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Warhammer is a sci-fi/fantasy tabletop war game franchise developed by Games Workshop (GSW). The lore features different alien (called xeno) factions and a dozen human factions with deep lore set in a hopeless and dark universe. For a very long time the lore has been dominated by male characters.
In the lore, the Adeptus Custodes is an elite human faction of super-soldiers genetically engineered and trained by the Emperor of Mankind himself to serve as his personal guard. Until recently, this faction has only ever been seen as male in the lore, however the recently released Codex from GWS confirmed the presence of women among the ranks of the Adeptus Custodes. This development has caused a rift in the Warhammer community. These tensions and arguments seem to have broken out into full war between /r/HorusGalaxy and /r/AdeptusCustodes.
Inciting Incident
GWS released a new animation called Tithes which prominently features a female Custode. Users of /r/HorusGalaxy lost their shit and immediately started brigading in /r/AdeptusCustodes. What started as mouth-breathers crying over "wokeness in muh MAN hobby!" soon became targeted harassment of a trans mod on /r/AdeptusCustodes. The mod has since quit the subreddit due to the harassment and claims of threats made against her. Users of /r/HorusGalaxy are unsatisfied, demanding evidence of the threats and doubling down on the harassment. The drama is spread out over multiple posts and between both subreddits so I have selected a few pieces of popcorn to share.
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Both sides guys! Both siiiiiiides!
Woman in my hobby is Neo-Marxism!
Just some casual transphobia sprinkled in there
I've only included a small sampling of the available popcorn. /r/HorusGalaxy is basically /r/TheDonald but for Warhammer, and I'd rather keep my time there brief lest I catch the cringe. I invite any who can stomach it to dig in, there's plenty of popcorn to share.
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Big corpos needlessly tossing their fandoms into civil war so they can appeal to people who will never ever consider spending a fraction of the money their current turbo neurodivergent male fan base will spend.
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It's certainly not something that would happen in a free market.
WH40k has zero appeal to women, and that's not due to lack of representation. "We'll turn some of the monstrosities into women, then women will want to consoom it." -- no they won't.
So they'll have to do more: change the whole universe into one that appeals to women -- instead of a dark gigachad monstrosities hopelessly slaughtering each other by the trillions with great honor, it will have to become frumpy girl self-insert MCU twilight saga.
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They'll send Tanya from the White Lotus series through a time portal to meet Rimothée Chalametus, dreamy billionaire heir to the strongest adeptus magnanimus in the whole WH40k universe, and they will find out that there was a prophecy: she has to save the universe by teaching everyone to live laugh love.
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It's for
, actual foids if they collect always do the ones with creative models like nids or death guard. Roided up muscle women doesn't appeal to legacy foids.
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I have yet to see a woman play anything other than sisters
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I find most women go for tyranids or demons.
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makes you think doesn't it
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Neighbor what part about me being the lead character in my own story do you not get
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Tyranids are by far the most popular for foids
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U srs bro? Women basically universally play nids and orks, and sisters is either men or women (male)
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I normally only see the worst of neurodivergent moids play sisters.
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You're hobby has been DEI'd
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Oh I thought
I saw you war hammer 
posting 
for some reason
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I asked
@JannieJihad about the 
emoji 
and then asked why everyone knows Warhammer lore when the game is pretty niche.
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This is a site full of neurodivergents and neurodivergent adjacent nerds. That's the core 40k demographic. It's also hard to unchud 30+ years of teenage boy power fantasies of genocidal roided out super soldiers. It was fluff for a table top sci-fi wargame at its inception and every aspect of the setting is reflective of that
Also Gothic space ships shooting broadsides at each other reloaded by teams of slaves with demons lurking right behind the veil is neat
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Cool things are cool.
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Because its well suited for clickbait YouTubers to make videos about
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40k isn't niche anymore. Historicals are niche, 40k is mainstream nerd now
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SRDines manage to make something funny unfunny.
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I wanted to find a good gif or video of a POV door shut or tomb closing or coffin seal, and "POV: /r/drama canned before the srdines" but the concept of POV has been ruined by zoomers or someone.
