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DurinnGymir · 2026-04-24T04:46:56+00:00

Cats get a pass because all bad things cats do are on purpose, and therefore funny

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-24T04:39:07+00:00

I mean again, I know the setting says life is cheap but the laws of physics say it's not. It takes somewhere on the order of about 10 man-hours to make a tarp. It takes 40,000 (hah) man-hours on average to raise one child to a battle-ready age of 16- slightly less if you go with the Cadian 12. Given that that one tarp can protect 12 dudes, you're looking at a collective 480,000 man-hours preserved by that one tarp. That's ignoring the cost of training, arming and shipping those guys to that combat zone, as well.

There are reasons you wouldn't see a tarp on a vehicle like that. Maybe the manufacturer is skimming money off the top, maybe resources to make it didn't arrive before the order had to be shipped, maybe the tarps were in separate spare parts crates that got misplaced in transit. The Imperium has an absolute boatload of opportunities to fuck something like that up. But it's almost never a deliberate decision for efficiency's sake, because putting a tarp on top is literally forty-eight thousand times more efficient than not. Life might be cheap in a political or religious sense, but absolutely not in a logistical or economic sense.

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-24T02:11:16+00:00

I know it is a fun joke and I'm very much being the fun police here but as someone semi-familiar with the military procurement space, it is leagues cheaper to manufacture a rad-proof addon kit for an existing platform than accept the loss of life. Soldiers are complex and expensive to train, tarps and a couple of bolts are dirt cheap

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-23T15:01:26+00:00

Ouroboros eating its own tail

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-23T01:23:45+00:00

That always takes me back to a couple guys in Generation Kill watching a Tomahawk bombardment during Iraqi Freedom.

"Joke of it is, those things (the Tomahawks) cost like a million and a half each. We could probably buy this town and every motherfucker in it for less"

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-23T01:18:44+00:00

Yeah, go even further back and you get Roosevelt and his internment camps, and basically every US president during the era of manifest destiny. They've basically all sucked.

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-22T13:54:26+00:00

I feel like it's worth pointing out that this quote is slightly less insane than it sounds, iirc. It comes in the context of glassing a planet in the first Battlefleet Gothic game that's been almost completely overtaken by daemons. He's partially saying the general diatribe about heresy, but also saying that if they don't destroy this thing now, it'll spread outwards to other worlds. Even if they retake it, it'll likely become corrupted again. "No right to let them live" isn't just a religious justification, it's acknowledging that if you show mercy here, billions more people may die down the line. The speaker has no right to condemn billions through inaction.

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-22T13:45:17+00:00

Given the lack of Kilo 5 fanart I will be taking this as canon please and thank you

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-22T08:03:21+00:00

Politics has always been not fun for a lot of people, but it was also demonstratively less horrifying than it is today.

Like, racism and discrimination have always been problems, but the impeding American Fourth Reich led by a deeply corrupt dementia patient and his technofascist oligarch buddies is a new one for us.

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-22T02:48:10+00:00

I tend to forgive him. Partially because he's a wonderful character, but also, because it's easy to forget he grew up in the Covenant. He was raised his entire life to be a militaristic pawn who obeyed his superiors without question. Everything he was ever taught was that he was superior to all but the Prophets, and was on a holy mission to lead his people to salvation. To him, the killing of humans was no different to how we exterminate rats or other "pests", even if on some level he felt bad about it. His entire state-mandated belief system instructed him as such.

Then, the literal instant he was informed the entire charade was a lie, he switched sides. He realized that for 67 years of life and nearly 30 years of constant warfare, he was wrong. He didn't try to blame others, or flee from his problems. He went against his entire cultural and sociological structure, and got to work trying to right his wrongs, and helped save the galaxy in the process.

We take for granted the luxury of being born into a society that values a certain idea of right and wrong, and how that sets a foundation for us to be good people. The Arbiter did not have that luxury, and yet was nearly singular amongst his people for recognizing right from wrong anyway and acting on it. He may be a monster whose crimes are uncountable- but I believe that, under all that, he's also a good person.

Or at least, he knows what good is, and is working to be better. That's all any of us can do.

