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Mumpy Puffinz posted:they are from a different dimension, so yeah, how come they look like us? I bet if you cut one open it's just like a soft homogeneous cheese inside
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:they are from a different dimension, so yeah, how come they look like us? Because what happens in the different dimension is directly influenced by beings in our dimension and their emotions. They are basically manifestations of emotion and will probably look somewhat like the beings that feel those emotions. Or they are magic and our brains make us see them like us because it literally doesn't know how to perceive them.
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# ? May 11, 2024 04:40 |
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quote:I opened up the flamer. I saw the man scream and writhe within the shaking torrent of extreme heat. His robes ignited in a burst, his skin crisped to black, but I kept up the roaring inferno. I saw something slimy and oil-dark curl up amid the flames, coiling for the strike. I heard fractured screaming as if from many places at once, none of them here.
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# ? May 11, 2024 04:46 |
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Basically the Warp is the psychic plane of thoughts and dreams and feelings and is also literal Hell, implicitly it wasn't always like that but most sentient life has really hosed it up bad even before the Fall of the Eldar.
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# ? May 11, 2024 04:46 |
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Sick as hell
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# ? May 11, 2024 05:02 |
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watchers of the throne: emperor's legion, by wraight. wraight slaps
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# ? May 11, 2024 05:02 |
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Okay so according to the lore: if a khorne demon is in a hell dimension then it doesn't need to poo poo, but if it's running around in a Generic Warhammer Forest in the real world then it's definitely gotta poo poo from time to time because those are just the rules of our material realm
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# ? May 11, 2024 08:30 |
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QuarkJets posted:Okay so according to the lore: if a khorne demon is in a hell dimension then it doesn't need to poo poo, but if it's running around in a Generic Warhammer Forest in the real world then it's definitely gotta poo poo from time to time because those are just the rules of our material realm Close. Daemons manifesting in the material realm are technically bound by the basic rules of bodily function, which means they require those things, but don't necessarily understand why they require them or what they are or how they function. Moreover, while they can move, they almost certainly have the understanding and control of a newborn infant. What I'm getting at is that Daemons need to poo poo, but they don't understand the need to expel waste or having an orifice for it. Nurgle understands it's use as a weapon, but not in general. Which implies that all daemons are constantly making GBS threads internally.
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# ? May 11, 2024 13:21 |
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They don't always need to poo poo, sometimes they can put together a body out of whatever meat's available and it doesn't actually work as a body but it's a physical thing they can puppeteer around in the physical world. And of course sometimes if the veil between reality and the Warp is particularly thin they can just appear as purely Daemonic entities, where if you cut them open all they've got is smoke or goo or madness inside.
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# ? May 11, 2024 13:31 |
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Gripweed posted:And of course sometimes if the veil between reality and the Warp is particularly thin they can just appear as purely Daemonic entities, where if you cut them open all they've got is smoke or goo or madness inside. Soft cheese
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# ? May 11, 2024 13:33 |
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Daemons in general tend to consider the laws of physics to be quaint suggestions at best.
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# ? May 11, 2024 13:54 |
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one of the many stealings from dune by 40k is frank herbert's assertion that transportation utterly defines a civilization. but like many of their stealings they took it much further: that "physics is just suggestions in the warp" utterly defines the imperium of man, because they depend upon it to get their ships anywhere. probably one of the shittiest ftl methods imagined
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# ? May 11, 2024 13:58 |
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tl;dr version: "The Warp" is Imagination Land but turns out everyone has a hosed-up mind/dreams/desires and also if you're really good at using your imagination (psychic) you can voluntarily/involuntarily manifest stuff from said realm of magical wonderment
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bob dobbs is dead posted:one of the many stealings from dune by 40k is frank herbert's assertion that transportation utterly defines a civilization. but like many of their stealings they took it much further: that "physics is just suggestions in the warp" utterly defines the imperium of man, because they depend upon it to get their ships anywhere. probably one of the shittiest ftl methods imagined It is pretty much Event Horizon slash Doom after all. Kinda funny that I can believe multiple media probably independently came up with the idea of FTL travel that happens to go through Hell. Even X-Men has Nightcrawler turn out to teleport via brief jaunts in and out of another dimension that strongly resembles Hell. And to be fair, the way you travel is something that tends to be quite important to a civilization's development!
