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okay so Games Workshop have just upset
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the entire Warhammer community and this
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time they have strangled all my hopes as
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well I didn't need Hope anyway I live in
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Ireland okay so Warhammer age of Sigmar
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it just came out not to its friends and
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family or anything we always knew that
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game was gay as hell and though many
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people hit AE of Sigmar for merely
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existing that too is not the major
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Scandal here so you know put down the
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Pitchfork peasant that's not me being
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rude I'm just calling old world players
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peasant because being put D is kind of
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their love language I used to date one
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they can only get turned on if they're
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dying in the mud with no one ever
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knowing their name and if that doesn't
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turn them on then they're not playing
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old world correctly but yes e of Sigmar
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a new addition of the game was just
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released this summer and as a game I
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have to say it is genuinely really fun
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I've played it a whole bunch because I
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actually do sometimes find the time to
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actually play Warhammer I like the PS of
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the combat I like the layout of the
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rules I like the hero ball of it I think
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it's an improvement on Warhammer 40K
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it's probably one of the best designed
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Warhammer games in recent memory I think
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the lore is improving in short e Sigmar
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is fun and in fact I actually reviewed
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the game for my patreon bonus video
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which I do every month and you can check
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that out in the link below if you think
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I'm always negative then check out my
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reviews on there because you know I even
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crack a smile
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sometimes unfortunately gi's Workshop
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disagree with my assessment of age of
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Sigma apparently they don't think that
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the game is very good at all because
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they don't want anyone playing it yeah
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it turns out that the honeymoon is over
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the Games Workshop executive class have
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now decided to end a 9-year tradition
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for warmer of Sigmar that's basically
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its entire lifespan and they've taken
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the decision to remove access to the war
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Scrolls and data sheets and army rules
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for Warhammer age of Sigmar factions
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from the internet these things that used
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to be free for players they've been cast
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off into Oblivion and N Games Workshop
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have instead chosen to lock all of that
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precious necessary data that's required
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to actually play the game behind a $60
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purchase of a hardback battle to yep
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everything is gone just like a sudden
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heart attack the type that claimed my
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estranged great Uncle Albert but this
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time it wasn't an accident it was
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brought on maliciously for profit like
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the beastless allegations about my
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involvement in the death of my great
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uncle Albert and by the way this new
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policy of games Workshop to no longer
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provide free rules for the factions of
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age of Sigmar that includes all the
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spearhead rules as well games warhop
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just snap those away too which has
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totally undermined spearheads playus as
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the accessible easy to get into war game
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that's meant to pipeline people straight
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into the fumu hybrid Oblivion that is
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the modern Gams Workshop release method
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oops I guess they forgot about that and
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obviously the age of Sigmar Community
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are upset about this because of course
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they are and they should be many have
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taken the social media to to platform
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their outrage on this topic but they're
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talking to GMS Workshop Who as a company
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have decided to just not respond to any
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of the complaints or criticisms or
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comments at all which is to be frank
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unsurprising Games Workshop don't really
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seem to care about the community at
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least on the executive side the
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corporate Games Workshop bmth would
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prefer to Simply siphon out as much
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money as possible from every single
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player and then I don't know probably
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just wants us all to off and die or
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whatever Games Workshop obviously of no
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shame because they had promised to keep
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the rules for age of Sigmar accessible
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and now they've just backed out on that
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I mean at least you can trust your crack
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dealer to lie for you you know he is
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solid he's got your back but G's
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Workshop would snitch you out in a
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second they would go back on their word
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now this new policy to remove data
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sheets and War Scrolls from the internet
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has started with the sken faction when
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the new sken bottle to was puted off for
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pre-order all the free rules for them
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disappeared overnight never to be seen
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again like my partner in the kids please
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call me back I've got my crack problem
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under control you can call my dealer he
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will verify that but as the year
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continues the rest of the age of Segar
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factions are also going to be losing all
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of their rules as well and you'll be
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forced to spend money to see what the
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Miniatures that you paid like $160 for
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actually do in the game that You' think
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G's Workshop would want you to play but
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again they apparently don't so here's my
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advice while you still have access to to
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The Liquor Cabinet aka the Warhammer
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Community downloads page I'd recommend
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you make like a servant in The Winter
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Palace Circ November 6th 1917 and grab
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as much as you can and then get the hell
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out because everything on there is going
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away forever and soon so if you want to
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play H Sigmar download everything you
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need n this is the PSA for that and
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obviously this advice only works if
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you're not a scaven player hi I'm a
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scaven player or if you're new or if you
