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Yea but I don't live in the US and it's not normal in my country
Oh
Idk then
My town just has really shit Public transport for some reason
Like everywhere else in the country is great, we're just a deadspot
Same
My town is just too small for public transport
We have like
One bus
To the north
On like 2 days
And then one train on sundays
The town 15 minutes from us meanwhile has access to the entire country more or less lol
Yeah there’s towns like that in places you expect to have really good public transportation
Japan has good public transportation mf’ers when I drop them in the middle of nowhere and the primary export of the town is rice
And there’s a train station that’s a 30 minute drive
The trainline used to go through our town, but when the industry died they closed the line and made it go around the town instead and there's no stations near enough that are worth using
Rip
Don't worry, they recently turned all the old train lines into cycle paths, that will save the day 
You know, instead of just making them train lines again
Okay but what’s the cheaper option
That still gives good pr
Even if it does nothing

Yea, I think it was a tourism decision. They wanted to advertise that you could cycle across the entire country as like a holiday idea
Netherlands makes sense because it's like incredibly flat
Telling tourists to cycle everywhere(there is a giant mountain)
Aye just cycle from Tildarg to Kells across the Big Collin
Tfw the Netherlands had the option to rowboat everywhere but they fumbled it
They could've become the Netherglades
cyclists don't care lol i've seen them go up crazy mountains
well, urban hills
cities don't have many uphills usually i think
also fun fact global warming estimates put the entirety of netherlands underwater by 2050 at the least
So apparently a large portion of chuds who abandoned 40k over the Custodes lore tried to find a new home in Trench Crusade, since they saw the aesthetic and assumed it would be a good fit, turns out the Trench Crusade community is incredibly inclusive and is pretty zero tolerance on discrimination and bigotry, so the newcomers were quickly made aware that they were not welcome, so now they're seething online about that.
Yep heard about that
I love the art in that and followed the artist before the game was a thing
Really cool to see his art being used
It was some insane stuff, they were doing investigations into what was happening, first they thought it was rogue mods on the Discord, server but then when they learned the Discord Server was ran by a Fan Magazine for the game they thought "They're trying to sabotage the Devs" so they got in contact with the Devs to "warn them" and the Devs told them to fuck off and that they supported the Discord Mods.
Not sure, I've been seeing screenshots of Twitter posts about it
Time to look that up
Who was doing investigations into whom?
I want gossip and drama
The chuds were trying to figure out why the mods were banning them for being bigoted in the Trench Crusade Discord
Classic chuds
Uh oh
What even is a chud
Cool
The misogynists jumping ship to a new IP doesn't sound awful for 40k though
Rip trench crusade though
Seems like many arent enjoying the fact the devs are "woke" or whatever
Bruh cant we just enjoy the cool body horror art and table top game while looking into the fluff?
"why won't anyone accept my shitty opinions?"
Its a game about how horrible war devolves people with a religious twist
Its pretty political already brother
It's all politics my guy
yeah no need to inject real world politics into it tho
The Imperium is satire of political systems
The United States is a country
You gotta define that a bit
of mistakes
Things exist within the context that created them, fictional politics are reflections of real world politics
Are you telling me animal farm wasn't a funny story about some barnyard animals?
Damn they arent barnyard animals?
I've never read animal farm ngl
HUh?
Is the princess of 40k in another castle?
yeah animal farm is literally just a political protest written in a way to avoid government censorship, cant really compare it to other satires due to that
Damn they're putting politics into my George Orwell novels, literally 1984
tbch i kinda wish bigotry wasnt seen as a political thing
Like really, how do you get around the real life politics bit when building a world?
Yes, but you'll always have stuff that mimics real life in some way or fashion within your setting. You could always try but I feel this is almost inevitable to get into those pit falls unless you just undercook the setting.
All worldbuilding is going to be based on something
Or amalgamations of multiple things
Humans aren't creative enough to create a concept without some sort of basis to stem from
humen dum
with 40k the problem is real world bigots see the horrible crap the imperium does and think its a goal to strive for, when GW has said time and again 40k is a just a hobby game and nothing more
if anything 40k is a warning about what could happen to humanity
The Imperium was meant to be a satire of fascism, so of course it'll have elements of what we have seen in history
Like,.are we meant to just make up a new form of an autocracy that squashes political dissent?
10 thousand years of raging against the dying of the light has seen humanity lose every last part of itself
Throw a couple bones their way and you've got a legion of useful idiots
ofc
,,Bro I can't wait to become a Based Black Templar and kill for humanity"
You're going to be a factory worker, die to Rust Lung by 23 and get turned into Corpse Starch
^
Sounds like the "I'd join the army, but I'd get kicked out for punching the drill instructor" types
clout culture has only made the culture wars worse
True
I like 40K for the Big fictional Space Men doing Big fictional Space Battles
With folks like Arch or EndymionTV taking full advantage of the Femtodes controversy
now there is some strange profit in joining the newest outrage bandwagon to enter the ring
Haven't they already?
Actually no! They dont play many 40k games, with Towa playing the Necromunda game once or twice
Wait no it was Vshojo
Massive outrage and boycotting a GW retcon again is kinda ridiculous for something innocuous just for writing "she." They've done other things like kill off the squats, sunset the old space marines, and other retcons that actually affect the lore more than a female custodes
Yeah Vshojo played it
Over also the side faction of side factions too
I mean how else can you introduce it
in today's world the size of the "outrage" doesnt matter, only how mnay jump on the bandwagon
An actual book probably or models with the female heads
acting like its always been a thing is pretty much the best way to go about it, Custodians got no "they must only be men" rule like Marines have it outlined on rulebooks
tho extra head options to go with it deffo would help lol
People would have been mad either way tho ye
this fandom is filled with chuds so like lol
Yea as has been clarified many times, it's not really a retcon, it's just a clarification. "It's always been there" is how they do things, because even when they come up with a lore reason for why something changed people still complain.
if only the community could do to the chuds what the imperium does to every minor alien race it finds and wants the world said aliens live on
Chud more like
I'm actually just really hungry right now; I could eat a whole person and I would do it right now I swear to God. Jesus Christ its been a week since I haven't had the taste of meat.
The process is painstakingly done gene-alchemy which would go above gender stuff, Custodians are suppose to be the peak of humanity, making them just men would be very weird with the special scientific knowledge used to make them to begin with.
That's just how I play RimWorld
But that just codifies that there were never women custodes and they are being added, which isn't what happened.
^
YO BASED I LOVE THE OGRES
The lore never specified it had to be men, that was headcanon from the audience
iirc there are noble families on terra that give like almost every child they have to the custodes
Okay but like again, theres no need to justify it. Custodians are not this blatant or discriminatory.
Old lore called them brothers, but tbf, co Ed fraternities do the same thing
so if they only did the sons their lines would have long ended
Retcons are all what warhammer is about, it doesnt really matter
This is GW
^
All they do is just delete old lore
^
^
Like what happened to the star child and sensei lol
Completely ignoring old lore and making a sudden new canon is what GW does best
in fact the way i know most of this "outage" is from outside the community is a lot of it is from people that think retcons arent something GW does often
Its a nothing-burger
^
Explain how it's poorly handled retcon then?
Im really not
ive been a 40k fan for 12 years
so like, calling me dense for not caring about a dumb retcon is a bit lol
All of their retcons are poorly handled
^
What piece of lore specifically has been irrevocably damaged by the change?
none of it
Pretty much
Name one instance in any book which now doesn't make sense because of this change?
this change is so small it has next to 0 impact
Warcraft is a much bigger offender for doing stupid shit
Name one major story plot point from any novel which is lessened or ruined by this change?
Yeah it's just ridiculous that "this retcon ruined 40k" when you have shit like squats straight up being deleted in the past
Its typical in these sort of expansive universes anyway
like i said above, Custodians are the side faction OF side factions, their matters and interjections to the grand narrative of modern 40k is very small. Them having women in their ranks now changes basically nothing, they are still supremacist assholes that hate space marines and want to protect the Emperor.

