The guards series are pretty much the greatest books ever written.
Night Watch, Guards! Guards!, Going Postal, Equal Rites, and Monstrous Regiment are my top favorites. I rather like Lords and Ladies and Thief of Time as well.
Going Postal is my overall fav. Night Watch is close but you have to have read pretty much every previous book to get the most of it.
And high give for Monstrous Regiment! Lot of people (silly, deluded people who missed the point entirely) don't like that one.
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also it's too dark to the point of cartoonishness. Like my sgt is a soul consuming wretched creature of infinite power! But it turns out every side has like a million beings with infinite power so uh
It's better if you take it with the tongue-in-cheek zaniness it was originally designed with
ie: Fuck Dan Abnett. He should just make his own WW1 In Spaaaace game instead of turning Warhammer into that.
I didn't say that you said that.
I think there's enough room for there to be two 40k universes
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The guards series are pretty much the greatest books ever written.
Night Watch, Guards! Guards!, Going Postal, Equal Rites, and Monstrous Regiment are my top favorites. I rather like Lords and Ladies and Thief of Time as well.
Going Postal is my overall fav. Night Watch is close but you have to have read pretty much every previous book to get the most of it.
And high give for Monstrous Regiment! Lot of people (silly, deluded people who missed the point entirely) don't like that one.
It seems like a lot of his fans just read him for the humor, which I understand. I just like it when he doesn't only do humor.
when i was living in DC and unemployed, i used to go down to union station and either hang out with the homeless dudes, or else chat up the clerks in the thomas kinkaide store. most of them were art students or grads, and they all thought thomas kinkaide was the fucking worst, but they worked on commission and had the right jargon to sell that shit to middle-aged white suburbanites.
they told me that some people would buy a giant kinkaide print (complete with hand-ouched details, natch) and basically design their tract mansion around the fucker
also it's too dark to the point of cartoonishness. Like my sgt is a soul consuming wretched creature of infinite power! But it turns out every side has like a million beings with infinite power so uh
It's better if you take it with the tongue-in-cheek zaniness it was originally designed with
ie: Fuck Dan Abnett. He should just make his own WW1 In Spaaaace game instead of turning Warhammer into that.
I didn't say that you said that.
I think there's enough room for there to be two 40k universes
I think given the current staff at GW there unfortunatly is not. I don't think they can pull off their Grimdark World War 1 in Spacey Grim Darkness and also keep the zany shit that defined the game when it was created.
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Protest the Hero is a post-ironic beardcore band from Whitby, Ontario.
WH40K fluff seems highly unbalanced. The tyranids supposedly have swarms that stretch as long as a galaxy if I was informed correctly.
And then there are the necrons that never die and are almost indestructible.
You may be thinking in scales that are too small. The whole point is that it's a conflict that spans galaxies.
The universe is plenty big enough for all kinds of stuff to be happening at once.
Actually the game just takes place in the Milky Way galaxy.
I'm pretty sure that ultimately either the tyranids, necrons or orks are supposed to win.
Well yeah, part of the schtick is that it's a hopeless conflict. Unless they ever decide to do something messianic with the Star Child thing. I don't think they ever will, I'm fairly sure they put that in there for nerds to conspiracy theorise over.
The guards series are pretty much the greatest books ever written.
Night Watch, Guards! Guards!, Going Postal, Equal Rites, and Monstrous Regiment are my top favorites. I rather like Lords and Ladies and Thief of Time as well.
Never read Equal Rites, Lords and Ladies, or Monstrous Regiment, the other four are incredible though, as is Making Money and The Truth. Vetinari taking nobby and colon off in Jingo is pretty great, and Thud! and the Fifth Elephant have some of the most epic endings of any book ever.
Reading to his son whlst in a cave and Firework fetch ftw
He does not make Carrot epic enough any more though, he's made him kind of weaker through each book, which I dislike as I always thought he was the superhuman hero parody.
The guards series are pretty much the greatest books ever written.
Night Watch, Guards! Guards!, Going Postal, Equal Rites, and Monstrous Regiment are my top favorites. I rather like Lords and Ladies and Thief of Time as well.
Never read Equal Rites, Lords and Ladies, or Monstrous Regiment, the other four are incredible though, as is Making Money and The Truth. Vetinari taking nobby and colon off in Jingo is pretty great, and Thud! and the Fifth Elephant have some of the most epic endings of any book ever.
Reading to his son whlst in a cave and Firework fetch ftw
He does not make Carrot epic enough any more though, he's made him kind of weaker through each book, which I dislike as I always thought he was the superhuman hero parody.
I haven't read Making Money or the Truth. I started the first couple chapters of Jingo when it first came out but I ended up getting distracted by something.
