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Chris

@road_dancer

1 year

@CerberusXt There is the Social Contract aspect to blow their minds with...

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Chris

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5 months

@CerberusXt Just came across this -

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What a wonderful community WokehammerLs has created...

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6 months

"Games Workshop has gone woke!" "It always was..." This article is from 1987.

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6 months

I'm actually stunned by the way these people manage to go through life.

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6 months

Oh my days. The sheer fragility of these people. "They shall not be missed"

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6 months

A really good article here, and a great example of how representation is important, and how the hobby works is, and must, change.

How to stop a teenage girl from playing Warhammer

A journey with wargames in two visits to the Warhammer store

www.gamesradar.com

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6 months

@HaseoVtuber @kurotesuta @Grummz @warhammer *coughs*

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@road_dancer

1 year

Seems Legit

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@road_dancer

11 months

Modern Sci-Fi has gone woke. Meanwhile, old Sci-Fi...

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6 months

@HaseoVtuber @kurotesuta @Grummz @warhammer Well, your opinion would probably carry more weight if you actually had any involvement or idea of the actual hobby itself.

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9 months

@357magpluspee Take it up with GW.

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@road_dancer

6 months

Ironic that the tourists are still actively involved in the hobby, while the Gatekeepers have abandoned it.

Commissar Hecht

@DefenderHecht

6 months

I cannot fathom the mental gymnastics that these naysayers have gone through. They have attacked ADB, @garychalkpics , @alt_world , @Sughammer , @RealmOfPlastic , and others. All above mentioned either currently worked for/with @warhammer , or who are large predominant voices

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6 months

@emiliorojas0590 @CerberusXt @Tychodragonfan @Faben17542775 @alt_world From the sounds of it, GW have been without your money for awhile, and guess what. They don't care.

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9 months

@BitsHammer @Kugelwilli @IronWolfZer0 @CerberusXt @DYorgy @dakkagords @DamienCarlisle @2HeadzTalking @ArqArturo @SimplyShae13 It's really best not to think too hard about Terminator armour...

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Chris

@road_dancer

5 months

Dr Fatass being disingenuous again? Say it isn't so.

CerberusXt

@CerberusXt

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Dr Fatass want the nonce flag so much, he desaturated the Pansexual Pride marine picture to try and make it fit :'D

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9 months

@dmargenal That darned Intern strikes again!

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Chris

@road_dancer

1 year

The amount of people that don't understand the Legendary Tier shit posting that Kya does is hilarious.

Norn-Queen Kya

@NornQueenKya

1 year

@Maximoe88312286 Alright fine. Here's your black library proof. You're welcome

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@road_dancer

2 years

@FunnyNamesTaken @fasc1nate If only there was some resource available to us that we could use to search for articles on an event to see if it happened? Anyone?

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10 months

@Sigmamale388483 @BitsHammer I am very pleased to say that anyone that paints Swastikas on their 40k miniatures, even in the privacy of their own home, is not someone I want to associate with in any way, shape or form, least of all, my hobby spaces.

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5 months

@BitsHammer He totally missed that Dan Abnett publicly starts that 40k is satire.

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1 year

@BitsHammer They're going to shit the bed when they spot the Lady Knight...

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@road_dancer

9 months

@DamienCarlisle @ArqArturo @SimplyShae13 I'm sorry, what? One reason we want FSM despite SoB being a thing is precisely because SoB are so different in aesthetics, background, rules and play styles. And this is just comparing to a pretty standard Astartes, let alone once you look at, say, a Space Wolf.

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9 months

@DamienCarlisle @2HeadzTalking @BitsHammer @ArqArturo @SimplyShae13 Here's a recent example "Just kit bash and head canon, it's fine!

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1 year

As well as telling Gary Chalk that he's wrong about Games Workshop in the '80s, I can't believe people are also trying to tell @Jimbutler69 , who ran and managed the Games Workshop Design Studio for 7 ¹/2 years that he's wrong too...

Jim butler

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@Kerafrym @MartonSimon1 @garychalkpics Some of the narrative writing is wonderful - Bill King’s work on 1st ed High Elves is lovely. But lots of it is pretty functional. All of it was written to a brief which was to sell you soldiers, because that’s how GW makes money. I know because I wrote lots of those briefs.

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6 months

@WayneGb88 Tell me, what does the '88' in your user name represent?

