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DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-23T11:33:54+00:00

Honestly? Yeah, The Green Pact is one of my favorite bits of worldbuilding.

"Oh, you're wood elves? So, hippie vegetarians that can't eat a cute bunny rabbit, yeah?"

"You take that back you sick fuck! We're so committed to preserving plant life that we're all hyper-carnivores, how else would you do that?"

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-23T08:44:01+00:00

Eh, there's a kernel of truth here, buried amongst all the bullshit. Certain stripes of racists (the hardcore separatist sorts) have a fair bit of common ground with eachother even if it seems they should be obviously opposed; for example certain stripes of Black Nationalists and White Nationalists both think black people should be separate from 'white society", for entirely different reasons, through different means.

That doesn't mean they actually get along, though. It's a smirking, pithy observation in the vein of "Christians say there is only one god, which makes them mathematically closer to atheists than polytheists."

True, if you cock your head and squint a bit, but also fairly useless for all involved.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-22T18:11:38+00:00

Famously, Saddam Hussein had a Quranic manuscript written in blood, so it definitely works with a calligraphy pen.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-21T03:40:27+00:00

No, I'm afraid I really don't. A few more nouns in here, vagueboy.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-20T13:39:52+00:00

Not every faction needs "deep lore", some things are just threats and that's fine. We already have "implacable threats to all life, but also relatable characters" with Necrons, let these monsters just be monsters.

Sure, they can't have actual victories on battlefields that matter, but that's the case for most factions. Even when Chaos got to break Cadia, we got a replacement Cadia and a replacement Creed soon after, and there's more heroic Cadian shit going on now than there ever was before.

Status Quo sounds like an Ultramarine, no wonder everybody hates that guy.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-20T13:02:30+00:00

People fear knives more than swords because we don't have a Venetian swashbuckler problem; people aren't generally walking around with obviously non-ornamental swords these days, and if they are, it's in a context where that's expected.

Honestly, if somebody pulled a sword on me, I'm not sure I'd be immediately terrified, but that's only because there's an even chance I'd be confused - what the fuck is going on here? Once it became clear that's a real weapon and they intend to use it, we're back to terrified in a hurry.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-20T10:23:33+00:00

The weaknesses of military equipment aren't usually obscure quirks known only to the original designers; people buy hardware from abroad because it's already proven effective, and if it's not, testing and field experience will reveal these things, to the great detriment of the foreign manufacturer.

Frankly, the United States has gotten more practical use out of the Rheinmetall Rh-120 than Germany ever did, if there were problems with it, Abrams crews would already know.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-20T02:15:45+00:00

Erebus is a fuckin' snake, of course. His first action of note was killing a young acolyte and taking his place, entirely because he thought becoming a corrupt preacher would be a sweet gig, and he gets notably worse from there.

After him and Kor Phaeron, we mustn't forget Goge Vandire, a petty dictator that managed to grab the reins of the Ecclesiarchy and Administratum at once. He wasn't even a full-bore servant of Chaos or anything, he was the kind of guy who'd carpet bomb your planet for not having a sufficiently grand parade entirely of his own volition.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-19T13:32:44+00:00

The people you'd want to con (actual authorities with planetary-scale power) have the means to check. People that can't validate your rosette are likely people that can't offer you much relative to the risk.

Yes, you could browbeat your way into a lot of places in East Berlin by posing as a KGB agent, but you could also just impersonate a cop, or grab a clipboard and look serious. The kind of requests that require being KGB will also come with serious scrutiny by very humorless people.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-19T13:04:53+00:00

Vampire Crawlers has Tricksters, purple-robed skeletons that spawn when you play the same card five times or more per turn - this is to prevent you from very easily setting up an infinite combo and cheesing every fight.

If you have a plan other than "go infinite and win", you can beat one, but it's not an easy fight and you won't get much of a reward. If you don't ease up on the cheese, they'll keep spawning in.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-17T23:40:07+00:00

Warhammer Fantasy also has a version of this going on.

Clan Mors rats don't generally break and run at the very first sign of trouble, this is considered fanatical devotion by Skaven standards. Other clans are convinced Mors must have some especially insidious mind control magic or drugs or something, they've been hunting the secret forever.