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trust Games Workshop at all and this
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should be another lesson in why we
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shouldn't trust Games Workshop at all
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but also can I just get this out of the
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way this is obviously bad right like
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this is super villain stuff tick and
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rules and things that are required to
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play the game that were free and then
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cynically putting a price on them and
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selling them in an additional physical
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product it makes the game less
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accessible for players it makes the game
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harder to play it makes it tougher to
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get people into war gaming these are all
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thanks we're all agreed on that right
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and there's been plenty of commenters
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saying that since this change their
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friends have lost interest in trying age
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of Sigmar after they were told they'd
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need to buy a very expensive book just
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to start come on that's why I've
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advocated for free rules for years even
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back when it was Unthinkable in the dark
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days of
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1989 I'm telling you they should have
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been M andite circulars and to be honest
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the thing that's particularly irksome
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about all this I I thought we had gotten
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somewhere with Games Workshop lately
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especially for AG of Sigmar I mean AG of
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Sigmar is already an extremely expensive
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war game to get into it really truly is
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seriously check out any other War brand
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and you'll be paying less than half the
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cost for more for example you could
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check out Port Royal Port Royal is a
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campan beast tactical war bond siiz
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Skirmish war game where players take
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control of small companies of privateers
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Native Americans local government forces
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and of course Pirates to- do bottle for
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loot plunder experience and infamy while
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developing their scurvy crew amongst the
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ruins of earthquake struck Jamaica Port
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Royal includes player versus player
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gameplay Cooperative gameplay and even a
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solo mode so even if all your mats are
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land lers you can still get the T the
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sweet eer of the pirate Life the game is
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simple merely create a company choosing
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your faction and then equip your forces
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with bleeds muskets and more then you
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batttle for plunder amongst the ruins
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using the inbuilt scenario generator and
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random event system acquiring pieces of
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eat discovering rare treasure gaining
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experience or even suffer grave injuries
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that will go on to bedevil your crew in
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future conquests after all nobody said
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the pirate life was going to be easy
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each Camp of Port Royal is a unique
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experience as players will learn to love
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their duplicitous little Lads
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celebrating their gri victories and
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their terrible losses and ultimately the
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player who gains the most infamy will
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earn the right to be known as the pirate
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King of the Seven seeds yahar although I
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I think I added that last part so order
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Port Royal n from the link below because
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lead pledges are currently open you can
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get super customizable Miniatures the
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rules punchboard T and dice gam mod and
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all the tokens you'll ever need all for
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only
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$79 click the link below and thanks to
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firelock Gams for sponsoring today's
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video so yeah it's a Sigmar just got
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more expensive and the weird thing about
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these new bottles hes that contain all
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the rules for play is that most people
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will be buying them just to get access
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to a QR code in the back of the book so
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they can get access to the scaven rules
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on the mobile phone gaming app which
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also by the way that app used to include
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all the scaven index data sheets and
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rules for free until the new battle to
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was put off for pre-order that contains
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the QR code that now you have to get to
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get access to those rules and to use
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that app for list building you have to
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subscribe to Warhammer plus now you have
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to buy the book to get the CM content
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and that's really weird right it's weird
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to lock rules away to make it harder to
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play the game to force people to buy a
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book in 2024 just to get access
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to an app on your phone it's very very
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odd and it only makes sense if you've
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been through the Labyrinth thing Twisted
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minds of games work shop history I have
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been there and I'm telling you right now
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I've come out the other end pretty
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changed I don't think it works anymore
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but that's not even the worst of it
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because Gams Workshop me this all even
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worse and they came after me personally
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see I've always had a problem with the
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EG of Sigmar bottled HS and see with the
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Warhammer 40K cesas personally I think
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they're expensive they're hard cover
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they're difficult to transport and
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they're just filled with lore and fluff
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which is cool to read when you're trying
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to distract yourself at night from the
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KNE cin happening in the alley outside
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the back of your house because you live
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in a high Crim risk density neighborhood
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because you're a YouTuber and it doesn't
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pay very well at all you know we've all
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been there but not so hot when you're at
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the gaming table and you just want to
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see your unit rules imagine my surprise
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then when G's Workshop announced that
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there would be a brand new type of
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battle tomb The Gamers Edition made for
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gamers buy Gamers to eat Gamers this is
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a smaller leaner sized bottle to soft
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back no fluff no LGE just all the rules
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so it's easier to transport and get to
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the good stuff perfect and Games
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Workshop used to do these sometimes
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they'd be thrown in for free into
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bundles I was looking forward to this
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new version of the bottle to it looks
