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Commented on Who wins? Cthulhu or the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K?
By WH40K Standards Great Green One isn't actually a god. He as a physical manifestation whereas the chaos gods are idea-forms residing in the Warp. He is closer to the Void Dragon or C'tun in concept. Also, which version of...
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Charlie Stross commented on
Who wins? Cthulhu or the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K?
Oh, okay. You're not banned (under the Stephanie login)....
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Stephanie commented on
Who wins? Cthulhu or the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K?
Thank you!...
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Catherine Taylor commented on
Who wins? Cthulhu or the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K?
I've never written to any email outlining such things - doxxing or threats aren't really my style (apart from in theatrical NIGHTMARE GREEN jokes in public, where the "YOU" is either humanity, the Elder God or whatever is annoying me at the time). I'd be interested if you received such emails though, given that "Catina Diamond"'s email and account appears to have been deleted before that post date in any case. In any case, "Catina Diamond" is only mentioned once in that thread, and it looks like a "Nyx Ninoy" made some non-specific nonsense up about a company who used...
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Kaptajn Congoboy commented on
Who wins? Cthulhu or the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K?
Cthulhu, so far, has faced a long, long nap brought on by astrographical issues that he can not survive, has built a lot of weird architecture, and has shown himself impervious to lasting damage through ramming by steam schooner. He's a short story character, and thus is not exactly well developed. The secondary material tends to give him whatever inconsistency is necessary for the story at hand, a planetary scale number of mini-cthulhu and Deep One minions, an inability to defeat the Elder Things at their peak and a great gift for long-term planning. The Emprah has so far faced...
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Kaptajn Congoboy commented on
Who wins? Cthulhu or the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40K?
If would have been practical for comparative purposes if the Emprah had ever faced Elder Thing civilizations or steam schooners, or if Great Cthulhu had tried to go blobbo-o-blobbo with a C'tan (at least their old versions, who were considerably more impressive than the current neutered variant). But they didn't. The woes of living in different fictional universes......
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