Premium Episode 178: The Mankind United Cult with Ryan Serisu

"Explain the lore of Warhammer 40k" Okay, so, first you take a Mattel executive, and you give him a bunch of action figures based on Rob Liefeld art. That guy then gets a bunch of people who really dislike Rob Liefeld, and tells them they have to write stories aimed at Rob Liefeld fans. He then fills the room with marijuana or some other drug that makes them loopy and giggly and puts them in a good mood. Then once a week he runs in and tells them to come up with an explanation for why this new action figure he wants to sell is really cool. This leads to things like "What if these super genetically engineered warriors were also half-werewolf?" or "What if this entire species had the power of Haruhi Suzumiya, but were also really really stupid?" Or "What if the movie Hellraiser?" He then goes and takes those stories to ANOTHER set of writers, and tells them to write MORE stories that explain why the first group of stories makes any sense at all. And explain why some of the bad guys who look exactly like the good guys are evil instead of good. Then some people are randomly selected and told to write fanfiction about the stuff those guys made up, BUT, that this fanfiction has to try to stay in continuity with all the stuff that has come before it, and all the stuff that is currently being created that they don't know about as well. Repeat for 35 years.

Matthew Steele

Any relation to the Coast to Coast Art Bell?

Matt

The space conference is one of my new favorite episodes. Also, I <3 Mathilde and you two are adorbs

The society structure sounds more like the Great Houses of Dune than 40K.

Jason

Honestly. Same.

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Noted!

Holy fuck this Bell shit needs to be a Coen Brothers movie

skrrt vonnegut

I bet it's a Quick 'n Toast burger with fries and an Orangina.

Nèv

"Monsieur Jake, voulez-vous goûter ma bite?" Jake said yes. We all heard it!

Nèv

i also want to know

Shivvy

......Is anyone going to ask Julian the favorite dish he had 4-5 times recently?

Cody

That sounds like a fascinating and yet disturbing job!

Miss Behavior

Jake do you ever solo que into the rec on 2k?

Blake

I was once an curator of Radical Islamic and White Nationalist materials - it definitely isn't a walk in the park haha.

Laurel

The money idea is not without basis. It is called "Demurrage" or "Schwundgeld" and the idea is that money, just as any other resources, should depreciate with time, not increase in value.

Jan Meyer

As an archivist, I laughed when Ryan was talking about wanting the librarians to know that he was disgusted by the racist materials. We understand that research isn’t always pretty, I promise!

Miss Behavior

Remember "Superman vs the Mole Men"

Jon Adams