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His Divine Shadow posted:Inspector Gadget as a space marine? Lanky, absentminded, and sporting mechadendrites up the wazoo? He's an obvious early prophet of the Cult Mechanicum.
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In the 41st millennium, a single badly-damaged advertisement poster for Inspector Gadget still exists. It is one of the most sacred relics on Mars, and standing in its presence has brought tears to the eyes of every magos who still possesses biological eyes. It is the oldest-known evidence of the Machine Cult's beliefs, and is considered most remarkable because, as best as can be determined, augmetic technology of the type depicted did not exist until several centuries later. There is ongoing debate of whether it represents a prophecy or an aspirational goal.
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Kylaer posted:In the 41st millennium, a single badly-damaged advertisement poster for Inspector Gadget still exists. It is one of the most sacred relics on Mars, and standing in its presence has brought tears to the eyes of every magos who still possesses biological eyes. It is the oldest-known evidence of the Machine Cult's beliefs, and is considered most remarkable because, as best as can be determined, augmetic technology of the type depicted did not exist until several centuries later. There is ongoing debate of whether it represents a prophecy or an aspirational goal. The Inscription of the Gadgeted One
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I’ve just been relistening to one of my favorite albums of all time, The Thermals’ The Body, The Blood, The Machine, and I realized that it basically works as a Horus Heresy concept album. I am 99% sure it’s unintentional, but: Here’s Your Future - the Emperor creates the Primarchs I Might Need You to Kill - the Emperor recovers the Primarchs and meets Horus An Ear for Baby - a human becomes a Space Marine and learns about the Great Crusade A Pillar of Salt - combination of the Great Crusade and the destruction of Monarchia Returning to the Fold - Lorgar’s fall to Chaos Test Pattern - the Chaos Gods tempt and ensnare Horus St. Rosa and the Swallows - this one is a little trickier but I think it’s the Legions falling to Chaos a bit at a time, and Cyrene dying Back to the Sea - the traitor legions fight their way to Terra Power Doesn’t Run on Nothing - the Siege and the duel between the Emperor and Horus I Hold the Sound - the death of Horus and the aftermath of the Siege It works! I’d watch that rock opera.
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Mariner by Cult of Luna is also 40k as gently caress, it's good poo poo, end of statement. In other news, finished Ascension Day. What a treat. Can't wait for his next thing!
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:(there’s no HH book better than Know No Fear).
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:(there’s no HH book better than Know No Fear). 
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what if i'm terrified of when it rains main battle tanks?
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habeasdorkus posted:what if i'm terrified of when it rains main battle tanks? you must know no fear
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my cousin knows him, does that count
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:you must know no fear Fear, pronounced far, is Irish for man. Fír, pronounced fear, is Irish for men.
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habeasdorkus posted:what if i'm terrified of when it rains main battle tanks? I'd be more terrified when it starts raining baneblades.
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Arc Hammer posted:I'd be more terrified when it starts raining baneblades. Hallelujah!
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Arc Hammer posted:I'd be more terrified when it starts raining baneblades. The Codex Astartes calls this maneuver Steel Rain.
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I like Flight of the Eisenstein so far, the prose feels more descriptive and better written than the previous two books. The author takes more liberties with embellishments and descriptions. The only mark against it is that the book is already filler and retreading the stuff covered in the previous two. Which is probably not the fault of the author. The big thing here is that again space marines are treated like people. There's less time spent on droning on about his divine majesty the emperor or god like ubermen and spends more time on very human character interactions between the death guard characters. Lostconfused fucked around with this message at 20:34 on May 5, 2024 |
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Lostconfused posted:I like Flight of the Eisenstein so far, the prose feels more descriptive and better written than the previous two books. The author takes more liberties with embellishments and descriptions. I’m in the middle of a reread and you’re right. I remember disliking Eisenstein, and it’s not a good book, but after False Gods and especially Galaxy in Flames it’s a breath of fresh air. Those two are painful to read at times.
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Daemon World by Ben Counter is actually pretty good and it's also a good look at chaos held worlds.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:I’m in the middle of a reread and you’re right. I remember disliking Eisenstein, and it’s not a good book, but after False Gods and especially Galaxy in Flames it’s a breath of fresh air. Those two are painful to read at times. The long lost abridged versions of those two were fine.
