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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You are a Minor Xenos Species in Warhammer 40k
« on: June 11, 2020, 06:39:48 pm »
Madman's point about the superiority of sexual reproduction convinces me. It's categorically better and essential for genetic recombination to occur for us to get a top-tier species before the stars grow cold, and only sexual reproduction can accomplish this here. We can still be weird and alien in the further questions.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You are a Minor Xenos Species in Warhammer 40k
« on: June 11, 2020, 05:07:31 pm »
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General Discussion / Re: KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS Discussion Thread
« on: June 11, 2020, 04:25:51 pm »
Well, it wasn't an instant kill. I'm not sure if that says Dave knows better than to be predictable when fighting an angel or if it says he's foolishly prideful to not immediately annihilate the arena with Ki Rata.

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General Discussion / Re: The Abusive Policing Thread: Beyond Brown, No Justice
« on: June 11, 2020, 02:14:24 pm »
Nurture I think is more important by far. Even a case such as Joseph Kallinger who had a lot more that went wrong with him mentally than just the serial killer urge, and thus probably had some manner of genetic factor which made him vulnerable to developing that schizophrenic disorder, was clearly exacerbated by the abuse he suffered.

Outcomes of natural-born mental issues are going to be widely affected by what that person experiences in life. People with schizophrenic delusions may sometimes cause significant problems due to the nature of those delusions, but they're just reacting to what they think is happening to them when it actually isn't. They themselves are not desiring or intending violence. Whereas Kallinger's delusions took on a darker and explicitly murderous intent, and I attribute that difference to the abuse he suffered.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You are a Minor Xenos Species in Warhammer 40k
« on: June 11, 2020, 02:08:27 pm »
The Necrons aren't specifically against organic life (well, non-machine life, we're technically not under the word organic) - they were organic life. They just hate everyone that's not them due to their treatment at the hands of the C'Tan and their belief that the galaxy belongs to them alone. The saner Necron Lords can be surprisingly reasonable, but most of them have some kind of mental damage and the vast majority of their population are mindless automatons now. We aren't likely to be friends.

The Nids have scoured galaxies, so they've probably encountered silicon life and worked on ways it could be adapted to them. Regardless, even if we're not biologically compatible the energy in our chemistry will still be fair game for combating entropy - Nids eat worlds down to the bedrock.

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General Discussion / Re: The Abusive Policing Thread: Beyond Brown, No Justice
« on: June 11, 2020, 01:57:59 pm »
Yeah, I've learned the history of all the serial killers of note through LPOTL and the vast majority have both horrid childhood abuse and then that abuse finding a way to combine with their adolescent sexual awakening, which creates the desire. This is why so many serial killers are also rapists.  What tends to happen is a gradual series of incidents where the future serial killer gives themselves "permission" to take the next step towards their desire, and eventually they kill someone and then tend to go berserk and begin the serial killer pattern in full.

Most other repeated violent criminals most likely either didn't combine their abuse with their own sexuality or did not ever fully give themselves permission to kill. The serial killer pattern is so rare because the societal conditions enabling it are also historically rare, and thus people in the same situation elsewhere in history found different ways to satisfy their urges. We've even seen this change with the rise of the modern surveillance state, where even randomly killing strangers leaves a trail of evidence that can be followed, and thus some who would probably become serial killers instead become mass shooters, giving up on not getting caught for being able to have one big incident.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You are a Minor Xenos Species in Warhammer 40k
« on: June 11, 2020, 01:39:12 pm »
It may appear instantaneous or nearly-so, as long as you're imposing that kind of condition on the Warp where time need not pass. But any exposure carries some risk of warp predators noticing you, and the longer the distance the worse it will be and the more "actual time" you'll have to spend in the Warp. And of course, there's always an even rarer but real risk that you'll teleport backwards in time.