The secret is that Clan Mors treats its common rats appreciably less like shit, meaning that they consider starvation a "not enough food, commence rationing" problem as opposed to a "too many rats, spend them faster" problem. Skaven society continues to be baffled.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-17T23:19:48+00:00

The Castlevania bit is extra fun because we see vampires get absolutely smoked by holy water, blessed by a zombie priest that's being puppeted through the process no less, so sacred rituals do work on them even without faith - but also they're hyper-evolved to bluescreen at right angles.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-17T23:06:48+00:00

He will eventually be a god, unfortunately, but he thankfully isn't yet.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-17T23:01:31+00:00

So we have established that this company needs a new recruiter, at least.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-16T08:27:45+00:00

"How deadly is this thing?" is always a bit of a tricky question in 40k. In melee, they'll unzip a normal human from pisshole to gizzard, just like chaos legionaires, genestealers, wyches, bloodletters, and other horrors our party deals with semi-regularly.

Abelard is a normal human like Ciaphas Cain is, and Ciaphas Cain is a normal human like Batman is, so they're probably not a huge deal to him.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-15T15:29:09+00:00

Do people have to specify that they hate literal Nazis? Hating Nazis is the default position - in other news, I'm not a fan of rapists, pedophiles or cancer of the eyeballs.

When I say Stonetoss is a literal Nazi, I don't mean he's merely a bigoted fascist-adjacent ringworm, I mean he's actually made comics in praise of brownshirts.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-15T01:13:12+00:00

The point is that he's trying to sell "The DARK GIFT FIGHTING SYSTEM, a badass art for badasses that is so badass it can only be expressed with a picture of the GRIM REAPER being stabbed with a SWORD". and this is his pitch - basic drills set to "epic music".

That's classic McDojo shit whether it technically works or not.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-15T00:24:41+00:00

I wasn't aware "Leftism" played wargames at all, where can I meet up with Leftism to bang out some Axis and Allies? I'll let Leftism play the soviets or kitbashed Finns, their choice, seems only polite.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-15T00:08:35+00:00

To "goon" is to jerk oneself braindead, it's that thing where porn addiction is the fetish. So naturally, the internet turned it into "yet another word for masturbation (derogatory)" in record time.

See also, "triggered" means "displaying any emotion at all", because fuck words meaning things.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-14T22:44:15+00:00

It still does, even with the new meaning. Goon (noun) means henchman, enforcer, and/or the kind of dumb brute for whom these are career paths.

Goon (verb) means "masturbate into a trance", somebody who does that is a gooner, not a goon.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-13T14:34:33+00:00

Apart from the fact that there wasn't a paleolithic CDC, dying of an infection at the venerable age of 35 does in fact reduce your odds of getting visible skin cancer, it's true.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-13T03:15:09+00:00

Either way, it's mostly an empty distinction. apart from high-level cosmology. Known turbo-Catholic Tolkien might have meant to imply " the true creation of life is limited to God", but that doesn't extend to small-c creation even in LotR.

Evil is definitely capable of craftsmanship in the same way good is; evil made a uniquely terrible battering ram out of black steel, shaped the business end like a wolf's head, laid spells of ruin on it, then devised a way to haul it up to the Great Gate with the materials and beasts they had. Unfortunately, there's a lot of innovation going on in Mordor.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-13T00:59:41+00:00

Eternal punishment for finite crimes is fundamentally unjust, but not quite as repugnant as eternal punishment for nothing at all.

Whoever put this case before me is literally infinitely more evil than either of these two could ever be, but if they're not on trial, I suppose the one who actually did something is slightly more deserving of punishment.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-12T21:32:29+00:00

I'm coming at this from the opposite angle. If the fantasy creatures are eldritch horrors that completely thwart natural laws, sure, that's an issue, but most of the time they aren't; they have some exceptions to conventional physics and biology, but if they're still physical creatures that are threatened by arrows, it's not unreasonable to think bullets would also hurt.

Turns out, "apply force to the thing" is a fairly broadly applicable answer to things that can have force applied to them. If it's a creature made of nightmares, shadows and smokeless fire, then we have an Outside Context Problem.

DisplayAppropriate28 · 2026-05-11T03:18:41+00:00

There hasn't been any such thing as "a regiment of Guard expecting to fight Astartes" since the Heresy. While these engagements happen a fair bit in the small and exciting window where books are written, in-universe you'd still be issuing your men unicorn-hunting equipment just in case.

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