this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2026
61 points (96.9% liked)

Games

47259 readers
2441 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Rules

1. Submissions have to be related to games

Video games, tabletop, or otherwise. Posts not related to games will be deleted.

This community is focused on games, of all kinds. Any news item or discussion should be related to gaming in some way.

2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

No bigotry, hardline stance. Try not to get too heated when entering into a discussion or debate.

We are here to talk and discuss about one of our passions, not fight or be exposed to hate. Posts or responses that are hateful will be deleted to keep the atmosphere good. If repeatedly violated, not only will the comment be deleted but a ban will be handed out as well. We judge each case individually.

3. No excessive self-promotion

Try to keep it to 10% self-promotion / 90% other stuff in your post history.

This is to prevent people from posting for the sole purpose of promoting their own website or social media account.

4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

This community is mostly for discussion and news. Remember to search for the thing you're submitting before posting to see if it's already been posted.

We want to keep the quality of posts high. Therefore, memes, funny videos, low-effort posts and reposts are not allowed. We prohibit giveaways because we cannot be sure that the person holding the giveaway will actually do what they promise.

5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

Make sure to mark your stuff or it may be removed.

No one wants to be spoiled. Therefore, always mark spoilers. Similarly mark NSFW, in case anyone is browsing in a public space or at work.

6. No linking to piracy

Don't share it here, there are other places to find it. Discussion of piracy is fine.

We don't want us moderators or the admins of lemmy.world to get in trouble for linking to piracy. Therefore, any link to piracy will be removed. Discussion of it is of course allowed.

Authorized Regular Threads

Related communities

PM a mod to add your own

Video games

Generic

Help and suggestions

By platform

By type

By games

Language specific

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I know a little about Orks and their weird group psychic thing where painting their ships red to go fast really makes them faster, and their tech only works because they think it should. But then I guess Orks aren't even in this game.

I get that it's a violent, black-vs-grey universe. I think it's the originator of the term grimdark? The emperor is some immortal Mr House asshole who's worshipped as a god, which powers some of their tech and protects them from chaos via his psyker shit? And he's kind of a fascist, but it's that or bloody chaos?

Rogue traders seem like somewhere between a privateer and a baron, plundering tithes in their castle-ships and acting as an arm of the Imperium in backwater space?

There are more wizards than I expected. Not sure if these mechanicus dudes are pulling "Temples of Syrinx" thing, or they know how the tech works but not why so they worship it? Or if it's actually machine spirits?

Anything super foundational that I'm missing?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

That Ork stuff is a meme. Their tech works, they're not powered by imagination.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Actually, the "powered by imagination" thing was canon circa third edition. There's in game lore about baffled techpriests opening up ork guns to find no working parts inside. This is the problem with making any kind of absolute statement about 40K lore... Most things are usually correct at some point and the lore revises itself and overwrites itself so often that what is canon for any given interpretation of the 40K universe is really up to the writers of that interpretation.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 points 15 hours ago

I've heard this said many, many times, but I've yet to see an actual source on it.

I collected Orks in 3rd edition. I have the big black book, I have the codex, I was subscribed to White Dwarf. I don't recall seeing anything like that at the time.

[–] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Are there orks in rogue trader? I've been waiting for all the dlcs before I replay it.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago

No idea, I was responding to their first paragraph.