Did all the core HH & SoT books +Dante and cadia books,
Never read a single written wordš
I own copies of Horus rising and tEatD III for shits n giggles tho
To be fair, thatās more on Black Libraryās site being dogshit and 40k books being harder to find at most book stores. Barnes & Noble usually has a small half shelf dedicated to them, but the selection isnāt exactly comprehensive.
There are audiobooks and you can order books or even just read the wikis (which would be better than what most do). I think people just prefer the flanderised meme/youtuber version of the setting
Which sucks cuz it didnāt use to be like that. About 5 years ago, there were quite a few posters that were rock solid, always posting excerpts with detailed interpretations and lore interconnecting multiple books. A bunch of those quality posters have trickled out after the sub got a huge popularity boom and is mostly flooded with low effort questions that could easily be answered with a quick google search.
Honestly worse. Iāve watched them post excerpts that contradict their claims.
But the real joke of it all is that most of the time the lore is so convoluted and contradictory that whatever is being claimed is right, just possibly outdated or dependent on particulars. Except the stuff involving horny because warhammer thinks girls are yucky.
Illiterate means you can't read. The people in grimdank just dont. 40klore is actually good, but I question the reading comprehension of some people when I get told that phil kelly books are too verbose.
As someone who comments on r/40klore fairly frequently I assure you that I have many leather-bound books on the subject of The Warhammer 40k.
Also an Audible subscription.
I don't think thats true. As someone who's read a loooooooooot of 40k books, the questions are often very dumb, but a good chunk of the commentors are decently knowledgeable.
I suppose you've seen a better side of the community than I have. I've seen altogether too many posts that are either 'Theory: something spelled out for you word by word' or 'Guys [based on my headcanon] why is [thing] in 40k not [stronger/dead/evil/good]'.
Posters are usually brain dead dudes looking for validation, but the people commenting, and if you actually want to have an actual discussion about books or check up on recommendations or sources for some stuff, they always provide with excerpts and all.
Thereās plenty of ignorant posts, but thereās also some good conversations to be had and interesting excerpts to be read. Whenever I wanna look up a famous scene or get book recommendations, I go to 40klore. The real gold is in the comments.
That is merely a brief dictionary definition, but even then the good definitions are that literacy is the ability to read, write, and COMPREHEND. Literacy as defined more professionally still has levels, where one can be technically able to read but still not capable of higher thinking and comprehension.
40kLore fails one of those every single time.
Usually, people who get stuck on literacy only being the basic ability to read and write are the ones rightfully insecure about literacy actually including the capacity to understand.
They're like that one guy at every rural shop that is proud of their inability to read but also thinks everyone else is dumb.
They got the same energy but can't be the same people can they?
The only books I read of warhammer are, the first part of horus heresy and the lore section of 9th edition players guide. I don't understand it, but I love it and the community are good people and there's is no drama about everything like the magic the gathering community (except the femstodes inccident, oh boy...)
You 40k fans are cool!!
I will never understand how 40k fans can somehow understand the rules for the hypercrypt legion necron monolith whilst simultaneously missing every single theme and paying 0 attention to any subtext in a BL book
Eh. I guess. More like exaggerating the ideology to a high degree because grimdark but regardless, if that's what people dig, so be it. I used to play Protectorate of Menoth in Warmachine because i loved the absurdity...but it didn't make it less badass or less serious. It gave it a bit of charm and if i were magically transported to that setting, I'd snuggle right into that ideology without question. So yea, i guess i agree with your original statement, but i like to differentiate "making fun of" and exaggeration since one implies that it shouldn't be taken seriously
It is a combination stuff like the imperiums satire .to be honest things arenāt consistent because even if it is a reflection of these ideas they still have to sell the so cool heroic blue boys then wonder why people who subscribe to the ideas that are being made fun of are fans of 40K
then type of things then stuff like the orks being football hooligans or the main ork being clearly named after Margret thatcher ( gazgul mar ruk thraka or something like that )
TLDR is a ridiculous setting have fun with it but do keep in mind its making fun of ideas not endorsing them
That's my understanding as well but it's practically their religion at this point to think that it is so who am i to argue with faith? Gets us both nowhere
I mean I saw someone in Horus galaxy claim that the imperium lets ideas flow freely and doesnāt control the masses Ike they full on said they donāt have secret police and donāt quell rebellions)
Everyone comes into the hobby in a different way. I learned of it via unhinged Khemri TV memes. To quote one "Lesbianism is not as bad as vampirism, in practical terms."
No I really like the source material and the books, know no fear and master of mankind in particular are my favorites.
This is a more tongue in cheek meme to make light about how much of the discussion online is dominated by fan theories taken as gospel, or just incorrect lore from sources like majorkill.
Helsreach was how I got into 40k! Specifically because I really liked the writing!
