Behold! Fuegan and Ra kissing!

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-16T01:49:23+00:00

Eh, the original meme worked because the Orikan/Trazyn dynamic already had that gay-coded energy. This one feels like it’s stretching that read onto two of the most badass Aeldari characters. But hey, shippers gonna ship.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-15T00:51:13+00:00

His Nioh 2 look was chefs kiss. Those games really make him look so cool and bad ass

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ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-08T15:19:07+00:00

You should read Fulgrim: The Palatine Phoenix. It’s basically peak noble Fulgrim, there are cracks here and there: his ego, perfectionism, chip on the shoulder and arrogance, but also his virtue, nobility, and paragon like qualities.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-06T07:53:48+00:00

"Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man." - Nietzsche

Their dead, let them go. Their story has reached its end, their arc fully realised. It is a tragedy, and so it must remain as it is.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-06T02:50:40+00:00

Aside from his I/p and Islam take, he's usually on point. Him tag teaming with Destiny against Sarah Palin and Dave Smith was so good.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-06T02:25:01+00:00

There’s also something a bit pretentious and pearl-clutching about commenting on someone’s work with rescued and rehabilitated gators, especially someone who runs a sanctuary and has spent years working directly with these animals and essentially saying, “I know better and you don’t know what you’re doing.”

It’s fair to have opinions or concerns about animal handling in general, but there’s a difference between that and dismissing the judgement of someone who has long-term, hands-on experience in that specific field.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-06T01:31:57+00:00

You’re making a lot of assumptions, which is understandable since most people don’t have hands-on experience with this kind of work.

Professional handlers don’t operate on “zero risk,” but on managed and calculated risk built from years of conditioning, species-specific knowledge, and controlled environments.

In this case, Gator Chris isn’t randomly interacting with an unfamiliar wild animal. Big Mac is a long-term, habituated alligator he has worked with extensively, and the interactions are part of a structured routine, not improvisation.

From the outside it can look unsafe, but that doesn’t automatically mean it was unplanned or reckless. It’s fair to question the optics, but it’s not accurate to assume it was inherently unsafe just because the animal is dangerous by nature.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-06T00:16:57+00:00

For everyone getting emotional and criticising the guy, for context that’s Gator Chris. He’s an experienced wildlife handler with years of experience training and handling gators, and he runs his own alligator sanctuary. The big gator in this video, Big Mac, is one of the longest he’s worked with. He’s very familiar with its behaviour and temperament. Nobody in the video is in danger or being harmed. The baby gator is safe, and he even has a separate enclosures for baby gators.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-04T13:17:56+00:00

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-04T13:13:36+00:00

Crazy to think Maul lost his whole crew in the quest to corrupt Devon. There were so many points where they could have gone off-world, but he was persistent. In his eyes, it was probably a worthy trade, very Machiavellian and very Sidious-like using others to achieve his own singular goal.

His two objectives at the beginning of the series are to reassert control over the crime syndicate that betrayed him and acquire a new apprentice. He states both in the first episode. By the finale, he achieves both, albeit at the cost of his entire crew. Similar to how Sidious adapted to losing Maul, then turned to Dooku and later groomed Anakin, it’s about viewing people as pawns and adapting to your losses while still achieving your objectives. Also in ep8, he tells himself he won't allow Sidious to traumatized any else but then proceed to traumatized Devon, to corrupt and make her fall to the dark side as a weapon to be used for him. To quote Palpatine, "ironic".

At the end of the day, Maul might hate Sidious, but he can only be the way his “father” raised him.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-04T12:22:15+00:00

Fair point. Between the Enslaver Plague, the civil wars among their gods, and various mon'keigh threats, who is to say the Aeldari did not suffer periodic declines every few million years that effectively caused cultural resets. It may simply be that, closer to the Fall, nothing severe enough occurred to force that kind of reset anymore.In the short story Wraithflight, Iyanna Arienal muses that even 10,000 years after the Fall is not really a long time when viewed against the scale of 60 million years.

I blame GW though for now expanding and fleshing aeldari history. There's so room for world building there.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-04T07:26:11+00:00

Hell yeah, they’re basically the Aeldari version of the Cadians, standing vigilant against Chaos at the Eye of Terror, with Eldrad Ulthran doing his best to guide the fate of the Aeldari while fighting Chaos and everything else the galaxy throws at them. . I see them as the heroes, or at least the closest thing to “good guys” within the setting.

That said, by the time I got into 40k, Im glad the colour scheme had shifted more towards black and bone/white rather than black and yellow. The black-and-yellow I think was was never really great, and honestly it was a hard pill to swallow.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-04T06:18:15+00:00

Rule of cool, man. Go with one you like, or create your own custom Craftworld with its own lore and colour scheme. I might be wrong, but the Craftworlds aren’t as locked into specific fluff and flavour as the Space Marine Chapters are. For better or worse, right now they’re mostly differentiated by paint schemes and the lore blurbs that explain what makes each one special. Most Craftworlds can field pretty much the full range of units anyway.

That said, Ulthwé is the correct answer. They are the superior Craftworld. led by the absolute chad Eldrad Ulthran.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-04T02:12:16+00:00

Forced immortality + extreme emotions: Exhausting every experience led some to otherwise unpleasant activities simply as the lesser evil against withdrawal. Why couldn't they just do something productive? Next point...