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@road_dancer

10 months

@AirahThe2nd @haplo36 @NornQueenKya @CerberusXt So, what about Black Ultramarines? Basically, you're saying "just fuck off and be happy with what you've got".

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6 months

@tentaclehyena Why should you have to do research into Warhammer before going into a store? As a Staff member, our job was to enthuse and get people interested in the hobby

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6 months

@FigmentFriis Well, how's this working out for you? GW definitely don't seem to be backing you up...

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@road_dancer

9 months

@Ti_Dinzeo @DamienCarlisle @nonwashablegmer @2HeadzTalking @OrcWodos @BitsHammer @ArqArturo @SimplyShae13 This is one of the parts of the debate that really annoys me. "You're demanding GW make FSMs!" No. We're not. We're asking GW to make something we'd like to see. It's up to GW to do it or not. If GW don't, we'll carry on as now. If GW do, we'll have some new toys to play with.

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6 months

@HaseoVtuber @kurotesuta @Grummz @warhammer Orly?

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@road_dancer

10 months

@Sigmamale388483 @BitsHammer Which is against Games Workshop's policy for attending their events, and the social contract they ask you to follow as part of the Community.

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@road_dancer

3 months

@RKD_ART @MothmanFan3237 This is someone that complained about the Land Raider. One of his complaints included the fact the Land Raider is older than him.

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Chris

@road_dancer

2 years

Well everyone, this is what we're dealing with. 40k is a boys club, and girls should stick to unicorns, princesses, dresses and glitter. Also, being left wing isn't cool, because it's not masculine anymore.

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@road_dancer

2 years

@JMeatyJr @dolorousnick @tarolandder And thanks for confirming how much attention you deserve.

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@road_dancer

10 months

@SethMor55521276 @bornfor1312 @BitsHammer Mask off there, well done.

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4 months

@CerberusXt Are they still going? Didn't they all leave after Female Custodes Gate?

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2 years

@_TexanAviator @DefenceU Why would a proud Texan be supporting Russia?

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@road_dancer

10 months

@BitsHammer Why the fuck would I actually want the future to end up as 40k?

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10 months

@DefenderHecht @BitsHammer Do you want to know how I got blocked by Boh?

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@road_dancer

5 years

@RobertKStarr @DrEdPowell Man, I'm such a Captain Kirk fanboy! <3

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2 years

@DefenceU They see me rollin'

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@road_dancer

1 year

"Building large plastic kits like the Baneblade can be tricky" "Oh, my sweet summer child..." *Laughs in Forge World resin* - Just got this out of storage... 15+ years of superglue aging, means regluing the hull, one sponson, both fuel tanks, and lots of the running gear...

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@road_dancer

10 months

@BitsHammer No one tell them about Eisenhorn's pilots, Midas and Medea.

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@road_dancer

6 months

@InaqarU @BitsHammer Let's try this again shall we... This is what /was/ compared to what now /is/. Just like the old excerpts from the 'Rites of Initiation' White Dwarf article, and the version in the 30k book are what /was/, and may (or may not) change in the future. The Lore(TM) changes...

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6 months

@Glauber44296854 He's a massive incel, what about you?

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9 months

@JP56611604 @BitsHammer @sentientsixp @MKlypse @Noise_Minis It's fucking satire. It's always been fucking satire.

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@road_dancer

10 months

No, chudhammer isn't transphobic, why would you say they? /s

🦀Mista Krabs🦀🇺🇦

@lizardman464

10 months

Reminder that this is who chudhammer really is, piles of stinking shit dressed up as humans. Hey @PurifierAzrael why do so many psychopaths follow you? And why are you such an overtly transphobic piece of shit? What happened to it being about 40k and not being trans?

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1 year

@Xannyberry95 @CerberusXt @warhammer @warhammer has something to say about that.

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8 months

@CerberusXt This is how it started... Let's be honest, the odds weren't in their favour for not being misogynistic.

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11 months

@Noise_Minis Viking patterning, beard, and a double barreled Bolter. Looks like a Space Wolf with a Storm Bolter to me...

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@road_dancer

2 years

@mileszim Out of the corner of the eye, when you're not really looking, it was only then that the thin veil of reality slipped. How many fingers did they have? Five. It must be five. Please, be five.

