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Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

Smugworth posted:

How many years do you have to do in the imperial guard before the emperor pays for your college

They cut out your loving eyes and implant college in a horrible face burning process

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Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003


Literally A Person posted:

They cut out your loving eyes and implant college in a horrible face burning process

Ew. Gross.

grumplestiltzkin
Jun 7, 2012

Ass, gas, or grass. No one rides for free.

Literally A Person posted:

They cut out your loving eyes and implant college in a horrible face burning process

If they get it over with in a single day that still sounds preferable to an actual us military enlistment :v:

Literally A Person
Jan 1, 1970

Smugworth Wuz Here

grumplestiltzkin posted:

If they get it over with in a single day that still sounds preferable to an actual us military enlistment :v:

Thirty seconds but eternal suffering and you'll probably sprout some tentacles or some poo poo

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

Smugworth posted:

How many years do you have to do in the imperial guard before the emperor pays for your college

other way around, if you show promise early on you get to go to Schola Progenium, a sort of combination of Catholic school, military academy, and British boarding school, and if you do really well there you get to be one of the guys who shoots people for cowardice instead of one of the guys who get shot for cowardice.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Gripweed posted:

other way around, if you show promise early on you get to go to Schola Progenium, a sort of combination of Catholic school, military academy, and British boarding school, and if you do really well there you get to be one of the guys who shoots people for cowardice instead of one of the guys who get shot for cowardice.

*Offer not guaranteed if assigned to Catachans
**If assigned to Kriegers you spend more time convincing them not to go on suicidal charges when they're not supposed to

Barudak
May 7, 2007

The average life span of an active duty imperial Guard* is measured in hours so no need to worry about the school thing.

*Im not calling them their current name, gently caress that

snergle
Aug 3, 2013

A kind little mouse!

FMguru posted:

LOL.

This is now my new favorite dumb 40K setting detail, displacing the claim that the Raven Guard are specialists in stealth, sneaking, and infiltration.

i looked this up and i imagine it like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13881znnNAU

except t hat you do what he says because their 7 feet tall jacked dudes in a space marine suit.

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

Is it really that hard to believe Raven Guard are masters of stealth when other Space Marines look like this?

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

When I want to relax, I read an essay by Engels. When I want something more serious, I read Corto Maltese.
I have to admit, I do like how the Howling Griffons' colour scheme is so reminiscent of ye-olde knight aesthetics.

Vampire Panties
Apr 18, 2001
nposter
Nap Ghost
its a big :lol: that camouflage is basically against the rules in the Imperium

Jimbone Tallshanks
Dec 16, 2005

You can't pull rank on murder.

What if there was a Primarch named Rogal McDornald

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Mr Teatime posted:

I think that’s one bit of that lore people often get wrong, mainly because Cadians are sort of the template for ‘basic guardsman’ across the imperium (and more importantly, model range) and guardsman are generally depicted as mooks or fodder in 40k stories. But Cadians are supposed to be ridiculously hardcore, like just insanely good soldiers and the peak of what a baseline human soldier can be, they just live in the 40k universe so being the best human soldier only counts for so much. There’s a reason Cadian doctrine and gear is the template for a vast amount of the imperial army.

cadians sucked so bad that they had necron help and still failed

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost
one necron's help. it was trazyn, but still. and all his pokemon that he brought were imperial only

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

a planet covered in ancient alien artifacts, any one of which would be a Deux Ex Machina on its own, and chaos just suicide bombs 1 starship into the planet and wins

Barudak
May 7, 2007

QuarkJets posted:

a planet covered in ancient alien artifacts, any one of which would be a Deux Ex Machina on its own, and chaos just suicide bombs 1 starship into the planet and wins

Sometimes Tzeentch goes with the simple, obvious plan to keep people on their toes.

