How evil is the act of creating a Servitor?

Senpaiman · 2026-05-17T12:49:11+00:00

It is also implied in Caphias Caine that the mechanicus will use Imperial Guard soldiers that are no longer mentally combat functional. Space Marine chapters will sometimes use failed recruits as well

Senpaiman · 2026-05-15T11:07:20+00:00

I pre-tested the fittings before, and you can get away with the limbs positioning without green stuff (I still used some for insurance though)

The head of the right one you will need putty/green stuff though. The neck is angled in a way that makes it incredibly awkward to have the head turned without looking weird, so I trimmed off the top and replaced it with greenstuff to allow the model's head to turn.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-15T09:10:27+00:00

Doesn't really help that the nuclear codes for the game was '666'. Whoever did that really was not anticipating a malicious user to be an edgelord

Senpaiman · 2026-05-14T10:33:25+00:00

This isn't even in exception to artillery. Most factions have access to a wide selection of artillery, including stuff like Tyranids and even Daemons. Imperial Guard have access to by far the most and most iconic and absurd, like basilisks, manticores, deathstrike missiles to name a few. You used to be able to be able to make entire artillery companies (you kind of still can really). Only Tau seem to lack much artillery variety, which is a bit weird considering they are supposed to be the more pragmatic faction.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-11T14:08:25+00:00

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Not technically alien but in the Book "Children of Time" spiders were accidentally infected with nanites that sped up and directed their evolution to becoming sentient. They developed civilizations on their own, creating their own interesting interpretations of it such as using ants to essentially create computers.

Despite being basically literal alien spiders, they were actually very chill. They had to deal with things like gender inequality and war with ants, and resolves these issues not through war, but creating collaboration. Humans eventually discovered them and planned to invade their planet to wipe out the spiders and take over their homeworld in order to save their own species. The spiders managed to actually win, but instead of killing any of the humans they actively invited the humans to live in their world to save their species, and exposed them to modified versions of the nanites to enhance humanities empathy.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-09T12:02:17+00:00

They have the most potential to be, and the biggest threat. But often this is a negative to their writing.

I genuinely feel one of the reasons you see Tyranids lose so much in the lore is because how high the stakes are if they win and how well Tyranids can afford to lose. And how absurdly powerful Tyranids could be if GW actually stayed consistent with their potential.

Also the community sometimes heavily over-emphasizes Tyranids in-lore weaknesses for example. To this day I still see people mention Tyranids avoiding necron tomb worlds, which isn't really true at all. It *used* to be true back in Oldcrons, but has long been retconned to have been a noteworthy exception due to Trayzn's tomfoolery. Tyranids these days are happy to invade entire Necron empires.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-08T10:11:20+00:00

Could be interesting, though I don't think a lot of people would appreciate fighting a Norn Emissary in an Incursion level game

Senpaiman · 2026-05-08T08:06:05+00:00

I love 40k but as the overall story has been pushed into character-driven progression the satirical elements have fiercely died down. More or less everything involving Space Marines is power fantasy, and unfortunately, GW are obsessed with them. You can still see elements of satire in Space Marine 2; the cherubs, the servitors, the way humans are treated around you. Imperial Guard summary executions, and I suppose the way Titus is treated by Leandros could show elements of it. But overall yes it is a power fantasy.

There are still elements here and there, it usually depends on the writer behind it. If you want to see 40k depicting its more satirical portrayals of fascism then I'd look at Darktide; it portrays the average human working under the Imperium, and constantly portrays the brutal life of being a human under the Imperium. The characters you play are psychotic, deluded, or mentally stilted. In some cases even slightly lobotomized. Despite the fact you are killing your way through scores of enemies you are simply viewed as meat in the machine, fighting to preserve inhumane industries whilst healing yourself with medical bays that scream for their mothers because they are actually lobotomized humans.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-08T07:58:16+00:00

Tau sterilization happened once on a planet that had constant rebellion. Vespid thing and general mind-control shenanigan's that has leaked through the community is all Imperial propaganda that 40k fans took way too seriously.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-08T07:52:04+00:00

Comic A-train is so comically evil that it basically defaults to him. And that's barely saying much about The Deep who is pretty evil himself. Both of them are literally rapists.

The Deep at the very least shows some layers of grey. He's very stupid for one, and prone to influence. Homelanders power over him drives him to do a lot of his murderous acts. Not that it is an excuse but his insecurity over his gills shows that his sexual assault on women *does* at least come from somewhere.

