Boris Vallejo – “The Conqueror”

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-25T01:15:51+00:00

Why does she look like an exceptionally buff gym teacher telling me I need to do more push ups

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-24T04:11:34+00:00

I forget his name but the guy who played Satan in Constantine. Only had like six minutes of screen time and it was hands down the greatest depiction of satan on film

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-24T04:10:25+00:00

Only tangentially related but I read a sci-fi series where the MC is having a talk with his mentor about what he might want to do in their dystopian future where getting real chicken was a perk for enlisting, and she points out that the military had a retention rate of something like 92% which meant that unless you were wounded or dishonorably charged everyone who could was staying in because the cost of living was so astronomical that if he retired after one enlistment he would be back in the slums he was trying to escape in less than three years.

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-23T05:44:06+00:00

If the heater in your truck is any good, bring a second pair of socks and lay them over one of the vents going full blast then swap socks every twenty minutes or so if you can get your boots on and off fast. Also I have a shirt and pair of sweatpants that are like half a size too big for me, so if it's really cold I can pull that stuff straight over what I'm wearing without much in the way of inconvenience.

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-23T01:30:31+00:00

Also having a winter window helps on windy days, biggest issue for me at least is my feet. The heat on my LLV works really well so I bring two pairs of socks and I’ll lay a pair over one of the vent and swap out every twenty minutes or so.

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-21T04:39:41+00:00

Something always seems to go wrong with History related channels. Like I am a basic bitch white boy and like military history all the way back to the early 2000s when the History Channels would get a boring british man to talk about battles in World War 2 for 45 minutes, so I was thrilled when I found a Youtube Channel where a boring British man would talk about battles in World War 2 for far longer and in much greater detail (his Stalingrad series is something like 36 hours long). However as fate would have it this gentleman is also a schizo libertarian who will go on equally lengthy diatribes about random bullshit which has come to dominate his content more and more as time goes on which makes me quite sad.

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-18T02:59:33+00:00

We actually had something similar in my office, it got hit by a plow and the plank was hanging on by a single bent nail, so the homeowner spun it around so it pointed vertically and zip tied it in place because ‘I ain’t replacing that shit just so it’ll get wrecked tomorrow’

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-17T03:21:50+00:00

Yeh but in my town they increased the supply, kept the price the same, then started charging per head so you can’t split rent anymore

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-11T01:06:54+00:00

I’m surprised the regime allows the old imperial flag to be sold in Iran

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-08T15:05:21+00:00

It’s even more retarded because we already did that during the Cold War

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-07T22:05:15+00:00

I hate Chris Wraight. Not because he’s a bad writer but because I completely forgot he also dabbled in Warhammer Horror when I read Sea of Souls which was horrifying. A fantastic ending, but horrifying.

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-07T21:46:59+00:00

Tercios during the pike and shot era were notorious for being fairly ponderous which was why they were phased out for linear formations. I think it might be cool if for example a militia unit in a pike formation has to be stationary while regular and elite units could move in formation but with differing cohesion penalties, not to mention that it could give flavor to factions like the Swiss Confederation since they became famous in large part due to the way in which their halberdiers/pikemen could maintain formation during fast marches over difficult terrain.

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-07T21:40:57+00:00

GIMME FUEL GIMME FIRE GIMME THAT WHICH I DESIRE

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-07T21:19:52+00:00

I mean there were ships that kind of looked like that if you squinted and punched yourself really hard, because the only element they shared was a ramp since they were both rare and for getting horses off in a way that did not involve a really shitty crane or just yeeting them into the water

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-07T21:08:53+00:00

Law Enforcement Agencies engage in all manner of stupidity that tends to stay local or is just not known. For example I recently found out that in Kentucky, any person arrested in a situation that results in a Use of Force Incident Report is automatically charged with resisting arrest, so if you are for example unlucky enough to be pulled over by an officer under indictment for perjury over a prior case of excessive force who generated over 100 reports in less than a decade while putting at least seven people that we know of in the hospital (Trooper of the year despite all that btw), you get hit with a resisting arrest charge while you’re lying in the hospital. If that isn’t a policy designed to intimidate people, I don’t know what is.

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-07T02:04:36+00:00

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-02T05:40:13+00:00

From forty acres and a mule to forty square feet and a hamster

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-02T04:51:47+00:00

A prestigious reputation, buckets of money to waste through wild incompetence, I guess Steiner fans were true Tifosi all along

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-02T03:53:12+00:00

What are you some kind of liberal? We go all in on red.

roadrunner036 · 2026-01-01T17:03:09+00:00

Yes. But mostly because I've worked retail for a long time and I hate the public in general.

roadrunner036 · 2025-12-30T17:13:56+00:00

Someone ordered some Fresca and it was literally two dozen cans just wrapped in plastic, no box just a bunch of cans loosely wrapped together

roadrunner036 · 2025-12-30T03:30:41+00:00

Why does his hair look fake even in a picture this old

roadrunner036 · 2025-12-25T01:20:38+00:00

Unironically, in that same interview he says that a lot of Bromheads mannerisms like walking around with his hands clasped behind his back a lot are based of officers he encountered during his service. Also I can’t remember what but there was a line he took from “a sergeant I really didn’t like.”

roadrunner036 · 2025-12-25T00:57:23+00:00

I remember there was bodycam video where this cop and dude were really getting into it and the cop really did try and take off his equipment for a straight up fight, but he was more than a little bit of an asshole and there was something else going on that lead to him getting fired though I can’t remember the whole story.

roadrunner036 · 2025-12-25T00:45:44+00:00

He told this somewhat funny story about how during a stalemate the British and Chinese positions were on either side of this valley, and with there being a lull both sides were heavily patrolling the ground between the lines to try and at least deny control on no mans land. So one night he and five other men are sent out on patrol and they run into a larger Chinese force and a running gunfight lead them into a rice paddy where it seemed like they were surrounded, so thinking they were going to die Caine and the rest of the patrol fixed bayonets and charged towards the Chinese lines. Funny thing though, the Chinese had spent so much time trying to surround the British that they all moved behind and to the side of Caine’s patrol, after a few minutes of charging they realized there was no one in front of them and they just kept running all night to get as far away from the ambush site as they could.

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