I like goblins.

45 yr old transfem accountant working in new zealand. The name is a reference to a funny thing I saw in a Jack Rackam video, and the fact that I like goblins.

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Ferrus is the type of ugly with a core of realistic, devoted fans.

Huron is the type of ugly with one very, VERY vocal and devoted fan.

Power to both tbh

Huron’s number one fan doesn’t need any more power, lest they start manifesting a slutty Huron tulpa or something

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Would you trust an Iron Warrior to repair a home appliance for you?, even if it means your washing machine is now filled with at least 5 minor daemons?

I mean, yeah. An Iron Warrior fixing something doesn’t mean it HAS to have daemons in it, and in this economy the daemons are an acceptable risk in exchange for free appliance repairs. The Iron Warrior gets enrichment and my microwave can now utilise settings hitherto unseen by humankind. Win/win.

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how did the spear of twilight hurt the hivemind if it is so immense ?

If you’re referring to the incident in Valedor, Yriel didn’t hurt it in any meaningful way.

The Hive Mind is the psychic amalgam formed from the collective minds and intelligences of every Tyranid, right? And the Spear of Twilight is a cronesword that tries to drain, consume and burn the psychic presence/soul of whatever it stabs. So when Yriel stabs a Tyranid with the spear, it tries to drain the Hive Mind into the spear. The Hive Mind doesn’t like it, recoils and gets angry, but Yriel has to stop almost immediately because he’s going to be overwhelmed and destroyed by the sheer scale of what the spear is attempting to draw in.

It is a solid enough moment that is fundamentally hampered by Haley’s enduring fixation with making the Hive Mind hateful and anthropomorphised.

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Is there a good rule of thumb for appraising the contemporary validity of old lore? "Everything is canon, not everything is true" and "it's a big galaxy and records are inconsistent" only stretch so far, I think. Some things are trivially contradicted by modern lore and are easy to accept as retconned: Sulla is definitely not the first ever woman to reach Lord Generalship anymore, Orks do not have a juvenile life stage and do not meaningfully reproduce outside of spore spreading, Astartes poop hazing, etc. But what about stuff that just hasn't come up in 20 years? What about plot points in old stories that are not technically impossible in modern lore but only just barely so? Is there a hard cutoff date we can use to say "too old to be real?"

"Everything is canon, not everything is true" is a vapid excuse for GW being historically bad at managing its IPs' narrative consistency and nothing more. It's not a clever statement, it's not a gotcha, it's a way for people to handwave overlooking things and render bad writing obsolete when needed. Not only does the statement hold no meaning, but it also defeats the entire point of striving for narrative consistency at all. We know that the statement is bullshit, because GW itself has taken BIG strides in the last decade to unify, organise and generally collate overarching narratives into something more coherent. Wiggling your fingers like a court jester and going "oooooooo everything is real AND false! Care about the writing!" is dopey.

Anyway, the overall way to observe canon, modernly, is mostly by eyeballing it. The most recent codexes and rulebooks generally overwrite older sources, and things that haven't come up in 20 years but have since been contradicted multiple times probably aren't correct anymore.

Also, sometimes random writers will just say shit that's so wrong it's never brought up again and clearly intended to be ignored (see Swords of Calth and Wild Rider for examples of this). So yeah. It's mostly just common sense, and there isn't a hard rule for it.

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Assuming you don't die horribly, would anything happen should you eat tyranid flesh?

You would… still die horribly? Tyranid meat is poisonous. Decidedly poisonous. That’s our baseline. On top of that, they tend to have repositories and distribution systems for venoms, bio-acids and phage cells threaded throughout their bodies. On top of that, Tyranid bioforms often contain smaller simple bioforms that will do shit like secrete acid or explode or attack you or otherwise make interfering with the larger bioform corpses a bad idea. To top it all off, Tyranid meat is implied to be sinewy and tough.

Even the Kroot, masters of eating other species, are forbidden from consuming Tyranid flesh because it rapidly mutates them and causes them to start “hearing” the Hive Mind. Astartes can straight up die if they eat the wrong bit of Tyranid meat.

So, assuming you don’t die horribly, you’d probably get quite sick and/or go insane. And then die horribly.

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What would happen if we were to somehow lure the Tyranids into the Eye of Terror? I think this could potentially solve two problems and add a third, even bigger problem, but it'd be funny so I wanna see what happens

Not a lot would happen, honestly. We have multiple examples of Tyranids going into the Warp for one reason or another and popping out again just fine. Even something as simple as chaos mutations on bioforms is extremely rare. I mean, hell, one time Tyranids (Kraken, I think) were fighting Aeldari and a warp storm randomly spat out another hive fleet which was both entirely okay and immediately started joining up with the one that was already there. The Hive Mind has even adapted Hive Fleet Kronos specifically to eat daemons.

The Warp does not like the Hive Mind. Daemons do not like the Hive Mind. Non-chaos factions don’t want Tyranids going into the Warp because it means that a hive fleet will pop out of nowhere, at random, and go about its business.

So, no, you wouldn’t solve any problems, and you wouldn’t really create any new ones, save for high odds of those Tyranids showing up in the middle of someone’s kitchen when the Warp eventually rejects them.

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We send the Tyranids to the Eye of Terror and they just clip right through it like a Bethesda NPC.

The Tyranids were Todd’s final gambit against chaos. He knew.

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The Red Terror - Kill Team: Terror on Devlan

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Commissar Graves

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Inquisitor Kroyle

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Intranzia Fraye, Dogmata Superior

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Erasmus Zonn, the Enlightened One

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Collegiate Battlemages

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Gate Gargants

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Freeguild Grenadiers

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Cannonade Cogfort

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This guy loves his job

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Would you say that (even when not shipping or writing docs about them) people make the Primarchs too close to each other? I just keep wondering if they would have that much of a family dynamic when they all spend 90% of their time spread across the galaxy

I think that their interactions with each other are definitely abnormally familiar, given how little time, objectively, they actually spend together. However, I also think said abnormality is accounted for by the fact they're all weird warp-people begot of the same root processes, and that we see multiple points where they sense each other/recognise each other for being similar/feel innate familiarity with each other.

It's definitely weird, but it's also established that they're weird, and all share what is almost a literal wavelength of weird.

And, y'know, it helps facilitate the writers making the cool big central action figures bump against each other and go pew pew crash.