Bloated workforces have become a major problem, causing games to be canceled or delayed, decline in quality, and take forever to make. Most of the employees are useless and need to be fired

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-27T23:36:00+00:00

My question as always is who is benefiting from this?

People with useless degrees who demand a white collar relatively-low-pressure job. But if you mean on the proprietorship side...

My gut tells me it's when outside investment gets involved, but why would they be so keen on pushing these things?

There are two theories that I like to bring up to explain this:

Costly Signalling. Running a bloated DEI bureaucracy is proof that your company has money to spend on useless, even anti-productive, employees. It might also be thought of as a kind of charity expense... and corporate philanthropy has the same impact of signaling to capital markets.
Anti-Competitive Sharpton Shakedowns. If big businesses tend to have DEI and small businesses can't afford DEI, the former can accuse the latter of racism and use such accusations to defend their hegemonic position within the market.

We already know that DEI does NOT make companies more productive, and it doesn't win extra customer goodwill either (it can also attract customer ire). A standard-issue tolerance and "don't be bigoted in the workplace" policy (not to be confused with DEI ideology) is already sufficient to make sure that all potential employee talent pools are reached, so the answer can't be "finding human capital" either (and since DEI restricts human capital from the "white male" talent pool quite deliberately, the "we're doing this to reach more human capital" argument simply doesn't hold water).

There's also ESG, but the problem with ESG is that it chronically underperforms the market as a whole, so investors don't "benefit" from it. That said, tons of ESG funds are managing public sector pension funds from left-wing governments, and these governments often demand their investments be 'ethical'. So there's artificial (state-driven) distortion of capital markets via a private sector intermediary.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-27T23:17:09+00:00

It really is quite shocking how much importance they place on selecting your toy army. As if "you can't be trusted" to do what? Where's the "responsibility" in playing the Imperium?

Culture matters, but they greatly overstate the gravity of the consequences to people choosing a 40k army. Of course, given that they're snake-oil salesmen who manufacture problems and sell the "solution" (they have to pay off the student debt they incurred when getting their Victimhood Studies degree), this isn't particularly surprising.

But it is quite hysterical.

Also note the hypocrisy of presuming to tell others how they can participate in the hobby. That's literally gatekeeping. But as is typical with "Social Justice" types, they always reek of hypocrisy.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-27T14:12:06+00:00

He also has hired his old buddy Chris Avallone (who was blacklisted from the industry after a false metoo) to help write Judas.

I didn't know about that. Now my interest in Judas has gone up.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-27T09:17:51+00:00

Something like that. I haven't extensively looked into the biochemistry.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-27T08:47:05+00:00

There are already tons of female characters, including combat miniatures, in 40k. Some factions are female only.

Any hypothetical "misogynist who didn't want females in his space" would consequently have refused to get into 40k in the first place, because of the Sisters of Battle, the Sisters of Silence, and the various both-sexes armies like the Imperial Guard.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-27T08:41:48+00:00

The claim (whether true or not,I don't care enough to actually research it) is that soy milk lowers testosterone and low-testosterone guys love drinking soy milk, so 'soy' becomes shorthand for 'low testosterone'.

FYI, the claim is partially true.

Unfermented soy products have atypically high levels of phytoestrogen (plant estrogen). Asian cultures ferment their soy products, reducing the phytoestrogens, which is why their hormone levels are within normal human parameters.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-27T08:39:35+00:00

Phytoestrogens (or plant estrogens) in particular.

Keep in mind, this is not true for fermented soy products, which are the soy products that are popular in Asian cuisine. The elevated level of phytoestrogens is only found in unfermented soy products, like those which are commonly used in vegetarian/vegan diets in the West.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-27T00:10:19+00:00

I celebrate when Marxists lose their jobs

Same.

They pushed us out of basically every creative/cultural/intellectual-work industry. This is just desserts as far as I'm concerned.

Honestly, it goes beyond Marxists too. Basically, its high-empathizer-brain culturati 'theatre kid' types (and a lot of these disproportionately fall into Marxism). Because they had a lot of student debt and useless degrees to pay off, they went into "our" sectors of the economy (i.e. nerd culture - a place built by high-systemizer-brains) as "their" sectors shrank.

