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Are there ever kindle deals on 40k books? I miss being young, living at home, having low customs and shipping rates and just buying a bunch of physical books. It's way more expensive now.-
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Oooh, never thought to look there. I'll keep that in mind, and hope people shout them out itt.
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Sep 14, 2020 00:45
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Just think of it like it's not only authored by several people in reality, but also in the realm of our most holy God Emperor. I'm sure some of the books in the bible were like insanely bad before 2000 years of reinterpretation, like five hundred pages of Jesus having a spear fight with satan but bad.
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Sep 14, 2020 15:06
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Magnus is like the primordial Nerd Lord, we have to accept that there's too much of him in us and thus he is elevated.
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Sep 14, 2020 22:53
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Good premise for a big RPG (possibly Deus Ex style): Seriously wounded custodian has to build up his skills again, wander the empire helping folks, but without being able to use his status (because he'd come across as too much and/or plot reasons). Of course, being a custodian, even a wounded one, it wouldn't be like "kill this group of criminals!" like in DX, but rather "take out this daemon Prince threatening a planet" or "eradicate an entire stronghold of chaos marines" or "single handedly stop a small hive fleet splinter".
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Sep 15, 2020 15:18
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Snakez is so good. I love Abnett in general of course, but there's something about that book which feels so unique and almost forlorn.
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Sep 16, 2020 03:00
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I borrowed the first Grey Knights from a friend years ago and then forgot to read the rest, but I seem to remember being entertained (and forgetting to read the rest has way more to do with ADHD than anything else).
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Sep 17, 2020 22:24
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bagrada posted:Fantasy novels started in 1989. forgot this wasn't the F/SF thread and thought "wait what kind of dogshit take is this" for a moment
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Sep 21, 2020 17:20
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At what point in the Heresy should I read Garro?
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Dec 5, 2022 01:56
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How much do the abridged versions of the first three Hoary Heresy books actually abridge? It's almost a pointless question because duty compells me to re-read the unabridged versions (I read them years ago and I'm hoping audiobooks will make it easier to stick with the series), but I'm kinda curious. edit: "Duty" is neurodivergence
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Dec 6, 2022 02:28
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Kurzon posted:Darktide feels like Necromunda Hired Gun. Or Transformers: War for Cybertron. The environment doesn't feel like a place where people actually live and work. Where are the apartments? The public squares? The markets? It feels... like a video game gauntlet with sci-fi greeble wallpaper. There's a bunch of public squares and stalls and workplaces and poo poo. Not too many apartments, but I'm certain some hive cities essentially don't have them when you get a click down or so. You just tuck yourself into a storage closet the five hours you're not mounting skulls on a skull.
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Dec 6, 2022 20:44
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I know we're derailing here, but the bolter almost made my eyes well up with how beautiful it is. The action, the thunder and roar, the way the recoil kicks like a beaching freight ship and the way the shells disintegrate three or four people at a time. It's perfect.
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Dec 8, 2022 04:46
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I could swear I got annoyed because Abnett described las shots as bolts with velocity in GG. Was that just early on? Am I misremembering?
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Dec 8, 2022 11:56
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Yeah, there's something going on there, and chemically fired lasers would also fire beams. I will simply have to re-read GG I guess.
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Dec 8, 2022 14:29
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It's all a mess, of course, but I can forgive everything except for c being negatively broken.
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Dec 8, 2022 14:42
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It's either "something strange had happened, I feel it in the shivers on my inquisition grade psyker mind and the curios glances of my companions" or "BLOOD gently caress ETERNAL WARRIOR OF THE FORGOTTEN CHAPTER BRAIN HUNTERS GONE TEN THOUSAND YEARS INTO FUTURE AND HAVING THE TIME OF HIS LIFE IN THE HIVE CITY GURMUGRUM"
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Dec 8, 2022 17:33
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Gotta be honest, Cavill as Eisenhorn is so far from the Eisenhorn in my mind that it's hard to imagine it. He's supposed to be an ugly, scrunched up poo poo even before the unfortunate events in the mansion, and an even uglier poo poo after. My cast was Mel Gibson for a bit, then at some point I didn't want to think about Mel Gibson.
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Dec 25, 2022 15:39
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I recon you've still got some prettyboys out there who keep their good looks until they get merked. They do get merked though.
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Dec 25, 2022 17:18
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I haven't gotten far enough in my reread, but I think Loken kept his looks!
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Dec 25, 2022 17:30
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I haven't read them all, but I can't imagine our friend Ciaphas losing his good looks.
