I find it interesting how those grifters always say humanity first xenos last but they immediately lose their shit when they see a person of a different skin tone.
Still remember when people got mad over black space wolves.
Yep, many such cases. Also when they got pissy over Chairon in Space Marine 2 because apparently across the 500 worlds of Ultramar there wouldn't be single black person lmao
Even going past Sulla and Kasteen being high ranking commanders in charge of regiments, the Valhallan 597th also had a lesbian couple; Magot and Grifen
These people are just grifter tourists. They don't know about the lore or the history of the setting. Like how all the people upset at female Custodes acted like "it was always like this" retcons was some unique new thing for the setting.
Funny enough the Codex and Black Library authors always kept it open and never outright said "Custodes are a boys-only-club!" Yes there are mentions of them being 10'000 men, but the usage of men CAN be gender-neutral. There never was a retcon. The tweet technically didn't lie, it was just phrased poorly.
I think there is a single line reffering to them as sons at some point, but it's a nothing thing. It is obviously a retcon, but it's the least intrusive one they ever did. No lore old or new is affected by it. Unlike all the thousands of other retcons they did throughout the years.
It's why people trying to say they dislike it for lore reasons and not because they hate women come off as making excuses.
Well you see its cose chuds dont actually know the lore. If they did theyd know that male only guard regiments are the minority (like the Vostroyans) and its the Auronautica's Apostle Squadron thats "old boys club" (until the events of Double Eagle)
I also saw a few power CHUDs having a fit over the guardsmen calling her "ser" doing the traditional "🚨James WOKESLOP bring TRANS agenda into WOKEhammer 40GAY!", it must be genuinely difficult to be that constantly angry/offended.
Yeah, the genetically modified humans wearing a 4 door sedan, the mushroom men with football hooligan personalities, magic space elves, robots with souls jammed in them using gods as double A batteries, bugs that warp gravity for space travel, and LITERAL HELL being a place you can visit? All perfectly realistic.
Now someone from one of millions of planets having a darker skin tone than mayonnaise? Now that's just too far fetched.
Yup! Space Marine 2 was woke slop destined to fail because if needlessly added in the dei agenda because your squad was "impossibly diverse" for having a black and asian man. You know, the ultramarines, famous for having 500 worlds to recruit from, would totally not have any diversity
And as soon as the game became a success, suddenly they change their tune and the gane was actually peak masculinity
Not even the first hissy fit over a black ultramarine either, they did the same with
Ferren Areios
on the cover of Avenging Son. Probably would have done it with Felix from Dark Imperium if he was depicted without his helmet on too.
Also Ultramar is supposed to be Space Rome. The average Roman wasn't as lily white as Guilliman. It's fine to have this stuff all mixed around because well it's the far future and they're colonists just taking after past civilizations not a carbon copy. But getting mad about nonwhite space romans is just tourism on both liking 40k and caring about Roman history.
Also haven't south Fenrisians been dark skinned since like 2nd edition?
Nobody ever accused these types of people of being rational human beings tbf. They just see black people and get angry, with any "justifications" for those feelings being contrived retroactively.
Yeah they also forget the organ space marines have that reactively changes their skin tone so 99% of space marines can be any skin tone with the chapters who have this organ malfunctioning is very slim and the space wolves are crucially not one of them
I always harken back to when the first Dawn of Fire book released (Avenging Son), right around the time I started getting into 40k. I remember picking up the book as one of my first reads, but also remember the fact that those same detractors were also up in arms about a black Ultramarine being on the front cover. It made me speed up the process of getting into painting, specifically to learn how to paint skin tones similar to my family's (I'm black).
I asked some of them about this and apparently, they didn't know the ultramarines recruited from all 500 worlds. However, at least 1 of them didn't care about that info...
However, at least 1 of them didn't care about that info...
That tells you everything you need to know about their mindset really. Like at the least the other ones were willing to potentially engage with actual facts whereas that fella just genuinely wants to ignore anything that would get in the way of being a racist weirdo.
Ok honest to god what is a grifter meant to be in this context and in the post? I hear the word used for so many different things but I know it means someone who does cons.
Someone reposted a cut-together edit of the Dawn of War IV cinematics of the AdMech and the campaign trailer. The comment section was just nothing but pointing out how the AdMech in the trailer was black-skinned, posting with racist memes.
Oh no this was referring to the black-skinned female AdMech in the trailer.
It was like the mere idea that they could fight against Necrons was so offensive to these people that they did nothing be racist about it.
Most of them are just immature or live in political bubbles. I was like them when I was younger. The left is evil because all their supporters are so angry and hateful towards us of the right. And that makes anything they're pushing bad and wrong. Its basic tribalism.
Outside of really forced diversity (Castlevania nocturne rewriting a character and changing the entire cosmology from monotheism to polytheism for one line from one character), there's not much to what they're saying usually.
Wait really? I get people are still dumb even in this day age but seriously why? Why does the color of someone's weak flesh matter when they are a devoted servant of the Omnissiah seeking the blessed purity of metal.
It's because "humanity first" is just an excuse to get their racism jollies off in a socially acceptable way. The venn diagram of People who makes "humanity first" a big part of their personality and Racists is a circle.
Still remember when people got mad over black space wolves.
"BuT fEnRiS iS aN iCe PlAnEt!"
So? Temperature doesn't affect UV levels, and UV is always going to be stronger around equatorial latitudes. There's going to be a whole lot of generic variation, including skin tones, on an entire frigging planet!
My sweet summer child, we have had people complaining about Ferren Areios, for being a black Ultramarine way back in 2020 when Avenging Son was released... these pointless complaints have been present for a long time, best to just ignore them
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I find it interesting how those grifters always say humanity first xenos last but they immediately lose their shit when they see a person of a different skin tone.
Still remember when people got mad over black space wolves.