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  • AccoSpoot1@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your fandom? What is the most controversial opinion you have relating to your fandom?
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    8 hours ago

    Well technically there are male SoB’s, they represent the ecclesiarchy, inquisition and other Imperial agents who connection in the codex depends on GWs given mood at time of writing.

    One thing your insincere gotcha does get tho is that 40k used to be a game designed by the players; the openness, breadth and ambiguity of the lore was meant as an open invitation for players to add their own details, every players 40k was, in this way, unique, so you could have male SoBs just as easily as female Space Marines, it’s only been since wround the 2010s, when GeeDubs started tightening the leash on the hobby and its players that this aspect of the lore has become an issue.

    And if you have a problem with it you can take it up with my Drag themed Orks.

  • AccoSpoot1@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your absolute favorite joke?
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    6 days ago

    Three engineers are debating which discipline of engineering God used when making the human body. The electrical engineer says God’s obviously an electrical engineer, cos the nervous system and the neurons moving around the body are wired like an electrical system.

    The mechanical engineer stops him, God is obviously a mechanical engineer, look at the muscle and bones and the ways they interact and move with one another, it’s just like a mechanical system.

    The civil engineer smiles and jumps in, God is obviously a civil engineer; who else would run a waste pipe through a recreation centre?

  • AccoSpoot1@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is a big internal debate within a fandom or hobby you are a part of that outsiders probably wouldn't care about?
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    28 days ago

    It’s not a lore issue for me, not exactly, more indicative of a change in fandom and corporate culture; Warhammer used to be this creative hobby you could easily put your own mark on, it was encouraged by GW in fact. Any one players Warhammer would look similar but unique to the Warhammer of another player.

    Starting around the mid to late 2000s the attitude started to change, coinciding with (though not necessarily caused by) the release of the Horus Heresy books and Age of Sigmar, GW started to put more of an emphasis on lore and copyrightable content, they started to downplay customisation within the hobby and with it the tacit approval to make your own female Space Marines as you so wished.

    When I see neckbeards frothing over female Space Marines it’s a disappointing reminder that the hobby has lost its personal touch, plus it’s a chance to piss them off with my Drag theme Ork warband!