Whatever the Necrons are doing appears to use a different manipulation of reality or realities, but replicating their tech is unlikely to say the least.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You are a Minor Xenos Species in Warhammer 40k
« on: June 11, 2020, 01:18:46 pm »
The issue is that "teleportation" is just short-range Warp travel. That's how most of the galaxy's vessels function, and it can be just as dangerous too. The Necrons appear to have an alternate form of teleportation, but nobody knows how it works.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You are a Minor Xenos Species in Warhammer 40k
« on: June 11, 2020, 09:41:04 am »
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You are a Minor Xenos Species in Warhammer 40k
« on: June 10, 2020, 07:37:08 pm »
Let me put it this way: He probably teleported himself to Mars during the middle ages to fight and imprison the Void Dragon, who was one of the only C'Tan not shattered by the Necrons.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You are a Minor Xenos Species in Warhammer 40k
« on: June 10, 2020, 07:22:35 pm »
I was thinking more on what humanity is going to inevitably bring on us and I realized another issue. The Emperor is out there. That means that even if we by some miracle beat them to the punch and find Earth before human expansion, we can't merk them. Emps will kill us all. The entire period of time Emps is alive, we can't beat humanity no matter how powerful we grow conventionally. And if we screw up the timeline badly enough Chaos will fail to create an avatar strong enough to kill Emps for us, and he will kill us all.

That's gonna be fun to deal with!

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: June 10, 2020, 06:58:47 pm »
Quote from: Egan_BW on June 10, 2020, 06:53:32 pm
what the fuck do you have against hard caramel candies
The horrible truth is that I actually like Werther's Originals.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: June 10, 2020, 06:50:19 pm »
Werther's Originals are still in business because old people suck. And I'm just respecting the democratic will of the boomers that they be abandoned on street corners after retirement, not my business to deny them. Might as well give the money to people who actually want it.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You are a Minor Xenos Species in Warhammer 40k
« on: June 10, 2020, 06:21:02 pm »
The evolutionary purpose of emotions is for advanced behavioral modeling in similarly-advanced forms of life. For unicellular life, fungi, plants, and such, proteins and hormones do well enough to ensure the machinery of life works. But ambulatory animal life needs better guidance on a more complex level to survive the genetic arms race, and so pressure towards developing emotions begins.

All emotions are useful for the species who have them, albeit inconvenient at times. Happiness encourages productive behaviors, disgust and fear avoid dangerous situations, anger helps survive conflict and confront problems, and sadness regulates so the other emotions don't get you going on suicide missions.

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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: You are a Minor Xenos Species in Warhammer 40k
« on: June 10, 2020, 06:12:39 pm »
No, that's not how Chaos works. The Orks are largely resistant because they have a strong communal psyker field which protects them, but also leaves them without free will. The Tyranids are resistant because they too don't have free will, only one emotion which is hunger, and they're immensely alien to the human-dominated warp so it isn't compatible with them. They just drown out Chaos with the hungry noise. The Necrons are immune as far as anyone knows, but don't get too complacent - AI are demonstrably not immune to Chaos and may even be more vulnerable. The Men of Iron were corrupted in this way. Also, the Necrons are almost all automatons or insane.

Chaos "feeds off emotions" because of the horror of the War in Heaven and humanity's inheritance of that legacy, but ultimately Chaos can come in myriad forms and adaptations. Powerful manifestations of the warp can corrupt pretty much anything to the extent that the term "Daemon World" is literal. The planet is a daemon.

There is no conclusive theory of the Warp because it doesn't follow physics and thus is allowed to contradict itself or exist in multiple ways at the same time, but I prefer the one laid out in the fic The Culture Explores Warhammer 40k (warning, it's dead and unfinished if you want to read it, though a good read still). This treats the Warp as a system of varying and overlapping "patterns" which dictate the Warp's side of reality or lack thereof. Chaos in this model is like a prion disease, folding other patterns into it and to be like itself, trapping the Immaterium into knots of agony. This is why people corrupted by Chaos cannot be fixed no matter how much they want to rebel - the pattern of their soul has been fucked up by Chaos and turned towards it. At best, they can resist or destroy themselves before the pattern can correct them. This is also why the moment of "true corruption" is so inconsistent and why the Armor of Contempt works, when the Chaos prion goes beyond re-patterning your body with mutation to affect your consciousness instead and denying Chaos prions any mental wifi connection respectively.

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