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[Spilled Spaghett]

Why would anybody need to clarify that they're still friends with their employer?

Because they still want to keep up the ruse that it wasn't a sexual relationship and that's what drove Guy and Penny apart. You can't just swoop in and be the new hoe and expect the audience to be completely on board. The audience still seems willfully ignorant and wants to believe that it's a purely platonic friendship of two people who happen to paint Warhammer minis together.

I don't know if I feel sorry for her or not, to be honest. It is a bit pitiful that she's now basically reduced to hanging around as Guy's skivvy doing menial work like packing his merch orders, but on the other hand, she knew what she was getting into, and fucking your new boss behind his wife's back, when he's got two eleven month old babies at home is a really shitty thing to do, even before we factor in that it was his wife who encouraged him to hire you.

Never feel sorry for someone who got exactly what they wanted. She made her bed, she can lie in it.

I'm reading A Thousand Sons, and have since lost respect for Leman Russ. Even before Nikea, he had it out for Magnus because "durr, Psykers bad!"

You have to be a real knuckle-dragging shithead for Lorgar, the Fredo Corleone of the primarchs, to intervene and look like the voice of reason to prevent you from committing unprovoked fratricide.

I haven't read all the books around Russ but it seems like he has very little remorse over his action. He makes every excuse for himself. It's not his fault, he was tricked. It's not his fault, Magnus was evil anyways. It's not his fault, he's just doing his job. Russ feels bad that Magnus is gone, but doesn't feel responsible. He cannot or will not accept that Prospero was entirely his fault and there is no one else to blame.

At any point he could have realized that Prospero was clearly defenseless and confused by the attack. In some stories sure he tried to reach Magnus first, but there were billions of civilians begging for mercy and trying to surrender and not once did the Space Wolves change tactic. Even when face to face with Magnus he didn't try to redeem his brother. He didn't try to make peace he just killed him. In this regard Magnus is also to blame for not trying to surrender or offer his own life for his people. I hardly hold that against him though when the Space Wolves have made it very clear they will accept nothing short of Total Thousand Son Death.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

Because they still want to keep up the ruse that it wasn't a sexual relationship and that's what drove Guy and Penny apart. You can't just swoop in and be the new hoe and expect the audience to be completely on board. The audience still seems willfully ignorant and wants to believe that it's a purely platonic friendship of two people who happen to paint Warhammer minis together.

The thing is, you'd literally never say something like that in any other circumstance. You'd never say, for example, "Yeah, my boss had to let me go, but we're still friends," and it'd be a bit weird if you did say that. She's explaining her working situation, so all she had to say, if anything at all, was 'I've had my hours reduced, but I'm still employed by Midwinter Minis and I'm not leaving'.

The only reason you'd ever say to someone that "We're still friends," in this kind of context, is after a relationship breakup, if you wanted to reassure people the situation was amicable.

 

[p1138]

Hatty from Midwinter Minis posted a Q&A video recently, which is largely really boring and makes her out to be a bit of a boring bitch. Sadly, nobody asked "How do you live with yourself?"

However, I have clipped the only mildly interesting bit:

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And I think it's interesting for a number of reasons, but chief among them, her use of the phrase, "We're still friends."

Remember, while Guy fucking Hatty behind his wife's back while she was pregnant with his twins is common knowledge to the people that regularly read this thread, Midwinter Minis have not actually issued an official statement with regard to Hatty and Guy's relationship at all - as far as their casual viewership is concerned, Guy is just her employer.

Why would anybody need to clarify that they're still friends with their employer?

So, yeah, in conclusion

LOL BITCH GOT DUMPED!

lol, that's also some funny shit admitting she can't be there when the kids are there, because of course Penny would probably be pissed about her being around when he drops them off for Guy's part of the custody or whatever. Also if she's only working 1 day a week or whatever, that's pathetic. She was working at GW previously, and it probably wasn't a glamorous job but it was also probably regular work. "I painted some minis and packed merch for a youtube personality" isn't exactly much of a resume builder.

I'm reading A Thousand Sons, and have since lost respect for Leman Russ. Even before Nikea, he had it out for Magnus because "durr, Psykers bad!"

You have to be a real knuckle-dragging shithead for Lorgar, the Fredo Corleone of the primarchs, to intervene and look like the voice of reason to prevent you from committing unprovoked fratricide.

Haven't read that one yet myself, but yes Leman Russ comes off as a retard most of the time to be honest. It's especially stupid with the "durr, psykers bad!" because the whole fucking planet supports psykers "these aren't psykers, they're our rune priests, and gothi and wyrd, and blah blah blah"

I don't know if I feel sorry for her or not, to be honest. It is a bit pitiful that she's now basically reduced to hanging around as Guy's skivvy doing menial work like packing his merch orders, but on the other hand, she knew what she was getting into, and fucking your new boss behind his wife's back, when he's got two eleven month old babies at home is a really shitty thing to do, even before we factor in that it was his wife who encouraged him to hire you.

