Yeah! Our house doesn't have great hot water, so often the lotion is by far my favorite part of the shower

That also tracks! GW's entire history seems to be the repetition of "a single writer or designer gets a really passionate idea which get's awkwardly and incompletely implemented by the corporate side of things"

You are braver than i am going to a high school reunion in the first place, tbh

Re-reading your older thread on Kragnos, I am struck both by how much GW failed to hit the target they were setting up themselves, and also by the sheer number of narrative threads which could still be pulled to make Kragnos relevant in any number of ways.

He could be a chained god, manipulated by his followers in the same ways that other gods feel no qualms about manipulating the mortals under their protection. There could be a whole new faction set up of, like, remnants of non-corrupted Goroans being led by this ancient Drogrukh warlord claiming that the forces of Destruction have lost their way (maybe with an endless spell looking like a line of ghostly centaurs conjured by Kragnos' memories). Gobsprakk could even set themself up as Destruction's answer to Morathi, using religious devotion towards Kragnos to increase their own power and setting up a sort of "rival religion" among the ranks of Destruction that could provide ongoing intra-Alliance conflict beyond just "greenskins always like to fight each other".

Reading through your recaps it even seems like some or all of the above angles were originally intended by GW, who then got cold feet and decided to put out the kinda meandering and pointless final products we got.

I really wonder what the decision making process behind corporate doors was. Was Kragnos' search for his roots deemed too similar to some real-world analog for colonial atrocities or something and scrapped to avoid controversy? Were resources for models to make this all happen diverted to the unexpected interest the TOW? Did some writers overpromise on the concepts and simply stumble in the execution?

Generally I agree with your points that self-diagnosis is valid, but should be accompanied at least by research on the part of the self-diagnosee to corroborate their belief (since as you say, autism shares symptoms with a lot of other issues for which there are different and better treatments), and even pursuing a diagnosis in most cases (but not all; there are valid reasons in different situations why and official diagnosis on their record might be harmful to an individual)

But also I think we have these kinds of discussions all the time in autism groups online, and we assume that we have the ability or authority to police or evaluate the diagnoses of various internet strangers. The fact of the matter is that people on the internet are going to say what they are going to say. The only lever of control we have over that is just...being rude to people on reddit, which has never changed anyone's mind on here in the history of this site. I am being somewhat facetious, but not very.

There is no mechanism for us as individuals nor as a community to police the claims of others, so trying to do so is necessarily going to be messy and ineffective, and probably scare away people who do have autism, which seems to be self-defeating.

Isn't bromelain the chemical that digests you back when you eat a pineapple?

You can paint flesh and hair literally thousands of different ways, and not having a wall of identical skintones and hair colors would go a long way towards reducing the perceived sameness of the Fyreslayers range

The nudity is the best part! Honestly I think the main problem with the fyreslayer's range is the incredibly boring official paint scheme that makes every single member of the army look like the same person.

That idea for CoS is good, but I would settle for updated elf- and dwarf-only units to incorporate, Gloomspite Gitz style.

But ogors aren't greenskins. So like, it does make Destruction not just greenskins by definition.

Ohhhhh specifically the gobbos! That is very obviously what you were saying in hindsight

Yes, for sure. They are excellent tarpits with recursion. A non-optimized opponent in a casual game (or even just a favorable faction matchup at a tournament for that matter) can get one or more units to waste upwards of 2-3 turns getting Stabbaz or Shootaz off the board, only for you to immediately throw another unit at half strength back in their faces. And the moonclan wizards are pretty good.

I don't have any experience with gitmob goblins yet, but they look neat!

I do! I play a mixed list of spiders and squigs

In casual games I win often enough that it's not discouraging, but it's definitely not a "invincible force with incredible strategy" kinda army. It's more of a "there are enough giant monsters to divide my opponent's attention enough that sometimes I can pull off a really devastatingly good round of combat if the planets align correctly" kinda thing

Which honestly fits with the fluff for the Gitz well enough that it only makes me like it more.

Yes, do not listen to people who tell you that you must chase the meta or that there is "only one good list" for a faction.

Unless the main way you interact with the hobby is high-level, official GW tournaments, their advice is irrelevant, and this being reddit their advice is more often than not wrong in addition to being irrelevant

This is the real correct answer. Any faction hates any other faction with as much or as little passion as you define for your models.

Overall in the fluff people are correct: opposition to Chaos is a religious cornerstone of DoK belief, while for most Kharadron it's just good business sense (with maybe some duardin adopting some Captain Ahab-esque obsession with destroying particular Chaos targets because their great grandpappy was there when this particular daemon overran his barak)

Fyreslayers, hands down. Their models are actually very cool looking, but every official paint scheme just makes them all look identical out of a misguided belief that they have to make them a direct port of Slayers from WHFB into AoS

Naming exact numbers and land areas is anathema to the setting. It is meant to be epic high fantasy adventure. The stormcast don't have exact deployment numbers, we just know they are "vast heavenly hosts" which are nonetheless often "overrun by the endless legions of Chaos daemons"

The Great Parch in Aqshy isn't a mappable desert, it is a waterless landscape which poses as much of a barrier as is needed for a story.

This isn't laziness or hand-waving on the parts of the writers or designers. The stated purpose of the setting is to allow you to come up with whatever high-concept fantasy background you want for your particular models, and have them fit somewhere on the maps full of interesting but unexplained names and vague stretches designed to evoke images from whatever stories you've enjoyed over the years.

If you prefer clearly defined borders and in-universe censuses telling us how many forces each faction can call on, TOW is right there, but you're unlikely to find what you're looking for in AoS

This is warhammer. Everyone has been fighting everyone else for centuries. War is a constant fact of life for any playable faction.

People are not saying that KO don't fight Chaos. They are saying that in the fluff the Daughters of Khaine as a whole are religious fanatics for whom hatred of Chaos is the first and most ground-in teaching they observe, while, as a whole, the Kharadron are more motivated by profit than by violently opposing Chaos where- and when-ever they encounter it.

That's the entire premise behind the Slaves to Darkness (both their Chaos Warriors and the Darkoath tribes). Though they don't typically limit themselves to two sources of power

I did. You seem very confused about what people are talking about

What? The Japanes internment camps in the u.s. are a part of history. It is what happened.

Not only did you do well in terms of "it reads like a MtG card," but the fact you can actually tell which specific Magic card it is is absolutely insane

Rules change constantly and the meta shifts usually around every 3 months. Go for army that you love the look and/or lore of, because everyone telling you they're terrible will be wrong before too much time has passed

It's made from apples or other fruit, not malt

I've been in this hobby since the mid-90s and your group is definitely not the norm. Like, more power to you, but I (and most of the people in the hobby I've met irl) want to build a little castle and have armies attack and defend it. I want the terrain to make it look as much like they are fighting in a real (if also fantastical) place as possible

Seems pretty normal to me? I live in SE and aside from the storm yesterday I'm not sure I've gotten hail at my place another time this year

Vivec is a poet first and foremost. He and She can believe with His and Her entire heart that something is true even if it does not conform with observable reality. And the kicker is that He and She is right