TehTJ

[teh-tj]

RIP John Blanche, 1948-2026.

Legendary artist John Blanche, whose illustrations defined Warhammer 40,000, and perhaps a large chunk of modern science fiction, has passed away. Despite his declining health, John was working on his own setting and game 'En Guarde' (a pirate skirmish game), showing that he was active and thinking of his fans until the end. May he rest in peace.

[mapsontheweb]

Passenger trains in US vs Europe (image is making the rounds among U.S. transit advocates today)

[teh-tj]

Before people mention population density, there are MANY places in America with comparable population densities to European countries like France or even Ukraine. Sure, we wouldn't build stations to random forests in Wyoming, but why the fuck doesn't Ohio get anything more than two separate lines bypassing Cincinnati and Cleveland? The Midwest and northeast could be some of the most transit-oriented and integrated regions on Earth if we properly tried it.

[orteil42]

some of you seem to be under the unfortunate impression that i enjoy finishing things. i enjoy making things

[sharts-of-narsil]

[teh-tj]

Comedies are better zombie movies than actual zombie movies because actual zombie movies are too focused on trying to make the zombies make sense, at the expense of the actual thinking-feeling survivors who are inherently much more interesting. While comedies are still mostly character-driven and therefore put actual effort into the survivors.

[teh-tj]

Despite coffee being an old-world plant, it didn't spread much and historically is only documented to around the 1400's in Ethiopia. In fact, most of the earliest coffee shops in Europe opened in the 1600's, meaning that the average Brit was likely to have drunk chocolate before they had access to coffee.

[teh-tj]

I hate when mainstream media has Nick Fuentes on and the interviewer just beshockingly asks Nick if he, the guy who's famous for hosting "the racism show", is really that racist. Like, no shit he is, he's been talking about almost nothing but racism for ten fucking years.

[the-alpine-glow]

fog rule

[dindjarism]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS 2002 | dir. Peter Jackson

[dindjarism]

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS 2002 | dir. Peter Jackson

[hbmmaster]

xkcd fans are the only fandom I've had direct experience with where people do the stereotypical nerdy fan thing of referring to installments of the thing they like by their release order numbers instead of their titles

[hbmmaster]

like I've never heard anyone just say "the simpsons season 7 episode 21" without also saying the episode title but I have heard people say "xkcd 2501" without also saying the title of the xkcd

[willowhelmiam]

Yeah, we shouldn't expect everyone to know every comic by heart. The average internet user probably only knows 1053 and 936.

[hbmmaster]

and 2501, of course.

[willowhelmiam]

Of course!

[worst-egirl]

sigh

hold on

[worst-egirl]

xkcd 1053:

xkcd 936:

and of course, xkcd 2501:

[yuukisjourney]

So is xkcd an acronym or?

[hbmmaster]

just a sequence of four letters

[xkcd-for-that]

It means shuffling quickly past nuns on the street with ketchup in your palms, pretending you're hiding stigmata.

What xkcd Means

[teh-tj]

They're just like me frfrfrfr

[teh-tj]

While Chuck Norris' death is still relatively new I want to share that when Chuck Norris jokes were big, my friends and I had our own series of jokes about Steven Seagal, except the joke was that Steven was pathetic. Here are some examples.

-Steven Seagal can make an entire action movie, without standing up once.

-Steven Seagal's blood cures cancer. Too bad that it also causes heart disease.

-Under Steven Seagal's beard, is another chin.

-Steven Seagal can make onions cry, by showing them his movies.

-Steven Seagal had a staring contest with his reflection, they both tied.

-Steven Seagal doesn't do push-ups...

-Kids can pee their name into snow, Steven Seagal can pee his name into a failed drug test.

-Steven Seagal can move like lightning. Post production.

[teh-tj]

I’m very impressed that WFRP is a viable and reasonably popular RPG. To play it you must

-Know what Warhammer Fantasy is

-Understand the lore enough to get the references

-Be into TTRPGs

-Be into TTRPGs that don’t play like D&D, and in fact are quite difficult

-and have multiple friends who fit all these categories

I’m impressed that it’s a living game with a studio continuing to support it, and not some niche side-project that gets printed just enough to meet demand since 2017.

[teh-tj]

Update, someone claiming to know one of the designers for WFRP 4e told me that at least one C7 employee has read this post, and claimed he enjoyed it. To be clear, this is a compliment and I love this game.

[were--ralph]

how does this country get more embarrassing by the day

[kaban-bang]

[teh-tj]

Unpopular Opinion, the United Federation can kick the Imperium's ass

The UFP has FTL travel, teleportation that doesn't risk summoning demons, diplomacy (which can work very well with eldar, tau, and VERY liberal Necrons), and their weapons are basically infinite lasers that can shoot through powerful armor. The Imperium has brute violence, and when they win a battle it'd be absolute, but the UFP can easily outmaneuver them, teleport bombs onto Imperial cruisers, and has actual moral.

[teh-tj]

Imagine a distant dystopia where Monty Python references have taken over almost the entire English language, the revolution™ is ignited by a man who prefers Spitting Image.

[lysithea-dais]

I have thoughts about this