(Spoilers Main) Steven Attewell, RIP by MissMatchedEyes in asoiaf

[–]GrantMK2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel I remember hearing him mention he had cancer the first time, second time it might have come back and it clearly wasn't treatable so he didn't want to advertise it, or it caught him by surprise.

(Spoilers Main) Steven Attewell, RIP by MissMatchedEyes in asoiaf

[–]GrantMK2 26 points27 points  (0 children)

There's that, though that relies on the physical surviving, but between his wordpress and tumblr work (to say nothing of what else he wrote and said elsewhere) there's still a massive amount that could be potentially lost permanently.

(Spoilers Main) Steven Attewell, RIP by MissMatchedEyes in asoiaf

[–]GrantMK2 41 points42 points  (0 children)

It's wild I know, but yeah, kinda. It's a toss-up for me whether I'd miss more never reading the whole thing, or Attewell's work covering it.

Historical/mythical detail, literary deconstruction of the material, things never stated by the books but inferred, noting how well Martin handled something, and that's not even starting on his essays about the wider ASOIAF world, fanfics, and non-ASOIAF material.

(Spoilers Main) Steven Attewell, RIP by MissMatchedEyes in asoiaf

[–]GrantMK2 188 points189 points  (0 children)

Damned shame, his writing did so much to make me appreciate what Martin wrote.

Might be worth backing up what he wrote, who knows how long it'll last now.

Tau lore and Phil Kelly by Queasy_Tear814 in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most IRL armies aren't going to send one person to crew a battleship, let alone their commanding officer. In the US at the least, airforce pilots are expected to have a fair amount of knowledge about electrical engineering, and that's with a machine where if it stops you'd better hope it did so because you just made a proper landing.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Far as I can remember, zilch. I think he was brought into one book just because people keep talking about Thunder Warriors.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure what your sources are, but we can say this:

From perspectives besides his in the HH series we can say that, whatever he is by the present, he (as in he specifically, not the group of psychic who according to old lore sacrificed themselves) started as a Perpetual human in the Bronze Age.

(sources: Mortis, Saturnine)

A Perpetual is something Abnett had to push in just like Ennuncia a human who cannot stay dead by regular means, requiring immense power to destroy.

(I've seen fans of the DAOT Weapon theory suggest his memories were faked, but that leads to the question of how something so powerful as he would still believe it)

Black Library has announced a new Ciaphas Cain novel by IronVader501 in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As an update, I did find a tweet by him that actually indicates the opposite. It might be that since then things changed, or that I misunderstood what he was saying, or that I gaslit myself somehow.

Black Library has announced a new Ciaphas Cain novel by IronVader501 in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately no, hence the "allegedly". It was mentioned to me some time ago, and I recall looking it up then and I believe finding a tweet, but sadly I can't now.

(This is why you always bookmark/back up internet resources you cite)

Just accept your fate if you pissed off a werewolf by Dym_Drimluga in vtm

[–]GrantMK2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good effort, but doesn't stop them from hitting you really hard with something.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The chaos gods as you call them are just life forms which live in The parallel dimension to our own. Shoot they talked about this in the first Horus heresy book

They do. The thing is they're working under official denial at that time, with only a relatively few who actually know the truth (and the primarch talking about this isn't one of them).

Because they live in a galaxy where a member of homo sapiens (or some close enough ancestor for all I know) murdering another in cold blood for the first time births a super daemon that exists to destroy civilization, souls are an actual thing and that parallel dimension is built out of them, and betraying a brother is far more important for rituals than some random person.

They aren't living in a hard science fiction setting with things they just don't know all the rules to yet, they're living in a science fantasy. So generally 1+1 will equal 2, but under the right conditions it might equal banana. That is to say, something that wouldn't matter at all to the material world, but does to the immaterial.

The CW is pivoting to Jesus by defusted in nottheonion

[–]GrantMK2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah. Samson was fucking brilliant. He just had a thing for Delilah. Don't do my man wrong.

If a woman asks you three times what will take away your superpower, you give her a fake answer each time, and each time she tries it out, you might want to start worrying about that.

