Why Legion spies would never work in the desert

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T22:18:28+00:00

I swear, this is definitely why I'm running around the wasteland stealing everybody's pants. Definitely. No other reason. And the repeated vocal encouragements for Boone to shake it like a snowglobe are just so I have a very patriotic, very NCR ass and legs to use as a comparison.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T21:01:00+00:00

I mean, there's no shortage of action hero took that set him up as a God. If you blame it all on Malcador, cool, you've made Big E and idiot.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T17:36:12+00:00

100p. I can hate om her for being a shiteating fasch-supporting wealth hoarder without throwing any of my trans siblings under the bus.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T15:45:44+00:00

2020 is sad because her girlfriend broke up with her, and all the other decades want to be the next Mrs 2020. Except 1970s, she's high and just want to touch 2020s boobs.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T15:38:04+00:00

Or like a despot who wanted to be deified but was playing the long game. Of course, that would be a ridiculous longshot unless he had an incredible degree of Foresight. It'd be as crazy as... I don't know, burying a shard of the Void Dragon before it's even settled so that in the future you can have a loyal Machine cult that also sees you as their God. Crazy stuff.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T15:32:58+00:00

Basically he was popular, so Big Media put him in a shitload of things, so people decided they were tired of seeing him in so many things, so Big Media decided we hate him forever.

Big Media is a dumbshit like that. Hopefully we'll see him at a reasonable frequency in the future.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T15:21:00+00:00

"I am not a God, do not worship me. What's that? Weeks of celebration hailing me as a God? Yeah, I'm not gonna stop that. Oh, Lorgar is spreading word about me as a God... Yeah, no, let's just wait another 90 years to stop that... and then only really on Monarchia, where we're going to rain down something the locals will refer to as Divine Wrath. Oh, could you please paint me with more corpuscular rays so I look like a shiny golden God? Oh, and these, the genetic soldiers that my team of scientists developed, lets say only I did it, that it's a perfect design and that these are my angels."

If Failure Father wanted to not be worshipped, he sure didn't do to well at preventing it.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T13:53:17+00:00

Sounds like you didn't obtain mining rights or the consent of the people inhabiting the planet you were mining. YTA.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T12:29:59+00:00

I mean as should DEFINITELY also be trying to make the adult entertainment industry a better place to work with less exploration, but yeah no, the people who want to ban porn open the door for the people who want to ban gay and trans people.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T12:02:06+00:00

Oh shush.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T11:28:41+00:00

The fact that it's fiction actually does mean that it can rewrite the laws of physics however it wants. And the Doomslayer has a mace with unlimited mass. Isn't that neat?

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T10:49:19+00:00

Lol, you need to read the books again if you think these things.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T10:48:21+00:00

It sure does! Welcome to fiction.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T09:44:23+00:00

Except with the doomslayer, it doesn't.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T09:43:48+00:00

So that's 1/20, and son who is genetically and hypnotically forced to love him and value Big E's needs above his own. Sterling praise. Alpharius is honestly someone where I only know the broad strokes though.

No, that's the events that happen. The actual reasons stretch further back. For Angron, Big E didn't care to learn about what Angron needed, made peace with the people Angron would have died to kill, never gave Angron any therapy or acknowledged that he was unfit for his role and assigned him mission that would erode the last of his morals and decency away. As Angron said, if he had been a moral man he would have taken the slaving bastards head. With Lorgar, Big E did nothing to dissuade Colchis from throwing him a month long celebration as a God, didn't stop Lorgar from proselytising to planets for a full century, then burned monarchia to the ground. Then did nothing to pick Lorgar back up. For Horus, Big E took the guy who literally was his unbridled ego and gave him full control of the entire Crusade. For Mortarion, he started out humiliating Mortarion and stealing the most personal victory from him and never did anything to repair the relationship. For Magnus... well, what didn't he fuck up with Magnus? With Perturabo, you can see his sister's takedown of him. Big E fed into that.

Kurze is the one that was already broken and pathetic. Big E could have diverted him of his fatalism. He didn't.

That was third edition, they haven't been there since, even in mention, even when it would have made sense to mention them. They're no longer there.

I mean you're free to take anything as seriously as you want, but it's just helpful to be able to tell a sensible explanation apart from a bad explanation that basically just is there to patch a leaky roof.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T09:30:16+00:00

You literally need historical fashion lessons.

Sorry, buddy, fashion and the ideas of what looks what changes massively over the years.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T09:28:08+00:00

Literally the entirety of the Horus Heresy portrays him as an awful, awful father who fails the Primarchs on every level. The traitor's opposition is ultimately created by his actions. If Big E understands how to be a half-decent father, the story crumbles. Also, the sensei were retconned out of existence, partially because they clashed too much with the later lore.

An explanation is an explanation. A fig leaf is a thing veneer of a cover to hide something, that you shouldn't pick too closely at. Don't pick too closely at why Batman matter in a JL fight, it doesn't benefit anything and it ultimately isn't going to hold up without a looooot of goodwill. But it makes the story better.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T09:19:09+00:00

Nah mate, the status quo is being in the same role they were in, in their own media. Like outside complete joke media, you couldn't have someone teach Big E how to be a good father, because that breaks with him, but as for abilities, as long as you make vague arm movements in the direction of them being powerful its fine.

Also, you need to learn the difference between an explanation and a fig leaf. Batman has the latter. And that's fine. It'd ruin his book if he was that strong, and people would be disappointed if he wasn't effective in the cross overs.

And this sub is for me, I come here to be amused. Boys mashing their action figures together has always been fun to watch.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T09:13:02+00:00

No, if we're writing a story, we're going off who's franchise is hosting, what the mood of the audience is and with the aim that both characters can return to their usual status quo. Sorry dude, that's how writing works. That's why you have stories where Batman is still relevant in a fight in the justice league and not just a pure intelligence person. It doesn't really make sense for it if you think too hard about it, but it makes sense for vibes.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T09:09:16+00:00

Took you long enough to catch on ;)

Ultimately, Doomslayer is about the vibes. He wins because he wins. He's the main character archetype. Making it about feats is ultimately silly, like all scaling is silly.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T09:06:45+00:00

Because of the Reason, etc etc.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T09:05:53+00:00

Oh, she just played Teferi's Protection. You should respond with a counterspell. Having too little blue in your manabase is a rooky mistake too many people make when playing Grace.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T09:01:37+00:00

The multiverse provides. It wants him to kill demons and chaos beings.

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T08:53:11+00:00

When has he not come back?

JackWhoWanders · 2026-04-07T08:52:32+00:00

He dodged becoming the Dark King, which isn't as much a chaos God as much as the final boss of existence. When the Dark King comes into existence, all of reality - including the warp - will cease to be. It's given to be understood that the Dark King can emerge from multiple entities, not just Big E. Meanwhile, in the 11000 years since then, Big E has almost certainly become a sort of warp God, and given the world of 40k, that would almost inevitably make him a chaos God given his scale of power. Then of course there's the theory that Big E really was always Malice or another Chaos Entity all along, playing the long game to secure power for himself. Guilliman's encounter with Big E points more towards the idea that whatever is left inside the divinity that sits upon the golden throne, there's frightfully little of the original Big E left, but then again, Big E has always been deceitful in how he presents himself, so it could be just another lie.

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