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And now we have dommy muscle mommies protect daddy Emps

Thats kind of what happens when the subject is pretty much null
exactly, once r34 gets involved 90% of this convo will die
Not really but sure
All im gonna say is its too much bandwidth to get caught on this nonsense
I just love shitposting
Id understand the outrage more if it was something that actually mattered lol
Aka "I've been challenged on my statements and have no defence, so I'm leaving"

Pretty much, most people wont care and will just move on basically.
It more or less effects nothing like i said above too
Wasn't meaning to be hostile sorry, was attempting to be humorous
There's a SigMarxism subreddit. Amazing. It's a leftist subreddit dedicated to Warhammer

The name is just amazing
Ogryns can be incredibly claustrophobic, do you think they get scared if they're wearing too much clothing?
and we know this is fact because every cosmetic in Darktide needs to get approved by GW

bullgryns have a shit ton of armor iirc, plus ogryns can just shrug off most damage so armor isnt as needed
its down to their roles
All ogryns should be naked tbh
bullgryns are mainly a defensive force so they are tanky as all hell but slow
the ones used more offensively will have less armor so they can move faster
I'd have imagined full armor for ogryns isn't used alot due to lack of care from the users
Which means constant replacement which they probably don't wanna bother with
Their skin is naturally incredibly tough
they kinda dont need it afaik, they are insanely tough with thick skin and few pain receptors
they can weather bolter fire and survive even when whole chunks of their flesh gone
I think this calls for an actual ogryn faction
An incredibly based and ogre pilled idea
But yeah apparently giving an Ogryn terminator armor weakens them so that should be somewhat indicative of their strength and endurance
Beats me, I got that info off Dilara from here
Hell yeah rare based new person
Also Bullgryn!
I wonder if the return of guilliman and lion would change the imperium policy on technology
I feel like they would allow taking in xeno tech like the tau plasma weapons
not likely becuse its the admech that rule that sphere
well primaris and new power armor
is a thing
so they kind of got some influence
on it
because of Cawl
yes
i thought its only allowed bc of guilliman
the emperor himself sanctioned many of Cawl's works so the rest of the admech cant do anything about it
because he largely left the mechanicum alone
plus iirc the whole "no inventing" stuff is more of a mechanicus thing
Emps did lots of inventing
the mechanicum was a bit more open to it
And was also gathering like minded weirdos on Terra
AdMech are all the dogmatic elements that survived the Schism of Mars
The extremes on world tore each other apart, one leaving with the traitors, the other staying
Whoever was left was uh
Pretty radicalised
Also the whole
the mechanicus is formed from the loyalist factions of the mechanicum
Mass scrap code thing
Didn't help things much
What with vast, vast swathes of information and research being lost
so mass stupidity for no reason
at this rate im suprised they still know how to make gear for space marines
it doesnt help that due to the warp any "burst of inspiration" for a new invention could be coming from a literal daemon tricking the inventor into making some nightmare device
Inventing is still a thing TBF but it has to go through the Admech's nightmare beaurocracy
It took the space wolves some 300+ years to get a vehicle variant approved
it is but it has to be hidden
because inventing is seen as a blasphemy against the ancestors
Cawl gets away with what he does because he has immense political pull among the Admech, a sizeable chunk of supporters, and the blessing of the highest levels of imperial authority
an act of hubris and a proclamation that you know better than the great ones that came before
so lets say for example if someone like vulkan came back and made a bunch of new stuff
would he get in trouble
Probably not
no because he is the son of the omnissia
so he was way way more pull than any tech-priest
thats the emperor to the admech btw
yeah
The Omnissiah is their Jesus figure yeah
so i guess a primarch would be the son of Christ to them
ye
Admech are Catholics and that’s very funny to me
What is admech?
All tech priests are members of the adeptus mechanicus
Admech is simply "Adeptus Mechanicus" - just shortened.
because they worship a book that they don't even spend the time fully reading and understand? jk
its funny that the father the son and the holy spirit slots into tech relgiion like
perfectly
does it
also
there is a conspirasy
saying teh bible perdicted technology
my dad is a conspiracy theorist so

maggie lore
Spent some time in the good book for most of my life, never really took a connection to it.
how many christians have actually read the full bible seriously
me
i commend you
like they insist on printing them with single atom thick paper just because they dont want to cut out the parts that nobody reads raaaah
okay so the idea is taht the father is a virtual reality thing, thats like a super computer, the son is liek, an internet router or something? and the spirit is like people connecting to the super computer
and like, god is electricity
or something

It varies on the size of the text.
still better than the people who say we live in a simulation
an introduction to pop science and its effects on the humain faith
Matrix
