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The Perfect Element posted:Is there a fudge deadline? I was thinking of ordering a few bags for my nearest and dearest, but OBVIOUSLY won't get round to it for a little while yet. Nope! I’m using a different model- all the fudge is already made, so will be dispatched once the order is received. In theory I’m moving on the 11th, so there’ll be an interruption of service from about wednesday next week (assuming it actually loving happens, don’t get me started...) but otherwise as long as the stock lasts I can take orders 
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EvilHawk posted:40k can be relatively inexpensive if you're not buying FW models or direct from GW or anything. A box of 20 ork boyz is £20 which is less than an Xbox game. If you get the boxes on a third party reseller site it can be even cheaper £/model. Most gaming clubs do escalation leagues as well where you go from, say, 100 points to 200 points to 500 to 750 to 1000 etc. so you can incrementally increase your army size as your budget suits. 20 orks is 36 quid nowadays not 20
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Camrath posted:See I still maintain that most of NTNON holds up. Now it could be that I watched/listened to the tapes of it as a young boy in the 80s so I had some level of context, but I rewatched various bits this year and still found them funny- also as a more politically aware adult there were a /lot/ of jokes that went over my head first time round. It's a bit hit & miss but I think that's the nature of sketch comedy, you can never be 100% bangers. Constable Savage is pretty funny despite not exactly being a subtle satire of the polis. And I can't see darts on the telly without thinking of the NTNON bit. And Rowan Atkinson at the Tory Conference is good and depressingly still relevant 40 years on. (Content warning for a n-bomb though) forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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thespaceinvader posted:Fantasy accents: I mostly didn't used to bother with accents for RPG characters but since play has moved largely to discord I've found it VERY helpful, not to mention enjoyable, to do accents for my characters, as it makes it a little clearer when speech is intended to be in character rather than out of character. Full on, David Harbour in Black Widow soviet accent, quotes from the communist manifesto, has a warhammer with a bust of Marx & Engels on either end, and a sickle in the off-hand. I have definitely seen the value of accents since getting into Critical Role, but IMHO dwarves should be Russian, elves should be irish, and halflings welsh. Humans British, tieflings southern drawl and dragonborn German. It's interesting because it kind of mirrors something that happened in translation of Greek comedy - a lot of the national stereotypes associated with the various cities became a lot easier to understand if you make the spartans glaswegian, the boetians cornish etc. Communist Thoughts posted:20 orks is 36 quid nowadays not 20 * Yes, i know.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Humans British  Bobby Deluxe posted:It's interesting because it kind of mirrors something that happened in translation of Greek comedy - a lot of the national stereotypes associated with the various cities became a lot easier to understand if you make the spartans glaswegian, the boetians cornish etc.
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Guavanaut posted:The Death of Stalin did that well. I didn't realise the accents meant anything in that film, thought everyone just used their normal speaking voices rather than putting one on?
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Vigil for Virgil posted:People have a lot of time this year, more than most years tbh. Spending on the hobby has been bananas this year, even the smaller one-person-in-a-garage retailers have been struggling to meet demand.
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Convex posted:I didn't realise the accents meant anything in that film, thought everyone just used their normal speaking voices rather than putting one on? Jason Isaacs isn't from Yorkshire. He was born in Liverpool and became a mockney when he moved to London aged 11
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Guavanaut posted:
Chernobyl too.
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Gort posted:Jason Isaacs isn't from Yorkshire. He was born in Liverpool and became a mockney when he moved to London aged 11 Ah just realised I'm thinking of the HBO Chernobyl series, cheers
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If anyone wants to contact me about buying loads and loads of games workshop stuff that’s so cheap it’s almost as if it’s not mine but it’s been in my attic for ten years so I want it shifted then, y’know, please do so.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:My current project is Grigori Whitehammer, a dwarven oath of vengeance paladin. His backstory is that his mining village was bought out by capitalists, and a ton of his coworkers were killed in the attempted revolution. So his oath of vengeance is specifically against capitalists. Have you seen the Oath of the Common Man homebrew? "Adorned in simple, self-made mail, a dragonborn readies his hammer as he stands before the liege lord who has enslaved his people. On this day, the tyranny ends. On this day, his people go free".
