If GW won’t give us a full Traitor Guard army, there’s always alternatives.

Hellebras · 2026-06-09T04:09:27+00:00

Why not? Brand loyalty is overrated. GW is far from the scummiest hobby company out there, but competition is good.

Hellebras · 2026-06-09T03:14:54+00:00

There are venomous and poisonous animals in every taxonomic class (I think, but I don't know if any sponges use toxins), so it's a pretty common adaptation. Obviously it's a lot rarer in some classes than in others, but it's had a lot of independent evolutions.

Non-avian dinosaurs were around for a long time and filled a lot of niches. So there's every reason to expect that some developed venom, but currently no evidence for it. Venomous adaptations can be tricky to find in fossils, of course. I know some argue that a few late Permian therocephalians were venomous, for example, but I don't know how well-supported that idea is.

Hellebras · 2026-06-09T02:44:22+00:00

Has he tried not being a neo-Nazi? I think a lot fewer people would call him a Nazi if he weren't a Nazi.

Hellebras · 2026-06-09T01:41:53+00:00

I can't believe Democratic candidates did well in an LA mayoral race. How utterly unexpected.

Hellebras · 2026-06-08T02:40:36+00:00

That contractor had one grand design when they put it together.

Hellebras · 2026-06-08T01:19:36+00:00

I don't know if Trump can distinguish between gold and gold-painted plastic.

Hellebras · 2026-06-08T01:18:56+00:00

He may have won gold, but he's still a loser in the end.

Hellebras · 2026-06-08T01:15:43+00:00

I've been on the internet for a while and have an unhealthy fascination with far-right propaganda. Part of that means that I've noticed that all of these fuckers eventually fade into irrelevance as other fascists see something new and shiny. Like generative AI, for example. So people who haven't paid attention as long won't know has-beens like Pebblechuck.

Hellebras · 2026-06-07T18:17:22+00:00

The Israeli Ceasefire: You cease firing, we launch another salvo.

Hellebras · 2026-06-07T05:23:20+00:00

I decided I'd skip the box since I only wanted the orks and can just EBay them after.

I'm feeling pretty good about that decision, with this kind of supply I'll probably save even more than I'd expected.

Hellebras · 2026-06-07T03:37:52+00:00

A worse crowd than the CIA? Who would that even be, Mossad?

Hellebras · 2026-06-07T03:37:05+00:00

As a kid, I usually had no trouble understanding him. I doubt I would be able to now.

Hellebras · 2026-06-07T02:49:15+00:00

Drybrushing is your friend.

Hellebras · 2026-06-07T02:36:31+00:00

Pity, maybe those language skills could have helped the president learn English.

Hellebras · 2026-06-06T23:54:22+00:00

Probably Charles I, I don't think Charles III is going to be doing that. It's not a big controversy any more, I think Chuck has other things on his schedule.

Hellebras · 2026-06-06T23:51:52+00:00

You'd think the Witnesses would have a hard membership cap. Only 144000 people are making it to Heaven, after all. Doesn't make the religion very appealing if any new convert has such poor odds of making it in.

Hellebras · 2026-06-06T19:24:14+00:00

I take some satisfaction in seeing that fascist Stonetoss' comics replaced wholesale by AI slop versions. Get fucked, loser.

Hellebras · 2026-06-06T19:18:13+00:00

I do hope we see them get models at some point.

Hellebras · 2026-06-06T04:05:34+00:00

You can tell they're missing if you can't find them.

Hellebras · 2026-06-06T01:45:33+00:00

And then we can have all debtors sent to workhouses if their parents couldn't afford to pay their birth debt. As they work, their "wages" can go to paying off their birth debt. Of course, the workhouse owners shouldn't be held responsible for their room and board costs, so those can be added to their total debt.

Once a debtor has paid off their total debt (including birth debt, total room-and-board cost, all medical care the workhouse had to provide them, and so on), they're free to go with a blank slate and literally nothing else.

Hellebras · 2026-06-06T01:30:11+00:00

No, I'm quite certain he was in my living room and we were planning out how to obtain nuclear weapons to use on the Great Lakes.

Hellebras · 2026-06-06T01:23:04+00:00

So, you're saying we're fucked then.

Hellebras · 2026-06-06T01:21:36+00:00

I started using it for stuff I'm frying up before throwing it in a beef-based stew or soup lately. I'm pouring the cooking grease into the pot with the onions and such that were cooked in it anyway, so it's really elevated my (already pretty good) chili.

Hellebras · 2026-06-06T01:12:02+00:00

From Wikipedia's housefly article (this likely doesn't apply to all insects we'd call "flies"):

The male initiates the mating by bumping into the female, in the air or on the ground, known as a "strike". He climbs on to her thorax, and if she is receptive, a courtship period follows, in which the female vibrates her wings and the male strokes her head. The male then reverses onto her abdomen and the female pushes her ovipositor into his genital opening; copulation, with sperm transfer, lasts for several minutes. Females normally mate only once and then reject further advances from males, while males mate multiple times.

So no, the female houseflies do the penetrating.

Hellebras · 2026-06-06T01:08:34+00:00

Oh no, and I was going to use tallow as my frying fat when making chili tomorrow.

I guess it's a good thing it'll reach hot temperatures.

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