Recent content by TheLurker

I genuinely cannot name three instances throughout the story where a member of GI Joe was incorrect about something in a meaningful way. It's possible that's just my memory being faulty, but it still isn't a good sign. At no point during this arc has it felt like Devoir is in any genuine...

I need you to understand that the psyker isn't actually important and was just a single example I was using to demonstrate my broader argument. Which is that GI Joe being entirely correct, immediately, all the time is starting to become a problem. All adversity they face collapses like a house...

Again though, there's interesting ways to interact with this. Like, say that just being a psyker isn't inherently dangerous, but that the imperium's reckless abduction and brutalization of psykers to create weapons results in those powers turning against them due to trauma lashing out against...

See I would absolutely accept that reasoning if it weren't for the mountains of canon writing that give us in-character perspectives of psykers of all walks of life and backgrounds losing control and causing problems through no fault of their own. If that's another conceit of the fic that Sun...

I mean yes, the imperium can absolutely always have more mud flung on it, lord knows people need more reminders that there is no heroic faction in canon 40K (rip tau you didn't deserve what GW did to you) but this very clearly doesn't want to just be a popcorn flick. Sun Tzu's character writing...

Yeah… the continued inability for GI Joe to be wrong certainly isn't helping with that "cult of the operator" thing sun tzu mentioned? It's not just that they've been beating the facists regularly at their own game due to general competence mismatch, it's that the joes have generally proven to...

I mean… yeah? GI Joe is military propaganda that does a shockingly good job of at least being relatively even handed about nationalism. You kinda have to accept certain meta-textual themes and implications if you want to do anything with it. The "cult of the operator" themes aren't particularly...

That'd be a masquerade mask. An “anonymous ballroom dance” is a masquerade. These are opera glasses. VERY different items.

It was apparently meant to be a representation of the high end of the spectrum but I get the distinct impression the group organizing the programs wasn’t exactly very well informed or high quality themselves. Autism/Aspergers haven’t exactly benefited from a wealth of quality organizations...

We had to have an autism presentation in middle school in like… 2012? They put us in a small room and turned it into sensory hell with flashing colored lights and noise and beachballs being thrown everywhere to try and simulate what “everyday life was like”. It was the first time the vast...

Speaking as somebody who grew up with an autistic brother in the early 2000s, nobody knew what the fuck autism was. Especially not the adults.

Dude the ONLY thing that has the authority to stop an inquisitor is another inquisitor or a member of the Custodes, and even then, the inquisition themselves tries damn hard to act like the Custodes don't. Literally every time an inquisitor has turned heretic it's been another inquisitor who...

Fair enough I thought that might be the case

Mhm, I’ve always ascribed to the imperium as a whole not caring at all about things like gender, sexuality, or (human standard) appearance simply because they need more grist for the mill that is their war machine. It’s more interesting to me in a darkly ironic way. Speaking of which is gi joe...

it is not. Ursula J Creed is a lord general, this is just an example of black library authors contradicting other black library authors. Edit; there’s also Illin Grawe-ash but the Lexicanum calls her the name of a different general with a separate page in the first paragraph, so you’d have to...