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@WatcherGuru The most corrupt presidential family in resent American history. Na not going to take what he says seriously. Even if it makes sense, don't listen to your enemies.
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@orange_peelbeef Lost. They made magazines about that show, I couldn't understand why it was so big.
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@GBPolitcs @Survation Lowe is going to open the borders just to get back at Reform isn’t he?
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🚨BREAKING: The first Makerfield by-election poll has been released
🌹 LAB: 43%
➡️ REF: 40%
🇬🇧 RST: 7%
🔸 LDM: 4%
🌍 GRN: 3%
🌳 CON: 2%
[@Survation]
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WHY DO THESE FUCKERS ALWAYS STOP DRIVING???
Ezzy@ezzyskii
WOAH! Utah driver leaps from SUV moments before it is struck by a FrontRunner train.
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@HMBohemond I never read the stories, I just looked at the figures and thought that guys are interesting looking and they are the good guys. Those others also look really cool and they are the bad guys. Getting caught up with more then that seems boring. Also these things are for kids!
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Let me regale you with a tale.
Diaclone was a Japanese toy line of cars that transformed into robots. They released it in the US in the early 80's as just "cars that turn into robots." It flopped. No one was interested.
So they went back to the drawing board. They hired Marvel writers to create lore and context for the cars that transform into robots. They're aliens from a machine world embroiled in a vicious civil war that has spilled over to Earth. They created two factions for this story, heroic Autobots and villainous Decepticons. They renamed the franchise, "Transformers."
It's one of the biggest, most successful multimedia franchises in human history.
Why? Because LORE MATTERS. Lore gives us the reason that the toys (or for Warhammer, model kits) are worth collecting. It makes them more than shaped plastic. It turns them into heroes, villains, monsters, and gods with meaning and purpose. And in the process creates stories. Stories that draw people in, get them invested as much as the toys themselves. People write, film, or draw the stories of the characters these toys represent. These stories are then consumed as much as the toys themselves.
Lore matters. Lore is just as important for a franchise's health as the toys it's built around. Discounting the lore shows a general disdain not only for the toys, but the franchise built around both. The toys are the modern form of the idols made of mythological figures.
Saying "lore doesn't matter" is the height of ignorance and you just out yourself as a tourist. No amount of displayed consumption can save you from this accusation now.

tlark@tlark8
These claims are bad & objectively false. If anything these claims are by people who never actually play the game. The lore side of the biz is ~2% of their total revenue. Licensing was like 15% & the rest is mini sales. Minis make 40K successful it’s by far their largest revenue
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@JoshFerme I like that the ground floor windows are already blocked up
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Say what you will about this style of building, but if I asked an architect to design the most defensible council house possible for a zombie apocalypse, they could hardly do better.
ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩@kunley_drukpa
Gleadless Valley, Sheffield
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Christopher Nolan is defending the historical accuracy of the armor in #TheOdyssey:
“There are Mycenaean daggers that are blackened bronze. The theory is they probably could have blackened bronze in those days. You take bronze, you add more gold and silver to it and then use sulfur… With Agamemnon, Ellen [Mirojnick], our costume designer, is trying to communicate how elevated he is relative to everyone else. You do that through materials that would be very expensive.” (via Time)
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@Airplanmode1998 I think the joke was he doesn't like pineapple so let's wind him up. Maybe not every thing is about men vs women.
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@uncledoomer Britain has plenty of gardens. The USA is much bigger than Britain so having massive gardens on every house just makes sense.
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theres actually a lot of stuff about europe that europeans think makes them superior to americans, but what it really indicates is that they still live like feudal serfs over there
Bizlet@bizlet7
In England they apparently don't have yards.
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@erwanncoguic @jawwwn_ @joerogan @peterthiel The elevation of consciousness might be part of what he was getting at. The control would precede it.
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@jawwwn_ @joerogan @peterthiel Peter Thiel is making a classic mistake: projecting our current human limitations onto advanced civilizations.
Ultimate technology does not enable control; it first requires an elevation of consciousness.
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Peter Thiel on what aliens would mean for our military technology:
“It’s not that they might be demons or angels—they must be demons or angels.”
“If you have faster than light travel, if you have warp drive (what you need to cover interstellar distances) what that means for military technology is that you can send weapons at warp speed, and they will hit you before you ever see them coming.”
“There is no defense against a warp speed weapon. You could take over the whole universe before anybody could see you coming.”
With @joerogan
Jawwwn@jawwwn_
Palantir cofounder @JTLonsdale: “20 years ago, when I was founding Palantir with Dr. Karp, we had dozens of meetings with people asking, ‘Why are you building in defense?’ Are you some kind of aliens?” “His hair wasn’t as crazy back then.”
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@BuddyNoBully @MythicMgames I understand what you mean, but genuinely want to know is English you're first language? Non judgemental I'm asking
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It's worse Morrowind (Oblivion) pretending to be Morrowind really hard very badly. It isn't integrated naturally well at all with the combat engine, and Oblivion's terrible scaling issues with leveling do it no favors either.
It's just the same dilution Oblivion had from Morrowind, but with a Morrowind skin suit being a poorer, more accessible version of a superior rpg.
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