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Convex posted:Was the old Spitting Image any good? I was too young to watch it back when it was on TV No
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Communist Thoughts posted:20 orks is 36 quid nowadays not 20 Even on GW a box of boyz is £22: https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Ork-Boyz-2018
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Sanford posted:If anyone wants to contact me about buying loads and loads of games workshop stuff that’s so cheap it’s almost as if it’s not mine but it’s been in my attic for ten years so I want it shifted then, y’know, please do so. Got any Squats? 
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Bobby Deluxe posted:^^^ The GW thread in trad games used to recommend Warmachine I think it was called - mech combat, 1-5 minis needed per player, damage systems similar to battletech but a bit easier, much cheaper to play. Warmachine/Hordes was a fantasy game with Steam Punk walker things. It's largely dead these days, if not actually dead.
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Good point. Posh RP then. It's interesting seeing how Americans use their own accents for regional stuff. In the UK we kind of understand the stereotypes associated with valley girl, alabama, new york, boston, minnesota thanks to Fargo, but not really much more than that. I saw an RP where they gave the dockworkers Massachusetts accents and it was interesting. Reveilled posted:Have you seen the Oath of the Common Man homebrew? feedmegin posted:Got any Squats?
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If you want a fun fantasy skirmish game for low investment, I would recommend Frostgrave. The book is available cheaply as a PDF, and you can use any miniatures you like. Each player is a wizard + squad of minions heading into a destroyed city to loot it for magic treasure. Sometimes a wandering monster will turn up and wreak havoc on the battlefield. It has a fun meta game between skirmishes where you use your loot to upgrade your wizard's hideout and hire better minions.
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Jose posted:its so extremely poo poo You know what this makes me realise? I've literally never heard Keith talk, or if I have, I've forgotten it entirely, I have NO idea whether this is even a remotely good impression. E: well, I have a very good guess, I suppose... thespaceinvader fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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EvilHawk posted:Even on GW a box of boyz is £22: Theres 11 in that box.
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Lungboy posted:Warmachine/Hordes was a fantasy game with Steam Punk walker things. It's largely dead these days, if not actually dead. thespaceinvader posted:You know what this makes me realise?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Theres 11 in that box.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Good point. Posh RP then. meanwhile americans think almost any british accent (south african, australian, welsh, it’s all british) makes you smarter. the idea that there regional accents within britain barely even registers.
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Convex posted:I didn't realise the accents meant anything in that film, thought everyone just used their normal speaking voices rather than putting one on? They sort of did and they sort of didn't - it's mostly used as a way of conveying character rather than a direct comparison of Soviet republics to Anglosphere areas. For example, they give Stalin a Cockney accent even though Josef Jugashvili came from a small rural community in Georgia (and oddly, like Hitler, was often mocked behind his back for his "yokel" accent) - a more accurate English regional accent would have been Welsh or maybe one from the American Georgia. Stalin's *character* - a scary bastard who used to rob banks - fits the Cockney stereotype pretty well though.
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I just found out that 'Lozza' Fox's brother-in-law (married to his sister) is Richard Ayoade! (I was looking up Ayoade as I think he'd make a great, more modern, James Bond.)
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EvilHawk posted:Even on GW a box of boyz is £22: yeah but you only get 10 of them now instead of 20 so £44 from geedubs for 20 fake e: wait 11 of them... thats... not very handy.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I just found out that 'Lozza' Fox's brother-in-law (married to his sister) is Richard Ayoade! Ayoade would make a good Q, but he really doesn't have the presence to be Bond. Idris Elba is the name bandied around a lot and he's definitely got the presence, but if they wanted to make it properly modern they'd let him keep that Canning Town twang. Alas while the world is now ready for a black Bond, it's definitely not ready for a Cockney one, even though Bond swaggering into a casino going "Alright cunts, Bond 'ere, where's the birds?" and generally being more of a Moore than a Connery is definitely what the series needs now.
