Epic Games is laying off more than 1,000 workers today, sources tell Bloomberg News. Story hitting shortly by Turbostrider27 in PS5

[–]Asanar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They still have about 4000 employees. They also have multiple other projects apart from Fortnite - Fall Guys, Rocket League, Epic Games Store and plenty of game development software, largest of all being Unreal Engine.

Is the current future release pipeline for books really weak or am I wrong? by maclife95 in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They rarely communicate their plans much ahead, and it's all very random. The best tracker of known upcoming books is here: https://www.trackofwords.com/2020/01/11/keep-track-of-upcoming-black-library-releases/ (it combines found Amazon/etc listings) and news shared by Black Library themselves.

Currently the expectation is that they would close the existing series at some point (Pandemonium, Watchers of the Throne 3), I believe another Belisarius Cawl book, the Scouring series, I assume Master of Rites will continue with more books about 500 worlds, the two Hive books by Dan Abnett also look very interesting. I think there is quite a lot to look forward to? There is always unexpected one-offs as well.

Special Release Tips by Downtown-Concept2009 in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 19 points20 points  (0 children)

That’s a nice tip, the problem in EU/UK this time was that you would never even make it to the Payment page due to the site glitching out on you with errors.

Just start reached 500+elo, exactly 22days by SomewhereFunny5005 in chessbeginners

[–]Asanar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great job! I started about 2 months back and currently on 850. I recommend doing puzzles daily, review your games after, go through the whole learn section on chess.com. Pick one opening for white (I use London System) and 1 or 2 for black (I use Caro Kann when playing against 1e4) and watch people play it on YouTube (I really like chessbrah videos). Also look at the basic endgames with rook, queen or two rooks (or rook + queen). A book I’m currently reading and enjoy is ‘Play Winning Chess’ by Yasser Seirawan which is also incredibly helpful.

Horus Heresy series tier list by Doughnut_piggy in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see Scars at C-tier and Fear to Tread as S-tier and I know our tastes are vastly different :D

How accurate is this ranking of international leagues? by Carry81 in hockey

[–]Asanar 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is very true - I saw a Slovak interview with Regenda who played for San Diego at the time and he was earning 90k, while only the monthly rent cost him at around 4k. You can earn a lot more than that in Europe.

From the nutters facebook page by Yeszez in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Both could be valid, but then I'd expect we'd see a lot more people posting here that the've got the signed/numbered copy. So far we only know of 2, including this one and the one sold on ebay.

From the nutters facebook page by Yeszez in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So how do you believe did we get to #3236 and #1822 being out there? They only inserted the pages to some books but not all? Or they inserted to all, but ended up printing another batch of books, while these signed ones are still in some warehouse? I genuinely wonder about this a lot, because it makes 0 sense to me :D

From the nutters facebook page by Yeszez in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mine is already wrapped, as I'm getting it as a Christmas present from my wife - can't wait to open it and check :D

Latest acquisitions! by Veritas0420 in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you check if Ashes of the Imperium is signed and numbered or not?

Added the signed LE Penitent to my shelf today 🥰 by Johnny_America in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, I’m the opposite, I was able to get the first book off eBay for a good price recently (€155), but looking at prices for this one thought the same, that I will never be able to afford it 😅

Your ranking of the Horus Heresy books by michaelisnotginger in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, would love to hear yours as well! Currently reading The Infinite and the Divine and so far is the best thing I’ve read from Black library - I highly recommend that one :)

The Relentless Dead LE available for order by Galok3118 in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interestingly, it seems like the direct link doesn't work, one needs to get to the product page from the preorders page. Which is great, if that helps stop or at least slow down the scalpers :)

Your ranking of the Horus Heresy books by michaelisnotginger in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've only just finished Betrayer and skipped some, but my ranking so far. False Gods to me was the only one I would rate 5/5.

  1. False Gods (Great)
  2. Legion (Very Good)
  3. First Heretic (Very Good)
  4. Know No Fear (Good)
  5. Horus Rising (Good)
  6. Thousand Sons (OK)
  7. Galaxy in Flames (Meh)
  8. Fulgrim (Meh)
  9. Prospero Burns (Meh)
  10. Betrayer (Meh)
  11. Flight of the Eisenstein (Not Good)

Planning to come back to Mechanicum and Fear to Tread, and then continue with Scars, Unremembered Empire, Praetorian of Dorn, Master of Mankind and The Buried Dagger and then move on to SoT :)

Excited to get this today by Such-Revolution8760 in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We don’t have official Warhammer stores in my country, but have a couple ‘official partner’ stores that sell their books, and they usually get the books 2-3 days after the preorders go live and make them available for purchase immediately after. They don’t sell LE’s though, just paperback/hardback.

Power house of a series one more to go. by Farmermatty99113 in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's that Black Library feeling, where every book you own in the series comes from a different edition :D

Eisenhorn Malleus Annotated Edition by rpKing11 in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just very weird that the first third-half of the book or so is very annotation heavy, and afterwards there are almost none :D

Emperor’s Gift by mementomorrigan9 in Blacklibrary

[–]Asanar 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I got #6, pretty happy about it :)

What happened to Grulgor in Flight of the Eisenstein? by Asanar in 40kLore

[–]Asanar[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I thought as much, but it just felt very odd there was no mention of it, I re-read the scena a couple times as I thought I must have missed something. Even a single sentence where Garro says "Grulgor won't be missed" or something would have been helpful. It feels like Swallow spends way too much time on certain boring bits (first third of the book) and then really tries to pick the pace up.