Christians when they have to actually read the Bible and interpret it themselves instead of blindly following dogma

you sometimes get the odd christian who has formed their own view of the bible
the least zealous denominations are fun to listen to in church
I actually find the idea of often going back and reevaluating scripture through a lens mixed between past and present in order to prevent stagnation but that ain’t gonna happen
Just one more reason I’m not a Christian
This something that a couple religions do, I don’t follow them either but I gotta give props for admitting fallibility
Islam tries to keep up and make plans for the future
When space travel was possible
Bunch of philosophers and oldheads went ham on discussions
Lots of agreements on how islamic societies would behave on space and how “new meccas” for the purpose of prayer directions were established
Praying in ZeroG was also discussed and actually done practically in 2014-2016
For that one the consensus was, since youre not on land and theres no actual direction to pray toward, the sun or nearest star is sufficient and correct
Because thats essentially a extension of “if youre lost and you dont know the direction to Mecca, you pray towards where the sun rose
Transhumanism discussions are still off and on with those guys too
Which for the most part like current prosthesis, youre not allowed to be buried with it
But what if its internal augmentations?
Same thing, probably
i grew up with buddhism and people in my country have general outlook that its gospels are timeless, and modern stuff are usually individually brought up to individual clerics rather than the whole thing being reevaluating and updated
prolly doesnt help that buddhism itself is practiced somewhat loosely even among the faithful
in my country that is
We kinda have to update our understanding to modernity, it kinda doesnt make sense to keep it in the context of the past
Problem is, 80-90% of muslims dont realise that
yeah, i dub the mainstream religions as being old world stuff at this point, since the world is changing fast and there wasnt big updating event to catch up with them that i am aware of recentlky
I just realised muslims cant be do burials in the void.
We would literally have to find a planet that can be used for burial
that does open up an opportunity for body storage and burial pilgrimage trips business
Islamic faith can evolve, the only issue is like i said, the overwhelming majority is incapable of understanding that it can evolve.
The biggest misconception people of our faith have is that the holy book is the final word, except it isnt. The words of the prophet is. And his words and wisdom can co-evolve.
In fact the examples ive given have shown it!
Prayers for travel worked for when we walked long distances and horse riding, but guess what it still works for driving or flying
So theres a degree of “future proofing” but people are just so lazy to understand
exactly! the people do not actually see this as an issue. I dont know about christians but ive said mine
Siddhartas wisdom is clear cut and applicable even now.
im gonna pull up an instance i really like from the game Cyberpunk 2077 where a radio show interviewed a buddhist monk about the religion's stance on cybernetics
that i am somewhat aware yes, the general philosophy is rather universal. But im talking about pulling up the books and working out the kinks that may have fallen off with the changing world. Even if they come to the conclusion that theyre still legit
My biggest fear with doing that i feel, some people might just change the tone and wordings to fit their vision better.
The more people want to update religion to modernity the more dangerous it becomes when those people are in the wrong
Yeah, true. Ive never considered that before
that a problem?
Now that i think of it, christianity will go up in flames with all the different sects and agendas
Constant changes can become dangerous as it befits the person in power
Theres gonna be chaos if the vatican does it and they happen to not like the outcome
The faith no longer holds security for the masses, but holds power for those abusing it
The Holy See only deals with Catholicism, it isnt the end all be all for christianity.
Mormons vatican is what, some church in Utah?
Protestants is britain aint it, the Holy Church of England or something?
Im aware, but there are catholics and "catholics" (quote unquote) who arent really catholics
But i guess thats just a big world, things cant really stay ruler straight all the way across the globe
Unironically, in most big countries there is the super accurate high tech measurements stuff that has to be checked and carefully looked at that has to stay ruler straight
The actual metric tons, the ball of 1kg
Love those things
Nigh-religious artefacts of actual solid physics and mathematics
Thats beside the point but true. Im saying about religious gospels and stuff. Like how my country is nominally of traditional indian buddhism but in reality its bastardized and mixed with other things
Thats either cambodia or thailand
" I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God."
Right on, Thailand
The push of non-religion itself has become a religion.
i only believe in the god emperor like a good little soldier 
I do not let myself become dictated through association of one denomination. To me, It is through a personal relationship with the almighty that acts as my guide in life.
Good, dont fall for them salesman of salvation
I didnt see you put your hands in the aquila.
Death by crushing your skull