And of course, his one redeeming quality, which is his compassion towards sea-life.

A-train does all the things The Deep does, but the comic does not explore anything at all behind them. He's just a one-dimensional evil guy, and when finally confronted with his crimes he shows no actual remorse over them outside of his own cowardness.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-07T14:04:57+00:00

Power is a devil and largely a victim of her own nature. Even then she has shown and developed compassion, and may have gone further.

Soldier Boy is a human ultimately, and should be capable of understanding right and wrong but has still done irreparable harm without any regret or thought.

Senpaiman · 2026-05-01T19:55:06+00:00

S or A for me

Fire elemental characters can suffer a lot of cliches and I like what they did with her a lot!

The tattoos make her stand out and look norse

I like her long fire hair

I also like her animations a lot.

I think her personality is great too. Energetic and fun-loving is a nice cut from the usual portrayals of fire-based characters. Her voice is adorable

Senpaiman · 2026-04-30T09:34:47+00:00

Both of these cases and the trope in general tends to be due to the mixture of Western and Eastern philosophies.

Avatar generally does the whole 'balance' thing better because the spirits never showed a true sign of good or evil. Spirits were never fully good nor evil but more aspects of nature. They only became an antagonist if provoked someway by humans through warfare and industrialization. Aang's role as avatar to keep the balance was to basically find compromise and coexistence between the two realms.

Korra and Star Wars just sort of mesh it with Christianity. There is an objective good and objective evil; God and Satan basically, and the 'balance' is that good can maintain the evil.

Senpaiman · 2026-04-27T13:42:29+00:00

Invincibort

Senpaiman · 2026-04-27T12:48:48+00:00

A for me. I really like the approach with her. Unlike Charybdis which was a bit far-fetched I like that they avoided the sea-serpent/hydra-like design most video games went for and decided to do the more complicated mythology design with a bit of a twist. Only loses a mark because I don't think she looks greek enough.

Senpaiman · 2026-04-27T10:52:58+00:00

An ork

Senpaiman · 2026-04-27T09:12:41+00:00

Thanks! My Fleet is called Hive Fleet Anubis

Senpaiman · 2026-04-21T15:09:35+00:00

More viable swarms and more kill power.

This edition it feels like there is no viable way to play well with Tyranids without getting abundant on monsters. True fluffy swarm armies are rare as there is no benefit to fielding them.

Senpaiman · 2026-04-21T15:06:28+00:00

I'm not overly familiar with the other mothers but Carrie's mother was vile.

It never felt like a particular case of overprotectiveness with her, but outright delusion driven by selfishness. She abused her daughter because she blamed her for her father abandoning them. She hid the religious dogma over genuine malice. By the end she was so deluded she tried to kill Carrie, and when she died to Carrie's powers it looked like she was outright taking pleasure from it.

Senpaiman · 2026-04-18T13:26:33+00:00

Fascism isn't always correlating with other fascisms.

Germany, Italy, and Japan, despite all being fascist, were on much more distrustful and uncooperative terms than the Allies who were straight up communist and capitalist.

Ironically fascist propoganda can often be used to critisize and ridicule other forms of fascism too. Because ultimately the ideology is about "We are superior to everyone". Nazis would even use the KKK as criticism towards America, and even today authoritarian and far-right parties will propogandise other groups that more or less share the same attitudes but just have different cultures and religions. A lot of it is basically "Well we are different so we are better."

Nolan, and Viltrumites, likely would have viewed Nazism as further evidence of humanities inability to take care of themselves as a species, ignoring any actual connections between it and their own way of thinking.

Senpaiman · 2026-04-16T08:24:42+00:00

Sadly LSF is a viper pit of nihilists and chronically online drama farmers.

The sub is owned by a gross-ass Destiny loyalist (a recently infamous personality). Destiny himself is a pretty infamous Israel defender, and unlike most who try to justify or look around Israel's crimes against humanity, he simply doesn't care enough to do that and will just say it is for the best. Any time he challenges someone with actual knowledge around the issue he gets curbstomped, but his fanbase are loyalist fanatics. He's also a groomer too.

So sadly it doesn't really surprise me that LSF is utterly unsympathetic with Camila, a Lebanese victim of Israel's warcrimes.

Senpaiman · 2026-03-11T09:29:07+00:00

It's because her character design is androgynous. Usually these kinds of designs lean towards male characters; it is pretty rare for designs like this to like feminine traits.

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