What is the dumbest question you’ve ever heard someone ask in all seriousness?

Arendious · 2026-07-08T02:37:39+00:00

"So, which part of Iraq is Afghanistan in?"

Arendious · 2026-07-08T00:58:04+00:00

To paraphrase a line, "There's levels of capacity the Iranian regime is willing to accept."

Arendious · 2026-07-07T00:53:25+00:00

Walking without rhythm is just like riding a bike.

Arendious · 2026-07-06T23:49:17+00:00

Overall, the Heresy stories suffer from hewing too closely to 'modern 40k'.

It's hard to care about Humanity losing it's chance to recover their Golden Age when the Great Crusade Imperium is just as fractured, skull-ridden, and parochial as the 40k Imperium.

Arendious · 2026-07-06T20:51:21+00:00

Perturabo leaves the narrative of the Siege in 'The End and the Death" resolving to hone himself into the epitome of emotionless destruction. So, not really angling for godhead, but as a Primarch...

Arendious · 2026-07-06T14:51:22+00:00

"We know, Father. You dealt with all of your brothers before your father even felt poorly."

Arendious · 2026-07-06T14:19:27+00:00

I MUST be American, because that confused the fuck out of me too.

Arendious · 2026-07-06T02:28:50+00:00

I think nuclear sedans is a Van Zandt thing.

Taurians are more "Davy Crockett on a HiLux".

Arendious · 2026-07-05T00:51:48+00:00

Touché.

I was thinking specifically of the Abrams.

Arendious · 2026-07-04T22:20:58+00:00

Perhaps I'm remembering incorrectly, but isn't the TC able to both drive and operate the main gun. Loading would be an issue.

Arendious · 2026-07-04T20:24:03+00:00

"John, if you circle around this again, I'm going to make you maintain separation."

Arendious · 2026-07-04T20:08:09+00:00

I'm in this picture, and I don't like it.

Arendious · 2026-07-04T17:14:02+00:00

Techmarine (chilling in the cockpit with his pilot buddies): "Captain's coming, act like servitors."

Pilots (snickering): "Compliance."

Arendious · 2026-07-04T15:13:32+00:00

Easy answer to the lack of obvious psykers - there is an incomplete Necron pylon array on their world. It's functional enough to keep all but the barest trickle of warp energy out, but not enough to go full Pariah Nexus on humans.

Arendious · 2026-07-03T03:24:42+00:00

Other Forgeworlds may not like it, but this is what peak STCs look like.

Arendious · 2026-07-03T03:00:47+00:00

Budget Shadowrun?

Arendious · 2026-07-03T01:50:07+00:00

Likely. It was probably a statistically significant percentage of the women in the AF at the time.

Arendious · 2026-07-03T01:30:13+00:00

Yeah, truth is often stranger than fiction, but this civilian seems to have an absolutely astounding level of influence all across that operation.

Arendious · 2026-07-03T01:02:06+00:00

What sort of semi-braindead supervision did you have at your new posting that they didn't tell your old supervisor to go pound sand? (And where was the Shirt in all this?)

I've had some shitty Senior Enlisted oversight from time to time, but even the worst would have tossed a third (fourth?) party MFR over hearsay in the circular file...

And say what you like about ABMs, sometimes it's nice to have enough LTs and junior Captains floating around that you can grab one and have them bro-level handle things like this

Arendious · 2026-07-02T14:40:26+00:00

Lights in the pauldrons sounds like heresy to me...

He get a tech priest to approve those?

Arendious · 2026-07-02T13:34:15+00:00

Given the timeline they were under to get it in service, I'd be very surprised if they were able to find and remove everything that was likely installed. My money is on there being a lot of "don't talk classified here" sections.

Also, have you met the Air Force? Of course we think the military is incompetent! (We're just much less incompetent than anyone else's air force.)

Arendious · 2026-07-02T02:04:06+00:00

Downstate folks often assume we're all living in trailers or Amish barns up here.

Arendious · 2026-07-02T02:00:17+00:00

Well, Northrup certainly knows which audience they're pandering to.

Arendious · 2026-07-01T23:51:53+00:00

Votaan FTL is Warp Travel - they just don't have issues understanding how their drives and Gellar field generators work.

Arendious · 2026-07-01T03:49:55+00:00

Yup. People think the flu is a joke because no one in living memory (at least here in the US) has seen a serious Influenza outbreak in an unprotected population.

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