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@DavidStacy410 @NairnMinis @peirrotlunaire @forococheroalf3 @muses_touch @BitsHammer @RecliningPanda @Mahiesdotter @Smokeypugs @GaryGCrook77 @NEDFTeef @eds_smith @KamiSkript @CerberusXt If that was the case, why is the post still up? This was the post that was supposed to be done by a 'Rogue Intern', it wasn't. Unless you have some proof, in which case, post it.

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9 months

@AirahThe2nd @haplo36 @NornQueenKya @CerberusXt You do realise that they are not black skinned necessarily from birth, but due to a mutation of the Phase 13 Melanochrome Organ?

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1 year

@KalShadaar @BitsHammer @Casus_Mortis @CerberusXt @OkayestPainter @Probably_Bobby @GaryGCrook77 @dr_fatass @Jim1810 @Hachaverde @Eldegarth1 @pgandress @YTGamersonGames I'm a hobby tourist that's been hobby touristing since 1988 and has worked at GW HQ in Lenton, yet somehow we're a new pox on the hobby rather than it's very foundations. *shrugs*

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@road_dancer

10 months

@HazelAppleyard_

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@road_dancer

1 year

@CerberusXt Holy shit. I've just had a longer look over the replies... these people are genuinely not well. 1/2

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@road_dancer

2 years

@pckmanbari @FunnyNamesTaken @fasc1nate

Here, Let Me Google That For You

Passive-aggressively teach your friends how to Google. For all those people who find it more convenient to ask you rather than search it themselves. Not associated with Google.

googlethatforyou.com

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@road_dancer

2 years

How fragile they are that this post is enough to block me.

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@road_dancer

2 years

@Lord_Boofhead @TyreeKimber @AquillonRotS @Smokeypugs @Applecookedgod @Calseris @ATM09Scopedawg @SomeGuyLucas @Shadeflares @BitsHammer Stop being disingenuous.

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1 year

@CerberusXt Jesus wept, what a sad bunch they all are. What I find hilarious, is that a few months ago, they were all "No, Norn Queen is fine, she's not a FSM advocate". It's almost as if it was never really about that...

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@road_dancer

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@CerberusXt If you can shove a load of magic space organs into a radiation riddled, cancer filled child, stick them in a box with some more magic space blood and get a pristine condition Blood Angel out at the end...

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@CerberusXt That's ok, I never stopped collecting toy soldiers, playing dress up and playing video games. I mean, I can't have a 'second childhood' if I never stopped the first, right? 😉

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@SecretEnigmatic @NairnMinis @FaithAndAnger @Shadow_Chorus @BitsHammer The context is right there... Ashley (male, Ashley is a common boys name in Britain) says that instead of FSMs, women are better off used for breeding than fighting. He was called a 'birther', because that's what he thinks women in 40k are best used for.

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1 year

@BitsHammer I get the feeling that at least 60% of Calgar's time was spent sighing at Successor Chapters and making them wear their 'get along power armour'

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2 years

@ZeroSeneca @BitsHammer @Hulu44932798 As a side note, I love Karl Kopinski's artwork so much, and he and his brother Stefan were some of the nicest people I knew at GW.

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@Glauber44296854 No, he's really not.

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@DavidStacy410 @NairnMinis @peirrotlunaire @forococheroalf3 @muses_touch @BitsHammer @RecliningPanda @Mahiesdotter @Smokeypugs @GaryGCrook77 @NEDFTeef @eds_smith @KamiSkript @CerberusXt I'm sure someone still has the screenshots, but IIRC it was Boh that said John Blanche was fired for being too woke, after misconstruing JB working on a 'Female Space Marine' (actually from a different game system, and done after he'd retired...). He since deleted that post.

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@road_dancer

9 months

Araloth is also finished, bar the final basing, that will have to wait until I get home.

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@road_dancer

2 years

@BitsHammer I mean, there's this backpack powered powerfist dude from the 90s if that helps them come to terms with Citadel Miniatures designs...

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@road_dancer

9 months

@2HeadzTalking @BitsHammer @DamienCarlisle @ArqArturo @SimplyShae13 Well, it works for the Guard...

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@road_dancer

10 months

@cornyanxd @SimplyShae13 "ITs n0t TrANsOhOBiA, iTs juST EdGy." He says while posting transphobic images.

