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Dog_Meat posted:Inquisitor Heldane who literally had a face like a horse and for the life of me I can't remember why that was. Possibly reconstructed after some massive wound? He had the look of his scars exaggerated through cosmetic surgery and ended up looking like a horse: 
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I assume most Space Marines look a bit like Nikolai Valuev
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I assume most Space Marines look a bit like Nikolai Valuev That's basically how I picture them. Growing like 3+ feet while you're still a teenager is bound to give you some gigantism side effects.
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Apr 18, 2022 13:17
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euphronius posted:I wish they’d pay abnett to write more hams. Maybe it doesn’t work that way idk. i'd write a ham if i was a writer or had skill or talent
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Apr 18, 2022 13:38
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I assume most Space Marines look a bit like Nikolai Valuev 
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Apr 18, 2022 14:49
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Now imagine that, but moving faster than an olympic sprinter with the frothing rage of Brock Lesnar wearing a suit made out of tank waving a goddam chainsaw one handed... There's a lot of MMA fighters who abused the human growth hormone that had inhuman energy and speed for their size and had clear side effects in their features from it. I imagine an astartes is that cranked to one hundred and eleven
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Apr 18, 2022 17:51
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Brendan Rodgers posted:He had the look of his scars exaggerated through cosmetic surgery and ended up looking like a horse: Should be noted that Heldane's grotesque appearance is from the first Gaunt novel, which is from 1999 and has a fair bit of wack stuff that wouldn't fly in modern lore. Abnett put Heldane in the Eisenhorn novels a few years later and took the opportunity to come up with a minimum of justification for why he was such a Saturday morning cartoon villain, in both appearance and personality.
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Apr 18, 2022 18:58
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NihilCredo posted:Should be noted that Heldane's grotesque appearance is from the first Gaunt novel, which is from 1999 and has a fair bit of wack stuff that wouldn't fly in modern lore. I agree that he ret conned him to be an understandable villain, or at least motivated. But I don't think a radical inquisitor altering his appearance to look like a scary hosed up horse guy particularly flies in the face of current lore.
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the panacea posted:Also re spoiler from the Abnetticus Well, it has sure been a long trip from "The Imperium is reactionary fascism on crack and space marines are the steroid-swollen jack boot" to "Um, they're literally angels. Just pure virtue condensed and given form to fight the darkness."
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Apr 18, 2022 23:08
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I mean that's inevitable in the 40k setting where the fascist empire is the only thing keeping humanity from being a client race of the greenskins and literal demons and the ruthless dictator is our last hope.
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Apr 18, 2022 23:57
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Ehh, kinda. If that's how you write it. It's not like there's the Tau, or the possibility of a non-dogmatic human faction like the old Interex. Even chaos has some nuance, given how several human societies were chaos-dominated before the great crusade and managed to endure for ages. But if you write the setting as "listen, it's full adoration of our golden chaos god (who is not a god shut up!) and its inquisitors and golden armies, or Evul wins 5evarr!!", then it's what it is.
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Apr 19, 2022 00:34
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The Tau also suck majorly dude, we've gone over this.
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Apr 19, 2022 01:10
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I'm so, so still hoping that the Penitent reveals get used as a major shake-up / third option for Humanity in the tabletop game. But I have a feeling it won't.
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Sephyr posted:Well, it has sure been a long trip from "The Imperium is reactionary fascism on crack and space marines are the steroid-swollen jack boot" to "Um, they're literally angels. Just pure virtue condensed and given form to fight the darkness."
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Shockeh posted:I'm so, so still hoping that the Penitent reveals get used as a major shake-up / third option for Humanity in the tabletop game. That kinda sounds like where they’re taking the Squats, from what I’ve read
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ADBs Siege book up for pre order on Amazon for mid September
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Waroduce posted:ADBs Siege book up for pre order on Amazon for mid September That's a relief! I heard he was going through a rough patch. Here's hoping it all worked out. Prepare to witness whatever faction he's focused on lovingly crushed before your eyes.
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every time i think about the black library i am continually amazed at their ability to somehow get authors to publish on time it's fuckin magic or something. just everybody whacking stuff out on time
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Sephyr posted:That's a relief! I heard he was going through a rough patch. Here's hoping it all worked out. He made a post in the 40k Lore subreddit a couple days ago. He said he's doing well mentally, but with a new kid and home renovations he hasn't been writing any quicker.
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I skimmed through Titandeath by Guy Haley and focused on the parts that interested me. The bulk of the book was focused on the titan fighting at the tail end of the Heresy, but I kind of wish the book had been structured more like The First Heretic and had spent a lot of time following the all-female Legio through their formation and early days. But hey, I do consistently like the way Haley writes.
