I think there’s a reason space marines tend to be protagonists of 40k video games; as much as I’ll talk about the virtues of some video game storytelling, most of these aren’t exactly pushing the envelope, and the space marines are primarily there to be badass RTS/FPS units.

But okay, so, my 'Chaos won the Horus Heresy' theory, in brief.

1-I have no idea how canon it is now, but at one point, there was this prevailing idea that Chaos Gods were basically egregores, snarls in the warp formed by chance among all the ripples created by the emotions and thoughts of some organic species, that became complex enough to be intelligent and self-perpetuating and seek to influence the material world to make more delicious food for themselves.

2-Because 40k, all the really big gods happened to be hilariously toxic amalgamations of different emotions and ideals, with their worst aspects primary. (Your god of hope is the raven who loves conspiracies and tragic hubris and magic. Sorry.)

3-Eldar souls were the best, but they're thin on the ground and hard to get at these days. Humans, meanwhile, are like half as tasty but several orders of magnitude more common, and much less picky about where they live or how much multiplying to do.

4-The sort of people who actually pledge their souls to capital-c Chaos are,well, not really who you want managing your bureaucracy. Demon princes and fallen primarchs and whatever are, like,super fun toys and pets, but can't really be trusted to maintain a stable mortal population. Chaos is, well, chaotic, and self-contradictory, and the gods both love seeing what their champions can achieve while also not really wanting them to win (they are vast, and contain multitudes, and are 100% capable of getting distracted and fucking themselves over in the long-term)

5-The Emperor was, on some level, a threat or irritant to the gods, so needed to be dealt with, but they really didn't care for Horus's whole messiah complex either.

6-The Imperium as it is now achieves two things with acceptable degrees of competence 1) maximize the currently existing population of humans, defending against non-god-feeding aliens like orks and tyranids and necrons and Enslavers and etc with adequate competence 2) elicit as much of the different gods favorite passions (blood lust and hatred, self-mortifying death-loving fatalism and despair, conspiratorial ambition and betrayal, repressed/decadent/taboo lust/excess and obsession) as possible in as much of the population as possible at all times.

so like 😇 not all kids yell, not all kids cross boundaries, not all kids disrespect personal space 😁😁 and generalizing 2 billion fucking people is what a lot of people would call "rude" or perhaps even "bigoted" 😁 saying that you "hate the concept" of an incredibly broad and diverse group of - again - 2 fucking billion people is crazy 😁😁 ita very cute to demand respect for yourself based on disability in the same breath as overgeneralizing another vulnerable group of people who routinely has jackasses like you make assumptions about them based on a handful of experiences with the smallest percentage of said population 😁😁

On the evening of June 9, the USA, with what seems to be intent, attacked two reservoirs and a water treatment facility in southern Iran. Almost immediately afterwards, water was cut off to about 20,000 Iranian civilians who live around the southern Iranian town of Sirik.

Like people can't comprehend that someone could see a dog as not subhuman, so comparing dogs and children therefore must be an attack on children.

This is a resource for helping trans people leave the US. I know going from the US to another country is going to be inherently different from claiming asylum in Canada from El Salvador over a decade ago like I did, but what I'm seeing so far sounds pragmatic and level-headed to me.

I am also more negative about a few of the countries on the list than the writers are.

A lot of trans people in the US really don't want to hear this but leaving the country might be necessary and you want to at least have a plan for how to do that even if you don't end up needing it. Don't just surrender in advance based on the assumption that you can only immigrate if you're super rich.

I'm disabled according to hiring managers but not according to the government and I'm too old for most of the programs listed with an age requirement, so I'm not optimistic about myself.