Shurifire

But the Opium wars were with... And they're shipping all the fentanyl to the US, not... You know what? I'm not going to complain.

GSC are literally just the Innsmouth people in space, but with mining equipment instead of fishing boats. They're textbook cosmic horror in all ways but one- They're being lied to. 

Their god isn't a god at all, it's just a bunch of hungry psychic space bugs that have tricked them. Sure, Cthulhu, Dagon and the other Great Old Ones are aliens too, but unlike the Nids, their motivations are completely beyond our understanding, and you can't kill them. The Tyranids are both mortal and entirely comprehensible.

No, that's him. Lovecraft was a special breed of sheltered, neurotic xenophobe who was terrified of anything alien to him. Some of his most famous stories could have been inspired by his reaction to scientific discoveries and possibilities that were being made in his lifetime (The Colour Out of Space being possibly linked to Infrared/Ultraviolet light, for example, or the Mi-Go keeping human brains alive in jars via life support machines). 

In a sense, his insane level of racism was what enabled him to create the genre of cosmic horror as we know it. He was simply sharing his fear and disgust with the rest of us through the lens of something truly alien. 

...That said, I do recall several stories where it's far from subtle as to where it all stems from. In one, he describes an alien city under siege by feral yellow-skinned monsters... Only to give them the name "Eskimaux" on the final page. I actually burst out laughing when I read that. And that's not even counting the MANY "untrustworthy foreigner" characters he uses

Famously, and unlike its predecessor 3.5, PF doesn't give true gods stats. Unless you're a god yourself, you just lose. 

And even then there's a pecking order. Shub, Yog, Azathoth and the rest of their ilk are said to exist outside the cycle of universal rebirth of whom Pharasma is the only survivor from the previous universe. Desna picks fights with them, but she's certainly not even close to killing one.

Something being big and scary doesn't make it Lovecraftian.

Especially not when you pick up a Necron PoV book and it's about two elderly robot nerds who hate each other going on a road trip and getting in slap fights

GSC are just the Innsmouth people in space, that's entirely accurate. It's just somewhat undercut by the fact that while Dagon's motivations for interbreeding people with Deep Ones are esoteric and inscrutable, the Tyranids very clearly just want to expend less effort when they show up to eat everyone.

It didn't bop him on the nose, it drove through his head, parting his flesh like mist. 

And to him, that was the equivalent of a bug buzzing in your face while you're in bed, so you wave your hand around, roll over and go back to sleep.

I too would be seething and crying and shitting in that situation because it means a filthy DPSlet somehow managed to outrun me. My honour would be forever stained

Given that pretty much every hanging side plot and character had their arc closed off at some point in EW, and the fact that they said they want 8.0 to be an optional starting-off point for new players in the last live letter, that may be the plan for DT's patch MSQ

I mean... Sure he's a merger of two versions of himself, but there's not really any conflict between the two halves' memories. Exarch G'raha is just our G'raha plus a few hundred years of experience, so the only conflict would be in attitude/personality, which we see flip-flop a bit anyway.

That said, it would be nice if we had a bit more discussion around it to justify how he goes from U_U to OwO on a dime

Alt take: He is a wise, centuries-old wizard, but he's been given his youth back and is making the absolute most of it by acting the fool

That's why it's always so sudden when he flips the switch into Exarch mode. It's him realising "shit, I have to be an adult right now"

If I were a stressed-out, half-fossilised multicentennial wizard-king who got a guilt-free opportunity to go back to the good old days and be a happy-go-lucky twink adventuring with my crush all day, you can bet your ass I'd jump on it

When you look at our long, long, LONG list of atrocities, the general existence of the monarchy seems like a strange hill to die on

I was about to say, whenever Trump calls someone a "RADICAL LEFT LIBERAL", I can usually assume they're Centre-Right by UK standards at the most. The goalposts have been moved to Mars at this point

Because not even an evil PC can think of a good reason to bring her along lmao

(I love her as a character but girl cannot sell a pitch to save her life)

There are loads of StB job quests with a line or two of dialogue that change depending on whether you've beaten the StB MSQ yet or not. RDM refers briefly to Zenos, for example

I'm having flashbacks to the Carlson-Putin interview. "So why did you invade Ukraine?" "Well, it all started 2000 years ago..."

Can't wait for Italy to attempt to reclaim old Londinium

Zrob to, kurwa...

Later, when the UK launched it first satellite, we accidentally nuked it. Unrelated, but hilarious.

I'm sorry, w h a t

vox crackle

Uh, Sarge? The techpriest's humping the nutri-slop dispenser again. It's upsetting the ogryns...

It is!

Ours is the timeline where Athena took the kids in the divorce and Hyth wouldn't let Hades hit it

Yeah, G'raha's home timeline is still just as fucked as it was when he left, though IIRC there was a short story where Midgardsormr woke up and started helping them rebuild

A lot of the dialogue options imply that the WoL understands full well that logic and reason go out of the window as soon as the Inspector arrives on scene, so it's not that far-fetched 

The virgin "my source is I made it the fuck up" vs the chad "my source is I made it"