IMO all of these date ranges are wrong (at least, if they’re supposed to be the heyday of the genre).
It seems to be a common misconception nowadays that e.g. Jules Verne is steampunk. This is understandable, as steampunk consciously borrows the styles and tropes of that period, but he was actually just writing contemporary science fiction.
Yeah it was my first real encounter with wh40k, and I really enjoyed it.
That said, I felt that act 3 massively overstayed its welcome, and act 5 seemed kind of vestigial.
In retrospect, I also think the RP and faction system didn’t really work given what it’s meant to represent. You’re supposed to be unimaginably wealthy, with the output of entire planets at your disposal. You should be able to get a basically unlimited number of anything non-unique. But the way it’s implemented means that your ability to actually purchase anything is still limited by the value of whatever junk you found lying around, in a way that is significantly less flexible than a traditional cash-and-vendors rpg economy.
Oh, and can anyone give me an in-universe explanation for why “scrap” continues to be a limited resource after Kiava Gamma and/or Vheabos VI?
Well, that all came out sounding rather negative, but as I said I really did enjoy it. Those are really my only complaints.
The bishop-equivalent in shogi (Japanese chess) is 角行, “angle-mover”. (Which is odd because none of the other pieces are so mechanically named; rooks, for example, are 飛車, “flying chariot”.)
There are shogi variants that have elephant pieces, but they don’t move like bishops.
Though in that case it’s because it was continuing to lean further over time and they were worried it would fall over. Nothing like that is true of the pyramids.
The simile actually breaks down in the other direction because the Tower of Pisa was never straight to begin with; the top was built at a different angle from the base.
In the future Star Trek wants us to imagine a black female officer is completely unremarkable.
Interestingly, in the unaired TOS pilot Pike did in fact remark on a female officer (albeit Una rather than Uhura), saying he “can’t get used to having a woman on the bridge”.
Of course, being unaired, the episode’s canonicity was pretty questionable. Until SNW used the exact clip of him saying that as archive footage.
(n.b. None of this is intended to negate the point you’re making. It’s just a strange little thing that could have been brushed aside as an artifact of the show not quite having figured out what it was yet, had not modern Trek gone and affirmed it.)
It’s actually not quite an exception, because cocaine is a Schedule II drug (can be prescribed as a vasoconstrictor or topical anesthetic) and the Maywood plant is the only facility licensed to produce pharmaceutical grade cocaine in the US.
So the coca leaf extract they sell to Coca-Cola is technically a byproduct.
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