Nice touch with the daemons never actually
calling themselves or each other daemons. Much easier to keep Gal off-guard.
But I thought all daemons but the princes were also called neverborn, not just the fighty daemons?
► ModernPygmalion (Galatea My Beloved)
To my understanding, daemons just plain don't call themselves that. It's apparently purely a mortal thing to call them as such. They will consistently refer to themselves as neverborn unless they're screwing with someone.
Also, I don't think it's implied anywhere that neverborn is only for the fighters?
banal ultra-violence has ramped up more and more is just gross.
I mean. Getting a dopamine rush from splattering things in Doom or Warframe is entirely fine and everyone enjoys it, me included. And I do kinda get the point of not showing the drugs, sex and "sweet jesus, what was the artist smoking" depraved doujin and eroge shit.
People, despite all efforts, see videogames as something marketed to children and teenagers first and foremost. And you sure as shit don't want to make something twinge in their brains regarding drugs at those ages, nevermind how teens are liable to think even the most depraved shit is cool because they're genuinely brain damaged.
Still sucks that we can't have villains with more variety than just "schemer" and "kills/tortures things".
Also, since I got sidetracked, the whole "oh, nyo, sex. Icky!" thing does make no sense whatsoever. It is purely pearl clutchers who don't remember what being a teen is like getting up in a fit. Kids either are so young that they'll go "weird, whatever" because they just don't have any of the wiring for it yet, or they already hit puberty and are some flavor of horny.
Not even asexuals are exempt from what I've heard of the one ace I know. They get a worse deal, because they can't just jack off and be fine for the next few hours. Instead they get cravings for PG13 intimacy.
Anyway, all this to say that this is nice, fresh, and engaging in a way that a lot of stuff isn't nowadays. lol it's honestly a big reason that I'm starting to get into gbno, cause its source material is (from what I've seen (Not much 😅)) fairly immune to this also.
Mhm. That's the good thing about fan content. You get a fix of all the shit you've been craving since forever and everything you didn't know you wanted besides.
And yeah, Gundam really takes no shit from what I've heard. I hear Witch from Mercury is meant to be an entry level show, so I may give it a watch at some point. Y'know, when I'm not being consumed by this campaign, regular GBNO content and working on kits/minis. It really scratches the itch for a failed arts major like me.
(I also have a job. Very flexible schedule of "so long as you meet your quota and deadlines we couldn't care less", but it still has me spend half the day around the country five days a week. Which, hey, is the whole reason I got the job. But it does mean less time for hobby shit outside of doing some GBNO stuff thanks to the console being portable.)
I've been kinda meh on the story aspect of 40k
Honestly, kinda same? I hear it's got the comic book issue of a hundred different authors with wildly different interpretations. Plus the overall "everything has gone irrevocably to shit and only gets worse from here" is too dreary for me.
But the thing that I was told is that all the official lore should only serve one purpose: Backdrop for your dudes. It gives broad strokes context that you can play with or defy as you like, the important thing is the narratives you build for your units.
I've never done the whole painting thing though… any tips to get started?
Alright, biggest thing? Do not, I repeat,
do not jump into it full on. It has a pretty high price of admission if you want to whole-ass it. You need tools for building, for painting and the kits themselves. It's going to be a very expensive mistake if you buy everything and find out it isn't enjoyable.
What you want to do is go to your nearest
crack den game store that does wargame shit and ease yourself into it. They will often let you borrow everything you need to build and paint a single model as a way to encourage people into the hobby.
If you want to try the gameplay side of things. Well, it depends on if you want the VRMMO or the tabletop experience. For the latter, you just have to buy Virtual Tabletop and join a discord for warhammer players using it, they'll sort you out with everything else without having to pay another cent. For the former, I'd recommend buying some already built and painted minis of whatever faction you like and playing Killteam content. At minimum you just need a single fireteam plus a HQ (aka leader) unit you'll sub in as your avatar.
When you say that you sculpted these, what tools/resources were you using?
Oh, uh. Okay, so. The
main thing is called "green stuff". If you want to do GBNO anything, make sure it has P-Particles. Anyways, it's basically clay that you can then treat to y'know, not deform like plastilina every time you handle the mini. Beyond that there's a fair few types of resin you can use if you want to cast stuff (can't say much on that because I haven't had much impetus to buy and use it). Both benefit from inserting wire, like straight up just random copper or aluminum wire, to make it hold up better if it's a bigger piece.
I mainly use stuff from when I tried to get into art school and then make it as a twitter artist, plus a bunch of shit Cheese sent me as a gift. I'm nooot sure if they sell the former outside of spain and it isn't exactly the best for this stuff anyways since it's meant for bigger sculptures. While I'm still in the process of leaning how to use the latter, so I can't give it a honest review.
Oh, also. Very important: Do not, I repeat, do NOT get P-Particle paint. It's like liquid plastic, nothing can remove it after you put it on. If you fuck up with it, that stays and you can only cover it up with more paint, which will look bad.
EDIT: Jesus fuck that post got away from me. Perils of being online late at night. I'm just going to whip up some food and go to bed. Thank god I got a flexible schedule.
