I think I've reached the "hey uh buddy" stage of my reading as I'm listening to Mortis, reading Magos shorts and Fury of Magnus on my kindle, re-reading Xenos on paper and I'm technically in the process of re-reading The Founding on paper. If I keep this up I'll get to Echoes of Eternity around the release of vol. 3. Edit: I've been thinking about reading Titanicus again... Black Griffon posted:Yeah I imagine Calibre would be able to handle it. I'll check it out, cheers! It took some work, but I figured it out eventually.
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Black Griffon posted:I think I've reached the "hey uh buddy" stage of my reading as I'm listening to Mortis hey uh buddy stop listening to books that will give you literal brain damage
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 14:18 |
DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:hey uh buddy stop listening to books that will give you literal brain damage I think that getting through the entire heresy and choosing to skip a book for the first time within sight of the finish line would give my intricately designed idiot brain even more brain damage tbh
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 14:23 |
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Biplane posted:Big reveal for part 3 DO NOT READ: Horus gets a hair transplant The Split-ends and the Death
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 14:24 |
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Black Griffon posted:I think that getting through the entire heresy and choosing to skip a book for the first time within sight of the finish line would give my intricately designed idiot brain even more brain damage tbh it’s possible that it’s like shooting the moon, where if you slurp up every single drop of sewage from the hose it all cancels out but if you skip even one book the accumulated psychic damage of all those Nick Kyme and Gav Thorpe books hits you at once and gives you some kind of prion disease
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 14:30 |
Like a psyker in Darktide with too much peril, which is to say I'll be left hunched on the floor while an eastern-european teenager calls me slurs.
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 14:43 |
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Pron on VHS posted:Finished Pariah. Am I to assume that Deathrow is an Alpha legion space marine who works for Eisenhorn? Yes, you are supposed to assume that. It's not true It's true
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Pron on VHS posted:Finished Pariah. Am I to assume that Deathrow is an Alpha legion space marine who works for Eisenhorn? finding out in the end and the death that the alpha legion seeded deep cover marines with implanted code phrases to immediately go loyal/rebel/third way depending on how the battle went adds a hilarious level to the constant "whose side is the alpha legion really on?!?!" speculation. turns out they're all compulsive liars and schemers and they're probably doing it all!
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 15:15 |
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Decline posted:Anyone know what time preorders go live on Black Library? I tried to stay up for Fall of Cadia last weekend but couldn't make it. Must happen sometime in the middle of the night/in the morning. Very very eager to start End and the Death vol. 2. xtothez posted:They sent out that email when UK pre-orders went up at 10am BST, but USA & Canada can't order until 10am PST.
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 15:24 |
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Sanguinius' mournful dying words are "I'm so tired of all these ends and these deaths."Mazed posted:It's good to know you're better! And, it's interesting how this dynamic works. Medication is helping, thank you. I think specifically it was ADB's stuff that was getting to me because he's so skilled at writing characters who are irredeemably evil, and silly as it sounds, it made me feel like a bad person to be cackling at the quips thrown by Talos and company when in the next scene they were literally murdering babies. Also I'm going to be posting a lot in this thread because one of my closest friends recently died and they were the main person I discussed 40K stuff with
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 16:13 |
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Good lord why did they suddenly make the warhammer store awful? Edit: And they deleted my order history?? Demiurge4 fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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Kylaer posted:Sanguinius' mournful dying words are "I'm so tired of all these ends and these deaths." "You have truly become the warhammer the horus heresy, Horus"
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Improbable Lobster posted:"You have truly become the warhammer the horus heresy, Horus" "Perhaps even.. the Warhammer 40,000"
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 17:32 |
As someone really looking forward to possible Scouring novels I really wish it would end already. Just kill the three dumbasses and be done with it.
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 19:20 |
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sharknado slashfic posted:As someone really looking forward to possible Scouring novels I really wish it would end already. Just kill the three dumbasses and be done with it. Jokes on you the next series is going to be a forty-eight part reboot of The Beast followed by twelve short story collections about Vulkan, all by Nick Kyme Kylaer posted:Sanguinius' mournful dying words are "I'm so tired of all these ends and these deaths." Sorry to hear it bud
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 20:30 |
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Kylaer posted:True but the reason they'd say no (apart from shooting down authors who want to overthrow the canon or write things GW doesn't want spelled out, like what happened to the missing legions) is because they don't think it'd sell. If someone pitched the idea of writing a slice-of-life novel about some mid-level Administratum functionary going about her boring job, dealing with ordinary marital stresses and trying to guide her kids through their equally mundane challenges, the editors are going to decline it, not because they're ideologically opposed but because they can't make any money off it. (And yes I know people in this thread would read it but that's an outlier). If Black Library thought they could make money publishing stories in which the most violent scene is when someone raised their voice in an argument, they would. I get what you are saying but also like a third of Andor was “let’s watch Mon Mothma’s lovely marriage fall apart” and it is regarded as some of the best of Star Wars, period.
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Another third was “let’s watch an incel cop get verbally wrecked by his boss, mother, and woman he is stalking” and also, some of the best of Star Wars, period
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 20:50 |
We gotta get Austin Walker and the gang to make a really, really small season of More Civilized for Titus Endor, that'll get GW's attention and cause them to make "The Andor of 40k". He's called 'Endor', it's got a Star Wars connection.
