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Starcraft was weird because they just filed the numbers off of Starship Troopers for their world.
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Starcraft is a conglomeration of 80s sci fi action movies that Blizzard employees liked. That's why every other terran unit quotes Aliens
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Dec 7, 2020 16:32
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Badactura posted:Starcraft is a conglomeration of 80s sci fi action movies that Blizzard employees liked. That's why every other terran unit quotes Aliens Aliens is properly good, but people who quote it are on the bad nerd axis.
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Dec 7, 2020 17:48
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Nintendo was right to stop that Smash Brothers tournament.
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Dec 7, 2020 17:57
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Disco Pope posted:Aliens is properly good, but people who quote it are on the bad nerd axis. Disco Pope died on the way up to the Rodger Young (am I doing this right?)
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Dec 7, 2020 18:58
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Tyranids ripped off Starship Troopers and Alien, zerg merely ripped off tyranids.
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Dec 7, 2020 19:05
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Disco Pope posted:Aliens is properly good, but people who quote it are on the bad nerd axis. Dead or alive, we're the real aliens, Mr. Anderson
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Dec 7, 2020 19:09
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In starship troopers the book the bug aliens had guns and were stand ins for the chinese bc robert Heinlein was super racist. I wish the ppl ripping off starship troopers gave their aliens guns too Edit: but I would not want them to still be racist stand ins for chinese people
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Dec 7, 2020 20:20
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Badactura posted:In starship troopers the book the bug aliens had guns and were stand ins for the chinese bc robert Heinlein was super racist. I wish the ppl ripping off starship troopers gave their aliens guns too I like the chapter that's just straight up the characters attending a lecture about how people who havent served shouldnt have rights and the whole lecture is presented verbatim.
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Dec 7, 2020 20:25
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I never got any of that when I read the book. But I mean, he also wrote Sixth Column so it wouldn't be surprising.
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Dec 7, 2020 20:26
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Badactura posted:In starship troopers the book the bug aliens had guns and were stand ins for the chinese bc robert Heinlein was super racist. I wish the ppl ripping off starship troopers gave their aliens guns too Tyranids have lots of guns. Warhammer wins again
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Dec 7, 2020 20:29
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I always imagined getting into woodworking once I retire, but maybe I'll get super into Warhammer instead. I'm sure a pudgy 55 year old man will be a fun addition to local tournaments. edit: I'm sure there's already more than enough 55 year old pudgy Warhammer players.
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Dec 7, 2020 20:34
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Solice Kirsk posted:I always imagined getting into woodworking once I retire, but maybe I'll get super into Warhammer instead. I'm sure a pudgy 55 year old man will be a fun addition to local tournaments. Not that long ago you could prolly make a pretty penny combining them and doing custom tables and terrain for the “computer toucher nerd dad, kids have jobs now” demo
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Dec 7, 2020 20:35
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Solice Kirsk posted:I always imagined getting into woodworking once I retire, but maybe I'll get super into Warhammer instead. I'm sure a pudgy 55 year old man will be a fun addition to local tournaments. Dude the game started in 1983, there are plenty
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Dec 7, 2020 20:42
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Not that long ago you could prolly make a pretty penny combining them and doing custom tables and terrain for the “computer toucher nerd dad, kids have jobs now” demo Ha, I saw what happened to that high end gamer table company that Patrick Rothfuss helped start. No thank you. I think either taking hours and hours to paint tiny details on space monster toys or taking hours and hours building ugly heavy furniture for my loved ones as backhanded sentimental Christmas gifts is the way to go.
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Dec 7, 2020 20:43
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Solice Kirsk posted:Ha, I saw what happened to that high end gamer table company that Patrick Rothfuss helped start. No thank you. I think either taking hours and hours to paint tiny details on space monster toys or taking hours and hours building ugly heavy furniture for my loved ones as backhanded sentimental Christmas gifts is the way to go. holy poo poo I didn't know that was a thing, but counterpoint, it was involved with Patrick Rothfuss.
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Dec 7, 2020 21:10
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I am painting Plague Drones right now.
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Badactura posted:In starship troopers the book the bug aliens had guns and were stand ins for the chinese bc robert Heinlein was super racist. I wish the ppl ripping off starship troopers gave their aliens guns too Two things from the book stand out for me. The public beating of children for minor offenses (like this https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/27/...%20Michael%20P.) And the fact that the starship troopers were "on the bounce" dropping micro nukes on the skinnies. It's basically the scene from Blackhawk Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovRhLzL_ZHQ bet Heinlein jerked it to this one
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Dec 7, 2020 21:21
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Gripweed posted:I am painting Plague Drones right now. Historicals are cool too, you doing AWI, ACW, or WW2 era? 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Historicals are cool too, you doing AWI, ACW, or WW2 era? Modern  
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the best lem book isnt solaris, it's fiasco
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Dec 7, 2020 22:31
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Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant is mediocre, poorly drawn, and barely contains jokes. I’m befuddled by her popularity whenever she comes up and people invariably sing her praises.
