This lizard wizard is definitely putting a considerable amount of mind effort magically keeping his staff upright for sure lol

It’s real easy; prime black, drybrush grey, drybrush a slightly lighter grey, stipple drybrush white, then stipple drybrush longbeard grey.

You could also throw a nuln oil wash on top, depends how dark you want it.

Thanks! Felt like I got real lucky I hit a good spot with the micron pen

I’ve only played them in spearhead so far, I’ve used the lil guys as sacrifices to keep opponents’ big things busy and revive themselves, meanwhile the dominator (Minotaur) runs around with increased movement and attacks from demonic power points and shoots in combat. Bombard can see the whole board so just sits at home objective. Pretty fun, stoked to get enough painted for a full game

Windows 10 was absolutely not a miracle on launch, it had its own host of problems that got fixed or ‘features’ removed over time. I distinctly remember the indexing and search being completely worthless for the first year. Forums were filled with posters declaring they’d hold onto Windows 7 until their PC crumbled to dust, and then they would finally switch to Linux. Such is the cycle of Windows releases.

The Egyptian word for cat was “mau” so close enough

You’d think this would be a career suicide film but it’s aaaaaaalmost okay. At times the creator’s heart is in the right place, but fumbles the bag pretty hard by, you know, making this. It’s possible the script folks read was different enough that they only saw the wholesome parts. That or they were paid a shit ton.

I saw all 5 Highlander movies for the first time this year and this one was my favorite by far.

The aliens send people into the future as a punishment? Then when the punishment isn’t punishment-y enough, they send goons into the further future to kill the guy?? And then when the goons point out ‘why bother? Why not just wait and he’ll die anyway?’ Also why even wait because time is apparently a pointlessly easily accessible plaything but NO QUESTIONS go to future kill old man???

Incomprehensible, hilarious

Not pictured; she spared herself the shame by having an actually good opener that referenced something in my bio

I met my fiancée on Bumble 4 years ago, but I also created this from my experience on the app:

I’m glad you enjoyed Thousand Sons! The size and different flavors of the 40k Novelverse is part of the excitement.

The Sons being up their own asses and not being nearly as smart as they think they are is apparent, my gripe is that we’re beaten over the head with that fact for half the book before anything interesting happens.

This full sequence happens 3 times in the first third alone (entering the mountain, the titan, and tentacle hugs):

1. Ahriman watches as handsome and sexy genius Magnus does something everyone thinks is suicidal/insane
2. Magnus is in trouble! Thousand Sons onlookers scream/cry/freak out. All is lost! Sexy Primarch-san noooooo
3. Cut to Magnus’s perspective: “hehe I’m so smart nobody knows how smart I am but me”
4. Magnus is okay! Rejoice! Ahriman cries tears of joy.

Then the scene where Ahriman and Magnus exposit to Lemuel so we the reader can be spoonfed the history felt like a scene that should’ve been left in the rough draft. I can’t believe self-important Magnus would take such an interest in a rando mortal, even if they are Ahriman’s pupil, and so excitedly regale them with the tale of the bird pieces.

I’m powering through and nearly done, it really picks up after the council of Nykea. IMO, the book should’ve started there as the rest could’ve been an email. Until then, all on-screen Thousand Sons all horrifically unlikable and not even in a fun way like the Sons of Horus.

Also not arguing and it works for folks. Magnus being an ouroboros of head-to-ass should’ve worked for me, but McNeil’s dialogue pains me even when not trying to make an inherently unlikable person seem sympathetic. Hopefully Abnett can flesh em out in Prospero Burns.

Legion sounds like my next stop after 1K Sons series, but should I read First Heretic->Battle for the Abyss first, or go straight to Legion then Know No Fear?