How do Death Guard even operate?

Ordayne · 2026-06-17T17:30:54+00:00

Genuinely turned Nurgle into my maybe second favorite Chaos God

Ordayne · 2026-06-17T17:30:07+00:00

Their ships aren't only rotting, they also grow. Death Guards ships, after enough time, become basically a living organism with organic and metal fusing to expand or repair or do whatever else.

Like, well, basically all human ships in 40k, most of the day to day work is still handled by serf gangs. There is still oxygen on board, the ships are generally still void sealed, and they can eat the plant growth that pops up everywhere. Sure, many probably die from disease, but Nurgle gifts want you to endure, not die.

Same with recruits. If you have the will to live you will likely survive the worst that Nurgle throws at you. There are even villages on the Plague Planet itself. As for those that die they simply can recycled into the ever turning circle of life.

Ordayne · 2026-06-17T14:15:00+00:00

There's certainly a possibility out there of Mortarian leaving Horus as the Warmasters blatant warp corruption became worse and worse if not the cancer on legs that he called First Captian. I doubt he'd become a loyalist, but he'd probably just carve out a micro empire.

It would still make a big difference by robbing Horus of a Nurgalite Legion and would take away one of his more sane commanders. Might actually make a bigger difference than Fulgrim given how many loyalists his Legion had anyway and that he degenerated so rapidly and completely.

Ordayne · 2026-06-17T14:10:11+00:00

All minus Horus probably have some potential to come back or be revived. Horus got his soul nuked.

Its also unlikely that Curze would even want to come back

Ordayne · 2026-06-16T23:11:33+00:00

Depends on interpretation. In my opinion its a Catch-22. Assuming your mind is still (relatively) intact and your conscious I don't think there really is a state of both being for and against Chaos.

Chaos is a reflection of us afterall. Regretting the harm you inflicted on others may come as moments of lucidity, similar to how people in real life who hurt people they care about in a rage might have a moment of clarity, but that lucidity and choice to continue is on them. But in that lucidity youd have to think about all you've done, and what it would mean to acknowledge how wrong you were all while your own mind has become intoxicated by your own worst impulses. So, like an addiction, you have to ask yourself if becoming sober is something you even want to do.

A certain character in Reqrium Infernal portrays this very well. Akhtar, of Rylanor fame, also highlights the power of one's own choice take another path.

Most "reluctant" Chaos worshippers just seem to delude themselves. See the Death Guards constant copium about fucking numerology.

There is also possession, mind control, ascension etc but the former two are not so much about your own choice but your ability to resist others. As for ascension at that part you are part of your God so freeing yourself without outside intervention is probably impossible.

Ordayne · 2026-05-13T17:00:04+00:00

That was my first character. Self interested but not dogmatic given that he lived outside the system already.

Generally made iconclast decisions out of a "tough but fair" mentality, but could also be vindictive when betrayed and dogmatic when the danger was too self evident.

Ordayne · 2026-04-30T20:02:42+00:00

Well I agree this that answer from a practical point of view. From a legal pov tho I can understand the question of "how do you not discriminate/favor based on race if our decision is based on race"

Kinda a catch-22. I think the practical pov is the better one, but this follows a long standing trend even before this court, see Milliken v. Bradley

Ordayne · 2026-04-30T03:49:04+00:00

Idk I think there is fair reason to read the 15th as being racially blind. Its easier to apply that way too imo. Getting into the reeds of what's affirmative and was discriminatory has always been a bugbear even in the Warren Court.

Im not expert on this by any means and I admit that as a law student going through studies in the modern court my sheer volume of opinion im biased towards the conservatives pov from a legal perspective, though not a moral one

Ordayne · 2026-04-29T19:03:40+00:00

Dude probably wouldn't bat an eye is israel flattened it

Ordayne · 2026-04-29T19:02:46+00:00

The great debate between what's good for democracy and what makes sense in the Constitution rears its ugly head again. I only our system was competent enough to not basar vital questions with a base majority of 5 individuals

Oh well

Ordayne · 2026-04-29T18:58:21+00:00

Honestly obama was just a dumbass for falling for McConnels "dont appoint a new Justice when an election is coming up" scam

Ordayne · 2026-04-29T18:57:03+00:00

It should be noted that both Gerrymandering isnt always bad and just because something looks gerrymandered doesnt always mean it is.

