I read that book about 30 years ago! I didn't remember the eye-scanning gargoyle, but for some reason I still remember the phrase "Ultima Ratio Regum" from the nuclear powered gun.

The poor old White Scars were put out of reach for me by GWs old Tip-Ex-like white paint. Despite what the guides might have said, there is no way that the models were base-coated with the Skull White of the time.

I assume you're talking about the Unifying feature.

I've got no direct experience, but there are a few people who say that despite Firefox not being listed as supported, it works fine.

https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14961275

As for the spying, I can see how that could be a concern, but I don't think it's too likely.

For convenience, I'm guessing they're using a web interface to the settings in the same way that your router does. They've made a Chrome plugin, so that's probably the route they want you to take because they know it works.

Logitech is a global brand, an they'd get into a lot of trouble in a lot of countries if they were gathering keypress data etc.

Advanced Heroquest!

This was my first Games Workshop game (outside of the Milton Bradley co-productions, of course).

Fell in love with the Skaven then, still love them now.

I love Edith Pritchett's stuff!

"Oof. Right in the blocks"

"What a load of absolute blocks"

"It's the dog's blocks"

Camera zoom into extreme closeup. "oh... blocks".

Yep, that's the one.

Where did you go?

Even imagining this pronunciation hurts my ears.

I think you're a little off on the "we need to fix this world" guys.

Although zombie films / TV series lean heavily into the action side of things, that's just because it's more entertaining than watching people building things, developing tech, doing scientific research.

Remember with COVID 19? Huge numbers of people immediately set out to find a cure, inventing and deploying ways to prevent and monitor the spread, creating pop-in treatment centres, etc.

I used to take this to school with me to read during form periods!

I'd been a fan of them since they appeared as a proper army in White Dwarf, although I remember being a bit disappointed that the weird and colourful squigs had been functionally replaced with chubby little rippers.

And for anyone wondering, even for the time the old Zoanthrope looked stupid.

It's the money-men making the decisions now, instead of people who actually care about the product.

Mind you, this isn't sustainable - by shifting to the more "luxury" end of the hobby, and their refusal to embrace emerging technology, they're creating huge gaps in the market for exploitation.

They're on the verge of Nokia-ing themselves out of market dominance.

Just beautiful.

This is exactly the kind of picture that captured my imagination as a kid.

We have that too (UK), but here, when used without the "up" part, "bottling it" and "losing your bottle" means getting scared and deciding not to do something.

Essentially, bottle = courage.

Warhammerers?

The initial buy-in, especially at a Games Workshop/ Warhammer store is astronomical.

You'll need paintbrushes to start - here, try these, the most expensive paintbrushes you'll ever buy. And paints too, how about our mindboggling range of expensive paints?

When I took up mini painting again as an adult, with dirt-cheap acrylic paints and brushes, and achieved far better results than I ever did as a kid with the "proper" stuff, it was a real eye-opener.

Quick question - do Americans use the expression "bottled it" for being scared off?

I'm wondering because in an episode of The Boys, Butcher says the related phrase "I lost my bottle" when he meant "I lost my rag", and it made it to air, even though it made no sense in the context.

From an outsider's perspective, although the Republicans are clearly the most corrupt of the two parties, the Democrats are far from being the good guys.

There's plenty of evidence to suggest that the Democrat politicians don't actually care about truth and justice either, they're just less bad than the Republicans are.

Tldr: vote Democrat, but don't kid yourself. Vote because they are the least worst option.

D&D with the classic Heroquest DM screen? Colour me intrigued...

When juries deliberate, they discuss their reasons for thinking this or that. Basically, by telling the jury to disregard something, the judge is saying that this shouldn't be included in the decision-making process.

Of course people can't just take things out of their heads, and of course the legal representatives take advantage of that fact.

Overhangs were the biggest issue I found. So much so that I moved back to a 0.4 after a month of faff trying to find settings that would compensate.

I use my printer mainly for minis, and figures that would print supportless on the 0.4 nozzle needed huge amounts of supports at 0.2 in order to print without missing chins etc.

That said, the level of detail that I could achieve was better, particularly on the hair, but not enough to compensate for all of the extra faff and wasted plastic.

Is it possible to just tell them it's a medical appointment, but it's about something that you don't feel comfortable talking about?

It's the truth, it explains the secrecy about the appointment, but it keeps the secret.