Hearing the crowd go absolutely nuts for the Old World during #WarhammerFest is the absolute best. YEEEESSSSSSS

#WarhammerFest2023 is live! And so are my reactions to it in this 🧵. So far my main takeaway is that I wish I got more sleep. But the event has just started... God damn! The Tyranids got their hands/gestation pools on more Eldar DNA it looks like. This rules big time.

This is mostly wrong, but it's wrong for some pretty interesting reasons. A 🧵⤵️

Modern navies favor multirole vessels and fewer classes, but this is a (mostly) recent development stemming from post-Cold War spending. Even so, the US Navy for example is bigger than you think. Right now, the US Navy has somewhere around 25 classes of warship.

Include non-commissioned ships (auxiliary, cargo, etc) that number rises to closer to 50.

Add in the weird shit (barracks ships, crane ships), and the reserve fleet, and now we're probably well past 150.

Modern #StarTrek is weird. It's far from a disaster, but it also feels like nobody in the writer's room cares about the same details I do. Not that that's necessary for a good episode, there's been plenty of those, but so many little details in the background make me cringe. The whole refit/retrofit thing with the Titan was an annoying example. Words were tossed into a script without a great understanding of what they mean (refit and retrofit are different things guys!) and then we got a bunch of tortured worldbuilding to try and explain it all.

Oh my god I figured it out and I have to tell everyone before they erase me from the timeline.

SECTION 31 CONTROLS THE UNIFORMS

That’s how they’re funded. That’s how they maintain their power.

Every few years, boom, introduce a new uniform and skim money off the top . There probably hasn't been a real Starfleet Clothing and Personal Issue Equipment Department in centuries. They took it over long ago. And you know it's all a sick game to them, they want to see how many times in a decade they can get away with introducing a new uniform.

I recognize this might sound counterintuitive, but the “Alien” universe is big enough that not every story needs to revolve around the Xenomorph.

There’s an interstellar cold war, powerful megacorporations, synthetics (sorry, "artificial people") and more.

Here's some ideas:⬇️ "Deadwood" style drama about a company town on the frontier developing from a measly outpost to a fully fledged colony. Settlers have to deal with the perils of a "shake and bake" colony, corrupt company execs, issues with the terraformers and encroaching hostile nations.

Would Palpatine's return in The Rise of Skywalker have been better received if it was hinted at throughout the first two movies?

I think it would have made for a great final scene in The Last Jedi. In my head it goes something like this: Kylo Ren returns to Snoke's ruined throne room after his humiliation at the hands of Luke Skywalker.

But surprise! Snoke's body isn't there. A trail of blood leads to a hidden Sith shrine. Snoke managed to crawl to this secret place after being cut in half. (like Maul)

99.9% of the 40k fanbase is great. It's a community like any other with its negative and positive elements. I think the problem is that the 0.1% is feeling increasingly threatened and hateful towards those they consider "outsiders".

https://twitter.com/EckhartsLadder/status/1616109713573249025

I don't know how many franchises and properties we've covered at this point. It might be well over 100, but comments on our 40k videos are notably more hateful and vitriolic. They remain a very small minority, but they're hard to ignore.

- Views from the Settled Systems
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