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So it turns out I'm watching Black Panther tonight in the same building that's hosting the Brit Awards? There's like a red carpet and everything.

I guess I should expect stuff like this when my local cinema is 02

@angrboda haha, I was throwing enough stuff at you at that point, I suppose it's no surprise I got at least one hit

Link to tinymans 

warhammer-community.com/2018/0
if you're curious what I'm referring to. It's not exactly *hot*, but it's closer than I was expecting for sure

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Cut not so much for content as length (tinymans w/ a side of horny irony) 

For the first time in a while my phone recommended me an article about tinymans (Games Workshop stuff), so I shrugged and clicked.

It turned out to be introducing a new version of an elf character who now, apparently, canonically transforms back and forth into a snake babe due to the corruption of the god of sex/indulgence.

Good to know the algorithms in my phone are extremely on point, I guess.

Yo, for folks interested, Ang and I are going to be doing another stream at 3:30 EST (in about an hour and a half). We're thinking of making it a regular Sunday thing, so come along if you're interested! We'll toot again when it's up.

@angrboda I actually found it more hopeful than the intro implies, but even so the reason I tagged it like that is because it definitely at least flirts with some dark concepts, so it's super fair to avoid.

Plus it's pretty long, so it's not something you can just read quickly on your phone at your desk or anything

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In all, I think that article is possibly the best representation of NZ, physically and mentally, that I've ever read. The description of our amenability to malign but important outsiders due to any such attention feeling like a cat getting it's tummy scratched is spot on.

It also mentions the lefty prevalence of "it's fine, we have Jacinda now", despite that being due to the nationalist Winston Peters (although he comes across better than he should by being in opposition to Peter Thiel).

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Continued discussion of that link, although not with that focus 

eg, "I was standing next to Byrt, who’d picked me up from the airport and, in a gesture I would come to understand as quintessentially Kiwi, dragged me directly up the side of a volcano."

Ang and I joke that visitng NZ can be summed up w/ "climb this hill, it's important to me". The article then includes a photo from almost the exact same spot as one I took with her.

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Link to article with discussions of apocalyptic theory, hyper-capitalists, neo-colonization 

This whole article, about seeing New Zealand as an escape pod for the apocalypse, is A Lot. It... it captures a lot of feelings I have, and not just about that particular subject.
theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/

@Antifreeze haha, I actually saw that when you retweeted it earlier (and pointed it out to Ang)

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