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Xun posted:Really? Didn’t think GW was willing to write a gay character There's been a few as side characters in the Ciaphas Cain and Horus Heresy books. In A Thousand Sons the heroes are, in complete seriousness, saved by the power of love between a lesbian remembrancer and her noblewoman girlfriend she made on Prospero.
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I just read Deathfire. It's not the most pointless book in the series, because Vulcan does come back to life at the end. But on the other hand, yeah no poo poo. That's his entire thing, and we know he was alive in The Beast Arises. And also that's literally all that happens. The book is six hundred pages long, and it seems to exist purely to get Vulcan out of Ultramar. The Salamanders don't even leave Macragge until like 200 loving pages in. And it's Nick Kyme, so the prose is painfully bad. Actually reading it is like wading through a mixture of mud and poison ivy. 30 pages in I just started skimming, checking a few sentences every page, like "is anything happening? No? Ok"
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Zudgemud posted:Has the 40k lore ever touched upon doing asteroid mining etc or has that just been wholly ignored due to utilization of space resources not being very conductive to tabletop spacemans? No but there is a fun fluff piece explaining why the Imperium refuses to tow asteroids into orbit as siege weapons.
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Arcsquad12 posted:No but there is a fun fluff piece explaining why the Imperium refuses to tow asteroids into orbit as siege weapons. *backstreet boys voice* Tell me whyyyyyy
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I just finished Watchers of the Throne, that was a pretty cool book that showed the turning point of 40k from the POV of Earth. The shout out to the Black Legion books was pretty neat, and made the return of the primachs and the fall of Cadia feel more natural. The Magos arrived just in time for my 40k fix, it's a pretty big drat book with the Magos portion taking up the last 300 or so pages of it. There's a recommended reading order in the beginning, so the stories in it intertwine with the Eisenhorn and Ravenor books with Pariah happening after Magos.
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Immanentized posted:The waaagh will keep him alive. Hell, he's too good of a propaganda icon for the Imperium to let die - he's going to get his own Golden Throne and get paraded around like the bones of a saint. Even better - Cawl hardwires Yarrick's brain directly into the Fortress of Arrogance and now Yarrick is a living Baneblade!
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berzerkmonkey posted:Hell, he's too good of a propaganda icon for the Imperium to let die - he's going to get his own Golden Throne and get paraded around like the bones of a saint. Have Abnett or ADB write it and I’ll buy it.
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Some Mekboy sees the head of Yarrick grafted into the Fortress of Arrogance and goes "now DAT'S propa Orky!"
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I think I'm going to read Cult of the Warmason once I'm done with Pariah.
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Magos trip report, not abnetts best written book but i quite enjoyed the story however i think it gives away too much of the mystery surrounding pariah and should be read after it for sure.
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Baron Porkface posted:Choleric means angry right? It's more grumpy or irritable.
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Mar 3, 2018 06:24
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See also the four temperaments, which are in turn related to the theory of humorism. They seem to have become a part of the whole retro-science aspect of the 30k/40k settings again.
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I occasionally have to look up words reading BL stuff. Almost all of the words I've had to look up had an (archaic) next to the definition, so I'm assuming that's a stylistic choice on the editors' part.
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Zasze posted:Magos trip report, not abnetts best written book but i quite enjoyed the story however i think it gives away too much of the mystery surrounding pariah and should be read after it for sure.
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Rather good actually. Eisenhorn git a recent reprint, and Gaunt's Ghosts has had reissues of individual books as well as the omnibuses with new cover art. Seems they want to celebrate Abnett coming back to write some more.
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The Malus Darkblade books are being re released in a collection and on their own. They are at least partially written by Abnett and I have heard they are good but have never read them myself.
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MonsterEnvy posted:The Malus Darkblade books are being re released in a collection and on their own. They are at least partially written by Abnett and I have heard they are good but have never read them myself. They are alright, less bolter porn and more dagger/sword porn. Not amazing writing but a fun read about dark elves murdering and betraying each other.
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If you read them, get ready for a lot of "that was my plan all along!" stupidity.
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Azubah posted:If you read them, get ready for a lot of "that was my plan all along!" stupidity.
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Idk bro I went through a drizzit phase when I was younger
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Darkblade is worse.
