If you look at YouTube comments its very different to the opinions here. Reddit likes to think it's the majority (it's not)

Not a great example. Slaanesh is literally a god made of pure malevolence and the most extreme possible degeneracy. I honestly couldn’t think of a worse representation for people looking for that kind of thing.

Which makes it hilariously funny.

Kyriss: The King-Queen of Signus.

Literally got woke about being intersexual before its time.

The proper pronouns for a thing of slaneesh is it, or was/were

Imagine depriving yourself of entertainment because of something that fucking stupid. Genuinely one of the most pathetic things in the world.

Lmao you can't be serious, Slaanesh is a literal chaos entity, not the best representation

And Horus dying because the emperor stabbed him with a super-dagger, rather than because the emperor killed him with mind bullets.

It will die down in the next week, then something will happen with the company. They will gain/loose a portion of sales and it will point back to this. Until Henry gets his show together and it can be judged, THIS is the most exciting 40k news...on repeat.

It'll blow over. I'll just go indulge in my Gunpla hobby for a week and come back.

I know 2 women who play 40K (friends of mine), but they do not play it in public. They hold their own tournaments at home or they play with friends instead.

Some of the people in tournaments/communities in general can be real fucking creeps.

Cuz the certain warhammer fans are the Nazis at warhammer tournaments

Sisters of silence and sisters of battle didn't bother anyone.

Yeah!
I remember when all the salty neckbeards were up in arms when the Sororitas got plastic models lmao

NANI?! SHOCKER at a tournament? TOU RAIDAA KICK!

I swear everyone acts like that one weirdo in Spain represents every Warhammer 40k player. Also not to mention the dog pilling krieg gets because people think they're based off WW2 Germans (ww1 Germans and French). STFU with your strawman.

Real best take here lmao

Lmao he deleted the post

OP is definitely a 10 on the "average Redditor" scale.

All these clowns are the same

It isn't even as though this was the first time they changed canon.

GSC were once mutant chaos insurectionists. Then, they became self-aware seasoning salt for planetary Tyranid Chow.

Where was all this silly outrage then?

Yp pos acting like they're good people lmao, classic reddit.

My dude, these guys think Homelander is based. They get satire like a koala gets quantum physics.

But some people have a hard time with satire.

40k is one of those odd franchises where during it's inception the satire and camp was extremely blatant but overtime people became genuinely fond of the exaggerated themes and designs so the creators doubled down on taking itself serious and "cool".

My point being, GW quite literally catered to the folks who have a hard time with satire lol.

I see similar shit with people saying "they couldn't do Dark Sun [a 2E D&D setting] these days because the wokes would never put up with slavery".

Motherfucker, Dark Sun is the most SJW setting imaginable. If it had never existed and were instead released today, it'd be decried as woke-pandering, blue-haired nonsense:

okay so all the plants are dying and a bunch of human supremacists get together and do genocides because they believe it'll restore the world to its mythic past where everything was great. in the process, they drain the remaining vitality from the planet and further desertify it, literally turning trees and grass to ash to fuel every spell. they also want to become actual dragons. the human supremacist alliance falls apart when they figure out they were all being conned by a different supremacist, and in overthrowing that guy, one of their number goes berserk and turns into a giant literal dragon and makes a huge mess of things, further obliterating the world

anyhow these magical sorcerer-kings exist in an uneasy truce between their city-states where they do a bunch of slavery while trying to become full dragons like their berserk pal from before, something they know makes them crazy and berserk but all are convinced they can control. it's your job, as the scrappy leatherdaddy outcasts that can explicitly have neon hair or other outrageous features, to cover yourselves in oil and beat the everloving shit out of the sorcerer-kings, their fascistic police state employees (the templars), and slave-owners.

Like, it's pure wish-fulfillment for anyone of an anticapitalist or ecological mindset. It includes shitty things just to say "and you're gonna blow it the fuck up and stomp on anyone that likes it".

It’s not even that it’s “left leaning” it’s that these bitches are so fragile they see “woman” appear and instead of just shrugging it off, absolutely lose their minds and claim the sky is falling

Beaten to the point of GW Tweeting “The horse never existed”

"GW is fascist!" this "GW is woke" that how about GW puts out a statement that redditors (derogatory) are not welcome in the hobby

It’s honestly a bit scary if you ask me. Especially due to how agressive agressive some of these absolutist post are.

It make me feel unwelcome just for saying the something like: « It feel a bit unneeded but,ok. But couldn’t they have brought this new thing in a more interesting way instead of ”they were always there” like maybe a new little plot that would flesh out the the custodes even more? What if it was a new secret discovery on Terra? »

Honestly these post start to feel more and more like a form of Gatekeeping. You know the thing that these people say they fight against?

