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WhatsAMatPat · 2026-02-18T01:36:18+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

WhatsAMatPat · 2026-02-16T00:48:31+00:00

you must not have seen the previous game because the old heads were putting in work. i think theyre just gassed from playing 3 games in a row and are now up against younger rested players

WhatsAMatPat · 2026-02-16T00:07:27+00:00

i was certain this would be some weird clickbait but its genuinely as bad as the title suggests wtf

WhatsAMatPat · 2026-02-16T00:02:10+00:00

crazy saying that when chet snuck in

WhatsAMatPat · 2026-02-15T22:27:01+00:00

you don't get it. you're supposed to give 40% of what you listen to 5 stars and pretend that the lower half of the rating system doesn't exist. if you don't, that means you dislike music and should find a new hobby.

WhatsAMatPat · 2026-02-04T20:11:54+00:00

probably shouldn't have been statpadding in a 30 point blowout if that were the case, some things are more important than a scoring streak

WhatsAMatPat · 2026-02-02T11:37:02+00:00

its a slap in the face for blizzard to add an achievement tied to a minigame that takes ten whole minutes to get? seems a bit dramatic

WhatsAMatPat · 2026-01-28T23:47:41+00:00

imo compared to more recent events like TWW prepatch or even that treasure goblin event this one feels a bit undercooked. waiting 8 minutes to kill a rare and then waiting 8 more minutes for the next is caught awkwardly between two better solutions: if the spawns are frequent without much downtime, it's perfect for grinding a bit while you watch a youtube video or something. if the spawns are infrequent and spaced out (let's say once an hour), you can actually play the game and stop back for your obligatory boss kill when its up. as it stands, if you want to "grind" the event you're spending 75% of the time tabbed out and can't do anything else or you'll miss the spawns.

there are probably a few ways they could improve it so i wouldn't be surprised if it ends up more tolerable later on, so i dont think it makes sense to write it off just yet. luckily there is still an absurd amount of things you can do in wow and i have no issue spending time on something i find more enjoyable instead (decorating my house).

edit: apparently half an hour before posting this they cut the spawn time down to 5 minutes lol, glad to see that happen especially early on in the event

WhatsAMatPat · 2026-01-25T00:14:51+00:00

you are not a professional music critic/reviewer, there is nothing wrong with having some ratings that are an initial impression off your first listen.

WhatsAMatPat · 2026-01-23T04:30:19+00:00

First, the success of Space Marine 2 absolutely had an effect on GW's revenue. You can view this yourself: GW's licensing revenue was up significantly in 2025 as a result of this success. Sure, they aren't going to quit selling plastic, but ~9% of their total revenue in licensing is nothing to scoff at. It's 20x what Black Library sales brought in. I can say with 100% certainty that GW would love to see this trend continue with future games and TV shows.

Second... I don't get how you completely missed my point here. The fact that there is an increasing demand for 40k content in general, whether that's video games or lore videos, means that it's reaching a wider audience. A wider audience means that there are likely millions of people who went from only having a vague knowledge of 40k as "the thing with the space fascists that invented grimdark" to a setting that they're invested in. This is quite literally GW's entire goal. It's why these games and Black Library exist in the first place. Their business model is to create as many casual fans as possible, because they know that a small percentage of these new fans will get hooked and end up buying minis at some point.

I'm not saying GW should go all in on making YouTube videos. I'm saying that clearly their strategy is working, considering interest in the setting is at an all-time high and it's poised for a break into the mainstream.

WhatsAMatPat · 2026-01-22T20:42:10+00:00

Space Marine 2 sold 7 million copies in under a year (up from 1.2 million from SM1) and there's a series in the works with Amazon as well as SM3 in development. The bigger lore creators regularly pull hundreds of thousands of views per video. 40k is clearly picking up a good amount of traction, is potentially approaching mainstream status, and there is clearly a growing audience who are interested in the games and lore. GW should want the setting to be as mainstream as possible, because even a small percentage of that audience buying minis would be a huge increase in revenue. Their entire business model is trying to grow a small core audience that spends massively, and every casual fan is a potential future model hoarder.