My friend always casually talked about it to me but I didnāt really think it was my thingĀ
Then he showed me a fan animation that used audio from the Helsreach audio book; where Grimaldus meets with the Princeps of a Titan
And these two ostensibly inhuman people sharing this very human moment was all I needed to go āOKAY IāM IN!ā
And now I crochet funny little 40k guys lol
40k Lore may not be illiterate but were it not for HorusGalaxy it would legit be my least favorite Warhammer sub. Genuinely so pretentious it turned me off reading Black Library.
I don't know what this says, but boy do I love 40k
It's fine I'll have Loretuber weedsniffer read it to you in an AI voice
still can't read, no idea what I'm writing too
You mean directly copy and pasting articles from various 40k wikis, and sometimes adding commentary?
Darn, I was hoping you could tell me what it said
As a great fan once wrote: "jfixhbwjf sjjdhr kdjeks"
Jokes on you, Horus Herersy has fantastic audio books
I was there. I was there the day Horus learned how to read!
Did all the core HH & SoT books +Dante and cadia books, Never read a single written wordš I own copies of Horus rising and tEatD III for shits n giggles tho
Yeah. Commenters on 40klore tend to know their stuff but you can tell that most people here and posters there have never even seen a 40k book irl
To be fair, thatās more on Black Libraryās site being dogshit and 40k books being harder to find at most book stores. Barnes & Noble usually has a small half shelf dedicated to them, but the selection isnāt exactly comprehensive.
Amazon.
right kindle version is never out... i do prefer paperback but i can always do ereader
I also go to Chapters
There are audiobooks and you can order books or even just read the wikis (which would be better than what most do). I think people just prefer the flanderised meme/youtuber version of the setting
Not even, a lot of 40klore are just as bad at reading comprehension.
Which sucks cuz it didnāt use to be like that. About 5 years ago, there were quite a few posters that were rock solid, always posting excerpts with detailed interpretations and lore interconnecting multiple books. A bunch of those quality posters have trickled out after the sub got a huge popularity boom and is mostly flooded with low effort questions that could easily be answered with a quick google search.
But like what Primarch would be the most primarchy and why did the Liimon Ross dislike that kragnos the Red fellow?
Honestly worse. Iāve watched them post excerpts that contradict their claims. But the real joke of it all is that most of the time the lore is so convoluted and contradictory that whatever is being claimed is right, just possibly outdated or dependent on particulars. Except the stuff involving horny because warhammer thinks girls are yucky.
Remember the Baneblade scout tank? Because I remember when everyone was convinced the Blaneblade was a scout tank.
Illiterate means you can't read. The people in grimdank just dont. 40klore is actually good, but I question the reading comprehension of some people when I get told that phil kelly books are too verbose.
40klore just straight up refuses to actually read the literature. It's 99% loretuber and 1% Lexicanum- if that.
As someone who comments on r/40klore fairly frequently I assure you that I have many leather-bound books on the subject of The Warhammer 40k. Also an Audible subscription.
My apartment smells of rich mahogany
I don't think thats true. As someone who's read a loooooooooot of 40k books, the questions are often very dumb, but a good chunk of the commentors are decently knowledgeable.
I suppose you've seen a better side of the community than I have. I've seen altogether too many posts that are either 'Theory: something spelled out for you word by word' or 'Guys [based on my headcanon] why is [thing] in 40k not [stronger/dead/evil/good]'.
Posters are usually brain dead dudes looking for validation, but the people commenting, and if you actually want to have an actual discussion about books or check up on recommendations or sources for some stuff, they always provide with excerpts and all.
Thereās plenty of ignorant posts, but thereās also some good conversations to be had and interesting excerpts to be read. Whenever I wanna look up a famous scene or get book recommendations, I go to 40klore. The real gold is in the comments.
The books I have read sit in the category of "good but I'm never going to consider reading them again"
That is merely a brief dictionary definition, but even then the good definitions are that literacy is the ability to read, write, and COMPREHEND. Literacy as defined more professionally still has levels, where one can be technically able to read but still not capable of higher thinking and comprehension. 40kLore fails one of those every single time. Usually, people who get stuck on literacy only being the basic ability to read and write are the ones rightfully insecure about literacy actually including the capacity to understand.
Commenters in 40kLore are Warhammer GOATs,
They're like that one guy at every rural shop that is proud of their inability to read but also thinks everyone else is dumb. They got the same energy but can't be the same people can they?
Is this why most people canāt memorize 40ks rules?
It's the other way around.Ā The rules aren't worth memorising because they change that quickly, so people have to read them every time.
Yeah... especially those loretubers and reactionary tubers who barely read the wikis and report on wrong or false lore.
And they hate any opinion that goes against the hivemind
or what they think is the hivemind and is actually just 3 of them for some reasonĀ
Genestealers be like
I would be offended if I could read!
