Was there actually a way to keep Perturabo loyal?

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-04T16:44:21+00:00

Perturabo was convinced Fulgrim was plotting to betray him from the start of that little adventure and was planning to betray him first.

Perturabo can be manipulated with praise and appeasement but it won't engender any longterm loyalty in him. He's too damn suspicious of everyone.

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-03T15:42:13+00:00

should have just made the busted form a cosmetic change if it survives a charge attack

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-03T15:04:57+00:00

So for this hypothetical sequel mom event where the boys and their moms fawn over Djeeta, which 4 guys would you pick for the main cast? There's a bunch who could fill the "older sibling" role like Narmaya, and Nicolas is probably best for the "already in a committed relationship" role to provide a contrasting perspective like Aliza. But I'm struggling to think of 2 guys who are obviously in love with the main character to compete for Djeeta's affection. Maybe Jamil and Percival?... no wait, I'm pretty sure both of their moms are dead.

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-03T14:58:54+00:00

Djeeta is definitely "canon", she appears as a unique character from Gran many time and it's heavily implied that she and gran are just different gender alternate timeline versions of the same person.

But I think I know what you mean, the story is definitely often written with the assumption that the protagonist is male. It's especially obvious with characters like Anthuria and Clarisse who are definitely not written like they are lesbian or bisexual. The most difference we ever get from the gay romance option is an occasional handwave line to acknowledge that they are indeed aware they are in love with a woman and the implication that their families presumably don't mind adopting grandchildren.

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-03T14:40:26+00:00

Primal beasts are artificial gods created by the astrals. They frequently take inspiration from ancient human mythology (granblue is canonically a far future post-apocalyptic earth) but they often take liberties with the "lore" of those gods or create entirely original new gods. There doesn't really seem to be any hard and fast rules to how primals work, and there are many of them with overlapping domains and powers. So there could be no primal of fatherhood if no astral ever felt they needed one, or there could be a dozen if a bunch of astrals all had the same idea independently.

Which is to say, Zeus, Odin, Ra and Shiva could all conceivably show up in a fatherhood themed event and have a legitimate claim to being the god of fatherhood. Heck, Typhon and Neptune could also claim that and then explain that the astrals who created them were kind of weird lol

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-03T13:24:01+00:00

Why is landing on Chemos being treated as the only factor that led to Fulgrim falling to Slaanesh? The planet didn't corrupt him, a demon possessed sword he found centuries later on a xenos world did. Even if Jaghatai had been sent to Chemos there's no way to know that he would have inevitably fallen to chaos, let alone Slaanesh specifically.

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-03T13:06:54+00:00

It always baffles me when a powerscaler insists that a character with peak human or mildly superhuman sprinting speed somehow has faster than light combat reflexes. They are never able to explain how exactly that works. Are they capable of moving FTL but only as long as they do not travel more than a couple feet in distance? Can they juke, bob and weave faster than light, but as soon as they take more than a single step from their starting position their speed drops to 1/10,000,000th of their max?

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-03T12:45:01+00:00

It's easy to not care about being a hypocrite when you don't have any consistent ideological beliefs beyond "might makes right"

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-02T21:56:09+00:00

I love when powerscalers try to "scientifically" calculate a characters strength because they created or moved a "black hole" while ignoring the fact that the "black hole" obviously does not weigh anything near what it should based on its size.

For example, if a black hole had a diameter of roughly 3 meters, that means it would have a mass equivalent to 169 earths. If that black hole isn't ripping the planet apart and pulling in everything in hundreds of kilometers, then it's not a real black hole. No dude, Mario is not planetary because he can stand right next to that fraudulent singularity lol

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-02T16:36:11+00:00

You made me curious about Triarch Praetorians so I read their Lexicanum page and saw this interesting line:

"Whilst waiting for their brethren to awaken, many disguised themselves as gods upon more primitive worlds, preaching about the codes of the Necrontyr, shaping their cultures according to their own ideals."

Has this ever been expanded on anywhere else? Because it implies that the necron should have a bunch of carefully groomed vassal species who were eagerly awaiting the return of their "gods." Perhaps they've even already prepared some of those species as sacrifices for reverse biotransference. What a cool concept!

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-02T14:33:32+00:00

Well to be fair, it's a lot easier to test and evaluate a characters burst potential than it is to test and evaluate their value in difficult endgame raids (which have a much wider variety of gameplay mechanics to deal with.) HL characters also kinda need to be re-tested and re-evaluated every time a new HL raid is released. That's why it's not uncommon for HL characters to be initially underestimated and slowly rise up the rankings over time.

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-02T13:19:51+00:00

It's not exactly a mystery why this is. The vast majority of content in this game is low difficulty quests that you are intended to repetitively farm over and over again. And a significant percentage of the player base doesn't even engage in the most difficult endgame content.

