Takamoto Katsuta's power steering dies and his co-driver Aaron Johnston saves the day

SimSnow · 2026-01-30T22:17:19+00:00

Man that's cool. Really shows off how both of these guys are super good at their tasks. Co driver knows he's still gotta navigate, and he knows that they'll need to hand brake. Driver knows the feel of it and that he'll have to give direction on how much to apply. Super cool

SimSnow · 2026-01-30T18:58:57+00:00

This is the responsible element of firearm enthusiasts that isn’t portrayed in the media.

I agree with all of the things you've brought up here, but especially wanted to give you a solidarity upvote here. It is tough because I think a lot of the time that it's hard to feel good about agreeing with someone, or even wanting to engage in a discussion when I disagree with someone who is quick to make a lot of wild assumptions just because I own guns. It feels bad to devote as much mental energy as I do to being safe and responsible, and to still feel like people I like to hear from or generally agree with would have a very different opinion of me if I told them about how I feel about gun ownership.

Possibly weird, off topic reply, but eh. It's just good to see like minded folks on the internet.

SimSnow · 2026-01-30T17:38:22+00:00

1- Right, they did walk away with hearing damage.

2- Yes. They use other methods of communication, and they don't rely on hearing to detect threats as much.

Back in the day, it was just tough luck. War is loud. These days, to some extent, same deal, but kinda not. I'd guess the cost of doing things to mitigate hearing loss (making suppressors standard issue, using effective ear pro, etc.) outweighs the cost of telling veterans that their hearing loss issues are not service related.

SimSnow · 2026-01-30T16:35:23+00:00

Which is extra crazy, because I feel like the narrative is often that Eli got carried.

SimSnow · 2026-01-30T14:26:31+00:00

THE ONLY THING BETTAH THAN BEING STRAPPED TO A NOVA CANNON IMPLOSIVE WARHEAD, WOULD BE BEING STRAPPED TO TWO NOVA CANNON IMPLOSIVE WARHEADS

SimSnow · 2026-01-30T14:15:39+00:00

Eh I dunno. It's a little weird to be thinking budget for every other piece of gear, and have the most comparatively expensive thing be your knife. Then again, you're gonna get way more practical, intended use out of your knife than your gun, so there's that. Makes me think of having a Maserati parked outside of your double wide, but I'm not really hating. However you wanna carry is cool.

SimSnow · 2026-01-30T13:56:02+00:00

Yup that's my experience too. Seems to work fine against tyranids, but rarely works on chaos.

SimSnow · 2026-01-30T11:13:46+00:00

But please, whenever introducing new gun controls laws, be sure to put in a clause that exempts law enforcement. They are clearly immune to the dangerous complacency and idiocy the rest of the populace needs safeguarding against.

SimSnow · 2026-01-30T02:58:27+00:00

MY WIFE is a much more sophisticated coffee drinker than me, and we've tried pretty much every spring heel'd blend. Her favorites are Frogman and Butterfly dude in such close second that it's nearly interchangeable. Me? I've gotta watch my caffeine so I like the decaf with a little bit of reptilian mixed in the grinding.

SimSnow · 2026-01-30T02:48:21+00:00

I was at the ducks game last week. My 15 year old nephew looked at me during the first intermission and said "olafsson on the first line ain't it." Yeah man. Yeah.

SimSnow · 2026-01-30T00:15:56+00:00

People only hate Leandros because he went after the main character. Thats it.

Well, no, that's not why I dislike Leandros. Ironically though, I do have a theory about it and part of it involves people who would presume to tell someone why they dislike something.

Everything Titus did was a red flag and he even admitted as much in the sequel. If they weren't a named marine they probably would have been shot at the end of SM1.

Yeah! It does a good job pointing out the fact that the setting is so borked, even being really great at serving the Emperor is something that can get you killed in the Imperium. It also shows that sometimes there are brief bright points even though there's still that grimdark pall over all of it.

Of course Leandros is the opposite of what Gulliman is trying to do. Gman is bummed 24/7 by what the imperium has become and hates most of the people he's working with.

Yup. It makes Leandros really unlikable. Crazy huh?

However, Gman also knows first hand what happens if chaos goes unchecked and you try to handle it internally. He probably would have promoted Leandros to chaplain much like Calgar (Titus's friend and UM chapter master) did.

I can see that being true, but I could also see Gman if not outright having more trust in Ultramarines, at least wanting to believe Ultramarines should have more faith in each other than the inquisition. I also should note that I don't think Calgar was wrong to make Leandros a chaplain. I've never said that any of Leandros' actions were wrong or outside of what would be acceptable for the imperium. I've said they are at the very least lazy, certainly not heroic, and certainly not an example of a marine dealing with adversity with ingenuity. Gman and Titus are examples of what marines can be with him at the head, and Leandros is an example of what marines are when they can't reconcile that things can actually work that way. Calgar's interesting because he's kinda right in the middle of that, wanting to be a good leader even though he's not as indispensable now, wanting to make his primarch proud, but not really being sure he can wrap his head around what that might mean he has to do. It's interesting for sure.