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euphronius posted:I bought it based on this . I’ll let you know And? 
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It’s ok so far A little pulpy .
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Waroduce posted:ADBs Siege book up for pre order on Amazon for mid September So excited for this. I really need to reread his HH books - they're all incredible.
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So Garviel Loken sounds like a cool dude. Does he have a satisfying conclusion in the Horus Heresy novels or are we still waiting for a finale because it took them a decade and a half to reach the siege of Terra?
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Arc Hammer posted:So Garviel Loken sounds like a cool dude. Does he have a satisfying conclusion in the Horus Heresy novels or are we still waiting for a finale because it took them a decade and a half to reach the siege of Terra? Afaik he disappears after the first few books and then shows back up in the Siege of Terra. But I've only read the first SoT book so I dunno.
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Arc Hammer posted:So Garviel Loken sounds like a cool dude. Does he have a satisfying conclusion in the Horus Heresy novels or are we still waiting for a finale because it took them a decade and a half to reach the siege of Terra? He reappears via audio drama and eventually rejoins the story, because having ~*exclusive lore*~ was a way to sell audio dramas i guess
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God that's depressing. Does his initial appearance have a good conclusion at least so it's not a limbo ending?
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Yes, Loken's original arc feels like it ended very well for narrative of the Heresy as a whole (or at least the Heresy as it was at first, things have kinda spiralled since the original plans for a five book series of course)
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yeah it's just the middle bit that has dumb issues, like so much else in the horus heresy
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Miguel Prado posted:And? Much better now that the assassins are together . Book is engrossing now thank you for the rec
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The novel Tallarn: Ironclad has a side plot about a Vanus assassin named Iaeo that is probably my favorite depiction of anything Assassinorum related and she's one of my favorite characters. Her sheer competence is just great to read.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:every time i think about the black library i am continually amazed at their ability to somehow get authors to publish on time Speaking as one: yep, it's a fucken miracle tbh I've worked with a few publishers, and I've never known anyone like the BL folks when it comes to scheduling. Considering the number of books they put out relative to the size of their editorial team, it's pretty impressive. And somehow, they manage to be really flexible to personal circumstances, too - when I've had family or mental health stuff crop up, they've really gone out of their way to make things work. Both Nick Kyme and Kate Hamer (my editor on ghazghkull) have really stopped me frying my own mind several times tbqh. Gravitas Shortfall posted:I assume most Space Marines look a bit like Nikolai Valuev Oh gently caress, you're 100% on the money - that's quite the realisation OPAONI posted:I'm here for Robert Rath and Mike Brooks. Nate Crowley is also very good, and I think a poster? I am indeed, and thank u <3 Frogcroakley fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Apr 21, 2022 |
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Just watched Interrogator on WH+ and besides it being pretty awesome it made me wonder if that was the first utterance of "gently caress" by a character in any GW media?
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AndyElusive posted:Just watched Interrogator on WH+ and besides it being pretty awesome it made me wonder if that was the first utterance of "gently caress" by a character in any GW media? No, they used it once in an older video they made: 
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Arc Hammer posted:So Garviel Loken sounds like a cool dude. Does he have a satisfying conclusion in the Horus Heresy novels or are we still waiting for a finale because it took them a decade and a half to reach the siege of Terra? His arc carried over to stories that were audio dramas only, so people like me that hate audio-books have no idea what happened until he popped up much later in the series
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Chemtrailologist posted:He made a post in the 40k Lore subreddit a couple days ago. He said he's doing well mentally, but with a new kid and home renovations he hasn't been writing any quicker. He's running some RPG/ARG thing on twitter from what I've seen as well. AndyElusive posted:Just watched Interrogator on WH+ and besides it being pretty awesome it made me wonder if that was the first utterance of "gently caress" by a character in any GW media? There's a surprising number of them in Bloodlines. Cooked Auto fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Apr 21, 2022 |
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Cooked Auto posted:He's running some RPG/ARG thing on twitter from what I've seen as well. Also the videogame he's been working on as the lead writer releases in two weeks, so he's been busy and apparently doing well, good for him.
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gently caress is also mentioned in some of the earlier (now) books. Which I only remeber because it was suprising.
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Haven't finished it yet but Assassinorium: Kingmaker absolutely rules. Its so good its almost making want to start an Imperial Knights army.
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AnEdgelord posted:Haven't finished it yet but Assassinorium: Kingmaker absolutely rules. Its so good its almost making want to start an Imperial Knights army. I found it fantastic from start to finish. Anybody giving John French’s new Sigismund book a chance today? I’m skeptical
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