BasementParty

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be terribly opposed to a lord of altruism or comradery,

You fundamentally misunderstand the Tau. They're not altruistic, they're just the least-worst civilization. They're closer to a space Roman Empire than they are to communism. They'll conquer you, put you in a pseudo-slave caste, and collect taxes. They can only claim to be a lesser evil because every other civilization's default response is genocide.

What kind of chaos god would they make?

Probably something to do with absolute control. The Greater Good is an authoritarian philosophy in which individual citizens don't really have any rights. They have certain cultural freedoms of course, but no right to self-determination. For warp-sensitive races that believe in this philosophy, it would show up as a desire to dissolve the ego into the whole. This could create a god which seeks to create a galaxy wide hive-mind of sorts. A sort of warp based Tyranid empire composed of multiple races which would subject entire planets to experimentation for the greater good.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagining really unfortunate but funny things happening to me because I'm so dissociated from my own life that tragic events are just bits to me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The problem I have with a lot of anime protagonists is that they're the most fucking useless pieces of shit when it comes to conflict for like 95% of the story and then they become badass at the end.

This should be a gradual process. There are only so many times I can watch someone be pathetic before it gets old. I get you want to introduce conflict and have overarching problems the character needs to work through. But you can at least have it be a give and take. Make them more confident as the series goes on but still have some pitfalls. Don't just have them shit their pants and suck their thumb no matter what the story throws at them until the very end.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm really glad that I managed to miss the V-tuber craze. I think that's gonna be the young adult equivalent of "ipad kids" in 10-15 years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

The grimdark part of the Tau empire is that despite being very morally good, they'd still be completely wiped out if any of the other factions considered them a threat.

Also, while this is less confirmed, it's also implied that the Tau's belief in The Greater Good could eventually wind up creating a new warp god leading to the destruction of their civilization. The tau are the equivalent of a squadron of fresh recruits surrounded by entire armies of people who hate them. That's why they still fit in the grimdark universe. They're the plucky, good civilization with no real shot of surviving.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Japanese people are honorary white people because they also enjoy mayonnaise.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I'm kinda disappointed that Hunter Biden didn't steal the constituition to smoke crack out of it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone has made this observation already but Trotsky does kinda look like Adam Friedland.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anyone have any good ingredients to add to sushi?

Also, Japan should be wiped off the face of the earth for hiding bonito flakes from the rest of the world. That shit is literally like all the good flavor/feelings from bacon but I can put it on anything now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A wasp stung me once 10 years ago so I now murder all wasps' nests I see on sight.

Shouldn't have fucked with the insect equivalent of an eldritch god with the power to wipe out your entire colony with a spray can.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The last thing this universe needs is more anime.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'd do it regularly but so much of the time I spent in the centers was just waiting around doing nothing. Even though the process only took an hour or so, you had to wait 2-3 just to sit down in the chair. $80 for 4 hours is still worth it but only just barely since you can only do it twice a week.

It kinda bills itself as a "Quick in and out deal to get some spending money" but it's closer to an entire half-day of waiting/donating and then feeling kinda tired for the rest of it.

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