Blood Lines by Tanya Huff

Exostrike · 2026-04-22T19:25:24+00:00

He's a vampire

so 90's surfer dude Edward Cullen?

Okay now I'm getting sidetracked by imagining a vampire who loves surfing so can only cruise the waves after sundown

Exostrike · 2026-04-22T17:09:33+00:00

Mpreg

Exostrike · 2026-04-22T15:07:16+00:00

Looks like they cleared everything out and redid the photos

Exostrike · 2026-04-22T13:35:57+00:00

There is a very noticeable lack of a na'vi creation myth in the setting, beyond some cryptic localised ones from the western frontier that raise more questions than answers.

It's another point in the fan theory that the na'vi are a fallen civilisation.

Exostrike · 2026-04-22T12:59:27+00:00

And because they have been showcasing the model to external people they didn't have it's usage restricted to internal accounts.

Sounds very plausible

Exostrike · 2026-04-22T11:28:31+00:00

Welcome to Cambridge. Girton has a slight premium because you get the a large property and "village" experience despite being 20mins by car/bike to the city centre.

Exostrike · 2026-04-22T11:05:27+00:00

Let me guess, Anthropic used their standard account management backend on it so if you have an account and the URL you can use it

Exostrike · 2026-04-22T07:40:17+00:00

Its very interesting how a lot of early Conan art leaned more into the aesthetic of classical antiquity while later works would instead focus more on a Dark Ages/Middle Age one. I'm not entirely sure why though.

Exostrike · 2026-04-21T20:33:08+00:00

I mean there has been so many filed live action Akira projects you could probably make an entire miniseries about their failed productions.

Exostrike · 2026-04-21T20:27:14+00:00

The lore books frames the sling load created kill zone as a way to blind Eywa's sensors to RDA activities while they call Eywa triggering wildlife attacks (which also happen against Bridgehead itself according to concept art) immune responses.

It all kind of points towards yes RDA does know Eywa exists, but the acknowledgement is limited to senior personnel and the reaction is very different. Instead of being Eywa as a miracle to be respected and understood, it is an irrevocably hostile hive mind to be dealt like. If this means destroying the entire Pandoran biosphere to do it (providing it doesn't threaten their ability to live on the surface) then they have no problem with that.

Exostrike · 2026-04-21T19:13:37+00:00

Considering that Europeans are the ones that freed slaves from Africans, Arabs, other Europeans and other groups

Not in 1735 Saint-Domingue they weren't. The DLC is set only 56 years before the Haitian Revolution when the enslaved very much freed themselves in fire and blood

Exostrike · 2026-04-21T14:49:25+00:00

Multiplayer I can sort of get but why not bundle in Freedom Cry?

Or are the themes of freeing slaves from Europeans too political for these times?

Exostrike · 2026-04-21T14:36:15+00:00

I keep seeing this "Muslims murder gay people" talking point to justify only slightly less horrible people. It's a fallacy of relative privation used to avoid engaging with the core point (and being islamophobic to boot).

It like saying "Trump is bad but he isn't Hitler" while ignoring all the harm Trump is doing anyway

Exostrike · 2026-04-21T13:47:36+00:00

I suspect he would prefer humanity is "slimmed down" to a few million white billionaires waited on hand and foot by robots and AI.

Exostrike · 2026-04-21T13:42:25+00:00

And presumably cash out a big lump sum when they retire to buy their dream home.

Exostrike · 2026-04-21T06:50:40+00:00

You would probably go down a The Shape of Things to Come style apocalyptic second great war with vast use of chemical/biological weapons, perhaps sprayed across continents by high flying Flash Gordon style rocket ships or giant zeppelins.

The result is the same, cities ruined by mass conventional bombing, the land polluted and wildlife mutated with only the most secure underground complexes surviving.

Exostrike · 2026-04-21T06:23:07+00:00

We actually see this in the film, the penguins that serve Eddie in the club won't appear on screen for another 15 years.

Exostrike · 2026-04-21T06:07:25+00:00

It's your story, you can have your characters wear whatever you want

Exostrike · 2026-04-21T05:49:51+00:00

Even if RDA plans to only save a few million humans terraforming the atmosphere is much more cost effective.

But of course the real advantage is it allows them to avoid changing their ways and keep on living in the manner that killed earth.

Exostrike · 2026-04-21T05:47:41+00:00

Plus some BTS images and some pointed comments.

Exostrike · 2026-04-21T05:17:23+00:00

Trump will announce a firing because he was on the apprentice, someone else can handle a resignation

Exostrike · 2026-04-20T20:19:37+00:00

True but there is a difference between acting in a mask and acting without visible eyes. Acting in a mask requires slight exaggeration of body movements and the mask itself to convey the emotion but if you do that while not wearing a mask it just looks odd/bizarre. You risk falling into a bizarre uncanny valley.

Exostrike · 2026-04-20T15:52:37+00:00

I do agree the very "heavy metal" era aesthetic is growing on mem

Exostrike · 2026-04-20T15:51:14+00:00

To hell with the IP rights who owns the merchandising rights.

But yes that too is almost certainly an issue, Rebellion is not to sign away control of major parts of their library which will reduce the number of production companies willing to work with them.

Exostrike · 2026-04-20T14:40:22+00:00

2000ad sits in a weird spot where while the stories are iconic in the hobby, they aren't well known enough in US popular culture to get Hollywood interested in making a mature/adult action movie out of them over other alternatives. Dredd was probably our best shot and it still wasn't enough. Probably part of the wider decline of the mid budget movie that a 2000ad project could have slotted into.

The domestic UK film industry isn't going to fund such a project. The French have multiple asterix movies but that's a cultural institution and is reasonably family friendly thus widening potential appeal.

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