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Triple gut punch of awful writing

What do you think is the worst piece of 40k worldbuilding/lore?

Horus' turn to chaos in False Gods was utterly abysmal in both execution and justification, undermined his character utterly and informed how inconsistent and two dimensional he was for the remainder of a book series that is named after him.

Grey Knights (who are immune to corruption) murdering Sororitas in order to use their blood as a ward against Khornate corruption is pure bullshit, goes against the way they work and was another product of the Sisters of Battle Punching Bag era. So terrible it was retconned out.

Finally, Necrons and Aeldari being actual best friends and good allies who fought chaos together before the War in Heaven. Ignores literally every other piece of information about the War in Heaven, Aeldari, Necrons and the formation of the Warp. Again, so bad it was never brought up again and is more or less non-canon as far as I can tell.

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when i see an abandoned bike locked to a rack with its wheels stolen my immediate mental image is always a shackled skeleton in a dungeon

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You’re just jealous of his brilliance. Why don’t you come hang out by the monolith too I’m sure you’ll like the experience that’s why I put it there it’s a gesture of goodwill

the whimsical boy genius has been hanging out by the monolith outside town too much and now all his charming inventions are made out of jagged black iron and animal carcasses

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@ominous-signs think you’d like this too

Incredible sign that my mom caught today. 

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We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood. Our eyes are yet to open... Fear the old blood.

Happy 10th anniversary, Bloodborne 🖤 Released March 24th, 2015

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It’s more that than book kills people

I have never read or watched Death Note and i know the whole ‘book that kills people’ premise but from all the shit i see on here it seems to be two teenaged boys acting out this scene over and over

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Can you imagine the pleasure of this interaction. Victor must have felt a sense of almost post-orgasmic satisfaction after that. I certainly would have id have been like cancel all my plans we can’t ruin this high

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Trash talking during combat, especially mortal combat, is an art. It really is, if you don’t do it right you just come across as really incredibly thick. Most people in Bleach honestly suck at it, and almost all of them do it all the time. There are exceptions:

Kenpachi doesn’t really participate, he lets people do it for a while to get it out of their system or whatever but eventually he gets tired cause he’s not here to chat.

Urahara does it very mildly: he flat out informs you of facts (I’ve seen that before. This is how I learned it. It simply will not ever work on me again), and if you don’t listen it’s your own fault.

Komamura expresses anger and ideals but never talks arrogantly, and in fact is excessively humble and self reproaching (“I am ashamed to admit you’re right, I’m nothing but a lowly maggot” said after cutting someone in two with the force of a WMD).

Mayuri is a mix: he is as arrogant as the worst of them, but he’s also super careful and brilliant and has plans on plans and so it’s a little justified because he is genuinely smarter, he’s just a prick about it.

Ulquiorra is interesting, because it seems normal but he’s usually so professional that if he’s really trying to put you down, it’s actually an indicator that something about you is personally offending, confusing, or otherwise upsetting him. Though even he would never acknowledge or maybe even realize that, he’d admit it to the barest mildest extent and think that’s the truth of it.

Gin is a master. Dry, sardonic, he’ll say exactly what’ll piss you off and it’ll work, even if you know it’s coming. If he’s talking about combat and abilities, he’ll be strictly accurate: he’ll lie about all the things he needs to go throw you off, but he won’t act like he’s a god ever, to anyone. “I can kill you whenever I want” is something he would say. “Nobody can ever kill me” is absolutely not.

My personal favorite trash talker in this might be Hachigen, though you only hear it when he fights Barragan. He’s so polite, and so accurate, that it’s like getting roasted by Alfred from DC. It’s devastating.

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Bleach also has some really fantastic English voice acting (just saying that cause that’s what I know). Personally, I love

Ichigo (perhaps because I associate it with Ichigo but I love that VA in any role)

Ikkaku (a range from what I know that VA for, and really fun!)

Byakuya (Nailed it. That is Byakuya. That’s him.)

Gin (You can HEAR him smiling)

Grimmjow (That VA so rarely gets to emote that extremely. He really drives home the feeling of barely suppressed violence with almost everything he says, just by tone)

Ulquiorra (I love a soft, almost melodious villain when they’re done right. Like Rui’s Japanese VA in Kimetsu Yaiba. And Ulquiorra is done right)

And of course, cream of the crop, Aizen (As with Ulquiorra but more and with a stronger undertone, as it should be. Another parallel to Kimetsu Yaiba, though Muzan’s Japanese VA is even better.)