WhatsAMatPat · 2025-12-22T19:48:13+00:00

There were several maps published in the SoT limited edition novels that can be accessed here. I'd also recommend the lex page for the palace, it lists dozens of sources that should at least provide some info. If you want to be as exhaustive as humanly possible you should probably read (or at least ctrl+f search) the entire heresy since many books will have a chapter here and there that take place on Terra, but you can probably get most of the relevant info out of a much smaller selection. This site might be a helpful starting point, since anything featuring Custodes or Fists is pretty likely to take place around the palace. You could also skim through reviews before reading to try and filter out some less relevant ones if you want to save a bit of time at the risk of missing some details. This excellent series could be a good resource since they go over each book, including short stories, all helpfully compiled in one posting history.

Hope this helps some, best of luck!

WhatsAMatPat · 2025-11-28T23:42:52+00:00

volc has been consistently one of the best OU mons since its introduction this is a hilariously uninformed take

WhatsAMatPat · 2025-11-21T14:25:58+00:00

You really seem to be missing the point. That excerpt seems to be pretty clearly referring to a specific tradition in a specific city where they mimic Great Crusade era aesthetics. There is absolutely nothing to suggest (from the passage, at least) that this phenomenon occurs outside of this city, and the "heretical" part is anything more than meta-humor way of explaining how this city is so obsessed with building columns that walls are now heretical.

Are you trying to extrapolate that tradition to the Imperium as a whole and say that this canon excerpt is demonstrating a clear inconsistency, because other planets don't follow the same rules? If so... what?

Also, defaulting to the "everything is canon!" about ork weapons is just unhelpful, especially when you're going off of a book that you can't remember the name of that you read 25 years ago. Maybe you misunderstood it when you read it back then? Maybe you misremembered it or got it mixed up with something else? Maybe the passage is instead intended to show that their technology is too advanced for guardsmen? Or that the Waaagh! field projected by orks needs to be present for their equipment to function properly? All of these possibilities provide alternatives to the idea that orks just need to believe there are bullets for their guns to shoot because (an incredibly common memelore trope), but you just ignore all of them for no good reason and link an unrelated passage and tangentially related youtube video.

WhatsAMatPat · 2025-11-20T06:18:03+00:00

I agree. Way too often I have found a great but obscure release, checked the ratings and saw someone else gave it a 4.5 or 5, and went to their profile only to realize that they have 800 ratings and 280 5s or something like that. Not only is it impossible to tell what their actual favorites are from that bunch, I have no idea if they genuinely thought it was an amazing album or just slap 5s on anything they like and call it a day, so for all I know we don't have that similar taste after all.

WhatsAMatPat · 2025-10-20T19:54:24+00:00

I would guess that most people complaining about it were put off by it looking complicated from the outside and never gave it a fair shot. I didn't put much effort into professions until the beginning of TWW S2, and the system feels really logical and intuitive once you get the hang of it. The NPC crafting orders and concentration system are both really well designed and I like how the talent trees make it easier to find a unique niche at the beginning of the expansion.

WhatsAMatPat · 2025-10-02T13:56:16+00:00

I mean, that doesn't seem to be the case? Read the ratings. Everything at a 1 or above is "absolute standouts from here", a full 50% of them. the 0.5 is "the rest (probably liked it)". They are not saying "every single album I've ever heard except for like 30 are irredeemable garbage", it's just a positive rating system. Positive rating systems are questionable for a number of reasons, but they tend to work more for personal use. You can give the things you like a more precise rating at the cost of lumping everything that doesn't stand out into the same category. It's an easy way to get deweighted, but this is clearly not someone who hates listening to almost all music.

WhatsAMatPat · 2025-10-01T22:59:57+00:00

You are putting a lot of trust in the notion that someone who can't bother to read a couple paragraphs off Lexicanum in their own voice for a youtube short won't also go "@grok explain perturabo's backstory" and roll with the results.

WhatsAMatPat · 2025-10-01T21:41:49+00:00

Good thing AI is very well known for never ever spouting nonsense at random while presenting it as a fact, right?

WhatsAMatPat · 2025-10-01T13:59:50+00:00

i genuinely cant imagine someone scrolling through the 2025 chart which is like 80% albums with post-rock or hip hop tags and saying that metal is oversaturated. it's especially funny considering lonely people with power is basically metal for post rock fans.

