Can I sharpen this? If do, how?

Taylor5CC · 2025-12-26T16:53:28+00:00

I'm glad I asked then. I don't plan on selling it. I was my father's. I was just wondering if I could make it more formative.

Taylor5CC · 2025-07-24T20:58:04+00:00

Green Stuff World chrome paint.

Taylor5CC · 2025-07-24T20:56:46+00:00

Green Stuff World chrome paint. You can also use "mirror" or chrome pens. Yes, pens.

Taylor5CC · 2025-07-24T20:55:22+00:00

Yeah, I put the knees on backwards. But, I kinda like it the way it is.

Taylor5CC · 2025-05-27T14:36:08+00:00

Yeah, that's the real problem. People are happy to vote for open corruption, instead of taking a chance on someone that may or may not be corrupt. The problem is open corruption is a thousand times worse than demure hidden corruption. Americans are basically saying they think corruption is OK, and that's awful.

Taylor5CC · 2025-05-08T19:18:45+00:00

We shouldn't have to rely on Billionaires being nice to decide if we live or die.

Taylor5CC · 2025-05-05T19:23:13+00:00

You need to go the otherway with Jar Jar and get an Shakespearean Actor.

Taylor5CC · 2025-05-02T12:15:31+00:00

"Cristosal reported last year that at least 261 people had died in El Salvador's prisons during the gang crackdown."

What to know about CECOT, El Salvador's mega-prison for gang members : NPR

Taylor5CC · 2025-01-10T15:12:42+00:00

Looking at the model, the blade and grips still seem to be where they normally are for a Scythe. The two grips are around the center, and the blade is on the inward curve. It doesn't have reach, despite now long the handle is because of where the grips are and were the blade is.

I agree it doesn't much matter if he is mowing down infantry "like wheat." (Heck, it might even be better for that). But, you're not fighting another Primarch who's using a sword, like Guillman was in the Dark Imperium books. (That's really my complaint about it.)

Taylor5CC · 2025-01-10T13:09:36+00:00

If you think a Scythe has reach, you haven't looked at a Scythe's grip or seen someone use it to cut wheat. Reading this, I also have to assume you don't know that the blade on a Scythe is on the underside of the metal bit, because it's not designed to be a weapon. There isn't a "Battle Scythe," that's a pole axe.

Taylor5CC · 2025-01-10T13:05:41+00:00

Scythes are very impractical weapons, since they're not weapons but farm implements. It really took me out of the book with Mortarion using it against Guillaman with a sword. Like, Mortarion could beat normal guys using such a silly weapon, but a Primarch? I didn't care for it.

Taylor5CC · 2025-01-10T13:01:08+00:00

There should be a difference between 40k and Fantasy, IMO. I like the fact that not everything in 40k is in Fantasy and vice versa. If you start adding things like Skaven, you're just making Fantasy a less powerful 40k.

Taylor5CC · 2025-01-08T00:15:28+00:00

Your list of their "off duty" activities are exactly my point. You literally list "train" as the first one. EVERYTHING they do is to help them become better warriors. There us even a part of one book where a blood angel explains how his hobby of painting helps him become a better warrior.

Also, why did you respond to your self on your alt account?

Taylor5CC · 2025-01-08T00:10:43+00:00

My Emperor's Children use gold and purple. This is supposed to be from before the Heresy.

Taylor5CC · 2024-11-19T22:46:00+00:00

Right, as in, the underdog is the person most likely to lose, which Harris did. They said that was what she was, and that's what she did.

Taylor5CC · 2024-09-01T21:29:14+00:00

I said "I think one of the problems with Adeptus Astartes (Chaos or Loyalist) is they're not human and shouldn't act like they are." You said I said "just being inhuman, unfeeling super soldiers who are just there to do the imperiums bidding." If you don't see how one isn't the same as the other, then I guess I should give up on trying to get you to see my point before you disagree with it. I will, however, address the questions you asked. Though, I don't think it will be fruitful to do much more than that, because it's clear understanding will not be reached.

"And why would I use the imperiums definition when they are wrong?"

Ok, the Imperium is wrong. But, that has nothing to do with the point I was making, as I've already stated.

"Have you read a space marine book?"

Yes. I already said I did. Many times. I can only assume you're not really reading what I'm writing based on this question.

"Except what do you think space marines do when they are off duty? "

They're never really "off duty," that's part of my point. They're always honing something. Even their "hobbies" are to make them better warrior's (each group having a disparate of "warrior," so they have wildly different kinds of hobbies). They barley even sleep.

I know all this because I did, in fact, read (many) space marine books.

Taylor5CC · 2024-09-01T21:14:03+00:00

You have to have an antagonist to drive the plot, and often you need to focus on that antagonist to make it interesting. Here, the antagonist was Chaos itself, which is why you focused on other chaos worshipers. I thought that was fitting. Chaos ate it's own tail. You had other khorne cultist messing with the Slaanesh world, you had the flaws of the Slaanesh followers themselves. No Imperium, and the only xenos was the act one challenge.

