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[Smooth Saville Rowe tailor, leaning in to whisper discreetly into Harrison Ford’s ear] “Now does Sir dress to the right or left”?
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[Smooth Saville Row Tailor discreetly pats down a disgruntled Harrison Ford, raises eyebrow, writes “VT (2 inches)” in the fitting book]
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I’m not suggesting REPLACING lifeguards, just arguing that humans are fallible and staring at thousands of swimmers and spotting the one who is drowning is really difficult, even for trained and skilled lifeguards. Having a device like that might save lives.
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I’ve suggested this previously, and I guess I risk sounding like a tech bro, but…if there are classic signs of drowning that can be recognised, can we create a device with computer, wide angle camera, AI trained to spot drowning signs and an alarm? It could be fixed on site and support lifeguards?
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I’m assuming this is the tip of the iceberg books-wise?
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Any good? I was interested in this book, but I never saw any sign of it being particularly… essential?
Is there any new interesting background?
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The Emperor had thousands of years to experiment with creating an indestructible perpetual, and got Vulkan.
It seems to me implausible that he wouldn’t have applied the same techniques to himself.
Some feature of the Golden Throne has gone wrong, trapping him between regenerations. Let him die…
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A society ruled by hunting influencers. Chilling. Dystopian.
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Do you reckon un-helmeted heads would work with Saturnine armour, or would they just look stupid? I’m undecided…
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Scrolled straight down to see if we could still build boiling vessels, was delighted to see we still can!
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Or some kind of “attachment of dividends” order where the fine must be paid out of dividends that otherwise would have gone to shareholders.
Inbuilt incentive for shareholders to prioritise the engagement of ethical, law abiding executives.
Combine with prison time for lawbreakeing executives.
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I too would accept $650 million from Disney not to say “fuck”.
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You do get the sense they were annoyed about the leaks… oh well. At least they didn’t call in the Pinkertons.
And it gives me time to save up for Saturnine!
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Gerasene Host, right? Love these guys.
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I disliked *lore* scale creep in Primaris marines: bigger ≠ more lethal, especially in zone mortalis combat where a gigantic marine wouldn’t fit through bulkhead doors.
I’m sanguine about better proportioned regular marines and larger specialist terminators like Saturnine. That’s not scale creep.
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I love early war in heaven 40k because it had the C’Tan in their prime.
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Yes, I feel JLC was an influence. There’s lots of familiar espionage tropes explored very skilfully.
S1 very good, but it all really kicks into gear in S2. Really excellent stuff.
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You could argue the saturnine dreadnought leaks do resemble the furibundus a *bit*. There are certain design cues that are similar: the rounded pauldron-like arm features, for example.
Saturnine obviously *isn’t* furibundus, but perhaps it’s a riff on some of the older dread’s design?
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You can just imagine an Iron Hands Praetor would weigh a ton with all those augmetics, so his jetbike would probably be modified to look heavier & more brutal than a normal jetbike. Maybe even convert a heresy speeder into a single seat jetbike to get that look?
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Given their general bad luck, surely their war cry should be:-
“For th….Oh shiiiii…”
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Britishness can be judged solely by the quality of tutting when someone jumps a queue.
British people are the best in the world at tutting, we’re sublime at it. 🇬🇧
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Some of the BL writers have talked about it in these terms: the Primarchs are superhero-level characters, so it’s a neat idea.
I think HH at its best can be *both* gritty trench warfare and angels duelling with daemons. You can kind of pick your own tone.
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Judging from this, it sounds like the loyalist attack on Isstvan is going to go brilliantly.
The Horus Insurgency, 005-006.M31.
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I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again: RJ missed a trick by calling this thing a “Thala-Siren” and not a “Moof”.
It would have been a nice callback to Han’s “Moof milker” insult to see Luke…milking a Moof.
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Brilliant, thank you! ☺️
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Me attempting to bribe Abraham Lincoln
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Love that colour. What’s your recipe? I’m always on the lookout for an EC purple that’s *just right*, and this is perfect!
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Looks excellent! Very well written. Any scope for putting the full text online?
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Great article. One really gets the sense Starmer sees himself as a *manager* as opposed to a leader.
The British have always argued that they prefer the former, but as you convincingly argue, you can’t really successfully manage without offering some vision of a better future…
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Here’s another possible WEG/Andor inspiration I spotted. Andor’s initial Gorman disguise looked (I thought) a lot like an outfit from the Han Solo Corporate Sector Handbook.
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I did some writing on the 40k Dark Heresy RPG a few years back, and seeing some of one’s own content occasionally pop up in “mainstream” 40k much later is a great pleasure.
I can only imagine what it would feel like to see one’s own work used as the basis for a Star Wars plotline 35+ years on!
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There’s scope for a sequel series… OK, I know everyone dies, but we could still have a series about Hoth and the Bothan spies?
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One of the (many) reasons Andor is great is that it leans into using good British TV character actors with beer bellies & combovers for minor Imperial parts and insanely great stage actors for major imperial parts. It worked brilliantly for the OT, it works brilliantly here.
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I would like confirmation the editor understood this joke, preferably in the form of photos of him painting his 40k Ork army…
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My theory is that he entered into a relationship with the intention of
(A) having powerful, twisted descendants
(B) increasing the amount of dark side energy in the galaxy through a miserable marriage
The same motivations that drive most relationships, tbh
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I was thinking this last night. I really appreciate the effort they’ve gone into to capture the “New Hope” vibe provided by casting people who look like ‘70s British TV actors, complete with appropriate haircuts & physiques.
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Or pushing forward and it goes backwards.
Either way, the show totally grasps it’s essential that the person doing it shouts “No, no, NO”! In a rising, panicked voice.
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I think Andor works because it has something to say that’s true to the spirit of original Star Wars.
SW was about the fight against facism/death of democracy in the wake of Nixon/Vietnam, Andor is the same thing in the Trump era.
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Yeah, there’s always going to be a part of an audience invested enough in a setting to want to know *everything* about it.
But catering to that part of the audience can make the setting worse, I think.
Do we *really* need to see the Spice Mines of Kessel? Or are they best as a throwaway line?
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Sorry to ask the dumb & obvious question, but… is anyone able to say which “unspecified NATO European country” this might be?
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Good fantasy/sci-fi worldbuilding needs some parts to remain unbuilt.
The urge to “fill in all the gaps” often confuses the overall picture, making the setting worse.
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For some reason this made me think of the game “papers, please” which I think intends to create a similar insight into duty/“professionalism” vs morality/sense of community.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papers,...
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“And could you explain this “snake god worshipper” part of your resume, Mr Moore?”
www.wired.com/2006/11/alan...
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Part of the reason it works is because it’s two-tone. There should be more two-tone cars.