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Atlas Hugged posted:40k fluff is whatever you want it to be because GW doesn't so much as retcon as they "reveal sources with different and potentially more accurate perspectives". Anything you read, even the officially published stuff, can be propaganda or a biased account or hearsay. Counterpoint: saying the Emperor was Hitler is deeply sus
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Ultiville posted:Counterpoint: saying the Emperor was Hitler is deeply sus Dude never gets off his gat-dang throne. Hitler? Pfft, more like Sitler.
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Ultiville posted:Counterpoint: saying the Emperor was Hitler is deeply sus Let me clarify: I'm talking about the published 40k fluff from the 80s to today that doesn't always mash up well. I mean, you can have whatever head-canon you want of course, and if you want the Emperor to be Hitler then that's basically tattling on yourself (in a way I appreciate that level of honesty because it lets me know who I should never interact with again!), but my meaning is that when we look at the weird shaman ritual Emperor and the Emperor hanging out in Ur and trying to reconcile those, we don't really have to.
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Feb 16, 2022 02:20
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I'd more believe a nerd if he told me the Emperor was Winston Churchill or Stalin. Way more likely than Hitler.
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Feb 16, 2022 03:01
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The Emperor was Jervis Johnson.
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Kwyndig posted:I'd more believe a nerd if he told me the Emperor was Winston Churchill or Stalin. Way more likely than Hitler. This was the emperor. Herb Tarlek, saviour of mankind. 
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Feb 16, 2022 05:21
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the emperor was mr house, it’s how he got the idea for the whole thing
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The emperor is an absolute rear end in a top hat of a person who's bought into his own hype and is ready to throw anyone under the bus if it serves his own short-term goals. Also way into genocide and skulls. Big E is either Hitler or Trump. Possibly both.
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Feb 16, 2022 09:18
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The Emperor is the friends we made along the way.
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I might be friends with Hitler. You don't know me.
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More like the grog-emperor
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I've never been particularly into Warhammer but I always interpreted the lore about the emperor as like 99% in-universe nonsense. Like, he never guided ships through the warp, sacrificing psychers at the golden throne doesn't really do anything, it's all just their stupid, messed up religion.
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Feb 16, 2022 14:28
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I always interpreted the thousand psykers a day as a metaphorical sacrifice. They literally might be importing a thousand a day, but only because they have millions in the choir straining their brains out to generate the beacon and so the daily death rate is a substantial number. They probably only needed a handful of support singers at first, but as his body withers old corpsey just doesn't burn bright enough. Gotta pack a few dozen more seats into the choir stalls every year to keep the intensity up.
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Feb 16, 2022 14:53
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The '1,000 psykers a day' strikes me as a clear parody of Ursula LeGuin's Omelas and probably intended to be taken literally in the 40k universe.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Let me clarify: I'm talking about the published 40k fluff from the 80s to today that doesn't always mash up well.
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Iirc the psyker thing is literally as the black ships are constantly roaming the imperium for psykers and then haul them back to earth when the holds are full where they get split into 1.Sanction psyker 2.kids that could become marine psykers 3.fodder
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Feb 16, 2022 16:37
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Do the chapters recruit from the black ships? I feel like they'd hate being even a little beholden to the ecclesiarchy even a tiny bit
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Scratch Monkey posted:Do the chapters recruit from the black ships? I feel like they'd hate being even a little beholden to the ecclesiarchy even a tiny bit A character that Ravenor sends off the Black Ships returns in a later book as a Grey Knight, though that's different from normal Space Marines.
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goatface posted:I always interpreted the thousand psykers a day as a metaphorical sacrifice. They literally might be importing a thousand a day, but only because they have millions in the choir straining their brains out to generate the beacon and so the daily death rate is a substantial number. They covered the first operation of the golden throne psycher fire in one of the siege or possibly Horus heresy books so they’ve committed to it being a literal thousand now I think
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Yeah I think Chapters usually recruit Librarians from their local psyker population, it's only the Grey Knights and maybe the Imperial Fists that would recruit from the Black Ships
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lenoon posted:They covered the first operation of the golden throne psycher fire in one of the siege or possibly Horus heresy books so they’ve committed to it being a literal thousand now I think But it's not like they just line up 1000 kids straight off the ship and shoot them in the head right? I assumed they plugged all of them into some sort of machine (or something) to put them to work maintaining the astronomicon, and that 1000 of them burned out each day.
