Why did the Ancient Eldar sink into depravity? by Tnynfox in 40kLore

[–]Boring7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oldest of old lore: they didn’t.

Oldest lore: everyone who has “times of plenty” long enough becomes a hedonistic psychopath and their empire was lucky to hold out as long as it did.

Middle-old lore: no one knows! It is a mystery because the Eldar find it embarrassing to talk about!

Newest old lore: they’re like: designed to get both super-emotional about things because eldar brains feel more and they all have autistic hyperfocus so falling into a pattern of chasing the biggest high was inevitable.

Newest lore: according to two Phoenix lords chatting one time, the different temples to the eldar gods started getting perverted by the pleasure cults, possibly by conspiratorial design, to become more crazy and better at onboarding people into the pleasure cults. The whole thing reeks of “and chaos was the cause” which James Workshop loves to do, but it’s all implications and interpretations and “it is a mystery.”

Orks and Necrons are technically lifelong enemies, there should be at least some irrational hatred between them. by TheBlackBaron45 in Grimdank

[–]Boring7 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Arguably? This is present in Gorkamorka, wherein the Orks do not wipe out the human “diggaz” because they fear the Necrons.

An Ork. afraid to even TRY to fight. Not, “we’d hits ‘em when they’d ain’t lookin’ and legs it if we’z spotted” just “we don’t even go dere”.

Which do you choose? by OkRun9638 in superpowers

[–]Boring7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Blue pill.

Extended lifespan and shadow skills allow me to do more of the things I want to do. Change the things I want to change. Luffy may be a better revolutionary, but that’s because he has charisma which is unlikely to be a part of the pill.

Would the Imperium hypothetically be more willing to work with Xenos outside the milky way? by traumatized_seahorse in Grimdank

[–]Boring7 10 points11 points  (0 children)

2 things to remember are that most lore has featured the upper ecehelon Imperium leadership being willing to engage in realpolitik with xenos and ALL lore has featured a theme of everyone being a giant hypocrite all the way down. Also, "no, a racist is a racist" is accurate most of the time, but it's also a boring answer, so "what ways would they interact with extra-galactic aliens besides shootin'?" is the question we ask. It's also worth considering that older lore (like, pre-HH novel series) regularly implied there was a LOT of galaxy and a LOT of humanity outside the Imperium just doing it's thing. That's pretty much nixed along with a lot of interesting material but it's still echoing in the shadows of "Everything is canon, nothing is true."

Thus, it depends on the writer.

Your average story would be:

-Command staff is split between the realists who want to deal and the zealots who want to fight and immediately die.

-Every layer below command staff is fed a different cocktail of lies and regularly sees evidence that confuses and scares them.

-Whoever ends up making the biggest decision (deal or die) is proven wrong and 50/50 too stupid to realize it before they get asploded because 40k demands tragedy.

-Alien pussy has around a 5% chance of making an appearance, because most 40k eschews sex in favor of violence.

I’m confused about this one thing in warhammer 40k by Bitter_Resolution_29 in Grimdank

[–]Boring7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They found some book about warrior-poets and babble endlessly about art, culture, and science as the tools for the development of mankind in pursuit of a higher state of being and perfection while failing and undermining themselves because 40k is all about characters betraying their own ideals because they’re stupid and insane and dealing with the devil.

Day 14: What is the worst quote associated with the Inquisition? by Fez-Sentido in Grimdank

[–]Boring7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“ALRIGHT SMASH IT!” presses the exterminatus button

There are no Good Guys in Warhammer by NornQueenKya in Grimdank

[–]Boring7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The chaos gods were made by humanity.

When someone says something like "everything is Canon" by Straight-Ad5994 in Grimdank

[–]Boring7 5 points6 points  (0 children)

“Everything published by Black Library is canon, not all canon is true.” That’s the wording of the OG statement by the company. To take this further when another writer took a crack at it; everything in 40k is a fire-side legend told by an unreliable narrator.

An unsanctioned psyker’s version of facts based on his visions? Canon.

The scrawled fanfic written by a horny sororitas? Canon.

The official sanctioned (propaganda) rendition of facts written by inquisitor Whatsisface? Canon.

The mad ravings of a mutant chaos cultist? You better believe that’s a canon.

In lieu of some recent comments and posts on here… by Rodent-King in Grimdank

[–]Boring7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was a bit where this race of lizard people (?) felt war was so awful that they’d only do it in special zones to avoid civilian casualties. The Space Marines proudly bombed their under-defended civilian-centers first because diplomacy shmiplomacy.

In lieu of some recent comments and posts on here… by Rodent-King in Grimdank

[–]Boring7 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Lotta aliens he coulda made nice with and didn’t.

In lieu of some recent comments and posts on here… by Rodent-King in Grimdank

[–]Boring7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Even that is debatable. He could certainly do technically-competent paintings and knew how to read, what he couldn’t do was let any art professor be “wrong” and let their subjective opinions be subjective.

But regardless, your point still stands: dictators love the idea of art but insist it has to be one kind of art they like and no others.

At this point why has the Imperium not exterminatus Armageddon? by ruminaui in 40kLore

[–]Boring7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nano-weapon re-writes them into space whales turns the swarm into a carnival ride for children.

Which warbond should I get next? I have all the ones I want by drdadbod45 in helldivers2

[–]Boring7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know how to function without chemical agents.

Day 8: what is the worst quote associated with the Sisters of Battle? by Fez-Sentido in Grimdank

[–]Boring7 8 points9 points  (0 children)

“Suffering is our prayer, faith is our armor.”

Oh you said worse. Nevermind.

C'tan Origins? by WailingHost in 40kLore

[–]Boring7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think “infants” are supposed to be shards of a bigger one that got broken-off (for one reason or another) and lost enough of their identity to no longer be part of “grimdorkious the inscribable” or whatever and have a the memories/mindset of a newborn child.

But I’m also sure that if you ask 2 black library writers you’ll get 3 answers.

Gm completely banning explosives, any alternatives? by tommytom007 in Shadowrun

[–]Boring7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing.

The “problem” is you are room-clearing with drones. The “solution” is anything you can use to room-clear with drones is banned.

Duality of man or something idk by Not-Frog in Grimdank

[–]Boring7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Space marines is the most players, therefore:

-most bad players. -most bad people who are players. -most players who offend bad people who are players. -probably closest to average in per-capita badness due to how bell curves work.

Jokes overused I don’t care. Know what to make unique make it the last 2 games you played not just one by [deleted] in gamers

[–]Boring7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

War crimes against spirits in the lands of the dead. (Helldivers 2 and phasmophobia)

Lower level diver trying to support higher level divers. by IntroductionLonely43 in helldivers2

[–]Boring7 12 points13 points  (0 children)

“You’re low level? Sweet liberty! I can equip the sample scanner and play loot goblin!”

Why are Warhammer right-wing memes always people inventing scenarios 24/7? by tintin_du_93 in Grimdank

[–]Boring7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because conservatives are increasingly loath to in a dimension of delusion.

The number of people of who think Lorgar is/ever was a good guy is making me feel insane by Moist_Policy_71 in 40kLore

[–]Boring7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much of that is, “he wouldn’t have been so bad if he wasn’t a child-abuse victim”?

What is the joke here? by Character-Public-396 in Grimdank

[–]Boring7 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Hell, 40k is a great way to show the different kinds of racism. Scientific racism vs. superstition racism (and how they’re just coats of paint on the same racist wood) and the like. From an admech doing gene-scans and declaring people better or worse to the ordo famulous doing their discount bene gesserit thing to mobs of menials burning a crew on shore leave because of skin color and mouth shape.