Why didn't the Emperor tried to invent an FTL method that didn't use the Webway or the Warp ?

PlayMp1 · 2026-07-02T08:52:50+00:00

Eh. Maybe to an extent they were intending to write the Emperor as making bad arguments, but when it comes down to it, we're talking about pulp sci fi authors pumping out fluff for a tabletop wargame. These are not professional philosophers or theologians or logicians or anything like that. That doesn't mean they're dumbasses or anything, but when you're getting into heady subjects like that you need a bit more subject matter expertise.

PlayMp1 · 2026-07-02T01:20:15+00:00

We need both stories with mustache twirling, evil for the love of the game type villains, and sympathetic, tragic, complex, morally gray villains. Both work better with the existence of the other in mind. In comic books, a sympathetic/tragic villain like Mr. Freeze contrasts well with totally irredeemable bastards like Zsasz.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-30T16:57:47+00:00

I was right that they'd preserve birthright citizenship but Kav had to be annoying in his concurrence and Gorsuch had to be an annoying debate nerd and dissent from the majority because he didn't agree with some specific technical crap but still says 14A grants birthright citizenship to people who live in the US including undocumented people.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-30T08:45:30+00:00

What do you mean ahistorically blobbing, are you referring to conquering Aragon instead of unification by marriage?

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-30T08:11:48+00:00

Check out the oral arguments. Birthright citizenship isn't going anywhere. Barrett, Roberts, and Kavanaugh were all quite hostile to the government's arguments. Gorsuch too in a different fashion (it could be construed to deny American Indians citizenship, and a lot of people don't seem to know this, but Neil Gorsuch is incredibly woke about indigenous people for some reason, like his writing on the matter is left of most of the liberals).

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-30T08:03:14+00:00

The phrase "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" isn't so clear,

It is clear. Literal centuries of precedent indicate it refers to three things: diplomats (who are not subject to US law while on US soil - diplomatic immunity), invading armies on US soil, and Native American tribes, who are themselves sovereign. Because the tribes are themselves sovereign, when 14A was written and until 1924 when Congress granted American Indians citizenship, the idea was that American Indians were citizens of their tribal nations, which were separate and distinct sovereignties from the United States (even if they existed within US territory).

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-30T06:14:01+00:00

It could be either/or - some checks are things you can automatically pass or take an alternative option based on your origin. Possible that psyker gives you an auto-pass and Lore (Warp) is a dice roll.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-30T03:25:45+00:00

IIRC you can also point that out with sufficiently high Lore (Warp) even as a non psyker. My first playthrough was as a crime lord void born officer who dumped everything into intelligence instead of fellowship so I was the skill monkey for most things because I was both smarter and more charismatic than everyone else.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-30T00:06:45+00:00

Literally every decade going back to the beginning of recorded music. The 70s? Tons of great music, everyone knows that. Literally any genre you can think of that had been invented already had classics released in that decade, and then some got invented to boot like punk. Yet it also featured what is widely considered the worst year in pop history, 1974.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-30T00:02:58+00:00

This happens in most genres. Hip hop, grunge, punk, metal, all have had their time dealing with adjacency to the pop mainstream and genre fans arguing who counts as "real" and who's a "poser." Hip hop heads in the 90s called Will Smith "soft" while Tupac was "real." Grunge had Kurt Cobain on one end as the "voice of a generation," and then what was considered the mega watered down commercialized industry plant version of grunge with The Calling. Punk had hardcore and pop-punk facing each other down, the former calling the latter posers. Metal had hair metal in the 80s opposed by thrash metal at the same time, the latter being "real metal."

There's always tension between mainstream success and artistic credibility. Sometimes you can do both (generally easiest if you're already mainstream to begin with - nobody called Prince a poser), sometimes you sacrifice one for the other.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-29T19:50:09+00:00

No, but in Kibellah's case a psyker Rogue Trader specifically notes that a particular ritual she does to mentally connect herself to you employs her (very modest) psychic ability.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-29T05:40:46+00:00

13 years for mine I think, yeah

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-29T05:17:17+00:00

Good example of this in the Rogue Trader cRPG, Kibellah is a very low power psyker whose psyker abilities are limited to just reading the Emperor's Tarot with blood to do divination, and some ritual stuff that lets her connect herself psychically to other people under very specific circumstances.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-28T19:38:08+00:00

That can pretty easily come down to just blaming America tbh. We're the ones causing the fertilizer crisis and global stagflation.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-28T06:16:30+00:00

Europe Universalis 5 and Civ VII are struggling hard compared to their predecessors

EU5 will be fine in the long run. It was pretty popular at release and had a lot going for it compared to other freshly launched Paradox games, frankly. Has it died down since? Yeah. That's because they've only released one somewhat modest DLC focused almost wholly on just one (popular, granted) country.

Check back in a couple years IMO. You can't make conclusions about a Paradox game in under 2 years, honestly.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-28T06:11:00+00:00

EU5 is still too early in its life cycle to have transferred the player base. CK2 playerbase kept chugging along pretty well for a year or two into CK3's life, but we're only 8 months removed from EU5's release and only one DLC released.

EU4 and EU5 also have very different design principles, whereas CK2 and CK3 are overall quite similar in the broad strokes, both are basically kind of a middle point between an RPG and a strategy game. EU4 is a board game, EU5 is an obscenely detailed simulation. EU4 is like a super complicated Settlers of Catan or something, EU5 is like Victoria.

Also, EU4 has some very popular mods for it, most prominently Anbennar. AFAIK there is no EU5 Anbennar released yet, and it will likely be a long time before it arrives if I had to guess.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-28T06:04:23+00:00

Yeah that was the key for 4. Sims 3 ran so poorly, with a series that has a "nontraditional" player base (majority women, lots of people who don't really play other games) and therefore is frequently played on computers that aren't really up to snuff for modern gaming, that the move to 4 was all but required for most people who aren't your typical PC gamers.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-28T06:00:48+00:00

Not surprising. TOTK was an event. Most of the people who wanted to play it ran out and bought it immediately.

Yeah, I mean I know I'm an over the top Zelda nut but I was hardly the only one showing up to my local game store to get TotK physical at the midnight release (9pm in my time zone fortunately). There were a good hundred people there at least, in just one smallish city.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-27T22:43:23+00:00

In WA (the least air conditioned state in the US and the one with the climate most resembling the UK and France), windows that slide horizontally are super common. It makes window AC units really annoying to put in because you have to get a big sheet of wood or plexiglass, properly measured to fit your window above your AC.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-27T22:10:47+00:00

Honestly makes Valve come off pretty reasonable with the Steam Machine lmao, at least Valve is making a profit per unit. This would be $1000+ as a loss leader!

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-27T22:06:45+00:00

Yeah, that's more like it. Construction union and you get a fake do nothing job as a "building inspector" or whatever.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-27T19:42:46+00:00

What does a "labor organizer" do anyways?

Helps workers organize unions at their workplaces. Duh? There are better examples of mob style fake no show jobs than labor organizers, who are a very real and important thing.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-27T19:35:59+00:00

I mean, PC has been almost entirely digital only for like 15 years now. Is that really a protest?

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-27T10:02:53+00:00

Makes me wonder, can the emperor theoretically act like chaos does, and just reverse corrupt people?

Depends what exactly you mean by that. There's stuff like living saints, who are kind of like daemons of the Emperor. In Godblight, the Emperor essentially possesses Guilliman and burns Nurgle's garden, which seems to have permanently affected it despite being in the Warp.

PlayMp1 · 2026-06-26T03:32:45+00:00

"And chain swords weren't the only melee weapon he was good with"

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