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Aug 17, 2019 14:14
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I thought I was about halfway through the Dark Imperium Audiobook, but apparently I only have 2 hours left, so here's a quick review:
But the best part of the audiobook so far for me really was the emergence of the Nurgle warhost, in all its glorious detail, gore and filth. From rotting void-whales flopping through the thin veneer of the immaterium/reality and sloshily disgorging their demon payload, to the pissed off middle-management Plague-bearers tasked with unfucking the logistics of a comically-disorderly muster of forces, to the nurglings immediately scrambling to defile the local carp and earthworm populace (  ), to the arrival of the plague host's lieutenants and champions. Just absolutely loving exquisite.The moment that had me howling with laughter in my car for a solid minute was the nurgle champion with a set of human bagpipes playing a lovely Scottish tune to herald the arrival of their unclean overlord, and when he arrives, he's like "oh my loving god, enough with the drat lovely music already, can we please to a plague already?" and after a brief moment, his subordinates eyeball eachother and go "uh, no, this tune goes great with filth, sir", and continue playing, prompting their general to roll his eyes so hard in annoyance that one of them literally flies out its socket. I'm laughing again just writing this. Fun audiobook with the aforementioned caveats. Looking forward to Plague War. /edit: Oh, I had some reservations about the reader when I listened to the samples, but John Banks actually does a pretty good job. His imperials are pretty run-of-the-mill, nothing to write home about, but holy poo poo, his Nurgle demons/champions are amazing. The guy has to sit next to a ginormous spit-bucket while recording, because it sounds like he's coughing up industrial amounts of flem and pus Duzzy Funlop fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Aug 17, 2019 |
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Aug 17, 2019 14:46
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Duzzy Funlop posted:The moment that had me howling with laughter in my car for a solid minute was the nurgle champion with a set of human bagpipes playing a lovely Scottish tune to herald the arrival of their unclean overlord, and when he arrives, he's like "oh my loving god, enough with the drat lovely music already, can we please to a plague already?" and after a brief moment, his subordinates eyeball eachother and go "uh, no, this tune goes great with filth, sir", and continue playing, prompting their general to roll is eyes so hard in annoyance that one eye literally flies out its socket. That's great, I'm sad the Badcast passed over mentioning that in their review of the book because it sounds like a hoot. 
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Aug 17, 2019 14:52
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My copy of Sinner's Bounty arrived today but my free time is allotted to 5 squig hoppers at the moment, so i'll let you all know how it is when I get around to it. I'm going to make a prediction that the story is absolutely not worth the price I paid for it, but the book itself is very pretty.
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Aug 17, 2019 15:12
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Duzzy Funlop posted:[*]the Primaris marines have...not sure how to put this..."too much character and cultural rooting" for my taste. I mean, yes, it's been a century since they were vat-grown by Cawl or whatever, but every single one of them is talking of a rich ancestry to homeworlds, genefathers, and with the accents of their Legion's homeworld, no less. Yeah, they may be grown from the gene-stock of the original Legions by Cawl, but none of them have any connection to the cultural roots of their respective Legions, and the book just pretends this isn't the case. It just goes "well, yeah, they're different, but it's been a century, so they're accepted as brothers, deal with it". Bit heavy-handed to be honest This isn't correct. Most of the first generation Primaris marines are from the heresy and scouring eras. Many of them had already seen action in scout companies while some of them were still aspirants. Cawl gathered the majority of them up then and put them in stasis, bringing them out every once in a while to receive a new organ or to test or train them. Some were recruited at a later date but a lot of them have accents from the original homeworlds because they grew up there 10k years ago.
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Aug 17, 2019 22:29
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Cooked Auto posted:That's great, I'm sad the Badcast passed over mentioning that in their review of the book because it sounds like a hoot. The Cawl impression makes up for it though holy poo poo I was laughing so hard.
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D-Pad posted:This isn't correct. Most of the first generation Primaris marines are from the heresy and scouring eras. Many of them had already seen action in scout companies while some of them were still aspirants. Cawl gathered the majority of them up then and put them in stasis, bringing them out every once in a while to receive a new organ or to test or train them. Some were recruited at a later date but a lot of them have accents from the original homeworlds because they grew up there 10k years ago.
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Aug 18, 2019 03:55
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VanSandman posted:
'Vengeful Spirit' was basically a redo of that, and also quite bad. Except it had a jammed-in Imperial Knight plot (they were the new hotness then). And Horus gaining a weird power-up by going into a portal the Emperor used once, which wasn't bad per se but I doubt was ever touched upon again.
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Inspector_666 posted:The Cawl impression makes up for it though holy poo poo I was laughing so hard. This is very true.
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Aug 18, 2019 15:01
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Which badcast episode covered Dark Imperium?
