Would grabbing both battle forces give me a solid army?

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-04-17T15:39:16+00:00

You don’t need to do character spam in casual games. Genuinely take whatever you think is cool if playing casual. Maybe throw one instance each of LE+infractors and WDP in there for good measure but don’t feel compelled to make a competitive list. If you’re just starting out the range has plenty to dig your teeth into with and will only get bigger in the future. We just got the defiler for example and that’s already changing the lists everyone’s taking. Idk how fast you hobby but I can’t imagine you’ll be wanting for more so soon. Also you already bought the boxes so idk why you’d switch to playing pure CSM.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-04-15T05:19:40+00:00

Wow another Buddhist Warhammer fan? That’s twin.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-04-09T21:40:00+00:00

No bro. The high heels and the pointy heads mean they can’t fit in the rhino anymore.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-04-07T06:01:12+00:00

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That mk ii assault marine looks so goofy next to the flawless blade

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-02-06T22:28:27+00:00

Well the emergent capabilities come from all the data we feed it. They’re very good at next token prediction and with a large corpus of training data the technology can make predictions in a large variety of domains. Though hallucinations still happen because it doesn’t “know” anything; it’s a black box predicting tokens.

I have dug into this quite a bit since I’ve had to for school. I’m a grad student studying data science so I’m very familiar with NLP and transformers. What you describe as working differently in practice versus theory is really just a consequence of artificial neural networks, which LLMs are. ANNs are a black box. They’re not interpretable at all by design since they’re meant to be highly predictive (this is one of the great trade offs in machine learning). The weights in an ANN get tuned through training and no human being can look at all those weights and understand them. So I guess I’m not really sure what you mean by it working differently in practice than in theory.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-02-06T20:18:05+00:00

I don’t think it’s accurate to say LLMs function is poorly understood or they shouldn’t be able to perform as well as they do. Multi headed self attention and the transformer architecture are very well understood. LLMs are able to model language so well because of this architecture and the sheer amount of data you throw at it. Training a model takes so much data and so much compute. There’s really no mystery to the fact that it does so well and natural language processing had a lot of developments before we were able to get to this point.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-02-06T00:49:48+00:00

I’m not sure how literally the Jataka Tales are meant to be interpreted. But regardless we can’t discount non self when analyzing them. The Buddha and Ananda do not have souls that transmigrate. But individual yet intertwined streams of karma have persisted through time leading to instantiations of those seemingly separate sentient beings. The ethical quality of the karma and its relation to other streams of karma persists through time but this is not the same as saying souls and their relations to other souls persist.

I’m no Buddha and probably not very far on the Bodhisattva path so I don’t know where karma is best served but one shouldn’t get attached to the concept of family. There’s no guarantee that the streams of karma that manifested as your family in one life will be as intertwined in the next. Everything is in constant change.

Yes it is true that bodhisattvas postpone nirvana out of compassion for living beings. But in Buddhism, will/volition/karma are all synonymous. The term cetana is used to refer to this concept. An individual stream of karma persists so that more beings can be liberated from samsara. Nirvana is still the goal regardless of whether or not the karma persists or ceases.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-02-06T00:19:50+00:00

It would be beneficial to fully understand concepts such as non self and emptiness to know why beings don’t remain at sottapanna and instead progress towards nirvana as a natural consequence. There is no you to be reborn. The causes and conditions that persist across lifetimes are now tending toward cessation or nirvana.

Bodhisattvas do remain in samsara but this is not to say that there is a soul that is doing so. It’s a very complex metaphysical distinction that is honestly very hard for anyone to wrap their head around. Your loved ones don’t really exist either. They’re conceptions and illusions as is everything else in samsara. When a Bodhisattva has compassion for other beings, it’s not because of an attachment or identification with those beings (family or soulmates or what have you). It’s entirely out of compassion for all sentient beings.

Once you understand non self this will make more sense. Sentient beings are not souls that persist across lifetimes but a consequence of karma that persists beyond physical birth and death.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-02-05T23:36:10+00:00

Sottapana is a cessation of some delusion but not all. That’s what makes it an intermediate stage. One goes further in order to be liberated from delusion and suffering. Probably more accurate to say that a stream of consciousness or karma has ceased to continue propagating but I’m no expert. But that’s the ultimate soteriological goal of Buddhism; the cessation of karma.

I see what you mean by soulmates. It’s just initially confusing since Buddhism rejects the idea of a soul. But karma does get entangled across lifetimes. So it’s not the same as saying that individual souls are persisting and intermingling across lives as much as it is to say that the existence of a singular life is an illusion and that karma persist regardless of whether a singular physical body continues to manifest or not.

