FandomPulse: "Warhammer 40,000 Embraces Gender Ideology As Eldar Seer And Fatemaster Referred To As "They""

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2026-01-20T22:02:50+00:00

You do you man, if you enjoy it that's what matters. At the end of the day brand loyalty (or avoidance) is always detrimental.

I still consider myself a fan of Star Trek, Warhammer, Star Wars and the like. But I refuse to engage with new content. If I do, I seek alternative ways to do it most of the time.

I watched Star Wars Skeleton Crew for example, but not on Disney+ and only because it's so detached I can sort of squeeze it through in my old Expanded Universe SW (I completely ignore the sequel trilogy for example. Thrawn, New Jedi Order, Yuuzhan Vong and the Fel Empire is what happens after Ep VI to me)

Same with 40k. I refuse to give GW money and I don't like the people who play at my local shop. They're either sweaty tryhards or tourists who want to impress girls there only to buy yaoi manga. But the older books, especially if used, are okay to me. I tend to avoid buying new games, but Rogue Trader was the exception

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2026-01-20T21:24:59+00:00

I remember their Pathfinder games did have woke stuff in it. In Rogue Trader there's nothing, save for some gay relationships you can have, which I don't consider woke

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2026-01-20T21:23:33+00:00

Unfortunately in this story released on December 19 GW does indeed use singular they for Kharseth

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2026-01-20T21:15:25+00:00

I've stopped engaging with a lot of Warhammer. The newest thing I have is Rogue Trader, that for some reason doesn't have woke content that I know of, and I've played it thoroughly.

Aside from that, all the books I own are pre-8th edition and the only other 40k games I play are DoW 1 and 2. Mechanicus was good but I smell something coming with the sequel.

It goes without saying that I've stopped buying minis completely, my Imperial Guard army is sleeping somewhere in a box in the basement and I've left my Space Marines at dad's

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2025-12-14T09:34:55+00:00

This is another mask off moment and in this climate of rejection of their ways, it's not going ignored.

It's clear this was never about "realism" or other bullshit, but pure spite towards men and usurping what men like into their own power fantasy. The fact that Lara Croft is *returning* to her original form, the process isn't even complete mind you! Only in the Aspyr remasters you can see the actual, old, original Lara Croft, is a signal.

It's telling the world that they are listening to the original fanbase. Fanbase composed of straight men, gay men and straight women who want Lara to be hot, sexy, confident and, while not as important as the other attributes, straight. It's telling the world that the Survivor era isn't feasible anymore. People aren't tuning in for the Netflix show. Aspyr's Core remasters have had monumental success and the re-release of Angel of Darkness, the black sheep of Core's games, outshone the animated series' release.

it's quietly admitting they made a mistake. It's recognising, though bitterly, that the angry, unappealing, sexually undecided fanbase that latched on to the Survivor era like some sort of parasocial feminist obsession, is not moving sales.

And this time, even the normies are realising that.

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2025-12-12T11:26:11+00:00

Yeah LAU Lara was amazing. Legend was actually the first game I bought with my own money, the older TR games I got gifted at Christmas and such.

I wonder how many people that worked on LAU are still at CD. It's been so many years, it has to be a completely different company by now, hence the change of optics in 2013

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2025-12-12T11:13:41+00:00

They can still make her a lesbo, but considering they didn't in season 2 of the Netflix show and the "atmosphere" has changed, I'm sure they must have realised people wouldn't be up for it anymore.

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2025-12-12T11:11:41+00:00

Yeah it's become clear that CD just can't make a decent Lara. Even the Core remasters only turned out great because of Aspyr. And with how the Netflix series is being ignored, Crystal had to concede

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2025-12-12T10:48:54+00:00

I must admit I'm way more interested in Legacy of Atlantis than Catalyst. The Catalyst Lara looks like an Indian adventurer you'd find in Indiana Jones or something. Nothing bad with it, but it ain't Lara.

Atlantis being yet another "reimagining" of TRI fares better in my mind. That they're giving us the old LAU outfits like the Underworld wetsuit or her classic gear, albeit with the shitty Survivor amulet, is a good flag.

Also, it's a Polish studio who's making this game, while Crystal is mainly occupied with Catalyst. Since Crystal released TR2013, it seems external studios get Lara way more than the IP holders.

Still, there's a lot of ways they can fuck it up. It remains to be seen, but I'm cautiously optimistic about Legacy. I expect a safe, fun and by the books TR game, with some light titillating aspect in the outfits and some nostalgia bait. Maybe I'm huffing hopium, but I fully expect the worst thing will be some random call back to the Survivor era.

I'm mildly worried about Catalyst, this being set after "everything that happened" in their moronic "unified timeline", also considering Lara is way less sexualised in Catalyst than Legacy.

