Warhammer 40000 comics are drawn by retards with no perception or understanding of scale. They are only attempting to one-up each other. My reaction: shrug and ignore.
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So, it's confirmed then that none of the ships pictured are actually in the background behind the mega-ship? Because some of them look like they are.
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You can always tell when a fictional universe was developed by men.
"The rest of the poem plays upon that pun. On the contrary, says Catullus, although my verses are soft (molliculi ac parum pudici in line 8, reversing the play on words), they can arouse even limp old men. Should Furius and Aurelius have any remaining doubts about Catullus' virility, he offers to fuck them anally and orally to prove otherwise." - Catullus 16, Wikipedia
Uraniun235 wrote:So, it's confirmed then that none of the ships pictured are actually in the background behind the mega-ship? Because some of them look like they are.
They are. I should correct what I say and iterate, "the other ships" instead.
Big honkin space guns on big ships are more a men thing though so she does have somewhat of a point.
And on the other side, what would a woman's sci-fi universe be like? High-school drama in military uniform? Maybe male characters turning gay and getting it on with each other.
No, some men have both sex lives and are comfortable with their sexuality, and don't need retarded penis-measuring contests to feel like their life is worth something.
Lord Zentei wrote:Warhammer 40000 comics are drawn by retards with no perception or understanding of scale. They are only attempting to one-up each other. My reaction: shrug and ignore.
There is a reference in Necropolis to battleships the size of cities, to which the hive city in question was about 70 km in diameter, in which case the scaling of that megaship pretty much fits in comparison to the other ships around it, assuming its basic shape is the same, which it probably is.
Lord Zentei wrote:Warhammer 40000 comics are drawn by retards with no perception or understanding of scale. They are only attempting to one-up each other. My reaction: shrug and ignore.
There is a reference in Necropolis to battleships the size of cities, to which the hive city in question was about 70 km in diameter, in which case the scaling of that megaship pretty much fits in comparison to the other ships around it, assuming its basic shape is the same, which it probably is.
"Size of cities" can mean anything. As for example, the spire of Hive Primus on Necromunda is ten miles high. I seem to recall someing like a 7.5 km figure for BFG BBs, so the 70 km figure is a bit doubtful, IMHO.
Anyway: if those smaller ships in the foreground are 1.5-2 km long, the large ship is a great deal bigger than 70 km, judging by the draft.
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TAX THE CHURCHES! - Lord Zentei TTC Supreme Grand Prophet
And the LORD said, Let there be Bosons! Yea and let there be Bosoms too!
I'd rather be the great great grandson of a demon ninja than some jackass who grew potatos. -- Covenant
Dead cows don't fart. -- CJvR
...and I like strudel! -- Asuka
Shinova wrote:Typical battleships like the Retribution class are about 7.5kms. This is obviously one of those special things the Imperium has around.
Yeah, but a frigging order of magnitude longer? That's a volume ratio of a thousand to one!
Bah.
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TAX THE CHURCHES! - Lord Zentei TTC Supreme Grand Prophet
And the LORD said, Let there be Bosons! Yea and let there be Bosoms too!
I'd rather be the great great grandson of a demon ninja than some jackass who grew potatos. -- Covenant
Dead cows don't fart. -- CJvR
...and I like strudel! -- Asuka
Pick wrote:You can always tell when a fictional universe was developed by men.
It's good?
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No. Men definitely have it in for the wank-factor above such feminine concerns as "character development" and "problems not solved by brute force and huge guns."
"The rest of the poem plays upon that pun. On the contrary, says Catullus, although my verses are soft (molliculi ac parum pudici in line 8, reversing the play on words), they can arouse even limp old men. Should Furius and Aurelius have any remaining doubts about Catullus' virility, he offers to fuck them anally and orally to prove otherwise." - Catullus 16, Wikipedia
It is fair to say that a male-written story is more likely to have wank in it than a female one.
It is also fair to say it is more likely to be awesome.
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Pick wrote:...... "problems not solved by brute force and huge guns."
If at first you don't succeed try again with more explosives.
Works well for me.
Marcus Aurelius: ...the Swedish S-tank; the exception is made mostly because the Swedes insisted really hard that it is a tank rather than a tank destroyer or assault gun Ilya Muromets: And now I have this image of a massive, stern-looking Swede staring down a bunch of military nerds. "It's a tank." "Uh, yes Sir. Please don't hurt us."
Pick wrote:No. Men definitely have it in for the wank-factor above such feminine concerns as "character development" and "problems not solved by brute force and huge guns."
While admittedly Bloodquest does solve most of its problems by hitting things, it is not without character development. The whole story is about the fall or the attempts to not fall from grace. Brotherhood and the like.
Just because a universe has large spaceships doesn't make it bankrupt in the literary sense.
You are correct, that these two things are not necessarily connected in every cirumstance, just a overwhelming percentage thereof.
And seriously. Look at that big ship in the OP. Step back for a moment. Just one moment. Now think about it --not in terms of destructive capacity, or artistic merit, no, just think about that ship in the most general sense.
It's goddamn silly.
"The rest of the poem plays upon that pun. On the contrary, says Catullus, although my verses are soft (molliculi ac parum pudici in line 8, reversing the play on words), they can arouse even limp old men. Should Furius and Aurelius have any remaining doubts about Catullus' virility, he offers to fuck them anally and orally to prove otherwise." - Catullus 16, Wikipedia
-- Asuka
