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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:40k is, unsurprisingly, a fanfic amalgamation don't be absurd 
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Gripweed posted:don't be absurd The first dungeon and dragon characters were actually based off WW2 war criminals.
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May 3, 2020 20:21
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Matt becoming a woo revelations guy is a good bit in the short term but does not, I think, bode well for the future.
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May 3, 2020 20:27
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The Ultimate Doge posted:Saying orcs are racist is correct (they very obviously represent our old impressions of humans from band and chiefdom societies, or sometimes of humans with lower socioeconomic status like soccer hooligans and african americans) but also counter-productive. Fantasy stuff is inherently fascist but it allows the fascism present in every person to be indulged in a harmless way without directing it to political ends. When you start forcing people to confront it and making it an open shameful issue instead of something politely ignored, you get rid of that release valve 
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May 3, 2020 20:30
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cool dance moves posted:Blowback has been getting me interested in Middle Eastern history, anyone know of any good podcasts on that? It can be about whatever country/region in whichever time period, but I would prefer pre- or postcolonial Middle East try "the east is a pod" is blowback free?
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May 3, 2020 20:57
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Gripweed posted:don't be absurd Guncaster's great, but what if I want to play as this guy in GZDOOM
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May 3, 2020 21:02
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gh0stpinballa posted:try "the east is a pod" Blowback isn't free yet but the good people at /r/blackwolffeed are putting up the episodes for download there
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May 3, 2020 21:17
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they (brendand?) said it would be released for free after its 10-week run on stitcher ended....... which should be by the end of the month i think? i've been waiting for that
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May 3, 2020 21:22
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Itll be out free after all the episodes come out, yeah. Episode 7 came out the other day. That one ended its narrative in 2004 so I wonder how they're going to speed through the next like 10 years in three episodes.
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May 3, 2020 21:44
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how long is each ep?
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May 3, 2020 21:46
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I'd say about 45 minutes to an hour? I guess they decided to focus more on the buildup to the war and the early stages in order to establish the currents that are still around. It still seems ambitious to do the whole thing in 10 episodes
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May 3, 2020 21:50
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cool dance moves posted:Blowback has been getting me interested in Middle Eastern history, anyone know of any good podcasts on that? It can be about whatever country/region in whichever time period, but I would prefer pre- or postcolonial Middle East Derek Davidson's Substack has a ton, the most recent being focused on the french interference in Lebanon iirc.
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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:40k is, unsurprisingly, a fanfic amalgamation Every one of your favorite 2000AD properties in one lovely war game!
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May 3, 2020 22:06
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For all that WH40k lore can be fun when it's not taking itself too seriously, it cannot be overstated how lovely the war game is.
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May 3, 2020 22:08
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It's bonkers to me that Games Workshop still actively discourages people from playing the game with the intention of winning a battle. They rules are so bad, they backed all the way back around into storytelling driven games. Which the rules are also bad at encouraging. And also makes no sense for a wargame.
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May 3, 2020 22:18
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It’s funny how they ripped off the human empire in “Nemesis: the warlock” but they put the religious fanaticism and hive world to the humans and the armor designs and icons to the elder. Sadly Dumbass parody lore is incomparable with selling miniatures to lil Napoleon wheraboo war game nerds.
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May 3, 2020 22:19
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what counts as a good wargame? (please respond with something i can play on tabletop simulator)
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May 3, 2020 22:26
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The one game where you play as the Vietnamese forces owning the french at Dien Bien Phu
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May 3, 2020 22:36
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Finicums Wake posted:what counts as a good wargame? (please respond with something i can play on tabletop simulator) it has to have hexes and it must replicate the exact conditions of a diesel engine rattling your spine into gelatin during a particularly wet season
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May 3, 2020 22:52
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i should add that "the east is a pod" spotlights voices from the middle east, puts them right in the foreground. many times the host will just roll the mic and step aside, he won't even ask questions he'll just let the guests talk. every episode is an interview with an academic, journalist, etc, or else an ordinary person from the region. it covers pretty much every country and even touches on places like kosovo and bosnia too. it's a very overlooked pod which loving sucks because it is consistently great. there is a syria 2 parter from october/november which is what hooked me, the guest is great. also great episodes breaking down lebanon's economic crisis too.
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May 3, 2020 22:55
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Mechanicus is the good 40K videogame.
