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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    I look forward to all the people awkwardly saluting by making the aquilla with their hands.

    Also lots of the use of Throne as a cuss word.

    Feth
    Gak

    By the Throne!

    It is going to be used a lot.

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Actually now that I think about it I would not be in the least surprised to find out that Cavill knows who jetblackraider is

  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    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

  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck begin again Registered User regular
    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?

  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 Sufficiently Chill The Chill ZoneRegistered User regular
    who is

    jetblackraider

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 Sufficiently Chill The Chill ZoneRegistered User regular
    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

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    who is

    jetblackraider

    Horny drukhari fanartist. Mostly on tumblr.

  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    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?

    Pulp fantasy bad you say?

    This is new and shocking intel.

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    Chris Wraight writes some good Warhammer and he has like a thriller/crime series set on Earth/Terra.

    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.

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
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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?

    my understanding is the quality variance depending on the author is quite wide

    Chanus on
    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • AuralynxAuralynx Darkness is a perspective Watching the ego workRegistered User regular
    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.

  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    warhammer is also super niche to begin with
    millionaires who like painting figurines niche
    the literature will reflect that

    Bless your heart.
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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    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

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    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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  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    do what blizzard did and make all the space marines sound like deep south yokels.

    Bless your heart.
  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »
    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

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    I mean Black Library does an open submission contest every year and they choose someone to write a book. So many bad books.

    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.

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Zavian wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    I mean Black Library does an open submission contest every year and they choose someone to write a book. So many bad books.

    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.

    they probably figure 'why hire a good writer when bad writers are so much cheaper, and the fans will buy it up regardless'

    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.

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  • KamiroKamiro Registered User regular
    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

    Asterix and Obelix but a dwarf and an Ogryn

  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    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.

  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    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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  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Hey my CGM was actually kind of affordable. I knew I wouldn’t be ‘covered’ without some pre auth predicated on an insulin regimen. But apparently just the first level of uh- coverage? Negotiated rates?- just for having my insurer was huge. Saved over 50%.

  • MimMim I prefer my lovers… dead.Registered User regular
    When do the holiday forums start? I want to make my New Years Resolutions thread!

    BlueSky: thequeenofchaos Steam: mimspanks (add me then tell me who you are! Ask for my IG)
  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Mim wrote: »
    When do the holiday forums start? I want to make my New Years Resolutions thread!

    Now.

    No wait. Now.


    .... now

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • KamiroKamiro Registered User regular
    Mim wrote: »
    When do the holiday forums start? I want to make my New Years Resolutions thread!

    i think like a day or 2 before christmas

  • knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    To be honest yesterday when the forums were going fuckywucky I thought it might be an attempt to start the holiday forum early

    But usually it’s a few days before the holiday and goes until a few days after

    “I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
    -Indiana Solo, runner of blades
  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    JebusUD wrote: »
    Mim wrote: »
    When do the holiday forums start? I want to make my New Years Resolutions thread!

    Now.

    No wait. Now.


    .... now

    MERRY CHRISTMAS BETA CUCKS

  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    last day of work and they evacuated one of the buildings because of a sus package.

    Bless your heart.
  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Mim wrote: »
    When do the holiday forums start? I want to make my New Years Resolutions thread!

    My resolution is 1440p but maybe next year Ill try

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  • TTODewbackTTODewback Puts the drawl in ya'll I think I'm in HellRegistered User regular
    gonna make a thread titled,
    How the Grinch stole Mim's [New Year's Resolutions]

    Bless your heart.
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  • thatassemblyguythatassemblyguy Janitor of Technical Debt .Registered User regular
    for a while there I couldn't even login without getting the error screen, and was like,

    *looking at butterfly meme* is this a ban?

  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    Okay so she did go ahead and try ChatGPL to answer an angry email and it's... perfect

    lol

    I have complex feelings about this

  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 Sufficiently Chill The Chill ZoneRegistered User regular
    Auralynx wrote: »
    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

    You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.
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