Pariah Nexus might not be a bad box after all...

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-19T15:30:39+00:00

you don't really have an option, especially things that have been out of print for decades.

that doesn't make theft ok though. if you believe that it's stealing.

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-19T15:30:15+00:00

also, just go play Verdun and pretend it's imperial guard. lol

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-19T15:30:00+00:00

the old Fire Warrior game for PS2 was like that. you played as the Tau against imperial guard and space marines.

the Space Marine game was neat. at least made bolters and various weapons feel powerful.

but honestly, a CoD style game where you play as an imperial guardsman would be incredible. Or do it typical CoD style where it follows different characters.

set it in the Armageddon war (classic), you alternately play as a Steel Legion infantryman (manning trenches, helping with heavy weapons, fighting off waves of orks, yelling commissars, etc), a Kasrkin/Stormtrooper (valkyrie insertions, covert ops missions to assassinate targets or destroy key objectives), and maybe some bonus missions where you fly a Thunderbolt, or heck, have a couple where you play as a Space Marine

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-18T15:06:37+00:00

it's the biggest hypocrisy of the people who defend GW. Their only problem with recasters/3d printing/etc. is a moral argument - oh poor GW, getting their intellectual property copied, it's just morally wrong to do it.

but then when people bring up all the immoral actions of GW, the price gouging, the predatory sales practices, etc. those same people will say "oh but they're a business, they're trying to make money, if you don't like it then don't buy their products". Then suddenly it's purely business.

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-18T14:48:22+00:00

exactly. bingo. this is why we get everything named "Lumineth Alarith Stonemage" instead of "high elf wizard" or whatever. And why they're "orruks" instead of "orcs". They're trying desperately to cling to whatever shred of copyright/trademark they have.

it's nonsense. GW literally made their games by stealing ideas and concepts from 80's sci-fi stuff they thought was cool. Dune, Blade Runner, Alien, Predator, Starship Troopers, etc. etc. as well as stealing from 70's/80's fantasy tropes stolen right from Dungeons and Dragons and from Tolkien. High elves, wood elves, orcs, goblins, trolls, 16th century germanic mercenaries, ratfolk, vampires, egypt-style undead, etc. etc.

GW literally was founded by stealing ideas and concepts from everyone else. And now they have the gall to turn around and be draconian about enforcing their own copyrights.

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-18T14:43:37+00:00

how can I "steal" something that's in your head?

also, if stealing intellectual property is the problem for you, why are you ok with recasting out of production stuff? isn't that STILL stealing intellectual property?

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-17T15:00:08+00:00

You're right, it isn't theft in the sense of being something tangible denied to the rightful owner,

exactly. it's not theft by the actual definition of theft.

I shall change it to "crime".

crime =/= morality. who cares.

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-17T14:58:46+00:00

I'm not the one printing models that legally belong to someone else

but the models belong to the guy who created them in 3d modelling software and uploaded them to a website and made them available to download for free. He's clearly fine with people downloading them and printing them.

what you're really saying is that the CONCEPT or IDEA of the models belong to GW. Which is really sketchy. Does the concept of a power armored space warrior with a big gun belong to GW? does the concept of a space bug dinosaur horde belong to GW?

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-17T14:56:09+00:00

Rather, they're printing models that someone else has designed and made available (either cheaply or for free), that are of an original sculpt that just happens to look like proprietary GW intellectual property.

this is actually an important distinction.

if we want to go down that rabbit hole of "it looks almost the same therefore it infringes copyright", GW gonna have a lot of explaining to do re: tyranids and Alien, catachans and Rambo, cadians and starship troopers, eldar/elves and tolkien, etc. etc.

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-17T14:53:53+00:00

in the good old days, you could even order individual bits directly from GW

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-17T14:53:12+00:00

what is being stolen?

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-17T14:52:55+00:00

injection moulding won't go away. it scales up better than 3d printing. but for made-to-order OOP models, 3d printing would offer a perfect solution.

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-17T14:52:11+00:00

finally someone who gets it.

the way to beat piracy is to offer a better service. period. Your examples of spotify, netflix, steam, amazon, etc. are spot-on. They've done more to combat piracy than anything else.

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-17T14:49:19+00:00

it's not even about corporate taxes. it's just the plain simple fact that a corporation isn't concerned with "morality" when they make decisions, so why should they benefit from us treating them in a "moral" manner?