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May 3, 2020 23:00
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the 40k tabletop wargame is awful but the smaller ones like necromunda are fun
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May 3, 2020 23:01
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Farm Frenzy posted:the 40k tabletop wargame is awful but the smaller ones like necromunda are fun Okay good glad we cleared that up. So how about those podcasts. I personally have been listening to Trashfuture again, for reasons beyond my own comprehension
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May 3, 2020 23:21
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Atrocious Joe posted:It's bonkers to me that Games Workshop still actively discourages people from playing the game with the intention of winning a battle. An American company made a game called Warmachine, that was like Warhammer but explicitly designed for balanced hardcore competitive tournament play. It actually got pretty popular and had a lot of players. But the problem is that when you've got a miniatures game where you have to keep releasing new miniatures, it's very difficult to keep the game balanced. It's like if Chess got a new piece every month, how long until that becomes a mess? So anyway Warmachine eventually got unbalanced and instantly died because the players were only playing it for hardcore competitive gameplay and gave no poo poo about the little men. Meanwhile Warhammer, which has always been explicitly about pushing little men around a tabletop and making pew pew noises, has thrived.
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Finicums Wake posted:what counts as a good wargame? (please respond with something i can play on tabletop simulator) most of the COIN games e: i see Red Winter in the steam workshop
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Crane Fist posted:Okay good glad we cleared that up. So how about those podcasts. I personally have been listening to Trashfuture again, for reasons beyond my own comprehension ive been really enjoying all the deep philosophical debates about the nature of truth etc on cumtown
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Finicums Wake posted:what counts as a good wargame? (please respond with something i can play on tabletop simulator) Unironically Zombicide.
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Farm Frenzy posted:ive been really enjoying all the deep philosophical debates about the nature of truth etc on cumtown Is it just nick somehow arguing with himself for an hour while Adam tries to get a word in
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May 3, 2020 23:32
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Crane Fist posted:Is it just nick somehow arguing with himself for an hour while Adam tries to get a word in Yes
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gh0stpinballa posted:i should add that "the east is a pod" spotlights voices from the middle east, puts them right in the foreground. many times the host will just roll the mic and step aside, he won't even ask questions he'll just let the guests talk. every episode is an interview with an academic, journalist, etc, or else an ordinary person from the region. it covers pretty much every country and even touches on places like kosovo and bosnia too. it's a very overlooked pod which loving sucks because it is consistently great. there is a syria 2 parter from october/november which is what hooked me, the guest is great. also great episodes breaking down lebanon's economic crisis too. It's good, yeah! Thank you for recommending it!
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anyone that doesnt have a blast playing total warhammer is dead to me i can also wholeheartedly recommend it to someone like matt for streaming because it's straightforward enough, you want buildings to make gold and armies to win battles. if you understand enough about warfare that you know your archers are good but you have to protect them and calvary hits best from the rear or flank then you are ready to start winning wars Percelus has issued a correction as of 00:03 on May 4, 2020 |
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gh0stpinballa posted:i should add that "the east is a pod" spotlights voices from the middle east, puts them right in the foreground. many times the host will just roll the mic and step aside, he won't even ask questions he'll just let the guests talk. every episode is an interview with an academic, journalist, etc, or else an ordinary person from the region. it covers pretty much every country and even touches on places like kosovo and bosnia too. it's a very overlooked pod which loving sucks because it is consistently great. there is a syria 2 parter from october/november which is what hooked me, the guest is great. also great episodes breaking down lebanon's economic crisis too. Thanks for the followup, that sounds pretty great actually also thanks for posting about podcast. maybe we can cut through goons having the same conversation about warhammer/star war/marvel they have in every loving thread on the forums
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May 4, 2020 00:03
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We need to accept that Matt is never going to play or stream anything good
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May 4, 2020 00:09
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he's talking about the french revolution rn so i'm satisfied
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oh my god matt pull up "franco-african caribbean hegemony" by napoleon arming toussaint and every man on haiti and sending them to new orleans to liberate the south matt is harry turtledove on lsd
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May 4, 2020 00:29
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this mfer said "the  s of Venice"
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May 4, 2020 00:50
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i say swears online posted:oh my god matt pull up Yes wasting a powerful army suited to fighting Europeans trying to take over north america instead of stealing every British colony in the Caribbean.
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May 4, 2020 00:59
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Autism Sneaks posted:this mfer said "the yes?
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yeah didn't toussant basically wanna take on the brits in the carib and he told napoleon he would, but napoleon was too fuckin racist to see the opportunity + benefits? been a few years since i read black jacobins
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bonerfarte's wife's family were haitian landowners
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