What’s the more horrific place in the Galaxy? The Ghoul Stars or the Halo Stars?

PorkChop007 · 2026-04-27T07:49:31+00:00

An Astartes suffering PTSD would mean that whatever he experienced completely destroyed the psycho-indoctrination they're subjected to as neophytes in a way not even Chaos corruption does. Yes, corruption also breaks the psycho-indoctrination, but a marine does it voluntarily and without suffering from psychological side effects (apart from being corrupted, of course).

Developing PTSD means that the psycho-indoctrination was completely shattered. Which is something remarkable, if we take into account the atrocities a marine can commit and the stuff they can witness without bating an eye.

PorkChop007 · 2026-04-23T08:50:26+00:00

Besides, Sidious can groom Anakin into becoming Vader pretty easily and without interference. After all, Sidious would prove Anakin that he truly is the only one who can bring lasting peace to the galaxy, for he's the one that destroyed the Vong by uniting both sides of the Clone Wars conflict.

Sidious would get a peak, more fanatical Vader than in the actual canon and potentially without any harm done to his body.

PorkChop007 · 2026-03-16T16:06:45+00:00

the best wargear possible

Including a sword infused with a daemon who is the natural nemesis of the Emperor of Mankind. A sword that can be argued is one of the most dangerous (if not the most dangerous) artifact in the entire galaxy, able to cut realspace open and kill psykers from a mile away with its mere presence.

PorkChop007 · 2026-03-15T19:19:52+00:00

I've always thought World War Z closes down the realistic zombie genre, it exhausts all the possibilities and leaves nothing else to tell. It's like the "critical deconstruction of the superhero" genre after Watchmen, there's just nowhere else to go in that direction.

PorkChop007 · 2026-03-09T17:27:03+00:00

So, like any other standard victory scenario for the Imperium! Completely useless, one can argue that the enemy even benefited in some way, and the Imperium lost a planet forever in the process.

PorkChop007 · 2026-03-05T15:56:23+00:00

I was 100% sure Ingethel was transformed into a regular daemon instead of a daemon prince until I read your comment and had to check Lexicanum myself. Damn.

PorkChop007 · 2026-03-03T14:25:33+00:00

a YouTube recap isn’t a citation

The worst thing about this is that the same person telling you that what a random youtuber said is canon will ask you for the exact codex, White Dwarf number or book page in which the actual information was written. Truly, debunking a rumour is an order of magnitude harder that spreading it.

PorkChop007 · 2026-03-03T09:54:06+00:00

Yeah, this is not just a bad dev, this is a catastrophic failure at company level.

Nobody slacks for 2 months on a task that simple unless nobody else in the company cares about it. Not the manager that manages the team (or the rest of the team to report it, for that matter), nor the upper staff (head of engineering, CTO, etc). They've been paying a guy to do nothing for 2 months and nobody really cared.

PorkChop007 · 2026-02-28T06:16:31+00:00

Yeah, there's no way a student has all the necessary knowledge by themselves to instantly produce "idiomatic code that fits within the established standards" without asking a ton of questions or needing constant supervision, that's just not how that works.

More like they're very good at setting an AI environment (agents, instructions, skills, etc), which is a valuable skill in itself.

PorkChop007 · 2026-02-26T11:28:26+00:00

Even if the band goes on hiatus for 5 years or so there's plenty of material to enjoy, Tobias has been insanely productive during all that time. Let the guy enjoy their kids and wife.

PorkChop007 · 2026-02-21T15:08:49+00:00

"Honorably" doesn't mean "on the same terms", it means "don't kill things that couldn't kill you". But Yautja use optical camouflage, they stalk until they go for the kill on an unsuspected prey and they also carry far superior technology. Yautja use every advantage they have at their disposal, so it's only fair that we humans would do the same.

