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bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost

Arc Hammer posted:

Had the author not heard about rejuvenat treatments?

canon is that there's a fuckton of rejuvenat treatments and some of them are fuckin awful and some of them are comparatively great

this is the great stuff for rich peeps

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MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
From mercury potions to fetal harvested stem cells.

E; the better rejuv treatments are of course when the baby is stolen from the mother's arms at birth and ground up in front of them and the rich person is right there to enjoy the show and treatment on the spot.

I SHOULD WRITE 40K FICTION.

MariusLecter fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Oct 23, 2022

War and Pieces
Apr 24, 2022

DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN

Dapper_Swindler posted:

yeah, it works when its clear the system is loving busted but no one can see it because its been more then 10 thousand years of stagnation.

like one of my favorites of late is the genestealer cult novel and how utterly broken and depressing both societies are and how you can almost romatizie genestealer cults and even though alot of them deep down know there fate, its ok because at least they lived free.
they're literally mind controlled by aliens, which makes their silly little revolts even more lovably pathetic

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

War and Pieces posted:

they're literally mind controlled by aliens, which makes their silly little revolts even more lovably pathetic

Yeah the book goes into that indirectly. It’s genuinely pretty good.

Ardent Communist
Oct 17, 2010

ALLAH! MU'AMMAR! LIBYA WA BAS!

Dapper_Swindler posted:

Yeah the book goes into that indirectly. It’s genuinely pretty good.

which one was that?

habeasdorkus
Nov 3, 2013

Royalty is a continuous shitposting motion.
Cult of the Spiral Dawn by Peter Fehervari, I think.

D-Pad
Jun 28, 2006

No I believe he is referencing Day of Ascension as it is a genestealer cult POV novel.

habeasdorkus
Nov 3, 2013

Royalty is a continuous shitposting motion.
Ah, my error.

Ardent Communist
Oct 17, 2010

ALLAH! MU'AMMAR! LIBYA WA BAS!

habeasdorkus posted:

Ah, my error.

thanks, yeah i've read cult of the spiral dawn but didn't see that part. i'll have to check it out.

Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

Started reading The Emperor's Legion. Awfully good.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord
Cult of the Spiral Dawn is excellent, though it leans more into the tragic aspect of the cults IMHO. I haven't read Day of Ascension yet but I've heard excellent things and I'm looking forward to it once my current pile is a little shorter.

Cooked Auto
Aug 4, 2007

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/10/23/sunday-preview-give-a-warm-welcome-to-the-leagues-of-votann

Next weekend's Black Library pre-orders is a real chonker of an Eisenhorn omnibus and The Successors in paperback.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

What the gently caress, anyone seen this poo poo? Crazy good! https://youtu.be/4FGM6XMVZrA

D-Pad
Jun 28, 2006

Biplane posted:

What the gently caress, anyone seen this poo poo? Crazy good! https://youtu.be/4FGM6XMVZrA

Yeah the spear grenade/bolter things for astartes killing on horseback charge are sick af. I think that guy may have done some other kreig stuff?

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

Biplane posted:

What the gently caress, anyone seen this poo poo? Crazy good! https://youtu.be/4FGM6XMVZrA

Sodaz made some great 40K videos, got picked up by GW during their hiring spree for fan artists. Sodaz ended up taking down all of the 40K videos after fan backlash to him taking the GW deal and then he backed out of worming with Gw because he didnt like the contract. So now the only way to watch his 40K stuff is via these uploads.

Good news is that he's still active making videos. He had a cool Titanfall one and he's currently working on a big Halo Reach compilation.

Siivola
Dec 23, 2012

Cooked Auto posted:

a real chonker of an Eisenhorn omnibus
If I'm not mistaken half of that is the previous omnibus and the other half is The Magos. :stare:

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord
More fuel on the missing legion fire.

Vulkan Lives posted:

I pulled back my spear, aiming for his back, where I knew the iron would punch through into his heart. Even primarchs can die. Ferrus had died. He was the first of us, the first I was certain of, anyway. Even primarchs can die…
‘Vulkan, no.’

Nick Kyme's writing is much more tolerable as an audiobook

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Biplane posted:

What the gently caress, anyone seen this poo poo? Crazy good! https://youtu.be/4FGM6XMVZrA

Ah man I miss sodaz stuff.

GW really killed a lot of the good 40k youtube stuff

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Ardent Communist posted:

which one was that?

day of ascension

Olanphonia
Jul 27, 2006

I'm open to suggestions~
Have there been any new Cain books in the past few years?

Calax
Oct 5, 2011

Olanphonia posted:

Have there been any new Cain books in the past few years?

Choose your Enemies was the last one in 2018

Sephyr
Aug 28, 2012
A quick question for those who read Echoes of Eternity.

Did Magnus burn out Vulkan's immortality? It as implied at the end of their duel that he had attacke dthe 'code' woven into his being that made him impossible to kill, and when he walks back, he is still a charred ruin. But it was not made clear, perhaps on purpose.

Telsa Cola
Aug 19, 2011

No... this is all wrong... this whole operation has just gone completely sidewaysface

Sephyr posted:

A quick question for those who read Echoes of Eternity.

