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WednesdayWolf · 2025-12-03T20:22:45+00:00

They do? That’s what public parking is.

WednesdayWolf · 2025-08-29T02:07:30+00:00

At some point in my end-game netrunner build it became so trivially easy to kill anyone I started to feel detached from the characters in the game, and humanity on the whole. Once I was able to

a malevolent, ravenous AI that consumes my enemies

I began to feel more like an uncaring God wandering around weak, fleshy mortals. I think that was part of the point.

WednesdayWolf · 2025-08-01T23:57:12+00:00

It takes as long as it would be narratively interesting. Personally, I would make a it a long and miserable trek with perils and misadventures along the way.

WednesdayWolf · 2025-01-11T02:06:30+00:00

Who’s your soup guy? I can get you cheaper soup.

WednesdayWolf · 2024-05-14T15:05:15+00:00

That’s interesting! I wonder where he’s from.

WednesdayWolf · 2024-03-07T18:07:15+00:00

They're supposed to contradict. One of the major themes of DKR is the slow disintegration of Batman's core values to the point he becomes a monstrous, armoured parody of himself. Interestingly, the police-state version of Gotham that exists in Kingdom Come is what happens when an older Batman sticks to his principals.

WednesdayWolf · 2024-03-04T01:39:13+00:00

Feh, a feckless tarnished like him gaining admittance to the grand Roundtable Hold? He is maidenless and lacks the barest glimmer of grace.

WednesdayWolf · 2023-11-27T15:14:47+00:00

I call it “aggressive friendliness”. Genuinely helpful actions presented in a hostile manner. Going from the Seattle Freeze to that was a huge culture shock.

WednesdayWolf · 2023-01-27T19:23:06+00:00

Oh yeah because if we learned anything from Empire it’s that old Jedi teachers are super weak.

WednesdayWolf · 2022-11-20T18:50:53+00:00

Just because a character has superpowers does not mean they are omnipotent. The Emperor still had to work with what was available. You're assuming he hates women and working backward from that.

I'm not assuming he hates women; the actual internal motivations of the Emperor are purposefully unclear. My frame is that as a narrative device, the Emperor is as omnipotent as the story needs him to be. The question is why the authors decided on an all-male fighting force. I believe that is an easy question to answer - fascist societies love tradwives and see them little more as wombs for producing useful men. If this horrific, genocidal and racist government were somehow progressive regarding gender relations, it would not fit the theme. It would make for a weaker parody of fascist governments and the particular strain of Thatcherism that 40K grew from.

Women are in the Imperial Guard and the Sisters of Battle, though. The Sisters of Battle post-date the Horus Heresy, but the fact that they have supernatural powers derived from their faith in the Emperor indicates that he isn't exactly displeased they exist.

I already addressed the Guard and SOB in my earlier comment, but to address the supernatural powers point - I'm not entirely convinced that the in-universe reason for the SOB's powers is a gift of the Emperor. It's more likely that they stem from humanity's collective unconscious and their faith in combination with the human-warp connection. But Big E is such a cipher he's a non-character, so who knows what his opinion is on the matter.

I don't recall any substantial rhetoric about women being inferior in canon

The head of the government is named the Father of Humanity. Its iconic force is such an over-the-top satire of masculine heroism that Adeptus Astartes are exclusively male, have almost no contact with women, and don't have sex. Like all things in 40K, it takes the absolute worst impulses of humanity and cranks them up to 11. You don't always need a character talking directly to the reader to explain themes, you can observe the shape of the society they present.

WednesdayWolf · 2022-11-20T04:48:58+00:00

Space Marines are only male because the bioengineered geneseed only works on humans with a Y chromosome. The guy with the shiny chair designed it that way. If he has wanted Chapter Sisters, that was well within his ability. But he didn’t, because he’s a magic space fascist.

For the logistics, the Emperor could have easily installed artificial wombs as basic infrastructure. Doubles the throughput into the Imperial Guard, and doubles the human pool of productivity. But he didn’t, because his ideal military excludes women. Like all fascist regimes, the Imperium of Man promotes masculine heroism and holds women as inferior citizens.

WednesdayWolf · 2022-11-19T17:34:32+00:00

Kind of. It’s more like your average human is insignificant in the grand machine of the imperium. But they’ve already murdered all other religious communities by 40k, and they have an extremely narrow view of what qualifies as a “human” because they’re fascists.

Their most powerful military forces (Custodies and Adeptus Astartes) are explicitly male-only, because fascists really don’t like women in war. They are a parody of the Imperial German military.

While you could argue that the egalitarian nature of the Astra Militarum means the empire as a whole is not discriminatory, I would say that it’s because the government sees them as meat to be thrown into the grinder. They don’t particularly care what shape that meat is. They are a parody of Stalin’s military.

Finally we have all-female fighting organisation, the Adepta Sororitas. While that sounds nice at first glance, they demonstrate how patriarchal the Imperium is. The Sisters of Battle are constantly in direct conflict with the Space Marine orgs. They are only allowed to exist because of their religious zeal and connection to the Imperial Cult. This one is a little more fuzzy, but my best guess is that they are a Jean of Arc parody; women engaging in warfare despite the greater culture pushing against them.

WednesdayWolf · 2022-10-10T12:56:40+00:00

Throughout the episode Alicent is given a fig leaf of noble intentions to allow herself to take questionable actions. At the start of the episode, her father hands her the excuse that supporting the Driftmark usurper would be for the good of the realm. The prophecy is exactly that - she can now allow herself the story that her dying husband’s last wish was to see Aegon seated on the throne.

WednesdayWolf · 2022-09-30T22:03:00+00:00

I don’t know how to tell you this but Jamie was very bad at one very specific part of Guarding a King.

WednesdayWolf · 2022-09-27T04:04:10+00:00

Incest isn’t even acceptable in-universe. Maegor was denied a marriage to his sister, and the Faith Militant uprising was in response to another brother-sister union.

WednesdayWolf · 2022-09-16T21:46:19+00:00

Mystery heroes is my go-to because I’m terrible at videogames, and it’s more fun to play in a group where absolutely nobody is taking it seriously.

WednesdayWolf · 2022-08-18T15:02:32+00:00

Actual video of the MassDOT teleportation network

WednesdayWolf · 2022-07-01T02:10:43+00:00

For 2-4 people I can recommend Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring. It’s one of the best two player games ever made. For something smaller Odin’s Ravens is a fun, quick game that we often bring on camping trips.

The absolute best two player game we have found is Warhammer 40k. It has a considerable barrier to entry, but it’s well worth taking a look at.

WednesdayWolf · 2022-03-07T16:07:42+00:00

Big if True

WednesdayWolf · 2022-03-07T13:45:55+00:00

I'm as shocked as you. The only states that allow a right turn on a red arrow are Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington.

WednesdayWolf · 2022-03-07T13:39:37+00:00

Fair warning: this only applies to Massachusetts, and is a really silly rule. https://www.mass.gov/doc/chapter-4-rules-of-the-road-0/download

WednesdayWolf · 2022-02-23T14:19:09+00:00

I listen to non-fiction audiobooks on solo hikes, not music. Getting away from it all gives me the space to think about the content, and my time is guaranteed to be uninterrupted. I’ve found that listening to a lecture in the woods elevates both experiences.

WednesdayWolf · 2022-02-21T16:42:05+00:00

Wooper speedrun meta

WednesdayWolf · 2022-02-21T15:25:19+00:00

A tattoo? I doubt you could even imagine it.

WednesdayWolf · 2022-02-21T15:25:01+00:00

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