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bunnyofdoom posted:If it is up tomorrow I will buy it and the next time I have a day off from flying I'd get drunk and make notes as I read it. It may be in February. Also reading online about it I have two words about it..... "power boners". Not to steal bunnyofdoom's thunder, but here's a quick glimpse of what he/she will be wading though: 
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berzerkmonkey posted:Yes, but it isn't just "held to be held," it's the first Imperial system right outside the Eye of Terror. It's the bulwark that stops the full force of the Chaos Black Crusades from getting into the Imperium - kind of like a wave slamming against a seawall. That's pretty much what I meant with the post. The reason I had the "Eagle somewhere on the planet" thing was to mean that it would be fought for until even the most token resistance was obliterated, and that it would never, ever be outright nuked.
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I didn't know a hot knife would grind it's way through butter, but I guess I've never tested it myself...
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TheStampede posted:I didn't know a hot knife would grind it's way through butter, but I guess I've never tested it myself... Hot knives are literally just superheated chainsaws.
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Squig butter fights back obviously. Poor quality control.
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Shroud posted:Not to steal bunnyofdoom's thunder, but here's a quick glimpse of what he/she will be wading though: Oh jesus, I am starting to regret this. Well, at least I have a bottle of bourbon, and a litre of beer for supersized boilermaker during this. (Also, I'm a dude).
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While you're at it, make a thread and post your thoughts about the book as you read it, with appropriate excerpts. And cocktails to help us forget them. It worked out alright for "Twisted"... 
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my dad posted:While you're at it, make a thread and post your thoughts about the book as you read it, with appropriate excerpts. And cocktails to help us forget them. What I am likely going to do is take drunken notes as I read, edit it while sober and put my own sober observances in italics. As to it being it's own thread, it'd probably be something close to being Let's read published fan fiction if I got mod approval.
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Shroud posted:Not to steal bunnyofdoom's thunder, but here's a quick glimpse of what he/she will be wading though: My only comment is: Holy Throne on Earth the prose. So dull.
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"Stay Frosty" and the hot knife through butter cliche sound really out of place in 40k fiction. I bet a creative enough writer could come up with an equivalent as good as these actual ones from the Star Wars Expanded Universe material, like: "Like a neutrino through plasma" "as a laser can cut through Sullustan jam" "easier than Rebels go through a Death Star" I'm at a loss for what it could be, though. "Like a chainsword through grox meat"?
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William Bear posted:"Stay Frosty" and the hot knife through butter cliche sound really out of place in 40k fiction. A Melta bomb through Guard Flak armor A Baneblade through a box of squigs A boarding torpedo through a merchant hauler
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Penetrate their line like a bolt through sheet metal grinding our way through the Ork like teeth through meat We take them like a wave taking a beach. Before us are the ork. We collide. Behind us are the wrecks of armor, green rags of splattered flesh, and a field of scattered bones.
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We penetrate their defences like a serrated pear shaped device parting the glorious perfection of a primarch's buttocks /Graham McNeil Dog_Meat fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Jan 24, 2014 |
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Jan 24, 2014 12:45
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I did it, guys. I started writing WH40k fiction. I am the problem.
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Was it this bad?
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I don't think it's possible to be as bad as Who Dares Wins.
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I just reread that excerpt from Who Dares Wins and noticed that they have a Dreadnought named Wade. Wade the Dreadnought. Honestly, if there are so many treasures in only two paragraphs of story I can't help but think that it is money well spent.
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Wade? Is he a Californian surfer dreadnought who bashes heretic head in with his board?
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Noctis Horrendae posted:Wade? Is he a Californian surfer dreadnought who bashes heretic head in with his board? http://evenindeathistillsurf.ytmnd.com/
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:I just reread that excerpt from Who Dares Wins and noticed that they have a Dreadnought named Wade. Wade the Dreadnought. Honestly, if there are so many treasures in only two paragraphs of story I can't help but think that it is money well spent. My favorite was the Devastator called Khor who carries a Thunderhammer on top of his Heavy Bolter.
