#40k-book-club

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tall phoenix
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you'll lose nothing

simple cloud
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No it has a stupid cover

runic root
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Dont have the money rn but i'll put it on the list

simple cloud
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God bless the British ability to brute force a good story out of the goofiest base material

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Soulless metal alien men… ok

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Hamlet gets randomly kidnapped by pirates… ok

forest spruce
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Don't forget the assassination attempt. Absolutely gold

sleek breach
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is there any good steel legion books?

simple cloud
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Hang on I’ll write 1

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Gas mask big coat bang bang ork bad tank

Done hth

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I’ve herd some ppl r saying my new book above is the great American novel. I think that’s overstating it tho I admit it’s a fine piece of work

runic root
runic root
simple cloud
sleek breach
tall phoenix
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they explore the steel legion a lot

sleek breach
tall phoenix
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They are old but still REALLY good

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you will get him rise from the low to the spot he was in with the steel legion, very underrated books highly recommend it

sleek breach
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so the only one on audible ((yes Sue me)) is Yarrick Imperial Creed, and it was released Last month,

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Sooo Good spot or is it in the middle of something

tall phoenix
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Its JUST the beginning of his story

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notice how in the cover hes just a "basic" commissar

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You can see the following books here

sleek breach
# tall phoenix

On the lexcanium, the "Yarrick" Series is Started with Chains of Gulgotha,

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but thanks for clearing it up

tall phoenix
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yeah but you know what I mean KEKW_ogryn

brittle tapir
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assassinorum: kingmaker
track 33, 30:40

mentions ancient tales dating to the first settlement of the knight world, knights able to pilot themselves (character writes it off as fanciful tales)

lore

tall phoenix
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:)

hearty niche
safe plover
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@deft bramble did we just play a game

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we did I SAW YOU

safe plover
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we're both psykers now

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the awakening is upon us

deft bramble
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ah you were psyker

safe plover
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no

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the arby

deft bramble
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ah

safe plover
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i can sense rotten eggs

deft bramble
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aaaahhhhhhhhh

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and im lucky i guess KEKW_ogryn

runic root
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I was online all but 60 sec ago

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Also psyker 😂

safe plover
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SO i have a carton of 18 eggs

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i crack 17 all directly into the pan

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except one

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i decide ok this one goes into a bowl

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it was fucking rotten

runic root
safe plover
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not all at once

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over a couple of days

runic root
runic root
safe plover
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🚬 maybe i should eggs are cheap rn

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idk how or why but theyre cheaper than a month ago

runic root
safe plover
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ikr

runic root
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*buys the entire stock

safe plover
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i only got 36 ok

runic root
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Those are rookie numbers

safe plover
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😭

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more tomorrow

runic root
runic root
safe plover
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neked is 🫡

runic root
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Aludj jól!

runic root
brittle tapir
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finished kingmaker

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robert rath really wanted to set up a bunch of character series

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which book should i listen to now

simple cloud
brittle tapir
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shut the fuck up kaggen

simple cloud
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Wolf Hall

drowsy urchin
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All of Gotrek & Felix

simple cloud
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Madame Bovary

brittle tapir
drowsy urchin
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doesn't matter, it's still among the best Warhammer stories

brittle tapir
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i require 40k

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i will be completely lost in a non 40k warham story

drowsy urchin
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G&F works well for people not too familiar with the setting

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99% of all my audbile library is 40k/HH and G&F is the only Fantasy series and it's one of the best ones I've listened to

simple cloud
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G&F good

drowsy urchin
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As I'm going through The Silent King finally, I realised an easy way of knowing if this is before or after Genefather is to check which iteration of Qvo it has. Silent King has 87th iteration where as in The Great Work it's the 87th iteration that dies and becomes the 88th and in Genefather we have 89th iteration

silk laurel
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Finished Outgunned, looking forward to getting Above and Beyond love characters like lucille von shard

tall phoenix
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Lmaoooo lets go

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yeah the 2 Shorts after it explore her family dynamics a bit

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and the 2nd Short sets up the premise for Above and Beyond

cerulean peak
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The commisar doing a conference call during a battle KEKW_ogryn

silk laurel
silk laurel
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even if most of them only get a snippet

wide mica
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Yea Starstruck and Own Worst enemy are both pretty short, but you don't realise how essential they are until you're about a third of the way into Above and Beyond

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Trial can be skipped though tbh

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It's a nice introduction to the character, but Outgunned already does a good job of that

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I also realised a slight mistake, in Startruck Esec is referred to as a woman, but in Own Worst Enemy and Above and Beyond it's a man

silk laurel
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good to know

wide mica
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Let me get the excerpt from Starstruck

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Propagandist Esec is persistent.’
‘Esec? I thought your propagandist’s name was Simlex?’
‘Who?’
‘The one from Bacchus. Used to work with Tobia?’
‘Don’t recall him. Guess he didn’t make an impression,’ she replied flatly.
‘But Esec is pretty good. A parasite, but a broadly beneficial one. She
understands my true value."

silk laurel
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the irony of the planet's name and purpose is cartoonish I realised

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bacchus the god of wine being its namesake

wide mica
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The name of Shard's plane also translates as "Lying Aunt"

tall phoenix
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I legit appreciate the author didnt make it like

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"Totally-Not-Red-Baron No.9304"

tall phoenix
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I TOLD YOU SO

wide mica
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I'm curious about the Esec thing though, was it just a mistake or was Esec supposed to be a woman in an earlier draft of Above and Beyond

tall phoenix
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Very likely a small mistake, speaking as a homebrew writer myself sometimes they slip through lol

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but you can just chalk it up to Shard hiccup-ing and not giving a shit. Shes the type to be like:

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"She? You mean he right?"

