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Tell me about these orc things. Is it an idealism type of world where people agreeing on belief manifests reality mechanics?
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Quick correction. The warp was turned from a calm reflection of reality into hell not by the modern galaxy but the war in heaven which took place at some starting point up to around 68 million years ago. The Aeldari certaintly did not help the warp by birthing Slaanesh but the vast damage done to the warp was done by a conflict so vast it makes the modern fighting look like a water gun fight.
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"And the eldar said, ‘Fuck it.’ Literally. And they repopulated the entire galaxy, and fucked so much that they broke their reproductive process, and birthed Slannesh sometime around the year 30,000
Yooo, I love everything about that! Where do I sign away my free time?
Edit: also what’s waagh?
“WAAAAAAAAAGGH!” is what the 10-foot monster yells while charging at you.
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Is this a ttrpg like D&D?
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Like Risk? I can’t even get anyone to ever play that with me.
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It’s also a great way to sign away all your money too!
Fortunately I’m getting a promotion that’ll let me pay my monthly rent the times every week and still have a hundo for avocado toast left over!
Oof.
How much should it cost to hit the ground running?
No idea. I steer clear of the game out of self-preservation. I did read dozens of novels though, a lot of them twice, so the time investment is there.
A quick search looks like between $100-$200 for most starter sets. Custodes are kinda expensive, as are most of the named heroes.
War with a footballer hooligan Cockney accent
Just to warn you there is a lot of lore and it’s changed and been retconned over the last 40 years. That leads to some odd stuff like Leman Russ having a tank named after him.
It’s also had some major tone shifts from silly (Inquisitor Obiwan Sherlock Cluseau ) to so Grim Dark it becomes Grim Derp. It’s in a sort of midpoint now.
So look into what you find interesting and if you don’t like it switch sources or topic. Expect things to be contradictory depending on when it was written.
Here is a good but silly video background to the origin of the orks. It’s still mostly accurate. In 30k the Emperor got hurt and was put on a life support chair. He’s been there for 10k years unable to communicate.
Premise of this series is they install a text to speech device and now big E can communicate. So they update him on the state of the Imperium and he fills in all the missing history. It’s a fan video and noncannon but lore accurate for when it was made.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FyeoBm5QFnA
If you want a more serious tone for your lore dump try luetin09 or oculus imperialis. They are to dry for me but pretty good content.
Also WAAGH is the ork war cry and WAAGH energy is the reality bending field that makes the orks group think real. So red things go faster because red is the fastest color.
I got started by reading all the books by Dan Abnett. Eisenhorn is amazing (though there are no Orks, sadly).
Not super familiar with it, but they have some sort of psychic field that turns their beliefs into reality. Pretty much all their technology only works because they believe it does
<rant> It’s not actually that powerful, but it does work like this to some extent (and of course the “official” lore is pretty vague about it and sometimes contradicts itself).
The way I see it, they can’t just pick up a stick and turn it into a rifle by believing that it is one, but they have some inherent collective knowledge of mechanics that allows them to make the technology even though their intellect should definitely be a huge hurdle, and if they collectively believe hard enough that, for example, the (hand made) barrel of their gun that should be way off tolerance is actually a proper gun barrel, it will work as intended and only blow up after emptying 20 mags instead of instantly</rant>
So basically they have … something like a collective dunning kruger effect which manifests as an abnormally high ‘dumb luck’ stat or modifier?
I wouldn’t say dumb luck - red paint really does make their vehicles go faster
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Please …explain.
The previous commenter has left you hanging for 28 minutes so I’ll explain.
They believe red paint makes their vehicles faster, so it does.
Char is an Ork, then.
Is green more efficient?
no
In case its not clear from “football hooligans with cockney accents,” WAGH (also spelled WAH) is just the sound or an ork screaming WAR!
Don’t give wallstreet any ideas. I’d rather not have to pay for stuff in teef
Stonkboyz, the financial bosses of da WAAAGH. Throw some teefs on a map of the S&P and that’s the stock that goes up that day
Do people not understand the concept of a dividend?
The more you learn about the stock market, the more you realize it’s shit.
Well, the good news is, is that you can short it
You should definitely try shorting Tesla, nobody has ever lost money doing that.
Many companies and investors laugh at the idea of dividends, believing that stock price is the only thing that matters
Many of those companies buy back stock in order to drive the share price up, Apple is famous for this. They also pay a dividend as well.
A dividend is just a forced sale of your stock
What?
Imagine you have 10 stocks worth $10 each.
Scenario 1: There is $1 dividend per stock. You now have 10 stocks worth $9 each for a total of $90 in stocks and $10 in cash.
Scenario 2: There is no dividend but you decide to sell 1 stock, you now have 9 stocks of $10 for a total of 90$ in stocks and $10 in cash.
These scenario’s are equivalent unless the stock wasn’t priced correctly.
This is the stupidest thing I’ve read in a very long time.
Why do you think it works like that?
Because that’s how the stock market works, the price of a stock is the current value of assets (including cash) + expected earnings (with some correction factors for risk and time). If the company pays out $x of cash it’s $x worth less. You might not always see it it the stock price because expected future dividend payments are also already priced in.
How do you think it works?
Why would anyone buy a stock that will never pay a dividend? The company is worth money because they pay a dividend, not despite it.
No, there are many different kinds of stocks with different terms. Stocks are an asset with value, regardless of whether or not dividends are paid out. It’s very commonly the case for shares to be issued with no dividends paid because profits are reinvested back into the company with the goal of increasing the share price for some future massive liquidation event (like an acquisition).
Shares also represent ownership in a company and thus their value is also in the leverage it can give potentially give you in said company.
There are plenty of companies that never pay dividends, yet people buy them.
II struggled with this as well for a while. You can look at it this way, they are worth money because they could pay dividends, but they don’t actually have to. Your bar of gold is worth a certain amount of money equal to the money you could sell it for, and your money is worth something because you could buy something with it.
(Most) stocks represent partial ownership (read: control) of a company and most of their value is derived from that.
For an extreme example: if the stock price were to drop below the amount of money that could be made by just selling off all of the assets, then someone would (in principle) just buy all the shares, sell the assets and make a profit.
Each share represents a small bit of control over the company and their assets.
