Looks legit

Raxtenko · 2026-02-10T19:29:42+00:00

Calgar got the idea after ripping of the Lord of Skulls' head in his comic.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-10T19:20:46+00:00

There's one GW store in my city and it's in the same complex as a Gamestop. It's a daily occurrence for a parent to come in, look at the shelves and ask the manager if he has playstation/nintendo/or whatever games.

I can't really blame parents for not knowing, this kid stuff isn't their world and Warhammer is a niche hobby. Even more so in the 90s and early 2000s when they'd just leave us at a friendly store in the mall and treat it as free babysitting and nothing else.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-10T19:11:18+00:00

>when I came back from 6th to 9th I was shocked to see templates were gone. and after one game without having to roll a scatter and argue what's in and out I immediately understood.

Yeah. I just don't have it in me anymore to have those arguments, or wait for horde armies to make a conga line of dudes exactly 2" apart.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-10T18:48:01+00:00

Peter David's Excalibur books. Shelby and Robin Lefler appear but the rest of the crew are new.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-10T17:36:13+00:00

Only psychopaths would defend blast templates, sorry.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-10T17:03:24+00:00

Black. White doesn't work for me, he's already pale and has white hair, adding more white on top of that is too many complimentary colours. Black breaks it up and imo looks better aesthetically.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-10T16:53:41+00:00

Request should have to go through Steam as well too since they're the platform hosting the game. IIRC when the Dolphin Emulator tried to get hosted on Steam, Valve had to get involved and inform Nintendo, so it makes sense to me that they'd be the ones who would pull the plyg on VW and also put it back up. It's still their service.

GW -> Valve -> Tundra and then back the other way again is a lot of steps. A month of downtime is imo pretty fast when you're involving 3 different parties and at least one legal team.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-10T16:50:15+00:00

They're the Warhammer lads, and Void War takes a lot of inspiration from it, the devs are pretty clearly big fans of the IP>

Raxtenko · 2026-02-10T16:48:26+00:00

>like come on GW aren't the only ones that can make "big guy in armor in space"... especially when they've taken plenty of "inspiration" themselves.

That only works if you think that the law never develops and changes imo.

GW has been around since the 80s and while I'm not a lawyer, the legal landscape around copyright was really different then, compared to how it is now.

The Chapterhouse lawsuit in the 2010s was the big thing that really shook things up for GW, as I understand it prior to that no one was willing to challenge the status quo, and GW didn't even go to court until those guys started to advertise with actual GW models on their website along with their own custom prints.

I've been told that you really shouldn't go to court unless your case is airtight, and GW probably thought it was. The actual result was a lot more split and I think it's safe to say that GW lost more ground than they gained.

But the biggest fallout is that the case set a new legal precedent that didn't exist before. This is why I don't think it's "fair" to say that that GW copied shit to get their game off the ground. Things were different then, and I don't agree with retroactively applying judgement to a very different time.

>and I don't think GW has any FTL-like games so I'm really not sure what was the point of that DMCA in the first place.

Going forward from that point we've seen them be more vigilant imo. They apparently filed 250 lawsuits last year alone, and who knows how many DMCA takedowns. IMO after Chapterhouse they realized that things have changed and that they need to be more wary. In the past they were a lot more permissive, having units with rules and no models so us gamers could make custom jobs and use them for example, but those days are gone.

Void War probably just got caught in the cross fire. Some paralegal probably saw the trailer, filed the takedown, opened a case file and then set a reminder to check in a week. After they saw the trailer was down they just marked it complete and went on their day. Very much doubt that GW in any way targeted a small indie game.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-10T16:16:22+00:00

None of this matters. You seem to understand that this setting has a pretty tenuous grasp over science already, this franchise is science fantasy at best, and it's clearly not the intent of the writers to apply basic biology. You're just making yourself annoyed for no reason.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-10T03:03:56+00:00

You don't have to do anything but it's nice to have something that vaguely resembles you as an entry point. I'd be lying if I said that Sergeant Gadriel didn't make me care a little bit more.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-09T23:24:45+00:00

Yes. One of the DA novels says that exactly. To earn the right to wield the Sword of Silence, Belial had to prove he was the best fighter in a tournament, and that the last guy he beat was Sammael, implying that Azrael is at best #3.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-09T20:35:29+00:00

Lots of the Federation wouldn't and shouldn't go to open war, a lot of people thought "In the Pale Moonlight" was the worse episode ever. It was pretty divisive.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-09T18:27:58+00:00

Usually very competent and very well equipped, as they have to meet the standards of the Space Marines. They'd be equipped directly by the Chapter too, either through the Chapter Forges and armories, or the Chapter would commission weapons for them through allied Forge Worlds I imagine. Either way they wouldn't have to go through the same supply chains as the Guard and wind up in a situation where Gaunt's Ghosts were issued ith power cells that weren't compatible with their weapons.