Mr Teatime
Apr 7, 2009

QuarkJets posted:

cadians sucked so bad that they had necron help and still failed

QuarkJets posted:

a planet covered in ancient alien artifacts, any one of which would be a Deux Ex Machina on its own, and chaos just suicide bombs 1 starship into the planet and wins

CapnAndy
Feb 27, 2004

Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.
What do you think the purpose of Lorgar was supposed to be

"Hello I am the Emperor, if there's one thing I hate more than anything else in this entire galaxy it's women, but second place is religion. Welp anyway time to hand-craft my sons, I think I'll take one of them and make it so every fiber of his being is constantly crying out for something to worship"

Barudak
May 7, 2007

CapnAndy posted:

What do you think the purpose of Lorgar was supposed to be

"Hello I am the Emperor, if there's one thing I hate more than anything else in this entire galaxy it's women, but second place is religion. Welp anyway time to hand-craft my sons, I think I'll take one of them and make it so every fiber of his being is constantly crying out for something to worship"

This is my son Lorgar, we gene-seeded him wrong as a joke

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

CapnAndy posted:

What do you think the purpose of Lorgar was supposed to be

"Hello I am the Emperor, if there's one thing I hate more than anything else in this entire galaxy it's women, but second place is religion. Welp anyway time to hand-craft my sons, I think I'll take one of them and make it so every fiber of his being is constantly crying out for something to worship"

I'm not sure how much was that he ended up landing on a Religion Planet but still lol

Torchlighter
Jan 15, 2012

I Got Kids. I need this.

CapnAndy posted:

What do you think the purpose of Lorgar was supposed to be

"Hello I am the Emperor, if there's one thing I hate more than anything else in this entire galaxy it's women, but second place is religion. Welp anyway time to hand-craft my sons, I think I'll take one of them and make it so every fiber of his being is constantly crying out for something to worship"

The Emperor did have a quasi-religion in the Imperial Truth, which was esssentially humanistic anti-Chaos rhetoric. Really more of a philosophy or ideology than a religion, but ultimately any means by which you explain the mystery of the cosmos (including why exactly your ships need certain pieces to not disappear into the Warp) requires someone who wholeheartedly believes in it and is both compelling and a skilled orator. I think in general the Emperor thought that people needed something to believe in even as he personally hated religion, in much the same way that he would tell you that he loathes the idea of tyranny even as he sets himself up as a dictator.

sad question
May 30, 2020

I have a question. Which chaos god would each cast member of Always Sunny worship

Whorelord
May 1, 2013

Jump into the well...

sad question posted:

I have a question. Which chaos god would each cast member of Always Sunny worship

Dennis - Slaanesh
Dee - Tzeentch
Frank - Nurgle
Mac - Khorne
Charlie - Malal

Barudak
May 7, 2007

No credit to Vashtorr? So much for the undivided chaos

Mr Teatime
Apr 7, 2009

sad question posted:

I have a question. Which chaos god would each cast member of Always Sunny worship

https://youtu.be/mkHNpuVBGfs?si=UnS_xMFHzYRB_ytD

https://youtu.be/GRbmSXSiGH8?si=jqi9Yg-qOfVHNiik

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Whorelord posted:

Dennis - Slaanesh
Dee - Tzeentch
Frank - Nurgle
Mac - Khorne
Charlie - Malal

This but Charlie is The Horned Rat

GokuGoesSSj69
Apr 15, 2017
Weak people spend 10 dollars to gift titles about world leaders they dislike. The strong spend 10 dollars to gift titles telling everyone to play Deus Ex again

QuarkJets posted:

This but Charlie is The Horned Rat

Beat me to it.

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

QuarkJets posted:

This but Charlie is The Horned Rat
Yeah, no one cares about Malal.

CapnAndy
Feb 27, 2004

Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Torchlighter posted:

The Emperor did have a quasi-religion in the Imperial Truth, which was esssentially humanistic anti-Chaos rhetoric. Really more of a philosophy or ideology than a religion, but ultimately any means by which you explain the mystery of the cosmos (including why exactly your ships need certain pieces to not disappear into the Warp) requires someone who wholeheartedly believes in it and is both compelling and a skilled orator. I think in general the Emperor thought that people needed something to believe in even as he personally hated religion, in much the same way that he would tell you that he loathes the idea of tyranny even as he sets himself up as a dictator.
I mean on the one hand yeah, but on the other hand, Emperor-worship was what Lorgar was initially inclined towards and the Emp destroying Lorgar's favorite city and utterly humiliating him as punishment for said worship was a big factor in why the Heresy kicked off in the first place.

