we call this the Byron Move

I'm going to be best friends with the Ogryn

>old fashioned

there's a certain kind of person who needs to jump through multiple mental hoops in order to justify liking a genre or type of story they normally dismiss as lesser or unworthy, rather than just reflecting "hey there's maybe more to this kind of thing than I previously gave it credit for"

the older I get the more I think that the Butlerian Jihad is a really good idea actually

the real Char was the friends we made along the way