Sorry if this doesn’t fit, please feel free to delete the post. I just had to get it out of my system…

  • m4xie
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    8 days ago

    If this is how badly people take on the propaganda when they know it’s fiction, imagine how terribly indoctrinated people are in-universe

    • latenightnoir@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 days ago

      Exactly! Rogue Trader does a pretty good job at highlighting this, everyone’s just as suspicious of you when behaving altruistically as they would be if you were playing the Heretic. I honestly still can’t comprehend how people actually adhere to that monstrous mentality.

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        6 days ago

        “There are three kinds of morality. Demon-worshipping lunatic. Unthinking fanatic. Human being. The last is more suspicious than the other two combined.”

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      8 days ago

      I’d do it, too, but only if I could do it as a Child of Asuryan. Arrogance is immensely frustrating, but it’s better than straight up genocidal zealotry. And this way I could at least do the whole Outcast thing if they start getting on my nerves…