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so we're all psykers then? manipulating and using the 'warp' with our 'minds'

not really,


the Psykers are all the website creaters that can actually manipulate the internet.


we, the users, are just poor souls with Warp Signitures floating around.


Now a bigger question is, "Is Bill Gates the Emperor?"

Slarg232 wrote:

PresidentOfAsia wrote:

Son 0f Dorn wrote:Khorne would be /b/ols with its flamewars?
What would Nurgle be?

Nurgle would be the sick f*cks of the internet such as furries, Pedophiles/lolli con fans/ guro fans and all of the other hardcore pr0n crap and maybe the cancer that is killing /b/

So what is Slaanesh?

rule34...

Grey Templar wrote:
Now a bigger question is, "Is Bill Gates the Emperor?"

That is sig worthy lmao

Linus Torvalds would be the emperor since the bulk of webservers are running on some flavor of linux.

Slarg232 wrote:

PresidentOfAsia wrote:

Son 0f Dorn wrote:Khorne would be /b/ols with its flamewars?
What would Nurgle be?

Nurgle would be the sick f*cks of the internet such as furries, Pedophiles/lolli con fans/ guro fans and all of the other hardcore pr0n crap and maybe the cancer that is killing /b/

So what is Slaanesh?

Dat Ass threads.

Now, would Al Gore be Horus because he claimed he invented the internet?

almost synonomous with wanting to be Emperor

If Bill Gates is the Emperor, then... Steve Jobs is HORUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

svendrex wrote:

GeckoOBac wrote:
I almost wholeheartedly agree... But tzeentch is not "search engines". If anything it's wikipedia and/or tvtropes. God, that site can literally suck your soul out.

I was originally going to put down Wikipedia, but I wanted to keep each god generalized instead of mentioning a specific website. Each god is a type of website, each website is a specific daemon.

Well "wikis" in general would cover both sites and the general kind of site with the behavior you describe

Footsloggin wrote:If Bill Gates is the Emperor, then... Steve Jobs is HORUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd say going by the post above, where slaanesh is likened to internet shopping, steve jobs would be more like a daemon prince of Slaanesh.

"So many shiny things... I want them but I don't know why... I must have them... what will it cost, MY SOUL?! Okay then..."

GeckoOBac wrote:

svendrex wrote:

GeckoOBac wrote:
I almost wholeheartedly agree... But tzeentch is not "search engines". If anything it's wikipedia and/or tvtropes. God, that site can literally suck your soul out.

I was originally going to put down Wikipedia, but I wanted to keep each god generalized instead of mentioning a specific website. Each god is a type of website, each website is a specific daemon.

Well "wikis" in general would cover both sites and the general kind of site with the behavior you describe

I think the tone of what you're all after would be Stumbleupon


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Kilkrazy wrote:The Internet is fuelled by electricity and computers.

You can't just switch off the warp.


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Nor could you switch off the internet. We're as dependent on it as worlds that rely on supplies from warp faring vessels.
Seriously, if people couldn't get to facebook and twitter, there would be mass suicides.

And besides, it's been tried before by hackers. It won't go down.

Well think of it this way. The internet has become a conveyer of knowledge and communication. Each communication is a thought, and because nothing on the internet is deleted, our thoughts collect, leading to engines which feed off these collected thoughts. But this isn't enough, they want more, so they advertisements and request more of your thoughts. Before you know it, you have engines made for specific communications, information and thoughts, creating gods and entities.

The behavior of the internet is the behavior of the warp, fueled by the same thing.

Mr Nobody wrote:Well think of it this way. The internet has become a conveyer of knowledge and communication. Each communication is a thought, and because nothing on the internet is deleted, our thoughts collect, leading to engines which feed off these collected thoughts. But this isn't enough, they want more, so they advertisements and request more of your thoughts. Before you know it, you have engines made for specific communications, information and thoughts, creating gods and entities.

The behavior of the internet is the behavior of the warp, fueled by the same thing.

This is what I read:

The SkyNet funding bill is passed

The system goes online on August 4th, 1997.

Human decisions are removed from strategic defense.

SkyNet begins to learn at geometric rate.

It becomes self-aware at 2:14am Eastern time, August 29th

In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

SkyNet fights back.

GeckoOBac wrote:

Mr Nobody wrote:Well think of it this way. The internet has become a conveyer of knowledge and communication. Each communication is a thought, and because nothing on the internet is deleted, our thoughts collect, leading to engines which feed off these collected thoughts. But this isn't enough, they want more, so they advertisements and request more of your thoughts. Before you know it, you have engines made for specific communications, information and thoughts, creating gods and entities.

The behavior of the internet is the behavior of the warp, fueled by the same thing.

This is what I read:

The SkyNet funding bill is passed

The system goes online on August 4th, 1997.

Human decisions are removed from strategic defense.

SkyNet begins to learn at geometric rate.

It becomes self-aware at 2:14am Eastern time, August 29th

In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

SkyNet fights back.

I never understood the use of geometric rate in those movies. Shouldn't it be exponential?


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Brother Heinrich wrote:so we're all psykers then? manipulating and using the 'warp' with our 'minds'

Ya. And that guy you know who is especially good with computers and torrenting is a navigator.

Son 0f Dorn wrote:
I never understood the use of geometric rate in those movies. Shouldn't it be exponential?

Well geometric rate is basically the discrete version of the 2^x function. So it's not quite that wrong... It's perhaps debatable if learning can be measured as a real number or a natural number. In truth, it's debatable if learning is even measurable at all... But that said I think that geometric rate was more known back when the movies came out. The popular (and mostly wrong) knowledge of exponential growth is quite recent. Geometric growth on the other hand is much easier to show and explain.

GeckoOBac wrote:

Son 0f Dorn wrote:
I never understood the use of geometric rate in those movies. Shouldn't it be exponential?

Well geometric rate is basically the discrete version of the 2^x function. So it's not quite that wrong... It's perhaps debatable if learning can be measured as a real number or a natural number. In truth, it's debatable if learning is even measurable at all... But that said I think that geometric rate was more known back when the movies came out. The popular (and mostly wrong) knowledge of exponential growth is quite recent. Geometric growth on the other hand is much easier to show and explain.

Thank you for the illumination