Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

lost as I may be
in the fog of my own noise and trivialities
Grand Holy Mother, grant me clarity,
I am standing on the edge of forever,
forever.

#drawings tonight! CW for snake and spider content!

@frost Yes and no;

No, because we know everyone in the game is kinda terrible to holy crap that's terrible, but the game's background largely doesn't come into actual play (the Imperial penchant for vivisection and fundamentalism gets reflected in some, not all, visuals).

Yes, because the game's future is *supposed* to be bleak. Keep in mind the game starts out in the 80s, when you've got the Cold War, the Troubles, and no internet to challenge fairly tight conservative control of the media, so despite how bad your reality looks, you're very much being told that England (er... the UK!) or the USA are saintly good guys, Christianity is flawless, the future is wonderfully bright etc. AND your escapism is mostly Tolkien, Star Wars, Star Trek, D&D's good alignments, lots of noble good guys versus horrible baddies.

A "dark future" or "shades of gray" might seem trite and overdone now after that's been around for decades - but in the 80s and even into the 90s, saying "Judge Dredd /Lobo/Elric of Melnibone *isn't* a good guy" or "there are no good guys in 40K" is pretty revolutionary. If you read the canon, too, it's very influenced by Dune, Arthurian mythology, and WWI, all of which are distinctly tragic.

And it's not just counterculture, there's a practical aspect; the GW folks wanted to sell their game, and the quickest way to steer people from just playing the official good guy faction is to make no official good guy faction.

Does all this make sense?

@frost nope. Individuals can be humorous, kind and heroic, but factions aren’t.

… and despite the company saying “look, Poland was completely overrun in 1939 WE AREN’T MAKING NEW CAVALRY!” fans were so into the idea they eventually did come out with new Poles.

WH40K canon is like “what if we made up the entire terrible history of modern Europe so we could sell WWII soldiers” and then not only did some fans idealize the Nazis despite the “obvious bad guy” label, but the Napoleonic Wars and interwar Glasgow razor gangs started as spin-offs which became favorite games in their own right.

Is it still Yom Kippur? Man I hate that holiday.

@GoodNewsGreyShoes well it’s a free market so you don’t GET other options.

anyway I figure if I'm gonna repost yesterday's color work, why not put all of it in the same place? #drawings

do you still count as a weeaboo if the things you think are way awesome about Japan are not especially anime or manga related?

technically if you were an anthro animal "pawing" could mean masturbating OR "fisting" and the lack of semantic distinction could get awkward

capitalism is when you *don't* want to buy stuff from the myriad advertisements that fill your existence, but you *do* really want to spend money on all sorts of things, and you *can't* because it all goes to stuff you literally can't *not* pay for.

my Infected Mushroom album ends and I *immediately* recognize the next track Apple Music hands me as being Shpongle, I don't even own that album but I've listened to it that much

I swear I'm less frequently stoned than my musical tastes suggest

@robinhood @erkhyan they do in fact have halfling sized stuff so

* watches the video for The Sisters of Mercy's "This Corrosion" *

see this, kids? This is basically what every roleplaying game other than AD&D was like between about 1996-2000

real "sail a ship made of dead men's nails into Asgard and burn the damn place down" feels about now

@tango Actually, I think I might be okay with it since that falls within reasonable use and is similar to handing over ref sheets with instructions. The only ethical doubt that remains is about my customer throwing money at the companies that made this thing.

fuck you!
fuck you!
fuck you with something hard and sandpapery!
betch
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you're NOT my friend!

let's see what else; I am NOT a programmer, I am NOT available to work in either upstate New York or in Florida for the next 12 months, and I did NOT schedule a phone interview with anyone over the past week.

https://youtu.be/zLbFpAMITmA?si=LrVKVfBw353Lx4kH