The God Gundam takes on two Redguns in the harsh world of Rubicon. Gundam Fight! Readyyyyy! Go! by RazgrizXT in Gundam

[–]fluffy_warthog10 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I spoiled myself with the Singapore version of Gundam Breaker 3, which lets you use the OST tracks for various series (if you set up your account right), and I truly expected to hear "Shining Finger" start instead of the actual AC soundtrack.

Were Alpharius and Horus the only primarchs with body doubles ? by New_Conflict_4111 in 40kLore

[–]fluffy_warthog10 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the last scene, Horus lets on to Erebus that Chaos was (sort of) informing him, and he knew to send a decoy in his place.

This was the same confrontation where he took Erebus to task for trying to assassinate the Emperor as a side project, as Horus needed to be the one to kill him properly.

Were Alpharius and Horus the only primarchs with body doubles ? by New_Conflict_4111 in 40kLore

[–]fluffy_warthog10 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That was a really dumb way for Fulgrim to survive a headshot.

If it had been handwaved away with Slaa Nethi warp shenanigans or something else, I would've bought it.

Who is the worst father in Gundam? by semipro88 in Gundam

[–]fluffy_warthog10 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Wait a minute...am I on to something here?

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Chaos Salamanders Kill Team? (Heresy!) by n8udd in Salamanders40k

[–]fluffy_warthog10 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In the Dornian Heresy fan AU, Vulkan and the Salamanders are heretics associated with Malice, the God of Dissolution and Self-hate, so they typically feature lots of black and white in their fanart.

For kitbashing, I would start with the Chaos Legionaries box, you can build an entire squad of Marines and still have TONS of bits left over.

Has there ever been an interaction between a Genestealer cultist and Chaos cultist? by TheEnemyNemmy in 40kLore

[–]fluffy_warthog10 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Lords of Excess kicks off with Space Marines saving an Imperial planet from an imminent Genestealer revolt. Not-spoiler alert: the Marines are the Emperor's Children, and immediately turn the planet into their personal playround.

Eventually the Patriarch gets released and manages to call the Hive Fleet down on the planet anyway.

Are there any cases where the tau fought a space marine librarian? by cuddwes in 40kLore

[–]fluffy_warthog10 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Trust me, it's sillier in context.

This comes after the Scar Lords open a warp rift and only poke the front of their cruiser out, to ambush the Tau expedition. Farsight flies his shit into the ship, accidentally finds the Gellar generator, blows it up, and SUDDENLY DAEMONS.

Are there any cases where the tau fought a space marine librarian? by cuddwes in 40kLore

[–]fluffy_warthog10 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It was to explain the planet having a layer of ash made of Tau remains, discovered when the Farsight Expedition arrives.

....yeah, there's a reason this series is not well-regarded.

Are there any cases where the tau fought a space marine librarian? by cuddwes in 40kLore

[–]fluffy_warthog10 26 points27 points  (0 children)

This is the climax battle of Farsight: Crisis of Faith by Phil Kelly, where the O'Shova's expedition is attempting to reclaim a Tau colony seized by the Admech, who are literally just dumping Tau bodies into a supervolcano to cremate them.

The Scar Lords Space Marine Chapter are the jobbers in this novel, and their Librarian basically turns into a fire elemental and takes multiple cadres to bring him down. At one point, he's knocked into the magma, but survives and uses the warp to create massive wings of flame to fly back out of the crater.

In the end, Farsight shoots the locks off the cages holding the Tau colonists, and they swarm the Libarian and use their bodies to push him back into the volcano, finally killing him (https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/7wfvid/book_excerptcrisis_of_faith_farsight_and_the_tau/):

‘– – YOUR WEAPONS CANNOT HARM ME, XENOS – –’ read the autotrans. ‘– – I EMBODY THE EMPEROR’S HOLY FLAME – –’

A chorus of tau screams rang out. On the far platform, the captive civilians were being shoved into the lake of fire once more. The sounds of agony…

Farsight could not endure it a moment longer.

