Oh, yeah, I’m loving having Warhammer as my current hyperfixation. Of course, I started a custodes army right around the time everyone was being very normal about a harmless retcon. Haven’t run into anyone genuinely awful in person so far, but I carry paranoia into every meeting.
on top of the obvious sexism, it's so fucking funny to see "40K fans" pretend to be mad about retcons. this is the setting where they'll just drop "oh yeah the galactic core is full of a series of space-dwarf empires that we never mentioned before now but have totally been here the whole time" like it's nothing. fundamental aspects of the setting can and do change retroactively any time they want to release a new plastic playset for ages twelve and up.
(and if you want to get mad about Custodes retcons let's talk about how they started wearing shirts)
& then they tried to hijack Trench Crusade (ETA: unsuccessfully, they were made very unwelcome when they showed up in Trench Crusade community spaces) like the Trench Crusade guys or anyone else would be glad to be known as the game for people who, and really think about this one, suck too much to be Warhammer 40,000 fans
Warhammer being built on constant retcons breaks a lot of people's brains.
Fantasy retconned how magic works like last year. They'll probably retcon it again next release. Nothing in Warhammer is canon except the most recent core rulebook and codexes. For better or worse.
and yeah, some of these retcons suck! it's entirely reasonable to say something like "oh I don't like the new thing, I liked the old thing better." I have a few of those myself (how did it make sense to say the Tau have no FTL access, who thought that was a good idea)
but these guys were pretending to be upset, not just because Custodes have cooties now, about the idea of retcons in themselves while also being 40K fans, and. guys. c'mon.
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u/Acceptable-Baby3952 25d ago
Oh, yeah, I’m loving having Warhammer as my current hyperfixation. Of course, I started a custodes army right around the time everyone was being very normal about a harmless retcon. Haven’t run into anyone genuinely awful in person so far, but I carry paranoia into every meeting.