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Which is particularly funny to me, because he could have just given the guy's heavy bolter a chain-bayonet and it would have been totally legit for 40k.
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The Dark Angel dreadnought named Wade who could.
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So Thursday is my next day off from flying so I will do my first read and drink Wednesday and my sober reevaluation the next day and post it Friday probably
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bunnyofdoom posted:So Thursday is my next day off from flying so I will do my first read and drink Wednesday and my sober reevaluation the next day and post it Friday probably god help you sir good luck
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Popular opinion says that the Kyme Salamanders books are crap, but a friend keeps trying to get me to read them, claiming they are amazing. The only Salamanders stuff I read was in a Xenos compilation and it was very bland, especially compared to a concurrent Night Lords story in the same book and same space hulk that was grimly fun. I chalked some of it down to not knowing the backstory, though. Can anyone give me a bit on info on what the Salamanders book series is about? I knew there's some nonsense about some uber-psyker mary sue that melts enemy fleets in a second, but is that the main bad thing about it?
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Sephyr posted:Popular opinion says that the Kyme Salamanders books are crap, but a friend keeps trying to get me to read them, claiming they are amazing. The only Salamanders stuff I read was in a Xenos compilation and it was very bland, especially compared to a concurrent Night Lords story in the same book and same space hulk that was grimly fun. I chalked some of it down to not knowing the backstory, though. What you did there was read Nick Kyme back to back with our lord Aaron Dembski-Bowden, so bottom tier of BL writing vs the very best, and I'd strongly advice to stay away from Kyme and just go read the Night Lords trilogy. Also, I'd ask your friend if he has read ADB's books, because if he has and still calls the Salamander series amazing he has some very weird tastes.
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So, uh, I purchased it and read the foreword from the Author..... I don't feel comfortable for reading this to mock it anymore. Sorry guys, I guess I'm not biter and jaded enough to do this.
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bunnyofdoom posted:So, uh, I purchased it and read the foreword from the Author..... I don't feel comfortable for reading this to mock it anymore. Sorry guys, I guess I'm not biter and jaded enough to do this. The Emperor himself would not demand you continue. I don't blame you a bit. (Be sure to notify GW that somebody's using their IP to make a profit!)
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VanSandman posted:The Emperor himself would not demand you continue. I don't blame you a bit. (Be sure to notify GW that somebody's using their IP to make a profit!) The foreword kinda gave me the impression he was using this as a way of working through PTSD/Survivors guilt (The dreadnought, for instance, was named after his Sargent in Afghanistan that I felt was implied died there)
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bunnyofdoom posted:The foreword kinda gave me the impression he was using this as a way of working through PTSD/Survivors guilt (The dreadnought, for instance, was named after his Sargent in Afghanistan that I felt was implied died there)
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Arquinsiel posted:Be that as it may, he is charging people for it. I think GW will probably say that's a crime worse than survivor's guilt can excuse. Not arguing that point. Just stating why I feel severely wrong mocking it
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But why is there a naked girl on the cover? I don't get that. *EDIT* I read the intro to his marine at war book, and yeah it seems like he is.
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Call me jaded but it might just be part of the monetizing, like the back of the book advertising that you should read it because WRITTEN BY A %100 REAL AMERICAN MARINE ADDING REAL REALISM INTO THIS FANTASY SETTING THAT ONLY AN AMERICAN MARINE THAT HAS SEEN REAL WAR CAN.
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bunnyofdoom posted:The foreword kinda gave me the impression he was using this as a way of working through PTSD/Survivors guilt (The dreadnought, for instance, was named after his Sargent in Afghanistan that I felt was implied died there) There's something kind of cute/sad about soldiers who are into 40k, but this is just legit sad. I kind of always assume they're either engaging in fantasy or working through serious issues. I guess we know which one this is and dammit, there are worse ways of making sense of your life.
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I'm iffy on whether GW should let this slide or not. Maybe they'll let him sell it for $0.99 with a disclaimer that GW doesn't officially own or endorse the product, but that's probably wishful thinking.
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Noctis Horrendae posted:I'm iffy on whether GW should let this slide or not. Haha no they legally cannot allow that.
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