Going Postal is my overall fav. Night Watch is close but you have to have read pretty much every previous book to get the most of it.
And high give for Monstrous Regiment! Lot of people (silly, deluded people who missed the point entirely) don't like that one.
What was peoples problem with it? Haven't read it but it's the one where
the twist is they're all women?
That is the book in question yes.
I have seen people post here that they didn't like MR because "the twist was too obvious". Which really misses the point. It's not supposed to be a shocker.
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I need to create my own all-encompassing universe.
Maybe start it from the very beginning with its creation and Gods, or turn its creation into a science experiment of aliens from another dimension if I want that sci-fi flair. Then run through the entire thing until its demise.
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Have you guys read The Dark Side of the Sun? It's one of Pratchet's really early books and is a stand alone sci-fi novel. Well worth reading. The style is very similiar to Pyramids IMO.
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I need to create my own all-encompassing universe.
Maybe start it from the very beginning with its creation and Gods, or turn its creation into a science experiment of aliens from another dimension if I want that sci-fi flair. Then run through the entire thing until its demise.
I need to create my own all-encompassing universe.
Maybe start it from the very beginning with its creation and Gods, or turn its creation into a science experiment of aliens from another dimension if I want that sci-fi flair. Then run through the entire thing until its demise.
Have you guys read The Dark Side of the Sun? It's one of Pratchet's really early books and is a stand alone sci-fi novel. Well worth reading. The style is very similiar to Pyramids IMO.
I don't remember it, and soon enough...
Neither will he, I had to spell the joke out.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Sarksus, you can be one of those dudes who can't stop talking about the elaborate history and cultures of your homebrew D&D setting. Those guys are really popular!
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I need to create my own all-encompassing universe.
Maybe start it from the very beginning with its creation and Gods, or turn its creation into a science experiment of aliens from another dimension if I want that sci-fi flair. Then run through the entire thing until its demise.
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wife: "senj I am pregnant"
"just put it in the trash and never speak of it again"
Yeah but, I mean, if you have swarms as big as galaxies then you have hella manpower. Or bugpower!
the dude who made that had a decent webcomic for a while too
Going Postal is my overall fav. Night Watch is close but you have to have read pretty much every previous book to get the most of it.
And high give for Monstrous Regiment! Lot of people (silly, deluded people who missed the point entirely) don't like that one.
The world would implode if you and Em had a kid.
All that cuteness and wit combined in one little body?
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I didn't say that you said that.
I think there's enough room for there to be two 40k universes
Actually the game just takes place in the Milky Way galaxy.
I'm pretty sure that ultimately either the tyranids, necrons or orks are supposed to win.
It seems like a lot of his fans just read him for the humor, which I understand. I just like it when he doesn't only do humor.
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Past the stirrups, down the chute, BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
What a beautiful garden!
did they also have miscarriages, senj?
I think given the current staff at GW there unfortunatly is not. I don't think they can pull off their Grimdark World War 1 in Spacey Grim Darkness and also keep the zany shit that defined the game when it was created.
And the mental image of the year award goes to...
bravo
Well yeah, part of the schtick is that it's a hopeless conflict. Unless they ever decide to do something messianic with the Star Child thing. I don't think they ever will, I'm fairly sure they put that in there for nerds to conspiracy theorise over.
Never read Equal Rites, Lords and Ladies, or Monstrous Regiment, the other four are incredible though, as is Making Money and The Truth. Vetinari taking nobby and colon off in Jingo is pretty great, and Thud! and the Fifth Elephant have some of the most epic endings of any book ever.
He does not make Carrot epic enough any more though, he's made him kind of weaker through each book, which I dislike as I always thought he was the superhuman hero parody.
What was peoples problem with it? Haven't read it but it's the one where
I haven't read Making Money or the Truth. I started the first couple chapters of Jingo when it first came out but I ended up getting distracted by something.
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That is the book in question yes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfhGWeaPouc
So like Thanatos at an all you can eat buffet?
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Maybe start it from the very beginning with its creation and Gods, or turn its creation into a science experiment of aliens from another dimension if I want that sci-fi flair. Then run through the entire thing until its demise.
They're a real band
that was just last.fm trolling
It was sort of bleak, but I thought it had a rather hopeful ending.
It was about as realistic as a Discworld book can be, I think.
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dwarf fortress?
I don't remember it, and soon enough...
Neither will he, I had to spell the joke out.
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The best is clearly the Fifth Elephant, though.
The necrons don't actually have souls.
Shush.
I mean by hand and with short stories and novels filling out the entire timeline.
I thought that they were souls trapped in machine husks.