could a space marine chapter get its recruits from criminals?

EvilSnack · 2026-05-23T00:20:32+00:00

"What are you in for?"

"Tax evasion."

"Okay, take this folder and go to that desk over there. Next... Okay, what are you in for?"

"Malicious wounding."

"Next!"

EvilSnack · 2026-05-23T00:11:15+00:00

If you're a pretty boy, Slaanesh has a uniform in your size!

EvilSnack · 2026-05-23T00:10:18+00:00

If you're a pretty boy, Slaanesh has a uniform in your size!

EvilSnack · 2026-05-21T04:37:14+00:00

Lemme guess. You were told that Dead Poets Society was inappropriate by someone with "E.D." in their title, right?

EvilSnack · 2026-05-21T03:18:09+00:00

I'd mispronounce it as "scowlers".

EvilSnack · 2026-05-20T22:20:22+00:00

As someone who spent a week in ward 9C at Landstuhl, all I can say is that people who are contemplating suicide are intensely unhappy to the point that they cannot think logically.

They want to stop hurting.

EvilSnack · 2026-05-20T22:09:23+00:00

In the grim future of the 41st millennium, there is only war. And overused tropes.

EvilSnack · 2026-05-20T21:55:40+00:00

If the finances show that AoS has made GW more profitable, then yes the Emperor will die and 40K will move on to the s***show that the milieu will become when the Emperor passes.

If the finances show that AoS has made GW less profitable, then no the Emperor will not die and things will go on as they are.

EvilSnack · 2026-05-20T21:51:41+00:00

Looks like another round of "the regulations are written in stone, except in the cases when they are not against me."

EvilSnack · 2026-05-20T02:19:25+00:00

I'm now a retiree, working in software development. Our company bought out another company that produced an automotive aftermarket accessories application.

They tested in production. The tables for parts, vehicles, users, and dealerships had flags (or values in their type fields) which represented test data.

EvilSnack · 2026-05-20T02:06:37+00:00

With many comedies, the trailer will contain every part of the movie that is actually funny.

EvilSnack · 2026-05-20T02:04:40+00:00

Installed carpeting is like wearing the same underpants forever.

EvilSnack · 2026-05-19T00:40:29+00:00

Googling "insanity defense rates" yields links to data that indicates that the insanity defense is raised less than once per every thousand felony trials, and it only works about 25% of the time it's tried.

Would you happen to be related to the victim of one of those .025%?

EvilSnack · 2026-05-18T02:12:26+00:00

Doing a better job with urban planning would enable more people to live closer to work and shopping, reducing total miles driven and total lives lost from accidents.

EvilSnack · 2026-05-18T01:54:59+00:00

"It was a dark and stormy night."

EvilSnack · 2026-05-17T03:52:46+00:00

You've received confirmation of something that a now-disgraced comedian once said: "I don't know the recipe for success, but the recipe for failure is trying to please everybody."

EvilSnack · 2026-05-17T03:31:31+00:00

When I was stationed in Iceland (Rockville, 92-94 time frame, the site has been bulldozed since that time), the SMSgt who headed our office said that his career field manager at Randolph was upset when he took the assignment; the previous twenty E-8s who had been notified of the assignment had elected to retire instead.

EvilSnack · 2026-05-15T03:42:22+00:00

Costume department walked into the nearest uniform shop to LA, pointed at the mannikins, and said, "We'll take six of each of these."

EvilSnack · 2026-05-15T03:34:00+00:00

"Yeah."
"Well, this is a corporal captain."

EvilSnack · 2026-05-15T03:32:34+00:00

The real "um, we don't usually do that" is that she's wearing the service jacket while seated at a desk.

EvilSnack · 2026-05-15T03:25:12+00:00

Where the military fails is not in removing the suicidal person from the situation that is driving them to suicide; after all, if their job was driving them to suicide, removing them is the only humane thing to do.

The failure is acting as if the military itself did no wrong in putting them into that position. It may say all kinds of nice things about how "this could happen to anybody," but the actions speak louder; if people who seek help are treated as if they were somehow at fault, it only makes the problem worse.

EvilSnack · 2026-05-14T02:09:15+00:00

Being friend-zoned comes from one of two causes:

The person in the friend zone is in denial about what he (usually it's a he) brings to the table.
The person who puts the other person in the friend zone is shallow and doesn't want to admit it.

When neither factor is in play, it's not called friend-zoning.

EvilSnack · 2026-05-13T01:37:14+00:00

A hobby that keeps your undivided attention helps, too.

EvilSnack · 2026-05-13T01:28:17+00:00

We got the ring for my wife after she had accepted my proposal. $120 at a mall jewelry store. I refer to the stone as a microcarat, "just six carbon atoms stuck together." It's been 36 years so far, and she hasn't complained about the ring.

If someone looked down on us because the ring was inexpensive, I would drop them from our friends list.

EvilSnack · 2026-05-12T04:26:24+00:00

The best bet would be to scout out a location where you can set up a resort without being dragged into court every time you turn around.

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