I think a bit of shade against Spoons is justified. Apart from their owner being terrible, they genuinely have the worst chips I've ever tasted. They're chips! How does a chain restaurant get that so wrong?
Until the Winds of Magic change the rules specifically to screw with you, because that's a risk you just have to understand and accept in both WHF and 40K.
Yup, but I think it's probably accurate to think of these as in continuity rather than opposition. Reform and New New Labour are part of the same broad political project, so they'll happily crib ideas from each other. Hell, Glasman probably already has half a dozen Sun columns calling for this.
I think you can make a case that Magus literally is her entire spine. Which is also a cruel-but-not-completely-inaccurate description of their relationship dynamic.
This is absolutely a thing in Games Workshop's settings, where magic is so spectacularly unreliable and resistant to empirical testing that being a convincing phony is a much easier and safer career (until it isn't).
Or, hell, Sinestro as The Fugitive. He's been an antihero surprisingly often for a guy with a pencil moustache named Sinestro.
The Harley Quinn Clayface dived right into this, so while that's an... idiosyncratic take on the Batman franchise, there is precedent.
Though I would suggest that the thread you're quoting maybe goes slightly too far, in that there is some strategic value to vote-shaming people who support particularly right-wing parties. If their political allegiance becomes unpleasant to discuss in public, that removes a key campaigning tool.
Three people from entirely different cultures getting pedantic about dragons in extremely different ways. Chinese guy: "Excuse me, dragons are fish, not lizards." Middle Eastern guy: "No, that's not a dragon, where're its extra heads?"
The political/economic repercussions of 'now, you owe us money for help we haven't given you yet' in the post-war era could get pretty wild.
The sorts of people who actually have reasonable reasons to fight on the sane side as the legions of Hell.
Right, but I was specifically thinking about more sympathetic military factions, like mirrors to the Sultanate or the nicer New Antioch factions.
Feels like there should be a spectrum from the completely, monstrously evil types like the Black Grail to the more complex sorts who might make your random bozo at home go 'you know, these folks have a point'.
Just out of curiosity, given the murky cosmological nature of the Great War, are there any more sympathetic hell-associated playable factions in the world to balance out the more sinister heaven-associated factions like the Trench Pilgrims (and explain more about why people are enlisting for them)?
It's more relevant when you remember exactly how central Mandelson is to the New New Labour project. They actually were prioritising getting him the corrupt business arrangements he wanted over engaging in any form of serious governance.
Dismantling your diplomatic corps to give the Special Bribery Boys plum jobs is reflective of a general disinterest in serious governance.
The Mandelson story does tie into a whole lot of reasons why this government is so very shit at handling (insert crisis here), though. Including, yes, the Iran war.
Just ask the red one to set you on fire every so often. I'm sure she'll be happy to oblige.
Cyberpunk 2077 - If you have a loaded gun and nothing to lose, the evil megacorp is right next door.
Or sufficiently advanced robotics engineering, I guess.
Enthusiastic corruption and casual bigotry are very effective at kneecapping effective responses to national and international crises.
The centrality of PM and his circle of allies and disciples to the New New Labour project is extremely relevant to why it's incapable of handling any of that other stuff, though?
Except that Trump didn't actually like him. Even the 'we thought Trump would approve of a corrupt weirdo ambassador' narrative seems like another excuse to hide the fact that they just wanted to give their boy a cushy job as a reward despite his complete unsuitability.
Judging by the prepared questions, they were apparently going for 'righteous fury at treacherous advisors' in order to attempt to put him on the side of the mob baying for blood. Of course, it failed absolutely miserably.
Closest I've yet seen is Wraith from Deadlock, who's a lady mob boss who holds her tommy gun with robot arms so she can slouch along with her real hands in her pockets.
Just the UN magical girl team's diplomatic liaison/PR guy, wondering how much damage control he was going to need to run after all that.
Symphogear kind of did this. The girls stayed human-sized, but the sensibilities of the show were extremely mecha. It was also completely insane. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ADFN...
It's lesbian text - the three girls do eventually end up forming a polycule, complete with formally trading kisses to seal the deal. I don't remember the show being of particularly high quality in general, but some other Internet acquaintances were bigger fans than I was.
Also, it's a story called 'Platinum End' where half the supporting cast are shiny naked angels, and all of them have extremely disappointing butts.