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"Eh same thing."

deft bramble
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The Infinite and The Divine but with 2 Ogryns and with an actual gay context when loregryn

tall phoenix
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Are you trying to tell us something

deft bramble
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im being a degenerate

tall phoenix
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I think you need to uh

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come out of the closet

deft bramble
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today i was vacuuming an anti-chinches powder out of it, for real

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so only chinches were coming out of it

silk laurel
pliant hornet
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I am almost done with the Eisenhorn Omnibus and it is kinda funny how his use of sorcery goes:

Book 1: Puritan, but does a stupid by || keeping Pontius ||

Book 2: Uses it as a last resort since everyone thinks he’s a heretic and will not help

Book 3: GOGO GADGET DAEMONHOST!

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also the series makes me sad that Cheurbael is a vanilla 4/4 flyer in Magic

tall phoenix
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peak Inquisition moment

pliant hornet
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Book 2 and 3 are so fucking good

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Book 1 is kinda meh imo

tall phoenix
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Its like 100 years old and from like 1921 so its normal

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🙏

pliant hornet
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True, I do like how it introduces us to a lot of the people and an Inquisitor who feels likes he’s always in danger since he’s not an OP fighter

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Also the Xeno planet is really cool

tall phoenix
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yeah the investigator is my favorite Inquisitor character type

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the ones in huge armor going up to fight demons and shit are so and so

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i like em in the middle

pliant hornet
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2 and 3 just have me at the edge of my seat for all the setups and payoffs (|| important character deaths ||)

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I kinda don’t like how overpowered he feels as a fighter by book 3, but he’s also been an inquisitor for almost 200 years at that point so he should be pretty damn strong

tall phoenix
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Yeah its just usual warhammer tropes mostly, you get used to it after a certain point lol

pliant hornet
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Also book three has him defecting MF bullets with his force sword which is funny.

He feels like he is not in much danger of dying, but I think it’s fine since it’s offset by the tension of everyone kinda becoming scared of him and you being like “DON’T DO THAT EISENHORN PLEASE”

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  • everyone else lacks his plot armor which adds to the tension too
lofty thunder
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Deflecting bullets is honestly pretty reasonable for psyker bullshit

pliant hornet
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Fair, and his sword is pretty much kinda sentient

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I also love how he felt it 100% necessary to honor his deal to give Pontius the robo body

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Like, no one would fault you for not honoring it my guy, why’d you give the TERRIFYING, POWERFUL, HERETIC a body?

wise yew
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Psychic powers can literally take the shape of anything you want as long as you have ample power for it

pliant hornet
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Yeah I know it’s possible and makes sense, I just found it funny

wise yew
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It is quite hilarious

cerulean peak
pliant hornet
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Eisenhorn makes me excited for the new Dark Heresy game

cerulean peak
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I should reread Eisenhorn

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Especially since they just rereleased ravenor omni

deft bramble
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Eisenhorn makes me excited

safe plover
deft bramble
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btw what does Eisy have to do with Dark Heresy game

tall phoenix
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Abnett said as much

safe plover
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ye i kno

cerulean peak
severe trail
safe plover
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theyre waiting for other story lines to progress

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which is why im so hyped for it

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imagine something this plot defining

tall phoenix
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We dont really know what they are waiting for

deft bramble
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Inquisition? but Eisenhorn is not whole inquisition...

tall phoenix
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Abnett simply said its the higher-ups at GW putting it on hold for something

safe plover
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whatelse?

deft bramble
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wha...

tall phoenix
safe plover
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it has to reveal something BIG

tall phoenix
deft bramble
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im not really following im gonna be honest

tall phoenix
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following what

deft bramble
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how Eisy books are connected to it

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to the new owlcat game

tall phoenix
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How tf should we know

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they arent even out yet

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lmao

safe plover
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owelcat games have a story?

deft bramble
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ah, the books arent even out yet

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alright

tall phoenix
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the game 💀

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uaaagghh

deft bramble
tall phoenix
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🫡

safe plover
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i PLAY amazing turn based combat

deft bramble
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you just romance goth death cult chicks

safe plover
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and spent 300 hours equiping my little dudes

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i fucked up the romance tbh

tall phoenix
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I mean

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realistic tbh

safe plover
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WOWWOWOW

tall phoenix
deft bramble
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i want regecid to be an actual mini game

safe plover
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its very old tho

deft bramble
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WAAAAAA

safe plover
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imagine they add a whole ass mini game in SM3

deft bramble
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minigames in SM games?

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bruh

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SM games are for masses

safe plover
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🚬 ur right G

deft bramble
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they need to be as easy as possible

safe plover
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smoothbrains cant play the chess of tomorrow

deft bramble
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(then me remembering SM2 being fucking CBT)

safe plover
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i never played it

deft bramble
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its good, try it some day

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but on easy

severe trail
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oh god why discord

runic root
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Szia Clad, hogy vagy uram?

safe plover
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good

runic root
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Bought all of hungaries eggs today?

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Since they were so cheap recently

safe plover
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only 20

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3 euro for 20

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not bad

runic root
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Should last you a couple a day

runic root
safe plover
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i think 2 euro a 10 pack for the cheapest ones

runic root
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I got my feet wet with melee psyker today. Definetly an experience, but purgatus staff psyker is still number one, follwed by gunker

runic root
safe plover
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i just do arby now

runic root
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Imma check at Aldi tmr

runic root
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Oh how far you have fallen KEKW_ogryn

runic root
safe plover
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no i didnt!!!!

safe plover
runic root
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Where you pinged another guy like: " dude, i saw you play in game, youre psyker now like me".

runic root
safe plover
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i meant psyker as in psychic not playing psyker

runic root
safe plover
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😡 😡 😡 😡

runic root
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I take the rage Emojis as a no to the therapy lol

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Anywhosel, jo éjszakát.