Did Magnus burn out Vulkan's immortality? It as implied at the end of their duel that he had attacke dthe 'code' woven into his being that made him impossible to kill, and when he walks back, he is still a charred ruin. But it was not made clear, perhaps on purpose.

I may be mistaken but I think he gets better.

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


I think it didn’t work. But Vulkan’s post-heresy fate has been retconned so many times it’s hard to tell. At least 2-3 times within the HH series itself!

Calax
Oct 5, 2011

Sephyr posted:

A quick question for those who read Echoes of Eternity.

Did Magnus burn out Vulkan's immortality? It as implied at the end of their duel that he had attacke dthe 'code' woven into his being that made him impossible to kill, and when he walks back, he is still a charred ruin. But it was not made clear, perhaps on purpose.

I don't think so I think it's suggested that he's basically down to a skeleton held together with wishes and duct-tape at the end of the duel, and is slowly reforming as he finds his way back to the Throneroom

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Olanphonia posted:

Have there been any new Cain books in the past few years?

they had a small short story one where he fights zombies and poo poo.

Calax
Oct 5, 2011

Dapper_Swindler posted:

they had a small short story one where he fights zombies and poo poo.
You know, I hope his next book is about uncovering a cult and almost being drawn into it by troops either under his command or adjacent to his command. It's about the only plot that hasn't been done (Where he actually does the uncovering, instead of blindly falling into a cult and accidently cutting down their leader without realizing it).

Broken Record Talk
Jul 28, 2009

A three-hundred thousand degree baptism by nuclear fire;
we had it coming.

Sephyr posted:

A quick question for those who read Echoes of Eternity.

Did Magnus burn out Vulkan's immortality? It as implied at the end of their duel that he had attacke dthe 'code' woven into his being that made him impossible to kill, and when he walks back, he is still a charred ruin. But it was not made clear, perhaps on purpose.

As usual, Magnus arrogantly overestimated his own abilities, and then failed horribly.

DAD LOST MY IPOD
Feb 3, 2012

Fats Dominar is on the case


magnus was, once again, trying to undo something his dad did, and once again not being strong enough

Angry Lobster
May 16, 2011

Served with honor
and some clarified butter.
Magnus did everything wrong

Gravitas Shortfall
Jul 17, 2007

Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.


I like the idea that the Primarchs each represent a facet of the Emperor, and Magnus is his hubris.

It's been implied that Big E also made a deal with the pantheon, reneged on it, and part of the motivation behind the heresy is the gods coming to settle the bill

Siivola
Dec 23, 2012

Guy Haley's Avenging Son: This novel should have been a Codex. It has no A plot, and is instead stuffed with exposition and bolter porn so dull that it literally put me to sleep several times. The B plot set in the administratum was actually great, however, so I'm not entirely mad. I don't think I'll pick up another novel by Haley again, but I might check out a short story at some point.

Audible had a deal on cheap credits so I guess I'll keep at this. Trying to decide between Danie Ware's The Rose at War collection and ADB's The First Heretic. I know y'all love ADB but any opinions on Ware?

Edit: Went with ADB.

Siivola fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Oct 25, 2022

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX0tVrVm7d4

Give me a book about this tank right loving now. It's like a Churchill and a Matilda 2 had a baby.

Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 15:48 on Oct 24, 2022

War and Pieces
Apr 24, 2022

DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

I like the idea that the Primarchs each represent a facet of the Emperor, and Magnus is his hubris.

It's been implied that Big E also made a deal with the pantheon, reneged on it, and part of the motivation behind the heresy is the gods coming to settle the bill

When the Emperor achieves apotheosis and Wins that will retroactively justify all of his tyrannical decisions and those of his children and Magnus knows this.

Magnus was right but the sad part is so was everyone else.

Dog_Meat
May 19, 2013

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

I like the idea that the Primarchs each represent a facet of the Emperor, and Magnus is his hubris.


Missing primarchs - his awkward spotty teen phase and his short lived country music phase

Demiurge4
Aug 10, 2011

Gravitas Shortfall posted:

I like the idea that the Primarchs each represent a facet of the Emperor, and Magnus is his hubris.
Angron as the Emperor's sense of justice and nobility :smith:

Dapper_Swindler
Feb 14, 2012

Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

Demiurge4 posted:

Angron as the Emperor's sense of justice and nobility :smith:

yeah, the best part of betrayer is you can see their is a broken nobility about angron, he is just too loving busted to know anything or do anything outside be a snappy dick and kill.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Demiurge4 posted:

Angron as the Emperor's sense of justice and nobility :smith:

Kind of tracks in that he's a broken shell.

What was the reason they didn't just glass the enemy forces and save Angron plus all his ex-slave battle brothers? The tech base on the planet to was too good for the Emperor to kick it over for a single Primarch?

Sephyr
Aug 28, 2012
Apparently, Nuceria had some important archeotech vaults, even though most of the world tech itself was only middling.

The actual reason is that big E is an awful dad. Maybe since Angron dodn't conquer his world like the others, he just shrugged and went "Welp, guess I better talk straight to the bosses. It's quicker."

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Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

Dog_Meat posted:

Missing primarchs - his awkward spotty teen phase and his short lived country music phase

No wonder he sicced the Space Wolves on them.

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