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.
So I ask you this in return, how does it feel to look at the monster you created?
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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
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
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"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
Racists that spend all their time playing Fortnite and [new fad] aren't the Hitler Youth, they are just atomized reactionary liberals.
Fascists arose in opposition to socialists. They were supported by the bourgeoisie, particularly the petty bourgeoisie, to fight a left that was ascendant and asserting people's power, taking over cities and taking over factories. With the liberal institutions failing to guarantee bourgeois control, the armed right wing gangs bringing violence against the left were the only other game in town and were funded accordingly. This is how organized crime basically functions as well - it is just filling a space where the state monopoly on violence has been undermined. And later fascistic groups filled a similar role, like with Pinochet, who restored the (largely international) bourgeoisie's capital control in Chilé through a coup and terror.
Nothing like this is happening in the United States. The United States does not have a left, there are too few of us. All of this is happening without a left and without a bourgeoisie that has been dispossessed. Accordingly, there are no brownshirts, not in any real numbers. They have nothing they would defend in retribution anyways.
But there are other factors that rhyme a bit so that you see what we have in front of us. There is a material decline, particularly for the least marginalized groups, and it requires a false consciousness under liberalism. The classic scapegoating of minorities is not a fascist invention, liberals were doing this long before and after European fascism. And with no left, the only people who could be mass opponents to violence against the marginalized are liberals, and they do so in an ineffectual liberal way. Providing no solutions, not addressing the underlying dynamics at play, destroying the education system, funding and owning social media that blasts right wing conteny while doing their best to censor left content, emphasizing electoralism for their ghouls, these are the liberal "solutions". They create the conditions for reactionaries to exist, feed into their scapegoating (Dems have always been racist and xenophobic, e.g.), use their power to punch left instead of right.
So what you see today is more the typical liberal order in empire where no left exists. It is a resetting of the terms to the more typical arrangement. "Progress" is not inevirable, it can be crushed and reset, all it tajes is for those in power to have no real fear of the people. And the American people are almost the least fearsome they have ever been, though there are undercurrents of riots that could break out during a recession. If left organizations were just large enough and just ready enough, they would be able to provide direction and longevity for the next mass expression of pain and frustration.
corrupted our hobbies
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There is a reason this demographic is 20-25, because they are a bunch of entitled coddled man-children who finally had contact with the cold harsh reality and they can't cope. You grow out of it and later see it as cringe.
“Corrupted our hobbies” lol. What a loser. What exactly is their “birthright” I wonder
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
"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.
terminally online, then
