Well shit, I didn't figure that out but it makes so mucj sense.

True. But untrue also. This was the Big Fucking E. His decisions were not for others to question. Especially not his own sons.

When I tell you that the souls of great legends visit me in my sleep, I expect you to believe me. Just as they expected me to believe them when they first approached me. There was no room for doubt. No room for hesitation. "This is what it is now", they told me, and it was true.

They told me how the great souls of old were connected to a kind of world consciousness. It linked all who had a great impact on humanity, whether good or bad, renowned or forgotten. Even after their death their individuality remained in this world consciousness. But it was not limited to only those who had perished, no. Some who were destined to be great could also connect to this consciousness in their dreams. Or perhaps they were made great by connecting to it.

I learned that they didn't know why it had happened. As far as they guessed and philosophized and argued it was because they were supposed to lead humanity to something more than what we were now. Of course there were varying schools of thought about all of it, which they certainly took their time to tell me. But mostly they acted in cooperation, sharing the time that was available to them when I was asleep. And they took turns, starting farthest in the past.

They told me of the Old time. The time of Fire, and the trees. They spoke of the tribes and the caves. The caves were still there - I went to visit. Some of the souls of the dead were nomads, others were settlers. The woman who planted the first plant was there. But when I went to see the place we couldn't find it anymore. The land had changed too much. She said there was too much blood in the soil, too many sorrows.

Tools were ever present in their descriptions of the past. First the simplest of tools, then eventually those of metal. As humanity grew into more than tribes came the cities and along with them more advanced tools. Then the tools changed - the written word allowed for organized religion and language on an entirely new scale.

From warlords and tribal leaders came the kings of old. And the Kingdoms. So many of the great souls spoke of the Kingdoms. In truth they didn't seem that great to me, but to them it was unity across more than culture. The Kingdoms in all their varied forms were conquerors. By blood and metal.

From the Kingdoms came the Empires. When the kings could not rule effectively the lands they conquered. What good was a king on a throne months of travels away? So the Empires evolved, there was still a king somewhere but the vassal states mostly ruled themselves. They paid their taxes and helped each other in war, so no one could take them on.

Of course the vassal states grew in multitudes and surpassed the power of the kings, so there was civil war of a kind. The kings held on as long as they could, but when it was empire against empire the time of freedom for the vassal states was undeniable. There were wounds of many souls from then, but there was also freedom.

As the kings passed from power, new types of societies were formed based from the people rather than the divine ruler. It had been tried before but never so successfully as now. Simultaneously there was a revolution of technology, of industry, of science. And there were many titans of industries amongst the great souls, who had discovered this or that, or refined this or that, or... but it was important to humanity, so I had to listen to them. Even though for me, what they spoke of I was taking for granted in my daily life.

Some things were constant for the duration of humanity's existence. They came in waves, sometimes greater, sometimes lesser. But always there. Children. Violence. Love. Faith in something greater. And the great souls were there, too. Moving humanity forward, using their access to the living great to enlighten them about history. To help them make better choices.

They still couldn't see it. Like a board of dominoes, one piece toppled and set the next in motion. One part of humanity receded as another grew into power. Guided by the great souls, on a dreadfully predictable course set for inevitable extinction. "Look what you have made us", I told them in another nightly discussion. "Humanity is better off than ever", they countered. It was true. Greater lifespan, greater happiness, greater material wealth. For most of us, anyway. The great souls didn't care much for the less fortunate, the old ways being replaced by the new. They were more interested in the next iteration, and the next, and...

So I told them. I showed them what I had been working on. My contribution to humanity's future. They shouted at me then - they cried and begged and prayed. But I had realized long ago that I didn't have to listen. They couldn't make me listen. After years of listening to the history of humanity, it was finally their turn to listen. I showed them the diagrams of humanity's progression, what would come next according to their advice. The inevitable destruction of the biosphere. Mass starvation, disease. Extinction of humanity, then all life.

"It won't be like that, we can make it better!" they yelled at me. "Make it better? You caused this! You can't see it because you're on the inside", I told them. "You're the problem. Manipulating humanity according to your own ancient creeds. You should have left us alone. You should have left me alone." Then I thanked them for contributing to the technology necessary to make my contribution to the species.

Undeniably, I stood on the shoulders of giants. All the way back to the beginning. But... at least this way, humanity would have a chance. I pressed the big red button on the device. I felt my soul burn, along with every great soul before me. I felt the world consciousness burn. It was death.

Humanity's destiny was now its own.

Imagine you're 13 or whatever and build your first Ultramarines chapter because space marines are "sooo cooool". In your folly you show up to a GW-hosted tournament. Face to face with some neckbeard that smells like the faction he's playing (Nurgle).

Turn 1: I shoot my semen cannon at you.

Big E's enemy was the Ruinous Powers, not Horus. Horus was just a pawn for them and Horus himself realized this before he died.

The Ruinous Powers wanted to achieve a seeming stalemate, according to the Cabal. They WANTED ten thousand years of stagnation in the Imperium after the heresy failed, before humanity finally collapsed. It was the worst possible outcome for the galaxy.