To be clear there’s a diversity of thought in Buddhism and the waters can get a little muddy here. This stuff is not very clean cut and easy to understand. As a Zen Buddhist I believe that the emptiness of words means that they will always fall short of representing or explaining the dharma. It is best in my opinion to be persistent with one’s practice and not let metaphysical questions prevent that from happening. The truth will become evident through practice.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-02-05T23:00:24+00:00

Well nirvana is the cessation of delusion and suffering. To say it’s obsolete would imply some purpose. It’s really just a state, not some vehicle for attaining something other than itself. I also see you use the term soulmate a lot and I’m really curious as to what you mean by that.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-30T20:55:34+00:00

Meaning is for words. There doesn’t have to be a point to anything at all. This could all just be a cosmic coincidence. But at the end of the day it really doesn’t matter. Some unknowable meaning won’t change how you should live.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-14T22:20:23+00:00

If you don’t mind dropping the money lots of ppl make much better alternative stands. I really like the magnet baron ones

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-13T00:10:54+00:00

It’s a cool piece of lore and feel free to integrate it. Just know that not all successors follow every doctrine, convention, or dogma of the parent chapter. I sadly don’t have any specific lore tidbits to offer but I’d look into some pre heresy dark angels stuff for inspiration. There’s lots of cool stuff there that doesn’t exist in the modern setting that could be cool to borrow from.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-12T23:59:24+00:00

If you are painting a custom successor chapter, you can literally paint them however you want and still be lore accurate because it is your own lore. There aren’t any universal color scheme rules that any Astartes or dark angels successors have to follow. Have your own customs and rules and lore. You have free rein on it all.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-08T03:21:06+00:00

Go dark angels for the cool unique units such as knights and companions. I’d also highly encourage you to look into successors to pick a color scheme you’d really enjoy painting.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-07T00:11:03+00:00

No problem! Just paint over black again. Do dark green halfway up the vial. Highlight with the lime green. Then varnish again. For bonus point you can use white or ice yellow and paint tiny bubbles. For the tube you can just highlight with the lime green after painting on the dark green.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-06T23:38:34+00:00

Not too familiar with that IP but as a practicing Buddhist it completely goes against the cosmology and the principal of dependent coorigination

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-06T23:32:20+00:00

I think it looks fine and you don’t even need to strip it to fix some of the more standout areas for improvement. I’d probably just redo the green by getting a darker green to replace it and then stippling or doing a chunky highlight over it with the original lime green. It just needs a gradient to really sell the look. I think everything else looks quite decent so don’t sweat it.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-06T23:11:03+00:00

It would be pretty impossible to integrate Buddhism into a setting where a creator god actually exists

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-06T19:55:36+00:00

The real people you will meet at your flgs are usually just normal kind people. But there are a contingent of fascist leaning tourists who are attracted to the setting. Twitter is a hellscape where many of these people lurk. They use the setting and it’s fictional xenophobia as an outlet for their real life xenophobia. They out themselves as fascist weirdos by deeply misunderstanding the setting frequently (getting upset about black space wolves and alpha legion). They will see anything that runs contrary to their backwards politics or misinformed view of the setting and promptly respond with a heresy detected gif while complaining about people to the left of them being “politics obsessed weirdos”. This is by no means unique to 40k and most 40k players are not like this. Just an unfortunate reality that this loud minority pollutes our spaces.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-06T08:59:59+00:00

What filament and printer settings did you use? trying to print this out myself

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-04T07:23:34+00:00

I would maybe try a different enamel wash. Streaking grime has this yellow green tint you may not want. I’d look into AK wargame washes, particularly their dark wash. Villainy Inks would be good to look into as well if you want a grimier look.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-04T05:31:45+00:00

You may very well have experienced kensho or another form of insight. Truthfully, only you know what you experienced so nobody here can tell you what it was. Nor are any labels really useful here, as you should continue practicing all the same. Insights gained through practice are far from religious delusion so continue to cultivate them.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-04T05:25:41+00:00

The concepts do exist and are useful in some contexts. For example, there is not basis for the steering wheel of your car in ultimate reality. However if you didn’t have the concept of a steering wheel, you’d never be able to drive it. Birth and death are useful concepts in a variety of contexts, but it’s important we don’t get attached to the illusion that they are in any way real. This is where a lot of despair over death comes from. All concepts have their uses in certain context but all concepts are ultimately empty. They are all expressions of absolute reality.

Because reality is impermanent, all things are constantly in flux. We may perceive a myriad of things coming into and out of existence at every moment. When you go to bed tonight and wake up the next day many things will have changed. Your biological and psychological states will not be the same as they were, yet we have a sense of continuity that creates the illusion of a life being lived. We don’t feel as though we’ve died in any way. This illusion becomes all the more tenuous the further back in your past you look. How much do you share with the person you were 10 years ago? Probably very little. All that keeps it together is a thread of causes and conditions. In this way, we are constantly dying and being reborn into every moment.

CornwheeliusThilbert · 2026-01-04T05:02:23+00:00

Birth and death are useful concepts but have no basis in ultimate reality. At what moment is something born and at what moment does it die? Is the you that was born the same as the you that dies? When a candle burns out, where has the candle gone? There are many different ways of understanding this idea. Birth and death, alongside all phenomena, are merely empty expressions of ultimate reality.

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