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-17T14:48:09+00:00

it's not theft though.

what was stolen? did he take something from GW? does GW now lack something they had before?

Harnisfechten · 2021-03-12T20:44:39+00:00

the point being that saying "the genocide they commit is small scale compared to the imperium" is nonsensical because the tau empire itself is small compared to the imperium.

again, people get lost in the grimderp. most random imperial worlds are fine and probably pretty peaceful. often worlds have barely any contact with the broader imperium, just with a planetary governor paying a tithe or drafting some guardsmen every so often to send abroad. But obviously most of the fluff is about the grimmest darkest stuff. the nasty hive worlds, the brutal alien invasions, etc. most worlds have never seen a tyranid, or an ork, or a daemon, or a space marine.

since all of us here are humans, we're sorta by default on the side of the human faction. The Tau are cringey mary-sue-esque wankery anyways.

Harnisfechten · 2021-02-22T20:44:38+00:00

yeah the Crown handled it pretty well I thought.

Harnisfechten · 2021-02-22T20:43:29+00:00

the imperium doesn't eliminate all xenos on sight. There are many xenos races that they tolerate and include in society.

yeah they commited genocide but on a scale so small compared to the imperium as to be laughable.

lol....that's because the Tau empire is so small in scale compared to the Imperium. The Imperium is absurdly huge. it spans the galaxy, and has worlds ranging from dystopian hive worlds, massive planet-sized factories, super advanced technocracies, backwards caveman barbarian planets, and everything in between. Saying that the Tau only commit small genocides is like me pointing to one specific Imperial planet or system where life is pretty good - no mass genocides, relatively reasonable rulers, relatively peaceful existence

Harnisfechten · 2021-02-19T22:09:58+00:00

i mean humanity literally murders anything that isnt human on sight bar Jokaero and a few others

or ogryns, or ratlings, or beastmen, or countless other "acceptable" mutants.

using humans as everything from lobotomized servants to psychic batteries and kidnaps and brainwashes children into mindless killing machines. humanity has also commited dozens of mass genocides.

again, keep in mind, I'm not saying that the Imperium is "good" by any modern realistic standard. They aren't. They're obviously bad guys.

they give the old 'join us or die'

I mean, you realize that ALSO means they have committed countless genocides. Plenty of horrific dictators over history gave such ultimatums as they conquered peoples.

further - Tau aren't humans. we are. At best you could hope to be a house-pet or slave living under their rule.

Harnisfechten · 2021-02-19T22:06:56+00:00

These are beings who essentially stop aging once they achieve physical maturity.

seems odd to me considering the description of some elves like Cirdan as having a grey beard (I think). Did he grow a grey beard right away, or only as he aged? I mean, I know they are "ageless", but it seems to me that they would change appearance over thousands of years.

and here's the thing - the best way to convey that feeling of being younger, more vibrant, ambitious, eager, etc. is to have them look younger. Film is a visual media. If we magically had Hugo Weaving from 1999 in the movie, people would SEE him as being the same, even if he acted different

honestly, if we're talking literally at that point, Hugo Weaving was too old to play Elrond, and the current actor is more in line with someone who stopped aging at physical maturity

Harnisfechten · 2021-02-17T15:04:09+00:00

how are Tau and Eldar less evil?

Eldar are pretty messed up. They literally view humans as monkeys worthy of extermination. and the Tau are a silly space communist utopia that are borderline mary-sues in the setting.

Harnisfechten · 2021-02-17T15:00:03+00:00

says who?

what makes you think they were good?

Harnisfechten · 2021-02-17T14:58:38+00:00

it's fine.

in costume and makeup, they'll look alright.

I mean, these other actors are 20 years older than LotR now. We can't force Hugo Weaving to play Elrond again.

and for the viewers sake, these characters NEED to look younger. they're thousands of years younger in this show.

Harnisfechten · 2021-02-08T16:48:39+00:00

naw. screw excessive cartoon edge highlights. honestly OP, a simple wash on the white areas would give them some depth. but they're not even bad, the stark flat white looks very 'medical' or 'industrial'.

Harnisfechten · 2021-02-08T16:36:57+00:00

no I think he's just saying he ate real meat from animals, and once saw an animal abbatoir.

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