• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    1 day 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.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    24 hours ago

    The horror.

    That would almost be as bad as kissing a girl for the first time and then she demands you watch The Notebook, and then the whole Twilight movie series with her.

    • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      23 hours ago

      One time, back when my fiancée and I were just dating at the beginning of our relationship, I went on a long tangent on how a lot of context has been lost to modern readers of Jane Austen’s books, particularly Pride and Prejudice, since at the time they were contemporary fiction and Jane Austen expected her readers to just understand stuff like why exacly did the future of the Bennett family depend on Elizabeth marrying well. Next thing I knew, my clothes were gone.

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    1 day ago

    Oh, don’t worry… It’s actually quite easy to understand! You see, it all started before written history, when there was this one dude who was created by a bunch of super-powerful shamans…

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    Look, believe it or not, there are good guys in WH40k universe: the Tau. Yes, they will wipe your planet out if you refuse the Greater Good, but that’s what you get for being selfish bigots.

    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I love how one of the issues the Imperium has with the Tau is that they keep losing worlds to the Tau because they secede after the dramatic improvement in quality of life vs. life under Imperial rule.