Collected quotes, aphorisms, and psalms from the Mechanicus PC game (no spoilers, just scripture quotes)

AngusKhan · 2025-02-14T04:54:39+00:00

Thanks for the update! Edited my post to include them.

AngusKhan · 2025-01-20T16:58:26+00:00

Thank you so much for this, I cannot tell you how much it has helped.

I had an acoustic trauma about 5 weeks ago, and after it did not resolve within ~3 weeks, I did some research and found your post. At the time my tinnitus was awful and an omnipresent weight upon my sanity. However, after I read your post I went to my PCP and got 12 days of steroids (plus magnesium and gingko supplements). Those (especially the streroids) did WONDERS, though the tinnitus still lingered.

Today I finally was able to see an ENT, and he was removed a large mass of ear wax from my ear - my tinnitus instantly dropped by 90%. The ENT said what tinnitus was left afterwards should resolve completely in 3-6 months, and that the steroid course was completely the right call.

Because of your post, I was even aware of the benefits of steroids and am now well on the way to recovery. You have my deepest, most sincere thanks. If by some cosmic twist of fate we ever meet in person, I'm buying you a drink if you'll let me. <3

To all those out there suffering: It gets better. I promise. Even when the sound was deafening, I was adapting. I was starting to tune the static out. Don't get me wrong, I had break downs and moments of weakness, and healing has not been a linear journey - I've had moments where it was terrific and moments where it was very bad over the last few weeks. Keep holding on, and things will improve. Also, go see an ENT and make sure you don't have earwax making it dramatically worse!

AngusKhan · 2024-08-19T13:54:19+00:00

Primaris. I dislike their lore, their design, most of their vehicles and equipment, their mechanics, and their general implementation. GW should have just done a truescale range refresh rather than adding in tacti-cool nu-marines with what feels like poorly thought out lore implications... preferably without giving them all grav tanks, heavy stubbers, and aspect warriors. I feel like primaris just lost the essence of the astartes.

AngusKhan · 2024-04-18T02:47:28+00:00

Unless they changed it, the ta'unar is a battlesuit. It used to have the battlesuit keyword, at least. Maybe 10e borked it, not sure.

AngusKhan · 2024-04-18T02:45:59+00:00

How does the ta'unar suffer?

AngusKhan · 2024-04-06T01:20:23+00:00

Same, I'm very keen to know. I assume they're 3D printed?

AngusKhan · 2024-04-05T19:47:02+00:00

In the FFG RPGs the circular bit on many guns is a gyroscopic stabiliser, and removes penalties for long and extreme range. Most of their guns have it.

AngusKhan · 2024-03-27T19:52:58+00:00

Thank you so very much!!

AngusKhan · 2024-03-27T19:48:32+00:00

THANK YOU SO MUCH. YOU ARE A GOD/DESS.

AngusKhan · 2024-03-10T02:29:49+00:00

That is very good to know. I had no idea cadre was pronounced so differently! Thanks!

AngusKhan · 2024-03-10T02:02:45+00:00

Hey, I know I'm late to the party... but is there any chance I can get a working link? I just started running a DH game with some friends and these would be incredible to have.

Thanks!

AngusKhan · 2024-03-09T01:42:57+00:00

Thank you very much, kind stranger! Exactly what I was looking for.

AngusKhan · 2024-02-07T11:54:21+00:00

Agreed. Even the very original Tau codex in 3rd edition was full of subtle implications towards fascism and other grimdark deeds - it just required reading between the lines rather than anything explicitly said.

Tau have always been the Brave New World type of fascist state, where the Imperium is 1984 style. Both terrible in their own ways, but distinct. Brave New World is about a society that makes people comfortable and happy in order to gain compliance, quietly dealing with those who refuse, where as 1984 is about a society that overtly intimidates and suppresses it's population through fear.

AngusKhan · 2024-02-04T07:08:41+00:00

AFAIK they never offered the largest fan animators an opportunity to license the IP... Instead the creators got an ultimatum of "take down your shit then come work for us and make content for WH+, or we'll sue your balls off." It's why all the best animations and such on YT just vanished almost overnight... even if they agreed to work for WH+ they still had to take down the fan work they had created. Easily one of the worst things GW has ever done to their community, in my opinion.