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I am hitting the hay harder than will Smith criss Rock at the Oscars

quaint canopy
pliant hornet
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Pontius is such a schemer I would not trust him with any kind of body

deft bramble
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is Da Gobbo's Revenge a new book

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about orks

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wait, no...

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in between

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what the new one?

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or how is it called

reef nacelle
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Grotsnik da Mad Dok?

deft bramble
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asking me? its me who asking

reef nacelle
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That's the newest one

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But is it the one you want

deft bramble
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is there others?

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and is mad dok out? i guess not

reef nacelle
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It's out yeah

deft bramble
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uhhhh... only audiobook?

reef nacelle
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No idea, I don't deal with physical 40k books KEKW_ogryn

deft bramble
reef nacelle
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The ebooks available as far as I can see

tall phoenix
runic root
reef nacelle
runic root
reef nacelle
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(Outing my age here)

runic root
reef nacelle
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I just winged it and accepted my C in English lit

runic root
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Or did you blackmail it instead lol?

reef nacelle
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A pass is a pass

runic root
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Fair enough

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So glad i had chill parents who we're like "we'd like you to give your best, but If your best is barely a pass, thats ok, we'll love you anyways "

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I legit had classmates that got their allowance based on grades or got told that they were worthless losers If they didnt perform to their parents standards

reef nacelle
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Brutal but some people may need that

runic root
runic root
reef nacelle
reef nacelle
runic root
reef nacelle
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I still didn't learn the why in Uni KEKW_ogryn

runic root
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But i had to minor in political science and i had to take a statistics course for that and only god knows how i passed that one but i did KEKW_ogryn KEKW_ogryn

reef nacelle
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And I'm a qualified Engineer, it doesn't matter KEKW_ogryn

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Forgotten how to use 90% of the equations I learned lol

runic root
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Electrical engineer to be exact

runic root
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I just do it right by instinct/muscle memory

severe trail
runic root
severe trail
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LOL

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look

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my parents thought they were being nice

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probably

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considering my grandparents

tall phoenix
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it isnt 💀

severe trail
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It is not

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My mother

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literally has

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a fucking switch

tall phoenix
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at least it isnt south korea

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graduate

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be a corpo slave

runic root
tall phoenix
severe trail
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they didn't say that

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they just said they were being kinder then their parents

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which yeah they were

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💀

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I can't really blame them for the environment they grew up in

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I don't think my parents were abusive or anything tbh

runic root
runic root
severe trail
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considering his age

runic root
severe trail
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and what country he's from

runic root
severe trail
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he was japanese and he was part of the army during WW2 so

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well

runic root
severe trail
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yeah

runic root
severe trail
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anyways my grandparents aren't abusive nowadays, aside from my grandma on my moms side

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she uh beat me when I was like 12

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or 11

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💀

runic root
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Ooof

severe trail
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grandma hasn't lost her touch

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and by touch I mean the same switch she used to beat my mother

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and her sisters

severe trail
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in any case both my mom and dad got beaten in school by teachers

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which uh yeah

runic root
severe trail
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so did 2 of my cousins earlier on until Taiwan passed a law then Japan lol

runic root
severe trail
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about banning beating children in schools

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crazy I know

runic root
severe trail
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apparently my great grandpa was even more abusive

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according to my grandfather

runic root
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"tHe yOuNg gENeRatIonS hAVe beEN tREatEd tO sOfTLy NowADayS. bAcK iN mY DayS....." 💀

severe trail
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back in my days my father woke us up by beating us

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actual thing

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paraphrased

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because the exact translation would sound stupid

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also was apparently true my great grandpa did wake his children up by beating them if they weren't awake yet

runic root
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Jup
My grandfather on my moms side is an alcoholic

My at that time below the age of ten mother asked him politely If he could please stop drinking because she didnt want him to die of alcoholism

He beat her so serverly she couldnt sit for a week

severe trail
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yeah that sounds about right

simple cloud
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Bruh

severe trail
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except my great grandparents weren't alcoholic

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they just did that shit for the love of the game

runic root
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God, words cannot convey how much i hate that man

severe trail
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apparently they weren''t even angry people either

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they just did that shit

runic root
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Even the iron warriors hate would pale in comaprison

runic root
severe trail
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jeez

runic root
# simple cloud Bruh

Someone was unprepared for the personal traumadump lmao KEKW_ogryn

Im sorry, i'll stop now

simple cloud
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No it’s good. I grew up hating my father.

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Now I live in fear that I’m like him.

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Because in part like many biologists I’m a genetic determinist about behavior to a far greater degree than I’d be willing to admit in polite company.

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I see him in every mistake I make.

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And that’s a lot.

runic root
simple cloud
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No they don’t necessarily, tbh.

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I can detect similarities

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It’s an open question.

runic root
simple cloud
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I really like being a man honestly, and I really like men in so many ways.

But also there’s some kind of potential for evil there esp in family settings.

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There’s an uncomfortable familiarity to the thoughts of even some of the most virulent radical anti man feminists.

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I don’t feel indignant anymore when I see their stuff. I feel a little sick.

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Anyway.

runic root
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Aight, that's enough sad talk

Chats called bookclub 40k

What do we talk about? Literally anything else.
KEKW_ogryn

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Although i am sure our turkish overlord would rather read all that than clad yammering about 40k 🫠

simple cloud
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Shocking to no one but in reality I’m basically nothing like my Discord bit.

But being a goofball online is a rare outlet and escape from a lot of pain in my actual life.

40K books since I got on a world war kick I’m now listening to double eagle and am enjoy.