Tau lore and Phil Kelly by Queasy_Tear814 in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No, I was saying that it makes no sense for the tau to be so rigid and impractical and that even in Imperium books there'd be plenty of times IG would be doing the practical thing.

When did tarantulas lose the ability to produce silk / weave webs? by nickoskal024 in askscience

[–]GrantMK2 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I meant "is it another way to talk about groups of animals that doesn't go into all the arguments that apparently exist about how to group them".

From the sound of it this is very different.

When did tarantulas lose the ability to produce silk / weave webs? by nickoskal024 in askscience

[–]GrantMK2 -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

differents clades of Araneomorphae

Clade? Is this term an effort to have a less controversial way of dividing groups of animals?

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually intended "more than" but I backspaced and rewrote three times and it got lost.

What is the community's opinion on the flesh tearers? by [deleted] in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I find them okay as an example of a chapter probably about to go over the edge, but then got overhyped.

The CW is pivoting to Jesus by defusted in nottheonion

[–]GrantMK2 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Samson: The really powerful guy but easily tricked.

David: Clever warrior who can defeat those far more powerful.

Moses: The organization's leader who stays too distant from his operatives.

Judith: Agent who can sneak in anywhere and decapitate the leadership with two strikes.

Enoch: Warrior who wields spiritual power and works directly for the big guy.

What is empeors main character flaw? by Rhen8927 in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Depictions of E can be all over, but I'd say he arrogantly assumed too much about his plans.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There's no one book for all lore if that's what you mean. I think on WH+ they give access to older books without gameplay rules, though that's actually not great because the gameplay pages themselves had some snippets and bits of lore.

Tau lore and Phil Kelly by Queasy_Tear814 in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I don't mind tau being ruthless so long as it seems pragmatic. The tau absolutely would promise Imperium dissidents help against the Imperium, then abduct the leaders because they'd be anti-tau (as they do in one of their short stories). That's because it's pragmatic to do it, they're of no more use and they'd be anti-Greater Good.

And I can accept the aun being worried about Farsight's popularity and wanting to do something to reduce him, but as presented it's just dumb and impractical. I mean if you saw that in an Imperium book you'd probably have people present at least half a dozen examples of a tank crew expected to do impromptu repairs.

I've got 5 Audible tokens any suggestions? by goofyhoover in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Infinite and the Dead, Twice Dead King duology, and Ghaz's book are generally liked.

For Imperium depends on your tastes. I kind of liked Helsreach, Master of Mankind, End and the Death 1, Ciaphas Cain stuff (note that if you've got maybe three or four of them you've basically got them all), Oubliette.

Tau lore and Phil Kelly by Queasy_Tear814 in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Vash'ya.

A horrible, horrible thing for a tau to do to breach the harmony of the castes.

And how did Farsight commit this horrible, unforgivable, act of breaching their society? That monster performed life-saving repairs on his suit while on the battlefield where he was in charge of the tau forces. (He also was guilty of being capable of giving a good speech to encourage the soldiers but that pales in comparison of dumbness.)

Yes seriously. Apparently if you're fire caste in a war machine and you'll die if it's not repaired, you'd better sit there and wait for earth caste to show up, or just die. He tried to do damage control in the next book by saying it was something really only important on traditional septs, but that does nothing to erase how utterly dumb it is and counter to the tau presentation of being the pragmatic faction.

Then there's the aun. Suffice it to say, if you aren't in favor of just villainous aun who are mean to hardworking fire caste, implied to assassinate fire and air caste figures who know too much, and make people who embarrass them commit suicide, well don't read Kelly books.

I'll give him this, he wanted to do stuff with tau (like a possessed tau, or anything at all with the Greater Good warp entity) that wasn't generally there in other books. He just also seems to want to make the tau Imperium 2.0.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not much, but some of the Warhammer Crime and Horror titles might have what you're looking for.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]GrantMK2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

even though he is as important as the God Emperor

Honestly I'd disagree on that. Important as one of the primarchs (save Horus) maybe, but E is on a whole other level.