I'm pretty sure it was while she was pregnant.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

I'm pretty sure it was while she was pregnant.

I was under that impression too, but posts from Penny on Reddit (under the name 'ozzborne') indicate that the twins were 11 months old at the time they separated.

However, I wouldn't've thought you'd just move in a new woman a month or whatever after talking to her and then suddenly decide, seemingly on a whim, to throw your whole family away for her, so I would imagine they were fucking long before that, while Penny was pregnant.

Obviously he waited until she'd given birth to his children to leave her.

What a lovely bloke Guy is.

 

[GoodWinSon]

I'm reading A Thousand Sons, and have since lost respect for Leman Russ. Even before Nikea, he had it out for Magnus because "durr, Psykers bad!"

I won't spoil it if you aren't finished, but I think Magnus does some pretty dumb things in that book. It's a running theme that Primarchs are generally mentally stunted to some extent, which is fitting given that they're big muscle men designed to fight war good. I've been meaning to read Burning of Prospero, it covers Russ' side of the story, and it's written by Abnett, so it'll be decent at least.

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

The thing is, you'd literally never say something like that in any other circumstance. You'd never say, for example, "Yeah, my boss had to let me go, but we're still friends," and it'd be a bit weird if you did say that. She's explaining her working situation, so all she had to say, if anything at all, was 'I've had my hours reduced, but I'm still employed by Midwinter Minis and I'm not leaving'.

The only reason you'd ever say to someone that "We're still friends," in this kind of context, is after a relationship breakup, if you wanted to reassure people the situation was amicable.

Normally I would agree, but considering this is YouTube their business relies on parasocial relationships. The audience needs to believe that they aren't a consumer, and the Channel a business, but that everyone is super friends with each other irl. It drives engagement which is in turn profitable. Viewers are invested in the personal lives of content creators to a dangerous degree. They are clearly aware of this, and as weird and gay as it is, that's the nature of the business.

 

[bort420]

The battleforce is useless unless you already have an army started. The combat patrol is okay, but it would have been better if they'd put Retributors or Seraphim in instead of the Celestians.

That passage has become controversial among lorefags for that reason. Rogue Trader, Ciaphas Cain, and other sources have shown us agri-worlds that don't look like the first five minutes of the Blade Runner sequel. Some are almost pleasant to live on, even, aside from the constant backbreaking labor. It's definitely one of those things where the writer wanted to ramp up the grimdark without necessarily considering the ramifications of making all agricultural planets look like that.

There's no actual conflict here. It's a setting. There's a whole spectrum of agri-worlds like there are ranges of civilized worlds and feral worlds.

The excerpt itself points this out: they use the bucolic paradises for propaganda so they can staff the factory agri-worlds that are set up for pure production.

Autists take a description too far in a setting where everything is malleable.

 

[Your Spiritual Liege]

I've been meaning to read Burning of Prospero, it covers Russ' side of the story, and it's written by Abnett, so it'll be decent at least.

A very good book (it's by Abnett, duh), but starts reaaaaly slowly and you get to know the wolfs part of the story by the prism of the story protagonist, Kaspar Hawser, a historian turned skjald. Russ shows up by the tail end of the book and you do not see his perspective either, only his thoughts, that he presents to the main character, the Burning is also told from Kaspar's perspective and the tytanic duel is, sadly, summed up in one paragraph. Still, the story told is interesting and the writing is great, lots of descriptions of Terra during the final years of the unification, life on Fenris, wolfs customs and the mystery of Kaspar's role in this story, I would still recommend it, even, if you were more interested in the Astartes perspective, mirroring the one in A Thousand Sons.

 

[p1138]

I was under that impression too, but posts from Penny on Reddit (under the name 'ozzborne') indicate that the twins were 11 months old at the time they separated.

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However, I wouldn't've thought you'd just move in a new woman a month or whatever after talking to her and then suddenly decide, seemingly on a whim, to throw your whole family away for her, so I would imagine they were fucking long before that, while Penny was pregnant.

Obviously he waited until she'd given birth to his children to leave her.

What a lovely bloke Guy is.

Come on, we know he was fucking the assistant before he got caught and they actually split up over it.

Normally I would agree, but considering this is YouTube their business relies on parasocial relationships. The audience needs to believe that they aren't a consumer, and the Channel a business, but that everyone is super friends with each other irl. It drives engagement which is in turn profitable. Viewers are invested in the personal lives of content creators to a dangerous degree. They are clearly aware of this, and as weird and gay as it is, that's the nature of the business.

Indeed, same way we're aware of the actual negative BS behind it.

