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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.
Popcorn
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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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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