Magnus arrived exactly at the optimal time to achieve this result for the Ruinous Powers, despite Big E's insistence that Magnus should not use his warp powers and not treat with warp creatures. Which Magnus did.

Magnus broke open the gate on Terra forcing the Emperor to commit endless troops into the demon horde and forcing the Emperor to remain on the Golden Throne to keep the gate from expanding. This is why Horus' little military maneuver ever stood a chance against Big E's superior military tactics and psychic powers.

With no Magnus messing up the gate, "more prep time" for Horus would have meant that Horus would have lost much harder. Not only would Big E have been able to direct all his military might and psychic power against Horus, he also could have used the frigging webway gate like he initially planned - to travel through the galaxy without use of the warp.

Further Context: Magnus, his legion and every other psyker in the Astartes were banned from using their powers after the Edict of Nikea. Only navigators and astropaths were excempt. The Emperor did this because he could feel the ruinous powers operating in the warp taking hold on his legions. Big E believed nobody except himself could resist their lure. Big E was proven right as even Horus fell to Chaos.

Magnus ignored the Edict even though he knew it was particularly aimed at his legion. He betrayed the order of the Emperor. Now, you can argue that he didnt understand the consequences because he was kept in the dark about Chaos. But you cannot rationalize that he specifically ignored a direct command.

"Woe betide he who ignores my warning or breaks faith with me. He shall be my enemy, and I will visit such destruction upon him and all his followers that, until the end of all things, he shall rue the day he turned from my light." 

" If you treat with the Warp, Magnus, I shall visit destruction upon you. And your Legion's name will be struck from the Imperial records for all time"

• The Emperor, at Nikaea

Magnus, as he flew to Terra through the warp but was unable to penetrate the psychic shield and was offered help by an unknown warp power: Yo, juice me up bro. I could do with a change!

A good meme will travel around the world before a buried corpse rolls over even once in his grave. Or something.

Counts as painted!

From the new The Suicide Squad movie. The guy on the right just bought into a whole spiel about how the lady is putting together a team with unique abilities. Then she introduces "Peacemaker", the guy on the left, with basically exactly the same backstory and skills like the guy on the right. The guy on the right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNkTFSg14X8

As much as it sucks you kind of missed the most important part.

Starting in the End of Evangelion and throughout the rebuild it is hinted that humanity is reliving the same apcalyptic story over and over. In the final 30 minutes or so of the final movie they straight up tell the viewer as much and go full meta. Shinji's been rebooting the world over and over, unable to move past the traumatic stuff in the first ending. When I say full meta I mean really fucking meta, like they show video game spinoffs and anime storyboard drawings from the movies as part of Shinji's reboots. There's a battle that literally takes place on the drawings from the original series. A bunch of characters begging Shinji not to reboot more cause they're stuck suffering and they've been in so many reboots that the characters have realized they're stuck in an imaginary reality. Then the director makes a meta-meta commentary about how you have to move onwards in life and can't get stuck in the old glory days with an anime idea, so he's saying goodbye to the anime series that consumed like 30 years of his life because he's just rehashing old story lines (over and over). Then Shinji decides no more reboots and the anime ends.

I just want to express how brilliant this scene was in the movie. "Everyone's totally unique" -> "areyouserious HE DOES EXACTLY WHAT I DO" in the span of like two minutes.

I love the fact that Leto went all in for a movie he was barely in.

Polish people were involved in fighting for the entire ww2. Long after their country was occupied by Nazi Germany.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_government-in-exile

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Armed_Forces_in_the_West

I'm with you dude. Whenever I see stupid shit like this I rephrase it in my head: Why am I paying extra to make the game look good? Shouldn't it look good to start with?

I'm sitting here wondering why the f the hired cleaning help is hitting on her. Like, she takes him for granted? Obviously, he's paid to clean.

Obviously. I'm talking about how I felt disconnected from the goal due to the more open-world-esque islands.

Necrons wanted to seal realspace off from the Immaterium as a way to diminish the influence of the Old Ones. Necrons went into sleepmode to avoid the endless warp-Enslavers after the war in heaven. They wanted to sleep until the Enslavers left when the galaxy was empty of meat.

If necrons see younger species fighting Chaos they will be cheering for the younger species.

Interesting, I felt that the style in PoE 2 was detrimental to the story. It felt unfocused and without a clear goal, unlike PoE which had campaign progress more clearly laid out. PoE2 felt to me like "go wherever, idk" and that didn't draw me in.

Accountant 2:

Closing the ledger

Final Accounts

Spread

No More Cash Flow

Closing The Book

With Recourse

Depreciated

Totally Depreciated

Statement

Reconciliation

Declared Liability

Payday

Simple Interest

Maybe spoiler tag?

Almost all the reviews point to gameplay. I havent played it myself but from what I understand every match is decided in a final showdown between the teams. That means all the buildup and sneaking around and pve elements are practically pointless, besides the showdown.

Seems like that should have been in the article for context. It's the actual story, if true.

This basically happened to a bunch of deniers. They then went on to say stuff like that and also "I beat it because my immune system was strong". Somehow managing to imply that people who die are weak and deserve to suffer and die.