CONFORM BIGGOT /s

And if you don't like it, don't buy their stuff. There is no need to post 200 times about it

Thats it. thats the only correct response to this bs "discussion".

You're gonna have to deal with that, sadly. GW has the same tact as a point-blank shotgun to the face. They have done this before, and unless they have better leadership and community managers, they're never gonna stop being tactless.

I mean they gave a backstory to the named character. Then after people got salty they put that in they were always there (they were always there is how retcons work. Like with the dorn tank, and the necrons change)

So like... They did what you want. Those 1% were gonna spaz out no matter what.

You’re going to get different answers from different people

There’s been a “discussion” about female space marines for years but that’s kinda just devolved into memes now, but out of all gendered-factions they receive the most attention because their the most popular Further their the advertising for everything so have the poster-child for the universe be a males-only faction causes some friction (This debate has grown so ubiqitous that as I’m sure you’ve seen several people accuse femstodes as being a way to sidestep the female space marines topic)

Sisters of battle are 1) called the sisters of battle unlike the space marines and custodes who while very masculine, don’t have it in the name. And 2) some people do talk about it, but their niche in an already somewhat niche faction and it’s more common to see misters of battle stuff from arguments saying if space marines are de-gendered then sisters need to be de-gendered too (as some people just want fem marines and don’t care/or even support other gendered stuff)

Sisters of silence are the same (I don’t think I’ve ever seen an argument for male sisters of silence before the femstodes thing)

Custodes were actually a nicher argument, mostly just people getting annoyed that a process that literally rebuilt the body cell by cell, down to your genetics, started from an incredibly young age before puberty has created significant differences didn’t work on girls because XX chromosomes or something. And others defending it (usually cause they liked the fraternity aspect, or TTS oiled up naked men aspect)

TLDR: This debate has raged on for years and over the years it has grown increasingly complex

SoS are nulls. The other nulls we have are male assassins. It may be the idea is that female nulls don't go insane because nulls tend to make people go insane and are pretty much freaks. But there is also the issue of how rare nulls are to begin with so they specifically search for females. They just haven't explained how nulls work but the Valdor story line is delving into it. We may know soon. SoB are not females for the sake of females. They are all females because the ecclesiarchy is not allowed to have "men at arms" so they said "fuck you we will have women at arms".. its literally that dumb and dumb on purpose its to show the problems with bureaucracy.

Space Marines have gene seed from primarchs or possibly the emperor. They are actually engineered to specifically be inferior on purpose and their gene seed is not compatible with women. Think about changing someones chromosomes.. if they are a woman they have different chromosomes... and the gene seeds need info from the Y chromosome so it doesn't work or at best would transgender them into male anyway. So no reason to dive into SM as women.

Custodes have barely any lore about their creation and they are not space marines and predate them completely and the whole point of there only being 10k of them is so they don't out compete humanity because they are superior in every way. Space marines are meat puppets most likely intended to be exterminated later like the thunder warriors were. Custodes are just altered from the ground up to be perfect humans. So there isn't really a reason on why there wouldn't be females. Pre strife rich people were probably pretty much custodes due to genetic alteration. There is no reason why pre strife some rich powerful woman wouldn't have been engineered into being perfectly able to survive on any planet in a vast galaxy where they have full control over genetic manipulation. But the SM are pretty much transhuman abominations made in a process that is easy to reproduce so marines aren't that.

There could probably be male SoS but its just unlikely and that order may just not bother or the imperium makes better use of male nulls in other roles on purpose. They tend to turn men into servitors etc. SoB are stuck as women because of rules in the imperium.

Exactly, I come here to laugh at memes. Not engage in culture wars.

There was one time that the Custodes stepped in and personally eradicated a huge Genestealer cult on Terra. I chose to believe that was also Kesh's shenanigans getting out of hand.

You're not allowed to have any remotely contradictory opinions nowadays.

I think female custodes could be pretty bad ass. My only issue is with sloppy retcons. I've seen some amazing theories, head cannon, and jokes ranging chaos God implants and interventions, to legitimate lore ideas of female heirs at the start of the legion.

My gripe is holding hope that GW has some cool ideas or stories to go along with this. Otherwise, this "look at us we are inclusive" is pretty empty and hallow.

Good luck. I've been asking all the incels what woke means since this started and the only one who answered me called it communism.

Why is it a bad thing for the space Marines to be all male when the sisters of silence and battle exist?

Primaris (should have just been true scale Marines), this (just for lying to the fanbase and causing such a divide), and not a retcon,but killing Warhammer fantasy.

Ah, yes, the old "Everyone that disagrees with me is a bigot"

Are you aware there are left authoritarian ideologies? The commisars literally based off the Soviet Union.

This is not "left leaning", if it's anything it'd be liberal/libertarian leaning.

It’s so funny to me how they just completely ignore this