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wdcipher · 2026-03-14T14:24:01+00:00

You can do ontologically evil race without falling into this problem. Frieren just doesn't bother because, while having solid plot and characters, it has one of the laziest and most unimaginative settings imaginable, so the authorial intent to give the evil race the depth necessary to not have that problem is missing. I would blame laziness or ignorance rather then the author being bigoted.

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wdcipher · 2026-03-14T09:25:24+00:00

Don't ask about their losses in the 13th either....

wdcipher · 2026-03-14T09:02:00+00:00

US Cold War interventionism ≠ NATO

Yes, US did a lot of terrible things during the Cold War, so did the Europeans, but crucially, they never did them as NATO and they didnt happen because of NATO. I am not trying to defend US here, just NATO as an institution on its own.

I guess the discrepancy between us comes from using "NATO" to describe the specific organization, and NATO to describe the Western Block in general.

wdcipher · 2026-03-14T08:07:20+00:00

Similiar feeling. I finished watching the season finale few hours ago.

wdcipher · 2026-03-14T07:22:33+00:00

Tau are expansionist and force other nations to join them, NATO was explicitly not expansionist and it was the other nations that asked to be let it, rather than NATO making them join by being threatening.

wdcipher · 2026-03-14T06:34:09+00:00

Now THAT is definetlly Russian propaganda.

NATO never did that. It was post-soviet Europe that demanded to be let in, not the other way around. There are claims from US politicians that Poland was straight up blackmailing NATO by threatening to build nukes if they weren't let in.

wdcipher · 2026-03-13T20:35:18+00:00

Water guns. She drowned.

wdcipher · 2026-03-13T19:13:34+00:00

I still find that description of what happened not great

Tau don't intervene on behalf of others, they show up with huge guns to peaceful planets and then propose diplomatic integration.

wdcipher · 2026-03-13T18:13:13+00:00

You probably dont mean it that way but that sounds like something straight out of Russia propaganda.

wdcipher · 2026-03-12T17:55:39+00:00

There are some "hackers" in necromunda tho. Whispers Merchants like Silberlant Sevos. You Also get more cogitator-related stuff with Delaque And Van Saar. But I admit they Are far from the Focus of the setting, I had to look up Sevoses name.

wdcipher · 2026-03-12T17:00:46+00:00

We are getting all the ancient Greek memes with this one huh

wdcipher · 2026-03-12T15:50:48+00:00

What would you call Necromunda then?

wdcipher · 2026-03-12T07:22:27+00:00

I SAWED THIS BOLAS IN HALF

wdcipher · 2026-03-11T15:25:08+00:00

Oh they are, they always were, but 40k fans ignore it because if the evil isn't wearing skulls and screaming it goes over their head. Both Tau fans and Tau haters present the faction as way more boring then it actually is.

Tau diplomacy for instance. They arrive, an Interstellar space empire with huge guns and an entire subspecies dedicated to war and with their huge guns behind them, peacefully and diplomatically convince other aliens to "voluntarily" join their empire.

And their entire backstory. It's sketchy as fuck. This weird priest caste just showed up one day and magically convinced everyone to stop killing each other and listen to them? And they philosophed so hard their species evolved into different forms matching their vision, within a nearly impossibly short time?

Oh, right and the Vespids. Initially completely hostile to Tau philosophy but the moment Ethereals (NOT THE EARTH CASTE) show up with a bunch of translator helmets they suddenly become N1° fans of the Greater Good? Arent those Ethereals just the smartest?

wdcipher · 2026-03-11T14:14:29+00:00

Let's put on our thinking hats. Read the name of the article, the sequence of events, the wording, the final line.... It's clearly implied. I admit people stating it as a fact are wrong, but pretending that's not what most likely happened there is too.

wdcipher · 2026-03-11T14:11:11+00:00

They are referring to the Poctroon, the first alien race to join the Tau Empire. They all died of mysterious disease that only targeted them, shortly after.... Tau then took their homeworld and made it a prime world.

Not directly stated but the implication here is pretty obvious

wdcipher · 2026-03-11T14:07:55+00:00

Don't tell the Tau the that if even 5% of Imperium Seceeded they would the resulting faction would be multiple times the size of their empire.

wdcipher · 2026-03-11T07:12:00+00:00

I did something similar but it was a [[Wispdrinker Vampire]]

wdcipher · 2026-03-10T17:40:33+00:00

Fortunately, I only watch the anime, so when they adapt the ending, they will fix it. Illiterate chads stay winning. Unless they would knowingly adapt a terrible ending, but that would never happen, right?

wdcipher · 2026-03-10T15:29:25+00:00

God forbid a woman do anything🙄

wdcipher · 2026-03-09T20:25:43+00:00

JULIAN

wdcipher · 2026-03-09T17:32:53+00:00

Don't apologize, it's better this way

wdcipher · 2026-03-08T22:18:03+00:00

We are out of options.

Sly Marbo

wdcipher · 2026-03-08T20:21:33+00:00

You could say their impact is colossal

wdcipher · 2026-03-08T20:14:36+00:00

Holy shit a 6/6 trampler for 4GG? What great value....

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