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These losers really have to rally around this frog looking shit CGI character lmao
Also
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Hmmm this is a tough case indeed Watson...
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It's weird actually when most
s idolize the hyper femme and pornified yet you get this
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They want to bring foids down to their level.
If they make all foids in media manly like this then maybe people will start considering them normal.
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It's basically blackface but for white women.
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Snappy-quote worthy
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I would
argue that's very literally 
what drag is (in the sense that somebody who's not a woman 
dresses like an exaggerated stereotype of one for laughs), yet liberals somehow decided drag was good with them.
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Stupid. The whole point of WH4k is that it is an endlessly grim dark universe where nothing is working and everyone is an uberfascist. If the empire suddenly has a DEI department somewhere then it isn't all that fascist. It is harder to buy that it is all that bad.
What's doubly stupid is that I have seen this scenario multiple times already:
1. Company tries to inject DEI/wokeness in the setting where it makes zero sense for narrative reasons
2. Smelly neurodivergents who have invested their lives in the setting send death/r*pe threats everywhere
3. New mod team gets aboard full of woke narcissists (in fact I kinda think it's the same team every time)
4. Company decides it did the right thing because of 2
(Note that step 2 isn't even necessary, all that is needed it that someone says they got r*pe/death threats.)
And there's always some moron bitching about "cultural Marxism". This isn't Marxism, this is full apotheosis of capitalism: Melting down all narratives into grey goo of "content." In fact the only way to end this would be to knee cap capitalism -- by reducing copyright length to e.g. 40 years we could eventually get fan made "woke" and "based" versions of every product.
But that will never happen coz conservatives can't admit it's the ascended capitalism that pushes wokeness. I think I am going to drink myself to death.
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But it's funnier when DEI means that they have to portray a Kween as a space nazi.
Or like somebody's all-foid Space Marine army are Marines Malevolent.
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Hmmm
I think I'm going to need to apply some media literacy to this
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It literally is tho, Gramsci's entire theory of marxism is that you have to ruin everything fun so people will be dissatisfied with theit life and do a socialism.
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idk I think the empire having a DEI department makes the universe all the more hellish and dystopian, though I am a
so there's that
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I wouldn't call it "ascended" capitalism, whatever the frick that means. We don't even have capitalism anymore. The DEI shit to appeal to blackrock is more akin to cronyism.
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Cyberpunk 2077 would have been the greatest story of all time if Keanu Chungus ended a massive rant about corpos by calling them socialists.
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Despite making up only a fraction of the population, trains are responsible for over half of all nerd drama.
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It's because they are way over represented in weird nerd shit. It turns out obsessing over stupid shit and trans people go together like pb and jelly with a bit of 'tism sprinkled in.
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A bit of autism? The venn diagram between
s and autism is a circle.
That's not even a joke, autism is one of the single highest predicters or
ing out. Its literally just a bunch of socially incompetent losers who can't get a GF so they get off on porn where they become the GF instead. Eventually they think they can do that for real because of the autism, but anyone without autism can see the lie for what it is, so they have to browbeat people into pretending to accept them because nobody actually wants to.
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It's because neurodivergent people can't understand that everyone goes through a phase of "but what does it mean to be a man/woman" during puberty and thinks they alone have this happen which makes them vulnerable to predatory groomercordcels
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idk what that game is but in that pic xhe looks like MODOK's sister-wive
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lets see how fast this will be removed
https://old.reddit.com/r/AdeptusCustodes/comments/1fa7p54/hello_fellow_female_custodes/
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Is that Mr. Electric from Sharkboy and Lavagirl
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What the frick is a war hammer?
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A medieval weapon, are you stupid?
The better question is why is there a whole subreddit of people so invested in these things
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Stop gaslamping me
Also, yes
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a gay game for pathetic virgins
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Playing dolls for boys
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Snapshots:
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Both sides guys! Both siiiiiiides!:
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Woman in my hobby is Neo-Marxism!:
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Just some casual transphobia sprinkled in there:
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Adding female custodes to the human factions makes as much sense as adding orcs to the human factions. Cause, you know, females are a different, inferior species to hu-MANS.:
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Make Mister's of Battle or I boycott.
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