The horror.
That would almost be as bad as kissing a girl for the first time and then she demands you watch The Notebook, and then the whole Twilight movie series with her.
One time, back when my fiancée and I were just dating at the beginning of our relationship, I went on a long tangent on how a lot of context has been lost to modern readers of Jane Austen’s books, particularly Pride and Prejudice, since at the time they were contemporary fiction and Jane Austen expected her readers to just understand stuff like why exacly did the future of the Bennett family depend on Elizabeth marrying well. Next thing I knew, my clothes were gone.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.
They may be nonbinary, but they sure do speak binary.
Computers can speak n-ary actually.
It’s much better for efficiently speaking to devices - for example, PCIe 6.0 is 4-ary and USB4 is 3-ary.
All of that may be true, but the Mechanicus native tongue is “binaric”
I like the way scaevola spoke. It was hilarious
Oh, don’t worry… It’s actually quite easy to understand! You see, it all started before written history, when there was this one dude who was created by a bunch of super-powerful shamans…
Nono you can’t start from there, you need to know who the dude is and why he did that to truly grasp the scope of the setting. It all started several million years ago, when a race of soulless machines commanded by living clouds attacked…
Earliest we can start is the necrons right? Before they were machines tho
The order i always heard people explaining 40k was:
- An explanation of what the warp was before everything
- The old ones and what they did (webway, seeding the galaxy etc etc)
- What are the necrons and how did they discovered the c’tan (and what a c’tan is)
- War in heaven
- What are the eldar (and the orks) and what they did
- Then all the human history and recent events
I honestly found it easiest to start from as close to the familiar as possible, which is why I start with Big E: start with the symbolism, quick run-through of human history (I mean really quick), then expand upon the Warp as it relates to Psykers and Big E with an overview of basic concepts and personnages (which is also where I start proselytising Cegorach and his ilk), then explode into everything else, starting from “current day” status, then dipping in history as and when relevant. Otherwise it really does get overwhelming and it’s really easy to slip into “lotsa’ sci-fi words” without having an anchor point in familiarity.
I always thought Gothic armada short animation did an amazing job of setting up what is going on.
Also a good point, Gothic Armada strikes a really good balance between large scale, yet still granular imo, where the happenings are massive, but the scale is still small enough to develop parasocial relationships with your units:))
In the same vein, as a gist of it all, the Dark Crusade campaign intro cinematic does very well in offering a vertical slice into the main players! Sure, it doesn’t cover the Drukhari or the Sororitas, but it’s leagues ahead of the Soulstorm one…
Look, believe it or not, there are good guys in WH40k universe: the Tau. Yes, they will wipe your planet out if you refuse the Greater Good, but that’s what you get for being selfish bigots.
The team that’s pro human sterility for the greater good. Hot fuzz was all about how the greater good demands sacrifice.
I love how one of the issues the Imperium has with the Tau is that they keep losing worlds to the Tau because they secede after the dramatic improvement in quality of life vs. life under Imperial rule.
whats with the deep fried screenshot
It was screenshotted in a dream
I ate it
Aw man, I wanted to read it first.
It’s gonna come out soon, hopefully
Why is her username censored out?
better question, why is the date and time censored?
Men only want one thing, and it’s an Astraeus Super-heavy Tank.
