Someone dug up a Smash Facebook post from a year ago that stated that a new character would be revealed Monday, and missed the dates.
Even when I first saw it and before it was swiftly proven false, not one fiber of my being was hopeful for Isaac.
I hate to say it, but your optimism isn't rubbing off on me...
From Smashified to actually getting in the game, everyone here is super hopeful that Isaac will make it.
I'm not...
Am I really so pessimistic and cynical?
James Branch Cabell said:
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears it is true.
(Quote misattributed to
Robert Oppenheimer)
Am I really that bad? Do I see Warhammer 40,000 everywhere?
For those who are unaware what Warhammer 40,000 is, let me give you a brief primer:
It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries The Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.
Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.
To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.
— The standard intro to every Imperium-centered written work from the 40K universe