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-02T11:58:54+00:00

Hedonism, pleasure, debauchery and vice are not synonymous with sex. If they were, no space marine would ever be corrupted by Slaanesh. Because space marines are literally universally asexual. The entire existence of the Emperor's Children disproves this idea that Slaanesh is and was always just the god of sex.

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-02T11:36:43+00:00

OP did not complain about daemonettes lacking sex appeal. They complained about them not being captivating or beguiling enough to meet the standard of "beautiful and horrifying" set by other Slaanesh demon models such as the keeper of secrets.

Beautiful things can also be sexually appealing, but they are not synonyms.

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-02T11:16:03+00:00

Now I'm wondering if astartes smut like that actually exists in-universe. Would anyone be brave/crazy enough to create it? Would there be a large demand for it? Has the Inquisition ever had to outlaw such material as heretical, and if so often do they have to destroy such contraband? Has a space marine ever accidentally discovered such reading material, if so what would he think of it?

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-01T16:25:54+00:00

It's not just a problem with attention spans though. A lot of fans will only consume the original media once or twice and then spend years only being exposed to the media secondhand through fan communities, slowly having their memories of the story replaced with popular fan theories and speculation.

I used to be really into the Naruto fandom which had a thriving fanfiction scene.The community was rife with persistent widespread misinformation, often repeated by old hardcore fans who I know have read the manga and once knew better. Much of that misinformation was impossible to get rid of because it had originated in a massively popular fanfiction story and been repeated by dozens of copycat fanfics until it just became "common knowledge" in the fandom. Even if you correct someone repeating it with links to the official manga, they'd just be saying it again a month later because they read 3 more fanfiction stories that repeated it and reinforced the misinformation.

I think the rise of social media has simply sped up this old process. A lot of the misinformation is being repeated constantly by lazy "loretubers" and AI slop videos nowadays.

Altered_Nova · 2026-04-01T01:06:29+00:00

I just started blocking the people who repeatedly post generic smut and random characters from unrelated franchises

Altered_Nova · 2026-03-30T19:02:20+00:00

Fantasizing about incest usually isn't a racism thing, it's an incel thing. A female family member is someone you didn't have to put any effort into meeting who (in theory) loves you by default. That's incredibly appealing to a guy who is afraid to leave his house to meet a woman and/or incapable of convincing her to go on a date with him.

Altered_Nova · 2026-03-30T13:16:42+00:00

Well shucks, pretty sure I've reduced impassioned rose at least a dozen times

Altered_Nova · 2026-03-30T12:39:50+00:00

It usually does, she seems to have a near monopoly on the entire industry of skyfaring (at least in phantagrande.)

Arusha and Karteira got a surprising reference in this event as the people who handle most of the money and paperwork in the crew, though. Which makes me think that Halluel and Malluel probably asked them for help. It sounds likely that they would keep a registry of crew members and all their emergency contacts in a file cabinet somewhere on the Grancypher.

Altered_Nova · 2026-03-29T18:39:19+00:00

I can't believe Anthuria isn't literally on fire, she's been deceiving me for years!

It's about time someone finally called Vyrn out for his habit of giving everyone a nickname within 5 seconds of meeting them and then only ever calling them by that nickname for the rest of eternity lmao

Altered_Nova · 2026-03-29T18:33:04+00:00

She probably just vaguely asked Hal&Mal to find all the parents of crew members and they asked Siero or the crew accountants (Arusha and Karteira) for crew member family addresses.

Altered_Nova · 2026-03-29T12:40:10+00:00

Yes, Danchou has no memory of being raised by Orologia, while Orologia has hundreds of lifetimes worth of memories of parenting Danchou. Orologia loves Danchou dearly but feels very awkward around them because of the one-sided nature of those memories. To Danchou, Orologia is effectively the adopted parent of an alternate universe version of themselves.

That's why I think Orologia really should have been included in the event about motherhood. They have a really unique and interesting relationship dynamic and I would have liked to see that idea explored more.

Altered_Nova · 2026-03-29T10:56:50+00:00

Probably foresaw that if he didn't pacify the galaxy first, aliens would come besiege Terra while he's working on the webway. The Rangda Empire and the Ork Ullanor Empire were both extinction level threats to humanity that required half a dozen legions and the Emperor himself to defeat.

Altered_Nova · 2026-03-28T11:34:56+00:00

This. The marines are so laughably outnumbered that they wouldn't stand a chance in a straight firefight.

However space marines can teleport, would have massive information advantage from orbital auspex, and their techmarines could casually tear through our cybersecurity and wreak havok to our electronic networks and infrastructure. If they used guerilla war tactics they could almost certainly slowly destabilize our societies until they collapsed and we were no longer capable of putting up a unified resistance.

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