i view a heretic as a positive, after all one more dead heretic means more corpse starch for the rest of us 
I consult with others on their relationship, what it means to walk with God and their journey. but I don't consider them my teachers. I can live a good life, but without my faith, not an organization's, to keep me anchored, I would easy be easy prey to zealotry, and be like other bozos who froth at the mouth on their pews. my belief/faith, is between God and I, its why I pray for guidance from him. It's not gonna be like I'm hearing a voice in my head because we all know what that leads to.
sometimes the response just...happens, whether I was aware of it or not.
anyways, that's my piece. g'night y'all
My uncle isn't particularly dogmatic(in social settings) but outside of that he's a pretty dogmatic christian and Luddite lol
growing up in a very by the book christian household and openly telling them of my opposing belief in my late teens was not a fun time indeed
As technology becomes more intertwined with consumerism and capitalism i will end up as a luddite
the most dangerous sect of the admech
I'm playing through wings of liberty and NGL it's making me really want a necromunda game that isn't hired gun or one of the other crappy ones 
a necromunda rts sounds sick i ain't gonna lie
i was just a normal guy but slowly lost faith in religion after seeing everything becoming business oriented and more stuff are geared towards getting "donations"
im still okay with the faith and principle themselves, but not exactly very positive about the institution
i think a lot of people will be, tech is just ass and increasingly geared towards plain out sucking your money without giving anything meaningful in return
see: Apple products being almost annual slop with an entirely fabricated air of bougie and people still eat them up
yesn't
apple silicon is really good
but they dont innovate in form factor at all anymore
All they did with the latest model was rip out of the sim module iirc
If its not publically traded, tech companies usually owned by a few private equity groups and saddled with so much debt they need to make as much money as possible so their lps can resell the company at higher value
Its not really about the product anymore
who's ready to live in cyberpunk 2077
Already are
Sorry we're at boring dystopia rn
Just wait a few more decades until the wealth transfer is complete
Just nudge for an anti-corp riot to give them a reason to lobby for the legal right to maintain their own standing army
Theyre already citizens
That’s why I don’t like organized religion
Too much potential for corruption
I prefer just basic spirituality with loose interpretable tenets that are in line with your faith
yeah if God is everywhere they dont need an institution to speak for them
People saying 40k has no satire or religious commentary while people IRL attack 3G towers thinking they are spreading covid

I remember as a kid being really riled up when I saw some place selling things like candles with Jesus slapped on them. I think it was at some religious place in Seattle but that really fucked with my faith
Me watching someone burn an internet tower that was used by many people for their day-to-day life because apparently it's spreading satanic disease
It's true!
And that's coming from the same kid who sort of thought about wanting to be a priest
Still love that Xmen toy aren't considered "human" for tax purposes
God
Nope and I hope I never have to
Its very predatory
It went from a sob story about her autistic, quadraplegic son to how lavender oil will save your life
She kept using phrases like do the research
So i did and found out her company is under litigation for smuggling endangered plants from south america
LMAO

