And smoke a little weed then stress reeeeaaaal hard for a few hours

I mean, I dunno about all that but if your point is weed is strong af these days I'm not going to disagree. The weed I smoked in middle school doesn't have shit on the weed you can buy in a dispensary these days.

A distinct lack of "drugs/degeneracy" category

For the first 2 points: Don't use "Western democracies". This is a US problem. Canada has much stronger labour and home protections.

3rd point: Getting banned online is a "you" problem. Your government has nothing to do with why your shitty opinions get you banned or muted. The fact that you even have the ability to complain about your government online is a luxury many other governments don't afford to their people.

4th point: Whining about cereal variety makes the entire argument hold less water. Who the fuck cares about brands of cereal. Buy your cereal or don't, but shut the fuck up about it. This is an empty complaint about capitalism.

5th point: Fair enough.

I don't directly mean you, OP. Unless you made the meme... In which case I do mean directly you.

Queer and insincere, even.

Not one comment in here about Lord of the Rings.

Which I agree with. Amazing movies. Glad everyone's on the same page.

For me, it's James Cameron's Avatar. Visually stunning, especially for its time, but the story has to be the most cliche, predictable, boring, lazy piece of writing to ever have existed. It's like they held an environmentally conscious 11 year old at gun point and made them write a story. The cigar chomping military guy working for corpos wants to pilfer a beautiful planet for its resources with disregard for the native populations that live there. Where have I seen that before? Oh yeah, ALL AROUND ME, EVERY FUCKING GOD DAMN DAY. Get an original idea.

Fuck this stupid piece of shit dumbass movie. It's intellectually insulting. It's a disgrace.

/endrant

I think their take is crazy, but calling them facists does a disservice to the word.

Fully left Reddit. Hate that they killed Sync so bounced. Don't miss it at all.

The flip side is Lemmy is meh. Every damn post is Linux shilling. We get it. Lemmy users like Linux. At least Sync works on this site.

Ultimately, I guess I just don't care about either site. I just want something to mindlessly browse for a few minutes every day when I'm shitting, and Lemmy is fine.

We're no better here. Lemmy has its own brand of cringe.

What happened in his life to become a Nazi at 26 years old lol what the fuck

It seems like it. I see a lot of people posting that they were using X app but sync is better.

I agree sync is an amazing app, both formerly for Reddit, and now for Lemmy, but huge kudos to the developers of existing Lemmy apps for working hard to make the mobile experience as good as possible for us Reddit refugees. I used connect until sync came out, and noticed it was frequently updated. I'd highly recommend everyone support their favourite app developer(s) in whatever way possible. Thanks Kuro!!

Kid nearly lopped an arm off another kid with a samurai sword. Guess he was bullied and he lost his shit one day. Kid with the sword got help, and the kid who got cut didn't lose an arm.

If I lived in a country with lax gun control, this would have been a much different situation.

Trial by socia media? Fuck outta here.

All these scummy shitbags are certainly guilty, but this needs to be proven.

The motto I get behind is "trust, but verify".

I guess it's probably helpful to know what a rogue trader actually is. I think the game explains it somewhat, but just in case, here's a (not so) quick rundown on some major components of the lore and game.

A lot of people think that rogue traders are just the captain of a big ship. They are not. They command nearly unimaginable power within the imperium. They have a warrant of trade sealed with the blood of the emperor from a time when he walked among men. It is both a holy relic, and a hall pass to do whatever the fuck they want mostly. They are pretty much outside the bounds of imperial law. They can recruit xenos and worse into their crew. They can befriend, dominate, subjugate, and exterminate entire systems if they wish. Not even the Inquisition can really boss them around, but Lord inquisitors are probably the only authority to actually influence a rogue trader. A rogue trader wouldn't want to piss off a lord inquisitor and vice versa.

It is the duty of rogue traders to navigate unexplored space and claim worlds for the imperium. The world's they claim are theirs by right of their warrant of trade, but those worlds are required to pay tithe to the larger imperium, which is non negotiable. The tithe is usually set by the high lords of terra or the administrators that work underneath them.