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Two things from the book stand out for me. The public beating of children for minor offenses (like this https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/27/...%20Michael%20P.) I remember the main character enters a building on a the skinny planet and it's full of skinnys and he wonders if it's a bunker or a church or something and tosses a bomb in anyway. Also fun fact the us soldiers deployed in somalia called the somalis 'skinnies' in reference to the Starship Troopers aliens so it's an appropriate comparison
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Lurk Ethic posted:Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant is mediocre, poorly drawn, and barely contains jokes. I’m befuddled by her popularity whenever she comes up and people invariably sing her praises. I agree, and I feel this way about Nathan W. Pyle's comics too, except that his are far more enragingly stupid than benignly unfunny.
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Anyone who says Beaton's stuff is "poorly drawn" reminds me of a guy I knew in like third grade who thought Roco Vargas was extremely badly drawn because "no-one has a chin like that!". That was the first time I ever encountered someone who just didn't get art styles beyond "vagely realistic" and thought that deviation from his preferred style simply meant that the art was badly done without skill. (Also another boy who only read colour comics because black-and-white bored him.) For reference, this is the work of a completely talentless person: 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Anyone who says Beaton's stuff is "poorly drawn" reminds me of a guy I knew in like third grade who thought Roco Vargas was extremely badly drawn because "no-one has a chin like that!". You have a point there. I guess when I agreed with Lurk Ethic, I meant that the art style was simplistic in a way that didn't appeal to me (much like Nathan W. Pyle's). Sarah Andersen's art is completely unrealistic, but I like it, and now I sort of wonder whether I like it on its own or forgive it because I like the comic itself.
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YeahTubaMike posted:You have a point there. I guess when I agreed with Lurk Ethic, I meant that the art style was simplistic in a way that didn't appeal to me (much like Nathan W. Pyle's). Sarah Andersen's art is completely unrealistic, but I like it, and now I sort of wonder whether I like it on its own or forgive it because I like the comic itself. I know my argument is a semantical one but I just wanted to make it. It's only unpopular on the internet. Didn't/Hasn't Andersen drawn some pretty "normal" stuff also?
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It's like with Modern Art stuff. Most of the people who made it can draw really well it's just that isn't the stuff that they want to do/ that invites controversy.
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One of the biggest crises America is currently facing is the fact that we are ruled by a gerontocracy who, until recently, were only metaphorically falling apart in front of our very eyes. But now they won't even allow us a metaphor, they're doing it literally https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1336427393272176647?s=20
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Anyone who says Beaton's stuff is "poorly drawn" reminds me of a guy I knew in like third grade who thought Roco Vargas was extremely badly drawn because "no-one has a chin like that!". That was the first time I ever encountered someone who just didn't get art styles beyond "vagely realistic" and thought that deviation from his preferred style simply meant that the art was badly done without skill. (Also another boy who only read colour comics because black-and-white bored him.) I have no problem with indie or stylized art. The studio behind Superjail! is brilliant, for instance. But I don’t think Beaton’s off beat style stands on its own merits, and without (imphuo) good writing to back it up, any of its indie charm is lost on me. I would probably feel the same if I thought Andersen or Shen Comix had weak writing (but I like their stuff).
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Dec 9, 2020 05:10
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all men under 185cm have some form of short man syndrome, either pronounced or latent
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As a 160cm tall lad - i agree although I'd argue that SMS conveys itself in different ways
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Shibawanko posted:all men under 185cm have some form of short man syndrome, either pronounced or latent Well yeah, centimeters are really tiny, that's like five inches?
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I guess if even people who are 5 inches taller than the average male height have short man syndrome we are almost all in this together.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:As a 160cm tall lad - i agree although I'd argue that SMS conveys itself in different ways yeah there's like The Loyal Squire, the short man who is eager to prove himself to the taller man, but also the Scheming Dwarf
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Dec 9, 2020 12:24
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im a tall guy but i completely lack a competitive streak and ambition and am way too mellow for my own good so i am sometimes jealous of the fastidious diligence and climber's instinct of the short man
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Dec 9, 2020 12:27
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I'm short and it sucks but all my taller friends have back pain and are starting to go bald
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the short man is efficient and ruthless, being a tall guy is like owning a neo geo instead of a gameboy
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Shibawanko posted:all men under 185cm have some form of short man syndrome, either pronounced or latent Clever to make this claim in such a way that any attempt to refute it can easily be interpreted as confirming it. Your position is unassailable. And also extremely dumb - but I'm probably just saying that because I'm short.
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JollyBoyJohn posted:I'm short and it sucks but all my taller friends have back pain and are starting to go bald The hair has a longer way to grow out. (Hair is stored in the balls.)
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