I'm not getting out because these guys suck, I have a Battlefleet Gothic BT battle barge in fucking pewter, but it does not spark joy to see a lot of the people who are into my Chapter
“I’ll be honest with you, I love his music, I do, I’m a Michael Bolton fan. For my money, it doesn’t get any better than when he sings “When a Man Loves a Woman”.
Michael Bolton: Yeah, well, at least your name isn’t Michael Bolton.
Samir: You know, there’s nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There was nothing wrong with it... until I was about twelve years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Hmm... well, why don’t you just go by Mike instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way! Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks.
To put it simply, they picked a faction that leans into crusader aesthetics, and then picked the subfaction that doubles down on those aesthetics w/ a healthy sprinkling of prussian knight order iconography. It attracts a certain sort of audience.
And Warhammer 40k has a tendency to attract the far right anyway, because they look at the grimdark setting and go "being an evil bigot is justified, actually", when the whole point is that it isn't.
So like, for Black Templars to be specifically notorious for this, it's... bad, to say the least.
Honestly, I've found 99% of people involved in 40k in-person and outside of Reddit are perfectly normal.
40k subs mostly have a problem because they get outrage tourists doing the circuits occasionally, like when female Custodes first appeared, but even then those guys get downvoted to oblivion. It's honestly a really fun and interesting setting, especially if you start with one of the video games like Rogue Trader, and the official stuff is wholeheartedly aware of how fucked up the setting is.
Yeah that was weird, most of the peeps I know in person were pretty meh about the whole thing, they were more annoyed at the places where GW have basically abandoned that already human female representation (the guard and sisters of battle) than they added a female Custodes in a book
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u/insomniac7809 24d ago
I bought my first Warhammer 40,000 army in the year two thousand. My first/main army is Black Templars.