I think my wife is going to quit the very stressful, emotionally corrosive job next week
It's just too much to deal with unpredictable levels of OT and angry, mean emails about snow removal, for someone who can't help but take it personally and get really stressed over responding
I told her to use Chat GPT to write her emails but she'd still have to look at them, lol
She has another job lined up for late January or early February so I'm fully in support of quitting ASAP, which is getting me thousands of brownie points
I think it would be genuinely quite hard to do a convincing TV series that focused on space marines
Characterisation would be a challenge, there isn't a lot of room for interpersonal conflict to drive a narrative, costume and so forth would be a nightmare, logistically
Like the stuff Jake's been reading by Dan Abnett? Good shit. But he writes good books first.
I have read some absolute schlock. There is an entire set of 40k books basically just called bolter porn where Space Marines are all "FOR THE EMPEROR!" and kill like a billion mooks.
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do what blizzard did and make all the space marines sound like deep south yokels.
I have never read a 40k but I did try to read some fantasy warham many years ago and it was quite bad
maybe kinda a buddy cop thing with a dorf and another guy?
my understanding is the quality variance depending on the author is quite wide
Consider that for a long period GW was the kind of place where people who worked there, whose job was not writing, could basically ask to write a Black Library book about their favourite headcanon and there was a reasonable chance they would say yes
Oh, the best 40k book is probably the Infinite and the Divine. It's about the personal 10 thousand year feud between two Necron lords. It's kinda The Odd Couple in space and sometimes one of them hides in closet for a few hundred years so he can suprise shoot the other one in the face.
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Do Gaunt's Ghosts, start with Necropolis which is a pretty contained city siege so easy to onboard folks. If you go to a second series, well congrats you've opened up a whole raft of the best characters and not spent a fair while with just dudes. If you want to get into some of that stuff eg Monthax or Metazoid Epsilon then that's what flashbacks are for!
I might have picked up Victory Pt2 last week and am careening towards the end now so I've got all these folks on the brain to be fair, but I do think Sharpes Rifles in spaaaace while expensive could be pretty good.
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I have never read a 40k but I did try to read some fantasy warham many years ago and it was quite bad
maybe kinda a buddy cop thing with a dorf and another guy?
Gotrek and Felix
Yeah they’re…not great
Apart from the fairly regressive view of women that's imbedded throughout, what's wrong with Gotrek and Felix? Honest question.
They’re not awful by any stretch but once I read some other setting related stuff by Werner and Abnett I just moved on. I think I fell out with it when they did Ulrica dirty and also had an extremely telegraphed heroic sacrifice death of a dwarf character, where said character suddenly started acting extremely out of character to suicide bomb a dragon in a gyrocopter just to satisfy the plot.
If I remember correctly it didn’t even do anything to the dragon
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It's just too much to deal with unpredictable levels of OT and angry, mean emails about snow removal, for someone who can't help but take it personally and get really stressed over responding
I told her to use Chat GPT to write her emails but she'd still have to look at them, lol
She has another job lined up for late January or early February so I'm fully in support of quitting ASAP, which is getting me thousands of brownie points
maybe kinda a buddy cop thing with a dorf and another guy?
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Gotrek and Felix
Yeah they’re…not great
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Pulp fantasy bad you say?
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GW also has a dedicated "crime" book section for 40k.
All different stuff that works in the universe without involving Space Marines.
It's like maybe the best SW not involving any Jedi. Do a good show first, then set it in the universe.
my understanding is the quality variance depending on the author is quite wide
Apart from the fairly regressive view of women that's imbedded throughout, what's wrong with Gotrek and Felix? Honest question.
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the literature will reflect that
Characterisation would be a challenge, there isn't a lot of room for interpersonal conflict to drive a narrative, costume and so forth would be a nightmare, logistically
I have read some absolute schlock. There is an entire set of 40k books basically just called bolter porn where Space Marines are all "FOR THE EMPEROR!" and kill like a billion mooks.
Consider that for a long period GW was the kind of place where people who worked there, whose job was not writing, could basically ask to write a Black Library book about their favourite headcanon and there was a reasonable chance they would say yes
Right now the good are Dan Abnett and I would say Aaron Dembski-Bowden (ADB). Guy Hayley is hit or miss. Gav Thorpe has done some okay books.
But beyond that the quality drops a lot.
I think part of it is they want people who know the lore and world.
They do a pretty tight control over editing and what goes in.
Asterix and Obelix but a dwarf and an Ogryn
I might have picked up Victory Pt2 last week and am careening towards the end now so I've got all these folks on the brain to be fair, but I do think Sharpes Rifles in spaaaace while expensive could be pretty good.
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They’re not awful by any stretch but once I read some other setting related stuff by Werner and Abnett I just moved on. I think I fell out with it when they did Ulrica dirty and also had an extremely telegraphed heroic sacrifice death of a dwarf character, where said character suddenly started acting extremely out of character to suicide bomb a dragon in a gyrocopter just to satisfy the plot.
If I remember correctly it didn’t even do anything to the dragon