yeah i did the research and a bullet wound won't just close because of some fancy oil
Next time they come by, prank them by getting a bottle, labelling it with their essential oils brand, fill it with water, then go talk to them while drinking said water
Isnt that how it works
Of course, thats how they healed my ADHD and autism and vaccines from my system
yeah it also cured me of my radioactive cancer
there have been Monkeys observed to use healing herbs to help with wounds making them smarter than some members of our own race.
Did you just call orangutans monkeys
🦧
I feel like I could slap that brain slightly and they'd fall over
Do you think the brain jiggle ?
Oh yeah
It probably bobs when he nods up and down, like a hairdo but in this case it’s more like a wrinkled backwards tongue.
Its like a really large afro but with weight
I only just noticed the character has a tail
Now I can see him struggling to get through a very narrow doorway, but his head is too big and gets wedged. So if like there’s a GSC meeting being gathered by a Patriarch, Neutron over here is holding up the line.
That’s even better
Smite psykers
Fr, people are dumb
"Do the research" people when you actually do and the research isnt in favor of their viewpoint
Do the research harder
“A person is smart, people are dumb”-guy in a suit
Do the research only from sources that agree with them
I've read some bafflingly stupid research papers during my wasted time arguing with strangers online
I dont got the time for dat
Felt this
I once got into an argument with a NASA JPL engineer where he was dead set on ancient egyptians created the pyramids as a pan-galactic teleportation hub and thats why the world government wont let you in there
you'd think a guy like that would be all over ancient aliens stuff but he thought it was crank bs, and the real truth is humanity was the ancient aliens until something got rid of our FTL empire
Scientologist?
no atheist
Even funnier
I've known plenty of these super smart types that go fucking bonkers
and believe these theories
I mean look at Terry Davis
that dude was my first introduction to that type
Dude wrote ticketmaster and wrote a whole OS in like no time at all and got locked into his own mind and went schizophrenic
Temple OS
One of the smartest people I know (above 150 IQ tested) is a firm believer in anti vax etc
I think the smartest IQ tested man in America is also an anti semite conspiracy theorist
Many such cases
Genuinely some people who are that smart uh
Think they know better
It’s an ego thing
yea thats def a thing
They also go bonkers looking for answers to things
Having met people on this path to hell irl
lotta STEM types think cause you can do past college level math means you're now qualified to rule society
thats probably some of it to, society doesnt always have neat answers or reasons for things
all but like a handful of polisci grads I know get high huffing their own farts
and the ones who arent like that exclusively all grew up poor
Most polisci ppl I know either are broke and protesting all the time or are federal agents
Me when their solution boils down to kill people 
uhh based philosopher king moment
mckinsey & company has entered chat
You are not solving the housing crisis by killing homeless people 💀
I do not know how to break this to some people
well yea you're solving the mental health crisis then 
Beyond just saying they’re insane
century ago theyd be full on board with eugenics and scientific racism (some of them are still)
Eugenics was extremely popular in most developed nations until WWII
Crazy to think about
I say this as a STEM student
It became a lot less popular after
Well
you know
Bring back lobotomies yk what I mean
idk what it is about STEM specifically that either breeds or attracts the type and Im a stem grad
Anti social people who think they’re incredibly smart and that’s why they’re anti social
And they go into STEM with a superiority complex
But no they aren’t incredibly smart
Also high functioning Autism is prevalent in STEM
They’re average
lawyers at least got to talk to people
And then they implode upon the first group project they do
Then again I’ve had so many shitty group projects as well since they’re just written badly lol
Not suprised
yea honestly teaching how to work in groups was easily the largest oversight in my education
but 100% the most important when it comes to actually working
Some professors are really bad at doing it
Regarding teaching people to work in groups
Group projects always turn into one person doing it anyways
Depends
I’ve had some where an actual work flow is developed
And others where uh
Yeah it’s one person doing all the work
the dead weight guilts the rest into sink or swim
Lol
it can be structured/graded appropriately but it's more work than just assigning a group of like 4 to turn in a joint paper/presentation
Tbh joint presentation and papers aren’t bad
Joint paper wouldve made me kill myself in college
My school taught me one thing I genuinely value
And that's presentation/public speaking
had one somewhat evil prof who made us do two copies of every assignment, first was done solo couple days later as an assigned group and upon turning in the group project you had to mark whether you were graded solely upon your solo attempt or group attempt
yea thats a big one (not for every field equally but you almost always run into a situation where it does)
It helps with so much tbh
Kinda bleeds into art too
The most use i've gotten out of it is still just cringing at Game reveals because the companies' PR people are horrible at their jobs
But I know how to present pretty well
PR people who can do all 3 are valuable
The only not-awful presenter they had was Metzen
some people are just incompetent
there's dumb mathematicians and there's football players who can't throw
or most of their working life theyve been presenting for budget/project proposals
and then got tossed out in front of a camera and crowd
trust me even government officials need to be wowed
I am an incompetent when it comes to answering stuff lol
i've seen how government granting goes
those 2 things are so different lol
My brother asked for help getting into D&D, so I sent him all the links and resources he'd need to get started for free, he ignored them and instead used D&D Beyond and is now complaining that it's asking for him to pay. I didn't even tell him to use D&D Beyond.

bruh what the fuck 💀
is he not using 5e.tools
or like
I sent him 5e.tools
But he ended up using D&D Beyond for some reason because "It exports to PDF for you" I already sent him a customisable PDF character sheet
🪦
AAAAAAAAAAAA
The fucking fillable PDF is all you need

