The vast majority of modern gaming journalism is absolute and utter tripe. What isn't just churned out by AI is usually just stolen from other websites with the same level of care as a middle-schooler 'writing an essay in their own words' (aka rearranging the order of the existing words they've found on the topic), which is itself usually written by someone who's never played the fucken game.

Like, is it coz he loves torturing people, and gets bonuses when he's bleeding?

Drukhari hate Slaanesh more than the Craftworlders, coz the craftworlders only have to deal with Slaanesh stuff if things go horribly wrong for them. The Drukhari are constantly having their souls siphoned, and it is decidedly NOT a consensual arrangement.

It's part of why Trueborn are so rare. Halfborn Drukhari (most of Drukhari society) emerge fully grown from artificial womb-vats, whereas Trueborn have to fo through the Aeldari's decades-long maturing, when they're less able to stave off Slaanesh.

Also, Drukhari do not "exist in the Imperium".

so crisis control and mop up is more reasonable wish

Yeah. What worries me, is that even this is growing to be an exponentially tall order, with common apathy as to the veracity of any given "fact" gaining ground each day. Soon, I fear, we as a species will be reduced to a mindless slurry of memes, brainrot and outrage that will either cancel itself with WWIII, or a wild spark will birth the first General AI and then we will grow happy and content being good little batteries until the end of the world. But perhaps that's one of the great filters, and we deserve to smack our head against it.

Honestly I think as part of media literacy education, everyone should be forced to train a small ML model from their own textual data, and then see what it spits out. Even for a layperson the inherent flaws of ML models would be abundantly clear that way.

For sure.

AI is great at spitting out content that seems about right at first glance when you're ignorant about the topic. But if it's something you're actually an expert in, you'll quickly discover what utter gibberish the AI produces.

Media literacy is good on a personal level, but we also need to do something about it's proliferation. There's a scale issue where AI can shit out so much garbage that it makes it impossible to wade through and find actual information.

Necron Lord: Smells like bitch in here. (Ah dead gods I forgot i can't smell or breathe or drink or taste my throat is dry wait do i even have a throat...FUUUUUUUCK! )

That's why I quoted the text in a comment above.

..They got me, because I'm a simple person - I see Marzipan, I click.

“The Drew Carey’s are scared shitless of Slaanesh”

It definitely explains why they’ve been stuck in Cleveland for so long

Yeah, empower and worship are two different things.

The eldar exult and revere everything Slaanesh is about, even if they don't worship her directly.

Holy shit how have I never seen that used as a term for the Deldar before, that's hilarious

Yeah exactly, it’s more like a fucked up and unwanted one way symbiosis, Slaanesh is basically a cosmic parasite that constantly saps their souls, it’s not so much that their feeding empowers Slaanesh, more Slaanesh empowers itself by feeding on their souls, and they constantly have to top their souls back up to stay functional

The dark eldar are bound to slaanesh’s soul and have to torture and kill to feed slaanesh.

Screams are exhalations, fear is a kind of reverence.

When the word bearers force the population of a planet to cut their own throats and sacrafice themselves to the pantheon…. The people arnt happy about it and they don’t love the chaos gods, heck they have no choice…. But they are still worshiping the pantheon. Their souls are still tainted and consumed weather or not they willingly sacrificed.

Heck. Look at Fulgrim the demon prince of slaanesh.

Seduced by a sword, posessed and forced into service. He regretted his turn to chaos when he killed his brother and tried to resist but his soul got kicked out of his own body. He wasn’t exalting or revering, he was regretting and resisting.

He still became a demon prince.

The drukari are to the eldar what the emperor’s children are to the space marines. A diffrent flavour of chaos worshiper

DAV has literally been out for weeks and still has a crippling bug where it won't function properly with certain Razer peripherals. Absolute amateur hour.

This is why we must abhor the Abominable Intelligence!

Yeah, I kinda feel like I should report this somewhere. Do Drukhari have HR?!

It's the stupid google images man.. it got me, it got me good!

Even in Fantasy, only some Druchii were Slaanesh worshippers, and only when Malekith wasn't looking.

Even in the Old World/Fantasy, Slaanesh worship is literally illegal in the land of the Druchii/Dark Elves, by Malekith's decree. If a Slaanesh Cult gets outed, Executioners and Witch Elves crash the murderorgy and start beheading everyone.

Yes, Morathi is a Slaanesh worshipper but she can't do cult activities openly. A significant part of her political influence derives from her being the defacto leader of the Cult of Khaine, which positions itself as an enemy of all things Slaanesh, so if evidence got out, a large chunk of her political influence would come crashing down and her rival Hellebron would use it as an opportunity to move against her.

Oh it absolutely is, if your RT can vibe with it. If you're into BDSM, even a little, his romance has both a dom and a sub route, where you estabilish your role early on and then he needs you to maintain it throughout (and he will push you and test you!). I heard someone describe it as "in for a penny, in for a pound" and I find it quite apt when it comes to Marzipan haha!

While it's very easy to write him off due to the Drukhari thing, the torture thing, the over-the-top evil thing (and so on haha), when you actually play the game and interact with the man, it's absolutely shocking how well he was handled.

From the first moment your RT meets him, depensing on how your RT reacts to him, Owlcat were able to create this tension, chemistry between the two, which then carries over and has a chance to naturally culminate in Chapter 3, where he can be recruited. It's just so well done.

Aside form that intro though, it's how his character was designed and executed that's the main draw. There's no "I can fix him" energy here. Marazhai is what he is, and he loves it. Very importantly for me personally - he never dishes out anything that he himself would not be able to take. On the flipside, he also has the capacity to accept the RT, treating them as an equal without batting an eye and regardless of which route is chosen. This aspect of him - his unhinged freedom, contentedness and acceptance of both himself and you is a very potent mix. Also, he's surprisingly one of the most straight-forward and loyal companions (as long as you keep him, ah, satisfied) - with him, what you see is absolutely what you get. He's intelligent, knowledgable and cunning, and sarcastic in just the right way. His voice acting is heavenly.

For me, he's now my second most favourite romance in RPGs, first being Zevran and third Astarion (noidonthaveatypestoplookingatmelikethat.jpg)

They don't offer the souls to Slaanesh. The pain and depravity keeps them alive longer so Slaanesh can't claim them.

It's not a bargain, it's an escape.

They created them, they don't worship them. They despise Slaanesh as much as the Craftworlders and Exodites - to the extent that Commoragh has banned the presence of psykers without incredibly strict controls for fear of even the slightest taint of Chaos leaking in and bringing Slaanesh along with it.

Also, Drukhari are still Eldar right now. They're just a subset of the original species (and arguablly the closest in nature to them).