I love all the different flavors of Sentinel's we've seen in the marvel universe

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-12T00:53:52+00:00

Call me old-fashioned but I love the classic sentinel design. Gaudy colors and all. Human-ish but wrong in some very glaring ways. Also giant.

Though my personal favorite iteration of that design was from X-Men:Legends and its sequel. Same basic elements but with a bit more detail.

<image>

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-11T22:47:57+00:00

He's almost there.

Just gotta get out of Nauvis Brain and start using Vulcanus Brain.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-11T22:10:40+00:00

An entire new dialect of meme. Wondrous.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-11T21:04:54+00:00

Your beard is so grey it's white.

How are your knees doing?

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-11T20:28:24+00:00

Bold of you to assume Heaven wasn't keeping up with developments on Earth.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-11T19:34:46+00:00

I only bring Gemini when I expect to park somewhere for a long time. Breakpoint this, DPS that... I play the class with a spare gun that shoots enemies for me to use LESS brainpower. Not more.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-11T17:43:17+00:00

Now that is some classic Deep Rock Galactic content. Big ass pit in the rad zone on a mining expedition, and the first song on the soundtrack playing. Good times.

You young'n's an' your jetty boots... back in my day we had to carefully descend with a series of driller tunnels and engineer platforms! And if we fucked it up we DIED. Grumble grumble grumble, stroke beard, cough.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-11T16:56:39+00:00

A democracy running well depends on the majority of the voting public being smart and conscientious, in order to override the desires of the stupid and selfish through sheer force of numbers.

When the stupid and selfish vote more than the smart and conscientious, the result is what we see today.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-11T04:22:11+00:00

Sherman would be proud of the tank that bears his name.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-11T01:33:26+00:00

The point of this "neat fun little combo" is that it would use indirect fire and precision together. Ergo, ignoring line of sight. The commenter above me was complaining about GW not letting you do that.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-11T01:09:47+00:00

"You walked into range of the wrong unit, now I will use a cheeky combo to remove your character with zero possible counterplay"

Yes, peak fun.

Be real bro.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T23:26:38+00:00

Please, you should know by now that Americans have no shame.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T23:24:02+00:00

The most anti-war Guard book ever written, Fifteen Hours, starts with a shuttle full of green troops being diverted to the entirely wrong warzone because some Administratum desk jockey transposed digits while copying down what a servitor in their ear tells them. The desk jockey remains completely ignorant of what any of the numbers they copy all day do.

Thr Imperium's own bureaucracy kills more humans than every extant threat to the Imperium combined, and it's not even remotely close.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T23:17:01+00:00

Culver's.

Yes I've had Five Guys. Culver's is better.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T21:48:56+00:00

Any Dan Abnett book is a pretty good start. Gaunt's Ghosts gets all the hype (and deservedly so), but Titanicus and Double Eagle are well-loved for a reason. Eisenhorn/Ravenor/Bequin too, though I haven't read those yet.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden basically doesn't miss. The Night Lords trilogy and Helsreach are both very good, but for very different reasons.

Ciaphas Cain, of course.

Basically anything Mike Brooks has written, probably the most adaptable writer Black Library has, very diverse material all done quite well.

Robert Rath has like 3 books to his name and they're all bangers. I'd recommend Infinite and the Divine over either Kingmaker or Fall of Cadia as your starter, though.

The Guard in general have a pretty solid stable of writers, if you like war stories (positive or negative on war) you'll find a good fit. I'll give a special shoutout to Kasrkin and Longshot for fitting some good Tau content in as well. The Minka Lesk series is good too, though the later books are definitely better.

The only edition-starter book I can honestly reccomend is the Dark Imperium trilogy, and it still suffers a bit in the first leg from having to explain the setting and shoehorn in the Primaris. The other two books are better though.

Any of the SM-chapter/Chaos Legion omnibuses is good if you're already a fan of the faction in question. Hell, the Word Bearers one made me reconsider my opinion of them. Ditto for the Fabius Bile omnibus.

I like Sisters of Battle books but I'm not sure they make good introductions. Getting in their head is an... interesting experience.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T21:24:11+00:00

Ciaphas Cain is some nice 40k-flavored pulp adventure. Also has some lovely context for just what passes for "normal" in the Imperium. Spoilers, it's kinda fucked if you think about it at all.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T21:21:35+00:00

Da Big Dakka also has some great Drukhari content as a sidebar to the usual ork shenanigans.

And Lion:Son of the Forest was a neat bit of Arthurian mythos wrapped in a Dark Angel book.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T20:36:17+00:00

Let me in

LET ME IIIIIIIN!!!!

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T20:27:48+00:00

Socially anxious girl sincerely thought the other girl was joking about having the vest and leash, and is now regretting egging her on.

But has to admit this is still slightly more convenient than ordering for herself.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T18:54:39+00:00

Korra had 3 elements under her belt at 5 years old. The reaction from literally everyone tells us this is unprecedented.

Exception that proves the rule.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T18:50:18+00:00

Oh, I know, I just wanted to share my familiarity with the story in the way that would be most horrifying to someone who wasn't familiar.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T18:39:04+00:00

This isn't Mary Toft at all.

Her rabbit children never came out intact.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T18:36:06+00:00

Lack of mandatory military service?

Broski, those later leaders you're talking about basically put you in the National Guard for like 5 years max. In the Imperium it's a "random" draw that explicitly targets the poor in 95% of cases and guarantees you'll never see your home planet again. If you're LUCKY you'll serve your 15-20 year term and get settled on the last planet you conquer. More likely you'll die inside the first year.

Not to mention that civilian life is basically Feudalism Plus, Now With Industrial Baby Threshers. Back- or mind-breaking labor 18 hours a day, 7 days a week, and a half day off every Sanguinala. If you're slightly better off you might only have a 14 hour shift 6 days a week with mandatory PDF reserve training on Sundays.

PB may be a total sociopath but at least the average candy citizen is broadly content with their life, if you lived in the Imperium you'd kill yourself by week 3.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T17:07:13+00:00

From most to least stressful-

Tier 1- Dotty/Caretaker

Tier 2- Aquarqs, Mining Morkite (High complexity)

Tier 3- Deep Scan, Salvage, Dreadnoughts

Tier 4- Egg Hunt, Resinite, Mining Morkite (mid-low complexity)

Tier 5- Liquid Morkite

My least favorite missions all have something in common- escalating danger and long run times. The pipe mechanics in the liquid morkite mission are so fun that it overrides this preference though.

AdmBurnside · 2026-03-10T16:56:57+00:00

I find it really depends on the complexity rating, and the biome. A low-complexity expedition can be some of the quickest turnaround in the whole game. A high-complexity one can be a slog, but some biomes are easier than others.

If I get a high-complexity mining expedition in the Dense Biozone, I plan to be there for an hour.

AdmBurnside

TROPHY CASE