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So, browsing Fark, I came across this ridiculous gem. Aside from being a somewhat...peculiarly focused history of the US by a certain American political figure, what more caught my notice was the Space Marine helmet the kid has right at the beginning starting at 6 seconds in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BKDD3BDNHg&feature=player_embedded

I smell a cease and desist letter coming

I hear the IP legal hounds now....

That's hilarious! XD

Blarglord wrote:I hear the IP legal hounds now....

The combination of this statement and your terrifying avatar made me lol irl.

Yeah I did the same thing

I am so totally voting Republican now!

In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, there is only Reaganomics.

Why is he even wearing that helmet in the first place?

If you had a Space Marine Helmet wouldn't you use it for your Bicycle?

Obviously, Reagan is the God-Emperor.

Blood Angels (it was a red helmet) have time-traveling vehicles! Matt Ward wrote them in, but a printing error left the page out of the codex.

There's even a Furious Charge while firing an Infernus pistol at 0:43. Honestly.

I actually think that's a M.A.S.K. helmet, which would have been available about that time...

http://geek-news.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mask_logo.jpg

Not so sure about that M.A.S.K., the animator must be a 40K fan!

On a side note, the simplification of history depicted in this video is frightening. People actually learn that?

M'Kachen's Nemesis wrote:Not so sure about that M.A.S.K., the animator must be a 40K fan!

On a side note, the simplification of history depicted in this video is frightening. People actually learn that?

Well, some people want to foist that simplification on kids to further an agenda based on, to them, an idealized and revised view of the past, but lets not get into that here lest my head explode.

M'Kachen's Nemesis wrote:Not so sure about that M.A.S.K., the animator must be a 40K fan!

Nah, M.A.S.K. was first... it came out in 1985

Rouge Trader didn't come out until 1987 and those were beak Helmets

I love how the quote "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall" is thrown in and expecting people to understand the significance

While simultaneously expecting the kids to realize hes referring to the Berlin wall, when the cold war was never mentioned in the video,

Then it expects them to know that Gorbachev was the Soviet Leader at the time, and understand the significance of that quote >_>...

Then you get into the whole the Soviet Union had been waning for the past 20 years, and was in the process of breaking down long before Reagan took office... but Reagan got lucky and the Soviet Union collapsed during his term in office, and of course Reagan took all the credit...

I won't even get into the hostage crisis in Iran, that whole thing was a sham. Carter negotiated the release of those prisoners, but Reagan bribed the terrorists to not release the prisoners until he took office.

Reagan was a huge dick and a glory hog, and I firmly state that he was the worst presidend we've ever had. FAR worse IMHO than Bush...