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It's not 40k it's Age of Sigmar, the replacement for fantasy battle. The 'Stormcast Eternals' have always been the reincarnated souls of heros of all sexes and genders, not just Manly Men. There have even been female armour models in the range for years. Space Marines are male-only for *reasons* (please ignore the really early female models in power armour), but the new fantasy game has always been more inclusive.
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Apr 17, 2024 12:09
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Renfield posted:Space Marines are male-only for *reasons* Is the reason that they're all gay men?
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Apr 17, 2024 12:12
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The wokes want to make my men only society that procreates via the 'man factory' in the 'man tubs' gay now 
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Apr 17, 2024 12:14
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Guavanaut posted:The wokes want to make my men only society that procreates via the 'man factory' in the 'man tubs' gay now Starting to think there needs to be a Warham themed gay club now
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Apr 17, 2024 12:17
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Kin posted:Yeah, I've been dragged to one of two for work events, and it's not as refined as it's made it to be on TV. It's full of the type of folk you'd expect to habitually see posed) pissed in a bookies, except they've (mostly) got nice looking clothes instead of polo shirts. Cheltenham especially is full of the type of people who go to watch Rugby 7's.
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Apr 17, 2024 12:23
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Renfield posted:It's not 40k it's Age of Sigmar, the replacement for fantasy battle. Nah the current woke outrage is for 40k, new custodes codex has fluff about a female custodian and GW came out and said “there have always been female custodians” then didn’t elaborate any further lol.
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Apr 17, 2024 12:25
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fuctifino posted:Great news everyone! A poor household is going to see higher costs for food, rent and goods take a huge chunk out of their meagre income, which has not risen with inflation. Overall it'll be a net loss, possibly even sending them into a negative income. A rich household however is going to have those things as a minority of their budget. Like when you get those posts about how £90k isn't that much to live on and then you find out most of their 'expenses' are pensions and savings, and those things aren't going up beyond inflationary levels. And their income is going to likely be from exploiting higher asset prices, shares, or landlording; and those things are doing well; so when they look at their end of month balance, it's a net positive and only getting better. That's how you can have rich people clueless about how bad the economy is, because not only does it not negatively affect them, they've set up a whole system to celebrate this driver of inequality, because it's something that they benefit from. Ignoring the fact that the well they're drinking from is slowly drying up. I think at one point Gary even said that if inflation did include those things, it would be at an obscene, record high and we'd be considered to be in a terrifying recession. They've just fudged the numbers to make it look like we aren't, so it doesn't affect the things that affect them. The whole episode (and Gary's channel) was astonishing as an eye-opener and introduction to economics and how absolutely blind it is to fundamental inequality, and the landmine it sets up for even the bourgeoise which Liz Truss is having to be actively held back from stomping on like a kid in wellies. He did an interview with Novara at around the same time that probably hits most of the same beats, but some of his anecdotes were great, like becoming a city trader off the back of a card game.
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Apr 17, 2024 12:25
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History Comes Inside! posted:Nah the current woke outrage is for 40k, new custodes book has a story about a female custodian. The only people mad about it are the people that 20 years ago would have a very suspiciously insignia'd Imperial Guard army painted all in black with red armbands.
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Apr 17, 2024 12:27
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History Comes Inside! posted:Nah the current woke outrage is for 40k, new custodes codex has fluff about a female custodian and GW came out and said “there have always been female custodians” then didn’t elaborate any further lol. The Horus Heresy is the queerest thing i've wiki-skimmed in my life. Horus was hot for teacher. One lore pic of Sanguinus, i knew he ewas the gayest, and thirstiest of the Emperors boys.
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Apr 17, 2024 12:29
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serious gaylord posted:The only people mad about it are the people that 20 years ago would have a very suspiciously insignia'd Imperial Guard army painted all in black with red armbands. Good job there's no shortage of those types in the fandom!
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Apr 17, 2024 12:32
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Pablo Bluth posted:Tory Government acting illegally shocker... You know I said that DEFRA wouldn't let me hunt seagulls just so I could eat one stuffed with chips but apparently I was wrong.
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Apr 17, 2024 12:32
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It was Fulgrim that was the wrongun
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Apr 17, 2024 12:32
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One entire chapter / primarch is named after a famously gay man's poem about how he's secretly gay.
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Apr 17, 2024 12:32
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Da Orks are an actual functioning meritocracy, with a currency system designed to stop the accumulation of wealth. They are the ideal society. No I will not be taking questions on this outlook. Yes red ones go faster.