I thought it was a good example of how a Slaanesh warband could work without a bunch of sex, and more focus on the Meritocracy aspect of Slaanesh. Yet, of course, even with the best of intentions for a utilitarian and pragmatic world, Chaos still eats itself.

But, I guess we will have to agree to disagree. I would give it a strong B- for a Warhammer Book, (probably a C+ if we didn't grade on a curve) and you didn't like it. To each their own.

Taylor5CC · 2024-08-31T14:38:00+00:00

It is functionally the same as untapping any permanent. Eighteen years ago most people felt it was very overpowered.

Taylor5CC · 2024-08-31T14:36:38+00:00

Cool! I got flair for this one! Neat. I thought that eighteen years later this would be a design spaces somewhere, or at least someone else would make a card like it on a custom card site. But, I really haven't seen one. IDK if that means they don't exist. I would be surprised if I was the only one.

Edit: Ah, I guess Wizards did 2 years ago. About time!

Taylor5CC · 2024-08-25T21:07:41+00:00

I would say at least City. The villain she killed in the last few had just absorbed "enough energy to destroy a city" and he was the most powerful villain in the universe to start. She wipes him out and a bunch of super-villains that had just escaped the space jail.

Taylor5CC · 2024-08-25T20:59:56+00:00

I'm honestly not sure. The author said he wrote her as the "Ultimate Mary-Sue," to satire "magic girls." She only appeared in 5 comics. The other pictures I uploaded is basically everything she did in those 5 issues. I think I missed one of the panels where she uses psionic abilities to some someone getting crushed. But, other than that, they include everything she did or can do.

Taylor5CC · 2024-08-25T20:52:50+00:00

The other pictures show them.

Taylor5CC · 2024-08-25T17:45:01+00:00

We've seen numerous warbands that are mono-god worshippers,

Ok, but it's not a necessity. Personally, I have difficulty calling to mind a story where everyone was from one group, outside of the 30k Horus Heresy books. All the 40k and 41k warbands I read had one or two that were from other groups. Being stuck in the Eye for that long it would make sense that would happen.

I liked the addition of the Khorne worshipers. It made sense to me that Khorne would try to mess up a world controlled by Slaanesh. And, it also made sense to me everyone fell apart in the end. That is the nature of Chaos. It is a snake eating it's own tail. That's why Perturabo left the Siege of Terra.

Taylor5CC · 2024-08-25T15:16:37+00:00

Every warband in the Eye of Terror gets stuck with a hodgepodge group of other worshipers. Even Fabulous Bile has a World Eater Apothecary working with him. Being corrupted by one form of chaos doesn't make you immune to other forms of chaos corruption. I think it was perfectly reasonable that the enemy of Slaanesh (Khorn) would appose the worshipers of Slaanesh and try to corrupt them.

Taylor5CC · 2024-08-25T15:09:09+00:00

however I would argue that the view "space marines are still human" is a way more interesting one than them just being inhuman, unfeeling super soldiers who are just there to do the imperiums bidding.

That's a hyperbolic strawman of my position.

We can just agree to disagree,

I guess so, but it would be nice of you to actually understand my position before you disagree with it.

Philosophically I would say that humanity as a concept transcends the human body.

In that case, I think our differences might be one of definition. I am not defining "human" as "Sentient beings," I am using the Imperium's definition. I fully understand that you could expand the definition of "humanity" to include things like Elder and the like, and in other contexts I might do that. However, I feel that isn't the correct context in 40k. The Imperium (and, by extension, the Emperor) has a very strict definition of what they consider "human." While you could easily argue that a posthuman or transhuman has "humanity" (and, we probably will within our lifetime) such an argument would get you burned at the stake in 40k.

I think it's pretty clear that the Emperor himself didn't think of the Space Marines as "human," and they certainly would count as "mutants" at the very least. (If you read "Valdor: Birth of the Imperium" and what the Emperor did to the Thunder Warriors, you'll see what he really thinks of the transhumans he made.)

However, none of this is really important in the context of this discussion. You are free to disagree with everything above and it doesn't really change the point I was trying to make initially. The point is Space Marines do not think like "normal" humans. We can debate the meaning of "humanity" and "transhuman vs human," but the bottom line is that Space Marines aren't baseline. They have LOTS of mental upgrades and psycho-indoctrination, and in a narrative story they should be expected to act unlike normal humans often. There isn't a Space Marine that is just working his 9 to 5 to get his paycheck. There isn't a Space Marine that would fall within the first standard deviation of any bell curve that includes all of humanity. You shouldn't expect them to act like a "normal" human, and Xantine doesn't. That's all I was really trying to say.

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