Second attempt to get into it. Going better this time.

vale wren
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Double eagle is great

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I don't wanna be the "it's just like ace combat" guy, but it is just like ace combat

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Same vibes

simple cloud
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Yeah I really like the autistic plane talk (sorry Dilara)

vale wren
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Mods will have to tie me down to stop me talking about thunderbolts being fucking thrust vectoring planes

simple cloud
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He mentions it so much!

vale wren
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There's a great short story about the Apostles in the Sabbat worlds book

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It just like double eagle but distilled into a short story so it feels more impactful

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And ofc, my goat, Interceptor City

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I fucking love it when planes

runic root
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"higher, king of the sky, he's flying to fast, yes he's flying to high" 🎵🎶 KEKW_ogryn

simple cloud
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I gotta read the various sabbat shorts

vale wren
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They go hard

deft bramble
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its so cool to read the start of Ravenor sitting in dim light while listening to rain asmr

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...and with a plaid

simple cloud
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I wish I could read Ravenor for the first time again

quaint canopy
quaint canopy
severe trail
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oh it gets worse

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before it gets better unfortunately

quaint canopy
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Bodyglove is like on every second page.

hybrid turtle
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Something something something skintight bodyglove something something

quaint canopy
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Skintight, cameo, cooling, warming, psy-immune, padded, armored, every freaking color bodyglove.

runic root
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Sounds like an erotic batman fanfic

brittle tapir
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skintight, latex, bodysuit, warm, sweat, smooth, stretchy

grim gate
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How's the Shadowsun book?

tall phoenix
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Its "okay", id say get Elemental Council instead

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its a very universally praised Tau book and just came out like a few months ago

grim gate
tall phoenix
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DAMN

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yeah in that case may as well get Shadowsun, its not a bad book, just nowhere near as good as Elemental

severe trail
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Hope you like shadowsun

tall phoenix
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LMAO

severe trail
tall phoenix
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THE BOOK IS NAMED AFTER HER

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NO SHIT

simple cloud
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Hahahaha

grim gate
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What do you mean the book is about Commander Shadowsun?

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Next your gonna tell me the Halo games are about John Halo

simple cloud
cerulean peak
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I'd say it's slightly above average. I enjoyed reading about T'au getting bullied by the death guard

fringe thorn
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Honestly I didn't expect for ||an Old One|| to appear in a Gaunt's Ghosts chapter
edit: nevermind, the character was ||an Eldar with a nickname of Old One||

woven chasm
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What do y'all think would be a good introductory audio book to 40k

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for someone new to the setting

reef nacelle
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Eisenhorn probably

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Covers a fair bit of the setting

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But there are a bunch of recommended books in the pins

woven chasm
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forgot about that. and ya was thinking HH or horus rising but ya

trim grove
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It's not completely done yet since its done in parts, just so you know, and it kinda focuses on the perspective of the characters more, along with the narrative.

forest spruce
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Guy haley writes long books

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Still got 2 hours left in this audio book

safe plover
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"contrary to popular belief, the Adepta Sororitas doesn't actually require its members to remain celibate, although few find the time to take advantage of the fact"
smh CAIN SLOP

reef nacelle
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Let the man be horny in peace

mental cobalt
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I'm getting near the end of Echose of Eternity

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and it's getting insane

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One part of a chapter is arkhan land falling back to the sanctum with a skitarus, blood angel thrall, and cybermonkey and it's complete chaos

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The next part of that chapter is Kargos of the world eaters tearing through all those people EXCEPT arkhan land

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I had to read that part over again like "wait this can't be the same people"

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Until i read him crushing the skull of the cybermonkey

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😔

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it was a brilliant chapter

tall phoenix
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They killed his monke 😔

simple cloud
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Harambe all over again 🫡

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Haram40k

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Wait 30k

deft bramble
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Halal 40k

simple cloud
whole meadow
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Since the period for BL to reach out to the open submission entrants ended and I didn't get the email or anything, I decided to drop my submission here if anyone wants to read it

mental cobalt
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dude these chapters

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i lowkey was rooting for ka'bandah to meet the goal Khorne set for him

silk laurel
digital saffron
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It's why they're funny

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Or good

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I think the author said he played pretty loose with everything and it makes everything nicer

sonic walrus
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I can't tell if I don't like salvation's reach, or if I just don't like that Toby Longworth isn't the reader.

simple cloud
fringe thorn
tall phoenix
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No news on Bequin 3

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Useless.

simple cloud
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Wait why the cry react sales up good

simple cloud
sonic walrus
wide mica
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30% increase in profits from last year

cerulean peak
tall phoenix
cerulean peak
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It'll dwarf the end and death

tall phoenix
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just gotta wait a few more years

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😔

cerulean peak
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A "few" more years

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It's alright, i got my copy of above and beyond and ravenor omnibus yesterday

tall phoenix
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ravenor (mid)

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Above and Beyond (peak)

cerulean peak
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🤷‍♂️ it's a good average i'd say

tall phoenix
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Im just tired of hearing about anything related to Eisenhorn

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every goddamn time

cerulean peak
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I haven't read abnett in while. And Eisenhorn was years ago for me

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Anyways, i'm enjoying the last few chapters of outgunned right now

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I'll have to rework my tierlist

vale wren
tall phoenix
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is this bait

vale wren
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no, i genuinely hate it

tall phoenix
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Yeah dont listen to this guy

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its a great book KEKW_ogryn

wide mica
#

Guys allergic to peak

tall phoenix
#

^^^

vale wren
#

I wish something would happen in the first 2/3ds of the book

tall phoenix
#

I mean thats literally the point

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the entire book is "theres more under the surface than just another petty war"

