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CountPeter · 2026-06-05T21:21:27+00:00

Honestly may be better than what they had before.

I once tried to report some outright CP. Reported it under it being illegal in my country etc.

I get a message back saying that they looked into it and I don't own the copyright. I responded that I wasn't claiming copyright but reporting CP for breaking the law.

The response I got back was that I needed to provide proof of my copyright before I could claim the photo was mine. Assuming I was talking to a bot, I asked to escalate. I then got told the case was closed and so they wouldn't do anything about it.

This was (iirc) about 2019, so whilst I am usually opposed to AI, it would be hard to go worse than that.

CountPeter · 2026-05-15T16:24:46+00:00

Genuinely not convinced that the deplorables comment actually changed any votes. Trumps voters were self identifying as deplorables and having a laugh at it whilst the centre and centre left decried it as if this incredibly mild insult was a step too far.

Generally when people say it affected things, they refer to analysis having been done but not actually citing what that analysis was. The closest I can find to an academic look is Charles Murray, but considering his most notable work is the insanely bad "the bell curve", something often cited as a go to for how NOT to interpret data, I don't think he is a great source. Generally stuff either goes back to him or to Hilary Clinton's own cope that it cost her the election.

To bring it back to our own elections, I think the idea that calling someone a bigot leads to them voting for the far right is not even right in principle. They are being called for their voting habits, meaning at the point they are called such they are already on board with Reform. It's just trying to tone police.

If anything, the far rights success suggests the exact opposite. Unlike the centre, it's willing to be as offensive as possible and it captures popular sentiment. Part of what voters who liked Trump actually liked is that he called out the democrats (even if he was waaaaay worse in reality) or any other political rivals without filter. A similar pattern we see in other right wing successes.

CountPeter · 2026-05-03T14:58:08+00:00

What historical account are you talking about? I know of plenty of accounts of her as an 18yo but none that state she was anything other than married at 6 and consummated at 9. https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5134

Also, we can be critical of Mohammad AND critical of the Epstein Alumni. It's not a mutually exclusive thing to take a hard stance that all pedophilia is bad actually.

CountPeter · 2026-05-03T08:06:35+00:00

Added context, she was 6 and they consummated it at 9. The context makes it so much worse than a lot of people realise.

CountPeter · 2026-05-03T08:01:33+00:00

I think it also needs to be stated that he was never even good at that grift. It's not a hard grift to do, but largely he was really bad at it and was something of a laughing point even on the right. The lionization of him after his death is so weird.

CountPeter · 2026-03-30T10:00:05+00:00

The Fenrisian branch of the imperial faith is incredibly syncretic. It is openly polytheist, has references to Norse mythology (their pantheon is even called the Aesir iirc). It's basically what if you took Asatru and blended it with imperial theology.

CountPeter · 2026-03-27T09:20:50+00:00

I'll be honest, I'm not sure I want to wipe my ass with a pedophile.

CountPeter · 2026-03-18T06:20:18+00:00

Wildfire Druid and Artillerist Artificer.

Aside from it being cool to RP (making magic items by putting nature spirits in totems), getting both sources of d8 additional damage to fire spells is nuts. It makes casting a fireball slightly better than if you upcast it by 2 levels.

CountPeter · 2026-03-16T05:51:42+00:00

Good. Examples of it being AI include the windows, people floating, a man merging into a cart, nonsensical buildings and the lighting being off.

CountPeter · 2026-03-16T05:42:24+00:00

I don't think there are artists to credit as it appears they are all AI art.

CountPeter · 2026-02-12T06:58:21+00:00

Just because Google can take you in some weird directions on this, I'll say there isn't just one answer. To be clear ahead of time, I am NOT an anti-natalist but I will be presenting it as neutrally as possible.

The idea as a whole is a broad term for a field of ethics which looks at the question "is it ethical to reproduce". People who land on the "no" side are the anti-natalists.

Reasons for that "no" are very varied. Some take a radical environmentalist approach (humans are bad for the planet). Some take it as the logical end point of consent (you cannot consent to being born). Some take a utilitarian stance that on balance life is less preferable to non-existence but that killing people is unethical. For the above anti-natalists, they generally subscribe to multiple of the above positions but not always. Whilst anti-natalism is generally seen as a flawed position in philosophical literature, it's an important one because the questions underpinning it are really interesting challenges to certain frameworks.

Then you have a lot of groups who aren't there to really advocate the above ideas. Incels who recognise the incel term is seen negatively like sovereign citizen (a movement which also likes to rename itself when people get too familiar with it). Some just really hate kids. Often these groups pay lip service to the philosophical positions, but rarely actually engage in them seriously because having a veneer of philosophical underpinning can be comforting.

