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Hermetic Opus

@hermeticopus.bsky.social

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Warhammer, Transformers, Tabletop RPGs, assorted nerd stuff. I wanted to be a Social Justice Mystic Theurge, but turned out a Social Justice Commoner.

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Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · Nov 8

I've not actually said this on my account here, on account of it being underused, but:

Queerphobes, transphobes, genocide apologists, racists and Tories of every stripe (explicitly including Reform and Republicans) can go straight to hell.

Do not pass go, do not collect £200.

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Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 1m

More to the point, the university game society when I was a student could get more people to turn up just for the 40k games, and that's with D&D games taking up more than half the weekly attendants.

(And Keele has more students than St Andrews.)

Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 42m

I have no idea what the original post was, but somehow this still works.

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Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 43m

I'm escaping to the ONE SYSTEM that hasn't been CORRUPTED by random character gen!

[*Corpsing, visibly holding back laughter.*]

G.U.R.P.S.!

Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 3h

The amount that being denied access to the web forums would have hacked me off at 13-14 cannot be underestimated.

Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 4h

While obviously true, I'm not sure how that is even slightly relevant.

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CME_T @cmet.bsky.social · 6h

Fulgrim being the mood, the icon and the moment

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Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 6h

youtu.be/U0SGSW0DkEE?...

Three Kobolds in a Trench Coat - JoCat Cover Lyric Video

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Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 6h

Curious how many of these chumps - seven years later - are now once again hard-working Conservatives working to destroy everything we hold dear.

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Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 6h

Thing is, I really don't think everything should be about politics.

But politics keeps making things about politics, so it seems foolish to ignore that.

Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 15h

The nWoD cat-shifters (Suthanu-Sua) were actually really interesting.

Mostly for having an inbuilt drive to hunt down and punish "evil", but no supernatural means of determining who counts.

(Werebulls and werefish were also fun. The others less so.)

Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 15h

For clarification, that's not me - but I think that's the largest metro by area that isn't a sprawling megalopolis.

Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 16h

Obviously, what he's saying is abhorrent lies.

But it's also VERY, VERY STUPID, and those who voted for him should not be trusted with sharp objects.

Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 1d

"Please clap."

Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 1d

If you count Dallas - Fort Worth as a single city, going east-west could be a hundred miles and a two hour drive.

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Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 1d

They also tend to conflate fraud and mistakes.

And, given a hostile and opaque system, there are more mistakes than malicious fraud.

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Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 1d

I continue to be greatly irked at the attempt to call Putin's hyper-capitalist kleptocracy "communism".

It... isn't? It's just not remotely true.

Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 1d

I went all-in on the 3rd edition orks, but I think half of that was that I wanted a restart after my dubious early paint jobs.

So much white undercoat showing through in the recesses. Switching to a grimier scheme and black undercoat was a life saver.

Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 1d

It's as plausible as anything else.

Maybe the artist (David Sque, I believe) was working on the same logic that saw a mostly white-armoured captain on the front of Dark Millennium (though at least there it's harmonising with the Deathwing).

Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 1d

That, and the likes of the accents are very obviously low-class English, and it's mostly from English writers. It mitigates the racist coding (and, frankly, enough Americans don't understand the nuances of how classism works outside of the US to complain about how it's applied here.)

Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 1d

I think there's an element of orks being further from human than most fantasy "races".

There are no babies, no real children, no romance or sex, no sexes or (barring occasional translation oddities) gender.

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Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 1d

"They get to be these massive things, and what do I get? A burrow and some teeth?"

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Renegade Roo @renegadekangaroo.bsky.social · 3d

I just learned about the hyrax. An animal that looks like they're just done with everyone's bullshit

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Eric Canete @ericcanete.bsky.social · 1d

Angry cats.

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Hermetic Opus @hermeticopus.bsky.social · 1d

I spent far too much time in battles against fellow school kids slogging through close combat phases to not appreciate 3rd edition.

(Even if I'm still bitter about AP.)

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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