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D-Pad posted:Edit: lmao that's the author, how does he not realize the LEs sell different in different countries Probably misunderstood something said whoever in the business side of things he was talking to, authors are for writing about robots and space men not sales (also I might have misunderstood what he was saying, I have no idea how the BL limited editions work) Gravitas Shortfall fucked around with this message at 22:10 on May 29, 2021 |
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Arbite posted:Well thank God, the Mortis audiobook is out June 5th. Unless I misread something, it's out on audible today? Edit; yep, missed that it was up for preorder today. Nevermind. thocan fucked around with this message at 04:30 on May 30, 2021 |
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Brendan Rodgers posted:My ironic headcanon for the End Times is definitely Kruber becoming the Emperor of the Empire and Bretonnia and a beloved friend of Lustria, after saving the world. I think my preferred headcanon is that Sigmar is probably Leman Russ, and that the Emperor sent him on a quest to protect a world in the Eye of Terror that was critical to his Webway Project.
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May 30, 2021 05:26
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I almost couldn't handle it when they arrested my boy Eisenhorn.
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May 30, 2021 05:48
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Deptfordx posted:I read Gate of Bones about a month ago, and I am honestly struggling to remember a single thing that happened in it. Yeah, that's a book that started bad and worked its way up to mediocre.
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May 30, 2021 07:06
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Finished Penitent and that reveal, goddamn.
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May 30, 2021 10:50
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Does anyone know how you're meant to pronounce Ferren Areios' last name? I keep thinking Ah-Ree-Oss or Ah-Ray-Ohss.
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Kaal posted:I think my preferred headcanon is that Sigmar is probably Leman Russ, and that the Emperor sent him on a quest to protect a world in the Eye of Terror that was critical to his Webway Project. I could buy him being a Custodes. Valdor could probably handle a planet on his own, and as a bonus, this is why no one knew (until Penitent) where he went.
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Would Russ really tolerate the Dwarves though? Edit: Where do I buy books these days? The BL site seems to not have novels in anything but kindle and audio books. I want paperbacks. Demiurge4 fucked around with this message at 16:05 on May 30, 2021 |
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May 30, 2021 16:01
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Demiurge4 posted:Would Russ really tolerate the Dwarves though? Yes, because they would just be Squats and therefore just abhumans.
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Shroud posted:I could buy him being a Custodes. Valdor could probably handle a planet on his own, and as a bonus, this is why no one knew (until Penitent) where he went. I could definitely see that.
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May 30, 2021 18:26
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Gunder posted:Does anyone know how you're meant to pronounce Ferren Areios' last name? I keep thinking Ah-Ree-Oss or Ah-Ray-Ohss. split the difference and go with Ah-Rey-EE-Ohss
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May 30, 2021 20:57
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I'm really enjoying Godblight so far. I'm not a huge Guilliman fan but seeing his struggles and actions in the modern imperium is really great. Also there are some sweet nurgling scenes. Good boys.
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Just finished Godblight and oh boy. Gully is being just willfully obtuse about his old pops. Even if Emps isn't a god, its sort of a distinction without a difference when it comes to the powers the big E has. On the plus side, I enjoyed Totally The Emperor (Maybe, probably) yelling at Nurgle and slapping Morty into the naughty hut. Also yes, Nurglings are the best whenever they appear. Love it when you got Death Guard picking them up to cuddle. Literally the best. Edit: Panama Red posted:On an unrelated note, can anyone recommend some good 40k novels written from the xenos perspective? Does such a thing exist? Check out Path of the Dark Eldar, I absolutely love that series and it goes into all the nitty gritty of their creepy edge lord society. There's an omnibus of it with all three books. orphean fucked around with this message at 08:22 on May 31, 2021 |
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Gunder posted:Does anyone know how you're meant to pronounce Ferren Areios' last name? I keep thinking Ah-Ree-Oss or Ah-Ray-Ohss. You can also go with Argh-eye-oss. That is assuming English pronunciation rules. If it comes from another Latin alphabet using language and hasn't been anglasised then who knows.
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May 31, 2021 10:08
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Gunder posted:Does anyone know how you're meant to pronounce Ferren Areios' last name? I keep thinking Ah-Ree-Oss or Ah-Ray-Ohss. Foxtrot_13 posted:You can also go with Argh-eye-oss. Areios is Ancient Greek for "martial", literally "of/related to Ares" (just as "martial" means "of/related to Mars", in fact!). The Greek pronunciation would be closer to "Ah-Ray-Ohss" I think.
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So going to be out and about doing some travelling next week, so I'm going to pick up an audiobook with a spare Audible credit. So Mortis or Godblight*. I will absolutely get around to both of them, but I want an entertaining listen for long trips, so which should I get first? *I'm up to speed on other BL stuff (and the previous books in both series) I'm interested in, so it's just these 2 recent ones.
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Well Mortis kinda sucked, and if you're doing an audio-book you can't even skim through the truly dire titan sections. So I would recommend not that.
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Just finished Pariah and Penitent in the last week. Does anyone else think that Eisenhorn may not be Eisenhorn any longer? After he came out of the demon engine thing in Magos he has complete command over Cherubael, can show emotions again and can take on space marines in combat. I'm wondering if he got possessed by a demon in Magos.
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Ego-bot posted:Just finished Pariah and Penitent in the last week. Does anyone else think that Eisenhorn may not be Eisenhorn any longer? (Magos/Pariah/Penitent) He has definitely fallen to Chaos no matter how much he thinks he's still a good guy -- Eisenhorn smiling has always been destined to be the sign that he's irredeemable now. Whether he's possessed is an open question, but unlikely.