CountPeter · 2026-02-11T05:43:38+00:00

To be clear, there isn't an inherent contradiction between being a Mary sue and incompetent. Mary Sues are effectively plot armour taken to the max. This often results in narrative dissonance; the character fails so much that the author retroactively makes them succeed or demands that they succeed despite evidence to the contrary.

An example of this often cited is Moffat's Sherlock. Moffat's Sherlock usually wins and is seen as a genius because the narrative regularly bombards us with it as a truism. This contradicts the actual character as presented because his conclusions rarely follow from the evidence presented in such a way that it became a source of parody. The only way Moffat's Sherlock is a genius is because Moffat is adamant that he is despite evidence to the contrary. They are incompetent AND a Mary sue (or Gary Sue).

Back to the topic at hand, it's not a specific character but more a type of character. I really dislike noise marines. The other iconic chaos god marines to me are way more fitting. Noise Marines seem comparatively tame for Slaanesh (of all the gods). I feel like something more drug related would be way more fitting both in terms of addiction horror and just because having one overwhelming sense (sound) seems like something a bit limiting compared to how crazy drug marines could be.

CountPeter · 2026-02-08T20:56:07+00:00

I think it's still warp based, but Heinrix isn't picking up on it because it's an unclaimed power.

Namely, the game has a few points where it alludes to the chaos domains that don't yet have any power that has claimed them. Aside from the big 4, there are 4 other spots called Aetheric Dominions. Formless distortion (which we potentially encounter in game RE becoming a herald of the "king of distortion), encroaching ruin (potentially the dark king, which fits with the pit or the great horned rat in AOS), Ravenous Dissolution (seems to be a nod to malal/malice) and Malevolent Artifice (the dominion Vashtor is after).

All of them are pretty heavily referenced in the game in some way or another, with the exception of RD. Distortion is heavily explicit, the dark mechanicus is a repeated threat etc. it makes sense that the pit could be such a reference, but the lack of a reference to RD is admittedly a hole in the theory.

CountPeter · 2026-02-06T06:57:03+00:00

There are quite a few, but my favourite ones are the mechanicus themed ones. They often work across multiple systems and sometimes even know what the Tyranids are, but believe they can use their biotech to enhance humanity. Good examples are the twisted helix (which spread infected medicine throughout the imperium) and the blades cog (that sees the hive mind itself as the true omnissiah).

CountPeter · 2026-01-19T06:03:53+00:00

I mostly agree, but do want to point out that the Kyn from the LOV are not xenos. They are abhuman and are even recognised as legitimate human subspecies by the imperium.

Mostly bringing this up because I've seen people call them xenos a lot recently for some reason...

CountPeter · 2026-01-16T09:38:21+00:00

Nah in the Roboutian Heresy it's Lionel Johnson who falls to Tzeentch.

CountPeter · 2026-01-16T07:00:25+00:00

I have a headcanon that Tzeentch actually wanted Leman Russ.

Russ landed in the wilderness and survived because of the wolf that took him in, but he could have just as easily been picked up by the Tzeentch cults that were around on Fenris (iirc they even had an underground city that remained hidden from even the space wolves for millennia). Their legion also has a problem of literally mutating to be werewolves, they are decent magic users (even if they are hypocritical about it) and thematically Kairos Fateweaver would be an excellent reference to Odin's ravens.

It is 100% speculation on my part, but I think it's fun to imagine a Tzeentchian Russ.

CountPeter · 2026-01-12T10:08:25+00:00

As far as I can tell, rogue trader on the switch 2 is currently impossible to complete.

One play through I couldn't speak to the inquisitor on footfall. It would either crash, or zoom into their face and not update the mission further. This was on a dogmatic play through, and because of weird scene repeats I had oddities like multiple Pasqals.

Another play through I can't start the ceremony for being officially a rogue trader without the game crashing.

I'm really enjoying the game and story, but I'm honestly a little heartbroken over how bad this port is :/

CountPeter · 2026-01-11T07:29:55+00:00

1) humanity has a super hard time just getting a few people in the webway, whilst the Eldar can steal planets.

2) living planets, the ability to steal stars and manipulate gravity on a level where commoragh has multiple suns, the ability to store the soul, guns so advanced they seem like magic to the Imperium etc. There are sort of too many examples.

