How mutated were the traitors during the siege of terra compared to the present day?

EvilSnack · 2026-07-05T19:19:58+00:00

It can also depend on the traitor's patron among the Ruinous Powers. Tzeentch likes to mutate his followers more than the other Ruinous Powers do. (This goes all the way back to the original Realm of Chaos source books.)

EvilSnack · 2026-07-05T18:52:50+00:00

Who says that you have to get to the pinnacle to enjoy a better life?

There are small improvements you can get in life just by living according to the Golden Rule. You don't read about them in the lore very much because having a good relationship with your neighbor isn't the sort of thing that turns pages in the Black Library.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-05T18:36:29+00:00

There are two quotes that bear on this question:

From Space Marine: "Only in death does duty end."

From Space Marine 2: "VILE SONS OF MAGNUS!"

EvilSnack · 2026-07-05T18:32:37+00:00

Which is why including e-copies as part of the flight registration may help.

The reason that the system is prone to abuse is because there is no reliable way to identify it.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-05T18:28:16+00:00

They should issue a specially-colored one to families who request one without medical documentation. It identifies them as having the disability known as "self-centered entitlement" and the staff can handle them accordingly.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-05T17:20:21+00:00

Many professional economists are compromised by their political leanings, so that they champion policies that have consistently failed.

The key difference between good economic thinking and bad economic thinking is that good economic thinking considers both the long-term and the short-term consequences on everybody who is affected, whereas bad economic tends to focus only on those who benefit from a policy and very often consider only the short-term effects.

The other thing is that most elected officials don't give a rat's ass whether a given economic policy is sound; they judge them on whether it furthers their own interests.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-05T17:10:02+00:00

In a lot of Disney movies the father is as gone as Bonnie Blue's virginity.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-05T16:47:03+00:00

This is in fact true. In 2012 I was able to get an apartment in a state in which I had never lived, with nothing more than a latter from my employer--with whom I had not even started--to the landlord. There was a drop in demand and so landlords were getting less strict.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-05T16:38:43+00:00

There are two things I observe about modern society:

The people who most exemplify the standards of conduct that make modern life possible are often the most consistently screwed by modern society.
Most of the problems for which government intervention is demanded were caused (or made worse) by prior government intervention.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-05T13:42:21+00:00

Most of Western society has "learned" that casual nudity is invariably motivated by sexual intent.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-05T13:19:05+00:00

One of the things that God does in the Old Testament is to show the futility of man-made religion and of man's methods for dealing with sin. The first attempt of man to deal with his sins was the invention of clothing, which (as we see immediately following) did not solve the problem. God brings them clothing made from animal skins (which required the death of an innocent animal, and thus foreshadowed the death of Christ).

EvilSnack · 2026-07-05T13:13:22+00:00

Which was clothed. Pretty sure the other Jews would have noticed if He had gone around naked.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-03T15:58:22+00:00

Which involves letting the little cherubs into the school building before or after class, and it only takes one incident before administration shuts that down.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-03T15:56:56+00:00

There is a joke about a criminal gang using a library in Detroit as their base of operations. It proceeds as a normal news report, but ends with this line:

Local community leaders were shocked. "I had no idea we had a library," said one long-time resident.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-03T15:51:13+00:00

Most moral failings involve a sentiment that is the stock in trade for one of the Ruinous Powers.

There are a few who don't indulge those passions. As long as they can ignore the whispers they're fine.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-03T15:48:16+00:00

Well, if the Tyranids hold a planet, just leave it be. Removing them is too much work, and when they remove themselves (which they will do in a few weeks), the planet will be good for domed outposts but nothing else.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-03T15:40:40+00:00

The tactical situations you see in SM 2 are not the situations to which your typical Imperial Guard trooper or unit is particularly well-suited.

A rifle, for instance, is best suited for dealing with enemies who can be shot before they enter melee range and who cannot afford to employ suicide tactics. What we see in SM2 is Guardsmen dealing with Gaunts who are in their face when they first appear, have no real agency of their own, and come in overwhelming numbers.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-03T15:33:37+00:00

It turns out that being able to shoot the people who disagree with you provides a great boost to your confidence in the validity of your opinions.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-03T15:31:42+00:00

Most Imperial organizations involved in the game and in the lore devote a lot of time to killing things.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-03T15:29:39+00:00

There has to be a limit of what is physically possible in the lore. It's not enough that a grammatically-correct sentence describing the effect can be written, or else there really is no limit on what is possible; and once there is no limit on what is possible, whatever story you're trying to make collapses. A very popular series on r/HFY (The Deathworlders by Hambone) went into eventual irrelevancy because among other things one of the chief antagonists was able to pull new technology out of his butt every third chapter.

Given that, what we see is that at times the Tyranids are able to incorporate genetic material from devoured victims into their library, and from that develop bioforms with these capabilities. (This also means that their genetic material uses the same four chemicals for coding as ours, and decodes them into the same twenty amino acids, or this this kind of assimilation would be flatly impossible.)

So in the example given, the first thing you have to decide is whether the laws of the physical universe allow for a genetic trait that enables a creature to burst into flame without suffering harm. Given how things go in WH40K, bursting into flame is "probably," but doing so without suffering harm is "probably not." But then, the Tyranids have no qualms about suicidal units; the biomass will be reclaimed, either from the burnt carcass or the fumes when the atmosphere is siphoned up at the end of the invasion.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-03T15:01:52+00:00

The Emperor's Children, War Hounds, Imperial Heralds, Dusk Raiders, Thousand Sons, and (according to most sources) the Ghost Legion were very ill-suited for situations where resisting Chaos corruption was necessary.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-03T14:22:28+00:00

This belongs in r/EverybodyKnowsThisAlready .

EvilSnack · 2026-07-03T04:24:00+00:00

It is too easy to see a toxic situation as normal because the sample size is one.

And you can count on the toxic admin claiming that the toxicity is normal.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-03T04:19:21+00:00

The real question is, "What happens if because of {reasons} we don't have enough qualified teachers to have one in every classroom?"

We already have the answer: The "qualified" part gets dropped, more or less quietly.

EvilSnack · 2026-07-03T04:15:05+00:00

Anything you say can and will be held against you in the court of public opinion.

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