u/Rasples1998

I'm always disappointed with the lack of units in various forms like we have tacticus apothecaries and phobos helix adepts but no terminator apothecaries, so I took some bits from the old dark angels deathwing apothecary and the grey knights apothecary and made my own in "true scale" using the terminator sergeant body with some of the new(ish) blood angel upgrade bits. I think it turned out well, and the scale doesn't look off.

To clarify, I have no doubt in my mind that Starfighter will succeed on all fronts and keep this franchise in a comfortable position for years to come. Therein lies the dilemma, though. In many ways, Starfighter will probably be even safer than The Mandalorian & Grogu.

“STAAARFIGHTER, more like STAARRRPOWER”, is a joke I often make when talking about this movie, but it’s also a testament to how incredibly stacked its talent is. Multiple A-list actors (e.g., Ryan Gosling, Mia Goth, Matt Damon, Aaron Pierre, and Amy Adams), paired with an accomplished and seasoned director like Shawn Levy and wrapped in a recognizable and popular IP during its anniversary year, are all you need to know to recognize that this film will be a slam dunk, even if the story is aggressively mediocre. If The Mandalorian & Grogu proved anything, it’s that the Star Wars fandom is large enough to keep even the weakest SW films from reaching Supergirl-level disasters. Combined with Gosling and Levy’s rising stardom, Starfighter may be the easiest win for Star Wars in a long time.

This is to say that Starfighter isn’t a test, but an affirmation that recognizability is still profitable. My belief is that this film will have the same impact on the franchise as The Force Awakens, but with less hype.

This is the two fingers. Churchill didn't know about its meaning because he thought it was "V for Victory", but it's actually equivalent to a middle finger (we have that too). It means "fuck you" or "up yours". But reverse with the palm facing outwards, that's the peace or victory sign.

This is probably used in Australia and new Zealand too because our cultures are almost identical, and maybe rare parts of Canada.

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It's strange because London is seemingly the beating heart of the country where a lot of our national culture lies, but I've honestly never visited. I've never been to London, and I've never even met anyone who is from London. I live in the middle of England so I've met more midlanders, northerners, Scottish, and Welsh than I've ever met a Londoner. I've even met more Americans. So when people talk about it or some little microcosm of culture or something exclusive to London, I have no idea what they're talking about because London might as well be a foreign country to me.

So when you ask someone if they want to watch a movie, you say "do you want to go to the pictures?". This might just be a very local thing to me though and not common in the rest of the UK.