 

[Defensive Ella Purnell]

That passage has become controversial among lorefags for that reason. Rogue Trader, Ciaphas Cain, and other sources have shown us agri-worlds that don't look like the first five minutes of the Blade Runner sequel. Some are almost pleasant to live on, even, aside from the constant backbreaking labor. It's definitely one of those things where the writer wanted to ramp up the grimdark without necessarily considering the ramifications of making all agricultural planets look like that.

Fifteen Hours has the protagonist and his regiment come from a fairly pleasant agri-world. Great story too.

 

[Meat Target]

There's no actual conflict here. It's a setting. There's a whole spectrum of agri-worlds like there are ranges of civilized worlds and feral worlds.

The Imperium is a scaled-up and hammed-up parody of our own world. Most citizens, in terms of sheer numbers, live in India-tier shitholes on subsistence standards of living, but the Imperium is gonna show their equivalent of a modern corn farm in Kansas. The latter isn't the galactic norm, but it's not unheard of by any means.

 

[augment]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/njsqma2x/take-on-tyranids-with-lieutenant-titus-and-add-a-free-miniature-and-coin-to-your-collection/

Here you go, your Equal Participation primaris lieutenant, right on cue.

 

[bort420]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/njsqma2x/take-on-tyranids-with-lieutenant-titus-and-add-a-free-miniature-and-coin-to-your-collection/

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Here you go, your Equal Participation primaris lieutenant, right on cue.

Of all the generic space marines to bitch about getting a model the one that leads the smash hit game everyone including normies love is not one of them. And they already made him a model for the board game so this is just them repackaging him without the termagants and other bits.

They should have made models for everyone cool in that game. Absolutely on brand for GW to fail to capitalize on a huge success.

e: apparently termagant is a real word that means "woman with a quarrelsome, scolding quality" lmao. tyranids are woke smh my head.

 

[SadLonelyLoser]

Of all the generic space marines to bitch about getting a model the one that leads the smash hit game everyone including normies love is not one of them. And they already made him a model for the board game so this is just them repackaging him without the termagants and other bits.

In the states, Space Marine the board game sold for $39.99 at Target. It came with Titus and 20 termagants.
Space Marine Two: Recruit edition sold for $65.00 only at official GW stores. You lost 10 termagants but gained some paints and tools.

Did people not buy the recruit edition and now they're trying to offload all of the Titus models? Even worse, are they going to charge full Primaris Lieutenant prices for this?

 

[bort420]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPv2SezYHQQ

late on this but god damn this explains a lot. KKR needs to come in and clean house. Absolutely retarded decision making preventing a 10x on the stock.

 

[Rick The Stick]

They should have made models for everyone cool in that game

Cool is extremely subjective but who else are any of the normies this is aimed at going to actually give a fuck about? The nigger? The chink? Leandros? The sergeant who died from a bomb that didn't even damage his armor or hurt titus and co who were standing 10ft away? Nemeroth?
Hell I've seen more love for the generic marines you use in Operations than I have for any Non-Titus story character.

 

[bort420]

Cool is extremely subjective but who else are any of the normies this is aimed at going to actually give a fuck about? The nigger? The chink? Leandros? The sergeant who died from a bomb that didn't even damage his armor or hurt titus and co who were standing 10ft away? Nemeroth?
Hell I've seen more love for the generic marines you use in Operations than I have for any Non-Titus story character.

the point would be to exploit the hell out of the new people interested in the IP. where's Redemptor Valtus ventilating a helbrute?

very clearly a consequence of their broken corporate structure, I guess the tabletop 40k department doesn't want anyone else looking good otherwise they'd have run a proper combined channel marketing campaign for SM2

 

[Meat Target]

the point would be to exploit the hell out of the new people interested in the IP. where's Redemptor Valtus ventilating a helbrute?

very clearly a consequence of their broken corporate structure, I guess the tabletop 40k department doesn't want anyone else looking good otherwise they'd have run a proper combined channel marketing campaign for SM2

When you want to sell tie-in merch, you want it to be recognizable and iconic. Consumers are going to recognize Titus the main character, not the dozens of forgettable, interchangeable NPCs.

 

[Snekposter]

e: apparently termagant is a real word that means "woman with a quarrelsome, scolding quality" lmao. tyranids are woke smh my head.

Just wait until you see what their giant flying titan is named...

When you want to sell tie-in merch, you want it to be recognizable and iconic. Consumers are going to recognize Titus the main character, not the dozens of forgettable, interchangeable NPCs.

They at least need to give us a model of that badass-looking Chaplain so everyone can use him as a tactical rock for Titus to stand on.

 

[Male Idiot]

Everyone who dislikes Leandros has been snitched to the Inquisition.

Billions must read the Codex Astartes.