My favorite piece of 40k lore is how the Orks are actually the most technologically advanced race because the reason they can build spaceships out of like sheet metal is bc they have instinctive knowledge on how to manipulate the laws of physics and during the Grand Crusade the Emperor that attacked a world that showed what Ork technology was like if they settled down and got their shit together because it had force field that blunted the Imperiums planet-killing weapons and when they launched a ground assault which resulted in them getting slaughtered because the Ork weapons just melted power armor so the Emperor had to just scramble the minds of the Orks and was only able to implode the planet by messing with their energy generators because it turned out these Orks figured out how to like trap bits of the Warp in plasma fields and harness them for energy which even by stupid 40k standards is supposed be totally impossible through mechanical means
RANDY DANDY - model: Clement Chabernaud - photography: David Slijper - styling: Robert Rabensteiner - hair: Franco Gobbi - makeup: Julie Nozieres - New York Times T Style Men’s Fall / Winter 2009
inspired by Gabriele D’Annunzio and Italian decadence
Nothing quite demonstrates the generation divide like how both me and my dad are/were MMORPG players, both of us play lizardfolk monks, but in his case in Everquest the Iksar were legit humanoid lizards whereas mine is an Au Ra kawaii uguu anime girl with a few patches of scales and horns
To add to this, back in his day you had to join a guild to do content and his was a bunch of well-paid engineers and lawyers, who he knew and worked with IRL, whereas I just queue up the roulette and do stuff with randoms and never talk to anybody
Got the old login credentials so I could make the comparison
Why isn’t the linkage between lesbians and pool (like, billiards) more of a stereotype? I have never seen a bar with multiple tables that wasn’t occasionally full of ‘em
Last night, at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance leadership dinner, [FBI director James] Comey let slip that he has both a secret Twitter and an Instagram account in the course of relating a quick anecdote about one of his daughters…
Who am I to say no to a challenge?…
Among the various Comeys [suggested to someone who adds James Comey’s son on Instagram], only two of the suggested accounts lacked both real names and profile photos. And only one of these had anywhere near the “nine followers” that James Comey claimed to have. That account was reinholdniebuhr…
I still wasn’t sure that this was, in fact, James Comey. But a quick Google search turned up this article on Comey’s time at the College of William and Mary, and my doubts were assuaged:
By senior year, Comey was a double major in religion and chemistry, writing a senior thesis on theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and televangelist Jerry Falwell and on his way to the University of Chicago Law School
With Instagram solved, it was time to move back to Twitter…
But fortunately for us, there are only seven accounts on Twitter currently using some variation of “Reinhold Niebuhr” as a user name.
And only one that seemed to be operating in stealth: @projectexile7.
But how to be sure? There is only one person currently following the account: Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare. Wittes is no Twitter neophyte. He is an active user with more than 25,000 followers, and he only follows 1,178 accounts—meaning he is not a subscriber to the “followback” philosophy. If he is following a random egg—and is the only account following it—there is probably a reason.
That reason could be the fact that, as Wittes wrote here, he is a personal friend of James Comey…
ProjectExile7 follows 27 other accounts, the majority of which are either reporters, news outlets, or official government and law enforcement accounts. The New York Times’ Adam Goldman and David Sanger and the Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima and David Ignatius, all of whom have been aggressively covering the FBI investigation into Trump’s contacts with Russian agents, made the list, as did Wittes and former Bush Administration colleague Jack Goldsmith. Donald Trump is on there, too, but @projectexile7 seems to have begun following him relatively recently (its first follow was @nytimes).
There are two outliers: William & Mary News (where Comey attended undergrad) and our colleagues at The Onion (everyone deserves to have fun)…
And of the 39 total tweets the account has liked thus far, eight refer directly to the FBI or James Comey himself… One deals with an active FBI investigation…
And four refer to the Trump administration in general.
Of course, none of this is definitive proof @projectexile7 is FBI Director James Comey, but it would take a nearly impossible confluence of coincidences for it to be anyone else. Take what you will from the fact that the director of the FBI appears to have liked a tweet from the New York Times about Mike Flynn and Jared Kushner meeting a Russian envoy in December.
We’ve reached out to the FBI for comment, and will update if and when we hear back…
me: ::falling asleep::
also me: I wonder how many times people on the International Space Station have orgasmed to the sound of Carly Rae Jepsen. It's probably not zero.
In 1994, only 42 percent of high school seniors agreed that the best family was one where the man was the main income earner and the woman took care of the home. But in 2014, 58 percent of seniors said they preferred that arrangement. In 1994, fewer than 30 percent of high school seniors thought “the husband should make all the important decisions in the family.” By 2014, nearly 40 percent subscribed to that premise.
A different survey found a similar trend, in this case concentrated mainly among men. In 1994, 83 percent of young men rejected the superiority of the male-breadwinner family. By 2014 that had fallen to 55 percent.
I always knew Games Workshop was British, and the Warhammer Fantasy factions were obvious mappings of medieval protonations, but it’s only recently struck me how much the W40K factions are mappings of forces from the more modern British imaginary.
Like, the Space Marines obviously take the place of the German war machine of WWII - technologically superior, purity-obsessed totenkopf ubermenchen, defeatable mostly by virtue of not being able to field enough expensive units. The Imperial Guard is the Red Army - tanks, tanks, masses of human-wave infantry, tanks, and ruthless commissars holding things together by executing their own troops.
A more interesting thing is how the “British” faction is… the Orks. Their dumb, violent, and happy warband culture is some straight hooligan/casual/skinhead shit, and the “run shirtless into battle wielding crap, it’ll work because we believe enough in the magic paint we slapped on everything” is maximum Celt.
(‘Course not all the factions are that resonant, especially the more recent cash-in ones. The Eldar are just Tolkein elves… in space! The Necrons are mummies… in space! The Tyranids are LOLGIGER, the Sisters of Battle are LOLNUNS. For a culture with an actual chaos magic tradition, the Chaos forces are pretty simplistic drawn-on-binder horn-throwing WOO METAL. The Tau are what, Japan? Maaaaybe nonaligned Scandanavian Social Democrats if you squint, but honestly screw the Tau.)
In this schema it’s a little curious how the “Nazi” and “Red Army” forces are fundamentally on the same side, though when you add in the wash of Popery I guess it makes sense as a unified British vision of the Totalitarian Other. Which makes it a little amusing that that’s the human side. I’m sure I’m not the first one to note that the whole effect is awfully rightist, though I suppose that’s why it fits in so well with the nerd right-populism of the ‘chans (as I like to think of it, “waifus, warhammer, and white nationalism”).
I think you’re going too hard with the round pegs and square holes thing. Most of the Imperial guard is “X country, but too much, and in space” and the rest are nits and bits of different places stuck onto various fantasy tropes.
On top of that, if you actually browse /pol/, you’ll see that they don’t actually do space marine larp as much as they just jump to Crusades propaganda.
me: hey how do fantasy health potions know not to regenerate the hymen?
also me: …
me: that's a dojin right there isn't it?
also me: that's a wormhole/hole-in-wall level *trope*
