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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 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 normally only see the worst of neurodivergent moids play 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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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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