As for wizards/magicians, they do and don't exist. They are called psykers, and their "magic" is derived from the warp, the nightmarish parallel reality inhabited by daemons and their respective gods. Using warp energy is extremely dangerous, and can cause the veil between realities to thin. If it thins, tears open up, and daemons can burst forth. This is usually a one way street, as anything non-daemon entering, or even seeing the warp, will pretty much instantly go insane, turn into a chaos spawn, or worse. There are very few exceptions, but they do exist. There is a lot more to the warp, I'd recommend looking into it deeper if you're interested. Leutin09 on YouTube is a great source.

Now that we know what both rogue traders are and what psykers are, we can talk about navigators, which are a really important part of the game and lore. They are human, but mutated. They have a genetic trait that gives them a third eye on their forehead. They use this eye to see into the warp. It's not perfect, but it can help ships travel through the warp, which is humanity's form of faster-than-light travel. Pretty much every warp capable craft will have one. Ones that don't take extreme risks even doing the smallest warp jumps. Without navigators, the imperium is screwed. It's why they are one of the very few types of sanctioned abhumans.

As for the mechanicus, machines spirits, and the god they worship, it's somewhat complex. The mechanicus at its height was technologically progressive, and significantly more advanced than the contemporary version. They understood how to create and innovate. During the age of strife, they lost much of their knowledge. Creations they once built, they have lost the knowledge to rebuild, repair, enhance, and sometimes even maintain. When dark age technology is lost, it is usually lost for good, which makes it so valuable. The current day mechanicus has stagnated, and are afraid to progress as innovation has caused problems in the past (see Age of Strife and men of iron).

The modern day mechanicus warships the omnissiah, which is essentially the avatar of the machine god, which they believe is the emperor. In a roundabout way, they do workshop the emperor, which is relatively in line with the imperial creed. The mechanics is technically separate from the imperium per the treaty of Mars that the emperor signed, which gives the mechanicus religious freedoms and rights to technological finds, such a STC fragments. I'm not going to talk about STCs here. Mechanicus likes the fragments. They struck a deal with big E, and now they are an allied faction to the imperium. For all intents and purposes, you can consider them a joint faction, but they are technically distinct.

As for machine spirits, they do exist. I think of it kind of like how orc psychic manifestions work, though, to be honest I'm foggy on the details as machine spirits did exist during humanity's enlightened phase. Technology does have machine spirits, and the more powerful the machine, the more powerful the machine spirit. Tech priests sometimes must commune with and appease machine spirits. Angry machine spirits can cause their host machine to misfire, break down, malfunction, etc. Appeased machine spirits can greatly enhance the effectiveness of the machine they are bound to, with some spirits being so powerful they can control aspects of a machine, such as advanced targetting systems, defensive capabilities, etc.

The last thing I'll touch on is the emperor. Some comments say he's dead, some say he's alive. The truth is that he is neither. He is a husk that resides on the golden throne - a dark age of technology device that is a psychic amplifier and a life support system. It maintains his decript body and allows him to remain in a state of undeath. His psychic abilities are so powerful that he cannot really die. There is a lot more to this, as the emperor is a perpetual. I can expand on this more if you want, but I'll leave it out for now as it's complicated. Anyway, he is so powerful a psyker that he is the focal point or source of the astronomicon. This is essentially a psychic lighthouse in the warp that navigators will use a point of reference to know which way holy Terra is. They also say the emperor wages and eternal psychic war in the warp with the chaos gods, which keeps chaos from taking over the imperium of man.

You've got the gist of the foundation of the lore down, so my breakdown above is a little more comprehensive. Feel free to ask any more questions or DM me. I also wrote all this at 2am in the dark so if there are typos, inconsistencies, or things that need further clarification, I apologize and in advance.

We're so fucking back

Nazis deserve a lot worse than just getting doxxed

Ashamed this piece of shit is Canadian..

Wildly irrelevant to the post, but man that was a good read. Carry on.

No requests. Just like to say you're a good bloke for wanting to lift others when you're down. God speed mate

I've seen Confederate flags flying off the backs of pick up trucks on the west coast of Canada... Amazing how stupid people can be