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# ? May 11, 2024 15:31 |
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event horizon was originally intended to be a 40k movie, but they couldnt get the license. doom was independent redevelopment from a dnd campaign with incongruous shotguns and chainsaws (inspired by evil dead)
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bob dobbs is dead posted:event horizon was originally intended to be a 40k movie, but they couldnt get the license. doom was independent redevelopment from a dnd campaign with incongruous shotguns and chainsaws (inspired by evil dead) I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is just a retroactively applied urban myth. The movie can definitely be read as a sort of pre-age of technology 40k prequel film, but I don't think it was actually intentional
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# ? May 11, 2024 16:29 |
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talkin pre-pre-production, dream-of-the-director-to-make-a-movie stage
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# ? May 11, 2024 17:16 |
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bob dobbs is dead posted:talkin pre-pre-production, dream-of-the-director-to-make-a-movie stage Anderson is a hardcore meganerd and he's British, I buy it
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# ? May 11, 2024 18:17 |
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naem posted:speaking of orks look at this paint job Torkyo driftin'
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# ? May 11, 2024 18:58 |
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the Gran WAAAAAAAAGH 80 (cuz 80 is better than 40)
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# ? May 11, 2024 19:03 |
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limp_cheese posted:Because what happens in the different dimension is directly influenced by beings in our dimension and their emotions. They are basically manifestations of emotion and will probably look somewhat like the beings that feel those emotions. that is just bad writing. Oh no a different dimension, but they look like us, some even have tentacles and poo poo
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# ? May 11, 2024 19:47 |
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at least Hp lovecraft said you couldn't understand what you saw
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# ? May 11, 2024 19:48 |
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"sights that cannot be described in extremely fiddly detail" and "minis game" do not mix
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# ? May 11, 2024 19:52 |
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:at least Hp lovecraft said you couldn't understand what you saw then described it lol
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# ? May 11, 2024 19:52 |
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you can have lots of visual imagination, but you need exactly 0 visual imagination. you wanna see what a bloodthirster looks like? go to the store site and look at their 'eavy metal painted canonical figure. you can gently caress with it all sorts of ways if you wanna but there's a rigid canon look, too
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# ? May 11, 2024 19:53 |
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MrQwerty posted:then described it lol I can't. That is the point
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I can't. That is the point I meant he then described it, after calling it indescribable
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# ? May 11, 2024 19:57 |
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MrQwerty posted:I meant he then described it, after calling it indescribable he's a 100+ year old racist
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# ? May 11, 2024 20:01 |
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:he's a 100+ year old racist yeah calling something indescribable and then describing it in detail is part of his charm as an author Cool Air is my fav lovecraft story, is there a 40k version of Cool Air
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MrQwerty posted:yeah calling something indescribable and then describing it in detail is part of his charm as an author lol. One time my cousin looked into my car and saw a HP book. She asked me if I was doing alright?
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:at least Hp lovecraft said you couldn't understand what you saw other authors took lovecraft's ideas and made them vaguely readable
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# ? May 11, 2024 20:27 |
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"His mind reeled trying to understand the indescribable horror before him. An interracial couple or birth certificate proving his ancestors were Welsh."
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# ? May 11, 2024 20:30 |
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:that is just bad writing. I'm sorry for you to call any one piece of 40k writing bad is just impossible. That would imply that good writing was involved at some point. Also don't think of it as beings from another dimension that have tentacles. Think of it like, there was another dimension and it would've been fine and undescribable by itself but the tentacles are self aware pollution from the last billion years of sentient life loving it up with their wet dreams
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# ? May 11, 2024 20:47 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:other authors took lovecraft's ideas and made them vaguely readable Koji Shiraishi does better Lovecraftian fiction than Lovecraft did
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sad question posted:"His mind reeled trying to understand the indescribable horror before him. An interracial couple or birth certificate proving his ancestors were Welsh." "A regular-rear end penguin or other animals"
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# ? May 11, 2024 21:01 |
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Benagain posted:I'm sorry for you to call any one piece of 40k writing bad is just impossible. That would imply that good writing was involved at some point. It was fun back when they were making fun of Thatcher
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Improbable Lobster posted:"A regular-rear end penguin or other animals" yeah, like a puffin
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Little surprised. Just thought it was groks everwhere
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Benagain posted:I'm sorry for you to call any one piece of 40k writing bad is just impossible. That would imply that good writing was involved at some point. I'm sorry, did you not like Dan Abnett's impossibly baroque description of the Golden Throne? 675 words! One sentence!
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