Are there any astartes who have mental health issues?

true but he might come back and look at it someday and, if my hypothesis is correct, I'd rather he didn't feel doubly aggrieved that not only did no one get his post they deleted it for reasons he'll possibly never know.

Peter said:

empathy?

But this is a dead post - you're investing all of your feelings and empathy into a void.

Well if the author of this post is genuine, I hope they come back and maybe add a bit of context to their question so we understand the thinking behind it - and then they might discover that they do belong. Just something like "I'm into the 40K game, anyone else?" Followed by their question.  It's a bit tricky talking about characters' mental health problems amongst real people's though - so maybe their reasoning behind that would help too - for example saying that they try to relate to the characters.

empathy? if you can put yourself in the shoes of a hypothetical autistic 40k fan. Someone who draws inspiration to face the harsh difficulties of every day life from the fiction built around the game, maybe even to the extent of using it as an inspiration for ones personal code. Then on a particularly bad day you come to a forum thats supposed to be full of other people like you and discover they don't speak your language or understand your culture, so you leave disheartened and never come back ... Its a common misunderstanding to assume other autistic people = people who will understand and love the things i understand and love. And It's quite disappointing when you realise thats really really not the case. Hence empathy.

Peter, you seem to be strongly defending this two-week old random post - why?      

also please don't be hesitant to argue. as the proverb goes iron sharpen iron. (I'm not easily offended)

Maybe the moderators will clear up the confusion about whether swear words are obscene - I haven't used any on here including the d word you mention.  Anyway - please see comment above yours that you may have missed while you were typing.

is it? I assume you mean rule 3? "Content must not be obscene, defamatory or libellous."

Well it's not defamatory or libellous. Some people might call the F bomb obscene but these days it can be pretty grey. Obscenity isn't as simple as swear words. For example when Fanny Hill came out one of the authors defences to the charge of obscenity is that it didn't contain any obscene words (the defence failed).

I mean 'dam' is considered swearing but would you call it obscene? Obscenity is a really subjective nebulous concept.

Sorry Peter, not meaning to argue, you've been most helpful on my recent post.

Ok then, the blatantly obvious swear word is a red flag!  It's against the rules if nothing else is.

that just means the swear delete system sucks. contrast with root work mock. you can have mock, mocking, mockery.

I accidentally entered a swear the other day (I used a word without a hyphen and apparently it meant something rude) and it put stars in - I just mean it's been done in a way that the swear delete system isn't picking up.

disguised how? Looks like a bog standard swear to me.

Perhaps it was put in chat and then the mods misunderstood and put it in mental health - or perhaps they were genuinely comparing the details of a game with real life to see if conditions were represented in gaming - but the disguised swear word is a red flag for me.

New account - no other input or posts - random 1st post - blank profile.     I'm not saying that it has all the hallmarks but.......

it's not imposable but it seems unlikely. This post seems too on the nose for a mental health sub-forum with a propensity for nerdy posters. What really surprised me is so few people recognised the reference. It seems to much like hard work to build a machine learning algorithm that can find and select posts on other forums and match them to the content on the target forum so well.

Have tried to delete my comment at the top but it won't go.

Spammers sometimes place a post - often a copy from another website that they've been spamming - and leave it to collect a few replies before going back and either editing the original post or adding a reply to deliver all the spam links - it's like going in under the radar.

You are all providing the cover-replies ready for payload delivery.

I do not believe this post is spam. It's a very specific question about the lore of the 40k game made by games workshop.

mini glossary

astartes: more commonly known as space marines,  supper soldiers created by implanting humans with genetically engiered extra organs.

warp: an alternate dimension accessed and navigated using psychic powers that is home to malevolent forces that seek to corupt mankind.

Ah!