kd637_mi @ kd637_mi @lemmy.sdf.org

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I've sworn off most things GW for being an evil scummy company, but some of the books are absolute bangers. Gaunts Ghosts, Ravenor, Eisenhorn, and the Night Lords books are up there.

My favourite Horus Heresy books are probably the ones to do with the Dark Angels. They have a medievalist/futurist feel which I really love. If you love these particular ones too I suggest checking out an unrelated book called A Canticle for Liebowitz, one of my favourite of all time.

Also, ditch those Chaos Gods. They are only using you. The God-Emperor is the only way.

I've found ordering by new comments is a good balance. It means generally newer stuff gets put at the top of my feed, but posts with a lot of recurring talk do as well.

I picked the SDF instance for this reason, otherwise I would be on aussie.zone or lemmygrad as my main. I also have one on lemmy.ml but I prefer to distribute the server load.

Hell yeah Morrowind! I like Skyrim ok but it feels bland somehow next to the weird setting and deeper mechanics in Morrowind

Cassette Beasts is so good! They are bringing out an update soonish with a new area too.

I wouldn't say this is world news. It's barely even US national news tbh. It would be very appropriate in the midwest.social instance though if you haven't put it there.

Workers and Resources is a great city builder/industry builder with a different focus to most. You're in charge of a socialist republic in the eastern bloc. The economy works differently and there is a lot more focus on... workers... and resources. There are also wildly varying difficulty levels so it can be as simple or complex as you want it to be.

So don't defederate with Meta to own the tankies? That seems like pretty poor reasoning.

Meta and other large companies should be defederated preemptively. You can judge them by what they have done, which consistently runs counter to the interest of ordinary people.

My all time favourite would be Blood Meridian, but very close would be A Canticle for Liebowitz, A Clockwork Orange, and Slaughterhouse 5. All brilliant books, and the last two are very short as well.

Canticle hits my post apocalypse and medieval loving brain in exactly the right spot, Clockwork is so challenging at first but the immersion is ridiculous, and Slaughterhouse is a brilliant piece of unreliable narrator fiction.

Blood Meridian for sure, so dark but such beautiful imagery juxtaposed against the brutality. Love that book.

I wouldn't say 'often' implies >50%, to imply that I would use something like 'mostly' or 'generally'. I think if you think about a 15% failure rate in something else, for example starting a car, saying it often fails would be pretty apt.

Yeah that one is fairly active. The issue with browsing all is the amount of posts that come out of lemmyshitposting and memes that flood the feed.

I can't recommend lemmyverse.net enough to find cool instances and communities. Once you find a community you like on it just copy the URL and paste it into a search from your instance.

I hope to see less song lyric comment chains on completely unrelated posts. Also I don't know why, but I always hated the whole, 'my partner, let's call them blank (not real name)' thing.

Just binged Severance, which was really good. Now I'm watching through Star Trek Next Gen, getting towards the end of season 2.

Cassette Beasts! Amazing monster trainer/Pokemon like with quality of life improvements everywhere, a crazy amount of "shinys" as each monster can spawn as any element, good story and tunes, and awesome art. Definitely worth picking up.

Also Eastward doesn't get enough love. Touching story, brilliant art and music, solid mechanics and a whole, deep turn based retro rpg within the game.

How is Tunic? It looks great but there are always other games I want when I'm buying things