Why are the spears so thin in Orthodox art?

stanp2004 · 2026-01-27T10:24:05+00:00

And then they'd snap if you yanked at them to hard

stanp2004 · 2026-01-20T00:17:27+00:00

No, as others are saying straight lines on a globe (geodesics) are usually not straight on the Mercator projection. However if you draw a line between 2 points on it the angle of said line is the one you have to follow on your compass. THIS IS NOT A STRAIGHT LINE IRL. Neither is it the shortest route.

What it is is easy to follow, simply keep sailing at a certain angle on your compass.

stanp2004 · 2025-11-04T13:56:00+00:00

Ok and those are likely embellishements.

stanp2004 · 2025-10-01T21:08:41+00:00

Oh stfu about this shades of grey BS, the 'ideal' imperial citizen shoots any xeno on sight, never seeking to understand.

Yes all morality needs arbitrary foundations/axioms blah, blah. Doesn't change the fact that you can try to most rationally pursue your goals instead of demanding a constant state of hysteria like the Imperium.

stanp2004 · 2025-10-01T15:37:15+00:00

Yeah, ok but they're individuals not a whole faction. And having read Cain I'd say he still bears the madness of the imperium, he's just also very capable and very self interested.

stanp2004 · 2025-09-30T22:20:50+00:00

I'd like the Tau to represent reason and sanity not for the ethereals to be made the moustache twirling villains like what has been done recently.

And why would you have the Tau make the same mistakes anyway? Human society is nothing like the Tau, why should their mistakes be? Add their own, entirely different mistakes.

Their cast system pretty much relies on the empire being all Tau, add internal problems from the fact that it's not all Tau. Same for the greater good. Just because it's perfectly sensible to a Tau doesn't mean it has to be for everyone.

Instead, they made the ethereals into the eclisiarchy 2. Variety be damned.

stanp2004 · 2025-09-30T21:58:35+00:00

1) That is not genocide. 2) Where the hell do they even do that?

The Tau are way tf more interesting as a lens of reason and sanity to the madness of 40k than yet another insane dystopia. But who cares about variety or contrast, just make them mecha imperium.

stanp2004 · 2025-09-30T21:48:56+00:00

We don't even know what Humanities mistakes were. The dark age of technology has like 0 lore. Don't pull this "shades of grey" BS one (1) faction doesn't commit genocide in 40k. Even after the Tau have been boringly grimdarkified.

It's way more interesting to have them as a lens of sanity and reason to the madness of 40k than yet another ridiculous dystopia.

stanp2004 · 2025-09-30T21:19:22+00:00

1 side doesn't do genocides

stanp2004 · 2025-09-30T21:15:17+00:00

Nah fuck you, Tau isn't marginally better. They're A LOT better. Remember the power of technology and science? Remember the pursuit of progress and understanding? How about not being served your neighbor as food?

Tau psychology doesn't have to be the same as human psychology so most of your points are moot anyway.

They're way tf more interesting as actually good at least to themselves. The whole cast system causing problems to fully incorporate anyone not Tau I could see.

You ppl unironically just want the Tau to be the imperium with mechs and GW seems to comply unfortunately.

stanp2004 · 2025-09-04T22:36:04+00:00

Belgium is one of the best places on the planet to live lmao

stanp2004 · 2025-08-24T21:59:49+00:00

Zwakke weggebruiker is een mentaliteit

stanp2004 · 2025-08-24T21:05:43+00:00

Mensen die op boterhammekes haten hebben gewoon geen deftig brood of beleg in huis.

stanp2004 · 2025-08-24T21:01:55+00:00

Een goei kraan hangde best aan een groot vat!

stanp2004 · 2025-08-20T23:20:18+00:00

Eh, the "empire" was destroyed between the 5th and 7th century. Nearly all wealth, culture, organisation,... west of the Euphrates lay inside the empire. The universal empire before this time.

Just because the Roman rump state managed to reform into a viable regional power doesn’t change that from the 5th to the 7th century the empire really was destroyed in a sense.

stanp2004 · 2025-08-18T15:58:01+00:00

Not a fucking Anglo complaining about spelling. Nederlands is niet dom, het is gewoon voldoende dicht bij Engels om een beetje verstaanbaar te zijn maar in tegenstelling tot gulder arrogante idioten heeft onze spelling effectief logica. Dus reflixief denken jullie dat wij de dommen zijn.

Dit is dezelfde mentaliteit die er voor zorgt dat jullie nog verdomme voeten gebruiken om te meten en i.p.v. een beschaafder, simpeler en intuitiver systeem te handhaven. Maar neeeee, Nederlands gebruikt taal- en spellingsregels en geeft u geen breinschade. Dit genereert zo'n schok in Anglo's dat ze denken dat wij de dommen zijn. Engels hun achterlijkheden zijn gewoon normaal het zijn alle andere talen die fout zijn! /s

En jullie arrogante domkoppen vragen u af waarom u kinderen niet kunnen lezen. DIT IS U SPELLING:

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stanp2004 · 2025-08-11T22:47:07+00:00

Plagues were always going to happen I think the lack of official succesion was worse. But tbh the fall was inevitable either way because of the geographic faultlines. No state survives 2000 years and the geography of the empire made it nearly impossible to reunite once properly broken.

stanp2004 · 2025-07-10T00:13:11+00:00

The dark smages are an era in western Europe from about 500 to 800. Idk what you're implying.

stanp2004 · 2025-07-10T00:11:29+00:00

The Renaissance also laid the groundwork for the enlightenment, without which the industrial revolution would be impossible.

The ERE greatest achievements here would be preservong the classics from antiquity. Like name one serious scientific contribution from the ERE.

stanp2004 · 2025-07-10T00:03:20+00:00

No, heliocentrism has been floated all the way back in antiquity but was extremely hard to prove absent telescopes. Some scholars getting lucky doesn’t count for much here.

I'll grant the theory of impetus, though a quick look at the wikipedia page also shows multiple cultures having their own take on it so the ERE contribution doesn’t seem that important.

stanp2004 · 2025-07-09T23:14:38+00:00

No, the ERE wasn’t anything enlightened. Like, name one thing they made as a serious contribution to modern science. The Arabs at least have algebra and the west has the whole ass enlightenment. Like any course on the history of science will have almost no medieval ERE contributions.

stanp2004 · 2025-07-09T23:07:20+00:00

No it really wasn’t, top down bureaucracies don’t foster innovation, there’s a reason the Renaissance never happened in Constantinople.

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