Sapient meat is the tastiest meat.
Spotted the Kroot.
Today I learned who the Zoats are.
only played the pc/console games
I’ve played the medieval; Warhammer games off and on over the years so when we thought 40 k was just the same in the future and then we tried space marines …
yeah, I could see where people would think40k fans are fascist … things like "life is the emperor’s currency use it well " and that was one of the milder slogans in the game…needless to say, we didn’t finish it …
The ones I know who hated them, hated them for being so obviously weeabo.
Me, I liked the potential storyline of rebellion and uprising against the screamingly-obvious mind/pheremone control of the Ethereals, as exemplified by the Farsight Enclave.
Fair enough! I think it took some time for the writers to figure out a compelling story for the Tau. As it was, they were initially presented as being, well, weeaboo and also incredibly obnoxiously “better” than everyone.
I’d stay away from Arch Warhammer, unless you want other fashy alt-right youtubers to show up in your recommendations.
Ah; some quick research does seem to back up what you say. Thanks for the heads-up.
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This morning I spent 8 minutes listening to Baldemort tell me the story of the last Thunder Warrior and then another 10 minutes listening to him expound on the subject.
*Baldermort
No problem. I stumbled upon him some years ago looking for lore on Warhammer Fantasy, but after a while something felt odd about him. A little research later and sure, he’s a fashy asshole. He’s still popping up now and then, can’t seem to get rid of him.
I recently started up a force of the new murder nuns, so I’ve been watching and reading quite a lot about 40k lately. Occulus Imperia is great if you like in-character video essays. I know some can’t stand it though.
I watched a few of his feeds last year or they year before and suddenly my feed was filled with rants about SJWs. It was weird.
And it was such a departure from the usual Grimdark. I myself see the Tau as a transparent marketing effort to draw in anime fans and others who aren’t so metal in their outlook. But, you know, it 's good to have a faction that really is different in a profound way.
One thing I think is very cool about the 40k universe is that they sometimes stage various “Crusades” and things, where the actual results of the role playing/hobbyists becomes part of the in-game lore.
That sounds cool, bump; can you give an example?
That’s all I can find, but I’m guessing I’m just not googling the right terms. I had heard about it some time ago back when I was more into tabletop games and stuff- as I understood it, the GW folks distributed battles and stuff to sanctioned events, and played them out, and the results went up, new battles came down, etc… Sounds like from that article though, they tend to retcon stuff sometimes.
The last paragraph is very interesting! Thanks for that link!
I spent about 35 minutes this morning learning about Eisenhorn, but stopped before the resolve because they seem like really cool stories and I’d like to just read them. I may be able to secure the first 3 books in paperback at a very reasonable price; i.e. somewhat less than the nearly US$11,000 dollars that a hardcover edition (in español, no less) is listed for on Amazon.
ETA: What’s up with the prices on used copies of these books? Why are there never reprints or new editions? There is clearly a huge demand for these books.
I wonder if it has anything to do with how Games Workshop handles their intellectual property. Some of the faction names for 40k have changed since those books were published. The Imperial Guard is now officially known as the Astra Militarum and the Eldar and Dark Eldar now have less generic easier names to defend on copyright grounds.
I think GW is moving the setting of 40k in a new direction. When the lore was originally created it was okay that it was completely outrageous and over-the-top because it was just a bare bones reason why these space people were hitting those space elves with chain swords. I think they’re dialing back the grim darkity darkness of the setting a bit. They’ve certainly dialed back Slaanesh, we’ve been introduced to a new breed of Space Marines, and it looks like humanity is on the cusp of some technological breakthroughs. So it’s going to be a little less grim dark soon I think. And GW has a habit of just ignoring lore when it suits them. And they can go on ignoring something for years before bringing it back again.
My book showed up today; it’s freaking HUGE. 672 pages, hardcover, with 37 stories plus an introduction. This is gonna make for interesting bedtime reading.
I think one issue was that the old setting was getting, well, old. You can only write the same un-moving setting for long, so they decided to advance things and try something new. I don’t like the Primaris myself, but the idea of one of the ancient heroes coming back to lead the Empire while the Biggest of Big Bads rise to meet him - well, that’s pretty classic for the setting.
Separate idea which may border on fan theory: IMHO, the Empire never really lost its technology. Instead, it’s the economy which broke down. For all the moaning about all the technology they’ve lost, it’s been shown that when they want to the Imperium can actually put stuff together, it’s just very costly to do. Why would that be? Oh, I don’t know - it might have to do with the fact they had a massive Empire-splitting civil war, and then pretty much kept doing external or internal wars for the next ten eons. Oh, and they started things off by launching a massed conquest of basically all the human worlds in space, many of which were brought into, err… compliance based on brute force and bloody destruction. (Gee, I WONDER WHY so much of the technical base is hard to manage?)
I don’t think so. The Mechanicus is more religion than scientists (literally…see the Omnissiah). They carefully preserve existing technology but rarely develop new stuff on their own. Sure they can make giant spaceships but they are just little spaceships supersized. Operating their tech is more religious in character than just some gearhead doing their thing and they are super serious about the religious aspect.
They will go to any lengths to get their hands on an S.T.C. which is old super tech libraries (think a super 3d printer attached to a super library of cool stuff).
But they don’t innovate. They are very stagnant. AIs are completely forbidden (for good reason…almost killed everything way, way back).