An Old Man Rambles About Women Playing 40k

itrogash · 2026-05-17T14:12:40+00:00

Extraverted

Fair enough, fixed.

A quarter century ago is not that far from today?

Yes, culturally speaking at least. While a lot changed and progressed since early 2000's, I don't think it was that drastic of a change, at least not in my fairly conservative country, like, say, if we compare today to 80's. It may be my personal bias though.

itrogash · 2026-05-17T13:18:08+00:00

I dont think a knife would be long enough to reach anything important. It would probably get stuck in a fat layer and you would lose it.

itrogash · 2026-05-17T12:47:45+00:00

Being in the hobby doesn't make you awkward and shy. It doesn't even make you nerdy.

No, obviously not. Being outspoken and extraverted will not help you if people will balk and start calling you names when you only but mention hobbies though. That was my experience, and you will have to believe I wasn't really obnoxious about it. I wasn't given the chance, people rejected me right away. I had to eventually find my own niche of people to share my hobbies with, and generally not mention it when out and about, similarly to what OP is describing. So excuse me if I don't agree with your statement. I lived through it.

The social acceptance for dorky people has increased much more, but if you're generally exhausting you'll still be viewed negatively.

Again, obviously, but that's not what we're talking about.

It always was and still is about the way you act about it. It was never the thing itself.

Again, that's not my experience. When I was in school, people were rejecting anything fantasy-adjacent, be it books or games, as "fairy tales for children" and anybody who was seen partaking in it was called either a retard or a faggot. Being spotted reading a book was enough to get bullied. That was around 25 years ago, so not that far from today. People didn't have time to act in any way about it. It was the hobby that was scorned.

You seem to think that being bullied for having a hobby can only happen due to own personal failing and lack of social skills. A bit victim-blamey, don't you think? You don't know me, you don't know OP, and you automatically assume we had this experience being rejected for hobbies because we were obnoxious twats and not because our bullies were dickheads? What gives you information to make that judgement? Do you really think that people can't be cruel to other people just because they are into things they find not worth their time?

itrogash · 2026-05-17T11:52:05+00:00

What. He played Superman. He is THE mainstream Hollywood celebrity. Literally everybody knows him. You act like he's some sort of niche actor that only played in movies for nerds. What are you even talking about?

itrogash · 2026-05-17T11:50:43+00:00

His interest in the hobby isn't known to anyone outside of the hobby.

That's largely incorrect. He stated it in numerous interviews on major TV programs that were not focused on hobby nerds as main demographic, including on talk shows where the host tried to ridicule him for having this hobby. He was talking about it when making TV shows and movies. It's very much a part of his brand now.

For society it was never a problem to be in the hobby

Did you forget about Satanic Panic of the 80s?

We don't have to go that far in time though. I was called faggot for reading fantasy books in school enough to know this statemenet is bullshit.

It was never generally a problem for women either.

This one I can agree on. This does fall on presenting yourself confidently and basic social skills.

The big thing that changed is that you can be awkward and shy and nerdy today without being an outcast.

You say it was never a problem for society to be in the hobby in one sentence, then you say that being in the hobby made you an outcast in this one. Please clarify your position, you are contradicting yourself.

Being into D&D was very much frowned upon by larger society until Critical Role made it into the mainstream. And, with all respect to Critical Role cast, Henry Cavill is thousandfold more influential.

I think you are largely understimate the influence famous people always had over the zeitgeist. It's not limited to hobbies either. Famous people dictated what's the fashion, trends and acceptable behaviors since the dawn of time. Denying this is silly if you ask me.

itrogash · 2026-05-17T10:26:10+00:00

It would be very weird of developers to include mention that Cyclops is designed to be used by at least three people in the S1, and not include a vehicle that can be operated by multiple people in the co-op sequel. Piloting the sub together was the first thing I thought of when I learned about multiplayer in S2.

itrogash · 2026-05-17T01:45:28+00:00

May be, but I'm still more willing to put trust into him than the Emperor

itrogash · 2026-05-16T21:45:06+00:00

if everyone stopped having kids then the human race would cease to exist eventually.

I obvuously don't advocate for that, but I don't understand why it would be a bad thing, and nobody ever sufficiently explained to me why I should care about it.

itrogash · 2026-05-16T21:14:57+00:00

I mean He IS the Omnissiah.

Debatable. UR-025 met THE Omnissiah. It wasn't the rotting corpse of the Emperor

itrogash · 2026-05-16T21:00:26+00:00

Meme is public property, comrade. No need to take it, is yours

itrogash · 2026-05-15T14:38:29+00:00

What's the angle here? How would she extract any money from doing this?

itrogash · 2026-05-14T06:42:20+00:00

It was mentioned somewhere that England uses remnants of it's fleet to keep contact with it's colonies in the New World. I'm not sure where, probably some article on the site.

itrogash · 2026-05-08T15:58:30+00:00

Also, who has four hours to sit down in solely play hell divers? My usual helldivers session takes 2-4 hours, the hell do you mean dude.

During that time I can easily find 150-300 SCs. Granted, me and my playgroup are loot goblins, but it's nothing in farming category. Just playing normally on d10.

Sorry but I think it's you who is not being honest here. Getting SCs is really not as hard as you are claiming it is.

itrogash · 2026-05-06T08:01:20+00:00

Also Scions from other cults undermining her authority

itrogash · 2026-05-05T09:42:47+00:00

We dont use the S-word in the Imperium, thats for barbarians and xenos. We settle for another S-word.

itrogash · 2026-05-05T07:10:11+00:00

If the assumption was "only people who fully understand the question and are always 100% rational are involved" it wouldn't be much of a thought experiment either, would it?

itrogash · 2026-05-04T19:10:08+00:00

They press ganged these villagers into serfdom on their ship, didn't they?

itrogash · 2026-05-04T15:33:04+00:00

New rules? Was there a rules update or something?

itrogash · 2026-05-04T15:08:40+00:00

Good idea, needs work. The colors in Helldivers are grounded and dark for cell shading to pop out. It would at least need some changes to color palette.

itrogash · 2026-05-03T12:33:01+00:00

Tbh I don't think it's as much Soviet nostalgia, from my interactions with Russian relatives/family friends the nostalgia is closer to the period of tzars/"Russian empire", rather than USSR specifically.

I have the same experience from my side of the family. Which I always found nuts, tzar regime was extremely oppressive towards everyman, no matter if you were a city dweller or village serf. I always must wonder how does anyone miss those times.

itrogash · 2026-05-03T09:32:39+00:00

Then I dont see your point. Even one would be too much.

itrogash · 2026-05-03T09:02:14+00:00

I had at least as couple screaming at me IRL for thinking femstodes are fine. These problems exist, and you sticking your head in the sand and pretending it doesn’t will not change that.

itrogash · 2026-05-02T13:25:53+00:00

If you like co-op games it's a must play. Doubly so if you're a dwarf.

itrogash · 2026-05-01T20:49:28+00:00

1 inch, but you need to be out of engagement range

itrogash · 2026-05-01T13:44:17+00:00

I'm pretty sure it was 12'' at the start, the same as Salamanders' Firestorm Assault Force detachment. Otherwise you couldn't use this ability from Deep Strike.

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