DnD beyond is a fucking blight
upon the soul
is it just me or did they change mobile discord again
"I can't pick the Feat I want because I don't own the books on D&D Beyond, what do I do?"
"Stop using D&D Beyond"
i can't find DM's anymore
cant wait to see how wizards screws up creating a VTT and then ends up buying one of their competitors
scroll up its back in its old spot
yea it had update today
they changed the UI again
why
the real reason is actually kinda funny
do they know how many servers i have to scroll through
They are going to buy Roll20
next
what's the reason
Foundry Virtual Tabletop my beloved
internal promotion and resume padding, you 'shipped a major update'
i thought you were going to give me an actual reason
idk why they'd revert it back to something else
I mean
reverting is admitting a mistake
somthing companies generally can't do lol
that's the actual reason
this is basically a reversal right?
not entierly
i see literally 0 point to changing it to this
it's especially prevalent in the larger tech companies but if you have a stable UI that hasnt changed in 12 years and needs no major changes other than like backend maintainence then the hyper ambitious people working those jobs get stuck
i get how online media companies love to change UI to pretend like the company is working
but why this change
I mean the company is working
in a literal sense lol
doesn't mean its in a useful way
owning a media company is literally the easiest shit ever
so easy they have to pretend to solve issues
its also derived from the bottom like I said but also from the top, cause the money wants perpetual growth and 'innovation' if they wanted stable and safe theyd've invested in an index fund
at least it's no AI generated and people are being paid i hope
somehow the only good side i can think of
gonna have nightmares of AI generated UI
some of the code is prolly AI generated lol
then again borrowing code is so prevelant in the industry meh
yeah AI coding is just like using google but quicker lol
i really do feel bad for all the graphic artists who are getting fired because trashy companies think AI art can do their job
yeah
corporate art is so bland already. imagine how it'll be when it's decided by a board full of people who decide what to prompt into AI
I feel sorry for the like
Eastern sweatshop artists who get paid pennies to make stuff for mobile games and shit
Like they're just gonna be gone
Though basically Art as a career may as well be dead for the next decade
Save like, commission work
as if it wasn't already hard enough to find work as an artist
I mean just take a look at how many art positions in companies require "experience with the use of Image Generation software"
Its so fucking easy to use them. It is literally 0 skill
It's distilled plagiarism
i'm wondering myself how AI will affect 3d art
so far it's too complexe for AI to do completely thankfully
I caught the generated crap in the Stellaris trailers immediately
the DLC slaps though so i forgive
L A T H E
its creepy
art is meaningless to some people
which is such a shallow way to view the world
all they care about is if they get neuron activation from looking at something
which AI art is very good at
I got my pfp called AI art
Shadiversity hours
💀
Oh dude I remember Krucial from when he made WoW machinimas
bro Krucial is GREAT
I fucking love his series, shame he disappeared, hope he comes back
He probably just got bored
Naw i doubt it
I watched him for like 10 years lol
if he was bored he wouldnt put that much effort into the AI vids
Back when he was called Hellscream
its unfortunate
to be fair
i dont super mind it
because like
no offense to those artists
but generic LoL-quality art can be just 💀
smooth ass anime girl lookin' ah shit
I don't know how to explain it but like
do not insult base LoL splash arts like that 💀
ONce you've looked at it enough you can kinda just
skin splashes sure
Tell what's generated ig?
not the base champ art lmao
Like I think stable diffusion and OpenAI have like
A specific way they do lighting
And it's a very obvious tell
that's what i think AI art exposed. most people do not know how to appreciate art
it sucks because artists spend so much time trying to learn this lol
Which is insane right
Since lighting is hard to make look good but it's very hard to make look wrong on the level that AI does it
Idk I'm not sure how to convey it well
I will not have you slander splashart like this smh
it's kind of funny that in some chinese animation and game companies specifically theyve fired a lot of their artists to use AI cause its cheaper, AI companies now have a large portfolio of clients and proceeded to jack up their prices so much that it became cheaper to breach contract and rehire artists
the cycle
Also a lawsuit against AI using other peoples' stuff got won recently 
So uh
Once that gets into fashion
There's going to be a lot of that happening lol
Dude imagine
the getty and RIAA ones'll be the make or break
Who knew scalping artwork would be fucking illegal!!!
Who could’ve ever forsaw this?
Immediately sues any company that used it
cause getty and RIAA have entire law firms on retainer
your honor
Not those
Nintendo lawyers
Mobile Legends and shit
YEP
Mobile legends bang bang
The generic anime girl #7583764

I’m glad I quit league
come back its fun 
I feel like any laws won't pass just because of the bloodbath that'd follow
If I wanna hate myself I can play Dota and Silencer or Rubick, make other people hate themselves instead
LOL
Let me know when League gets Ability Draft as a gamemode
But I figure companies who are crazy about copyright like Nintendo are going to go apeshit once they get caught up
Id say not but
Nintendo literally last month had every nintendo related mod in L4D2 workshop from over 20 years nuked
so

