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The fact that it’s floating above the table probably doesn’t help (it is temporarily glued on by some pegs).
Dark Future is a later Citadel car combat game, and better known among the GW grog circles. Probably because by then the designers had more practice, and because the Dark Future world had originally been intended for an RPG so it was more fleshed out.
It was the cover art for an expansion to Games Workshop’s Dark Future game from the 1980s.
Both The Thing (1982) and Alien (1979) if taken as stand alone works and not viewed with the hindsight of any later added material are very Lovecraftian. Not just in vibe and surface aesthetic, but in the central mythos thesis that learning more about the universe and scratching away at the sleeping secrets never ends well for humanity.
For gaming, I’d add Stasis and Stasis: Bone Totem (shudder especially Bone Totem) to games that follow the central themes of Lovecraft without explicitly placing themselves in the mythos.
Sounds good for foundation activity to keep it going. I’d recommend cross posting to !sciencefiction@lemmy.world too help help get more eyeballs. This is the first I’ve seen of this community because I happened to be browsing new when you made the post.
But you won’t do it again? Right? Right?!
I get they exist but usually you just here about on job and then nothing else. Why is that?
High profile assassinations by lone individuals usually end with the killer getting caught or killed. Usually not an action undertaken by someone of sound and professional mind. If you want to read up on the careers of long time hitmen, you can find books on them for sure, but the kinds of killings they do aren’t usually national news.
needs moar pouches!
The Feldian mercenaries are coming.
This is a good hitman figure to highlight. Notable he had KGB and Stasi support, rather than working for random individuals. One off hitmen for random individuals are a thing, and I’m sure at least a few of them have done repeat business, but most prolific hitmen do jobs for organizations for sure.
This sounds more like you are specifically talking about hitman for hire, rather than just assassins. Assassins obviously exist.
Hitmen for hire have existed as well, but historically they more often tend to be tied up with organized crime, rather than a random number any person can call up for a job.
I know Wikipedia is not the best source, but it is a starting point. Look at the notable persons segment and take note how it is almost entirely organized crime related.
In America first you get the Otto, then you get the Milpool, then you get the women.
Yes, it’s a real milpickle.
Looks like a staging area. What with how close all the AT-STs are. Troopers probably setting notional defense and then chilling until new holo orders come in.
I’ve been off Reddit for a couple of years, but that’s still sad news. That was a legitimately good community, and the name flip was good, and I think they were partnered with worldpolitics which was the flipside community.