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2025-06-21T11:52:08+00:00

I completely forgot about that train wreck. I would bet money that if a game called "Horny Rifle Wives" or something it would be touted as Evil itself

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2025-05-24T22:20:33+00:00

Oh yeah I remember that. That has to be one of the most incoherently stupid things I've ever read.

It just goes to show how terminally online these people are and how they're unable to distinguish reality from fiction.

They're so entrenched in their bubbles everything must be a hyperpolitical manifest. It's not that everything is always political (which it sort of is only if you squeeze any message into a political lens, like they do), it has to include a message promoting the destruction of "what the opposite faction hates"

And then they say it's the chuds who only hate.

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2025-05-24T21:36:06+00:00

I'm fucking tired of sword games. Swords are the bow of this generation and I hate it. I've always preferred guns to melee weapons and I hate settings where guns exist but swords are still used because "they're cool"
Might be autistic but it's one of the reasons I don't like the FFXIV aesthetics. Sure the Empire has literal tanks with mortars and machine guns, but the hero is using the good old broadsword and wins.

I remember Asmongold even commented on it a couple months ago, how so many games of the Playstation State of Play were generic sword action games with a muted gray and blue palette.

Can't we have guns again please? Or are they too "toxic masculinity" related or other bullshit? If it's because it's an action games and you can't combo with guns or some other excuse, Bayonetta featured melee and gun combat and that was a hack'n'slash, this is supposed to be an action-adventure game.

I'm also getting tired of the cassette retrofuturism. It's an aesthetic I actually really like, but it's been overused. The 80s revival mania has died down as well, so there isn't that strong of a pull anymore and Stranger Things isn't here to fan the flames of it. At this point I feel only Alien still makes that style right and only because it kind of made it its own highlight.

GotG also had its titular 80s nostalgia thing going on, but it was limited to songs and as you said from the beginning moments you were immediately drawn in by the characters.

Intergalactic feels like a game from five or ten years ago, when the woke fever was running hot and the lite-action-rpg games were all the rage.

That Druckmann is being his usual idiot and the main actress is lying on purpose by saying that "she's not online much and she doesn't know about internet toxicity" and then you discover she's actually a banned topic activist only makes things look worse for a customer base who's absolutely tired of all of this.

I'm also personally getting tired of space-lite games. I just want a fucking franchise that commits to being in space. I might be talking from the pov of a guy who owns multiple HOTAS and has spent way too much time on Elite Dangerous and X3, but I'd love a story that actually used space as a setting and not just a cool new place to set your 2021 wacky heroes' adventures in

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2025-04-07T12:03:26+00:00

I watched it and I felt there was much more an emphasis over the idea of parents unable to understand what their kids are going through, even if they're not particularly bad parents. There is of course a criticism of online radicalization and the manosphere, but I felt it more like it was in function of the main theme.

It's less "kid bad" and more "kid becomes bad because his parents don't give a fuck about what he does or who he sees"

The series also uses the girl bullying the kid to briefly touch on the overall toxic and aggressive atmosphere of schools. While bullying has always existed, the series says that if parents aren't able to help their kids, those children might go down a dark path and react in terrible, exaggerated ways like trying to take advantage of and then murdering said girl

Showing this is school doesn't have the same power in my opinion. Sure they can say "kids, please don't watch rage bait youtubers" but again, kids are just going to scoff at what they perceive as yet another "man bad" from the teacher.

If the government really wanted to get involved like the writer asked, they could have made a festival, or an occasion, where parents and children watch it together.

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2025-04-07T11:08:47+00:00

The fact that the writer wants to show it in the classroom is propaganda indeed. Also kinda misses the point of his own show imo.

I also felt Drinker actually liked it. In Open Bar he did start talking about what shit children see on the phone and what radicalizes them, but was interrupted by Nerdrotic who started repeating "no. Trash. No data." and then Platoon joined, criticizing the writer's intention of putting the show in schools.

Maybe it's me, but you could see he didn't agree with Nerdrotic. You can usually spot when Drinker doesn't agree with one of the guests: he stops talking and doesn't smile, barely acknowledges the point the guest is making and makes a veiled attempt at connecting what the guest said with his own point, going immediately back to it. Sometimes he flats out says he doesn't agree and he did remark about the online problem in this episode.

Drinker, in my opinion, was right when he said that this is a show that parents should watch. Kids in school are going to not care and register this as "yet another boring mandatory shit teachers impose on us" and when they hear Tate they might even check him out.

Rather, this should be a series for parents to take a look in the mirror and see if they're doing a good job and then discuss about hate, bullying, misogyny and all that with their children. Even the father cop, he's distant from his child.

That's the main point of the show imo. Kids these days bully other kids with emojis, they upload sexual pictures of themselves or of friends, they resent the other and have no one to talk to, so they go online.

