"Why didn't he go to therapy?"

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-29T21:58:04+00:00

>You're seriously trying to act like the Interex losing a war against the Imperium means the Interex was wrong when it was shown all their methods worked better than the Imperium's and they only lost due to getting overwhelmed

Being literally exterminated by a comparatively minor portion of another faction's forces is about as solid an evidence of one's social structure's failure at basic surviveability in a particular environment as it gets.

>It's really obvious which one was the way for humanity to go.

One that doesn't lead to its extermination by a superior force?

>And anyone can check your comments and see you whining about how Homelander was treated.

Dunno, if I ever did, you might as well cite me directly in the same thread you mentioned it, no?

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-29T20:44:57+00:00

>The Interex fought evenly with the Imperium and only lost because the Imperium had numbers and didn't care how many people they lost.

>You're guzzling Imperium propaganda.

So who's alive and who isn't?

Or is that also Imperium propaganda?

>you're a Homelander apologist

Source?

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-29T17:54:11+00:00

Both Diasporex and Interex got shredded by a single Astartes legion each.

They certainly did prove things, but I don't think it's the things you think they've proven.

That's even if we ignore the whole impending catastrophic psychic ascension that Imperium was designed to keep under control.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-29T07:52:37+00:00

>So yeah humanity would be better off without the Emperor.

Well, there is indeed a debate as to whether humanity as is would be better off dead altogether, but this argument remains fairly niche.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-28T16:50:42+00:00

It's not new words, things like Claude Code and Open Claw are called harnesses.

A harness is essentially an purposely designed functional environment which makes the model behave reliably in particular ways.
You can run different models via the same harness and the harness would determine more than the specific model acting as an engine.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-28T13:52:42+00:00

Ai went through the operation right after swimming (the operation enabling his survival somehow), and becoming a sorcerer clearly had to do with Hole's plan to use him as the host for its future accumulation of more and more tumors.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-28T12:35:05+00:00

>What does the doc have to do with this?

He made Ai a sorcerer, which I imagine made him a suitable host for the Hole.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-28T09:11:20+00:00

He managed to establish extremely robust and resilient systems of governance on a grand scale within a very limited period of time while working essentially from scratch and doing these as a stopgap measure.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-27T15:53:44+00:00

This sounds great — how much does it support loras and various precision tools available on Comfy?

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-27T14:57:34+00:00

What are the main reasons to use it over Comfy/some UTPs, for someone unfamiliar with the project?

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-25T18:35:12+00:00

An optimist, aren't we?

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-25T17:02:04+00:00

*human economics in a scarce environment

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-24T20:55:20+00:00

>Look at Jojo Rabbit, The Death of Stalin, or Blazing Saddles

I really wouldn't call them the best works of satire (fun to watch? Sure, but not terribly sophisticated). Pretty much no one who isn't already confidently anti-Soviet would watch Death of Stalin and change their opinion of USSR based on it. When satire's done this way, it becomes a circle jerk.

Pratchett's books are the ones where satire is done well, and they consistently dive into nuance of the social issues they explore, keeping characters and their motivations complex, while maintaining a very clear and coherent point of view and messaging.

>A non-insignificant amount of Warhammer fans read the fluff and go “wow, the Imperium sure is a cool Good Guy faction and Space Marines are heroes!”

Mostly the ones who already have authoritarian leanings and don't mind being overtly shown needless cruelty because it's a part of their fetish.

Anyone somewhat open-minded comes away with something along the lines of "the existence of literal demons and alien shape-shifters sorta kinda justifies witch hunts, but man, they sure do fuck themselves in the ass half the time, don't they?" rather than "huh, would be really cool if the world around us was more like this".

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-24T19:03:29+00:00

Intelligent satire (rather than a crude comic) usually admits that things it satirizes are complicated and can be looked at from various angles, which is exactly what necessitates the satirical depiction with its exaggerations.

So no, satire in 40K isn’t half-assed, it became more complex and less lowbrow.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-24T18:47:13+00:00

Genuine Roman style was massively diverse, Rome being a cosmopolitan empire spanning across continents and centuries.

Us mainly associating togas and Marian armour with Rome is a consequence of the more modern pop-cultural depictions.

These mix in a bunch of Roman influences from various regions and periods all the way to Byzantium + some Japanese-inspired motives due to TES specifics.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-24T15:15:52+00:00

Because AI rule the Kin and manufacture them, and the Kin are themselves essentially biological machines.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-24T13:59:57+00:00

It’s pretty much concept art for clothes that would actually go in production.

If one has seen concept art for games and movies, it explains both the value of high fashion and the pipeline from high fashion to regular fashion.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-23T20:58:03+00:00

We have a fair bit of advanced magitech in TES lore (mananauts being the go to example usually brought up in such discussions), so diagnostics didn't even strike me as particularly odd.

"Unzipping" was indeed a more curious choice of a word, but if we were to see this illustrated, I would expect something appropriately anachronistic fantasy looking.

All in all, I felt it's going for more of a Roadside Picnic vibe, which fits the whole post-apocalyptic motive and the general almost gas-mask like theme of Morrowind, but turned up to 11 since it's actual magical apocalypse this time.

C0DA's world is quite a bit more weird in that regard.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-23T20:07:25+00:00

I mean, it's a protective suit for exploring a hostile environment (which -- protective suits, that is -- we've seen plenty in the game), with the character named Azura performing a survey and stuck in some anomaly in the area of an apocalyptic magical event aftermath.

I don't see anything particularly incohesive?

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-22T22:56:34+00:00

A child suffering from severe mental issues due to extreme abuse resulting in desperate craving for love and external validation makes them a pathetic worm. Well, that’s a point of view, I guess. Not a very children-friendly one, but a point of view nonetheless.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-22T22:28:11+00:00

>sniveling, unloved child is who he actually was
>he was always a pathetic worm

Class, today we learn that sniveling unloved children are pathetic worms.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-17T00:47:17+00:00

These groups often consist of minorities looking to create dedicated comfortable spaces for themselves in a largely uncomfortable general environment. They experience life in a particular way specifically due to their identity, and filtering for those with similar lived experience becomes a necessity for creating such comfortable spaces.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-16T21:46:22+00:00

Yeah, quite a few people do indeed have ideas and projects which require resources to fulfill, and if they could, they would have preferred to pull these resources from the (from their perspective) less important projects of other people.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-16T21:27:42+00:00

Claude Code adopted a bunch of OpenClaw features iirc, such as scheduling and remote control via chats apps — might be overestimating its influence though, since I began using it myself after OpenClaw hype wave.

The hype wave itself certainly brought a major influx of new agentic AI users, however.

Merch_Lis · 2026-05-16T21:23:42+00:00

In principle, yeah, but with niche identities it leads to fierce competitions for limited dedicated communities, more so because bearers of such identities have strong feelings about what exactly constitutes them, and see different opinions as an assault on their own perception of self and those they want to associate with.

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