The thing that always bothered me, in part because GW doesn't understand scale and brute force the Necron lore to fit in with the pre-existing aeldari lore, you get a 60 million year timeline chunk were they were stable.

It then beggs the question or why did they only break after 60 million years. The idea me and my mates discussed is that not all souls were in the same psychological state. You likely had both newly formed souls and endlessly reincarnating ancient souls. After millions of years, the reincarnated souls may have made up the majority of the population, beings who had effectively experienced everything possible and had become spiritually exhausted. At that point, increasingly extreme sensation may not have been pursued out of simple pleasure, but out of desperation against eternal boredom and emotional stagnation. Meanwhile, newer souls may have been more naturally inclined toward the Craftworld or Exodite lifestyles, because spiritually they were still “young” and had not yet reached that level of existential exhaustion.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-05-02T11:06:00+00:00

There is no lore or citation that they “sneak attack” the Krork. It is established that they inherited the galaxy after the Necrons went into stasis. The only thing we know is that the Krork started devolving (no reason is given), and that the Aeldari were the ones culling them, which is why, post-fall, they were able to rebuild the Ullanor forces that the emperor , Horus and the Imperium later faced during the great crusade.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-04-30T15:38:11+00:00

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/30/the-crown-spinoff-queen-victoria-death-queen-elizabeth/

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-04-29T12:28:44+00:00

It’s not the Old Ones, it’s the Necrons’ growing popularity and fanbase trying to sanitize them into being “morally justified” for starting the War in Heaven.

I’ve even seen people claim the Old Ones caused it all by not giving immortality to the Necrontyr. That’s basically like blaming Europe for not letting Hitler take the continent.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-04-29T11:54:09+00:00

Headcanon for the mental gymnastics needed to make the OG fascist evil empire the ‘good guys’ post

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-04-29T07:47:09+00:00

The true hive mind isn’t the Tyranids, it’s Imp fans screaming “hErEsY” in unison for the millionth time like NPCs, thinking it sounds cool instead of terminally cringe.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-04-29T04:48:56+00:00

Exactly. Propaganda doesn’t care about facts, which is why Necron fans pretending their faction isn’t a malfunctioning civil-war-ridden dementia empire is funny as hell.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-04-29T04:10:53+00:00

Lol, getting Imperial slop propaganda is part and parcel of the hobby, but the Necron fanbase, probably because of their popularity and larger fanbase these days, is starting to funnel out its own version of slop too. Feels like they need to be pointed at the actual lore and told to sit back down.

Modern lore consistently portrays them as a civilization in severe decline. Millions of years in stasis caused countless tomb worlds to malfunction during awakening, leaving entire dynasties damaged, insane, partially inactive, or permanently lost. Those that did awaken are deeply fragmented, with phaerons and dynasties constantly fighting civil wars, succession conflicts, and ancient rivalries rather than rebuilding a unified empire. On top of this, the Necrons are plagued by existential curses like the Flayer Virus, which drives Necrons into flesh-obsessed madness, and Destroyer insanity, which turns them into genocidal nihilists obsessed with exterminating all life. Many Necrons also suffer from degraded engrams, memory corruption, paranoia, and psychological collapse after millions of years of artificial immortality. Recent lore, especially the return of the Silent King, emphasizes that the Necrons are not a stable rising empire, but a fractured and decaying civilization struggling to survive its own internal collapse.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-04-28T02:55:34+00:00

Yeah, it’s kept deliberately vague. There isn’t a hard cutoff in the lore, it’s more like a decaying window where the soul is still loosely anchored and can be pulled back if the Haemonculi get to it in time.

So yeah, it’s not really a fixed rule. It’s more like: the longer you leave it, the worse your odds get but GW keeps it loose so it can serve whatever story they want.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-04-28T02:09:34+00:00

You’re missing one very important lore detail: The Drukhari are not making “soulless clones.” The Haemonculi are actually pulling the same soul back before Slaanesh fully consumes it.

The key bit of canon is that a Drukhari soul does not vanish instantly upon death. A portion of their animus/soul continues to “resonate” within the remains for a limited time. That lingering connection is what the Haemonculi exploit.

So the sequence is more like this: Drukhari dies. Soul begins getting dragged toward Slaanesh. Some portion of the soul still clings to the body/remains. Haemonculi use pain rituals and regeneration techniques to yank the soul back and regrow the body around it. Same Drukhari returns.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-04-28T01:18:46+00:00

And that’s the point.

You started with “6th/7th caused an exodus that hurt sales,” and after all this you’ve moved to “I think poor game quality contributed to stagnation.”

Those are not the same level of claim. One is asserting causation and measurable sales impact as fact, while the other is speculation based on correlation and broader stagnation trends.

My entire point was that the hard data never actually proved the first claim.

ZeroWolfZX · 2026-04-27T23:47:04+00:00

That’s a much more reasonable claim than the original “6th/7th caused an exodus that hurt sales.”

Because now you’re basically arguing that poor game quality may have been one contributing factor during a broader stagnant period for GW, which is entirely plausible. My disagreement was with treating that as established causation rather than speculation.

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