JcDent

Usually Hapless usually does Combat Mission videos, but his analysis of how magazine-fed bolt-action rifle influenced war in the run up to WWI had some revelations to me too.

If you don't have the time/desire to watch the entirety of it (I'm only up to 1914 myself), you can watch one video from this here timestamp and then watch the next one on the start of WWI to learn more about the material conditions that made it such a grinding shitshow.

Then we can go back discussing the political-ideological bullshit that put it all in motion

I was just looking into what Usenet is because I have no clue myself - and it's especially mystifying to me since Frugal Usenet is the most prolific ad purchaser on the Something Awful forums:

The bare chest.

Come on, this is 40K. What are you doing not decorating the power armor chest? Put a fleur-de-lis there or a winged skull or something.

It's free real estate there - and all estates in 40K are covered in skulls.

...Naturally, the usual suspects are seething about this image on Twitter, but not for the rational reasons like I am.

Two writing modes exist under GW:

• Power armor is literally impossible to pierce by human weapons
• Power armor is literally useless against monsters of the week

Fiction that remembers that Space Marines are supposed to be tough enough to fight even through limb-loss almost doesn't exist.