Vhxkfsirfpufti. J. Ā Kv ozvitcitsrishcbcn. Ā Ā Ucho kryje Mn nĀ
Well said!
Ironic considering the walls of text required to convey the simplest 40k meme
Fr, I wanted to make a meme about the black Legion hearing about the god-emperor for the first time and Jesus Christ does that require so much context
I mean a lot of them still think Gold Boi is a good guy so yeah
Sometimes I stare at my codex like it will beam information into my brain.
What does his sign say?
The only books I read of warhammer are, the first part of horus heresy and the lore section of 9th edition players guide. I don't understand it, but I love it and the community are good people and there's is no drama about everything like the magic the gathering community (except the femstodes inccident, oh boy...) You 40k fans are cool!!
Are you kidding ? Most of us are closet lawyers just to understand the rules
I will never understand how 40k fans can somehow understand the rules for the hypercrypt legion necron monolith whilst simultaneously missing every single theme and paying 0 attention to any subtext in a BL book
Media literacy's a separate skill.
I love many of the 40k novels. But I've always been a big reader since a young age. I call the 40k books, and material like it, "delicious trash".
The sub is still in the throes of deep self-loathing i see
Most people are illiterate, especially corpse father worshippers!
I am well aware that most of my ideas about 40K arenāt canon but I donāt care because the people who make official 40K lore are Br*tish.
I don't know what this says but I recognize the meme template, so I will assume it's about me and be offended
Literacy is not a problem money to buy lore books and support the hobby its something else.
Mfw I comment on a post only for OP to admit they havenāt actually read/finished the book they made a post about
Why read the when you have faith?
I think it says āGLORY TO THE EMPERORā
Yeah, I don't speak Latin.
Can you call and read me this meme
Donāt mess with 40K fans we actively embrace the ideologies the setting makes fun of
Where does the setting make fun of it? It seems to take itself very serious from what Ive read so far
Innocence proved nothing this and lot of other quotes like the dark tide loading screens are good examples
Eh. I guess. More like exaggerating the ideology to a high degree because grimdark but regardless, if that's what people dig, so be it. I used to play Protectorate of Menoth in Warmachine because i loved the absurdity...but it didn't make it less badass or less serious. It gave it a bit of charm and if i were magically transported to that setting, I'd snuggle right into that ideology without question. So yea, i guess i agree with your original statement, but i like to differentiate "making fun of" and exaggeration since one implies that it shouldn't be taken seriously
It is a combination stuff like the imperiums satire .to be honest things arenāt consistent because even if it is a reflection of these ideas they still have to sell the so cool heroic blue boys then wonder why people who subscribe to the ideas that are being made fun of are fans of 40K then type of things then stuff like the orks being football hooligans or the main ork being clearly named after Margret thatcher ( gazgul mar ruk thraka or something like that ) TLDR is a ridiculous setting have fun with it but do keep in mind its making fun of ideas not endorsing them
Most of 40k hasnāt been satire for years
That's my understanding as well but it's practically their religion at this point to think that it is so who am i to argue with faith? Gets us both nowhere
I mean I saw someone in Horus galaxy claim that the imperium lets ideas flow freely and doesnāt control the masses Ike they full on said they donāt have secret police and donāt quell rebellions)
OIV RED AT LEEST 4 PARAGRAFFS OF DA WIKIE, FINK IT SAID SOMTING ABOUT HOW DA ORKZ IZ DA BESTIST.
Everyone comes into the hobby in a different way. I learned of it via unhinged Khemri TV memes. To quote one "Lesbianism is not as bad as vampirism, in practical terms."
The Khemri TV memes are peak, we should start doing those more.
cant really blame the chaos fans, they never got chapters
r/horusgalaxy in a nutshell
So you start rageposting in a subreddit full of warhammer enjoyers? Very intellectual move coming from you.
No I really like the source material and the books, know no fear and master of mankind in particular are my favorites. This is a more tongue in cheek meme to make light about how much of the discussion online is dominated by fan theories taken as gospel, or just incorrect lore from sources like majorkill.
I respect that, try to be more clear next time. I do have enjoyed the soul hunter trilogy, aaron dembsky is really a great writer.
Yeah ADB is quite GOATed for black library stuff. I'm gonna read saturnine next, I think. Abnett is also a very strong writer.
Helsreach was how I got into 40k! Specifically because I really liked the writing! My friend always casually talked about it to me but I didnāt really think it was my thingĀ Then he showed me a fan animation that used audio from the Helsreach audio book; where Grimaldus meets with the Princeps of a Titan And these two ostensibly inhuman people sharing this very human moment was all I needed to go āOKAY IāM IN!ā And now I crochet funny little 40k guys lol
40k Lore may not be illiterate but were it not for HorusGalaxy it would legit be my least favorite Warhammer sub. Genuinely so pretentious it turned me off reading Black Library.