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Communist Thoughts posted:yeah but you only get 10 of them now instead of 20 so £44 from geedubs for 20 Subbuteo Orc Special Edition.
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Naomi Wimborne Idrissi (Chair of Jewish Voice for Labour) has been suspended for anti-semitism. Also Moshe Machover has been suspended (and possibly expelled) again also for anti-semitism.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Naomi Wimborne Idrissi (Chair of Jewish Voice for Labour) has been suspended for anti-semitism. amazing. literally just after that video where she talked about being called the “wrong kind of jew”, too.
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Jose posted:its so extremely poo poo I don't see any reference to a Jewish puppetmaster? It's loving terrible anyway, what is even meant to be the thematic link between Keith and foxes?
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Getting kids to read Tolkien? Sounds like you're doing a good job teaching them what theu reslly need to know. We have low literacy rates in this area. The school is desperate to get children reading books, any books. My club seemed to be helping in that regard  Besides the Hobbit was my favorite book as a child and it's nice to see the kids getting excited by it. I'm a Computing teacher anyway, and my secondary goal is showing the mechanics of table top games and how video games apply the same rules (although hidden).
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Naomi Wimborne Idrissi (Chair of Jewish Voice for Labour) has been suspended for anti-semitism. finally the party can be safe for tom watson
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Ayoade would make a good Q, but he really doesn't have the presence to be Bond. Idris Elba is the name bandied around a lot and he's definitely got the presence, but if they wanted to make it properly modern they'd let him keep that Canning Town twang. Alas while the world is now ready for a black Bond, it's definitely not ready for a Cockney one, even though Bond swaggering into a casino going "Alright cunts, Bond 'ere, where's the birds?" and generally being more of a Moore than a Connery is definitely what the series needs now. Why not both? With Adrian Lester as M. Imaging the gammon rage.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:They sort of did and they sort of didn't - it's mostly used as a way of conveying character rather than a direct comparison of Soviet republics to Anglosphere areas. Oliver Stone's Alexander did something like that IIRC, in a specifically Greek/Hellenic context (to bring it back to the original point), with an attempt to use contemporary accents to suggest classical geographic origins. Much like the rest of the film, it was kind of cool and interesting in theory but ultimately a bit pointless and poorly executed.
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Eararaldor posted:We have low literacy rates in this area. The school is desperate to get children reading books, any books. My club seemed to be helping in that regard That was supposed to be positive! Getting kids to read the classics is always good, especially if there's low literacy rates - that old mantra about how reading more is the biggest indicator of success reguardless of background.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Naomi Wimborne Idrissi (Chair of Jewish Voice for Labour) has been suspended for anti-semitism.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Theres 11 in that box. Oops Communist Thoughts posted:yeah but you only get 10 of them now instead of 20 so £44 from geedubs for 20 Yeah it's 10 + a nob which is really annoying because now I have 70 boyz and 7 nobs.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Ayoade would make a good Q, but he really doesn't have the presence to be Bond. Idris Elba is the name bandied around a lot and he's definitely got the presence, but if they wanted to make it properly modern they'd let him keep that Canning Town twang. Alas while the world is now ready for a black Bond, it's definitely not ready for a Cockney one, even though Bond swaggering into a casino going "Alright cunts, Bond 'ere, where's the birds?" and generally being more of a Moore than a Connery is definitely what the series needs now. Jason Statham but playing it exactly like he does in Spy and never breaking character but being super double hard bastard deadly serious even saying the most ridiculous thing.
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EvilHawk posted:Yeah it's 10 + a nob which is really annoying because now I have 70 boyz and 7 nobs. 
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