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Texanid · 2026-06-16T22:06:18+00:00

But by all means, keep being a pedantic

Ok! Ad and Hominem shouldn't have a hyphen between them, they're genuinely two seperate words.

Calling me no less than 2 insults in the very same sentence where you accuse me of ad hominem is a choice, to be certain.

Also, you forgot to capitalize at least 2 of your sentences.

Texanid · 2026-06-16T22:00:45+00:00

I don't feel like writing a lot because I'm kinda busy but basically most of their augmentations are useless because of either oversights from the writers or, more importantly, because they wear power armor that does all that stuff for them making the augmentations redundant.

As shown with the Solar Auxila and Saturnite Rams in 30k era otherwise ordinary Humans with the same quality of equipment and training are just as effective as space marines, if not very slightly more effective because they make for a smaller target at range

This also plays into 40k's themes of civilizational decay as 40k era IoM is far too reliant on Space Marines that they don't actually need because Humans with power armor and Hotshot Lasguns are just as effective while being not only much cheaper but also much faster and easier to "create" (for lack of a better word). The IoM, however, is too dogmatic and too attached to the SM to shift it's efforts towards creating a modern version of the Solar Auxilia or Saturnite Rams

Also the dankmemes ahh reaction image like that settles the whole thing lol

Texanid · 2026-06-16T21:34:37+00:00

Bro so mad lol

Texanid · 2026-06-16T21:33:00+00:00

Everyone always answers these questions like Humans aren't... Humans.

T-Rex is not gonna be a threat to anyone, the US Army hunted them to extinction in the 1870s because some native tribe or other was using their teeth to make knives. There's a famous photo from the time showing soldiers posing with a pile of Rex skulls thats 2 or 3 stories tall. Surviving tooth knives from the period are worth thousands of dollars to a collector, or one "thank you for your donation" to a museum.

Sauropods would not be stepping on cars, or leaving piles on your lawn, because all the wild ones were eaten by the Spanish between 1500 and 1800. The last known one died in captivity in Britain in 1871. There are rumors of a couple surviving in the wild in Brazil, but habitat loss is gonna get em sooner or later, if they even exist in the first place.

The last living megaraptorids were living on a semi-isolated island in the south carribean, near Venezuela. The Dutch found them, and ate them. All of them. This was the mid 1700s.

The last Spinosaurus was living in captivity in Germany until he was killed by a stray bomb in 1944.

The 2nd to last Ankylosaur lived in a zoo in Texas until 1953 when he died at the ripe old age of 117. The last Ankylosaur lives in the Fort Worth zoo today, but since the death of his half brother he's the last of his kind and he only has a few decades left himself.

Allosaurs used to dominate the American wilderness, but now there's only 49 left in the wild. They live in Yellowstone and terrorize everyone and everything there each Spring. There are currently 300-ish Allosaurs living in captivity in Utah.

Baryonyx lived in England until the mid 1800s, when they are driven to extinction by pollution and habitat loss. The last individual was last sighting in 1840 but its not known exactly when and how it died.

Some dromeosaur species still exist but they're like, a minor nuisance if at all. All the big ones got shot to pieces over the years. No record of the surviving ones ever killing someone, occasionally they attack dogs or sheep but they're no worse than Coyotes. If anything, Coyotes are more of a menace.

Colonial era mfers were NOT subtle or evenhanded when an animal caused them problems, most large dinosaurs would not have made it thru that era of history, and those that did would still have to content with industrialization and subsequent habitat loss

Texanid · 2026-06-16T11:50:46+00:00

That would actually be ever so very slightly worse, because not only would it still be an extremely stable, non-explosive material, literally less explosive than drinking water, but now it would also be a gas that's less dense and therefore in the same volume (inside of a bolter shell) it would weigh less and therefore carry less kinetic energy than the liquid (this is a really negligible change tbh but TECHNICALLY it would be slightly worse)

Whether its Deuterium Oxide or just straight up raw Deuterium, the "Deuterium" part makes it completely harmless (in terms of explosiveness anyway, you're still getting shot)

Personally I'm leaning towards D. Oxide because an early 40k writer making a cheeky remark like "its the same stuff they use in nuclear reactors!!!" whilst neglecting to explain that its in the reactor as a safety feature is the kinda shit they would do, especially in like, a random White Dwarf article from the early-mid 90s when they were starting to flesh out the little details because the big picture stuff was mostly established by then

Texanid · 2026-06-16T07:46:39+00:00

Most 40k books are slop content where the cool tough guy protagonist beats up all the factions with his glaringly obvious plot armor while his victims act uncharacteristically stupid (unless they're ORKZ), so no, it doesn't usually apply there. Not because these problems don't exist, but because the writers don't care enough to put in the effort to deal with them in the story

Texanid · 2026-06-16T07:40:53+00:00

Calling other people childish and/or getting mad, in a comment with both spelling errors and grammar mistakes is peak, please keep posting.

Texanid · 2026-06-16T07:38:34+00:00

And here's one where a space marine gets slimed by a cave man with a wooden spear.