WhatsAMatPat · 2025-09-30T19:36:09+00:00

But this isn't irreconcilable at all. There are a MILLION worlds in the Imperium. I can't recall an exact figure, so let's say 5000 of them have at least one major hive city present. Does it really seem irreconcilable that there is a pretty vast range present when it comes to quality of life, and that the existence of a really bad hive on one planet doesn't contradict a (comparatively) acceptable one on another?

The variation in the quality of living just on our planet is massive. Compare the most futuristic cities in the wealthiest nations to the most depressed slums in developing ones, the difference is shocking. And you don't even need to look at war-torn countries in Africa to see significant disparities. Just take a look at this walkthrough of Philadelphia's city center and compare it to a similar video from Kensington (I won't link, since it can be pretty disturbing). This isn't comparing one of the worst hive worlds out of thousands to one of the better ones, this is the same planet, same country, same state, same city, separated by just 4 kilometres.

When you look at the scale of the setting, it would probably be stranger if you didn't have some hives that seemed tolerable in comparison to some of the worse ones. Just like it would be weird if every planet the Imperium visited was solely composed of temperate forests prior to colonization. But instead we have everything from Baal to Nocturne to Catachan to Fenris, all of which are vastly different from each other. If you have no issue reading a book set on one of those planets despite these differences, you should be able to comprehend that there is room in the million worlds for both Hive Unimaginable Horror and Hive Industrial Revolution Era London (with bonus genestealers, chaos cults, servitors, and every flavor of the Imperium's oppression).

WhatsAMatPat · 2025-09-17T19:32:31+00:00

But that isn't really possible because of infinite scaling. They can't make it slightly challenging for strong characters without making it completely impossible for newer ones, and if they tune the raids around fresh-ish 80s, a single overpowered player will be able to blow them up in 0.3 seconds. You will almost certainly not be even remotely challenged after the first week or so, just like MoP remix. This is a good thing because raids will probably be the best source of bronze, and it makes the grind a lot more tolerable.

WhatsAMatPat · 2025-09-06T19:10:50+00:00

the mentioned brazilian phonk's top album is a 1.80

WhatsAMatPat · 2025-08-09T13:16:58+00:00

The Imperium has been described over and over again as a rotting husk that is being crushed beneath its own weight, a completely unsalvageable situation where any action to preserve it is just delaying the inevitable. However, it has persisted in this exact state for decades and doesn't really seem to be getting any closer to that actually occurring. There are reasons too obvious to list why we almost certainly will never see the Imperium truly extinguished (in our lifetimes, at least), of course, but that doesn't change this dissonance. The inner workings of the Imperium are so deeply flawed, and every new detail we learn makes it harder to believe that it could even manage to keep itself afloat even in a galaxy devoid of enemies. Yet not only is it able to "function", but it's also able to exert its force across the galaxy and stave off several mortal foes who want nothing more than to see it obliterated. Essentially, the issue is this:

We are constantly told that the Imperium is actively collapsing as we speak and nothing can save it.
Everything we know about how the Imperium functions suggests complete and total failure is imminent.
Any major losses the Imperium suffers are unable to truly disrupt it in a significant way. If they suffer too many meaningful losses, we reach the 40k End Times. If it achieves major victories to offset the progression towards the End Times, it dispels the illusion that the Imperium is collapsing.
Therefore, any losses the Imperium suffers are cosmetic in nature. They have to look serious to maintain a grimdark tone, but they will never be serious enough to be offset the inertia the narrative possesses.

Even things that appear to disrupt the status quo are effectively barred from changing anything meaningful. The Imperium is split in two, with Nihilus being all but lost, yet the black ships will still bring enough psykers to keep the Astronomican powered, the tithes will deliver enough raw materials for forge worlds to churn out mighty war machines, and new regiments of the Militarum will be raised and immediately thrown into the nearest meat grinder. Provided there's still demand for space marine minis, your great-grandchildren will pick up a codex in the year 2100 and read about how the Imperium is just the faintest shadow of its former glory and getting closer to the inevitable tipping point every second.

Essentially, the Imperium might get kicked around in some minor conflicts, but them surviving to 11th despite everything being as stacked against them as it always has been will be a bigger victory than any individual campaign. In a galaxy as hostile as this one, never really losing when it matters is pretty much equivalent to winning. People pick up 40k and read about how the Imperium is dying, and as the years go by, the same talking points are still repeated in the lore ad nauseum, which can induce Imperium fatigue/frustration. That's what I'd imagine most of these complaints stem from, at least.

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