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id also say just the 1st arc, it very much picks up after it

forest spruce
#

Uh oh somebody triggered dilara

tall phoenix
#

"triggered" mfer im just talking KEKW_ogryn

forest spruce
#

Lol I'm just pulling ya leg

wide mica
#

The only reasonable complaint about Above and Beyond is that it's so good that you strained the muscles around your mouth from pogging too much.

tall phoenix
#

LMFAO

forest spruce
#

It was on this day dilara made me face the wall

tall phoenix
#

id rather blow my own brains out first than do a "face the wall" routine like a dickdiver lobotomite

forest spruce
#

Lol

wise yew
vale wren
#

most of the jokes feel like the author is trying too hard, the plot leads from nowhere to nowhere, and the only interesting character development involves her blood alcohol percentage

#

books is ass and you know it

errant heron
#

Gave me a chuckle

simple cloud
simple cloud
#

Damn never thot I’d see the day Dilara got trigged

cerulean peak
#

KEKW_ogryn I stop looking at my phone for a few minutes and it has already devolved to clad-tier takes

shy lark
#

do we start posting grimdank tier memes now

mental cobalt
vale wren
#

bottom line is i did not enjoy the book whatsoever

tall phoenix
#

My man

runic root
#

Name one thing you hate alot about the 40k universe and its fans:

I go first.

Ai generated/voiced lore shorts.

Cheesy, often stolen voicelines in a intellectually dead and artificial voice.... Often only barebones lore with stolen or ai generated images...and always about the same 10 lore segments.

Nothing enrages me more than this combo of laziness, faithless, heartless, soul- and braindead slop. Fire and ashes up all of those who to this. At least lend your 60 sec slop your own voice goshdamnit

lost temple
#

People who keep telling me that Magnus did nothing wrong !

simple cloud
#

… wow I honestly…

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On the whole I really like the 40K universe & etc

#

I literally can’t think of anything particularly hate.

#

Lmao

cerulean peak
simple cloud
#

Wait Daemonhammer

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@tall phoenix that book destroyed the rest of my brain and even though that’s not saying much it’s all I had

#

But really I think the 40K verse has been handled incredibly well in comparison to just about everything else and I really super like it & think GW and BL have amazing teams.

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Including how they ride the line on the Imperium’s morality.

tall phoenix
#

I guess him shooting his interrogator in the head was funny though so could be worse

safe plover
#

its gonna be so worth the hype bro trust me just wait 12312 more years

cerulean peak
#

It's ok, I still have to continue my read through the HH and SoT

safe plover
#

remember

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vulkan lives = good
legion = bad

cerulean peak
#

Which will take a long time because i'm in the mood for 40k stuff recently

cerulean peak
safe plover
#

i tried cain

#

the books were kinda "eh"

cerulean peak
#

I agree

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Definetly overhyped

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I was glad i finished the first omnibus because it meant I could read something else

tall phoenix
#

Cain books arent bad but also every single novel is the same thing.

#

its kinda why it gets very whatever after a certain point, they are also very outdated lol

wide mica
brittle tapir
#

like eisenhorn, tanith, cain

tall phoenix
#

It was way more focused on marines

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the guard were just a side-piece so to speak

drowsy urchin
#

Marines didn't have many series for them but most one off books were about them

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and they don't come up as often because they weren't that great

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or at least that's what I think, never bothered to read them pupper

tall phoenix
#

They are very "corporate" yeah

#

they have shit like that one big-ass omnibus that is filled with like 50 short stories for a ton of Chapters for example lol

#

in the marine-world even today you are lucky if your Successors get basically anything

safe plover
#

he prolly healed by 31k and pretended to be a skeleton

#

tbh i really think they're gonna bring him back and the rest of the plot is gonna be big E trying to merge back with the starchild (fuck mass effect and FUCK starfield 40k was gonna do it first)

runic root
#

Its difficult to give space marines decent depth and varied stories. They kinda lack the human struggle and human individual element, since both are actually midigated/taken out of them to turn them into basically biological killer robots.

Now, looking to the Night Lords trillogy, it is possible to write good or even very good space marines. But it needs a good setup and unique theme or it turns into the same old bolter porn very fast (dont get me wrong, i love bolterporn). However, majority of people like intricate stories with deep and varied themes and relatable characters. Hard to do when your only purpose is a gene modified killing machine that has most of its humanity drilled out of them.

Actually, the interactions between space marines and human elements of the Imperium are probably what makes reading about the inhumanness of the space marines so interesting.

Like the black templar dude (racej i think?) thats supposed to guard Felix the historitor? Those two are utterly hilarious together.

Or when Pedro Kantor has to justify to one of his marines why he goes through the effort of carrying that one woman through the wastelands with them.

safe plover
#

imma be real i think night lords was a bit too humanizing to the night lords

#

you can not convince me that traitors would actually care about their slaves that much no matter how useful

tall phoenix
#

Authors have regularly always ignored the "they are slabs of meat personality-wise" to write novels.

#

Its just a general image given to them in general rulebook material to dehumanize them before just about any other lore thing just contradicts it

runic root
#

I musthave read alotta bad apples then

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Or not enough space marine books

simple cloud
simple cloud
runic root
tall phoenix
#

lol

simple cloud
#

Is it possible that person is real lmao

#

maSSterkatten really

tall phoenix
#

Yeah he is

#

idk why anyone ever thinks these people dont actually exist

vale wren
vale wren
brittle tapir
#

but that's just average twitter bait

vale wren
#

Show me extraplanetary migration statistics and then I'll believe you

tall phoenix
#

^

brittle tapir
runic root
brittle tapir
#

those colony ships are the entire gene pool of the planet for a while

#

and who's to say the first colony ships arent sent by terran countries with their own ethnicities? you'd see a planet entirely populated by descendants of albion

tall phoenix
# vale wren there is an interesting consideration about demographic dynamics 100000s of year...

