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Variance Hammer

@variancehammer.bsky.social

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Writer for variancehammer.com and goonhammer.com. Co-host of Lost to the Nails and the Plastic Pressgang Podcast. Fan of the Horus Heresy, Adeptus Titanicus and myriad historicals. Avid terrain enthusiast. He/him/his

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 4d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Variance Hammer @variancehammer.bsky.social · 5d

30K Seven Samurai with a Blackshields primary detachment with OoM: Alone and Forgotten and OoM: The Blade of the Just
Win a combat? Get 3 VP.
Lost a combat and die? Get D6+1 VP

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Variance Hammer @variancehammer.bsky.social · 5d

a man in a yellow suit is holding a flamethrower and the name arthur09 is on the bottom

ALT: a man in a yellow suit is holding a flamethrower and the name arthur09 is on the bottom

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Variance Hammer @variancehammer.bsky.social · 5d

I am *very* tempted by Oath of Moment: Alone and Forgotten.

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Variance Hammer @variancehammer.bsky.social · 5d

@simonberman.bsky.social How you feeling about the Blackshields rules?

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 14

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · 6d

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 7d

WWII "Friend" poster series from the Allied Forces, originally demonstrating the various Allied forces (British, Australian, Chinese, French, Dutch, etc.) and their appearances

It reads:

"This man is your FRIEND

He fights for FREEDOM"

The image is a sepia/black and white toned image of the Portland Frog protester, simply labelled FROG

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Variance Hammer @variancehammer.bsky.social · 6d

Tungsten putty?

Variance Hammer @variancehammer.bsky.social · 6d

I'm so sorry.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 6d

I watched this (link in the comments) a few months ago and I’m still delighted by it. Worth watching if you find Shakespeare “difficult” at times.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 6d

The Polish Territorial Defense Forces report that they are training mounted infantry.

It seems there will now be Polish cavalry as well.
www.facebook.com/Terytorialsi...

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Variance Hammer @variancehammer.bsky.social · 8d

Glad you enjoyed it :)

Variance Hammer @variancehammer.bsky.social · 8d

And to be clear, I did mean this sort of emergent "We have a cool robo-man who was around during this period, I wonder what he was up to..." rather than like, "Shareholder relations says you need 1.75 toy mentions per page."

Variance Hammer @variancehammer.bsky.social · 8d

I really liked that idea!

Variance Hammer @variancehammer.bsky.social · 9d

OpenAI must opt-out of me breaking into their offices and stealing everything but the green pens.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 9d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Variance Hammer @variancehammer.bsky.social · 9d

This one is me, talking about plague narratives in 40K, and how much they make sense from an epidemiological perspective.

TLDR: If it's @guyhaley.bsky.social odds are it's pretty good!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZG1...

Warhammer’s Plague Narratives from the Perspective of an Epidemiologist – Warhammer Conference 2025

YouTube video by Warhammer Conference

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Variance Hammer @variancehammer.bsky.social · 9d

Videos from this year's Warhammer Conference are being posted on their YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@WarhammerCo...

It was, once again, a great conference full of people talking about the game, the universe it's in, the history of GW, etc.