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beast_gts wrote: Don't know 100%, but there's a couple of threads on Reddit & elsewhere saying it's gone for good (due to being "racist, sexist, homophobic etc. ").
Yeah I'm sure its 100% that and has nothing to do with a lot of people using that website as a source for material that an extremely litigious company would really REALLY like players to be shelling out for...
"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"
"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"
"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"
"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"
I like the lore articles, they're concise and less stuffy than most other sources. They may not be 100% accurate or at all impartial but it's more like being told about it by your mate.
It's not like I'm studying for a history major and I'll never remember the details anyway so I'd rather an enjoyable summary of what went down...
ArcaneHorror wrote: 1d4chan is much more accessible in allowing me to understand the rules and nuances of different factions than GW ever was.
Absolutely this.
At the very least, it was incredibly useful to have a summary of all the different rules for an army, rather than having to dig through multiple, often poorly-laid-out books to find what I needed. Especially with stuff like wargear, artefacts, stratagems and warlord traits. Even if I had to look up an exact rule elsewhere, it was really useful to at least get the gist of what things did.
It was especially useful when I wasn't very familiar with the army in question (and so might not even be aware of some of the supplements for such).
Elfric wrote: People also need to stop being scared of words
Also this.
blood reaper wrote: I will respect human rights and trans people but I will never under any circumstances use the phrase 'folks' or 'ya'll'. I would rather be killed by firing squad.
the_scotsman wrote: Yeah, when i read the small novel that is the Death Guard unit options and think about resolving the attacks from a melee-oriented min size death guard squad, the thing that springs to mind is "Accessible!"
Argive wrote: GW seems to have a crystal ball and just pulls hairbrained ideas out of their backside for the most part.
You're not. If you're worried about your opponent using 'fake' rules, you're having fun the wrong way. This hobby isn't about rules. It's about buying Citadel miniatures.
Please report to your nearest GW store for attitude readjustment. Take your wallet.
I miss the articles that go through tactics from earlier editions. Yeah, I know they're probably inaccurate/exaggerated, but it was fun to read sometimes to see how an army played in days gone by. Now, it's hard to even find content about the game from 7e, let alone the real silver chestnuts.
All in all, 1d4chan's day is past but it was fine for what it was.
ArcaneHorror wrote: 1d4chan is much more accessible in allowing me to understand the rules and nuances of different factions than GW ever was.
Absolutely this.
At the very least, it was incredibly useful to have a summary of all the different rules for an army, rather than having to dig through multiple, often poorly-laid-out books to find what I needed. Especially with stuff like wargear, artefacts, stratagems and warlord traits. Even if I had to look up an exact rule elsewhere, it was really useful to at least get the gist of what things did.
It was especially useful when I wasn't very familiar with the army in question (and so might not even be aware of some of the supplements for such).
Elfric wrote: People also need to stop being scared of words
Also this.
Nailed it.
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Elfric wrote: People also need to stop being scared of words
Ah, so you know exactly why it was taken down and the emotional state of the people involved.
Please do share with us.
To be fair even if 1d4chan going down has nothing to do with that statement, it's not wrong imo. Especially now.
"The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do."-Admiral Honor Harrington (David Weber's take on Twain's original quote)
If it's dead dead I'm gonna be sad because I used it for an easy to access, digest and read source of the plethora of faction rules. It was a better source than the stuff GW actually sells.
Elfric wrote:People also need to stop being scared of words
Alternatively, people don't need to rely on offensive and inflammatory language to make a tactica guide.
Tripple alternatively don't read it, if you can't handle it.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/766717.page A Mostly Renegades and Heretics blog.
GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units." Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?" Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?" GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!" Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.
Elfric wrote:People also need to stop being scared of words
Alternatively, people don't need to rely on offensive and inflammatory language to make a tactica guide.
Tripple alternatively don't read it, if you can't handle it.
"It's not the fault of people unable to write without using offensive and crass language, it's YOUR fault for reading an otherwise sufficient article and noticing the language!"
Elfric wrote:People also need to stop being scared of words
Alternatively, people don't need to rely on offensive and inflammatory language to make a tactica guide.
Tripple alternatively don't read it, if you can't handle it.
