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U of T CERES 2025
Great king, strong king, king of the Four Corners, king of the Universe
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Aren’t half the Marines Hispanic?
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I VAGUELY remember this dude from twitter
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Right right- supplied by the villain who’s some kind of merchant prince over the mountains
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Oh is this the little chunk up in Oregon that tried seceding?
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Yarangar War?
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Oh I’ve had a bizarre mental image of the speech from Independence Day playing over an Abrams firing a load of canister at the reviewing stand
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The problem with the Ataturk analogy here (as entertaining as I find it) is Armenia
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That’s better
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Heh- assuming this is related to the Ugaritic part of your last post, you favour the philologically informed kuh-SOO-loo?
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Go reread Master of Mankind
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Where’s the evidence that he IS? Yes, he fails, but that doesn’t mean his premise was wrong from the beginning
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Correct. Is this fascist? Maybe, I guess, but to the original point of the thread, this is a universe where not persecuting minorities stands a very real chance of killing the entire world. The satire is in creating a world so absurd that fascism becomes necessary to survive
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The Emperor’s tyranny is necessary because there is no credible alternative to preserve humanity. Every other human polity in the Age of Strife either is Imperium-level repressive, extinct, or too weak to hold off invaders (Imperial or otherwise)
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No, because the entire point of the Emperor’s conquest of the galaxy is to ensure that all humanity is brought under one ideological regime that prevents Chaos gribblies from turning us into the Eldar. Any human outpost outside the Imperium is a potential threat to the ENTIRETY of humanity
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I mean… yes?
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The only human civilization who could’ve also slaughtered the Rangda and the Ullanor WAAGH
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Dude my TBR pile is tall enough- I had to buy new flash drives today at Walmart because my book pile has exceeded the 48 GB I already have
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Exactly, which is why I think it makes the grimdark so much better. The Imperium is both cruel because it has to be while also amplifying the worst aspects of humanity in order to protect itself
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If witches are not real, burning people at the stake for witchcraft is abhorrent backwards superstitious bigotry. If witches are real, my issues re: stake burnings are more process oriented and centered around evidence, due process, and proportionality.
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I keep seeing this on r/40klore when people argue about how bad the Imperium is and like: every other society that didn’t do this collapsed! The Imperium, while wasteful and cruel in the extreme (literally at the front of the book), has to be like this! “But muh Interex” They got slaughtered!
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I mean, I don’t think this is entirely fair? There had been a unified Afghan govt going back like a century and a half
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Semi-related, but my great insight about Apuleius after reading the Golden Ass is that the protagonist is very clearly getting caught up in 2nd century Scientology: “And then I paid more money to get to the next rank of the Cult of Isis and they taught me the strangest things!”
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If the two of you were on the escalator you could’ve pushed him…
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James, have you seen the “toaster-fucking” greentext? Seems applicable
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You’d think the audience at Amadeus would be too old for chicken jockey-tier shit but
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99% sure you’ve seen this but for the rest of the commentariat
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Are we sure he isn’t a groyper? Because I think that adds yet another layer of bad to this
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Ok I realize the indie TTRPG world is kinda saturated but when your campaign is done you have to publish this dude
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Please tell me you have a random title generator coded along these lines
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The Thrice-Renowned Junzi, Hereditary Count of the Honourable Nine Hundred AT-118 Laser Rifle Company
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Dude I so wish I could join this game
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When you say very bad, very bad how…
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Ohhhh ok: I thought the imperial apartments were inside the black hole itself and the Bureau of the Lens was called that because of the lensing effect of black holes
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Bureau of the Lens: like an event horizon…?
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How with it actually are the time-dilated bureaucrats? I seem to remember that the Empire has partially fallen but don’t remember the deets
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The one remaining British growth industry other than plastic Orks
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☹️
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@writingmedieval.bsky.social
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Even covfefe?
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But how does he tweet then?
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DM me if needed
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It sounds like the UAE or maybe Holy Roman Empire on ketamine
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I don’t remember off the top of my head but that sounds right?
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I don’t think it helps that IIRC one of the intellectual godfathers of maneuver warfare in the Marine Corps liked to show up to exercises in an SS uniform
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