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genuinely like a useful product but then
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then the price of these things was
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revealed and surprise it's more
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expensive than a standard hardback botle
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to more expensive than something that
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comes with more content can you imagine
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being one of the E sigar lore writers
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and being told that your lore actively
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adds negative value to the book and it's
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also a limited edition fomo product that
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you'll only get the chance to buy once
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oh and by the way if you didn't buy it
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before you'll never be able to buy it
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again it's sold out online line n what
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the hell is going on here GES Workshop
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are putting me in a grave that or it's
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all the crack I don't know what the hell
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is going on over in naam I think I got a
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monkey paw sitting around here somewhere
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this is pretty much the most trash way
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of introducing an otherwise incredible
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product this could have been really cool
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this could have been a video praising
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such an innovation Innovation they were
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this close to Greatness no look I know
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what the comments under this video are
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going to say you should have seen this
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all coming of course Games Workshop
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we're going to put the war Scrolls
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behind a pay wall and to be honest okay
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I did kind of suspect this would happen
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I got to admit it and the reason why is
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because G Workshop actually pulled this
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exact CM scum with Warhammer 40K in
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September last year the exact same month
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remember that 10th edition 40K launched
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with free rules Games Workshop said it
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was all going to be super accessible and
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then suddenly out of nowhere they
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introduced a pay wall they forced
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everyone to buy battle Toms and N work
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40K 10th edition sucks to try and buy
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into but here's the thing it was
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when Games Workshop did it last year and
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it's that they're doing it again n
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but that's not all because there is one
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major difference with this particular
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scam as well and it's the age of Sigmar
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has always had free war Scrolls since
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the very beginning when it was born spot
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out of a norn queen 9 years ago and as a
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result of losing free access to those
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War Scrolls well it's been devastating
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for war hammer 40ks losing access to all
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their free rules was just Tuesday for AG
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of Sigmar it's unprecedented AG of
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Sigmar players are used to be courted
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and woed and treated with some measure
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of respect and that's because the game
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is still growing and Games Workshop have
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always known that age of Sigmar is just
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simply less popular than 40K that to
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build a community for AG of Sigmar they
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have to put in a bit effort and forg to
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sigar every new player is precious with
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Warhammer 40K play just fall into games
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workshops lap so you know who cares how
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many slip outside the seals funnel never
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to be seen again outside of the
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occasional post on a space Maring 2
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Reddit thread with the classic refrain I
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always wanted to play the tabletop game
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but it was just too expensive Games
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Workshop don't care about those guys
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they're not rich enough to be in the
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exclusive luxury Warhammer hobby that
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luxury hobby that sits alongside
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yachting sports cars and collecting
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poops I in contrast however do actually
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care about every war gamer who is
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interested at all in joining the war
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gaming hobby because more players equals
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a better safer more sustainable war game
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hobby for all of us and I suspect
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there's a reason why Games Workshop have
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only remove the scav and War Scrolls
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right now from the downloads page on
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Warhammer community and it's to drive
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sales to their battle tone obviously but
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also to slowly rule out the removal of
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these rules so the community doesn't hit
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a critical a massive complaints so that
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not everyone is devastated at once so
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it's not the blitz it's just a little
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911 well I'm not buying I think that
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games workshop's 911 is bad actually and
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I defy anyone to say in the comments
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that they support this 911 go on say it
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say you support 911 well personally I
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think that this was in really Pur test
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and to be honest it has kind of put me
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off AG of Sigmar I mean I've got my scen
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that I had originally bought for the old
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world and then they kind of got half
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canell so I converted them for AG of
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Sigmar the new edition and now I'm
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finding out that all my rules are not
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redundant and I can't even get access to
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them online and so I'm just laugh kind
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of not wanting to play with them at all
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I'm not really Blu I was excited for AIS
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Sigmar I thought that this time it might
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have been different but I guess not
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Games Workshop just really wanted to do
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a 911 look Games Workshop should be
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encouraging play as much as possible
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instead of forcing us to rely on things
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like wahapedia and fan tools like AG of
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index to fill in that Gap this has been
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some extremely lame news and it's just
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kind of soured me on the new it Segar
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entirely and that blows cuz it was a
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game that I was kind of hyped for I was
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getting into the lore I was reading the
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books I was genuinely enjoying myself I
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just wish Games Workshop hadn't done a
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911 and as always a huge thanks to my
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patrons my videos have been increasingly
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getting demonetized as of late I have no
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idea why but I just really want to thank
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patrons who make this all possible you
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can check out the link to my patreon
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below so big thanks to you guys
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especially crypto cev and I'll catch you
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all next time bye-bye
