[madcat-world]

Lawrence the First Vicar - Karina Refrynn

[devilwizard]

This, in all complete honesty, is possibly the best Bloodborne, possibly the best Fromsoft art I’ve ever seen. I’m in love. I’m tattooing this on my back I’m carving it into my soul

[hardwrench]

The Poisoned Ant = tavern for villains and rogues

Poisoned Ant = 90s rock band

Poisoned the Ant = 2010s rock band that sucks

Ant, Poisoned = dark and contemplative novel that just came out

ANTPOISONED = steam game

[devilwizard]

Ant, Poisoned could also be a dark fantasy or science fiction movie that is trying to be deeper than it is.

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Why doesn't the Imperium like cloning tech?

There's no single reason. Best we can tell it's a combination of cost and hugely inconsistent results. You can't make a proper living clone (most of the time) due to the way souls and the warp and such work. You can make clone bodies and body parts, empty vessels, but if you're doing that you might as well just grab a random person or an augmetic for whatever you need a body for. It's cheaper and easier.

There is a reason that true cloning hasn't really been seen much, and individuals who can do it (Fabius Bile, assorted haemonculi, etc) are considered eminently gifted for being able to do it. Even then, it's still not a guaranteed and perfectly stable process. It's hard and you need good access to resources.

[leo-fie]

Interestingly the Deathwatch uses clones as serfs in their fortresses. Steve Parker mentions is in kind of a throwaway line. They never appear again or become important to the plot.

Additionally we learn that Darrion Rauth of the Exorcists has his own soul placed in an infant clone of himself savely stored in stasis. Which is apparently a thing all Exorcists do.

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

The Exorcists are famous for dabbling in super illegal and clandestine warp shenanigans, with a focus on soul strengthening and manipulation. The Deathwatch are a goofy-ass chapter that do whatever they want within the setting and also get up to illegal stuff. Neither of them are close to good examples of the average Imperial enterprise or the systemic limitations of cloning technology.

[leo-fie]

Is there even such a thing as the average imperial enterprise?

[devilwizard]

I’d say so. It’s bigly huge, but it is also an absurdly harsh regime. Rigid control and conformity are both expected and enforced as standard. There are exceptions to everything, and there are a lot of different styles and approaches and factions in it, but you can definitely say there are average enterprises and views.

[favorite-word-guy]

Do you have a favourite human body part/organ? If not, wich one interests you the most?

Never thought about it, but after browsing the very convenient wikipedia list of organs in the human body I've probably gotta say spinal cord.

The brain is obviously most overrated thing in the human body, but it also steals the valor for all of the cool shit the spinal cord does. It's what actually moves your body and also controls both blood pressure and digestion stuff. I mean come on the plot of that one cyberpunk 2077 show was literally just "getting a cool metal spinal cord is so awesome and makes your life infinitely better" that's literally all that show was trying to say.

[devilwizard]

Finally someone else who understood the actual central point of that show.

[sexhaver]

locusts are SO fucked up. imagine if your apartment complex got too crowded during a drought so everyone in it started overproducing serotonin until they gained 100lb of pure muscle and then chewed through the drywall of every building in the neighborhood

[powerburial]

they do this over in philly

[pjackk]

Seeing my friend Face Fuck Frank today

[pjackk]

Guys i am lost in bambu forest

[pjackk]

Low key i am trying to escape

[charl0ttan]

dog i gotta move like yesterday

[pukicho]

Please stay

[porcelain-dollbones]

snakes really make you appreciate how gross mammals really are. squamates are very dry and clean

[porcelain-dollbones]

a bird is a kind of reptile that has learned to be yucky.

[krayttahrei-adragonsfriend]

@fantasy-anatomy-analyst

what im imagining here is that humanoid reptiles maybe do not invent clothes

[fantasy-anatomy-analyst]

It would certainly be reasonable! They don't have much reason to wear clothing. Already got nice durable scales, which may have their own lovely colors and patterns, and their genitals are internal!

Still, it is fun to design clothing and accessories for non-human characters, even if logically they'd more likely be nudists lol.

[devilwizard]

Makeup and decoration might be really cool and not out of the question though. If the colors and patterns of the scales are important socially like markers of attractiveness or something, people may use some kind of cosmetics to make theirs look better, and that might over type evolve into its own whole art form and cultural form of expression. Imagine a snake person, and the portions of their body with larger scale have beautiful, intricate designs on each one. Maybe even careful engravings on the scale surfaces, like tattoos.

