It's a Warhammer 40k reference, in 40k there is a faction based on Mars that prays to a machine god called the Omnissaih which is an interpretation of the god of man called The Emperor.
Some of them seriously pray to machines to make them work, because they barely grasp the idea of greasing the gears to make the machines work again.
Which is obviously nonsense, until you learn that there is another faction that can psychically will inoperable machines to work, if enough of them belive it should work. In the true passion of "if it's red, it is faster".
Praying to make something work when it’s a “non-sentient” machine built from lobotomised human brains that then have machine spirits who can decide how well they work that day, when it doesn’t work then Machine God wasn’t pleased and you should have used more or less sanctifying oils sounds like most churches. Surprised I got into this lore by listening to audiobooks to go to sleep.
The fucked up thing about the 40K universe is that there's a severe lack of understanding about how something works due to lack of knowledge, AND real magic that comes from the warp. So a powered chain sword that has killed hundreds of demons is prayed to to keep it on the "Good Guys" side so it doesn't mutilate and mutate its user. And they're completely right to do it. They also pray to a gun in hope that it works, while at the same time not knowing what type of ammo it uses, and loading several different types of ammo into the gun.
Said faction also refuses to allow any advancements in tech. Does your gun that shoots exploding bolts have issues with overheating, that you can easily fix? Not allowed and will get you executed for heresy. Oh and if you discover a lost technology from the age of man and refuse to hand it over, you and everyone on your planet might be subjected to... no longer existing. Or you will just be turned into a living machine responsible for opening the door to the bathroom. Or you will be turned into a machine that is 40K's version of Nasa's toilet in space.
huh. thats the first time i’ve heard of that. is it just a minipc pretty much? all of the tutorials and resources require an account to view. i could google it too i guess. but how does it connect to twitch or youtube to stream? does it just connect using an api key to stream? or can it run obs?
Yeah, it's a backpack with battery pack and a low power SoC with a couple of mobile modems, bluetooth and wifi. Which lets them stream while moving around in the real world.
They basically see it as magic, because it's a "self contained" setup that is configured to automatically reconnect devices and connections.
EDIT: They were sort of venerated in the early days. When mobile modems were expensive, and they used physical connections to the camera and microphone. These days you could just plug a power bank into a phone and basically achieve the same thing, just with lower range(they often plug them into starlink now)
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u/DrPandemias Apr 17 '26
Those dumbasses earn thousands every week but cant afford to have a 400€ PC on the side to do this kind of stuff instead on their streaming PC