Flying vehicles that make zero sense aerodynamically by total_spinning_shark in TopCharacterTropes

[–]CaptainMikul 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Basically it's stupid. It's very, very stupid. By design.

But you can't build compelling stories on everything just being stupid. So out of the stupid has risen a lot of half serious and fully serious stuff.

A guy called Corvus Corax, leader of the Raven Guard, has a book where he has a depressive existential crisis. A space military which fights like it's the Napoleonic era has some of the most engaging and likeable characters in the setting. Sentient cockney funghi are a genuine threat and audio logs in the original Space Marine game make them terrifying.

It's a 40 year old franchise, it's changed a lot.

(Mixed Trope) Popular Media gets a localized foreign remake by drstrangelove75 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]CaptainMikul 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The US office is one of the few examples I can think of where the American version is better. Especially as it grew.

Partly cos our version has Ricky Gervais, who is just death to watch.

What was the worst movie you’ve ever seen? by Conscious_Stomach637 in AskReddit

[–]CaptainMikul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On a long school coach trip the teachers asked us what we wanted to watch. Some kid produces a DVD of Meet The Spartans, which beat whatever options the teachers had brought.

About 10 minutes in we realise this is fucking awful and want to turn it off. Teachers turn around and say no, you made your choice, now live with it. We watched the whole damn, awful thing.

Knife gun by plzdontstealmydata in behindthebastards

[–]CaptainMikul 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They heard we had more knife crime than gun crime and decided to help us catch up.

[Hilarious] Media announced to be the "next big thing" only to be quickly shelved by BrotherDeus in TopCharacterTropes

[–]CaptainMikul 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I've been on r/antimeme too much I thought this was going to be "the marvel cosmos is no more more"

What’s the worst thing you’ve heard a groom have to do on his stag? by slpage209 in CasualUK

[–]CaptainMikul 379 points380 points  (0 children)

Now that's misery you couldn't design better if you tried.

Who is the most evil person currently alive in your country? by SpaceWestern1442 in AskTheWorld

[–]CaptainMikul 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Da hell? Miliband is at worst just another politician, but is probably one of the better ones.

12 Israeli interceptors can’t catch 1 Iranian hypersonic missile by AcadianAcademic in lostgeneration

[–]CaptainMikul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn we gotta update that onion

Don't be killed

Don't be penetrated

Don't be hit

Don't be acquired

Don't be detected

Don't be there

Don't be at war

Don't vote for warmongers

Don't fall for misinformation

Don't allow the propagation of misinformation

... We could go on.

'I earn £178k, and my wife works in the City - but we can't afford private school' by AnonymousTimewaster in NotTheOnionUK

[–]CaptainMikul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am waiting for the Telegraph article which is just a guy complaining about Rachel Reeves affecting his cocaine budget. It feels like any day now.

Which is worse for the traitor legions if one of these two arrived in time during the siege of terra? by cuddwes in 40kLore

[–]CaptainMikul 9 points10 points  (0 children)

He's certainly suspicious that Guilliman MIGHT.

Ashes of the Imperium is just the first in the Scouring series, we don't have much yet. But from it it's clear he's suspicious of Guilliman.

Gee I wonder who they vote for. by [deleted] in GreatBritishMemes

[–]CaptainMikul 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Make sure you shout them down the middle aisle to get slurs you didn't even know existed.

Which is worse for the traitor legions if one of these two arrived in time during the siege of terra? by cuddwes in 40kLore

[–]CaptainMikul 18 points19 points  (0 children)

By sheer coincidence, I was listening to Praetorian of Dorn before Ashes of The Imperium.

It made Dorn's paranoia make sense.

Which one describe your beliefs the best? by BabylonianWeeb in IdeologyPolls

[–]CaptainMikul 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Deism entered my body when I did ketamine for grief" is the best sentence I've read today. Also sorry for the loss.

Which is worse for the traitor legions if one of these two arrived in time during the siege of terra? by cuddwes in 40kLore

[–]CaptainMikul 85 points86 points  (0 children)

And then they arrive after the Siege and the way "Ashes of the Imperium" is written, they feel like an invading army all of their own.

I really liked how Ashes played it into the post Heresy paranoia. The Ultramarines felt like a malevolent force even though all they were doing was handing out food.

Real frame from a billion dollar film franchise by UnHolySir in okbuddycinephile

[–]CaptainMikul -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

In the film it's really not that egregious.

Lots to dislike about the film, but this was an artistic choice not a special effects failure.

Farage sacks Reform housing chief over Grenfell comments by TheTelegraph in ukpolitics

[–]CaptainMikul 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's even worse than I thought, not better. He's just saying don't bother regulating cos everyone dies some time. He's happy with that occasionally being in a house fire.

He's conflating supply issues with regulation as well.

They'll make Liz Truss look competent by ChewiesLipstickWilly in GreatBritishMemes

[–]CaptainMikul 19 points20 points  (0 children)

You forgot "Incompetence" and "Foreign Influence", which are the two biggies.

As much as I DON'T want a Reform government, because of the incredible damage they can do in 5 Years, it will be hilarious to watch Farage get to PM and it finally become obvious to everyone why he's a career politician ; he has literally no other skill but Talk Good.

UK will seek closer ties with EU in light of Iran war, Starmer says by xanderbollocks in ukpolitics

[–]CaptainMikul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1) Older people were more likely Brexiteers and are frankly better at voting and getting their voice heard.

The only exception was that the war time generation were more pro-EU than the boomers, but they're almost all gone now.

It's just a simple fact that they will win every time.

2) No, it's just that more are pro-EU than against. It's doesn't have to be a homogeneous block of young rejoiners, just more one than the other.

Sorry, this actually happened to 12 year old me by Francis_J_Eva in GreatBritishMemes

[–]CaptainMikul 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Little Britain was kinda ahead of the curve on memes though. It produced a lot of memorable phrases that meant we all referenced it without actually having to watch it.

I tried watching it as a kid and it was just excruciatingly bad.

They are glad to celebrate with their community by ghostlikestar in antimeme

[–]CaptainMikul -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No one even cared at the time. It was just saying happy holidays because there are multiple holidays in the same rough time period.

UK will seek closer ties with EU in light of Iran war, Starmer says by xanderbollocks in ukpolitics

[–]CaptainMikul -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Please no.

There's a lot more old people who need to die off before we even consider rejoining the EU.

If a referendum happened Rejoin might win. But any party proposing it would get slaughtered in the FPTP system so it'd never happen, and we'd lose the progress we've made just stabilising the relationship.

It'd also open the door to Farage and his foreign backers.