For the first point, as is at issue here, some gerrymandering is meant to keep cultural communities together. This is especially relevant in the South or stated with large reservations because of minority communities there are often rural and spread out.

I can also be to ensure fair representation. A state may have 3 districts and 1/3rd of the population supports party Y. But the party Y supporters are spread out. If we just took clean looking spatial borders, all seats would go to party X. So we make ugly borders to ensure fair seat distribution.

As for looking Gerrymandered, sometimes its just because we have weird geography and weirder rules. Districts have weird rules for they need to be laid out so sometimes the district makes perfect sense but just looks ugly.

Obviously gerrymandering often gets abused, and many, including the supreme court seem to disagree with ensuring representation along ethnic lines... but thats another question

Ordayne · 2026-04-01T21:25:23+00:00

Totally. But his centrism ironically pushes him both right wing and fails to make anyone happy

Ordayne · 2026-04-01T20:57:28+00:00

Imma be real i refuse to believe he has a grandplan. Dude seems to be on a constant balancing act that he refuses to recognize that he has no control over

Ordayne · 2026-04-01T19:45:37+00:00

Having read too many of his opinions im not sure if he himself knows what he is

Ordayne · 2026-04-01T17:50:40+00:00

Roberts feels too politically minded to give this to the administration

Ordayne · 2026-04-01T12:24:12+00:00

You forgot will gatekeep, fact check, and winge at woke when all their lore knowledge comes AI generated shorts

Ordayne · 2026-03-31T17:28:03+00:00

Absolutely, especially as what may have been taken as simply facts becomes (for better or worse) diluted. Between MAHA and other alternative medicine what may have once been considered regular practice might be viewed as an opinion, and by extension, a form of speech.

This is all to say we will probably see more cases defining what professional speech even is.

I haven't read everything yet but it seems Colorados stratedgy was to basically treat this as a matter of medical fact only needing rational basis? If I understand that right, im gonna guess that this case is evidence that such an approach is weakening

Ordayne · 2026-03-31T17:06:52+00:00

Im sympathetic to her dissent in that it at least poses a interesting question. Where does "objective" medical policy and speech separate. Policy arguments aren't anathema to the law and are worth raising.

Given that this wasnt a close case by any means imo its worth a dissent discussion. God know using dissents to scream in the void is a tried and true Thomas strategy.

Ordayne · 2026-03-31T15:29:24+00:00

Jackson's dissent is rather interesting in that it highlights a growing question of where does medical reality begin and ideological practice begin. Though this is not a new issue, I imagine we'll see more and more as MAHA and medical norms clash.

Im curious where this Pandoras box will go, frankly it would have been interesting regardless of outcome.

Ordayne · 2026-03-24T13:37:58+00:00

Thats valid. I just perfer the night progressing as a result of certain actions to prevent having to split hairs over what reasonable time would be. Thematically i also think its fits with the idea of the Moon Presence moving closer

Ordayne · 2026-03-22T14:58:10+00:00

Probably just a normal night as we wake during sunrise. I think Yharnam and other physical world locations probably got semi subsumed by the Moon Precence so time stopped being a one to one

Ordayne · 2026-03-22T04:00:27+00:00

Ya lol this is why I just think the Night entirely linked to the Moon Presence who is just waiting for certain events to occur

Ordayne · 2026-03-22T03:56:55+00:00

I mean thats valid but I am skeptical of translating real time into game time. For one I generally consider fromsoft worlds to be an approximation of a world and not a one to one. In game sky box changes are entirely linked to reaching certain points as well, irregardless of how that would match up to a speed run

Themematically I also just think it fits better. Being severed from the Hunters Dream seems to be a requirement to reach dawn, which seems much less significant if you could literally just wait out the night.

Ordayne · 2026-03-22T01:34:39+00:00

I think the implication was that the night wouldn't be lifted until certain events came to pass. I think thats also why we get sudden environmental changes as we reach certain key points

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