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Apr 17, 2024 12:38
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Guavanaut posted:Mailhammer 40,000 It's not "kinder, kuche, kustodes", liberal!
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Apr 17, 2024 13:04
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Bobby Deluxe posted:(subscriber bonus only sadly) Isn't like half this thread subscribers at this point lol
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Apr 17, 2024 13:05
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WOKE FOR THE WOKE GOD
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Apr 17, 2024 13:12
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Have any of them come up with a clear definition of woke yet? Or is it still just a lazy catch-all for everything they dislike?
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Apr 17, 2024 13:13
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shorter to write than "politically correct" innit
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Apr 17, 2024 13:15
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forkboy84 posted:Good job there's no shortage of those types in the fandom! I really need to get on and build my Anteefa ork army.
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Apr 17, 2024 13:17
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The London Symphony Orchestra conductor managed to successfully drum up some headlines last week by making the claim that 'wokeism' is the reason people don't go to the opera any more which I think is a good indicator of just how cynical, debased, childish, irrational and inane the reactionary movement is at this point
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Apr 17, 2024 13:25
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Makes me think of the Trashfuture episode (subscriber bonus only sadly) where they interviewed Gary Stevenson of the youtube channel garyseconomics, where he's pointing out how the rate of inflation doesn't really take into account things like food, bills and rent; so when he was asking why everything is so expensive to people teaching economics at Oxford - the people who's students go on to make monetary policy - they're all looking at him and saying "what do you mean, things have never been better."
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Apr 17, 2024 13:29
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frytechnician posted:I am so tired of culture wars. So very, very tired. I never want to hear the word "woke" ever again and I want all the people who try and profit from whining over anything uncontroversial to be tossed into the oubliette immediately. In the grim darkness of the near future there is only culture war. SpaceCommie posted:I really need to get on and build my Anteefa ork army. It's been about 25 years, we need some proper Gretchin Revolutionary Committee models again instead of those Christmas gimmicks
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Apr 17, 2024 13:30
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Apr 17, 2024 13:32
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Bobby Deluxe posted:One entire chapter / primarch is named after a famously gay man's poem about how he's secretly gay. And then, when they released his model last year, he looked like Jeremy Corbyn in Powered Armour. In other news. https://x.com/HackedOffHugh/status/1780546172785987876 Basically, for those who don't want to click on Twitter, Hugh Grant "settled" his claim with the Sun. He goes onto explain that the Sun made a settlement offer, Hugh said no because he wanted to drag them over the coals. Hugh's lawyers explained that under English law if he refused the settlement and was awarded even 1 penny less than the lodged settlement amounts he would be liable for Murdoch's lawyers costs which would probably run to about 10 million. So on that basis, he is settling and using the money to fund a charity going after Media's unethical practices.
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Apr 17, 2024 13:35
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fuctifino posted:Have any of them come up with a clear definition of woke yet? Or is it still just a lazy catch-all for everything they dislike? Mhairi Black had the best definition "It just means that you're sound"
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Apr 17, 2024 13:38
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grobbo posted:The London Symphony Orchestra conductor managed to successfully drum up some headlines last week by making the claim that 'wokeism' is the reason people don't go to the opera any more Guavanaut posted:the whole Light/Dark Academia thing Also there's a whole meme around swole Bach for some reason.  None of those people are "too woke for opera", they're just watching it on youtube because nobody can loving afford the opera any more. But I guess it's a lot easier to blame 'wokeism' than point fingers at late capitalism falling apart.
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Apr 17, 2024 13:58
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Pfft, 40K is lame. Wake me up when they put catboys in FF14
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Apr 17, 2024 14:00
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These days you can't even stage a production of Der Ring des Nibelungen because of the woke mob.
