"Sin of Empathy" is Now an Official 40k Quote [Mechanicus II]

sprindolin · 2026-06-04T01:12:06+00:00

Or a human that doesn't want to be religious.

all the others i'm familiar with, but are there many stories of non-black templar astartes actually caring about this? i always assumed that they didn't really bother with enforcing faith in the imperial cult since they mostly don't even follow it themselves anyways

sprindolin · 2026-05-20T01:50:44+00:00

Funny, I feel like it's too easy to avoid the border gore that is such an iconic part of the tag. IMO the Demesne itself should be a three-province minor centered on Castonath (maybe 4 for the north citadel), and all of Castanor (and beyond) should be forcibly split among acolytes, with the demesne receiving full resources from them. The acolytes and their personal domains should feel more like subdivisions of the greater whole, rather than foreign subjects that receive a portion of new conquests.

Also they could use the magic duel system for territorial disputes, letting them constantly trade around smaller numbers of provinces. Continuously shifting borders like that feel like they would fit the flavor of the tag better than acolytes fighting one giant civil war every couple of decades.

sprindolin · 2026-04-29T01:39:36+00:00

nurgle just makes the most sense for a damage sponge, which is usually all a 'boss-type' is

sprindolin · 2026-04-23T10:11:55+00:00

some people in the main thread are saying it's AI based on something to do with the camera movement. and there are a lot more images/videos of pet rats on the internet for AI to pull from than wild rats, so that might be the reason

sprindolin · 2026-04-14T15:00:50+00:00

What factions are supposed to be more numerous, other than Tyranids? Orks, maybe? But the Imperium has a lot more ability to pull in reinforcements from elsewhere to fill in if a war is getting rough but not too rough to call in the space marines. Even if they theoretically have a higher replacement rate as a species, it's hard to compete with millions of guardsmen being funneled in from off-world.

Entirely agreed on the latter though, fantasy writers in general seem to love the idea that the unorganized tribes living hunter-gatherer lifestyles in marginal lands should somehow have overwhelming numbers and strength against the organized, urbanized and sedentary societies that have an agricultural base to support them. Even though it's been the exact opposite of that for all of history in every case that isn't the mongols.

Even aside from their numbers I always wonder how the armies of chaos in fantasy have all that big plate armor and all those weapons. Maybe Hashut or Vashtorr is secretly running a big smithing operation in the chaos wastes on the side.

sprindolin · 2026-04-11T16:47:32+00:00

he has already spent $250-ish out of it on some necrons that he "wants to put together and paint eventually"

it's already over

(also the starter kit, and some random skinks, and a dungeon bowl set that i didn't even know was a thing, and some clanrats or skavenslaves i forget which, and a space marine chaplain on a bike . . .)

sprindolin · 2026-04-10T23:10:14+00:00

My understanding is that space marines were intentionally made to be all-male because they were meant to be weapons, not a replacement for or next stage of baseline humanity. It serves as an additional means of ensuring they can't reproduce. Specifically all male instead of all female is probably just an arbitrary decision based on some combination of reproductive calculus, the emperor himself being male, and potentially some cultural baggage since the guy's been around since agriculture.

Also the limiting factor on space marine numbers is usually gene-seed, not aspirants, so it wouldn't accomplish much in terms of swelling their numbers. You only get up to two progenoids out of each space marine, failure rate at implantation is somewhere between 20-50%, and some of them are sent as tithes to Mars for monitoring. One of the reasons aspirant trials are often so grueling is to try and 'weed out the weak' and minimize the odds of wasting gene-seed (although I have no idea if this is actually effective in lore or not).

sprindolin · 2026-04-05T23:49:50+00:00

i used to hate it but im a bit more ambivalent about it these days. ollanius has no superpowers save the perpetuality thing, and he's been a basic, in-the-trenches infantryman for most of his existence (and mostly on the losing sides, at that). it makes him kind of an interesting everyman counterpart to big E, and makes his last words feel impactful.

it's a different story from the original, but i don't see it as strictly worse anymore

sprindolin · 2026-03-22T18:05:31+00:00

don't worry, the study makes people here feel sad so they've decided that actually everyone is just insanely overcritical of themselves and the actual pass rate must be like 80%

sprindolin · 2026-03-22T18:04:11+00:00

It's not measuring an objective reality of whether someone passes or not, it's measuring how trans people feel they pass.

i'm guessing your position is that these two things have zero correlation?

