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This is sensational 👏👏👏👏👏👏

I think writing about more than one platform makes you a heterodox. (I could try to work in a jab about neoclassicals being anti-empirical, but I will leave that work to others...)

What platforms?

idk if this is related at all, but jreg just posted a warhammer 40k political compass video www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKgI...

this is Important

I haven't been on bluesky, are there any load-bearing skeets that I can make my username? My old username on twitter was "Anthony Goldstein, Ravenclaw, Jewish Wizard" in honor of jkr

*nods sagely* A worthy endeavour.

we could use a little more 40k in these trying times (that we may become more metal)

EU finance minister after one (1) tariff introduced

I clicked on this tweet with so much hope and excitement only to find that it is mere fiction

I mean that's what I mean by fun

hell yeah comrade nerd

You, me, and Ollanius Persson practicing Catherism in the outskirts of space Rome

It ends thus which could also be an abstract. Also, there's a bit where I say what I think the 40k general depiction of economics is within the official canonical sources (sherdenpact.neocities.org/GrimDarkEcon...) and I'm gonna obnoxiously tag @noahvannguyen.bsky.social to see if he agrees. Sorry!

OP says "this morning" even though it was "this evening" - there are no doubt loads of typos in the actual text I am tired will correct tomorrow!

Have you read any of the Necromunda stories? They are usually from a non power armor perspective. Junktion is a fascinating story from the perspective of a “lamp lighter”, ie an electrician who keeps the lights on in the underhive during a devastating water shortage.

I enjoyed this thought process so much, thank you again for sharing. I can see why you’re a fave of my brother, builder of worlds. ✨

WAIT @noahvannguyen.bsky.social I just remembered reading on your website that you're not allowed to comment on things like this, so I apologise for first tag! I was very tired when I made this thread and just thought your book kinda touched on some similar stuff. Sorry didn't mean to be awkward!

I'd like to make fun of this, but I have doodled more words than I'll admit to in person on such topics as "does the Imperium force sectors near to active war zones into a single currency for the productivity boost?" and "is an Inquisitor technically a mobile command economy?"

Send me those words!

Sure! I'll root through my notes and get back to you. Just to expectation set though: "doodling" is the operative word. Just some fun amateur stuff for my own hobby world building.

what you describe for Sherden is 100% plausible. my only objection isn't really to the concept or execution but to them being Khornate -- when Chaos is involved you're not bound by the laws of physics, let alone economics. cults on daemon worlds can do the blood-skull-murder thing indefinitely.

but overall, as I said, it's scarily plausible for a culture in 40k to say "you guys are superior, do murder on behalf of the other 80% of society." hell, that's what the Imperial death-cults probably do (I haven't played that DLC for Rogue Trader yet don't correct me if I'm wrong)

Thank you this is very kind! I am of course always open to reading any homebrew or meta you come up with :)

Imperial Death cults do murder for all sorts of reasons, from the idea that the Emperor requires human sacrifice to be appeased (we kidnap the dregs of society and ritually murder them) to the idea that the Imperium needs to be kept faithful through murder (anyone who is deemed "heretical" gets it).

reminded me in a number of places of how Mike Duncan talked about how the 10 non-fiction seasons of Revolutions podcast informed the current on-going fictional 11th, Martian Revolution. bsky.app/profile/bigt...

I'm sorry. What? * Looks at the revolutions podcast for the first time in half a decade. WHAT

Yeah, and latest he's said about his plans is season 12+ is back to the non-fiction with some post 1917 revs.

none of it is as direct as "here's space Bolivar" but a colonial elite going to the metropole to complete their education and being thoroughly unimpressed with the people and institutions? That's an experience easy to see in many places and times.

hey thanks for linking this! i poked through some of the essays and stories and they were neat.

Yay thank you! Lemmie know your fave :)

sherdenpact.neocities.org/sermon, sherdenpact.neocities.org/GuestPostLit..., sherdenpact.neocities.org/ShortsNone. It's fun to compare and contrast your Khorne with various takes on Pathfinder's Gorum and Szuriel I've seen.

And that, in my opinion, is a morning well spent!