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Dec 25, 2022 18:06
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lonelylikezoidberg posted:Commissar chat: The Gaunt's Ghosts books aren't bad they're just boring. Completely wrong, of course, GG rules. Alright, have a good one.
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Dec 28, 2022 12:03
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God drat, Jonathan Keeble is truly exploring the many varieties of So Growly It Sounds Like You're Gargling Phlegm voice in Flight of the Eisenstein.
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Dec 31, 2022 01:30
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Fulgrim is delightful. There's more smut in this book than all the rest of the black library put together.
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Jan 3, 2023 01:17
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Oh, no haven't gotten around to that yet.
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Jan 3, 2023 02:50
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I have heard that you should read Watson if you want some real weird poo poo, but also his books look like they're straight out of the dumbest era of Star Wars extended universe stuff.
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Jan 3, 2023 03:20
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I mean it will have to compete with such things as the impostor of the three eyed son of Palpatine getting laser blasted by a robot Leia bride and so on, but I do believe stupidity is an infinite scale.
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Jan 3, 2023 03:32
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Everyone remembers the weird bits of SPACE MARINE but this has always been one of my favourite parts. The three main characters - a Spire-born brat, a Midspire worker, and an Underhive ganger have all been selected for recruitement into the Imperial Fists. After a set of physical, psychological, and psychic assessments, they're all asked one simple question. Hm, yes. This fuckin rules.
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Jan 3, 2023 11:50
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Pray Him on Terra protect me. I am committed to completing the whole series and I have just hit play on Descent of Angels.
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Jan 3, 2023 17:58
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There's one person in here who thinks it's just the best book ever (I won't name them but it's obvious from searching the title) and I will let that carry me. If anything, audiobooks are just as much a way to still my ADHD as a way to actually absorb things, so I can just let it play.
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Jan 3, 2023 18:16
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I would like the whole thing to be read by the guy who does the russian ogryn in Darktide.
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Jan 4, 2023 00:53
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Wait so Lion El'Johnson is named for the woods, so "johnson" means "wood", which is to say they made it even dumberFingat posted:Im pretty sure thats Toby Longworth Oh that owns. He needs to do it in that specific accent though.
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Jan 4, 2023 11:04
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It felt a bit samey but I didn't really give it a proper try. Might just play through it on the easiest difficulty so I can watch necrons go clonk.
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Jan 4, 2023 11:29
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Oh dear Gareth Armstrong is doing a poorly restrained asian-voice for a white scar. That seems unnecessary.
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Jan 4, 2023 16:49
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I know that some people consider Salamanders the black chapter, but that either seems to stem from a misunderstanding or a desire to make them like that because it fits their own interpretation of the canon, which in turn can either be good for them if it's a personal thing or really weird if it's not.
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Jan 4, 2023 17:31
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Well that's the angels done. Nice thing about audiobooks is that they can be read in a day like you're the Tai Lopez of Warhammer, but less of a loving loser.Improbable Lobster posted:It's pretty unfortunate, as is the general stereotypical asian acccents used for the white scars in general. It feels like a weird throwback, in a bad way. Yeah I guess it's just a document note that says "oh yeah these guys are Asian" and no one over there has any great reason to do anything about it. Benagain posted:I mean they straight up were for a while? This lore was invented by white british nerds in the 80s, which meant that when they imagined a group of superhumans with genetic augmentations including the ability to shift melanin through their skin to survive a staggering array of atmospheres the skin shades they imagined ranged from 'transparently pale' to 'something that might resemble a light tan if you squinted hard' That's fair. I know I've had the impression that they've been thought of as the black guys for two decades, so it obviously comes from somewhere.
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Jan 4, 2023 21:54
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jesus reading Abnett after Descent of Angles feels straight up unfair
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Jan 5, 2023 05:30
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Onto The Abyss. So far I think I like it more than Angels.
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Jan 6, 2023 18:45
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This Brother Debate early in Abyss is so funny if your understanding of brothers is too online. "The Emperor is brother to no one!" That's right, the emperor can backyard wrassle with no one.
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Jan 6, 2023 20:09
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Yeah but it's fuckin dumb. I just sort of blank it out and replace it with something not-dumb when it comes up.
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I will change the universe to fit my whims, it is victim to me, not the other way around. Death to the false emperor (canon). Also the games have pretty much only showed them as beams. Anyway here's a fun thing I like to do: who's your face casts for major characters? To me (add the prefix "very muscular" to any suggestion), Horus is Arnold Vosloo, Ferrus Manus is obviously Michael Shannon, my mind decided John Grammaticus is Bruce Campbell at some point and I can't shake the idea that the God Emperor of Mankind is John Hamm, no matter what I do.
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