This is what happens when we dont have basic rights like universal healthcare or stable jobs. And the "lesser evil" political party has nothing to offer besides vague phony optimism.
More and more people are being pushed to the fringe right due to the failures of capitalism.
We need better.
Nah, it's a warhammer dipshit, and everyone knows that warhammer "fans" never actually play the game because they're too busy bitching about women custodes.
Average warhammer enjoyer: I am a power gamer and also cheat, all my armies are commission painted because I just want whatever is top of the meta on any given week, also the imperium of man is not satire it is actually awesome
Me: I just like to glue elves together and paint them at a rate of about 5 figures per year. plastic machine go brrr
"NOOOOO Eldar are lame! If they're so good, why don't they like the space fascists?!?!"
"Hehe this warlock has some funny space eel friends"
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(I’m actually extremely slowly painting high elves for TOW, haven’t played 40k since the mid-2000s, that model is cool as hell tho it’s like the two eels from little mermaid)
Thanks, it's sooo much better than the monopose warlocks GW sells (and cheaper to boot!). There's also a secret third eel hiding behind her hand. You should post your elves to /c/hobby once they're done! Always love to see people's work.
I feel like the sort of person that is like that is actually a really tiny minority that takes up a lot of space by being loud, shit, and purchasing a lot of miniatures, and think that a "competitive community" that hasn't kicked them out yet is the only "real" hobbyists.
By painting even a single model you are already infinitely better than the average warhammer fan, especially when that model looks as good as your forgefiend.
Thank you a bunch. I'm probably going to post the full on final product tomorrow. I hope it still looks good enough.
What am I hearing, here?
I played Warhammer as a kid. Half or more of the fun was painting the models and making scenery.
Are you telling me that people 'play' the game without doing that bit? What's the point of that?
A large number of warhammer "fans" (it would not be unreasonable to guess that this group is even a slight majority) do not engage with the hobby in any physical way, and instead just do things like watch lore videos, play the video games, and repeat memes. I would argue that most of the chuds who get really pissed off about the idea of female space marines or start larping as imperials fall into this group. This group has become larger over time as GW's prices continuously rise (driving people away from the physical game), the setting became more mainstream (largely through video games and fanworks), and especially when it became possible to play the tabletop game entirely on a computer in the "game" Tabletop Simulator (~$10 for a copy on Steam to play as any faction you want vs ~$500-1000 and dozens of hours to play one army).
There are also a decent number of people who do play the physical tabletop game that purchase and build models, but do not paint them. Historically, tournaments enforced a rule that models must have at least 3 colors on them, and in the newest edition of 40k there are explicitly 10 bonus points that each player receives at the end of the game if their army is painted to a similar standard. I can say that in my friend group, there is one person who painted a few models, decided he didn't like painting, and now just has the rest as plain gray plastic.
I completely understand the price point. That was one of the reasons I spent most of my time painting/creating. I'd painstakingly spruce up a small set or a special (read: metal) second hand figure because I couldn't afford enough pieces to join in many games and none of my friends could afford any figures at all.
It's a real shame. I live in hope that someone will come up with a rather simple open source version that you can play with any figures, rejecting the apparent rule changes that mean people buy/paint pieces and then discover they can't use them in the next edition of the rule book.
Down with capitalists.
Luckily, someone's already made just that! The starter set even comes with paper templates to cut out for paper standees. (I guess it's only arguably open source but they have a custom tool that you can use to make your own armies so that's good enough for me)
That's all i ever did was paint models in the same colour scheme as my dawn of war armies
Everything is Blood Angels. Adepta Sororitas? Blood Angels. Necrons? Blood Angels. T'au? Believe it or not, Blood Angels.
I JUST WANTED TO LOOK AT ANIME TITTIES AND F*TA BUT YALL HAD TO MAKE IT POLITICAL
So I ask you this in return, how does it feel to look at the monster you created?
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Right?
"I BECAME A NAZI BECAUSE YOU SAID MEAN THINGS ABOUT ME! I'M TOTALLY NORMAL!"
