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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, the overarching theme of the Grobusverse seems to be that euhumans are far crueler than their posthuman peers…

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · 1d

Based on “The Envoy and The Warrior” it’s like a 50/50 chance they do

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · 15d

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · 15d

I never would’ve thought of the Nitrogen Blockade or astronauts shooting each other with piezoelectric spring guns, or half the other things in All Errors Are My Own

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · 15d

It’s a bunch of really really good ideas attached to a totally unplayable game and I’m pretty happy that I bought all the books

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · 29d

I mean they did, we know they did, that’s why armies during the 30 Years War were an order of magnitude larger than they were during the Middle Ages

SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · 29d

It’s not effortless but it’s something every state figured out. By contrast, supplying soldiers in the field by means other than foraging was physically impossible prior to the invention of the locomotive. This was baked into the pre-19th century understanding of warfare

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · 29d

The answer is that you lie about paying them and don’t even bother trying to feed them

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · 29d

Calling out large numbers of soldiers is an easy first step for a developing state, producing enough cash to pay them and supplies to feed them are exponentially more difficult but that doesn’t stop anyone

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Sep 7

Zelenskyy was an international joke until he was posting videos from Kyiv during the Russian offensive, so you never know

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Sep 4

Three words you don’t want to hear a Dark Eldar say

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Sep 3

“No, leave the pauldron on…”

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Aug 23

Deacon plz

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Jul 25

I think a lot about the postwar attempt to turn the Catalina into a flying yacht

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Jul 25

Is it seaplane-based? Because I have always loved the idea of hopping around some vast ocean in a Fantasy Catalina

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Jul 17

“Zionist entity” is an unrelated term coined by Arab politicians in the 50s to deny Israel diplomatic recognition

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Jul 17

Some ancestress of yours was the terror of her local blacksmiths

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Jul 11

By this line of reasoning, nobody of European descent has any right to live outside the Pontic steppe

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Jul 11

Bad news for all of you KKKurgans

SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Jul 11

“The Jewish State should be located in Kurdistan” is an original take, I’ll give you that

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Jul 11

Arrived from where, exactly?

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Jul 11

You are really not gonna like who also has genetic ancestry dating back to the 1st Century Levant

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Jul 8

My mother recommended Zoro for Legolas

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Jul 6

I don’t see how a state ban on female education is “descended from the USA’s own history” given that it has never happened here

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SKULL LONG @skullelongator.bsky.social · Jul 6

Given that it means to speak like a Frank, i.e., freely, this is just a fictional path to the correct conclusion

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