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Apr 17, 2024 14:01
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TACD posted:Wait, inflation doesn’t account for food prices? I thought inflation is defined by a “basket of goods” that includes TVs and phones and whatnot but also selected food items? Gary's episode further reinforced that with the anecdote about speaking to a literal professor of economics saying the economy was good and interest rates would hold, who's stood there wearing a robe in this huge wood-panelled castle while the news is full of mortgage reposessions and strikes and Gary has literally made millions betting that it isn't. Inflation may not have been the specific term he was talking about, but always be wary of tories saying the economy is on the up, because it's not. Stagnating wages and baseline costs for bills and food doubling and in some cases quadrupling - it can't be, they're just fudging the numbers to only account for it being better for them. I'm out with the dog (and have to clean when I get in because my parents are visiting) so I don't have time to do a deep dive into exactly what was said in the episode and what precisely goes into inflation. I'd imagine if a basket of food is factored in, the economic effect is dwarfed by house prices and the stock exchange. As usual it's something a lot of dudes love to explain online, so you could probably just google 'male inflation' to find out more. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Apr 17, 2024 |
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Apr 17, 2024 14:21
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When I lived in London I used to go to the opera occasionally. I could get the tube there 30mins, get a seat 'in the gods' for £3-£5 or so, & get home again the same night. All on my annual season ticket. Now, even if I went to Cardiff, I'd have to spend around 2 hours or so getting there, bus to Newport, then either a bus or train to Cardiff, cost of ticket maybe £60 these days - mooch around Cardiff for a couple of hours (because bus times etc), do the opera, then either spend well over £100 on a taxi home again (buses from Newport to home stop running around 6pm ish) or a night in a travelodge (say £60-£80 depending on night of the week), then still have over 2 hours travelling the next day. So we're looking at getting on for £200 & 8-10 hours travelling for maybe 3 hours entertainment? (Same applies for gigs as well). Inflation chat: ^^^ my wealthy brother, Tory Boy, claims there hasn't been ANY austerity. Tories: do you think they believe this sh*t? (I don't mean about Starmer, but all those things they list are what has happened under them!) 
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Apr 17, 2024 14:36
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It was something that came out in the whole Jack Monroe / Vimes Boots thing that the things economists use to measure how good the economy is doing do not include anything even remotely linked to reality. Economists were saying prices weren't going up until people literally went and did audits, at which point they said 'OK they are going up, but not by the way we measure them,' which turned out to be some kind of numberfuckery based on projections the supermarkets had already fiddled with. He talked an awful lot about how economists absolutely love averages, and they create this hypothetical average person in their calculations, who they forget doesn't actually exist in real life. Like, if most people are doing poo poo and a few people are doing fabulously well, on average, everyone's ticking along nicely. It's like the joke about the physicist who decided that he's worked out farming: "First, assume a perfectly spherical cow..."
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Apr 17, 2024 14:42
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Economists were saying prices weren't going up until people literally went and did audits, at which point they said 'OK they are going up, but not by the way we measure them,' which turned out to be some kind of numberfuckery based on projections the supermarkets had already fiddled with. As I recall it was basically that they use specific staple foods as benchmarks and the supermarkets know that so they kept those specific prices low while raising everything else to compensate.
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Apr 17, 2024 14:42
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Tesseraction posted:As I recall it was basically that they use specific staple foods as benchmarks and the supermarkets know that so they kept those specific prices low while raising everything else to compensate. This is the reason that a pack of 15 Bourbon Creams is like 30-50 pence while a pack of five Timeout Roundies are the guts of €2.50. (Also, I'm so grateful that my toddler loves Bourbon Creams and not Timeout Roundies.)
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Apr 17, 2024 14:46
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I'm watching this at the moment and I may have been conflating interest rates and inflation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcaiTZKlCj4 The presentation is a bit weird. Who's the other guy? Who gets the muffin?
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Apr 17, 2024 14:56
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Tories: do you think they believe this sh*t? (I don't mean about Starmer, but all those things they list are what has happened under them!) Serious question: what economic policies are these?
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Apr 17, 2024 14:57
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Eddy-Baby posted:Serious question: what economic policies are these? Who knows! The only policy (pledges) he has stuck with is bow down & worship at the feet of the BoD.
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Apr 17, 2024 15:03
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The Question IRL posted:This is the reason that a pack of 15 Bourbon Creams is like 30-50 pence while a pack of five Timeout Roundies are the guts of €2.50. Who do I bully to get a 150g bag of Twiglets added to the list of things included. Could do with them being at least £1 cheaper
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Apr 17, 2024 15:10
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Just lol if you arent putting everything through the self checkout as onions.
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Rarity posted:Pfft, 40K is lame. Wake me up when they put catboys in FF14 Where have you been for the last decade?? Pistol_Pete posted:He talked an awful lot about how economists absolutely love averages, and they create this hypothetical average person in their calculations, who they forget doesn't actually exist in real life. Like, if most people are doing poo poo and a few people are doing fabulously well, on average, everyone's ticking along nicely. Personally I'm a fan of the one about the statitician who drowned in a puddle that was 2cm deep, on average.
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