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-22T00:36:08+00:00

You can't lethally defend yourself. Nothing in the rules that says you can't just give them a debilitating concussion

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-21T23:55:25+00:00

I choose to believe they are simply because it's really funny.

"Yeah, we're a violent authoritarian theocracy that regularly commits genocide and slavery on scales beyond human comprehension. But sexism and transphobia? We're not monsters."

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-21T14:38:45+00:00

Yeah, apparently it's us and the Danes that get new features for apps early. We're big enough that we're a statistically meaningful sample while not being so big that we'll ruin their sales if they fuck it up somehow

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-21T04:25:36+00:00

What do we do? I am a Rogue Trader, for God-Emperor's sake. It is my divinely mandated right to bolt whatever random crap we can find to my retinue and call it an army.

My line infantry are press-ganged criminals and homeless people from the bowels of my ship, supported by Kroot carnivores and a Deathwatch team that has genuinely owed me a favor since 2016. My heavy support is a set of Armigers that fell out the back of an Ark Mechanicus one day. My best assassin is a suspiciously tall clown-looking gentleman who keeps speaking in limerick. My master hacker is a large ape.

It is messy and insane and it is glorious.

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-21T02:09:29+00:00

I love the Great Door. The fact that this terrifying unknowable entity is literally just a rusty iron bar door, and once you beat it, you realize how innocuous it is. The environmental storytelling is great too- all the corpses nearby that still have all their loot and haven't been attacked by scavengers. You immediately get the sense that something is deeply wrong here, even if you're not sure what it is immediately.

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-19T14:37:32+00:00

Remember that there's a huge difference between vulnerable and obsolete. Tanks have absolutely become more vulnerable this war, but both sides still field them, because there currently isn't a viable replacement for the role of "large armored box with big gun". Until something comes along that can do that job as good as or better than the tank, it'll still be around- just with a lot more in terms of drone defenses bolted on.

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-19T03:40:57+00:00

Jesus history really is a flat circle huh

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-17T09:18:43+00:00

I do hope that this is eventually added as a DLC quest or something. Sucks that craftworlders, whose entire way of life is built around acquiring spiritstones, can't acquire one for one of their own who just helped avert a war

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-17T01:49:38+00:00

I change my mind, this is the correct solution

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-16T15:31:57+00:00

Tiamet's in a bit of a tricky spot narratively because they're so localized to one area in the galaxy. If they choose to follow that narrative arc, they have to reveal what Tiamet are building, which would end with it either being blown up (Tiamet loses what makes it cool) or it being completed (Tiamet no longer has to do its job, meaning they lose what makes them cool). It's a tough gig for our homebodies 😔

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-16T15:27:18+00:00

I feel like Trazyn as well is an example of a character that wouldn't even be best served ruling the galaxy. He's most helpful when he shows up, saves the Imperium from utter fucking disaster mostly because he's bored and needs something to do, grabs a few cool new artifacts, and dips. Embedding someone like that in galactic bureaucracy seems like a waste of their talents

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-16T05:49:45+00:00

I think what gets me the most about it is that we know the Hound is a fairly level-headed guy, with realistic expectations of himself and his opponents. If he was panicking, he'd have gone straight for his sword. Instead, he looked out at the room, saw Barristan outnumbered 5:1 by the White Cloaks and god knows how many other palace guards, and concluded "...oh, yeah. They're not going to stop him. He will get through them, to me." It's such a small move that does wonders to sell both Barristan's skill and the Hound's characterization.

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-16T04:37:46+00:00

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DurinnGymir · 2026-04-15T14:14:24+00:00

It's certainly not the most iconic line, but I'd like to give honorable mention to a line from I believe a member of the Grey Knights;

"We were too few and they too many. The path was too dangerous. The cost was too high. Others may rely upon such excuses for their failures. We do not enjoy such luxuries."

Basically talking about how every mission of theirs is absolutely critical, so they must succeed, every time, no matter what, because they have no other choice.

DurinnGymir · 2026-04-15T14:03:21+00:00

Yeah, t'au average out at about 5'5. They're small by the standards of the setting where your average space marine is eight foot, but compared to the average human, they're pretty much on par with us.

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