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Bucnasti posted:But it's not like they just line up 1000 kids straight off the ship and shoot them in the head right? I assumed the psychers were tossed into a big blender and fed through the emperor's feeding tube as nutrient paste.
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NEW PSYCHER SLURRY FLAVORED SLURPEE ONLY AT SEVEN ELEVENTHOUSAND!
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Big E has canon wiped out billions for reasons like "smiled at an alien once" or "didn't burn enough witches" even when he was in benevolent Great Crusade mode, so I'm not sure that "also was Hitler maybe" is any more of a demerit than was already written into his characterisation tbh.
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Bucnasti posted:But it's not like they just line up 1000 kids straight off the ship and shoot them in the head right? It was this back in the day. The Golden Throne is a big siphon sucking out their psychic energy until they are burned out and replaced. Bit like the Matrix with human batteries. On top is a withered husk just alive enough to keep the beacon running. 
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I like how custodes used to have capirotes
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darkwasthenight posted:Big E has canon wiped out billions for reasons like "smiled at an alien once" or "didn't burn enough witches" 
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darkwasthenight posted:Big E has canon wiped out billions for reasons like "smiled at an alien once" or "didn't burn enough witches" even when he was in benevolent Great Crusade mode, so I'm not sure that "also was Hitler maybe" is any more of a demerit than was already written into his characterisation tbh. I was partly joking, by my point was that if all the source books are in-universe--and thus fallible--it could be those purges didn't actually happen and it's just what the current imperium would have done.
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GW is now hiring for THE ONE person who controls everything lore related. They never had anyone in this positiuon before.quote:Miniatures maker Games Workshop is looking to hire a new Head Writer for Warhammer 40k, its flagship sci-fi gaming franchise. In this job, says GW, you’d be “responsible for setting the vision and narrative for the future of Warhammer 40,000”, as well as ensuring a “consistent voice, tone, and content” across all 40k-related materials being created across the company. As usual for GW, there’s no salary or hours listed for the position – but it’s confirmed as full-time, and based at the company HQ in Nottingham, UK. You know what you must do*. Good Luck, we're all counting on you. ------------- * - I am confident it will be a white male, so that narrows the pool a bit.
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Comstar posted:GW is now hiring for THE ONE person who controls everything lore related. They never had anyone in this positiuon before. scrunts could be canon
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Space Marines are two squats in power armor. Primaris guys are THREE squats in power armor. Vote for me as Big Boss of Lore. Edit: Thunder Warriors were unstable because the legs weren't power armour, so the bottom squat got tired and eventually fell over. Electric Hobo fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Feb 16, 2022 |
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Whether or not you're tattling on yourself with regards to the Emperor being Hitler is 100% in your reaction to it "Yeah that makes sense given all the genocide. gently caress the Imperium." vs. "LOL that's awesome." I think for a long time the assumption was that most reactions were the latter.
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Electric Hobo posted:Space Marines are two squats in power armor. Primaris guys are THREE squats in power armor. Vote for me as Big Boss of Lore. This fixes everything. The Emperor's backstory is in constant flux because the three squats controlling his corpse can't agree on it. Like most writing pools there's always at least one person trying to slyly redirect the agreed plotline towards their own idea.
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sure has been over a page of no miniatures whatsoever   , contains penishttps://i.imgur.com/Vy57gV5.jpg also , unclear why they gave up at the one nipplehttps://i.imgur.com/CGJ9jwp.jpg
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Those daemonettes all want to speak to your manager
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Scratch Monkey posted:Do the chapters recruit from the black ships? I feel like they'd hate being even a little beholden to the ecclesiarchy even a tiny bit Marines get librarians from already recruited marines showing psyk potential, discovering latent psykers during the recruitment process and getting them from the Black Ships. IIRC One of the Iron Hands books has a passage about how the librarian character was recruited and it mentions the IH bargaining with the Black Ships for gene-compatible psychic recruits Improbable Lobster fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Feb 17, 2022 |
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Comstar posted:GW is now hiring for THE ONE person who controls everything lore related. They never had anyone in this positiuon before. That's a major position. I bet that will pay hundreds of cents per hour.
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Harvey Mantaco posted:That's a major position. I bet that will pay hundreds of cents per hour. 10 sprues of marines a month actually.
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Harvey Mantaco posted:That's a major position. I bet that will pay hundreds of cents per hour. Hey, they just cranked up the prices of their minis by 10-30%. I'd be willing to bet it would be at least in the mid-hundreds!
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