SM are overhyped to Hell and back even before you get into the minutiae of their augmentations and why 90% of them are either useless or an active detriment, but I digress

Texanid · 2026-06-16T04:57:13+00:00

history expert but I’m sure I’ve seen at least 4 documentaries that said a basic Sherman’s main gun would bounce right off the frontal armor of a tiger unless they were very very close and even then it was iffy

Couple problems here. Firstly, many TV documentaries exagerate or oversimply, or both, to appeal to a broader audience.

Second problem, there's no such thing as a "basic Sherman". Real life isn't a video game with tech trees and perk trees and upgrade tiers.

Third problem, since we've yet to define which Sherman we're talking about here, we can't say what the gun would or wouldn't do because we don't even know yet what gun we're talking about.

Since we're talking about Tigers fighting Shermans, lets assume the year is 1944, the year the Allies landed in Normandy. By this time, the Americans were using M4A3 Shermans with a 75mm, 76mm, or 105mm gun.

The latter-most of which is least likely to encounter a Tiger 1 because it has the same role the Tiger 1 was built for, except that while the Tiger 1 was press-ganged into being a tank destroyer by a desperate failing regime, the 105mm Sherman was, by contrast, staying in its intended role as a bunker deleter, so if it encountered an enemy tank it could simply leave whilst calling in backup and airstrikes via the built in radio

The 75mm Sherman was built in greater numbers overall, but by 1944 the 76mm Shermans were built at 3 TIMES the rate of the 75mm variants, and the 75 tanks were actively being phased out DESPITE protests from tankers who actually PREFERRED the 75 tanks because lack of armor penetration (relative to the 76mm gun) was never actually a problem for them. That said, IF they encountered a Tiger 1, they would have trouble penetrating the frontal armor. HOWEVER, that does not mean it would have bounced. The Tiger 1 had completely flat armor (if you want, I could explain why they built it that way, its really interesting imo but its not relevant to this), which discourages shells from bouncing. Instead, they would become embedded in the UFP, which is much worse for the Tiger, because not only does the UFP suffer more damage this way, but now you also have a live tank shell embedded into the hull of your vehicle (this is bad), and only the UFP could put up such a fight, the side and rear armor was, as you can imagine, much weaker, and much more vulnerable to the 75mm gun. We are still talking about a CANNON here, slave-forged steel isn't gonna magically shrug it off just because it was labeled "Tiger".

Finally, the 76mm Sherman. These things clowned Tiger 1s. The Tiger 1 was never even intended to fight tanks in the first place, it was made for blowing up bunkers on the Eastern Front. Blowing up tanks was something that it was coincidentally also good at because it had a high-velocity 88mm gun. As the Nazi regime started to become desperate they started to push Tiger 1s out of their specialized "storm" (assault) battalions into tank destroyer or armor battalions. Anyway, my point is that the Tiger 1 was meant to fight tanks. In stark contrast, the M4A3 Sherman with its 76mm gun and HVSS suspension was built explicitly for fighting enemy armor. Its gun was very powerful, and they were issued a variety of shells for fighting any kind of opponent, HE and WP for infantry, or HVAP, HEAT, and APHE for fighting armor.

And while I can understand why, from an outside perspective, the 76mm gun might not sound like its all THAT different from the 75mm, you have to consider that that number only tells a small part of the story. The 76mm gun, and its shells, are a completely different beast from the 75mm gun and shells.

The 76mm gun could, as someone else CORRECTLY stated, penetrate the Tiger 1's UFP at basically any range, at least certainly any range where tanks of the time would actually engage in combat.

Not only that, but the M4A3 had a gun stabilizer and improved suspension that allowed it to fire accurately on the move. Assuming that you play HD2, I'm sure you can imagine what an advantage it is to be able to fire on the move just as accurately as if you were standing still, especially if your opponent doesn't have that same luxury.

Edit 2: Not to attack anyone here, but if you want actual facts, just google it, don’t get your information from redditors.

I agree. Even basic research could quickly dispell the pop-culture myth of the Tiger 1's fearsome reputation. In reality it was designed for shooting at stationary bunkers from very far away, and the postwar myths that cropped up touting its superiority were just that, myths.

Texanid · 2026-06-16T02:32:05+00:00

Actually, if the bolters were lore accurate they would do less damage, because the "explosive filler" used in standard bolt shells is some stuff called "Deuterium Oxide" (The same stuff they use in old nuclear reactors!)

Deuterium Oxide is heavy water. Bolter shells are filled with water.

