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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

And then you got warhammer 40k writers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah the primarchs do it, and it's kinda weird. But they are inhuman monsters that have to serve as generals and politicians, so I forgive them.

When space Marines do it the it's kinda like how priests refer to each other as brother, but also battle brother is a rank.

I think it is also there to make things seem more theatric/dramatic. Like just how many books start with a dramatis personae? We're not reading about people, we're reading about characters in a space opera. No matter how you look at it, it's still pretty silly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The oat pig videos keep living rent free in my head anytime I hear a space marine/primarch call someone brother.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's gone full circle and there's a 40k version:

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Hail, Honorable Battle Brother! Holy Terra calls for the aid of our chapter!

(I actually know very little about WH40K beyond what one can learn from AlfaBusa in TTS)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

7 out of 8, if you didn't say you weren't in the larger 40k community I would have thought that you were.