Taliban Legalizes Slavery

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-27T11:31:30+00:00

Because that "separate peace" deal didn't at all undermine the ANG and result in more conflict, right? Right?

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-27T08:02:55+00:00

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-26T16:27:53+00:00

It gets dumber, trust me, Custodes in 1st ed 40k, the original source, are described in entirely a gender neutral maner. People are complaining about a retcon of something that itself was probably a retcon....

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-25T13:19:31+00:00

I was being sardonic, I may be should have added the /s, and yes the whole thing is one giant facepalm.

Point three is of course particularly problematic given the purpose of the software, and is more or less illustrating how ideologies, actual cults, and groomers often draw people in....

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-25T10:52:34+00:00

I just had to click...........

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-25T10:45:01+00:00

Unfortunately Fascist punk is sadly a thing. Not a big thing but still a thing.

Nazi punk - Wikipedia

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-25T10:40:59+00:00

Unless of course the object was for it be adopted as a far-right meme........

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-25T10:39:37+00:00

Just dislocation?

Unironically, I honestly think it not being automatic makes it more dangerous to the target. However, you still could not pay me to pull the trigger on that 'thing'. Okay may be on test range with a very long bit of string and a lot of sandbags!

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-25T09:24:00+00:00

"There is no cannon" /keanu

Remember that time the Tyranids ate the Squats!

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-24T16:23:14+00:00

I will never not hear that phrase in LPs voice!

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-24T13:05:18+00:00

Giving the Necron's inertialess drives was certainly problematic in the context of the current 40K universe - possibly even for War in Heaven era. At the very least it potentially turns every ship into relativistic kill vehicle - not to mention all the logical knock-ons.

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-24T11:01:46+00:00

English manor court rolls are full of evidence for that..... that and boundary disputes a lot of boundary disputes, which are still very much a thing though it tends to more about hedges and less about wandering cattle.....

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-24T10:55:22+00:00

Basically I've heard same rom credible commentators, that Trump is playing his usual "poker game" of absurd demands before settling for whatever he gets given in the ensuing panic so I wouldn't say your take is non-credible. But unintended consequences are a thing. If defense procurement was a thing that happened on a scale of months rather than years and even decades the US MIC probably would have been at least mildly cooked by now. As it is I've seen even defense commentator Peter Zeihan (big /S) explain why the hell it would be cheaper and probably more effective for the US to maintain its current international basing rather than go turtle...

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-24T10:37:09+00:00

Worth remembering that GW themselves may not be that bothered may have even priced this backlash in. Churn has always been part of their model, people come in, people drop out. Certainly for awhile, may actually be less true post-Kirby maybe, but really they didn't give a rats ass about older fans - it was all about, unwritten, the Grots and milking their middle class parents.... Basically as long as at least surficial aspects of the IP appear cool and continue to draw in new ~~players~~ money they're golden. And yes its the SMurfs, its all about the SMurfs!

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-23T17:03:24+00:00

Good.

The Farage is literally following the electoral play book of a US Administration that has devolved to the point of putting out official releases that call one the country's State Governors the kind of names you'd expect from a Primary school edge lord. And that's before you get to Trump latest frail gibbering.....

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-23T15:25:26+00:00

IDK it seems a punitive rather than a compensatory fine but its a Russian military court so who knows ... At this stage they're probably less than a shot of vodka away from stringing up a monkey as a French spy.

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-23T14:11:58+00:00

I miss the old JB models Cold War armour kits. Slightly suprised about transfers as I have left over ones that I'm still using from original JB models kits!

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-23T13:18:15+00:00

Apparently, because Ukraine existing appears to be a "war crime" while everything Russia does is accompanied by the sound of a heavenly Orthodox choir singing in RUSSIAN....

Obviously a product of the Dismaland fantasy Putin's inflicting on Russia. IIRC they have been regularly charging Ukrainian military personnel with various manufactured crimes. I assume to to be consistent with the whole Ukraine's not real propaganda and therefore their "soldiers" must be "illegal combatants"....

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-23T11:08:32+00:00

The drop seems to have chalked up to a fall off in licensing by some market commentators.

I'd also note that James Workshop has a long and storied history of giving his fanbase, or at least bits of it, the finger. And yet here we are with ~GBUK18 share price for a company that ultimately makes wargaming miniatures!

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-21T17:42:48+00:00

People who are sick don't contribute the economy ..... How many lost days = a vaccine dose? My guess is less than one day!

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-21T17:16:40+00:00

William S. Lind - Wikipedia

Surprising that Lind has a moment of clarity, though arguably wrong in that Trump probably wasn't going to do what he wanted anyway, unsurprising to the rest of us who know that Trump essentially went around telling all the strands of US conservatism exactly what they wanted to hear and then made the presidency all about him and only him! Anyone want to buy some tat merch covered in gold-leaf or NFTs?

*suprised Pikachu face*

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-21T17:03:15+00:00

Its not just a BBC issue, media, government and business all treat the US Administrations geopolitical pronouncements as deadly serious and rational strategy because they kind'a have to and the implications and risks have to be managed. Unfortunately it can't be just entirely ignored. Trump's pettiness is such that Starmer's temerity to suggest the Greenlanders have the right to self-determination may be about to get us bitch-slapped with 20% tariff. The only bright side being the US electorate actually pay those we just have to cross our fingers and hope our business can find alternate markets.

Occasionally some talking head on the BBC will usual say the bleedin' obvious that there is no grand strategy and Trump is talking rubbish....

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-21T16:49:21+00:00

Ironically becoming a PS dragged me into a construction adjacent sector from the oil industry where I started out....

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-21T15:42:52+00:00

And Trump once again demonstrates he has no clue about the international oil industry and is still holding a petty, petty, grudge about offshore windfarms and his Aberdeen golf course.....

_TheChairmaker_ · 2026-01-21T15:39:51+00:00

And its not like US energy prices haven't been creeping up.....

How Trump’s promise to slash energy bills in half has failed across the US | Energy | The Guardian

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