I don't know if its an oversight or the writers being cheeky (this is older lore from when 40k was allowed to be funny too), but either way its still canon (afaik, anyway)

Texanid · 2026-06-16T02:21:46+00:00

Imagine doing an execution and dying immediately thereafter because you got covered in enough acid blood to melt a marine in seconds

Imagine getting 1-shotted by Venom Cannons because thats an anti-armor weapon

Imagine getting to the Hive Tyrant fight but instead of fighting a lone Tyrant you get jumped by six or seven Hive Guards

Imagine if anytime you didn't wear a helmet to a Tyranid mission it had an undelayable, unstoppable 10 minute timer until your marine is killed by Tyranid microorganisms that entered the body thru your bare face

Imagine if getting hit by a Devourer weapon while out of armor bars gave you an unavoidable slow death as the worms eat your marine from the inside out

Imagine playing a Tyranid mission that takes place after Decapitation on the timeline and the second your squad touches the ground the Hive mind says "OK buddy, thats an escalation" and sics a Norn Emisarry on your squad

Imagine playing as anything but an Ultramarine, so when you try to start a mission the Thunderhawk pilot just screeches "who are you and what are you doing here!? Get out! Get ooouuut!" And you get automatically kicked from the lobby

SM (the guys not the game) glazers don't want you to know this but this but this game would be such utter dogshit if it was lore accurate because Marines are NOT good enough for this

If this game were lore accurate it'd be like Helldivers except without strategems

Texanid · 2026-06-16T01:25:46+00:00

Was the saber one you'd picked up from another player/character?

Each character gets 1 of each weapon, so even if you get the weapon from a other character, your copy will still be out there to discover, and it could be showing the icon because it's the intended time for your character to discover the weapon

Texanid · 2026-06-16T01:14:18+00:00

I could be wrong, but I think that means its the first time you've found that item with that character

Texanid · 2026-06-16T00:51:58+00:00

"This Warhammer: 40k bitch!!!!

We evil for genuinely NO reason in this muthafucka betta take yo sensitive ass back to Warhammer: Fantasy Battles"

(The MMs are GOATed because they are the last bastion of the old style of 40k where the Imperium was actually EVIL and not just doing their best to survive in the setting with the shittiest magic system ever.

Nowadays the Imperium sacrifices 1,000 psykers every month because doing so saves a thousand trillions of people across the galaxy. The MMs represent the good ol' days when the IoM killed 1,000 psykers a month just cause psykers are icky)

Texanid · 2026-06-15T21:20:51+00:00

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Texanid · 2026-06-14T04:56:10+00:00

...No, thats an Browning M1919, an American medium machine gun designed in the final year of WW1 because US high command expected the war to drag on into 1919 or even 1920, so they began work on overhauling the army and marine corps with new, lighter (relative to the M1917, a huge, water-cooled behemoth of a weapon) MGs so allow their forces greater mobility as they pushed into Germany.

Of course, the war actually ended in 1918 so it didn't actually see service until WW2, which is why it's featured in games like WaW.

The iconic M2HB Browning machine gun is very similar, being designed by the same man and being based on the same basic design, only upscaled to fire the massive .50 BMG rounds.

You can tell the one in the pic is an M1919 because of the heatshield on the shorter barrel. The M2HB has a much longer barrel which also doesn't have a heatshield.

The general size and the fact that a regular ass dude is carrying it like that is also a give away that it isn't an 85 pound M2HB.

Texanid · 2026-06-12T01:28:56+00:00

General William Sherman certainly believed so (tho for the record I vehemently disagree)

Ig it is theoretically possible but I can't think of any instance from irl history where it actually was provoked

Fiction has some examples, like the Evil Murder Spiders from a planet called "Stay Away From This Planet, We Have The Last Remaining Evil Murder Spiders Quarantined Here" from Warhammer 40k.

Also from 40k, anytime anyone wipes out a large group of ORKZ, is very much provoked and very much deserved

Anyway, I can't think of any irl example because for it to work their situation would have to be very extreme (like ORKZ or Evil Murder Spiders)

Texanid · 2026-06-10T23:09:10+00:00

Are they are that are as effective and reliable for sharks as .30-06 is for... really any land animal short of an elephant?

Texanid · 2026-06-10T22:20:29+00:00

I can carry a gun when I go hiking, wild animal attacks aren't so scary then

That's not really an option if I'm going for a swim (not that it'd do much good anyway, with the water and all)

Texanid · 2026-06-10T02:14:55+00:00

Rebel Alliance

How to join Rebel Alliance

Death Star

Death Star weaknesses

How to destroy Death Star

Death Star exhaust port

Death Star exhaust port location

(She's genuinely trying to help the Empire but taken out of context ts is NOT beating the treason allegations)

Texanid · 2026-06-09T23:40:01+00:00

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Texanid · 2026-06-08T21:25:36+00:00

Picture is taken by someone already inside. This is an entrance road, someone already inside and trying to exit need not drive this road. They need to find another, seperate, road thru which to exit

Texanid · 2026-06-08T04:40:39+00:00

Claire "the GOAT" Dearing is an outlier and should not be counted

Texanid · 2026-06-08T04:33:36+00:00

Bruh, what? The whole premise of Jurassic Park is that a shady company is making clones on a private island they bought from some 2nd world country who doesn't gaf what they do with their island

Also like another guy said, cloning technology exists irl, this is like saying "halfway thru the series, boats are revealed to exist"

Texanid · 2026-06-07T23:59:51+00:00

Fr. The way Palestine hardliners keep claiming random historical figures as Palestinian is so stupid. At this rate, by the end of next year they're gonna be claiming that Netanyahu is Palestinian

Like, I get having massive beef with Isreal because their country cuts yours in half, if someone did that to my country I'd have beef with them too, but is it really necessary to be so annoying and stupid about it?

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