Whorelord posted:

Dennis - Slaanesh
Dee - Tzeentch
Frank - Nurgle
Mac - Khorne
Charlie - Malal
Charlie is Chaos Undivided, also Mac is accurate but lol at the thought of him as a Khorne cultist

"No, I'm just saying, if you're gonna be all about SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE, maybe offer one skull?"
"I can't, I'm... I'm cultivating blood, Charlie, we discussed this! If I increase my mass, there will be more blood in my body, because it's bigger!"

CapnAndy fucked around with this message at 16:19 on May 15, 2024

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
One of the 40k role playing games, Black Crusade I think, is about playing Chaos aligned characters, and from what I've heard the Always Sunny cast would make pretty fitting character templates for it.

naem
May 29, 2011

charlie canonically loves little green ghouls he clearly plays an all grot army

ChickenHeart
Nov 28, 2007

Take me at your own risk.

Kiss From a Hog
My game of Only War years ago essentially devolved into an Always Sunny skit as the party of guardsmen became obsessed with the "Mr. Coffee 40,000" machine I put in an ork junk pile as a joke, commiting greater and greater acts of insubordination to lay claim to the piece of archeotech

irrc when the npc commissar started to question the sanity of lugging an ancient kitchen appliance across an orbital bombardment zone the party deliberately ran him over with a chimera transport during the next ork engagement

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost
if actual real affairs of state and war need to have benny hill backing soundtrack, how much more so should affairs of state and war in a satirical military scifi dealio?

Plucky Brit
Nov 7, 2009

Swing low, sweet chariot

Torchlighter posted:

The Emperor did have a quasi-religion in the Imperial Truth, which was esssentially humanistic anti-Chaos rhetoric. Really more of a philosophy or ideology than a religion, but ultimately any means by which you explain the mystery of the cosmos (including why exactly your ships need certain pieces to not disappear into the Warp) requires someone who wholeheartedly believes in it and is both compelling and a skilled orator. I think in general the Emperor thought that people needed something to believe in even as he personally hated religion, in much the same way that he would tell you that he loathes the idea of tyranny even as he sets himself up as a dictator.
…Except for the Mechanichum, who he is perfectly happy to leave worshiping him as a god. The Emperor is and always was a massive hypocrite.

Torchlighter
Jan 15, 2012

I Got Kids. I need this.

CapnAndy posted:

I mean on the one hand yeah, but on the other hand, Emperor-worship was what Lorgar was initially inclined towards and the Emp destroying Lorgar's favorite city and utterly humiliating him as punishment for said worship was a big factor in why the Heresy kicked off in the first place.


Plucky Brit posted:

…Except for the Mechanichum, who he is perfectly happy to leave worshiping him as a god. The Emperor is and always was a massive hypocrite.

The Mechanicum venerate the Emperor as an aspect of the Omnissiah, and Emps didn't want to fight them over it. You'd also probably need the Emchanicum to know about Chaos at some point, they o have to build your ships. But debating them sounds like something you'd need a skilled orator who wholeheartedly believes in the school of philosophy you've used as the basis of your society. Believe me when I say that I agree with you about Emps being a giant hypocrite. The big thing is that Lorgar wanted something to believe in and Emps was the obvious choice, but Emps still had uses for Lorgar after the Great Crusade. Of course, blowing up his major city and denying your own divinity in front of him would have been a stepping block, but hey, he'll get over it once he sees the logic of my position. And he definitely won't hold a grudge against the brother who I told to do the razing.

What I'm getting at here is that the Emperor is a reddit atheist.

CapnAndy
Feb 27, 2004

Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don't want to see such a mouth up close. before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.

Torchlighter posted:

What I'm getting at here is that the Emperor is a reddit atheist.
Couldn't agree more; this is why I like to disparage the Imperial Truth as Internet Atheism.

MrNemo
Aug 26, 2010

"I just love beeting off"

The Emperor didn't actually have a problem with being worshipped by Lorgar. He had a problem when said worship started impacting Lorgar 's performance at Crusading. If he had been making comparable progress to his brothers his religiosity would have been treated much like Kurze's murderous butchery. Maybe not desirable but the Emperor doesn't actually care about anything except results.

And much like a senior executive at Boeing, this was not a good long term attitude.

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL
(づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ♥(‘∀’●)

what if the horned rat is malal

Smugworth
Apr 18, 2003


Is there anything cool about eldar and tau

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bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost
dominance in the actual tabletop game

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