Nintendo Death Squads
Yeah like
when
At best
All it'll take is one cocky idiot
Some suit who wants to cash in on a pokemon esque game
thing with nintendo is they're just a japanese company
japanese laws are very strict on stuff like this
copyright laws are bullshit anyways and made in favour of what's essentially corporate landlords
Ok but have they tried exploding.
Kill
there needs to be a democratically elected person in the government who's entire job is punching politicians in the face at their own discretion
i bet you voter attendance for the punching official would be 99%
theyd probably all die at their average age tbh
the position adds an age limit to congress then. two birds with one stone
too many punches to the face...
Nosebleed induced exsanguination
erebased
A tech priest would have an existential crisis if their computer showed them that
Flesh... good?
Well it never said that
Hey does anyone have those pictures of genestealer horses?
There was an ancient ass model of it but I can’t find it
And I think there was art?
YEAH
I love the new model so much
‘Yeah it’s another character’ but that’s kinda our gimmick now lmao
I kinda love him lol
His brain is large
My guess is he will either be an aura extender or like, a psyker bomb lmao
They mentioned him having anti tank
Is he okay?
Yah he's retired at Malibu
he did get the last laugh in the end so yeah i guess
in both movie and comic version he fucks over the dude's plan for "world peace" by breaking the story about what truly happened thus making it so said peace cant last
the watchmen comics are a wild story
Is that a weird boy whiteout his copper stick
honestly he never was lmao
Yeah Rorschach
was anyone in the Watchmen universe ok?
place was bleak as hell
who was Oz again?
Guy with the cat
i guess he wasnt in the movie
He
Was
I can’t spell his fucking name but
I only read the graphic novel, the uh, movie outfit sure is a thing
oh him
Tfw you're the worlds smartest man but computers exist
the big bad that killed a shit ton of people to make "world peace"
And blue god
only to get said plan fucked over by a dude in trench coat
a true classic line
"The world's smartest man means as much to me as the world's smartest termite" makes you explode
He based his plan off a movie
Literally in lore
There is a real life movie where ||scientists make a fake alien invasion to stop the cold war||
iirc dr. Manhattan never kills him, he just lets him live in the knowledge that his peace wont last
And he said ‘I’ll do that but better’
HE GETS LEFT ON A HORRIFIC CLIFF HANGER KNOWING HIS ACTIONS WERE POINTLESS
UTS SO GOOD
yes
‘I did the right thing didn’t I?’
leaves
‘Huh?!’
That is the worst possible fate you can leave for the smartest man in the world, an unsolvable question
i also like the ||"yess i defeated dr manhattan" "no actually i exist permanently backwards and forwards in time or whatever sorry"||
Rorschach got the last laugh in the end, what a great way to finish the story
Also the dramatization has been pirated on YouTube for years
watching it is more time than i probably want to spend, unless i can get my friends to watch it
Fair
why does khorne kill psykers if he needs psykers to make into demons
He doesn't need Psyker to make into Daemons
Though they do use them to summon Daemons in real space
So they are used, but aren't celebrated like the normal people
Also it's starting to go away, like it's kinda stupid lore, hating Sorcerer should remain though
Khorne thinks magic is for nerds, but summoning people to the murder party is a okay
As long as the blood flows and skulls are taken
Psyker and Magister of Khorne should exist, but they should have rules where if they cast from "safe" distances they get punished and stuff
Also Khorne does not hate psykers enough to overlook opportunities, pretty much.
Like if a psyker randomly started to worship him/picked up a Khorne artefact, Khorne is more than happy to say “eh, you will do”
It’s just Khorne slowly corrupts said individual into a non-psyker, ironically enough.
(Biggest example: Azariah Kyras)
Also also, if a non-aligned psyker turns into a warp portal, Khorne demons aren’t picky about the breach either.
Isn't that iffy cannon though ? Like not truly cannon
No and yes and no?
GW has not been fully on either side of that. But Blood Ravens do show up in the codex and other media with their post DoW2 war cry
(Or motto)
But ultimately I just feel it makes a bit more sense
Demons may be picky but they are not…well, stupid.
Eating Psyker is always fun, and different from using or allowing Sorcerer to pledge themselves to Khorne
Yea, it probably doesn’t help that (until very recently with Dark Heresy publications) the line between psyker and sorcery is not well defined by lore
Probably more accurate to say Khorne dislikes sorcery in particular.
The line has always been very well explained
Summoning Demons is the weird middle ground between the two.
Ok fair, yea. Morning brain moment.
Psyker and Magister use the Raw Chaos, Sorcery depend on using deals with "sentient" Warp Denizen
Faith magic is Sorcery but Psyker and Magister isn't
I always thought that Khornate psykers could exist but because of who they worshipped they decided to just constantly cast hand axe and sword instead
They become indistinguishable from any other khornate worshipper
Oh hey potential reveals today?
For DT and Vt2 #🐦tweets-sermons
Yes
Hey guys, can someone give a me quick run down of what happened to Cadia?
last time i looked at the table top, 6th edition ruleset had just released and Abbadon's 13th Black Crusade was happening for years (irl) at that point. Cadia was still holding. But i noticed Cadia is like, destroyed in darktide.
also second question: i noticed in character creation 2 eye colors are only available to Cadian homeworlders - can anyone explain the lore behind that?
Cadians have purple eyes due to their proximity to the eye of terror
ah i see, so just warp effects
Also you just about missed the Gathering Storm campaign
That concluded 6th/started 7th
I think
Might've concluded 7th idr
did cadia fall when 7th ruleset was introduced?
It was destroyed during Gathering Storm
Cadia exploded and the eye of terror split the universe in two
this is also before the whole Dark Imperium arc and Roboute Gulliman was ressurected - does Darktide occur with Guilliman alive?