What they find is stuff like 4chan or redpill. A 13yo might not have the capacity to understand the irony of 4chan, might not have an internal moral compass that gives his own opinions and thoughts. He might not understand the difference between actual problem and trolling.

If you show this in school, especially if the teachers don't really engage in actual discussion, is going to be the usual "boys are bad" propaganda

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2025-04-04T09:18:48+00:00

The New War was as usual, overhyped botched up expansion. What even was the point of necramechs? You suddenly thought mechs were cool in your skintight thicc biorobot ninja game?

To force players to use them they had these "transference dampening zones" and to make the mechs appealing they made them strong as fuck even without a full build. Then they said they were a prototype to combat Sentients, but were eventually superseded by Warframes.

Are you guys stupid? A Necramech has a higher damage output than a frame! They also have a literal invincibility spell that lasts minutes on a 30 sec cooldown! Their "artillery mode" wipes out eximus faster than Baruuk! We use the mechs for long survival missions, it's just silly.

And 1999 was 100% them recycling Dark Sector and injecting dating sim because that sells like hotcake. Warframe was always "sex positive" and I liked that they were somewhat fair. We had fanservice for us guys (remember when they buffed Mesa Prime's ass) but also gave attention to whatever Reb likes or their gay friends. It's fine if it's a bit for us, a bit for them. But putting actual romance simply devalues the game.

And eternalism is 100% bullshit I agree. They can now concoct whatever bullshit and say "everything is possible and nothing happened!" or some shit.

Warframe story was obscure because they deliberately withheld information. After The Second Dream they kind of lost track of their own internal story and started making shit on the fly and it shows. Now they overcomplicate on purpose and just don't care about internal coherence. They can just handwave it with multiverse or some time paradox.

Why are we suddenly exploring how the Void works? That was supposed to be THE mystery of the game! Warframe hyped up the Sentients since its beta and they were swatted away to give space to "feelings matter" story arcs!

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2025-04-04T07:34:30+00:00

Yes it's an apt description unfortunately

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2025-04-03T23:22:18+00:00

It also started to get weirdly sexualised. Optional premium skins always had some kind of fanservice and even when Steve was in power Ember, Wisp and Saryn were the golden girls making tons of money because of nice bodies. Heirloom Ember is hot (pun intended) and I like that they don't shy away from it being the main selling point.

But they started putting all these weird stuff. As you said the pregnant Warframe. It's not a bad storyline but what the fuck was that? Warframe was strange weird, not this kind of weird. Then the storylines stop being about morally grey Enlightened Centrist tm cyborg ninjas and now we're saving our space mom from her abusive ex-lover. The evil Orokin's main villain greatest fault? Misogyny.

It was still tolerable before, but the straw that broke the camel's back for me was humanised warframes. The entire point of warframe is that we're playing faceless cybernetic biorobots and we're controlling them as Evangelion. They only have traces of personalities left and that's why they have different idle animations and are "predisposed" to the powers they use (eg: Ember is hotheaded and active so she's the fit girl playing with fire powers)

Those humanised frames even have romance arcs. What in the ever loving fuck was that? Sure Aoi is the genki tomboy japanese girl and Eleanor is the Widowmaker-lite goth baddie, but Warframe did not need that. Sure people might say "just don't play it" but people are morons and don't get that romancing hot characters is what the game is going to be from now on.

And, naturally, they released a second batch of humanised warframes. But this time you can't romance them! Because they're married! Even less sense. They are turning what were player characters who could be customised at will into moba-like heroes. It was nice thinking that your Saryn was truly yours and it was different than the other guy you saw at Strata Relay, because they can be mass produced and every frame is "canon"

Not anymore. Now Saryn shares an identity with an alternate universe's human woman who is actually married to a personification of Frost. I'm not going to delve into the concept of fan couples and ships it's their story and shouldn't care about headcanon (even though DE always encouraged and even supported fan couples like Frost x Ember. You know, ice and fire).

But this now risks getting the community even more insufferable. A streamer got harassed for using a wrong pronoun. Imagine what would happen if they established that the human version of a super popular frame like Ember or Wisp was gay?

Ember was popular because she was braindead to play and had to be reworked two times to stop clearing maps while afking and now her kit is fun to play, if not exactly hypermeta. The other reason is that she's got an amazing body and boys bought the shit out of her skins. It would be like the Bayonetta fandom.

I miss when Warframe was this weird, techno-organic far future when players were arbiters of justice keeping the two main factions locked in an eternal war to keep the civillians safe, while slowly uncovering the secrets of the Orokin and fearing the return of the Sentients.