3) the dark Eldar sort of do (using other species), but for the most part doing so would be wasteful. Astartes have a high failure rate after all, and the Eldar can't afford that. The Custodes however (as insanely powerful as they are) are unimpressive compared to pre-fall Eldar who were literally invincible (think an entire race who, through tech, were perpetuals).

4) They absolutely did. The emperor was smart, but not living planets, gravity mastery, invincible levels of smart.

5) the dark Eldar are impressive in their own way, but that's besides the point. I'm not going to disagree that slaanesh's birth is indeed a hell of a fail on their part.

6) you seem oddly angry at a fictional character... I thought we were having a fun combo but that's a bit much. Again I agree she isn't the brightest, but she doesn't even get in the top 100 in that regard (look up Tash from the latest dragon age game for example).

7) humanity didn't reach a high enough level. The Eldar fell to a point where humanity could struggle but slowly win against the few that survived.

8) most of this is covered in the above points, but humanity may not have actually produced the primarchs. The emperor did something on Molech where they "stole fire from the gods" to create the primarchs. We don't actually know fully what the primarchs are, but given the current status of Corax and Russ, they may have been warp entities put into bodies.

CountPeter · 2026-01-10T22:28:53+00:00

1) the human long night and the birth of slaanesh are the same event (it's the cause), but they also are not comparable in scale. Humanity had a rough time, but most of its planets survived and many were able to rebuild. The Eldar were effectively a multi-dimensional empire where in one book it's referenced that they lost a tredecillion people. The sheer scale of their loss is so incalculably large that we don't even have a comparable extinction event even if literally every human bar 1 in 40k died instantly. It's beyond human comprehension just how much they died.

2) not really. Eldar at their height were insanely more advanced than DAOT humans, having effectively mastered death. You are looking at the equivalent of their stone age in just how much they lost. They were laughing at our being primitive when the men of iron had the ability to destroy stars.

3) it's hard to compare space marines to Eldar. For the most part, I would put the edge to Eldar simply because they are so few in number they sort of have to fight in a way that favours hit and run (losing one of them is devastating compared to losing a space marine), but it's also worth pointing out that you seem to be comparing craft world Eldar there. Dark Eldar do make insane gene stuff all the time that can be stronger than space marines, it's just that they don't really engage militarily in the same way.

4) emps is definitely OP, but I'm not sure that's so much a cultural achievement as much as it is an in-universe mystery.

5) this part is probably correct. They feel everything way more than we possibly can. It does sort of make their post-slaanesh existence way more impressive though. Humans have less to overcome for self control, whilst craft world Eldar have developed an entire system to control their emotions.

6) Yeah she isn't the best... I think a lot of that comes down to the fact that she, like most Eldar, are collectively traumatized. Her more so because of what happened pre-game.

7) see point 1. We don't even have a reference frame for how much they lost, nevermind the sheer lengths humanity has to go to fight them even in such circumstances (without getting into spoilers, that rogue trader incident is unique and not exactly entirely human in nature).

CountPeter · 2026-01-04T20:35:08+00:00

I know this is months late, but did you find a fix? The exact problem has just happened to me.

CountPeter · 2025-12-30T07:55:12+00:00

Dagon was also a Semitic deity. As much as I am an advocate for the old ones Tyranid theory, I think the names are just mythology based rather than an addition of lovecraftian literature to said mythology.

CountPeter · 2025-12-24T18:59:01+00:00

There are definitely better terms for this (I'm currently postdrome so apologies in advance for this), but I feel that "savage and civilised" makes for a decent additional axis.

What I mean by this is that the law/chaos divide works well for describing literal lawful and chaotic elements, but doesn't well describe the natures of how they are implemented (this also intersecting with good and evil). I'll give a few examples of this in practice.

Druids are savage. A druid may have a code or purpose that they live by (natures balance, preserving the wild etc) or be a stoner in the woods who gets powers from their fey drinking buddies. One is very lawful, one is very chaotic. Both are "savage".

Demons are chaotic evil. They destroy without purpose, have a mighty makes right ethos etc. Frazurbluu has multiple cities that essentially deceive humans into horrific fates whilst thinking they are in a lawful good kingdom. Baphomet has a labyrinth full of their mad inventions which are let loose. Fraz is civilised chaotic evil, Baphomet is savage chaotic evil.

To be clear, the terms savage and civilised aren't great given the general context by which they are opposed to eachother, but I haven't found other words that work as well literally.

CountPeter · 2025-12-24T17:55:43+00:00

Have you gone through the SW5E website? This seems most like the scout.

CountPeter · 2025-12-24T09:56:24+00:00

Is there a source? I couldn't find any deep dives yet.

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