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For a reread probably, I recall hearing they cut a bunch of the remembrancer stuff, and my personal opinion is that you need those chapters as the start of a throughline up until and including TEatD. Edit: and also I think abridged fiction is fundamentally wrong no matter what but that's even more of a personal opinion.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:I’m in the middle of a reread and you’re right. I remember disliking Eisenstein, and it’s not a good book, but after False Gods and especially Galaxy in Flames it’s a breath of fresh air. Those two are painful to read at times. My memory of it is that it's a lot more focused on the Death Guard specifically, and Garro especially. Which is quite different from it's predecessors who have one major viewpoint and then bop around the fleet to different supporting casts. This memory is from 2 years ago for when I last read it. Given how long the heresy books went, I'm surprised Keeler isn't a bigger cult figure in the Ecclesiarchy.
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Calax posted:My memory of it is that it's a lot more focused on the Death Guard specifically, and Garro especially. Which is quite different from it's predecessors who have one major viewpoint and then bop around the fleet to different supporting casts. This memory is from 2 years ago for when I last read it. She is, eventually, after the Siege is over, but it's been 10 thousand years, and it took a couple of thousand of those years for Ecclesiarchy to grow almost all-powerful, before being cut down to size. One of the Eisenhorn short stories involves people attempting to lay hands on an picture of Horus taken by Saint Euphrati Keeler and her notes. The mindfuck for people living M41 is that the rumors are that her notes claim that Emperor wasn't originally worshiped as a god and even denied his godhood, and the church was started against his will. From their point of view, if that were true, either their founding Saint committed heresy or their god is a liar. Of course, the real-world explanation is that Keeler was only created for Horus Heresy by Abnett. Warden fucked around with this message at 06:36 on May 7, 2024 |
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Nathaniel Garro serves the same role in the death guard plot as Garviel Loken does in the luna wolves. The book still jumps around different perspectives of the death guard characters, but it might be more focused on Garro and the 7th company, but that also just might be the impression you get because we're comparing 1 book worth of characters to 3.
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Twice Dead King duology was pretty drat good, I hope there's more. Time to read his ork books.
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Just finished Lord of Excess and I really liked it even if some stuff felt kinda rushed, full spoilered thoughts below. Xantine is a really good Emperor's Children protagonist, he embodies everything about the legion that I like ESPECIALLY his unearned self confidence. The long running bit that Abaddon is his sworn enemy and arch rival was pretty funny, especially when his POV narration basically confirms Abby has no loving idea who he is. He goes on grandiose speeches and gets punched in the face in the middle of them, starts up another speech and gets punched again, then turns that against Torachon at the end and interrupts their big speech to piss them off. Really great payoff there. I'm glad Xantine didn't end up dying, would be cool to see him in future adventures of him failing upwards somewhere else with Vavisk by his side (also really liked Vavisk as a character. The whole EC cast are great to varying degrees but Xantine is just oof, *chefs kiss* what a good character. The Genestealer stuff in the first quarter was really good, but then it abruptly went away until the last 2 chapters where they returned super hastily and the payoff there was a Tyranid invasion that destroys the planet in the course of 1 single chapter which gave me whiplash. The Khornate cult popping up felt much better and probably should have been the downfall of the planet, that plotline sorta just dies as soon as Gravemaker gets popped (really enjoyed the boy's arc though from choir boy to greater daemon though). Lots of failing weapons though? There are two characters that are saved by weapons malfunctions separated by maybe 1 chapter, felt like a weird crutch to get characters out of situations. Going to read Deathworlder next, I'm hearing good things about it and I've never read a Guard novel other than Fall of Cadia I guess. Nazzadan fucked around with this message at 20:23 on May 7, 2024 |
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Azubah posted:Twice Dead King duology was pretty drat good, I hope there's more. Just finished his ork.bools and they are loving awesome. Have you read/listened to The Infinite and The Devine?
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I have read the millennia old couple routine, yes.
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Lostconfused posted:Nathaniel Garro serves the same role in the death guard plot as Garviel Loken does in the luna wolves. The book still jumps around different perspectives of the death guard characters, but it might be more focused on Garro and the 7th company, but that also just might be the impression you get because we're comparing 1 book worth of characters to 3. Garro and friends are about 0.5 books worth of character spread out over like a half dozen books
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Nazzadan posted:
Eh nevermind I'm going to start going through the Eisenhorn series, never got around to it
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Improbable Lobster posted:Garro and friends are about 0.5 books worth of character spread out over like a half dozen books Garro’s so boring if he was an ultramarine he’d be considered a parody. Just the most  guy
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