I really don't think people who like painting goofy miniatures of armored dudes wielding chainsaw guns are any more predisposed to fascism than anyone else.
Have you actually participated in 40k games, especially ones in large shared areas with actual maps set out?
I played Orks for years in local venues. Of course not everyone was a fascist or even "ironically" a fascist (Tau players were generally cool), but it sounds like unobserved knee-jerk presumption to say that there's no difference between the general population's fascist density and that of those coming to such organized games with their SPEHS MEHREENS and telling players a table or two away that might have dyed hair or even a rainbow bracelet that they are (slurs) that should be exterminatus'd. That isn't something I've ever heard from the general population outside of such games or related online material.
As long as those chuds pretended it was "just kidding" or "just getting into the mood" the organizers wouldn't do anything. I think I saw one such fascist actually get kicked out, but that was mostly for throwing things and having a tantrum, not necessarily the part where he was telling a (slur) that they deserved to burn in holy Promethium.
Meanwhile you try any of that shit in any of the places near me and you'd be thrown out instantly and would definitely not be allowed back. I think as it is with most things it depends on where you are and what kind of community the location builds.
And yes I have played 40k on tables in game shops full of people who were probably chuds, and they kept their damn mouths shut because they just wanted to play and knew they wouldn't be allowed to if they started talking about anything other than the game.
My local area gatherings were pretty lax, yeah. Crowded, in relatively small spaces, where passive-aggressive "in character" LARPs about how they want to hurt/kill other people present just... happened.
And yes I have played 40k on tables in game shops full of people who were probably chuds, and they kept their damn mouths shut because they just wanted to play and knew they wouldn't be allowed to if they started talking about anything other than the game.
I would have brought my Orks with me to my new home across the country if I knew how different it could have been.
Have you actually participated in 40k games, especially ones in large shared areas with actual maps set out?
I played Orks for years in local venues. Of course not everyone was a fascist or even "ironically" a fascist (Tau players were generally cool), but it sounds like unobserved knee-jerk presumption to say that there's no difference between the general population's fascist density and that of those coming to such organized games with their SPEHS MEHREENS and telling players a table or two away that might have dyed hair or even a rainbow bracelet that they are (slurs) that should be exterminatus'd. That isn't something I've ever heard from the general population outside of such games or related online material.
As long as those chuds pretended it was "just kidding" or "just getting into the mood" the organizers wouldn't do anything. I think I saw one such fascist actually get kicked out, but that was mostly for throwing things and having a tantrum, not necessarily the part where he was telling a (slur) that they deserved to burn in holy Promethium.
Meanwhile you try any of that shit in any of the places near me and you'd be thrown out instantly and would definitely not be allowed back. I think as it is with most things it depends on where you are and what kind of community the location builds.
And yes I have played 40k on tables in game shops full of people who were probably chuds, and they kept their damn mouths shut because they just wanted to play and knew they wouldn't be allowed to if they started talking about anything other than the game.
My local area gatherings were pretty lax, yeah. Crowded, in relatively small spaces, where passive-aggressive "in character" LARPs about how they want to hurt/kill other people present just... happened.
I would have brought my Orks with me to my new home across the country if I knew how different it could have been.
Okay