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# ? Nov 3, 2023 21:00 |
DaysBefore posted:Jokes on you the next series is going to be a forty-eight part reboot of The Beast followed by twelve short story collections about Vulkan, all by Nick Kyme *screaming internally*
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Kylaer posted:I think the big plot developments with regard to Cadia, the Great Rift, Indomitus etc are a good thing for enabling a wider variety of storytelling in the setting. Or at least potentially a good thing, GW may always squander the potential depending on how they move forward. Before the shakeup, the entire theme was about inching closer and closer to midnight, and that constrains things. The strength of 40K has always been that the galaxy is big enough to write whatever you want without being hemmed in by someone else's story - now there's the far side of the rift where things are basically back to Old Night and you can really play up the isolation and desperation, but on the Terran side, the replenished strength of the Imperium under Guilleman lets you tell some new stories, stories that aren't predicated on teetering on the verge of collapse. The Twice-Dead King stories do a really good job using this, suddenly it's the xenos who are fleeing the staggering might of a Crusade fleet instead of the humans fleeing a Waaagh, it's a great new spin. Imperium Nihilus is a great opportunity for authors to go wild in a setting where Imperial control is vastly diminished and you just have this gigantic trainwreck of chaos and xenos and loyalists and separatists smashing tables over each other's heads all day every day. It's also a great opportunity to start confronting the idea that the Imperium is a necessary evil, perhaps by showing examples of secessionist regimes surviving and maybe even doing better without the shackles of Terra on them. Essentially what this guy says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI6aHzfxkFk
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Roller Coast Guard posted:Imperium Nihilus is a great opportunity for authors to go wild in a setting where Imperial control is vastly diminished and you just have this gigantic trainwreck of chaos and xenos and loyalists and separatists smashing tables over each other's heads all day every day. It's also a great opportunity to start confronting the idea that the Imperium is a necessary evil, perhaps by showing examples of secessionist regimes surviving and maybe even doing better without the shackles of Terra on them. Ian is cool, I used his HH book rating list to help me decide which books to focus on.
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 00:21 |
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When is it November 4
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Roller Coast Guard posted:Imperium Nihilus is a great opportunity for authors to go wild in a setting where Imperial control is vastly diminished and you just have this gigantic trainwreck of chaos and xenos and loyalists and separatists smashing tables over each other's heads all day every day. It's also a great opportunity to start confronting the idea that the Imperium is a necessary evil, perhaps by showing examples of secessionist regimes surviving and maybe even doing better without the shackles of Terra on them. Yeah this is good stuff. More human factions would do so much for the setting, from the official core being interesting to fan-content and OC stuff for TTRPGs and such having way more liberty to create different stories. It would also open up the possibility of a primarch returning and choosing to not rejoin the imperium, which I think would be neat.
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 00:43 |
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Black Griffon posted:We gotta get Austin Walker and the gang to make a really, really small season of More Civilized for Titus Endor, that'll get GW's attention and cause them to make "The Andor of 40k". AMCA slaps, so yes. Maybe get them to like read Horus Heresy if this strike goes on longer
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euphronius posted:When is it November 4 Tonight at 11pm CST as far as Amazon kindle is concerned. I can't wait.
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 01:05 |
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D-Pad posted:Tonight at 11pm CST as far as Amazon kindle is concerned. I can't wait. It's up on my kindle. Reading now.
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EBOOK IS LIVE. Go to blacklibrary.com to get yours! No idea about the audiobook, I'm getting it with my Kindle credit when it's out there
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I think you should all not read it until monday, when I can get it. It's only fair
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 01:34 |
Let me go further: I think you all should hang on threee weeks or so, which should give me time to catch up and start vol. 1. Anyway, oh boy.
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Black Griffon posted:Let me go further: I think you all should hang on threee weeks or so, which should give me time to catch up and start vol. 1. No that's too fair, I'm afraid
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:tomorrow I’ll have to hit the snooze button on this thread to avoid spoilers but I am very excited for End and the Death 2: End and Die Harder I think I'm going to take your advice and peace out on this thread until half a month from now which is when my next audible credit drops. Audiobooks really have become my preferred method of consuming 40k literature. Also mad respect to anyone who has the mental constitution to read every single Heresy book because there's not a chance in hell I'll ever do that. e: spellung Nuclear Tourist fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Nov 4, 2023 |
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a lovely king posted:It's up on my kindle. Reading now. Ugh not on mine. Is there some time zone setting or something I'm not seeing. Are you US?
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 02:21 |
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This isn't a spoiler, but it takes a deep breath and continues right where part 1 left off.
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The problem is if they want the base to be interested in Imperium Nihilus, they maybe need to have some interesting stories set in it. Spear of the Emperor was cool, and did it. But even in it, it was set dressing. It's just... not that compelling, not because it's intrinsically boring, there just isn't many good stories set in it.
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Nuclear Tourist posted:Also mad respect to anyone who has the mental constitution to read every single Heresy book because there's not a chance in hell I'll ever do that. Some of us did that on release, and did not have the wisdom of those who went before us as guidance. Also, IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE!
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 05:05 |
Shockeh posted:The problem is if they want the base to be interested in Imperium Nihilus, they maybe need to have some interesting stories set in it. Well the lore has moved to the point that guilliman is just about to cross over so once that happens I expect we will get quite a few books set over there.
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# ? Nov 4, 2023 05:09 |
It's amazing to me that somehow Abnett has managed to turn up the volume from the already deafening roar volume 1 was. This man fucks
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Not available for me either. loving time-zone shenanigans.
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Woke up early to read. Hell yeah
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