[the-stew-goblin]

Thinking about capturing a bunch of people and putting them in a realm where various terrifying monsters will occasionally hunt them and put them on meat hooks. They must fix generators without any prior experience, and will each get three abilities they can teach to others.

The end goal is to harvest their fear and despair for my fear and despair stews.

Lmk if anyone wants to be taken into this realm to aid me in my stew making, or if anyone wants to be one of the monsters to aid me in the ingredient gathering

[therealmaddunsterling]

I'm real good at invoking fear and/or despair. Put me in coach I got minotaur dreams

[the-stew-goblin]

Yippee!

Would you like a full breakdown of what abilities you would get? (Minotaur related)

[therealmaddunsterling]

No I wanna learn on the job. I'm only gonna get the genuine "Oh fuck it's learning & getting smarter" scare once and I'd like to use it well

Thanks for the offer tho 👍

[the-stew-goblin]

Yay! That sounds super duper scary and fun!

[devilwizard]

I have an empty realm waiting if you want it! It looks like an brutalist city of unfathomable size, completely empty of all living things, the only motion in it the flapping of ragged tarps and bits of litter blown about by a soft wind, with greenish gray clouds casting the empty streets in a sickly light. It’s just sitting around waiting for some kind of beasties hunting survivors situation!

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Next let’s have a transfer overtyrant. Grolma the King Eater (so named for metaphorically eating her former self and literally eating actual monarchs)

Sure, I'd be down for that

[shaydh]

Ordinary day aboard the flagship

[stjohnstarling]

Who wants to get fucked up on the green neolithic slime that makes you hallucinate to death?

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[facts-i-just-made-up]

The California Condor was once a frequent sight at San Diego beaches, but was brought near to extinction by over-hunting, poisoning from litter, and government oversight committees after a crash revealed technical problems with their beaks.

Seen here in 1979, this Condor is hovering just offshore in hopes of spotting food, perhaps a picnic or small child. Condors are making a slow but steady return owing to anti-pollution efforts, and the willingness of Californians to feed them their young.

[justryingtovibe69]

[devilwizard]

There’s an altar of enjoyment?

[evilscientist3]

i swear if the wizard doesnt let me out of his abandoned salt mine soon im gonna fucking LOSE IT

[ttechniic]

what did you do to be put into the salt mine

[evilscientist3]

i MAY have eaten his special wizard meal. but i think he should let me out tbh

[ttechniic]

was it good? was it worth it? are you able to bear the weight of your sin?

[evilscientist3]

im not gonna lie it was fucking delicious i would fucking do it again. wait shit youre the fucking wizard in disguise seeing if ive learned my lesson arent you. fuck.

[ttechniic]

10 YEARS IN THE ABANDONED SALT MINE.

[siderealglimmer]

[airplanned]

We all agree, right?

AI to write your novel is wrong

A bargain with a demon to write your novel is okay

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Only if you specify in the contract that the demon can't use chat-GPT

[athenadark]

I've been thinking about this - and why asking the demon is also a bad idea

Tartini was a composer and violin teacher and no one respected him, he was generally broke, and he started having weird dreams in which the devil asked him to teach him violin

despite being catholic tartini agreed - although everything told him this was a bad idea

so he taught the devil violin in his dreams and when he had taught him everything he knew the devil offered him payment, he played an original composition in his dream

Tartini woke up weeping and struggled to write it down

we have a historical version of "couldn't remember the greatest song in the world, this is just its tribute", and the song he wrote down made him "Sonata in G Minor, aka the devil's trill" it's usually played by 2 violinists because it's evil difficult,

now imagine you make a deal with the devil to write your novel, he writes it but only lets you read it in a dream and you have to transcribe it from memory the next day.... 150k of the best prose and plot you've ever seen in your life and you have to remember it

chatgpt is evil, but that's just mean

[themanedwolf]

This brings a whole new element to my understanding of Devil Went Down to Georgia

[devilwizard]

Yes? That’s why we do it that way? I thought this was clear. People have been failing to read our terms and conditions for… well basically as long as there has been people.

[alienestrangement]

blood and organs burst from truck in Netherlands

[devilwizard]

Damn it that was my Uber Eats order