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🗓️ 10 February 2013
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Episode 72 of The Independent Characters takes a long and hard look at White Dwarf of the past, present and future.
Over the years White Dwarf has provided endless pictures and articles about the Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k Hobby (as well as other Specialist Games by GW). However, in recent years the magazine has come under a high amount of criticism that it is nothing more than a "Catalog for GW". Additional criticism generaly points to how the magazine in the past was so much better than it is today.
White Dwarf has recently gone through an update of their magazine, and we have recently come into possession of a HUGE amount of back issues thanks to our buddy Ken. So we thought this would be the perfect time to put the magazine to the test.
Was it truly better in the past, or do we look back at the official magazine of Games Workshop through rose-tinted glasses? We answer that question as well as provide hobby progress updates and games played over the last two weeks.
NOTE: Our Forbidden Lore Segment on Ahriman: Exile has been delayed one episode as this one ran incredibly long. Sorry about the last minute notification.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Independent Characters, Episode 72. This is Carl. |
| 0:22.4 | And this is Jeff. |
| 0:23.1 | And today in studio, we have a special guest. You may have heard him on the previous |
| 0:27.1 | Warrior Lodge. I give you Ken. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:29.9 | Thanks for joining us, Ken. Recently, Ken provided us with a huge backlog of white dwarfs. |
| 0:35.0 | We already both had huge backlogs already, but this went further back than even |
| 0:39.8 | I had realized. |
| 0:42.7 | And some of these were quite old and really from a whole different era, which got us |
| 0:47.2 | thinking about comparing the different phases that white dwarf has gone through. |
| 0:53.2 | And where it stood then and where it stands now, |
| 0:55.6 | there's always a lot of criticism as to White Dwarf is just a catalog, or it's not what it used to be. |
| 1:01.1 | We wanted to quantify that a little bit and see if it's true, if that statement actually holds up, |
| 1:06.7 | or if everybody's just kind of looking through rose-tinted glasses into the past, then nostalgia was taking over. |
| 1:13.0 | So we have quite a long episode where we're going to discuss this after we go into hobby progress and games played and that kind of stuff. |
| 1:22.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.8 | After Ken and I talk about some hobby progress. |
| 1:24.6 | You had some progress, man. |
| 1:25.9 | After the real men talk hobby progress. |
| 1:28.2 | You can get some water there, Jeff. |
| 1:31.6 | You got anything you want to add, Ken? |
| 1:33.8 | I think we'll be looking backwards and looking back and it's going to be very nostalgic. |
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