• doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    My god, they literally are just sad nerds who desperately want Warhammer 40k to be real and latch on to a cobbled together real life facsimile

    Imagine wanting to live in the fucking Imperium instead of Star Trek

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      It's like my dad who thinks he was le born into the wrong age. He thinks he would have been a badass viking or a roman gladiator, no you'd be a deadbeat just like you are now.

        • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          I like to imagine myself as a Scottish turnip farmer on some northern croft. probably illiterate and I make it be a very old, wise 29 through a combination of dumb luck, charm and the low cunning men of my countenance often have. my spouse died of some sickness a decade ago and my children were taken by bailiffs to work in southern mills.

          neighbors ask my opinion because I always have one, but rarely take my advice or keep my council.

          I go for walks with a three legged dog, to look out over the north sea to let my mind quiet.

          it's bleak, but not Amazon warehouse bleak.

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        They're not strong enough to be space marines, not smart enough to be mechanicus, not disciplined enough to work at a forge world, not charismatic enough to work at a pleasure world, and most likely wouldn't even be psykers so they couldn't just be fed to the Golden Throne.

        So like, where does that leave them in the 40k world? Cannon fodder? Experiments?

      • GoroAkechi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal.