Ah, you know, there’s reach that exceeds their grasp that is harmless and provides a life lesson, like the time my friend bought two junk cars to build into one good one, realizing only after the fact that he bought cars from different model years that had almost no commonality. Then there’s exceeding your grasp by taking on a dangerous task unprepared and failing on day one, spending the next several weeks building a hobo village in a public park.
Best part: they wanted to re-live Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, yet neither of them actually read it.
Of course, Warhammer 40K also has a very troubling approach toward sex. The Space Marines are eunuchs, the Eldar soldiers are psychopathically focused on war, the Orks (despite appearing male) are actually sexless fungi, the Tyrranids are insects, the Necrons are undead robots… the only people who have sex in the future are Chaos, and it’s bad sex.
The Leagues are new as of a year ago. They haven’t been cancelled at all. There was an army box that was cancelled/only trialed, but as a faction, they’re still very much available for Kill Team and Combat Patrol.
I specified the Farsight Enclaves, the Tau faction that’s broken away from the control of the Ethereals who run the mainstream Tau Empire via … pheromones/mind control/dark magic/take your pick.
If Farsight’s being controlled by his sword, it’s not doing a very good job at making him chaotic - just immortal.
Damn, the only cultural references that have been posted in the last several hours that I understand are Huckleberry Finn, Bond villain, and Nelson Muntz.
I am shocked that a sewing machine didn’t turn out to be useful to have on a raft trip.
My fault for making an aside mentioning Warhammer, it’s a huge rabbit hole. Five years or so ago I was vaguely aware that it existed. Now I know ridiculous amounts of trivia about universes that don’t actually exist. And I’ve never played the tabletop games or owned a single miniature.
Actually, I think Elon Musk would like to think he’s more like Le Chiffre from Casino Royale.
Le Chiffre got the money from the African warlord, which he used to short-sell a bunch of stock in an aeronautics company against what the market thought would happen. He expected that the stock price would tank when his guy blew up the prototype airplane in a terrorist attack.
But when Bond stopped the attack, Le Chiffre lost about a hundred million dollars.
At some level, and minus the brilliance and actual good intent, Musk works well as the Emperor of Humanity.
For those who aren’t 40k lore fans, the Emperor of Humanity was, quite honestly, what you’d get it you took the ambition and physical perfect of Khan from ST, made him immortal, and combined it with awe-inspiring (in the most literal sense) psychic gifts, complete with God-complex (arguably correct) and a vision of mankind’s manifest destiny.
And if he had achieved his goals, humanity would likely have become the sort of super-race that Musk regularly has wet dreams about - super rational, technological and genetic supermen, under the control of an immortal King (NOT God, the Emperor would be sickened by the thought).
Except, like all such beings, hubris was the downfall of the Emperor. He was so busy literally playing 4D Chess and planning for the future that he ignored the present, as well as ignoring the ‘human’ element of humanity. So his own genetic children fell into chaos and insanity and ripped his plans apart, leaving him dying but not quite dead for millenia, strengthening the forces of chaos he thought to force into dormancy, and basically going full Shakespeare tragedy.
Never go full Shakespeare tragedy, not even the fools escape this one.
I mean, they used to have lots of sex. It’s not their fault that they were so good at sex and having so much of it that they collectively willed a chaos god into existence which destroyed their civilization and set galactic society back tens of thousands of years.
A fortunate coincidence.