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Drizzt at least got a fun cameo in Demon Stone, which is a pretty sick hack'n'slash game.
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Azubah posted:If you read them, get ready for a lot of "that was my plan all along!" stupidity. Most of the "that was my plan all along" stuff tends to come from the more scholarly-types. The five novels (No idea about Bloodwalker or Deathblade) give a good look at the Dark Elf society and they're an entertaining read.
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Something I heard is that Malus is a very stupid person. But that's part of what makes him entertaining.
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There’s two 40k wikis, Lexicanum and the Wikia one. Is either one better than the other?
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Xenomrph posted:There’s two 40k wikis, Lexicanum and the Wikia one. Is either one better than the other? Lexicanum is generally better because it just lift quotes verbatim from the codexes. Wikia has a massive problem with editing that makes the most chaotic 1d4chan page look clean in comparison. There's sometimes stuff that you find there that isn't found elsewhere, but it is buried under a mountain of horribly imprecise text. My suggestion is go to 1d4chan and experience some hyperbole with your research. Also occasional porn.
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1D4chan is easily navigated if you're familiar with chanwiki style. If not, expect it to swing wildly from fanboy gushing to rabid nerdrage over the course of a single paragraph with the aforementioned random porn and you've basically got the gist of it.
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Mar 5, 2018 07:48
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I like how everything is going according to Alpharius' plans.
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MariusLecter posted:I like how everything is going according to Alpharius' plans. Or is it? No, seriously, he's not sure right now, and could use a quick refresher. Leaving that aside, I finally got around to starting The Warmaster, and sometimes I just remember that Abnett writes like he's doing actual books, with introspective character studies and compelling use of language and okay, yes, people being torn apart with swords that are also chainsaws. Had some disappointing random samples from the library, and getting some writing with a good flavor to it is a nice antidote.
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I am Alpharius and I assure you that everything is going to plan.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Drizzt at least got a fun cameo in Demon Stone, which is a pretty sick hack'n'slash game. Never got past the part where youre defending the mine or whatever and theres a million loving trolls and they wont die unless you burn them but you can never burn enough of them.
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Biplane posted:Never got past the part where youre defending the mine or whatever and theres a million loving trolls and they wont die unless you burn them but you can never burn enough of them. That was the Drizzt level. Still not the cheapest one. That would be the fight against the dragon two levels later. The best level is the Yuan-Ti temple where you can stealth kill your way through the whole place.
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Arquinsiel posted:1D4chan is easily navigated if you're familiar with chanwiki style. If not, expect it to swing wildly from fanboy gushing to rabid nerdrage over the course of a single paragraph with the aforementioned random porn and you've basically got the gist of it. 1d4chan is an accurate representation of your typical 40k fan at least. And its funny, sometimes, once in a blue moon.
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Warhammer wiki has more detail most of the time, I've found. The lovely part is that many articles rely on the same thing copy pasted repeatedly, which means you really have to sift hard to find the original stuff on any given page. Lexicanum is better in that respect because each article is generally written by itself.
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Klaus88 posted:1d4chan is an accurate representation of your typical 40k fan at least. And its funny, sometimes, once in a blue moon. I started browsing their wiki, their article on Trazyn the Infinite reminded me why I bought his miniature when he was first released. (It’s because he’s hilarious) Also their article about Duncan Rhodes is pretty entertaining.
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Klaus88 posted:1d4chan is an accurate representation of your typical 40k fan at least. And its funny, sometimes, once in a blue moon. This fan fiction about Bjorn always cracks me up: https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Bjorn_the_Fell_Handed#Bjorn.27s_Happy_End
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Waiiiit a minute I just finished rereading Pariah recently Eisenhorn has Alpharius working with him? Like the primarch dude? The Emperors Children marine recognized him sir it’s maaayybbee legit. What the gently caress?!. (Spoilers just in case)
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Xun posted:Waiiiit a minute I just finished rereading Pariah recently Eisenhorn has Alpharius working with him? Like the primarch dude? The Emperors Children marine recognized him sir it’s maaayybbee legit. What the gently caress?!. (Spoilers just in case) I mean I haven't read it but every Alpha legionnaire refers to themselves as Alpharius.
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