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Good sirs, what a splendid endeavour!

Please, take my golds right awa... Wait, wha-

Human civilisation is like 6000 years but you make it a BILLION YEARS even though a few thousand would easily suffice!

MONTE COOK! MOAR LIKE U MONTY FUCKING CROOK!!!!! FUKK U FAGGIT ADN UR BILLION YAERS!!!!!!

BILLUHN FUKKEN YAERS WORST DAYH OF MA LIFE

WILL. NOT. PLEGDED.


[/compulsory rage nitpicking] But yes, great video and all, looks quite nice really. Positively surprised.

 

Speculative fiction writers cannot into scale, what else is new?

 

Where do you think his righteous anger is coming from? He's channeling the wrath of the blessed Astartes.

 

is a lot like in ''the galaxy far away'' or ''behind seven mountains'' an allegory; would prefer the 40K Emperor of the fading suns or ''Shadow of Torturer'' settings too but Numenara is good for what it is.

 

Of course that doesn´t take into account the 8 previous magic civilizations that came before.

 

Over the last few years, I see his name more and more frequently on /v/ as well, though I sometimes get the feeling it's just the resident codex /v/irgins spreading the word. Outside of the Codex though, he's both worshipped and hated because there's a kind of internet myth going around that he is some sort of anti paladin that has dedicated his writing to hating moralfags. Lots of the haters remind me of Mastermind, and I'm sometimes kinda sure it's him I'm arguing with on /v/.

 

Da fuck you doing on 4chan?

 

Been there since forever.

edit: although, I pretty much stopped posting a couple of years ago, and mostly just check out some of the boards I'm interested in.

 

Sadly most of my exposition to 4chan came from my brother calling me over to his computer and showing me some dude dressed as a cat trying to fornicate with some dude dressed as a teddy bear. Can´t bring myself to visit the more respectable looking forum´s.

 

/tg/ is ok. On the whole, most of it has turned to shit though so you're not missing out.

 

Yes it needs to be tactical. Regardless of is it RtWP or Turn based.
You, of course dont even understand what tactical combat means, so its natural to see the disinclination.

Combat being tactical means this:

That it is not a matter of twitching and doesnt devolve into a slug fest. It also means that skills, weapons and gear play a bigger role then the player skills.
Which is a good thing when you have some kind of party to control. Them with different skill sets and all.
IT DOES NOT mean it has to be tedious or long. Thats a consequences of a bad design, not whether combat is tactical or not.

That is already in.

No, a few thousand years would not suffice. Not even 40,000 or few hundred thousand years.
Such numbers mean little to humans.Too close. Too well known.

A Billion is a nice round number that is directly understood as something very, very far away from our time.
Not just in numbers but in changes the world went through. Continents shifting, sinking, rearranging, Sun being different, Solar system itself being reformed Not one or two but eight different civilizations raising and falling - big, gigantic changes.
A truly clear distinction that you are not in Kansas anymore, not even close. And in fact, so far away that its scary.

 

It's not, though I like to think that my writings have created silent disciples that continue to spread the Truth to the four corners of the Internet.

 

That doesn´t look very syfy.

 

They are anything but silent. Loud and obnoxious is more like it.

 

Needs more lasers, or the 9th era billion year equivalent to a laser.

 

And a body-fitting jumpsuit.

 

I´m feeling particularly cranky today, been correcting a 200 page project from my intern and the stuff i´m reading is shitpost gold. Will try to be more constructive.

 

Here is Monte's reply to this.

Tax reasons. I mean errr...he really believes in the incline?

WL2 and Torment teams are completely separate, and no one involved in Torment (me included) is being paid out of WL2's budget. The reason they're still asking/needing about $1 million is so they can make the game regardless of if WL2 bombs.

 

its not meant to look "syfy".

Its meant to look like post apocalyptic hybrid of science fiction and grim fantasy.
Notice the mechanical aperture on the hand, scavenged, most probably. A very nice weird looking weapon. One hand missing and dessicated look of the face and the body.

I like it.

 

I like his reasoning, would brofist his blog post if i could. I hope he treats us to all kinds of weird stuff, any word on if he is consulting with futurologists and the like?

 

Hmm, a billion years, that´s so far into the future that humankind could have become extinct and a race of sentient squid people could have taken it´s place as intergalactic superpower... several times over.

I would expect something more "out there" than a corpse with a venetian mask. I like the look, i just don´t think it´s the kind of thing i would like to see much of in the setting (i.e using current stereotypical imagery as reference for their monsters, characters).