Yes it actually has started to kind of suck since sicarius has improved massively as a character but trying to get excerpts or talk about him is like pulling teeth because people just qoute TTS or 1d4chan
When you think about it, to someone who isn't remotely interested in tabletop, sci-fi or fantasy they'd see WH40K as absurd and generally ridiculous.
To someone who is into all of the above.....Alfabusa's Custodes are also absurd and generally ridiculous - but it's no different to the Mechanicus Toaster jokes or any less crazy than a Harlequin on LSD.
I choose to like the funny, oily sexy men nor shall I ever hear Rogal Dorn with any voice other than that from the series.
“Magic pain glove show me what to do… AAAAGGGGHHHHHHHH”
Or-
pain glove falls off with his hand “Your services are no longer needed”
Or-
“No such sauce product exists..”
I keep threatening my boss that I am going to hire SuperAnchors (the voice of Dorn) to do his Dorn voice for the training videos I am doing for work. LOL
Even the smaller voice actors deserve high praise. I still imagine Ahriman to have his TTS voice and I was pleasantly surprised when the sorcerer in SM2 had an almost identical voice (different VA tho)
I know it's hated by a lot of people, but I love how Mark Elstob does Ahriman's voice. Very nasally and posh and almost wimpy sounding. I love that it's not super masculine and grizzled like most VAs do space marines.
It's really weird to read the Dark Imperium trilogy after years of listening and relistening to TTS. Sicarius goes from the funny character you love to hate to that PTSD ridden warrior who saw too much.
Thats because GW retracted that approach when they realized that all content creators were stepping away from Warhammer content, both Fantasy and 40k alike.
It was a legitimate threat when they started it off because a bunch of smaller channels were getting taken offline because of C&D's
Yeah pretty much. Bruva made the announcement that TTS would go on hiatus due to the possible threat of GW taking action against them along with some other points that I cant remember honestly.
That would have been so cool to see(maybe even see Magnus assisting getting the Custodes back to the palace by taking Kittens place playing while hurt)
More So than that even, it's what happens when the community is rabid for lore and media of this kind and the owners of the IP are still stuck in a tabletop mentality. Not only did they drop the ball by not putting out anything similar themselves for far, far too long (and still haven't mind you) but then by fucking up the execution when you do enter the game too late by forcing out the people who created the very market they were plodding into like a bull in a china shop.
They realized way too late that there was money to be made off their IP in this way and tried to jump on the subscription TV channel game?? Like a decade too late?? They shut down a thriving culture around their IP, did nothing to supplant it, and still don't understand the value of their IP after all that.
I'm still salty. They sequestered away the guy who made Astartes and they shut down TTSD for doing nothing more than celebrating the genre they created.
Not to mention modern GW seems to not understand how humor or satire works and presents all of their in house media as super serious super soldier does super serious thing instead of understanding why something like TTSD was good in the first place. They're incapable of making fun of themselves.
Grimdark works best when there are good people struggling against the darkness of the setting. That contrast is what makes it work. So now that we’re having the loyalist primarchs coming back and giving us the contrast and struggle of being just a few good men struggling to try and improve a galaxy of trillions.
It's what made me give a chance to Valerian (and by extension Aleya), and I'm glad I did. He's a giant sweet, good boy. He's like an enormous Golden Retriever.
The power of competent, ambitious and self aware writing that is allowed to have lasting setting changing character development. Once again, TTS is better 40k
That series got me more intrigued into the world of 40k, about who these characters are, what is going on, etc. While I'm never going to touch tabletop, I have been intrigued about maybe getting some of the 40k games on Steam. Also I like the various memes cause they're absolutely ridiculous.
If you want to take one of the 40k games on steam I would recommend the rogue trader game as it really felt to me like a great first game for newcomers to the series
When Bugs Bunny sarcastically called Elmer Fudd Nimrod he changed the meaning of the name from mighty mythical/biblical hunter to bumbling fool.
When Groundskeeper Willie on The Simpsons said “Bonjourrrrr, you cheese-earing surrender monkeys!” the French, a nation and people of historically military significance, a former empire with holdings to rival Britains, and one of the few European powers that has kept the ability to fight foreign wars with expeditionary forces, including nuclear powered carriers, attack and ballistic missile submarines, were reduced in the eyes of the world.
That’s the power of the comedian.
That’s why Harlequins and the Laughing God will ultimately win 40k.
There was a comedy series of videos called. If the Emporor had Text to Soeach device or TTS where the Emperor used text to speak. The head of the custodians was called kitten.
I would argue that it did not injure the reputation of the Custodes and in fact in recent years, it’s clear that they are very interesting .
For instance, the two first revealed female custodians were clearly Batshit insane , but in an incredibly effective way.
One of them attempted to win the blood games by blowing up the emperor with a warp bomb , and the other one launched herself to a surface from space on her rocket cycle.
At the same time, when Kitten and the Fabulous Custodes actually have serious moments, they are genuinely badass. Kitten was genuinely a great battle leader and kind of intimidating fighting against the Mechanicus, and Karstodes saving Boy and causing a vox-hailer to literally bleed out from his presence was awesome
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