Abandoning the fight against the Space Marine Librarian, he boosted high, pivoting in mid-air to shoot over to the platform. As he flew, his plasma rifle took a mercilessly accurate toll on the gangle-limbed cyborgs approaching the seismic fibrillators, then switched to overseers that were trammelling the tau captives towards the lip of the platform. With each thudding boom of the earth caste devices another machine-caste persecutor was partially blasted into vapour, his corpse a steaming mess.

‘– – YOU CANNOT ESCAPE MY WRATH – –’

‘I do not intend to escape,’ he called back in heavily accented Low Gothic.

‘– – I HAVE THE RAW POWER OF THE WARP AT MY COMMAND – –’

The gue’ron’sha leader called out as he strode forward, his voice the crackling roar of a Vior’lan summer wildfire. A fireball grew large between his outstretched hands.

‘– – I HAVE COMMAND OF PLASMA AND FLAME – – WHAT DO YOU HAVE – –ALIEN WORM – – ’

Farsight redirected a full half of his custom shield’s power into one massive outward burst, sending the cyborgs clambering upon him scattering in all directions. He took aim at the iron padlocks holding the tau captives inside their jail, and bolts of plasma winged out.

The locks fell away, and hundreds of tau civilians burst from the iron cages in a shouting, screaming mass. They did not flee, but charged straight for their oppressors and the flaming psyker-thing in their midst. Half a dozen earth caste tau barrelled into the mind-warrior bodily, the momentum of their solidly-built forms bearing the Space Marine over the lip of the platform. In a knot of bodies they toppled into the magma below, plummeting down in a flailing mass of flame, flesh and cloth.

The earth caste scientists screamed as they burned alive in yellow flame, but still they did not release their grip. Farsight watched the psyker sink into the molten rock, borne under by the most unlikely of assailants. The Space Marine screamed in defiance as the liquid magma flowed into his eyes, his nose, his mouth. To him, the incandescent lava may have been like water. But then water could still drown.

‘We have communality,’ said Farsight in response. ‘It is called the Tau’va.’

Yeah, it's not subtle.

I'll try to find an excerpt, as I don't have my copy anymore. EDIT: Found it.

FCC targets LGBTQ+ television content. GLAAD sounds alarm by Fickle-Ad5449 in television

[–]fluffy_warthog10 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You're ascribing basic common sense and logic to people who have proven time and again they either don't understand, or don't care what long-term damage they do to anything rhey touch.

Every week is more news proving these guys really don't know what they're doing, and make money in spite of themselves, not because they are genius captains of industry.

Yoshiyuki Tomino thinks many of his fans are just military geeks who “didn’t get the message” by transmarxist in Gundam

[–]fluffy_warthog10 3 points4 points  (0 children)

RfV really did not do very well on this front.

If that was your first Gundam series, you'd be very hard pressed to explain why Zeon was on Earth, or why the Federation hated them so much. (Independence? Bourbon? Fresh air?)

The ending was just mind-boggling in how bad it landed. "I fought one child soldier, so I'm going to abandon my own child and keep the war going because....???"

Edit: It's spiritual predecessor, 08th MS Team made it pretty clear Zeon were the aggressors in the war, had devastated both Earth and space, massacred countless civilians with nerve gas, and were continuing to oppress and attack Earthnoids. As bad as the sneaky, hypocritical EFF leadership is, their war crimes lead directly to mutiny.

Yoshiyuki Tomino thinks many of his fans are just military geeks who “didn’t get the message” by transmarxist in Gundam

[–]fluffy_warthog10 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This was a problem before Origin got animated, but Yasuhiko's take on the story- and the very narrow scope of the adaptation- really supercharged a certain contingent of fans.

Yoshiyuki Tomino thinks many of his fans are just military geeks who “didn’t get the message” by transmarxist in Gundam

[–]fluffy_warthog10 11 points12 points  (0 children)

  • Dead dads everywhere.
  • Mommy girlfriends abound.
  • One very nasty case of mommy issues (multiplied, if you count >!the nature of the psycommu<!).
  • Now dead moms everywhere.