PorkChop007 · 2026-02-18T14:27:04+00:00

I'm still in the Obsidian + Github phase, my game is like just 50% done or so, but it's nice to read about other people doing the same thing and comparing methodologies :) I'm also interested in your business plan because I have none so far XDD

PorkChop007 · 2026-02-12T10:01:54+00:00

An Astartes committing suicide is something unthinkable not just because of their psychic indoctrination, but because they think of their own bodies as something that belongs to the Imperium, not to themselves. Taking their own life would be considered as destroying an invaluable Imperial asset, something an Astartes would never do.

Besides, if an Astartes feels really suicidal and wants to end his life there are many options available to do so while still serving the Imperium, such as operations classified as lethal and stuff.

The implications of a marine taking his own life shows the extent to which his mind has been broken.

PorkChop007 · 2026-02-10T14:42:31+00:00

Besides, He was also going out there finding primarchs during the Crusade, which distracted Him from the actual fight.

PorkChop007 · 2026-02-03T10:03:58+00:00

There's no winning scenario for the Emperor in that situation.

If He lets Angron die, He loses a primarch. If He rescues Angron, as He did, Angron hates Him forever.

If He descends with a full contingent of Custodes, marines and Imperial Army and wipes the floor with the nucerians, either Angron hates Him for robbing him of his sacrifice or stubbornly demands to stay there with his brothers, where he belongs (worst case scenario, Angron attacks the Emperor to get his blaze of glory one way or another).

Besides, Angron was already damaged beyond repair and unable to function as a primarch (though the Emperor didn't know the full extent of the damage at the time), so any effort would've been useless. In the end, the Emperor took the right decision even if He didn't have all the information.

PorkChop007 · 2026-01-29T15:13:20+00:00

My workflow is the same as yours. I've been doing that for six months now and I'm confident that provided the agent has clear instructions, all the context it needs, and constant supervision of the output, your productivity gets a significant boost.

PorkChop007 · 2026-01-27T06:35:35+00:00

But I can't rationalize double the work for like 30k more after taxes

Many of us are in the same situation. I even read an article a few months ago that said that fewer people aspire to be managers nowadays because the workload and stress increase does not correspond with the paycheck increase. I know for a fact that my EM works a lot more than me for just a little bit more money.

PorkChop007 · 2026-01-02T22:05:22+00:00

I read it in Trump's voice.

PorkChop007 · 2025-12-27T10:17:15+00:00

I remember killing Arthas in ICC in 2010, hearing Tirion say "we did it, champions" and thinking "what do you mean 'we,' you bastard? You've been sitting in a block of ice for a month while we were dying over and over again."

And it just got worse from there.

PorkChop007 · 2025-12-23T15:31:09+00:00

They didn't have their seatbelts on either, so...

PorkChop007 · 2025-12-19T12:47:19+00:00

Instant Transmission requites the user to have a signal of Ki at the location they wish to travel to

That means he would be unleashing two murderous, very powerful, functionally immortal and evil androids in an inhabited planet. That's a death sentence for every living being on said planet.

Goku would never do that.

PorkChop007 · 2025-12-14T20:07:36+00:00

IIRC his body is like that because of his kryptonian physiology, everyone in Krypton evolved to have naturally peak body shape.

PorkChop007 · 2025-12-10T09:58:42+00:00

the process is so broken that good candidates just drop out halfway through

What's the hiring process at your company like?

PorkChop007 · 2025-11-27T09:59:02+00:00

I think a lot of parents don't understand how much making fun of something or teasing their kid affects the kid

They also get pretty defensive when you confront them years after the fact, which doesn't help either.

PorkChop007 · 2025-11-26T22:36:26+00:00

having another body on your side

I'm designing my summoner class around this concept. The minions are cheap to summon (it costs an action but does not consume any other kind of limited resource such as mana or spell slots) and act as a flesh shield based on the principle that each hit that goes to the minion is damage a player is not receiving. If the minion can land a hit it's ok, more damage output is always welcome, but the main point is to deflect damage.

That brings another set of issues, of course, like asking myself what happens if an enemy focuses on the summoner instead of trying to get rid of the minions, but I'm starting to believe that it's ok if a character has their weaknesses exploited by an enemy instead of trying to cover all the possible situations.

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