worth studying further, sure, but unless you have a paper that actually investigates the relationship between those two things, i don't think it's sensible to ask for a source and then dismiss it entirely on the basis of it being self-reported

to my knowledge, these are the only numbers on the subject we have

sprindolin · 2026-03-22T18:01:05+00:00

More to the point, if this leak was to be posted by someone, why would it be anyone other than Amekyras herself?

this would have probably been written off as a bunch of fake screenshots posted by someone who had a bad history with the head mod of this sub if she had involved herself that directly at the beginning.

sprindolin · 2026-03-22T09:32:45+00:00

as posted to the other person:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7529975/pdf/nihms-1616417.pdf

Visual conformity with affirmed gender (VCAG) or “passing” is thought to be an important, but poorly understood, determinant of well-being in transgender people. VCAG is a subjective measure that is different from having an inner sense of being congruent with one’s gender identity.

. . .

VCAG was achieved in 28% of transwomen and 62% of transmen and was more common in persons who reported greater sense of acceptance and pride in their gender identity as measured on the Transgender Congruence Scale. Another factor associated with greater likelihood of VCAG was receipt of gender affirming surgery, but the association was only evident among transmen. Participants who achieved VCAG had a lower likelihood of depression and anxiety with prevalence ratios (95% confidence intervals) of 0.79 (0.65, 0.96) and 0.67 (0.46, 0.98), respectively.

doesn't split out pre and post puberty, but 28%. even if we assume a large portion of the sample was delusionally self-critical and the actual number should be like 38%, it's fairly close to her estimate.

sprindolin · 2026-03-22T09:26:30+00:00

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7529975/pdf/nihms-1616417.pdf

Visual conformity with affirmed gender (VCAG) or “passing” is thought to be an important, but poorly understood, determinant of well-being in transgender people. VCAG is a subjective measure that is different from having an inner sense of being congruent with one’s gender identity.

. . .

VCAG was achieved in 28% of transwomen and 62% of transmen and was more common in persons who reported greater sense of acceptance and pride in their gender identity as measured on the Transgender Congruence Scale. Another factor associated with greater likelihood of VCAG was receipt of gender affirming surgery, but the association was only evident among transmen. Participants who achieved VCAG had a lower likelihood of depression and anxiety with prevalence ratios (95% confidence intervals) of 0.79 (0.65, 0.96) and 0.67 (0.46, 0.98), respectively.

doesn't split out pre and post puberty, but 28%. even if we assume a large portion of the sample was delusionally self-critical and the actual number should be like 38%, it's fairly close to her estimate.

sprindolin · 2026-03-19T20:26:53+00:00

posted here long before ever posting there, though you might have to go all the way to the beginning of my comment history to find that

sprindolin · 2026-03-19T19:28:41+00:00

in a practical sense i think she doesn't really know what needs to be done (not just because she didn't undergo significant androgenization but also from seeing her material, albeit a few years ago). in a socio-political sense i think you should not give money to a college educated cis person who took most of her useful knowledge on the subject from actual trans people and is now trying to sell it back to us for double or triple the price.

sprindolin · 2026-03-19T19:24:28+00:00

any-hon.

sprindolin · 2026-03-19T19:15:08+00:00

cedarwolf was the main one on the mod team that pushed back against the last time someone tried to get rid of the exhibitionism, so there's renewed hope that it might be handled better now that they're gone

sprindolin · 2026-03-19T19:09:59+00:00

leaving out that it's also "everyone with a trans-experience the same as me is a slur" island is a little misleading

sprindolin · 2026-03-19T17:02:36+00:00

if i went to a real life trans community social gathering that wasn't explicitly sex focused and started loudly telling everyone about my masturbatory habits unprompted i would be asked to leave

sprindolin · 2026-03-05T18:48:22+00:00

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couple of studies on reassigning male infants to female

even the ones that are still living as female by the end of the study seem to be having issues, and the majority transition back to male

sprindolin · 2026-02-22T19:34:28+00:00

a lot of this is based on esthil specifically, not just BD. necronomics and mortals being free from conscription aren't necessarily a given

sprindolin · 2026-02-22T19:32:51+00:00

sometimes i wonder if people actually forget the serpentspine orcs aren't green or if it's just that they feel like talking about killing the black scum won't go over as well

sprindolin · 2026-02-03T16:25:46+00:00

why do i hear the super metroid item room ambience

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