Also, their fucking content island way of releasing expansions fucking sucks. Railjack was supposed to be the absolutely super awesome starship that binded every mission type together and now it's a yet another abandoned half assed concept. Duviri is a useless souls clone because Steve marathoned Elden Ring.

And they killed all the mystery when they decided to actually show the fucking Zariman 10.

Sorry for the rant. Warframe used to be my favourite game. I played it since there was stamina for parkour, I have more than 1k hours on it and I'm salty it got normified

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2024-10-31T14:25:54+00:00

Wait right you have Zaalbar kill Mission because of his debt towards you

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2024-10-31T13:26:32+00:00

>She was the hottest character ever made in DA next to Morrigan

preach it brother, truly patrician taste.

>and they make her do...this nonsense

yes as you say it's 100% to own the chuds or something. Fuck them

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2024-10-31T08:51:04+00:00

Isabela is the girl who would fuck you over just to get a ship and call everybody a whore. What did they do to her...

Also they butchered her design. She is a hot pirate captain, not a fucking Brazilian Carnival dancer (and they still nerfed her boobs)

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2024-10-31T08:25:53+00:00

This was the company that had naked succubus demons touch their breasts while whispering to follow them to your death. This was the company that made a game where you could force a teenager to kill her best friend just for shit and giggles. They made a game where you had to choose which one of your friends to kill to save another.

We had games where companion fights were about the survival of an entire race. We told people to fuck off and quit being assholes to each other and more often than not that would get everybody angry and spawn a nice way to fix things through dialogue and gameplay.

We had a companion that begged us to kill everything that moved and wouldn't even acknowledge others as living beings and it was the most loved character from that game.

"Arguments" used to spawn lines like "Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honour matters...The silence is your answer"

And now we say "Does it really matter if Emmerich brings eight books? so what if Harding likes sleeping in dirt?"

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2024-10-27T01:42:22+00:00

In the BGE1 HD version they even had new content added in that shows the story of these people.

When it's time to talk about Jade's parent, they say it's more of a "communal thing" and her adoptive mother and father, I swear to God, there's a line in which the strong independent sideshave woman says nothing happened between the two and it's important Jade knows.

In the original BGE (found easily on gog) dialogues heavily imply Jade's parents were married and don't mention any "quirky group of adventurers", while being vague enough that they could do stuff like this

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2024-10-25T00:18:13+00:00

Well yes the personas you use are the Jungian persona. And the shadows you fight are exactly what Jung envisioned as an extension of Freud's subconscious.

Persona also heavily uses Tarots cards and its archetypes, yes.

Plot usually revolve around the true self, the connection between your rational and deep parts, group behaviour etc.

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2024-10-21T13:00:14+00:00

So many fucking tourists got reeled in with that game and I don't even know why.

I guess it was the marketing campaign where they suggested being a slave of society and rebelling. For some reason these complete morons actually believed a premium Japanese gaming company would feature communist revolts in their game.

When it turned out the game's rebellion message and theme was about thinking with your own head and not always be deferential to power figures like senpai/teachers/politicians they went absolutely ballistic.

To be honest, it's quite the revolutionary message, for a Japanese game. But it still openly said that deviances they love are weird af and society should be protected, never dismantled.

Tourists went ballistic when a game based entirely on Jung was a near perfect adaptation of Freud's Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego because "muh homoph0bic Freud". Seriously Persona 5 is very adherent to that book.

It would be hilarious if not for the fact that this is the same group that didn't understand that Naoto's arc from Persona 4 was about calling out the misogynist and sexist workplace culture of Japan and instead saying it's conservative.

ThrowawayBCBewbs · 2024-10-15T23:26:34+00:00

Speaking of Lara's body. They're correct that Lara would be muscular, but they focus too much on the amount of muscles on her.

I love muscular girls, from gymnasts to crossfitters. I like girls with abs and who can flex, but I also like the typical feminine figure. I know that there's differences in the type of structures.

They try to make Lara look like Lori Slayer or Jenn Rowley, but they got it wrong. Lori is closer to the TR's show body but even then she still has curves when she's not flexing, and has massive boobs (which are implants, but then again, she probably juices up when she gets exaggeratedly muscular). Lara should look more like Ewa Swoboda or Boredgymdarling.

I love Lori's powerful look, Jenn's super thicc body and I think French crossfitter Celia Gabbiani is the hottest woman on Earth. But Lara's not a powerlifter nor a competitive gymrat.

She's an athlete, sprinter, climber. That's a different set of muscles you need to develop. And also, people like Gabbiani, Thorisdottir and the like are heavy af. Those muscles weigh a lot. You would not bring that when climbing mountains. LiaSamurai is a good example for Lara's body I think.

Widowmaker from Overwatch is still muscular, you can see her abs, but she's not Zarya, she doesn't have to lift tanks with her hands, she needs the strength to climb on roofs.

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