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latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days agoYep. Popularity hasn’t yet died down, but having a bunch of closed-minded “anti-woke” (i.e. Fascists) people dogpiling onto 40k as though they’re begging to be Servitorised in the service of the Emp’rah is… dismaying, to say the least.
Worst part is, one can’t even have a conversation with such fans, as they instantly shoot down any and all subjects which they deem even marginally related to “woke stuff,” sometimes with disturbing zeal. How such an obvious satirical dystopia can be misinterpreted in such a way is beyond me…
rtxn@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Some people are just really passionate about their tiny yellow plastic toy soldiers all having imaginary penises. The imaginary penises are important to them.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
This is why I either went with Chaos (during my adolescence, mostly outgrew them) or Aeldari. I mean, they aren’t that much better from a lore perspective, but at least they give everyone a chance to suffer equally…
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
What about their penises?
rtxn@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m sure Fabulous Bill has a couple of attachments that would make even Slaanesh blush.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Never asked!😕
CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
What I also appreciate about Chaos is that their writers know they’re evil. I swear the people writing loyalist books forget that the Imperium is basically as bad as the rest in its own way.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Very much, yes! Chaos is the clearest, most stable faction in the entire lore in terms of characterisation and intent!
Honestly, I think the ambiguity behind the Imperium’s portrayal stems from a sort of pandering to the popularity of the faction itself, maybe even to blunt the sharpness a bit, make it more accessible to new inductees. Easier to sell a “slightly Theo-Fascistic” galactic empire than “we need to sacrifice literally thousands of people marked as Other to a corpse and, yes, corpse starch is exactly what it says on the tin. Oh, and we’ll need to lobotomise about 10000 of you because our biotoxin planet-wiping nukes need polishing.”
It’s a pity, because that’s exactly what drew me into 40k to begin with, that feeling of “wow, this stuff’s beyond horrific, my morbid curiosity is tickled seventy shades of pink!”
Mim@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Let me interject with my unasked opinion:
Aa far as I’m concerned the trouble started when we stopped calling it fluff and started calling it lore (and treating it with such reverance) instead.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Oh, no, with literally hundreds of books’ worth of backstory beyond all of the “your headcanon is valid” bits, we are well and truly beyond simple fluff.
Fluff is those 3 paragraphs of contextual flavour text you get on the back of a board game box.
rtxn@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And Tolkien’s Legendarium is just a bunch of hastily-written bedtime stories, right?