Also you are putting more thought into this than more sci-fi writers even tho I agree.

One thing 40k greatly fails at imo is actually exploring more unique human ethnicities that far into the future I think, its kinda something ive been dabbling more in my homebrew sector a bit to actually make them feel a bit more alien. However I entirely get why authors dont wanna bother with this shit because its just kinda too complex of a subject to also delve into which a lot of sci-fi media also just entirely avoids.

But also yes the guy was just being a bigot so lmao

vale wren
#

ok but how about this, the entire population of terra becomes homogenous before colony ships become possible

#

checkmate, black people disproven

tall phoenix
#

I wouldnt word it like that

brittle tapir
#

who knows, maybe. skin colour is so complexe i have no clue

#

genetically

vale wren
#

Fortunately my degree is in physics and not whatever this shit is, so I don't have to know

tall phoenix
#

Clearly we must simply aim to be transparent humans

brittle tapir
#

explain how lasguns work

#

checkmate liberal

vale wren
brittle tapir
#

wait doesn't that mean people will have their muscles and shit showing

#

skinless freaks

brittle tapir
#

wait until they learn where the emperor comes from

tall phoenix
#

thats my favorite bit considering the Emperor canonically chooses to be a bronze-skinned anatolian/hittite

#

its like people who cant accept Jesus probably wasnt a white person lol

brittle tapir
#

god i wish the end and the death depicted him as black for fun

#

right on the book cover

tall phoenix
deft bramble
#

is there a new book from Alec Worley

vale wren
brittle tapir
#

and before it gets released GW goes on twitter to say something like:
"the emperor can change his appearance at will 🤫 "

deft bramble
tall phoenix
#

tho most people including me refer to that as like "being autistic"

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since you always focus on poinless but neat shit

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since some people enjoy also reading those things

brittle tapir
#

i'll be honest i wouldn't write about the ethnicities not because it's touchy subject but because that would be so much effort for worldbuilding

shy lark
#

Tolkien sucked at geographically sensible world building angymorrow

brittle tapir
#

what gets me is when a whole planet only has 1 biome

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the desert planet

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the jungle planet

deft bramble
#

when a whole planet only has 1 location you can walk around in

#

is Dredge Runners good

tall phoenix
#

Its very fun

#

especially since you seem very romantically interested in ratlings and ogryns

deft bramble
simple cloud
#

It’s pretty well understood. Melanocytes aren’t complicated cells.

simple cloud
brittle tapir
tall phoenix
#

Average scientist moment

simple cloud
#

U said it’s complex and it isn’t

White ppl bad Yakub misguided

#

Wat else do u need 2 kno

#

It’s the white devil gene

shy lark
#

Why did yakub make blonde melanesians

simple cloud
#

He was drunk that day

vale wren
#

my favourite bits in the dawn of fire books is when a primaris marine yaps something at a traitor and he just goes "i was there on terra, boy"

tall phoenix
#

And gets shot in the face

vale wren
#

trvth nuke

#

but the aura is unparalleled

#

people say space marines were created for warfare and not agriculture, but in just SM2 calgar farmed enough aura to feed a hive city

deft bramble
devout crypt
shy lark
#

yes, very bad joke

vale wren
#

what if 40k had product placement like death stranding. guard commanders would be drinking monster energy instead of recaf with nothing else in the world changing

tall phoenix
#

bruh 💀

tall phoenix
#

so like- staregryn

shy lark
#

yea but it was sung into existence and used to be flat until a cool guy tried to invade heaven

tall phoenix
brittle tapir
safe plover
tall phoenix
#

this is like going

#

goes to restaurant

#

sees a skinhead

#

"Omg why do you do this to yourself"

#

Mfer i was just walking/looking around

#

lmao

safe plover
#

the restaurant is called x.com

tall phoenix
#

Good game.

safe plover
#

thanks

tall phoenix
#

Not you dumbass

safe plover
#

not myfault you cant post a gif and a comment in one post

tall phoenix
#

not my fault you got zoomer brains and think xcom refers to twitter

#

🗣️

safe plover
#

not my fault your boomer brain cant use tech

tall phoenix
#

wdym cant use tech

#

you cant even read Legion

#

🫡

safe plover
#

🚬 whos gonna tell her?

#

no one reads anymore we just learn about warhammer from instagram reels

tall phoenix
#

💀 💀 💀

runic root
#

Death to ai generated slop lore channels.

Fire and brimstone. Ashes and misery

Blood for the blood GOD

safe plover
simple cloud
#

Lmfao good request

mental cobalt
#

Echoes of eternity finished

#

Now we begin the end

smoky bronze
simple cloud
#

😓

simple cloud
tall phoenix
#

"NO, IM WITH THE SCIENCE TEAM!"

smoky bronze
#

I think the fucked up thing about that xkcd comic is im not a geochemist but i do know the formula units for olivines feldspars and quartz

wide mica
#

I'm a chemist and I don't

smoky bronze
#

(I was recently trying to figure out how a startup was making nickle magnesium cobalt hydride from peridot, they werent it was peridotite which can contain cobalt in its pyroxene components)

#

Quartz is easy its just SiO2

#

Feldspars are aluminosilicates (ratios depend on the cation metal)
Olivines are magnesium/iron silicates

forest spruce
#

Kaggen gone???

wide mica
#

Reduced to dust

forest spruce
#

Tf

smoky bronze
#

Kaggen was being a bad faither for too long

wide mica
#

He cringed too close to the sun

wise yew
forest spruce
#

Dilara killed him with a nova cannon

#

Hilarious

tall phoenix
#

He went on a very long pro-imperialist, pro-corpo, pro-conquest rant for 3 hours, it was a lot 💀

vale wren
#

the elusive based-cringe-based triple combo

lethal valley
#

I'm gonna ask this here as the other chat is all about monsterfuckery atm

#

So with this supposed leak on what the terminus decree is, their strategy is:

1000 extra glowy space marines, vs ~10,000 custodes, and maybe 4-8,000 SoS...

