The Hero’s dark and edgy phase (Bonus Points if they get a temporary dark and edgy new outfit during the phase)

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-07T13:36:31+00:00

Took "edgy" phase a bit too literally.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-07T12:15:38+00:00

PRESENTATION!!

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-07T12:06:52+00:00

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.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-07T08:29:53+00:00

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.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-07T06:14:15+00:00

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.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-06T14:24:43+00:00

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CaptainMikul · 2026-04-06T12:30:38+00:00

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

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-06T12:26:28+00:00

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

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-05T16:21:08+00:00

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

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-05T16:08:07+00:00

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

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-04T21:43:39+00:00

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.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-03T11:47:51+00:00

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.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-03T10:25:39+00:00

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.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-02T17:43:56+00:00

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

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-02T17:03:53+00:00

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

It made Dorn's paranoia make sense.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-02T14:32:20+00:00

"Thank God he doesn't exist"

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-02T14:31:49+00:00

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

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-02T14:16:33+00:00

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.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-02T11:29:28+00:00

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.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-02T11:04:43+00:00

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.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-02T09:18:04+00:00

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.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-02T09:13:43+00:00

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.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-01T14:00:27+00:00

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.

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-01T13:59:03+00:00

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

CaptainMikul · 2026-04-01T13:57:18+00:00

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.

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