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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • The Imperium are the worst outcome for humanity.

    The Interex would not have fallen to Chaos.

    The fleet based societies wouldn’t have invaded and gone to war with literally all peaceful Xeno.

    A sane federation of post dark age human planets could have been formed without the autocratic dictatorship and avoided war with half the galaxy.

    This would have left humanity AND xenos better off and more capable of defeating emerging threats like the Tyranids.






  • A couple of things you can easily improve on is contrast on the red with some highlights using a paint like Troll Slayer orange.

    The second is that your white looks to be corax white which can be very hard to work with.

    Generally you’re better off picking a warm or cool grey base colour, depending on the white you want, and then highlighting white. For example Grey Seer base layered with ulthuan grey looks like a cold white.

    Where wraithbone layered with Pallid wych flesh looks like a warm white.

    That said, your painting is neat and the scheme is solid so you’re off to a great start!








  • That would be Syngenta, the big agricultural corp involved in the project.

    • Syngenta retains commercial rights, although it has no plans to commercialize Golden Rice.
    • “Humanitarian Use” means (and includes research leading to):
    • Use in developing countries (low-income, food-deficit countries as defined by FAO)
    • Resource-poor farmer use (earning less than US$10,000 per year from farming)

    The key part to me is the under $10,000 USD per year from farming requirement. What happens when a larger farm gets accidental cross pollination?

    What happens to farms with organic certification if their neighbours start growing golden rice and it cross pollinates?

    There is a history of Western nations using “humanitarian” outreach to sabotage developing nations.

    Assuming that Syngenta are entirely altruistic is a huge risk for developing nations.

    Source: http://www.goldenrice.org/Content2-How/how9_IP.php