Cool, so we're still going with this imaginary "some people were offended by words on the website" and not "the billion dollar corporation whose rules the website was dedicated to pirating got offended by the words on the website?"
Anyone got aaany reason at all to think that?
Just normal intermet reactionary conspiracy stuff?
"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"
"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"
"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"
"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"
Back on topic - I'm now getting "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" rather than the "This site can’t be reached" error I was getting a few days ago.
Elfric wrote:People also need to stop being scared of words
Alternatively, people don't need to rely on offensive and inflammatory language to make a tactica guide.
Tripple alternatively don't read it, if you can't handle it.
"It's not the fault of people unable to write without using offensive and crass language, it's YOUR fault for reading an otherwise sufficient article and noticing the language!"
I can see no problems with this. None at all.
When you go to a site known for Satire and Rude humor then yes , you are completely at fault on your own....
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beast_gts wrote: Back on topic - I'm now getting "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" rather than the "This site can’t be reached" error I was getting a few days ago.
Cool, so we're still going with this imaginary "some people were offended by words on the website" and not "the billion dollar corporation whose rules the website was dedicated to pirating got offended by the words on the website?"
Anyone got aaany reason at all to think that?
Just normal intermet reactionary conspiracy stuff?
I have stated nothing the like, i don't know but the issue still stands .
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GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units." Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?" Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?" GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!" Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.
beast_gts wrote: Back on topic - I'm now getting "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable" rather than the "This site can’t be reached" error I was getting a few days ago.
That's unfortunate - it might mean it's coming back.
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
I echo what The Scotsman said, I suspect the real reason it is gone us likely due to pressure from GW as it was essentially giving people access to a lot of codex rules for free. This is exactly the reason I used 1d4chan and i suspect why most people used it. If people are that bothered by the latest ism then perhaps being locked in is a blessing because far far worse is said in casual conversation in the real world
Elfric wrote: People also need to stop being scared of words
Ah, so you know exactly why it was taken down and the emotional state of the people involved.
Please do share with us.
I wonder how this realy works. Here if someone doesn't like to watch or be part of something they don't like, they just don't go to places where those things happen. If someone was really against the stuff that goes on there, why would they go and visit the place? But I guess this is one of those things I don't understand.
If you have to kill, then kill in the best manner. If you slaughter, then slaughter in the best manner. Let one of you sharpen his knife so his animal feels no pain.
Those of us who dislike such language are just as free to express our distaste for the use such terms as they are to use it. If disapproval of the use of certain words bothers you, maybe you should go somewhere you can't see that disapproval?
It is flat-out hypocritical to ask for freedom of speech to use any terms you like, then ask that people who are uncomfortable with such terms just shut up and take it without expressing that discomfort.
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"All you 40k people out there have managed to more or less do something that I did some time ago, and some of my friends did before me, and some of their friends did before them: When you saw the water getting gakky, you decided to, well, get out of the pool, rather than say 'I guess this is water now.'"
CEO Kasen wrote: Those of us who dislike such language are just as free to express our distaste for the use such terms as they are to use it. If disapproval of the use of certain words bothers you, maybe you should go somewhere you can't see that disapproval?
Hah! I like that logic!
Again - my response to "if you know it's going to be like that, why go there" - firstly, it's not like there's a disclaimer saying "hey guys, we're going to be making light of sexual assault and using unfriendly language here!". Secondly, why do they need to use such language to create their articles? It's simply not necessary. It's not like that kind of language is integral to their site.
CEO Kasen wrote: Those of us who dislike such language are just as free to express our distaste for the use such terms as they are to use it. If disapproval of the use of certain words bothers you, maybe you should go somewhere you can't see that disapproval?
Hah! I like that logic!
Again - my response to "if you know it's going to be like that, why go there" - firstly, it's not like there's a disclaimer saying "hey guys, we're going to be making light of sexual assault and using unfriendly language here!". Secondly, why do they need to use such language to create their articles? It's simply not necessary. It's not like that kind of language is integral to their site.
Humor ist subjective.
Page ist humoristic.
To conotate Humor in Text Form specific writing "Styles" exist. Be they word's chosen or aligned in specific ways.
You can argue about the quality of the Humor by all means which Ranges from memory from great to bottom Tier scrapping the barrel.