Pathetic, clueless crap.
imagine putting the palestine flag next to the people aiding their genocide and a bunch of fucking nazis
liberals are wild
“Corrupted our hobbies” lol. What a loser. What exactly is their “birthright” I wonder
this is so funny because there's never been a better time in history for enjoyers of video game boobs. who cares if it's in the base game? there's mods, rule34s, source filmmaker porn, e-girl cosplayers, and now with AI you can easily generate all the vidya smut your horny little ass desires
like our society literally could not cater more to the fantasies of the straight male gooner gamer and they're still mad??
There's tons of booba in the base game of current games. Don't even talk about mods, because that shit gets real disgusting real quick
"There's nothing as toxic as unmet expectations."
Part of the problem here is that white cis hetero males are still bathed in sense that they should be on top of the pile throughout childhood and are suddenly getting dropped out of high school into a world where that's no longer the case. Stable jobs and healthcare will help but I think this is also a situation where a cultural shift needs to happen.
I think it's not even 100% a superiority thing, but the loss of position, purpose, place.
Stable jobs and healthcare would do so much to defuse the "I need to outcompete/hobble everyone else to WIN" grindset hustle mentality.
In my field (a "successful" one in the modern economy), the conventional wisdom is to intentionally change jobs every two years or so to get a bigger raise than loyalty yields. Other fields have either intentional high turnover or mismanagement that sabotages long-term employment. Nobody develops a pride of position and it creates more easily replacable workers. Of course this ripples to "nobody even stays in the same neighbourhood anymore" as we Grapes of Wrath ourselves across the map looking for opportunity.
If you aren't forced to chase the ever-moving brass ring, maybe you can find satisfaction in being part of long-lived communities which encourage mutual support. If you know your needs are going to be taken care of, different faces and lifestyles are less of a risk to destabilize your world.
This is what happens when we don't have basic rights like universal healthcare or stable jobs. And the "lesser evil" political party has nothing to offer besides vague phony optimism.
More and more people are being pushed to the fringe right due to the failures of capitalism.
Nah.
These are just right-wing psychos.
You don't need to analyze literally everything through the lens of "the more-right-wing party won the latest bourgeoisie election which means everyone but me is right-wing".
Maybe there's a case for left-wing propaganda not being widespread enough. But even in that case, I don't think "capitalism is bad and causes all our problems" is some secret thing that young people have never heard.
I don't think it's a bad theory, although maybe there's some recency bias in bringing up current US electoral politics to try to explain something much more general. Reactionary antisocial behavior is a consequence of alienation, i.e. people are pushed to the fringes because of capitalism's failure to maintain the social bonds that stops people from becoming misanthropic edgelords like OOP.
Some people really want to moralize and get defensive when materialist explanations are given.
We need to understand what causes fascists to exist if we want to eradicate them after all, and just believing they're an eternal evil of the universe doesn't help that. It's not about whether they are good or bad, we are going to have to deal with them they stand in our way, and we want to study the phenomena and conditions of their absurd existence so we can prevent future fascists from developing once we take power.
Plus I think socialized medicine and healthcare would help a lot of problems fix themselves. Lets be real, a lot of these people are just sick in the head qnd desperately need help they probably cant afford. Im sure some of them would refuse but just having free access to that help would definitely have a positive long term impact.
Lets be real, a lot of these people are just sick in the head qnd desperately need help they probably cant afford
Agreed, and alongside a whole host of other issues the most glaring ones are a colonial mentality/indoctrination, many over their whole life and even perhaps generations back. In truth as a PoC who came from a very mentally colonized family, a large chunk of PoC (of all communities) in the west, as well as across the world, also could use some serious help in this regard too.
The medicine/healthcare they need is re-education, basically psychiatric help. Whether they will or can get it is another matter, and the extent of damage they will do in the meantime is immense.
I definitely agree to some extent. Theres always people youll judt never save.
What a loser lmao. I was a misanthropic teenager and even I wasn't this cringe lol. If I'm giving teenage me props you've basically hit maximum loser points
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