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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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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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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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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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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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