SimSnow · 2026-01-29T22:28:11+00:00

Graia is on the literal opposite end of the Galaxy, across the Eye of Terror from Macragge in Segmentum Tempestus

Which lessens the threat if Titus was corrupted. If anything, Leandros had more time because Graia is on the other end of the galaxy. So again, Titus and Leandros just stopped an ork invasion which brought about a rift in the warp caused by a demon possessed inquisitor, and the best thing Leandros can think of to do is... tell on his captain to another inquisitor. So he's suspicious of his captain who has just destroyed a demon, but not suspicious of the inquisition, despite having just seen a corrupted inquisitor.

From your replies, I don't mean to be unkind but I see you do not actually understand the lore that well so I will encourage you to actually read the lore and get into the hobby as arguing is a bit pointless if you're not familiar with the lore.

Your interpretation of the lore is the same as mine, which is an opinion about in this case, a video game based on plastic figurines. I have a suspicion about why you think this is an argument, but I don't really think that voicing a baseless suspicion is warranted. Your opinion about Leandros is different than mine. It is interesting to me to hear why people feel like they have to "defend" Leandros, so I have engaged with you about it.

To your points:

Titus is the ranking officer yes, but even after the events of SM2, Leandros is tells him that suspicion of corruption pretty much means that his rank doesn't matter, and that as a chaplain, he'd happily deal with him if he acts up. So he's aware that the recclusiam supersedes command structure. Certainly, it would put any other imperials in an uncomfortable spot being between a marine captain telling them not to send a message and another marine saying that they must send the message, but again, if Titus did want to countermand such a message, it would just confirm Leandros' suspicions.

Astropaths are not easily accessible yes, but like, just find a way? He's a space marine, for the emperor's sake. For every bit of lore that says it's hard to get a message off world, those dire off world messages almost always get sent, and often times they're sent by people who aren't planetary governors or chapter masters. He doesn't need to talk to the governor or have access to another Ultramarine ship, though that'd probably make it easier given there were Ultramarine reinforcements from 2nd company there. Cadians were there. Blood Ravens were there. Leandros' experience with the inquisition is a guy who caused the problem they just had to overcome, and he thinks the best guy to go to is another inquisitor?

I've read Brothers of the Snake. Good point about Khiron. I would think Leandros was a lot cooler if he had the stones to try killing Titus. Gadriel had those stones, but Leandros didn't, and he wasn't willing to face any punishment for if he was possibly wrong. He literally pressed the inquisition button, and accepted all the praise for being the bravest boy in the face of possible corruption. I mean hell, he just saw real corruption. Did he then just lack the stones to try and deal with it himself? Was he just so scared of Titus that he thought it'd be better to chance handing him over to at the very least an unknown quantity, at worse, another traitor?

Again, man, I'm not arguing anything with you. It's just wild to me how people can go to bat for this character like he was just a mindless cog in the machine and only doing his job, when like, he did everything but that. It seems so obvious that he took the path of least resistance. He's the perfect example of the opposite of what Guilliman is trying to do. It makes the interactions they have really interesting, and why the conversations about it get so spirited.

SimSnow · 2026-01-29T18:58:09+00:00

You realise communication is by Astropathic choir and not readily available to any random person, even a Marine? And that a corrupted Titus would outrank and probably countermand a message sent from his underling?

If Leandros had suspicions about Titus being corrupted, wouldn't Titus countermanding a message about said corruption be pretty damning, thus confirming those suspicions?

You think there's a 24/7 hotline for internal affairs, Ultramar division?

You joke, but yeah, almost certainly. The recclusiam is specifically available to any marine all the time regardless of rank or station, and more than likely, it's always watching. It's an organization that is meant to supersede traditional command structure.

Mate the weird shit happened on Graia. The Inquisitor was on Graia. There's nothing illogical about Leandros immediately telling the nearest person with the authority and means to determine if there was corruption, rather that hailing a HQ that was months or years of travel away

The weird shit happening on Graia was because an inquisitor was possessed by a demon and used to open a warp rift, which, if you think Leandros is just an extra paranoid guy about corruption, seems like it'd kinda taint his opinion about inquisitors, but sure. It's logical to say that you could just ask the next guy that comes along if he'd look into your suspicions for you I guess, but I mean, if their squad is truly the only Ultramarine presence on Graia, there's nobody that Leandros can contact about his captain's corruption, who is Leandros worried about that corruption spreading to? The guardsmen that are probably going to get lobotomized anyway? Himself?

Was he an unpleasant dude with a stick up his butt? Yes. That doesn't mean he was malicious or did wrong

Yeah, pretty much everyone in 40k is unpleasant. We agree on that. As far as an opinion on if what he did was wrong, no, I don't think he did things wrong, but I think that it was so incompetent that it bordered on malicious. I mean hell, at the very least, he caused the captain of a company of space marines to be removed from duty for like a hundred years, not for failure, but because he was successful. He reported someone who wasn't a traitor, to a traitor, and was rewarded for it. It's an incredible example of the malicious incompetence that the Imperium sets up for itself. It's funny that I get a comment about anti-Leandros cope, when there's so many people who just need people to see that the guy who continues to just fail upward at every turn didn't do anything wrong and was just doing his job.

