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I thought that was the point. It's a demonstration that "the end justifies the means" leads to a universe where the "good guys" are also very Evil.
by tvararu 5y ago
I thought that was the point. It's a demonstration that "the end justifies the means" leads to a universe where the "good guys" are also very Evil.
- weregiraffe 5y agoIt could be the point, but clearly it is not getting across, as the Warhammer 40K community is full of people joyfully and thoughlessly embracing the "Burn the Heretic! Kill the Mutant! Purge the Unclean!" attitude.
- AllegedAlec 5y agoHave you any proof that the tongue-in-cheek usage of in-universe phrases in any way leads to real life ideals?
- UncleMeat 5y agoAdoption of “god emperor” for Trump is a notably example.
- AllegedAlec 5y agoAh, of course. Because people using that literally deify Trump, believing he's a 3.5 kiloyear old being that exists because of a human merging with the larvae of a deified sand worm.
- tibbydudeza 5y agoWrong universe ... no sandworms :).
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoIt looks like God Emperor of Dune came out in 1981, and given that's its GW, I assume someone involved had read it.
- tibbydudeza 5y agoYep they were certainly inspired by a lot of it. Thinking machines rebellion became the Dark Age of Technology. No form of AI allowed - no mentats but workarounds such as servitors and machine spirits. The Tleilaxu/Space Guild became the Mechanicum of Mars - they control all the technology.
- swebs 5y agoIn WH40k, it was prehistoric shamans from all over the world noticing their souls were being eaten by demons and preventing reincarnation, so they all kill themselves at the same time, merge their souls in the warp, and reincarnate as a single super human.
- tibbydudeza 5y agohttps://twitter.com/Toph_MaGoph/status/1094416691092688896/photo/1 https://twitter.com/Toph_MaGoph/status/1094416691092688896/p... Definitely 40K fans who made it :).
- tibbydudeza 5y agoOnly in death does duty end. It is kind of true of life in general.
- toyg 5y agoThe Warhammer community is made up of the most patient and tolerant people you’ll ever find. It’s inevitable: painting miniatures is an exercise in patience-building, and the fact that one will often play different sides of a never-ending conflict makes it very obvious that war between races solves exactly nothing. You can possibly take objection with some racist subtext (which is inevitable with anything originating from Tolkien’s “clash of civilisations” material, borne out of the tragedies in the first half of last century), and the fact that it’s a very white, very male subculture (simply out of causality: a slow and expensive hobby in very white countries will inevitably end up attracting people with time and money to spare - i.e. white men); but this does not result in a discriminatory community at all: warhammer players are often desperate to evangelise their hobby, and are extremely conscious of being a very small minority. In the end, the whole Games Workshop lore is a mixture of “heavy metal” aesthetic, Tolkien tropes, and the “nihilism with a smile” reaction to Thatcher’s England that also gave us Dredd and “British Invasion” comic writers: if you take it too seriously, you become part of the joke.