Man. Twilight Imperium is wild.

Oh wait, its SHE. I misheard. So a evil female el cid who leads an army of combining super robots through space.

Do they do some sort of cinematic gattai sequence like Eidolon Maximum presumably has?

Hey wait a minute.
Diaz al-sayad? You really just made the Saint of Swords El Cid?
And he has an army of evil combining super robots?
lol

youtu.be/pdTNrv4HOaM

Yeah, the hook for them was to give them this kinda alien mindset of mutual obligation which makes the entire rest of the galaxy seem insane to them. Their society CAN be entirely made up of corp-style deals because they actually believe in fair dealing, not the false god of shareholder value.

Or how an artist would create a painting as a way of repaying someone, then it is seen as so good that others would give that artist money as repayment for making such a neat thing for them to see, then the artist would make art to repay that debt...

Yeah, you can imagine ancient villages that organize themselves into tiny megacorps that would compete and do stuff like have mergers and hostile takeovers and then suddenly there's a city-state equivalent. Like how rome formed from a bunch of villages.

Thinking of them as having a corporate culture and semi-cyberpunk affectations in their bronze age is such a cute image.

Love the 'less hopeless cyberpunk' feel you gave them with their megacorps acting like a local government with its workers as shareholders. They still fight and such, but you can plausibly imagine how things would be before they became industrial due to that detail.

Theres this hint of possibility about what ancient ral nel culture was like based on how they are still environmentally concerned about their home planet and what they owe it. Whole local beliefs about spirit corporations and divisions responsible for the wind, the rain etc.

Did you work on Ral Nel consortium lore? I loved it.

What was it like in the office the day after the tonight show episode aired? Sounds like a lot of back to back phone calls and email.

Can't believe libsky just collectively decided to punt the hornet's nest of nominal leftists who turn into Milosevic the moment their national hobby horse legacy conflict is mentioned

The European countries didn't want the jews, and they had only one option left, Israel. The zionist argument became ascendant because almost all jewish cultural institutions in Europe that could argue otherwise were destroyed.

Then the Holocaust destroyed much of European Jewish culture. Then the various governments in western and Eastern Europe prevented the jews from the death camps from going home and held them in a prison camp in squalid conditions. Pogroms faced jews trying go home in poland.

Yeah, we were talking about zionism in a historical jewish context. In the 19th and early 20th centuries as nationalism became a thing jews in Europe were writing about if they should make their own nation state where they would be safe. Lots of European jews were anti-zionism.

You need to read up about the various European pogroms of the 19th century and the Jewish debates about nationalism in that era to get the context for this conversation. You seem uninformed about the subject.

You probably could make stancils experience part of a larger article about people being targeted and harassed via image generators. It seems more relevant that way instead of focusing on Stancil himself and trying to extrapolate based on twitter metrics of neo-nazi memes.