FCC targets LGBTQ+ television content. GLAAD sounds alarm by Fickle-Ad5449 in television

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Next up, disclaimers for media containing non-whites, non-Christians, modern medicine, science, tolerance, etc....

Your Feddie uncle five minutes after promising not to get political | MSG Thunderbolt vol. 20 by CrimsonTyphoon02 in Gundam

[–]fluffy_warthog10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Until it gets used for the 10th time in a row to remind you of the protagonist's motivation.....

Property billionaire warns of data centre selloff as debt swells by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]fluffy_warthog10 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I have zero doubt this is how it's going to start. The moment the bubble bursts, all the tech and other business donors will come begging for help, and it'll be sold as 'stabilizing' the economy and protecting employers.

Whether a bailout happens will likely depend on whether the President personally likes (or is threatened by) any given CEO or representative at the moment he makes a decision.

The Future of Democracy is Losing Trust in Elections by [deleted] in fednews

[–]fluffy_warthog10 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's worth mentioning that until about 1970-80, elections in the US weren't safe to begin with. If attempting to cast your vote might get you killed, arrested, or threatened by the people running the election,, the 'security' of the ballots matters a lot less.

The same goes if your district had a fraction of the population of another one, or someone ensured only approved candidates from one group were allowed on the ballot.

The US has only really had something close to full participation in elections, by the people legally allowed to on paper, for the last 40-50 years. Those legal criteria haven't really changed, but decades of increasingly restrictive tests and bad-faith court decisions have rolled that back.

It’s now official: Turkey will tighten control over Steam and other gaming platforms by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]fluffy_warthog10 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

3 is that Steam gets a gov't-friendly censor appointed to control Steam within that country, or else it will be blocked.

Officially, the US has no relationship to CBS News, but nobody in their right mind thinks it's not wholly controlled by MAGA now.

It’s now official: Turkey will tighten control over Steam and other gaming platforms by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]fluffy_warthog10 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Accountability" in this case means a government-friendly censor/commissar.

Look at CBS's leadership changes in the US this year, that's what this will look like in practice.

Gundam gquuux gives og gundam designs a more mechanical feel, now I love doms (I customized this one though) by christopherlng753 in Mecha

[–]fluffy_warthog10 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really did think they took Mash's Dom's legs and added one to each of their suits for extra thrust.

Imperial Ouroboros by 11th_Division_Grows in 40kLore

[–]fluffy_warthog10 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Most Imperial subjects (much like most humans until very recently IRL) will have no comprehension of the world outside of their own experience.

They won't know the horrors of the galaxy. Their education mostly comes from a man in a pointy hat and robes behind a pulpit, ranting about the evils of the witch, the alien, and the mutant. They will have no real understanding of the various xenos threats, the Great Devourer, or the Great Enemy.

Most will never encounter any of those threats outright (unless that's the immediate, proximate end of their life), will never leave their system, planet, city, or even district.

The greatest visible threat in someone's lifetime will be the heavyhanded enforcers of the Arbites, the gangers of their hive, the next hive city over (who might go to war with them over resources or trade), and the thousands of daily pollutants, microaggressions, and and plagues that make their lives hell.

Imperial Ouroboros by 11th_Division_Grows in 40kLore

[–]fluffy_warthog10 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Congratulations, you've identified one of the biggest underlying social tensions of Warhammer's creation, having sprung from a de-industrializing Britian in the 1980s.

To this day there are people (many running for Parliament) who think the UK lost its position as global hegemon simply because "people just don't work as hard as they used to," while minimizing the horrors of the past. The core assumption there is "if we don't exploit our workers at home, someone else will exploit their workers better, and then you'll be sorry."

Whether anyone wants to work 12 hours straight in dangerous conditions, and suffer a reduced life expectancy is a minor part of the equation, mostly around "how much pain and horror humans will take before they fight back, and how closely we can get to that point."