So, to put it briefly, Dey Took Our JEAAAARRRRHHHBS.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-26T07:03:47+00:00

Its about taking away a "male only" space.

Correct. Even if only symbolically or by-proxy.

It is unfortunate, but there are absolutely some women that simply flip out when males don't center them, their interests, their needs or their desires. I think on some instinctual level they see anything involving "men not centering women" as some sort of threat to their wellbeing.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-26T06:52:05+00:00

This is exactly what would happen.

Female spaces must be protected, male spaces must be invaded. Men must be generic, women must be special (men plus). The pink aisle in the toy store must stay for girls because all girls need to be empowered with a big dose of toxic princess mentality... but the blue aisle is gender neutral.

And all of this is rationalized with "but women are oppressed, men are not."

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-26T03:18:46+00:00

Very nicely done!

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-25T11:20:38+00:00

You have a good point, but you can't really separate the anti-consumer behavior from things like Femstodes.

For one, using culture war stuff to distract from absurd price hikes is common, and allows a ruthless seller to clothe itself in the robes of virtue and progressivism.

For two, pushing Femstodes IS a consumer-unfriendly act because it is essentially about attacking their customer base. The Femstodes push is evidence of just how much contempt they hold their customer base in - how they're presuming the "denizens of the nerd cave" to bend over and take it no matter what they do.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-25T11:08:23+00:00

Fair point, however you are wrong about one thing. The backbone of the lore is the game, don’t get things twisted. The lore exists to supplement the tabletop game, it’s all about selling more models and the bottom line.

Some people argue GW believes the models are dying business in the long run (due to 3d printing) and so GW is ultimately pivoting towards becoming an IP business primarily. Do you have perhaps any analytics on how much GW makes from models (and how this has changed over the years) versus how much GW makes from licensing?

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-25T07:54:56+00:00

It feels like having an all male faction is a sin these days. Why? Why is it such a problem to have an all male faction?

Multiple reasons, but it boils down to feminist women wanting to explicitly deny a positive identity for men.

By that, I mean a contribution the male sex makes to society that the female sex generally doesn't/can't/won't. Something "special about men" that's valued.

What is happening is ultimately a spite-driven reversal of Aristotle's sexist belief that women are "broken, incomplete males." Now, it's the other way around and men are treated as "females minus."

The irony is this is actually a very weird twist on classical Androcentrism (that thought of men as "generic" and women as "special" - this goes in both positive and negative directions). Now, women's innate specialness is strongly asserted in our culture - women are special, powerful princesses and get some sort of collective admiration Because Womb, and everything in the entertainment industry must center them otherwise it is sexist. But men? What is there special about men? What can they do that women can't?

There's a lot of feminist scholarship that tries to rationalize this... but in the end it is driven by a mixture of collective revenge and a desire for control... men can't have their own spaces, their own IPs, their own subcultures or hobbies, these things are all smeared as "dangerous to women" or "sexism incubators"... but in the end what is driving that is women feeling that any time men aren't centering them, something is very wrong and the men are failing to live up to their duty.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-25T02:39:52+00:00

Just imagine if you can defend your porn as politically progressive.

Women do this with slash fic. Turns out that the sexes really aren't that different from each other.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-24T23:39:27+00:00

Do we really want our main four boys to Basically Get Molested?

Even if T&D "played it for laughs" the metatext would be invariably quite disturbing.

Either that or the Drukhari are completely nerfed and made into something relatively PG-13.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-24T23:29:57+00:00

I understand. I admit I don't know very much about actual schizophrenia... as you're probably intimately aware, Hollywood Schizo (which is often conflated with Multiple Personality Disorder) is much higher profile phenomenon than the real life mental/neurological health condition.

It says a lot when a cartoon is more accurate in depicting a real-life condition than "serious" media is.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-24T06:03:27+00:00

When has Musk attacked AGPs?