Not including the sisters Psi-titans. Or the supposed reborn emperor. Or the horrors that'd be deployed from the shadow crypts. Or the literal angels like sabbat martyr and celestine.

And dante, because he has to be there too i guess.

I dont see this working out great for the boys on silver?

tall phoenix
#

It definitely wouldnt

#

but also id say dont think too hard about it, if the writers want them to succeed they'd find a way lol

#

but the same pendulum swings in reverse as well

wide mica
#

They'd probably just walk through with a box with the Emperors decree saying "Emperors orders, let us through" and then jump him

tall phoenix
#

based as hell

safe plover
#

this was prolly written 56 years ago

#

and was leaked by a janitor working at GW clearing the attic

tall phoenix
#

the rogue intern.......

safe plover
#

valdor and yellow fist guy once they return will just fuck them up

tall phoenix
#

Yellow fist guy???

#

BRUH

shy lark
#

the yellow fister yes

shy lark
#

lukas the trickster or the aeronautica novels which one to revisit

tall phoenix
#

Lukas the Trickster

#

fun book

#

Aeronautica next after that

shy lark
#

Man I'm not made of money

tall phoenix
#

hehehe

#

me when im not forced to buy physical books

safe plover
#

thats his name

safe plover
#

u see nothing

mental cobalt
#

what if rogal is the king in yellow pikaO

tall phoenix
#

well he DOES wear yellow

brittle tapir
#

just you wait

tall phoenix
#

LMFAO

#

shut up

#

doakes is a nerd

wide mica
#

I remember someone told me that in the book Doakes is psychic and that's why he knows Dexter is a killer, but he can't just say that and need to find ways to prove it.

tall phoenix
#

Actually hold on

#

isnt that in the fucking novel???

#

YEAH EXACTLY

#

which ngl makes it even funnier

safe plover
runic root
runic root
tall phoenix
#

like at the start of the series if Dex wasnt a serial killer he legit comes across like a sociopath

#

lmfao

cerulean peak
# lethal valley

Why tf did the emperor not warned custards but told this to grey knights

lethal valley
runic root
lethal valley
cerulean peak
#

That smile

forest spruce
#

I'm not even going to ask for context anymore

safe plover
#

legion bad

runic root
forest spruce
#

Plotlines never lead to anything

#

looks at the anathama

safe plover
lethal valley
runic root
# forest spruce Plotlines never lead to anything

Some people may picture the writing process at GW/BL as a keen general, sitting deep into the night at a table, devising all the plans, weighing options carefully, shuffling cards and holding brilliant deductive speeches...like Grand Admiral thrawn

We all know in fact though that the only person accurately describing GW/black libraries writing process is a drunk and stoned unemployed divorced mid 40-years old stumbling to the shitter at 3:45 am on a tuesday night, pants already half down ....

KEKW_ogryn

tall phoenix
#

Doakes or Legion

brittle tapir
#

if dexter leaned more into being the nerdy guy in the first season he could have gotten doakes fired for harassment

tall phoenix
#

not even a joke, he would have

#

Doakes actually gets in trouble from how badly he acts towards Dex lmfao

#

which like, out of context is actually entirely understandable lol

brittle tapir
#

dexter is too scared of giving up the facade though so he acts too tough

forest spruce
tall phoenix
# forest spruce Both
  • Basically, in Dexter the show the protagonist Dexter is a serial killer working as the mortician scientist forensics guy in the local PD covering up his own murders, he has a "code" where he keeps his instincts down by basically killing awful criminals. Doakes is one of his co-workers whos EXTREMELY sus of him to comedic levels because from our POV he literally has no idea Dexter is a bad guy for most of the show and legit comes off like a sociopath just bullying this meek nerd at the workplace.
forest spruce
#

Dexter is objectively correct

tall phoenix
#
  • For the Legion thing, Clad couldnt go through it for very dumb reasons even though its a perfect okay/fun book. We just give him crap for it because his take sfor HH are very goofy and dumb.
forest spruce
#

Sorry sorry the spirit of kaggen took over me for a second

tall phoenix
#

😭

brittle tapir
#

he also kills innocent people later on to keep his secret

forest spruce
tall phoenix
#

yeah hes based as hell

safe plover
#

we litearlly agree on everything except 3 books

#

people here are BORED

tall phoenix
forest spruce
#

Huh uh sure got defensive about that one

forest spruce
#

(she's about to throw me into the bay)

brittle tapir
#

doakes actor would look like a supermodel without the moustache

forest spruce
#

Are you joking

brittle tapir
#

i feel like the show made him grow it because he's genuinely too hot

tall phoenix
safe plover
#

moustache haters arent allowed here

forest spruce
#

He looks great with the mustache

safe plover
#

this is a turkish channel

brittle tapir
#

the moustache does not compliment his face

#

that specific moustache he has

#

also im gay fuck yall

forest spruce
#

I was gonna say he's just not your type

safe plover
forest spruce
#

But that felt a bit to far

#

Can't believe dilara gave a full breakdown of the context tho. That's a real homie right there

brittle tapir
#

she didnt even tell you to read the lexicanum for dexter lore

forest spruce
#

I know

#

Honestly shocked

tall phoenix
#

I mean what is there to lexi

#

hes a workplace harrasser!

runic root
#

The way he got doakes to beat him after the headbutt from him is still the funniest moment in their dynamic

