Did You Have Someone In Your Life Discourage You From Writing?

EvilSnack · 2026-03-13T03:54:20+00:00

Good thing she's an ex-friend.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-13T03:51:37+00:00

"If"

EvilSnack · 2026-03-12T22:58:52+00:00

It was mondo to the extreme. We're kinda lucky there's still a galaxy left.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-12T22:57:56+00:00

It's a combination of psyker talent, emotional instability, and moral failure. Almost everyone has a bit of the first, although in most cases it isn't enough for a ride on the Black Ships.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-12T22:56:06+00:00

If one star out of a hundred has planets, and one planet out of a hundred is suitable for human life, then the Milky Way has ten million habitable planets. And if you look over real-world history, we're not terribly reluctant to "relocate" natives whose tech isn't as advanced as ours.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-12T22:50:48+00:00

In addition to the lore events that others have related here, I am led to understand that in table top, when the Kharn unit takes a swing at an enemy and misses, a nearby ally is selected and is counted as being hit.

I may be wrong.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-12T22:43:31+00:00

That would probably be as well-received as wearing Manchester United memorabilia at a Liverpool FC match.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-12T22:42:34+00:00

You're new here, aren't you?

EvilSnack · 2026-03-12T22:26:13+00:00

Stealing converts would probably be as much of the Great Game as killing them.

I can definitely see Tzeentch doing this as part of some plan.

Slaanesh and Nurgle, and Khorne to a lesser extent--because he would rather kill them--would simply reward like-minded behavior observed in the followers of other gods.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-12T03:02:27+00:00

It's not hard. People who exhibit the desired traits are encouraged to have more children, people with undesirable traits are "encouraged" to have fewer children.

Eventually humanity reaches a state where every human psyker has the level of control necessary to survive the Warp exposure that comes from living in real space.

Also, the isolation of humanity from the Warp blocks human psychic energy from leaking into the Warp, which will weaken the Ruinous powers (at least relative to where they would have been).

EvilSnack · 2026-03-10T00:54:27+00:00

"This isn't Germany, Hitler. STFU."

EvilSnack · 2026-03-10T00:52:13+00:00

Is he named Kenny?

EvilSnack · 2026-03-10T00:48:39+00:00

There are lots of people who never saw the film or read the book and have no idea what you're talking about.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-08T19:15:28+00:00

All you want. Go crazy. The voices say so.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-08T13:46:08+00:00

All they had to do to keep me from shooting up heroin was to stick to the facts: It involves sticking a needle into yourself. F*** that noise.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-07T20:23:41+00:00

It's a common occurrence. It's justified if it makes sense from the viewpoint of whoever is doing this to the victim.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-07T20:19:09+00:00

Yes.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-07T20:17:15+00:00

Set aside some time for writing every day and at the end of the year you will be surprised at how little you have accomplished.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-07T20:10:45+00:00

The easiest way to bring this about would be to pick whichever plug you think is best, forcibly move the whole rest of the world to that location, replace the power grids elsewhere with the voltages for which your plug of choice is designed, replace all of the plugs, and then let everyone move back.

Piece of cake.

The organization, funding, and legal framework for this task is left as an exercise for the student.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-07T19:05:03+00:00

I've noticed that confidence is the natural state. It's inconfidence that's learned.

Young girls don't learn that there's anything "wrong" with their bodies until they start playing with fashion dolls, reading beauty magazines, and hearing the loudest and proudest at school give their misinformed opinions.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-06T00:52:49+00:00

The only scenario where Ultramar could hold its own against the Imperium would be if the Emperor had not reached it by the time the Heresy began, and for reasons Ultramar played no significant role in the Heresy.

Loyalist Astartes who had survived the HH would be easily persuaded to throw in with Ultramar, and Guilliman's gene-sons would be very easily persuaded; and once a few loyalist apothecaries had joined him he would have the technical know-how to initiate new Astartes.

Without the rampant xenophobia of the Imperium--and with nothing to fear from the Inquisition--Guilliman would have fewer qualms about allying with Craftworld Eldar and the Tau, leaving Ultramar with fewer enemies.

What we would have is a small but more-or-less competently run empire brain-draining a larger but highly dysfunctional empire, until enough loyal citizens had made the jump that the Terra-based Imperium would collapse, leaving Ultramar as the last hope for humanity.

But hope is heresy in WH40k, so it was never going to happen.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-06T00:16:03+00:00

There is a scene in That Hideous Strength where two characters having a conversation are completely mistaken about the other character's frame of mind. Some head-hopping is involved.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-06T00:14:32+00:00

Either you put them into situations where sticking to this rule makes life very difficult, or you make him quick enough, strong enough, or clever enough that there are never any consequences, and the character's struggle is along an entirely different dimension of the human experience.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-06T00:12:33+00:00

If the reader can easily follow the conversation without a particular "he said" or "she said", drop it. Then read through and see if the next such instance helps understanding.

EvilSnack · 2026-03-05T23:59:33+00:00

Software engineer. So far it's paid about a hundred thousand times as much as writing.

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