the only way they could be clearer is by opening every single book they publish with a note that the Imperium is the absolute worst and cruelest government that has ever existed anywhere and life inside it is a ceaseless nightmare for close to 100% of its inhabitants
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Most 40k "fans" don't read the books, make models, or play the games. Like American catholic converts the just like the asthetic.
Except maybe the Orks who have "joined" the Imperium. Outside of those hooligans, yeah it is a nightmare for EVERYBODY
Whether they are actually part of the Imperium is entirely due to the WARGH! that faction currently has going for them
Though, I'd hope they have a completely separate group of Orks be the one who have Looted Empz
In the worst kind of way, and they would know.
IMO that specific LGS cultivated an atmosphere where someone would think that was appropriate, which is why it isn't MY LGS anymore
https://bsky.app/profile/claire.chapien.net/post/3lpcxzdrli22a
the usual
So after that, yes, everybody awful by deliberate design.
Orks in the "fandom's" eyes are goofy. Orks in the setting are nightmare monsters.
The Vespid are controlled by putting mind control helmets on their leaders.
They sterilize captured human populations.
All for the "greater good" of the Tau race
The description of the group described that they just like the instrumentation and willfully ignore their lyrics/messaging.
These creatures will make nests anywhere they can.
https://www.onepagerules.com/
Nazi gamers
Nazi gamers
Fuck! Off!
Tbh, I don't know how anyone could look at such an authoritarian theocracy worshiping the half living remains of a personality cult leader as a good thing, except maybe that they're not alien monsters
It's also why I think that the GE would become a new Chaos God if ever he were to be allowed to fully die, lol
like it's good ig they're finally kinda trying to put their foot down, but literally everyone saw this problem coming.
They say there are no anti-war movies; I suppose there are no anti-war wargames either.
I quit playing 40k stuff in part because it no longer felt like the designers and writers were in on the joke.
Our local Warhammer community is great- very orky, but still great.
Being anti-nazi and appearing pro-LGBT+ rights is good for business in a free society.
There is a dimension of "hiring only white CIS guys" that hurts your business because you're removing a lot of talented and skilled people from the pool.
And a lot of crucial POVs that would help you solve problems. People who are different think different. Massive plus in the industry.
Being quasi-intelligent capitalists (and understanding the text of their own goddamn lore) is just good business.
today when i make casual Warhammer references most of the people i know at least get the basics
I responded 'Skulls for the skull throne. Milk for the cornflakes.'
I should have gone with the heroin.
Might be a few more years until the zeitgeist has progressed past the basics, unfortunately.
or you had a roommate who did and told you all about it.
i had the roommate
But someone's playing orks, so they do it by the fistful.
I've just recently become acquainted and am now obsessed with 40k.
And yeah, the Imperium isn't what you'd call a beacon of what we'd call "humanity."
Aren’t nazis at events. I know people in the top teams in both 40K and AoS and they won’t tolerate it. The AoS community is S tier though. Some of the best people I know are from these events.
I buy one book for a GW game? I can't do jack shit unless I buy an army, and paints, and then grow the army and buy more paints...
They are pure, and in a universe that knows only war they have achieved enlightenment.
If you don't want to fight the Orks, simply do not look fun to fight.
(Even then, the only Primarch I actually respect is Khan)
British college student humor remains undefeated.
https://www.thedarkfortress.co.uk/librarium/lionel_johnson.php
They're only interested in "satire" insofar as it's the magic word that makes you not accountable for glamorizing the fash.
The rules of the universe are designed specifically to make fascism necessary in 40k.
And then GW acts all confused when fascists resonate with it. Why wouldn't they?
The idea of a stifling bureaucracy which cried out for "men of action" to restore a society's vigor is, once again, just fash wankery.
Other modes of existence are rendered impossible for humanity by the magical rules of the setting.
It's "giving fascists better arguments". Fash are real, tyranids aren't.
Where GW is negligent, like all capitalists, the rest of us need to be clear-eyed.
Hearing about imperial planet number 45678224 where they have a flourishing economy with an elected planetary government just isn’t in the cards unless it’s immediately followed by someone attacking it.
It was a mess and a wame up call.
and an english language summary from PCG: https://www.pcgamer.com/games-workshop-fights-back-against-fascist-hate-symbols-in-the-warhammer-40k-community/
Both die under a regime that would maybe say a word or two about them to maintain morale, then immediately replace them and move on.
In a universe where war wages forever, any deeds of any size, in any direction, are completely meaningless.
https://youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4?si=wlK_0mY2NrdeXg8z
The age of strife that forged humanity into imperium was caused primarily by warp storms unrelated to humans.
Probably need to expand it to make sure to say that "although we thought it was obvious, it now seems necessary to point out that these books are instructions for a game not as instructions for real life."
The white/black queen can take out 16 enemies MAX. The Imperium wipes out PLANETARY SYSTEMS.
America needs to reconsider its game of strategy.
We don’t want that.
New super heavy tank destroyer
Glitter Toss: Once a turn, a pink ork (skin or armor) can toss glitter in the eyes of opponents within melee range as a free action. Does not provoke an attack of opportunity, uses base attack roll + Dex with a DC 12 to succeed.
If successful, opponent takes -4 to hit for one turn.
“In this scary and terrible far off future”