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6 months

@raviollius Ok, so I'll let all the women I know that are nerdy gamers they've been rumbled!

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10 months

@BitsHammer @Zozo_Robo @GavThorpeCreate I wasn't part of what I'd call 'the early days', although your perspective on that may differ! I got into the hobby in '88, and worked for GW '99-'08. However, one point I'd like to pick up on, is the "Hah! They listened to Metal, not Punk!" bit. The 'Punk' influence that...

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@MasterPerturabo @CerberusXt @warhammer I think @warhammer may disagree with you.

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@FigmentFriis Pssstttt... I think the gate's not working. I dunno if you've noticed.

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10 months

@cornyanxd @SimplyShae13 Yeh, totally just edgy memes, not transphobia.

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@McCarthy_JT @DiscourseMinis 1) Got any sources for that sport? 2) That's got little to do with the post. A large percentage of these so called 'gatekeepers' don't engage with the physical aspects of the hobby (playing games, making and painting minis), only the consuming fiction sides.

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@August_Nazbol @HaraWarhawk @Xero_Reality I mean, what's 300 years between friends?

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@Smokeypugs Does it start with 't' and end with 't'?

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@Roubex_1191 @Noise_Minis Given the amount of them that banged on about "3d printer goes brrrr." I'm not sure 'loyal' fits. 🤣

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@Nobleshield Ok... If the fluff adding women into the Custodes is enough for you to jump ship from your beloved hobby, then you do you.

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@DigitalSpiritX @imperialpeasant @RoosterRabid @Atomfire_King I to have been in this hobby for over 30 years, I started with Rogue Trader in 1988. I worked for GW from '99 - 07ish. My son spent his 7th birthday at Warhammer World, and my 10 year old daughter loves her Sylvaneth. I'd rather stand with @imperialpeasant than you.

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@Casus_Mortis @ProfessorOtaku @bonnie_mowo @Jericho17205019 @KalShadaar @BitsHammer @CerberusXt @OkayestPainter @Probably_Bobby @GaryGCrook77 @dr_fatass @Jim1810 @Hachaverde @Eldegarth1 @pgandress @YTGamersonGames Whether or not Grimm is a fascist or not, he's a nasty piece of work by his own words, and I would really think twice before associating with someone who says this (and worse)

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@Imani_Barbarin @Applecookedgod In the UK, anyone with difficulty in an evacuation should have a 'PEEP' (Personalised Emergency Evacuation Plan) setup. When I brief out fire drills, I do stress that during an evacuation, the safest thing for both you, and the person in question, is to use the PEEP...

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@CerberusXt Not my interpretation of a FSM, but it's not like I'm going to start manning any gates over it... 😉

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11 months

The Imperium, totally the good guys... Source Warhammer 40,000: Leviathan. Pages 26 & 27

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@2HeadzTalking @BitsHammer @DamienCarlisle @ArqArturo @SimplyShae13 People do all the time, and then you lot shout about how it's shoving a political agenda down your throats.

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@DamienCarlisle @2HeadzTalking @BitsHammer @ArqArturo @SimplyShae13 I've seen people suggest it as a way to shut us up, and I've seen what happens when people do kit bash them. We're not against kitbashing, but we don't believe we should have to, so we're just asking for it to be made official for a number of reasons.

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@ferklk @ixxypup @YTGamersonGames @CerberusXt @BitsHammer My guy, I've been in the hobby since Rogue Trader, I've worked for GW, including at HQ, the community has always been us. Calling us 'tourists' has no power over us, because we have lived through the change and evolution of GW and the Hobby. There is no 'Lore', just fluff to...

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@Pantmonger I blocked Boof ages ago, when he claimed that I was lying about my previous employment history with GW, and refused to apologise and retract his claims when proven wrong. The guy is one of The Legions useful idiots. Claims to be 'centrist', yet buys every lie they peddle.

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@BitsHammer I mean. Yes. Never really been shy about admitting it either.

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@mileszim "She reached out, her many fingers twitching like the legs of a spider..."

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@BitsHammer @Zozo_Robo @GavThorpeCreate Stories than just the action. As I moved into my teenage years, my appreciation of the political subtexts in 2000AD, and other comics, grew, alongside my enjoyment of Warhammer. The parallels are easy to see, I mean, GW even wrote and produced a Judge Dredd RPG, and board...

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