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Deptfordx posted:So going to be out and about doing some travelling next week, so I'm going to pick up an audiobook with a spare Audible credit. Mortis is excellent for a regular 40k book but as far as the Siege of Terra series goes it is merely good. That said I'd imagine audiobooks depend a lot on the voice actor so probably whichever va you like best.
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Mortis really drove home how tired I am of the whole siege, and the perpetuals, and everything else. Let's just get it over with now and start something else. Edit: also gently caress off Shiban! Not one backwards step, more like not one chapter read!!! Old Woman Island fucked around with this message at 21:55 on May 31, 2021 |
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May 31, 2021 21:51
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Womp posted:Let's just get it over with now and start something else. Isn't that what Dawn of Fire is meant to be? I thought they described it as being a project on the scale of the Horus Heresy series.
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Godblight was really great, maybe Haley's best.
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There's a very long spoilery post on reddit and it seemed very awesome re: godblight
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D-Pad posted:Godblight was really great, maybe Haley's best. You are enabling my addiction something fierce
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Godblight it is then. Thx!
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The perpetuals are such a bad story hook, they make the world feel smaller and less dynamic and every reveal about them is somehow worse and more boring than the last. It also creates a weird obsession with tying in modern events, like John grammaticas talking about how he was the one who killed Martin Luther king jr.
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Zasze posted:The perpetuals are such a bad story hook, they make the world feel smaller and less dynamic and every reveal about them is somehow worse and more boring than the last. Wait really? I'm pretty behind on the heresy series and haven't come across most of the perpetual stuff. I didn't really like the idea, but that's worse than I expected.
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Zasze posted:The perpetuals are such a bad story hook, they make the world feel smaller and less dynamic and every reveal about them is somehow worse and more boring than the last. Yeah Perpetuals are full stop stupid. In my headcanon they're just crazy street preachers who are full of poo poo.
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I just read Bloodlines. It wasn't my favorite of Wraight's books and I think that's due to the low level scale of the Warhammer Crimes series. If the focus is on the average people in the Imperium the story is going to be dismal and hopeless with even more pyrrhic victories than usual. The common man in the Imperium is a pair of hands whose life is drained away in some manufactorum until they die. Then they're ground into soylens viridians. It was an interesting book but like Lords of Silence the hopelessness of it made it impossible for me to enjoy. Also, Agusto, man. You really ought to know better. And Naxi has the right idea. Joining the guard might get you killed, but on the other hand being dead is a better option than living in the 40k universe. And there's definitely a slim chance faithful souls are received in the God Emperor's embrace rather than being devoured by daemons for all eternity.
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Zasze posted:The perpetuals are such a bad story hook, they make the world feel smaller and less dynamic and every reveal about them is somehow worse and more boring than the last. Grammaticas was born ~29 millennium. The other Cabal aligned perpetual killed M L K and that was kinda his deal as an assassin for him. Telsa Cola fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jun 1, 2021 |
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Zasze posted:The perpetuals are such a bad story hook, they make the world feel smaller and less dynamic and every reveal about them is somehow worse and more boring than the last. Damon Prytanis is the one that shot Martin Luther King
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Kharn_The_Betrayer posted:Damon Prytanis is the one that shot Martin Luther King I apologize for getting the two perpetual cabal henchmen confused.
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Humans who do know firsthand that this system is far worse than what came before is an interesting idea but the only perpetuals we see are either not doing anything about it or are wrapped up in bullshit tedious genocidal nonsense.
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Unless I was reading mortis wrong or misremembering, ol perrson has been around since at least the bronze Age and is Theseus or Odysseus or someone
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Perpetuals are really dumb and should be retconned out. Do we know when the “Warhawk” is dropping?
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Galvanik posted:I just read Bloodlines. It wasn't my favorite of Wraight's books and I think that's due to the low level scale of the Warhammer Crimes series. If the focus is on the average people in the Imperium the story is going to be dismal and hopeless with even more pyrrhic victories than usual. The common man in the Imperium is a pair of hands whose life is drained away in some manufactorum until they die. Then they're ground into soylens viridians. Funnily enough, I just finished Bloodlines today myself (note: spoilers discussed behind the tags). It's ... perfectly functional noir-esque crime with a 40k paintjob, to me? I don't regret reading it for a bit of distracting fluff, and there were one or two solid moments (mainly in the last quarter) , but I'd certainly agree it's not something I'd run out and recommend to anyone. I might pick up a sequel if it shows up once it's in paperback and I've cash spare, but definitely not new in hardback, that sort of thing. And from what I've read so far of his short story at the start of No Good Men, which I think(?) is a sequel to Bloodlines, Agusto still hasn't learned... Think I agree with you about Naxi - ironically one of a crime book's highlights was her highlighting the cognitive loops one has to jump through to want to 'thrive' in a hellscape like a typical 40k hiveworld. Ironically, her criticisms of her parents are far more on point once you know more about Agusto. Honestly, though, the 'reveal' behind that particular problem of his was a bit of a letdown to me; it seemed a tad too jarring how many people including Naxi were riffing on his apparent faithlessness (which is very easy to work out in advance of the reveal if you're at all familiar with a recurring 'cult' and phantom scars) in one flavour or another for some time before the reveal. Namely it was a little 'too obvious' and I was hoping for a red herring and a legit twist instead. Ah well.
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Arbite posted:Humans who do know firsthand that this system is far worse than what came before is an interesting idea but the only perpetuals we see are either not doing anything about it or are wrapped up in bullshit tedious genocidal nonsense. The perpetuals working with the Cabal were basically trying to prevent all the crazy poo poo from happening
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