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Aug 18, 2019 15:29
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I'm not really sure what the Estate Imperium actually is, but it makes me think of the Great Vault from Kill Six Billion Demons, guarded by crazy monks with chainglaives.
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Aug 18, 2019 19:19
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Which badcast episode covered Dark Imperium? Episode 54. The second to newest one.
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Aug 18, 2019 22:02
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SardonicTyrant posted:I'm not really sure what the Estate Imperium actually is, but it makes me think of the Great Vault from Kill Six Billion Demons, guarded by crazy monks with chainglaives. It's the record keeping department of the Administratum. https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Adeptus_Administratum I think they have had wars over filing systems.
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Aug 19, 2019 20:13
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Anyone reading Knights of Macragge? It's a Nick Kyme so I'm not enthused.
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Aug 19, 2019 22:52
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Deptfordx posted:Anyone reading Knights of Macragge? I am because if you all haven't noticed yet, I can't help myself and get everything that comes out. Not far enough in to do a real review, but I will come back and let you know.
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Aug 19, 2019 23:33
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Deptfordx posted:*Runs into thread, hands waving* Is this another book about Chaos Marines that don't actually give a poo poo about Chaos like the Black Legion series?
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Aug 20, 2019 20:27
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That's a largely accurate assessment.
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Aug 20, 2019 20:44
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Yeah, one guy is into Khorne but everyone else hates him for it.
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Aug 20, 2019 20:45
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Say what you will about the tenets of Chaos Undivided, at least it's an ethos.
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I knew they wouldn't be able to keep it to just eight books. I like the idea of novellas that explore side stories though. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/08/21/siege-of-terra-beyond-the-novelsgw-homepage-post-4fw-homepage-post-3/
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Aug 21, 2019 17:44
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All I want out of the Siege of Terra is to see the first fight of Malcharion the War-Sage and Raguel the Sufferer.
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Aug 21, 2019 19:53
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Maybe if they didn't delay the regular B&M release by months so I have to tread gingerly to avoid spoilers.
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Aug 21, 2019 20:51
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Senjuro posted:Is this another book about Chaos Marines that don't actually give a poo poo about Chaos like the Black Legion series? Absolutely, there's even less levity than the black legion series due to the lack of history behind the characters and storyline. Plus it's dealing with a legion that still only has a begrudging acceptance of corruption at best and active loathing of it generally. Definitely some of the best stuff to come out of black library for me.
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Aug 21, 2019 21:20
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D-Pad posted:I knew they wouldn't be able to keep it to just eight books. I like the idea of novellas that explore side stories though. No, it wasn't a hard prediction was it. Deptfordx posted:They're saying 'only' 8 books, but it's BL, it could metastasize given any opportunity.
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Aug 21, 2019 22:29
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Khizan posted:All I want out of the Siege of Terra is to see the first fight of Malcharion the War-Sage and Raguel the Sufferer. Screw that! I want to see Malcharion take on all -three- legion champions, like it's a Dark Souls boss with several phases.
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Aug 22, 2019 02:42
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I demand more Persson.
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Aug 22, 2019 03:08
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I want to see Keeler meet the Emperor and have a long thoughtful discussion on religion and its place in the Imperium.
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Aug 22, 2019 15:19
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........and then they kiss? 
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Deptfordx posted:........and then they kiss?
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Aug 22, 2019 22:14
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I read Lords of Silence and it's a better look at Death Guard and Nurgle in general than at least the first Plague War book. Two oozing pustules that used to be thumbs up.
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Aug 22, 2019 22:17
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SardonicTyrant posted:The Emperor is pretty clearly volcel, which explains his incredible power. Then he goes from being volcel to being spermjacked (geneseedjacked?) to make the Grey Knights.
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Aug 23, 2019 00:52
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The Astronomican is the ultimate expression of Orgone energy.
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Preechr posted:Then he goes from being volcel to being spermjacked (geneseedjacked?) to make the Grey Knights.
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Aug 24, 2019 01:03
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SardonicTyrant posted:Pretty sure when they say gene-seed they just mean the genetic code and not actual jizz. That's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Aug 24, 2019 01:44
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Just discovered this entirely by accident: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/06/17/a-spot-of-bovver/
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Aug 24, 2019 20:08
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Jesus that's terrible
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Aug 24, 2019 20:50
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Nuclear War posted:By the Emperor, that's great! 
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Aug 24, 2019 22:09
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Is there any material out there that goes further with Ork colour theory? I know the big ones: Red goes fasta, Blue is lucky, Purple is sneaky, Yellow is explodey and Green Iz Best. Are there any other colour applications the Orks cling to?
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D-Pad posted:I am because if you all haven't noticed yet, I can't help myself and get everything that comes out. Any thought on Knights of Macragge now?
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