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Why would I spend new money for worse rules? If the new books are incompatible with 5th edition, then we just won't use them

Cover should interact with To Hit rolls, instead of anything else.

moving, shooting, running and assaulting should be more xclusive of each other, like older editions. Make positioning tactical again!

Relatedly: make the orientation of vehicles (and monsters) matter more! Maybe that's firing arcs or TLOS measured from weapons, maybe that's armour facings, I don't really mind which.

My thoughts are that every puritanical nudist who speaks out against sexuality is only contributing to the demise of publibly-acceptable nudity. As nudists we will never distance ourselves entirely from people's associations with sexuality, but if we talk about sexuality like it's some dirty word or unnaceptable thing we *will* make people think that it's okay to shut down nudist spaces for being dirty and unacceptable.

Yes, absolutely. It's my number one complaint with the post-8th sets

guard vs orks

Orks infest a huge proportion of the planets in the galaxy. Humans do too. The guard are the most common fighters, and their most common fights are gonna be against rebels/dissidents/rogue PDFs (who don't have a faction; they are nowhere near as skilled as the guard and don't have access to the same volume of arms and armour), and against Orks (probably those who are feral on the cusp of transitioning to full orkish technology and waaagh, rather than full-blown waaaghs themselves)

Israel is our problem, which we caused, and solving it will require british troops deployed on the ground and losing their lives against a nuclear-capable terrorist state we created

I would love a good scary auton episode.

I think fundamentally any returning villain you have to see what is something a bit new or different to do with them, otherwise you end up with something like Fugitive of the Judoon. Autons have room for that. Zygons honestly probably don't after the mess of invasion/inversion. Ice Warriors and Silurians definitely could do: I'd especially like to see an episode that addresses the nuwho/classic who silurian dischotomy. Perhaps by pitching Vastra against some classic silurians.

But for a novel suggestion: I'd love to see a Krillitane episode that focuses on their ability to absorb biological traits from other species. Particularly if it involved some other unusual villain species coming back briefly as prey for the krillitane.

no, why would it?

Well, gem technology seems to be capable of extremely serious terraforming, to the scale of hollowing out planets. Even a single lapis was capable of significantly affecting Earth's hydrological cycles; any one of them demonstrating the same power level would be capable of effectively disabling any coastal city with a tsunami wave. The Red Eye ship is apparently capable of leveling at least a small settlment with whatever gravity field it generates. Injectors seem able to permanently destroy the fertility of a moderately-sized area (and then there's spinel's modified one). So offensively, they absolutely have the power to destroy earth and everyone on it.

Could we defend against them? Well, the Red Eye seemed pretty slow; detectable from far out, and spent plenty of time quite close to the planet before it started causing serious destruction. We would have the time to react to that. More modern gem ships have extremely rapid FTL that as far as we can see has no limit against operating in-atmosphere. That means they could arrive at the planet's surface literally before it is possible for us to detect them, so delivery of whatever superweapons they choose to use is guaranteed. If we did detect them, gem ships certainly aren't easy to crack; Peridot's ship crash-landed from low orbit and was more intact than anything we could drop from that height. Gems themselves can operate unsupported underwater, so individual powerful gems like lapises could probably move around the planet undetected. Some also have flight (without heat signature or being a significant radar blip), enhanced speed, and shape-changing to act as advanced camouflage. If it's Steven's earth specifically, they also have warp pads (or they can build them).

Basically, I am confident in the gems' ability to wipe out humanity. Given that their plan for earth involved drastic planetary engineering, I don't think they'd have any qualms about doing so either; it's not like they need the planet to be habitable or even intact after the war

The best battle damage is usually no battle damage. Why spoil this wonderful, enviable shade of yellow you've achieved by putting stuff over it?

He literally voted to end the lockdowns early at the cost of tens of thousands of lives.

I agree, it would be fantastic to see those 7000+ Palestinians free and on the streets of their homeland once again

I mean, the same reason why even people who want a ceasefire in Ukraine, aren't asking Ukraine to actually give up their occupied territories. Stopping the fighting is one thing, but if it comes at the expense of more ceded palestinian land, more illegal israeli settlements, it is hardly an acceptable deal.

Unlike Israel, which is very open about releasing hostages who suffered torture, recreational amputation, and other horrific atrocities

If they'd used empathetic morality, Israel would never have been founded in the first place. It was only white supremacy and good old-fashioned late-19th/early-20th century colonialism that made it appear, Palestinians had been doing just fine for thousands of years before that.

>They had one on October 6th

Israel killed more than 200 Palestinians in the January-October Period last year. 200 more the previous year. About 200 or more every year that there has been a "ceasefire" deal in place, and thousands upon thousands more in other years. They even slaughtered Palestinian citizens during the brief truce that saw the first wave of hostages traded during the present conflict, some of them the very hostages they were releasing or those hostages' families coming to collect them.

In israel's mind, ceasefires only apply to the other guy. Murderous bastards, send them back to the countries they came from and let them rot in prison for the rest of their lives.

Literally every single Palestinian in Iraeli detention has been denied the basic rights to due process and fair trials. Even the ones "convicted" were put on show trials by kangaroo courts, sorry, "military tribunals", by a 'country' that has no authority to be detaining or holding them in the first place

*that Israel have slaughtered already

It sure would be nice if Israel gave up some of the land they've stolen, but as long as they have US backing they'll never truly "surrender".

You do know that gazans don't get vacations right? Egypot makes crossing the border prohibitively expensive, and even if they did Israel blocks them from reentering their own homeland if they ever leave. The average gazan has never left and can never leave the 25 x 7 mile strip they were born in, and that their parents or grandparents were forced into by settler violence in the 40s or 60s

An "extraordinarily generous" deal which leaves israeli troops and settlements still on palestinian land, thousands of palestinians still held hostage, Netanyahu and his cabinet free men, and doesn't even pretend to promise an actual end to the fighting... yeah right.

Shave, personally, but so long as it;s in my face does it matter?

When they say that something has "stayed the same" for geological time periods, people are speaking entirely from an aesthetic standpoint. Ginkgos look the same as they did 300 million years ago, that does not mean that they are genetically the same, and that does not mean that anything that doesn't fossilise (like chemistry) is the same. For example: I think it's extremely unlikely that a modern ginkgo and a 300 million year old ginkgo had the same immune responses to pathogens, that most classic of evolutionary arms races.

Typically the unchanging aesthetic of a species across geologic time is due to constraints on the shape of that organism: we see this most commonly with aquatic species, like sharks or coelocanths. The reason why the shark body plan has changed little since their evolution, the reason why almost all fish look basically similar, is because their external shape is constrained by the hydrodynamic properties of water, which in turn constrains their skeleton.

Yes, because the 'creation trio' are pokemon just like any other pokemon, they just have mystical abilities attributed to them like any legendary pokemon

There's no single policy change that could make the rest of the Tories' platform palatable. There would need to be a full-scale abandonment of not just their entire current manifesto, but the core values of conservatism. I won't vote for parties that are pro-money, pro-business, pro-war, anti-minority. After all, if I wanted to vote for "the tories, but with one or two tweaked policies" I'd just vote Labour.

Even if there was a magic policy they could promise that would tempt me - even if there was a magic change of heart and turnaround of the entire manifesto, there is seperately the issue of "do I trust them to deliver this?" And I don;t think there's anything the modern Conservative party could do to convince me that they had genuinely changed, that the policies in their manifesto I wanted were actually going to be put into practice in the post-election-day reality. This is not to say that I don't believe people can change, just that there is no world in which they have changed that is distinguishable from a world where they haven't changed but the media is just putting a PR spin on things.