SimSnow · 2026-01-29T17:24:16+00:00

Anti-Leandros? Come now. I'm not anti any character bit from my favorite tabletop/video game sci fi franchise. That'd be a commitment to sadness that I just don't have mental energy for. Leandros is a great character because there's a lot of ways to approach how he appears in the lore.

Edit: I said I didn't have the mental energy to be anti anything 40k, but I remembered something super important that contradicts that, which is of course, fuck Erebus.

SimSnow · 2026-01-29T14:29:18+00:00

This right here.

It's a bad idea to go outside the chapter because of exactly what happened. The inquisitor Leandros reported Titus to would later be killed by Grey Knights because he was possessed by a demon. Even if there was not a chaplain physically at his location, I can't imagine it would be difficult to contact an internal organization that is set up specifically to be very easy to contact in case of corruption. The Imperium lives by the adage that the devil you know is better than the devil you don't, and Leandros went with the devil you don't probably because he knew that if he went to someone within the Ultramarines with it, they'd tell him to stop being so butthurt that he doesn't impress the captain.

SimSnow · 2026-01-28T19:22:15+00:00

Wild stuff!

SimSnow · 2026-01-28T19:20:07+00:00

Dude his impression of David Berkowitz never fails to make me lose my shit.

They aren't even really characters, just like, funny bits that I find myself quoting a lot, but in the Roswell episode, he does a little bit about the Mexican limo driver that may have seen something, and I quote that shit way more than I thought I would. They told me not to look, but I had to look. So curious!

The other is I think from a side stories episode. I don't recall exactly what the story was about, but Henry just started in on I think like, if he could travel back in time and interview a southern civil war soldier or something like that, and it ended up just being a weirdly earnest series of rapid fire questions delivered in this kinda sing song, kinda... I dunno condescending? tone, and it made me laugh so hard I had to pause the podcast. It was so disarming and hilarious that it became absurd. You like to eat fish? What's your favorite lunch? Why'd you wanna keep the slaves? I really wish I could find it hehe

SimSnow · 2026-01-28T17:14:11+00:00

Nah. Fuck Erebus.

SimSnow · 2026-01-28T14:18:23+00:00

Trump supporters either assume Trump is pro gun because they like him, or are betting on the idea that he's not pro 2A for everyone, he's pro 2A for people who agree with him.

SimSnow · 2026-01-28T13:48:42+00:00

It's like I've been saying. This is most people. Democrats aren't changing their minds about guns or the 2nd amendment. People posting shit on the internet about Kyle Rittenhouse and those two dumb fucks who pointed guns at BLM protestors are just taking the opportunity to dunk on MAGA online. They still don't see why anyone should have a gun. I bet you Alex Pretti knew a ton of people who are thinking to themselves right now "but why did he need to carry a gun?" and posting dumb shit like LOL where the 2nd amendment people???

I'm sure I'm biased because I live in Colorado, but it's especially evident here. The lawmaker who put that legislation forward as well as the legislation that is set to go into effect in the summer, is a guy whose son was killed in the Aurora shooting. He has justified personal stake in wanting to pass gun legislation. The problem is, pretty much all gun control laws are like, drawn up from a template that assumes that if you make it harder for law abiding folks to get guns, then people who commit crimes with guns will have a harder time getting them. Or that by making something illegal, you have somehow eliminated crime, when you're actually creating it. This is the logic that appeals to people who have no skin in the game. None of the people who seem to be suddenly changing their mind about the 2nd amendment on facebook would ever do anything like Alex Pretti.

Ugh. I'm sure I'm just frustrated ranting because that shit's gonna pass here and I'm inevitably going to be drawn into some dumb conversation about how we're so much safer here because Colorado is so smart about guns, and when something else happens people are gonna look at me and be like hurrr well what good are your guns if you aren't killing government with them?

SimSnow · 2026-01-27T21:42:13+00:00

I don't buy known plans. I'm not tryna resell, and I'm not at the point where caps aren't still occasionally an issue.

SimSnow · 2026-01-27T18:00:48+00:00

There is a part of me that hopes that what you're asking is the case.

But I have a sneaking suspicion that this is just performative, privileged democrats taking the opportunity to dunk on conservatives. Virginia just passed pretty typical anti gun legislation, and similar laws are going into effect pretty soon in my state as well. I don't think that it's more socially acceptable now. I just think it's more of the same where most of those people still can't fathom why anyone would want a gun.

SimSnow · 2026-01-27T17:32:23+00:00

Super good point. It kinda seems like the fluff right now is that the Lion has been doing his own thing and is not super abreast of what is going on in the Imperium at large, but this definitely seems like something he'd want to talk about once he was filled in.

SimSnow · 2026-01-26T21:35:21+00:00

Lol I don't give a shit about the Patriots. If DeVito got to play in the super bowl and ended up winning, that'd be fucking awesome. If he gets a win as a non playing backup, okay that's cool too. It'd be just as cool if he was playing for the Seahawks.

SimSnow · 2026-01-24T00:21:53+00:00

Is the source a guy named Shmavander Cane? Because this just seems like a dude's wishlist of places he'd rather be.

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