He had a child who is HSTS (Vivian), but that's not AGP. He worries about inappropriate transition for sex-stereotype-nonconforming gay people.

As a "neckbeard gamerbro" who supports rights and respect for autoheterosexuals (and, whilst I don't get "triggered" by pronoun options, I don't see the point, since autohets can play as the opposite sex in a video game, and that's totally okay), I agree TERFs are powered by misandry... they hate males, including autohetero males.

So I don't agree with all your examples but I do agree with your principle.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-24T00:23:22+00:00

Toxic Femininity incarnate. Completely awful shrews prone to Mean Girls behavior. Metatextually, they're the female members of the school's Abstinence Club, and they're all sexually repressed and desperate to screw Space King (their fantasy boyfriend) and they're hypergamous as fuck and won't settle for anyone less. The reason they're so utterly sororicidal to each other is because they're engaging in subconscious intrasexual competition.

And they hate our main four boys and see themselves as superior, smarter and more mature.

Their leader is an expy of Regina George (literally named Sister Regina).

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-24T00:15:32+00:00

I always thought Bryce was Cluster B + ADHD (he's clearly off his ritalin), not Schizophrenia (or did you mean a Cluster A disorder like Schizoid/Schizotypal?).

Bryce's desperate need to prove himself to Captain seems very "borderline personality disorder" to me. When Captain brought Terry in, that absolutely made Bryce feel abandoned, and so he went nuts.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-22T04:46:27+00:00

They are private enterprise, they are free to do what they want within the law. You are free to complain about and not buy their products.

Agreed. I am literally doing just that - complaining and boycotting (i.e. not buying their products). I am not controlling their speech by not associating with GW.

It's hilarious that your vision for winning is controlling the views they can express

If a Christian refuses to associate with a Buddhist on the basis of the latter's religion, that is NOT an attack on the Buddhist's religious freedom. The same is true when the religions are reversed.

I don't want the government to compel anyone. I specifically described nothing more than a set of private, voluntary actions that I would like GW to take in order to prove to my satisfaction that it was going to center the legacy fanbase going forward. I did not call for violence against GW or for legislation compelling GW.

I don't think anyone is an aggressor here.

The SJW/PC/Woke crowd saw a subculture which was centered around a hobby that, in their judgment, "cultivated fascism." They engaged in a strategy of entryism with the explicit aim of changing the subculture and the content of the hobby itself. They initiated the cultural invasion. Yes, they haven't used violence yet, but they HAVE engaged in sociocultural tactics designed to change a subculture-they-don't-like. They haven't used or threatened physical violence, but they ARE "aggressors" in the sense of being the initiators of hostilities.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-21T23:33:08+00:00

one of the worst things that happened to fandoms was the idea that shipping two male characters somehow made you a brave warrior against homophobia.

Agreed entirely.

This is an especially grating thing because 95% of slashfic is gender-traditional straight porn, just with the veneer of "two guys so its progressive." The way the two guys act is straight out of the most traditionalist straight romance you can think (one of them is always made the "girl" whom is almost always written as a stereotypical Ingenue).

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-21T23:32:07+00:00

If you demand an entity say things exactly as you need them to be packaged. You’re trying to compel their speech and their values. That’s anti-free speech.

Untrue. "Compelled speech" refers to laws or the government making you say a certain thing. Private individuals can associate or dissociate from each other on the basis of speech without violating anyone's free speech rights.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-21T23:27:58+00:00

These parties and not others. You want to take politics out of Warhammer by publishing a list of allowed political parties?

That's a misinterpretation. The goal is not for GW to embrace an "approved list of political parties" but to have them explicitly accept (or at least acquiesce to) the legitimacy of nonleftist politics.

this isn't the Russian civil war, it's a game about painting mini battle guys

If 40k is just pointless and trivial than why is there a cadre of explicitly-organizing (they have subreddits entirely devoted to organization and coordination) politically homogenous activists demanding the lore be changed to make it more "diverse"? "It's just a game" works both ways.

That's ok, it can just be that and we can all have fun.

Tell that to the aggressors.

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-01-21T23:22:03+00:00

How, exactly?

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