOTHMAN MOTHMAN

I’m surprised the tankies put Vietnam as ‘free’. Maybe they haven’t been keeping up with US-Vietnamese relations since the 1990s.

We are the British Army/And we’re here to take your land!

In the face of that literally anything is justified even if it’s horrific.

What about things that are both horrific and counterproductive?

See: Papa Blueberry’s high level despair over the Imperium going from “Bad but with a clear cause” to “Directionless bureaucracy-bound theocracy with corpse starch”

Plus, who the fuck is gonna argue with a psyker so strong he can fight off literal chaos gods?

Apparently everyone, considering that no one has listened to Big E since he sat his ass on the Golden Throne.

Are you telling me the Fascist Space Gothic Puritan Catholic Divine Monarchists with a ‘Soviet And Starship Troopers’ aesthetic aren’t the good guys for mankind???

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