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Jeep (depending on if it can move/communicate/other agency limiting factors)

YES. In fact, maybe 85-90% of the time they would win. It would be an accident at the beginning of an episode they spend the rest of the time Weekend at Bernie’s-ing the corpse. Rickety Cricket tries to get Palpatine to scratch an itch for him, and Dadth Sidious almost blows a life time of undercover work in a fit of disgust

No. They’d get distracted or sidetracked. Skipper makes an “Executive decision” to “Abort the mission” when they find something they want to do instead.

Yes. He’s spent his entire hero career waiting to meet the perfect rescuee (doesn’t talk).

I don’t get this one

In a fight? Nah. Anakin is established as a freak of nature. Emotionally? My god. Anakin wouldn’t stand a chance.

I approve of powerscaling discourse only in utterly senseless contexts. I don't give a shit about which shōnen protagonists could beat up which other shōnen protagonists, but I will 100% read your five thousand word essay exploring the subtle nuances of establishing a tiered ranking of the Smurfs.

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It’s so funny to think of normal bustling countries and cities outside of the Fromsoft sphere. Like in many games they make it clear the world may be going to crap, but your little section of the world seen in game is a on a different level than elsewhere. So there are references to lively towns and it’s funny to imagine just a lovely normal enough country with some hangups but not “empty but for monsters.” Just a normal little kingdom and oh yeah that other nation next door just sort of is having a supernaturally bad day that never ends

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Oculous Imperia got fucking copyright claimed by an ai slop warhammer lore channel that uses David Attenborough's stolen voice

What in the everloving F U C K

Yeah, so, AI slop channels are (as we've all seen) on the rise. Producing content by automating as much of the video creation process as possible in order to get money as cynically and flaccidly as possible.

It is, of course, not enough for these channels to coast along on doing basically little more than creating glorified slideshows; they've now taken to attacking other (actual) content creators to bully them and leech revenue.

How do they do this? They abuse YouTube's famously lazy, hands-off copyright claiming system by saying that a piece of media in the video (typically artwork or a footage clip) is theirs. YouTube automatically assumes this is true and copyright strikes the video. The result of this strike varies. If the video is monetised, because the person makes a living from their content, money now goes to the AI channel. Perhaps the video is blocked in certain countries. Perhaps multiple copyright strikes are levied against a creator in succession, to get their channel banned. Perhaps it's simply to inconvenience and stress them while they get the strike overturned.

The whole thing is foul. It's a swarm of talentless hacks who, not satisfied with the revenue they get from doing fuck all, are trying to parasitise from and harm hardworking people, often people who they've stolen information from in the first place for their shitty AI models.

So, then, who are these channels involved in this particular event?

Imperial Iterator is the AI slop channel; a spineless, cynical little cretin who runs their sham of a lore channel through a channel management agency in Los Angeles. They pump out AI-generated scripts in an AI-generated voice whilst taking money from more deserving people. Just constant dogshit content being passed off as media. This person/people are actual trash. Block them, blacklist them, reject them.

Oculus Imperia is... Oculus Imperia. A longstanding, respected and high quality 40k lore channel run by an extremely lovely and hardworking guy. His videos are easy to listen to, thoughtful, and well-researched. Great for both active listening and throwing on when you're doing something. I highly recommend subscribing to him if you haven't already. Like his videos, if you like them. He and his channel are a delight all round.

Support actual content creators. Put these AI cunts in the garbage where they belong.

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Halibel’s sword release is awesome, because it’s rare to see anime present large volumes of water as being as scary as they are. I have to look it up but I’m pretty sure a tsunami is considered the most lethal natural disaster. You can run over a surfboard in a car and it’ll survive, but one ten foot wave at the wrong angle will snap it like a twig. Water is sick, anime usually presents it as a drowning threat but that’s secondary. It would crush you to paste and that’s how Halibel fights, drowning isn’t even suggested as the issue

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post-apocalyptic gang like the kings, the gang that worship elvis from fallout new vegas, except they’re all skaters who worship tony hawk