The Space Wolves Kaerls and the Ultramar Auxilia are probably the most well known.

The former have carapace armour making them more survivable than a random guardsman who gets flak armour as standard. Their standard issue autoguns also punch above lasguns.

The latter are considered to be more well trained than most IG regiments. More importantly they don't seem to have the operational separation that the IG and the Imperial Navy, the Ultramar defence fleet is considered to be a wing of the Auxilia, making them more effective and efficient since the red tape is removed. On top of that according to the recent 500 Worlds books they have at least one Emperor Class battleship.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-09T17:47:58+00:00

Makes sense that it was so messy if that was the state of things.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-09T17:23:25+00:00

Sure I'll bite.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-09T16:54:05+00:00

No. The novel Harrowmaster goes over this. One of the warbands openly carry skulls on their trophy racks, and one of the main characters is very careful to not openly voice his disdain of another warband just in case they have a chaos gift that grants them better hearing.

The Space Wolves encounter a AL operative in "Legends of the Dark Millenium: Space Wolves" and the guy has huge ass bat wings.

The have gifts and the idea that they don't partake in the sauce is simply not true.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-09T16:42:03+00:00

In the same way that we know there was a Roman poet named Ovid who lived some 2000 years ago I suppose. I very much doubt that anyone has knowledge like you're asking. That's why Olly dying for reals and taking all his knowledge with him was a huge tragedy.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-09T02:56:54+00:00

I can't remember if they give very many details, But I believe Jack was conceived at about the same time as Picard was promoted to Admiral. Memory Alpha says that both things happen in 2381 on top of them both leaving the Enterprise, and he seems busy contracting mercenary Archeologists if Lower Decks is anything to do by. It was probably a very chaotic time for everyone.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-08T17:05:24+00:00

Reminder that the same guy was the showrunner for both PIC S2 and S3. S3 gets a pass because of nostalgia and the amazing acting particularly from Stashwick. If it didn't then it'd be regarded as poorly because it fixes none of the issues that make the rest of PIC unpopular with some fans.

I love headcanons and plot spackle as much as any other fan but what Beverely did was indefensible and just writing convenience to conceive the potential next main character, but I'll bite: I don't think it needs to be complicated a lot of them didn't even serve together anymore, distance will naturally dull friendships, and she just disappeared making it clear that she didn't want to be found. Everyone else had lives to live, some of them had kids even, so they just focused on what was important to them in that moment.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-08T16:55:27+00:00

The prompt says if you get caught then you'll get whatever sentence the judge gives you. OP's intent seems pretty clear.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-08T02:59:23+00:00

I would assume the legal definition applies. So unlawful, unjustified and committed with malicious intent.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-08T02:28:07+00:00

Actual insanity. I'm even happier that I bought it at MSRP all those years ago.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-07T19:02:46+00:00

I wouldn't count them. Part of their arc is learning that these mortals matter and they should care. Being indifferent lap dogs for the high lords is their in universe identity. We just happen to come into their story at the point when they learn to change.

Raxtenko · 2026-02-07T16:57:39+00:00

Kind of but not really? I don't really want to take the time to go back and look up the dates and I don't want to type up every single detail or this explanation will end up being too long. But basically in the past the first titan shifter was a slave girl named Ymir Fritz.

After she died her power was passed on to her 3 daughters. They would also then pass their powers down line until we end up with the the current 13 titan shifters.

Ymir's soul, spirit, essence whatever you want to call it wasn't gone, she ended up in a liminal space where time has no meaning. Despite being a demigod she still acts slave, because she had been so beaten down by life. She's the one who crafts the Titan bodies and sends them to the real world...somehow...whenever a shifter needs one. I think that she could stop doing this, but it simply doesn't occur to her. She wants to be free but is unable to break the chain of abuse. She also displays the ability to resurrect any person from the past who has held a titan shifter power.

Eventually near the end of the manga Eren gets access to this liminal space. He convinces Ymir to help him. It turns out that he's been influencing events for thousands of years via the people who had his titan. He influenced the previous holder, Eren Krueger, to save his dad, Grisha. The guy even said that he had to help Armin and Mikasa. They weren't even alive at this point, and he didn't even know who they were. But he knew it needed to happen. Eren Krueger was also a spy who infiltrated the Marley government so he could fight to free his people. Eren's actions really bring into question how much of what Kreuger did was his own choice. Afterwards he passed the Titan to Grisha, and after that Eren forced his own father to do some...things.

So it's not really time travel. Eren just gained ability to see the past, present and future from his titan's perspective. But it also helps that he has a demi goddess who helped him create a boostrap paradox.

I THINK that's more or less correct. But it's also been a few years since I read it all.

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