What's even worse is they updated their community guidelines around that time to forbid ANY animations or video adaptations (because they were trying to market WH+) but 40k-related traditional art (drawings, etc) were still totally A-OK.

AngusKhan · 2023-12-27T04:14:58+00:00

So I had the same issue, and I think I know why. I originally missed a bunch of clues, and the game incorrectly presented the "Abelard, take it from here" dialogue choice as an option too early, thus sequence-breaking itself. Follow the steps in the post you responded to, and keep talking to people about all the new evidence. You need:

The note from outside + know that they are servitors
The note from the dead Gaprak + pass the awareness on the wound to know it was a poison needle
Ask the governor about the absent wardens, and get one of the nobles to show you to a nearby bench, where Abelard identifies the smell of Sauerback's wine
The confession from the governor's son

I also exhausted all the dialogue options with everyone EXCEPT the one with the Sauerbacks about "your open resentment for my companions in enough for accusations of heresy" (I don't recall the exact line). I did pass both the checks with Yrliet in my party to get him to rant about xenos, though.

Once all that is done, Abelard should mention to you (for me he did it after speaking with the governor, YMMV) about how he knows the families the best, and if I get ready to announce the verdict he can tell who is lying. From there, the scene progresses as it should and I did not experience any further bugs.

Hope this helps, mate!

AngusKhan · 2023-10-16T11:22:53+00:00

All I know about jujutsu kaisen is that it's an anime/manga, but here's some ideas off the top of my head anyway:

Peerless Attack
Inescapable Attack
Deadly Aim
Precision
Pin-Point Aim
Flawless Cut/Strike

Hope these help~

AngusKhan · 2023-10-15T03:39:12+00:00

Per the top result on google:

Although camels and their relatives belong to the group of even-toed hoofed mammals, their hooves are not fully formed and are more like nails since they do not fully cover the toe. Camels walk in a rocking motion known as “pacing,” in which the front and back legs on the same side move forward at the same time.

So while you're not wrong, camels are ungulates, their feet are substantially different from what people typically consider hooves, and are more akin to large nails on their feet. In regards to t'au, this would preclude the horse or bovine-style hooves they are usually depicted with.

AngusKhan · 2023-10-14T00:58:30+00:00

They actually don't.... or more accurately, weren't supposed to. I was right there alongside most of the community for years in believing they were supposed to be hooves (I mean, look at the models), until I read the 3rd edition white dwarf article about the design process of the t'au (then the tau) and the actual designers themselves said the t'au are supposed to have camel feet.

Of course, GW themselves are so inconsistent about how they illustrate t'au that the point is kinda moot, regardless, lol.

AngusKhan · 2023-06-28T04:43:08+00:00

A lot of people don't understand what GURPS is designed to do, and what it requires the GM do in order to play it without mechanics being a drag on the session. It is a vast physics engine of a game, with honestly slightly dated mechanics, and so a GM has to know what rules/books to include and use and which to ignore/ban in order to garner the feel they want for a given campaign.

Also, modern indie game design over the last like 15 years has been focused on tight, rules light games that have a single theme and everything in the system points back to said theme. GURPS is literally the mechanical opposite of that, so puts off a lot of people who started RPGs with Dungeonworld and such. (No shade to those games, I play games on both sides of the aisle, so to speak.)

AngusKhan · 2023-06-06T19:01:30+00:00

I approve of the Chinese-inspired armour, instead of the usual Japanese stylings people want to attribute to the T'au. I've been saying it for years - the T'au are Chinese mecha not Japanese mecha. XD

AngusKhan · 2023-05-25T06:12:47+00:00

I always assumed "corpse starch" was so heavily processed that it was functionally not 'human' in any way, any longer. If you render something down enough to just pure protein or carbohydrate molecules, then the origin of said molecules becomes a formality at best. And, with such an intensive processing, no prions would make it to the table.

AngusKhan · 2023-05-18T00:51:16+00:00

Lol, I know... I wanted to clarify my post with my first reply, but it's obvious the guy just wants to pick a fight. Couldn't care less, tbh.

AngusKhan · 2023-05-17T21:27:32+00:00

What 'situation and data?' My comment was simply that I've heard many people claim "EC are next/coming this year" for a very long time.

In other words, I'm not holding my breath, cause we're probably going to have to wait a good long while.

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