#

"i own you"

Ok, calm down John Wayne KEKW_ogryn

severe trail
#

anyone have any Inqusition book suggestions, not Eisenorn series or anything because I've already read all of it

runic root
#

Ravenor?

severe trail
#

Sorry

#

Anything from the Eisenhorn bloodline

#

I've read all of it

runic root
#

Or maybe the e book shortstories from the bl Website

severe trail
#

should have specifie better

severe trail
runic root
severe trail
#

what the fuck is this, how did I miss this

tall phoenix
severe trail
tall phoenix
#

ACTUALLY

#

Its a reverse mcguffin hunt

#

the mcguffin arrives at the intro, the story revolves around whats to be done with it, but otherwise no spoilers

severe trail
#

thanks

brittle tapir
severe trail
#

the cover is a servoskull

brittle tapir
#

i meant the book gay wad

#

stygies is a good planet

tall phoenix
#

"good planet"

severe trail
# brittle tapir what in the omnissiah is that

THE STORY
The controversial Magos Explorator Isonovere Holt returns to Stygies VIII with a mysterious xenos artefact in tow, and the Inquisition in hot pursuit. Holt persuades a former acolyte, tech-adept Thess 4/90, to work with them again – can they reveal the artefact's dark secrets together?

tall phoenix
#

theres literal detroit firefights in its surface!!!

brittle tapir
#

they make the leman russ vanquisher that i like

severe trail
#

oh my god wait there were a bunch of admech short stories recently

#

how tf did I miss these

brittle tapir
severe trail
#

Blacklibarry website

brittle tapir
#

are they available online

severe trail
#

yes

brittle tapir
#

i enjoy mechanicum short stories. it's the best format for the faction

tall phoenix
#

most of them are kinda dogshit

#

lmfao

#

I read em all 💀

severe trail
#

lol

#

actually I'll just read them all via

#

alternative sources

#

and then buy the ones I liked

tall phoenix
vale wren
#

buying things is so 20th century

severe trail
runic root
severe trail
#

I want more admech books smh

#

I'll actually buy whats good

runic root
#

I am still pissed i cant get flesh and steel as a paperback. I bought the audio but i havent found the time to listen yet

runic root
#

Although paperback will be impossible to find i am afraid

severe trail
#

I've read all the warhammer crime novels

runic root
#

Lucky son of a bitch

severe trail
#

I am the biggest shill of warhammer crime

#

I'm not lucky

#

I just am a massive shill for that series LOL

runic root
#

Ive searched high and low, and i found N O T H I N G

vale wren
#

james workshop has paid him off

#

with paperback copies

runic root
#

Or at least nothing to a reasonable price

#

Only robberbarons

runic root
runic root
vale wren
#

well, i, for one, only accept payment in cold, hard plastic

#

its called integrity

severe trail
#

very very very descriptive lol

#

you will either enjoy it or find it mid as hell

#

and way too wordy

runic root
#

I was captivated by it

tranquil bolt
runic root
runic root
tranquil bolt
#

What

#

I'm confused

severe trail
#

Don't talk about how to do piracy in this server

#

or else discord kills us

#

with hammers

tranquil bolt
#

Oh

runic root
#

I read your comment as "we can pirate books"

tranquil bolt
#

I see

vale wren
#

that's the beauty of the internet, with the appropriate skillset you can find many things

severe trail
#

I don't even think the mods would kill us

#

but Discord itself is pretty

#

strict on piracy

#

which is LAME

tranquil bolt
#

Wait

#

Not the mods but discord?

severe trail
runic root
severe trail
#

Discord regularly shuts servers down for piracy stuff

#

lol

tranquil bolt
#

Doesnt discord onyl step in on seripus cases?

#

Bruh

severe trail
#

no

runic root
#

Read the user agreement

tranquil bolt
#

Didnt know they were strict about that

#

I usually talk about that topic freely

#

On discord I mean

runic root
#

They are. Especially in the last few days

#

Id say 80/90 percent of rules on this server are not only Rules because the moderators deemed them prudent and reasonable but ALSO because discord literally forces them too.

tranquil bolt
#

That only adds more irony when online crimes are happening and they step in all armed for something like this

tranquil bolt
#

@tall phoenix can I?

runic root
#

No lol

tranquil bolt
#

Dm you I mean

tranquil bolt
runic root
#

Only advice i have to not use Mainstream Browsers because they all have blocked those websites

vale wren
#

that's ok, fellow TOS abiding user, you can ask me anything

runic root
#

I wont say any more

tranquil bolt
runic root
#

I dont know

runic root
#

Terms of Service

tranquil bolt
#

And did you refer to me?

severe trail
#

its chromium iirc

tranquil bolt
#

Yeah its chromium

#

The only difference of it with google is their interface at the bottom part lol

#

(A generalisation joke please dont lynch me)

vale wren
#

nah thats literally true

pliant hornet
#

Use Firefox as a web browser, 99% it works fine and all flavors of tracker/adblock work

#
  • unfortunately it and its derivates are the only non-chromium web browsers right now
#

If you re arrange these letters and add .net to the end you will have a map to treasures untold:

y h m f

tall phoenix
pliant hornet
#

(please don’t murder me :3)

digital saffron
#

For added context our German friend here can't do it because they'll know and will charge you a nice hefty few hundred euro fee for doing it

pliant hornet
#

Oh damn

quartz grove
#

Are there any Radio dramas from 40k?

digital saffron
#

Like audio dramas you mean?

#

Ye

tall phoenix
#

Hit his ass with one of the most peak ones, good job Ed

digital saffron
#

There's more i think

#

Isn't Warhammer crime a lot of audios too?

tall phoenix
#

Yeah there is

#

but Watcher is relaly good