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/766717.page A Mostly Renegades and Heretics blog.
GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units." Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?" Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?" GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!" Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.
CEO Kasen wrote: Those of us who dislike such language are just as free to express our distaste for the use such terms as they are to use it. If disapproval of the use of certain words bothers you, maybe you should go somewhere you can't see that disapproval?
Hah! I like that logic!
Again - my response to "if you know it's going to be like that, why go there" - firstly, it's not like there's a disclaimer saying "hey guys, we're going to be making light of sexual assault and using unfriendly language here!". Secondly, why do they need to use such language to create their articles? It's simply not necessary. It's not like that kind of language is integral to their site.
Humor ist subjective.
Page ist humoristic.
To conotate Humor in Text Form specific writing "Styles" exist. Be they word's chosen or aligned in specific ways.
You can argue about the quality of the Humor by all means which Ranges from memory from great to bottom Tier scrapping the barrel.
Humour that relies on making light of sexual assault has no right to be called humour. I don't think that's really up for discussion.
CEO Kasen wrote: Those of us who dislike such language are just as free to express our distaste for the use such terms as they are to use it. If disapproval of the use of certain words bothers you, maybe you should go somewhere you can't see that disapproval?
Hah! I like that logic!
Again - my response to "if you know it's going to be like that, why go there" - firstly, it's not like there's a disclaimer saying "hey guys, we're going to be making light of sexual assault and using unfriendly language here!". Secondly, why do they need to use such language to create their articles? It's simply not necessary. It's not like that kind of language is integral to their site.
Humor ist subjective.
Page ist humoristic.
To conotate Humor in Text Form specific writing "Styles" exist. Be they word's chosen or aligned in specific ways.
You can argue about the quality of the Humor by all means which Ranges from memory from great to bottom Tier scrapping the barrel.
Humour that relies on making light of sexual assault has no right to be called humour. I don't think that's really up for discussion.
You'd be wrong. Rape, and other dark subject matter, has been used in humor.
George Carlin talked about this
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Peace through power!
A longbeard when it comes to Necrons and WHFB. Grumble Grumble
CEO Kasen wrote: Those of us who dislike such language are just as free to express our distaste for the use such terms as they are to use it. If disapproval of the use of certain words bothers you, maybe you should go somewhere you can't see that disapproval?
Hah! I like that logic!
Again - my response to "if you know it's going to be like that, why go there" - firstly, it's not like there's a disclaimer saying "hey guys, we're going to be making light of sexual assault and using unfriendly language here!". Secondly, why do they need to use such language to create their articles? It's simply not necessary. It's not like that kind of language is integral to their site.
Humor ist subjective.
Page ist humoristic.
To conotate Humor in Text Form specific writing "Styles" exist. Be they word's chosen or aligned in specific ways.
You can argue about the quality of the Humor by all means which Ranges from memory from great to bottom Tier scrapping the barrel.
Humour that relies on making light of sexual assault has no right to be called humour. I don't think that's really up for discussion.
Sure by extensions i should Tell my jewish friend to Stop making jokes about the Holocaust? Or hitler?
Did it occur to you, that Humor can be a coping mechanism to Highlight what is wrong with society?
To make situations and history actually bearable?
To take something in the light because if you'd put on the strong shoulder it would Lead to actual breakage of psyche without the Relief of humor?
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GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units." Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?" Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?" GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!" Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.
Sgt_Smudge wrote: Flippantly saying "XYZ unit will *sexually assault* this other unit" isn't some witty or even "coping" form of humour. It's just crude.
I'm very much aware of how to construct humour in a way that's actually designed for coping and handling those topics - and that ain't one of them.
Agreed. It was facile edgelord attempts at humour. Nothing more complex than that. No amount of whababoutism can imbue it with any nuance, it was just inappropriate and unfunny throughout.
Stormonu wrote: For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules"
Maybe vehicles need their own kind of Look Out Sir, if a unit doesn't have any weapon which are classed as anti tank, and it has a vehicle or monster in sight, and an non vehicle unit at the same time. then it can't pick to fire its anti infantry weapons at the monster or tank.
If you have to kill, then kill in the best manner. If you slaughter, then slaughter in the best manner. Let one of you sharpen his knife so his animal feels no pain.
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