when you say split the universe in two, does that mean there is like a "multiverse" like some Marvel shit?
No there's a literal scar across the galaxy
does this mean we're currently in "Gathering Storm 2"?
Nah we're past 8th Ed in darktide
Since the Indomitus crusade is ongoing
ok so Darktide takes place after Gathering Storm/7th edition but before Guilliman is revived?
Yeah one of the voice lines is talking about his return we
We're basically at the beginning of the indomitus crusade
Oooohhh ok, so Darktide is set during the Dark Imperium arc
is everything in the Imperius Ninhilus on that map, just like lost to chaos?
Nope, but it's cut off
jeepers, that must suck, how do those worlds survive without a direct line to Terra etc?
There is a line to Terra but it's contested
The Nachmund Gauntlet
Otherwise theyre just trying to hold on
Biggest holdout is probably Baal and the surrounding systems
the homeworlds we get to choose in darktide, are they all part of the same solar system? Moebius or soemthing?
Its like when the roman empire started to fall apart. But you have dante and lion el johnson on the imperium nihilus side iirc
wait was Lion el Johnson also revived????
so there are 2 Primarchs alive. . . what a time we live in xd
ok wait, so. . . does Roboute Gulliman know his "brother" is alive?
do they even get along?
Yeah he's back
Lion knows Guilliman is back but Bobby doesn't yet
did El Johnson get to visit the Emperor and commune with him like Gulliman was able to?
Nop
damn
He's stuck in Nihilus atm
Lion has been recruiting the fallen
who ar the fallen?
they ever reveal any information about the "conversation" gulliman had with the emperor? i have not kept up with 40k lore in several months
Calibanite dark angels who were on Caliban when it was destroyed
They were tagging along with Luther
Got teleported around space and time
roger, thanks!
thats enough questions for now, i appreciate the lord keepers 🙏
from what i read, there wasnt really a "conversation" and Roboute felt like the Emperor gave him instructions like he was a tool. there was no emotion, no "welcome back my son, ive missed you" nothing like that. just "these are your orders: XYZ, now leave me"
fans have copiumed that the Emperor, having been clinging to life and trying to hold the Warp Travel stuff together (for over 10k years), barely had the time to take a moment and even address Guilliman
whats the warp stuff called? the path way that the emperor keeps open?
ah "The Emperor's Tarot"
He is said to still guide His race through the psychically-reactive divination tool known as the Emperor's Tarot, which select psykers can consult to gain a glimpse of the future and the Emperor's will.
Wait nevermind, im thinking of the **Astronomincon **
The Golden Throne is also connected to a massive psychic beacon known as the Astronomican, which makes faster-than-light travel possible for Imperial starships outfitted with a Warp-Drive by generating a telepathic signal by which the specialised mutant psykers known as Navigators are able to navigate through Warpspace.
basically: The Emperor is wearing a lot of hats, and stretched very thin. so when Guilliman met with him, he was just like "do this and this, no go" type vibe
I dunno about the throne room proper but we get a full scene with Bobby and Emps in godblight
That is basically exactly what happened though
The Emperor is literally insane
He spoke in a thousand voices and they all had different emotions and he basically alternated between calling Guilliman a failure and trying to convince him he loved him
Guilliman walks away from it deciding the Emperor is a monster
But the thing is, there’s literally no substance, it just says a ton of emotions but isn’t like “hey, here’s what I want you to do”
If he gave a bunch of conflicting commands after that exchange, I would think the interaction was cooler
ah i just read this and it provides a lot more insight. I havent really kept up with 40k bc it seems like the story was either Horus Heresy or Dark Imperium and hell, the last time i really paid attention to the lore was 6th edition.
i was going off of this info evidenced in the comments section:
ahh i see. thanks
I'm going to kill fatshark
Cause they didn't do much ?
what did they reveal
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I'm just mildly annoyed because it feels like they run Vermintide more like a live service game than they do darktide
More like 1 game has most of it's game sorted out after 7 years, the other not as much
Well I'm just waiting for the game i've been waiting for
Sad to see that dark tide seems to be lacking in the skulls today huh
Hey cacti how much do you bet the pearl runts are going to make noise about the reveal
A lot
On the money
And I quite fear that some will try to run up a new witch hunt on Strawhat
Always with the witch hunts
Yeah i bet it's going to be a considerable wave of noisy annoying people again
I really want FS Support and the wardens to simply clean up the forum at this point
the problem is ppl won't catch the actual real announcement that matters
the blog post
Not like the blog post is any good
https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/skulls-2024-summary-announcing-secrets-of-the-machine-god-june-25-2024/94891
Devoted Rejects, Today, during Warhammer Skulls 2024, we teased Secrets of the Machine God, the new free update coming to Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. We also launched Darktide’s first in-game event Hestia’s Decollation Crusade. Watch the Secrets of the Machine God Teaser Trailer on YouTube Warhammer 40,000: Darktide - Secrets of the Machine ...
i mean it says 10 times more than the teaser
because it mentions itemization rework and new weapons
ppl will just look at the teaser and go
Still mean that nothing for the whole month
1 map that's it
Wait is this fucking real
Yeah
Praise the Omnissiah!
I hope its more tactical in xcom style instead of "walk up and hit the guy, and die if you cant hit better than him"
Also we got a look at Space Marine 2 customization
I felt like you had few options in mechanicus
You can wear all the Primaris variants
And the cosmetic bits over them are
Extensive
Oh btw Necrons are playable


