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This. It's even worse in Australia. The only affordable ev is a Tesla 3 @ 55k AUD. Which even then is out of reach of most.

Why not make a 30k EV? Penetrate the majority of consumers.

I'm on a great wage and even I shake my head at 80-120k range of most EVs here. Then you get bwm releasing 180k+ EVs.. who exactly is buying them?

When you price a technology out of the reach of people, the tech isn't the failure.

Weirdly, bard seems to have gotten significantly better around the same time. Are we just getting used to the tools and there's homogenisation of experience going on or what?!

Niceee

Yeah the strikes and union action hasn't helped either. Just give them what they want so we can go back to regular ish trains lol

Yeah but the bus uses the same road as cars so other than being cheaper, you're getting stuck with traffic

Literally need to wait for the boomers to die out. Yes there's good ones but the majority are spoilt, entitled and easily influenced by the right and traditional media.

Germans. Come to Melbourne Australia, and as you get off at the airport realise there is no connecting train to the city. Cabs only.

Brought to you by the cab industry/lobby.

Jimmy Carr was on Joe Rogan (I know he's awful but it was a decent episode) recently and was talking about how Hitler worked out propaganda works best when the "other" feels alien, which is why he closed down clubs in the 30s. Seeing Jews as "one of us" through clubs and hospitality made the propaganda against them ineffective because they were just seen as one of the people and this Hitler guy was just a nut, the whole movie cabaret being about it.

I think you're right. Melbourne is an amazing melting pot of people, so it's difficult to be not emphatic towards a cause that would improve their QOL

It's interesting to see the breakdown by electorate. Electorates close to Melbourne and Sydney cbds voted yes. The further out of vic and nsw, the more the no grows.

Qld, wa, NT and SA didn't have the same problem. Blanket no.

Tldr, the progressive part of the country that wants this is city focused. The rest of the country has a long way to go.

Totally agree. I find it so bizzare that despite the complaints of never finding their style in 40k, they totally did in epic, and didn't then take that asthetic and reapply it back to 40k!

Yeah same, but voltann are fun too. Glad to see them back, at least it means I can also field these guys as proxies so to speak.

I've been deep diving on why squats/space dwarves were squatted in the first place and it's kind of fair enough. They were selling fine, according to jarvis but design wise they felt they just missed the mark of what dwarves should be in 40k, especially as GW turned up the grimdark. Other races adapted to it because their styles were more solidified. There's lovely charm in these guys, but they definitely needed some refinement, as their designs either leaned into being space dwarves and the models are great. The ones that looked like just more imperial guard, not so much. I kind of wish they did have a go of revamping them back then. Some of the unreleased models that have leaked are excellent and would have fit nicely, and definitely leaned even more into space dwarves (cyber beserkers and Nordic stylings..which seemed to later appear in space Wolfe's funnily enough)

In saying that, ive been obsessed with them since I started in 2nd ed. But given I'm Australian, at the time they were super rare to come across to even buy back in the day. The only original squat I bought in a blister was a standard bearer, which I lost years later in a break-in. So I bought this set to finally have a small army of them.

I don't think the voltann models are 100% there yet, but the lore and artwork in the latest codex is amazing. They've taken that Dwarven miner look, futurised it, and added a unique quirk in the maintaining of tech and cloning from the dark age. In particular, I love how they're hiding AI STLs from the imperium and how they use them as oracle's, and I like how they treat AI troops just as one of the team. When the helmets are down, how do you know if it's flesh or not, and does it matter?

Which leads to some interesting head canon too - there's lots of cybernetics and cloning going on in this army. What if all of the voltann are nothing but completely controlled and manufactured "flesh bots" for those AI oracle's they worship. One more connecting piece..what if they used the original squat DNA for the clones?

Fun stuff and I love it :D