Warhammer 40k

[Miriam Margoyles]

By that logic it becomes wrong to portray killing because people might know someone who has been murdered.

I mean, most victims of murder aren't around to hear spergs online giddily reliving it as a funny lolsorandum meme in their grimdark toy soldiers game for big boys, but it is what it is.

Note that I never said that rape shouldn't be included, just that I feel it needs to be handled a bit more tastefully, maturely, and respectfully than most other topics, and most 40k players are, unfortunately, simply not capable of that.

I certainly don't think a loli porn artist is capable of it, especially since apparently they aren't even capable of drawing bare feet, something that I would assume should be basic, bread and butter stuff for a fetish artist - check out the monkey hands on the ends of the ratling's legs! Freakish!

 

[Übertroon]

I mean, most victims of murder aren't around to hear spergs online giddily reliving it as a funny lolsorandum meme in their grimdark toy soldiers game for big boys, but it is what it is.

Note that I never said that rape shouldn't be included, just that I feel it needs to be handled a bit more tastefully, maturely, and respectfully than most other topics, and most 40k players are, unfortunately, simply not capable of that.

I certainly don't think a loli porn artist is capable of it, especially since apparently they aren't even capable of drawing bare feet, something that I would assume should be basic, bread and butter stuff for a fetish artist - check out the monkey hands on the ends of the ratling's legs! Freakish!

I thought we were talking about friends and family of those who got raped, not that you yourself got raped

Also I think the monkey feet is on purpose as ratlings are abhuman.
Though I think it's the norm to portray them with hairy feet rather than having opposable toes

 

[Pedophobe]

The idea that anything in 40k should be handled in a tasteful, mature or respectful fashion offends me more than rape.

 

[Penne Dreadful]

The problem isn't that it's tasteless, it's that it's not there principally to be edgy or grimdark, it's there as the artist's barely-disguised fetish.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I don't think anyone is going to argue it's a good thing. More about how you probably shouldn't get the ick from implied rape in a setting where mass genocide, flaying, mutilation, sex demons, and a faction of raping psychopaths is common occurence.

I honestly find the attempt at soliciting attention by making them all young women more upsetting.
We all know felinids are supposed to be as repulsive as the cast in the Cats movie

I think the more heinous part of it is that looking from afar it looks kind of wholesome abhuman brigade but once you zoom in it's full of horrific shit. Legit Emperor's Children kind of image.

 

[Male Idiot]

Ratling are an untapped goldmine for footfags when the Tolkien estate gets uppity with copyright.

 

[p1138]

You gave yourself away a bit there, dude.

To you, rape is just another hypothetical on the 'grimdark things that could happen' list.

I don't know anybody who got flayed or kidnapped and tortured by drukhari IRL, but I do know plenty of people who've been raped.

That's why it's different, and that's why people might have an issue with it, when they just want to paint their plastic toy soldiers in peace.

Why you around so many rape victims? That implies you're also hanging around a bunch of rapists to end up in proximity of so many victims.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but you must live in a shithole.

 

[Edward "Caesar" Sallow]

I finally finished off my two tactical squads from my Alpha Legion army. Took me almost a year of on and off painting. Here's a couple of them. When I get some touchup work and varnishing, I'll post a pic of all 20 of them.

 

[StevieLasVegas]

Is it wrong that I miss the darker blue the Alpha Legion used to use?

Minis look great btw @Edward "Caesar" Sallow

 

[Edward "Caesar" Sallow]

Is it wrong that I miss the darker blue the Alpha Legion used to use?

Minis look great btw @Edward "Caesar" Sallow

Alpha Legion in 30k have metallic blue for most official art and guides by Geedubs. I've tried with their contrast paints in the past, and are not the biggest fan, and I also find that the aquarius blue I use make them more distinct. It's also Alpha Legion and Heresy, so slightly differing color schemes make sense from a lore perspective. I'm considering trying the metallic look with shades instead of contrast paints for the command squad I'm going to work on next.

 

[AllieKat]

You gave yourself away a bit there, dude.

To you, rape is just another hypothetical on the 'grimdark things that could happen' list.

I don't know anybody who got flayed or kidnapped and tortured by drukhari IRL, but I do know plenty of people who've been raped.

That's why it's different, and that's why people might have an issue with it, when they just want to paint their plastic toy soldiers in peace.

We talking rape rape or "I got skeeved out when the fat dude in IT talked to me" rape?

 

[Humble Architect]

Listened to the Lucius audio drama, “The Embrace of Pain” and I liked it, he sounds like Jason Isaacs (the true Primarch of the Third) and his arrogance is more “I’m better than you” rather than what people seem to think he’s all about.

He also shows why he earned the rank of Captain, Lucius expertly coordinates resistance against a Nurgle daemon incursion and uses his rep/curse to keep his underlings in line.

 

[StevieLasVegas]

Alpha Legion in 30k have metallic blue for most official art and guides by Geedubs. I've tried with their contrast paints in the past, and are not the biggest fan, and I also find that the aquarius blue I use make them more distinct. It's also Alpha Legion and Heresy, so slightly differing color schemes make sense from a lore perspective. I'm considering trying the metallic look with shades instead of contrast paints for the command squad I'm going to work on next.

Fair enough. For the few minis I painted as Alpha Legion, I used P3's Coal Black.

 

[Imperial Citizen]

The problem isn't that it's tasteless, it's that it's not there principally to be edgy or grimdark, it's there as the artist's barely-disguised fetish.

Exactly. There is a great comparison I have of when issues such as rape are presented as fetish fuel and presented as a horror.

The game Cthulhutech has an adventure where the players are attacked by furry succubi servants of Shub-Niggurath. Failure to resist them results in the player receiving “mindblowing sex” and if you are female, pregnancy. There’s no tension, no fear in the writing. It’s a scene out of rape fetish erotica.

God’s Teeth, a Delta Green campaign, tasks agents with going to a foster home and killing all the adults there. If asked why, you are presented with a pink folder with a cartoon cat on it. Inside are photos taken at the home. This is description of the photos:

Trying to conjure what you saw, you can only imagine flipping the folder open, curious as to why you can’t hold a memory of doing it before. You are certain that, if you did that, you would find nothing inside except a rectangular portal to a huge, sucking void that draws your body and soul into it like a collapsing star. The pages will eat you if you open the folder again. The only thing more absolute than your terror is the knowledge that she was right.
They all have to die.

You know exactly what are in those photos, but they are never detailed because it’s exploitation.

That’s why horror regarding stuff like rape is very hard to get right. Showing it, detailing it, will come across as exploitative even if the intent is to depict it as horrific.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

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I finally finished off my two tactical squads from my Alpha Legion army. Took me almost a year of on and off painting. Here's a couple of them. When I get some touchup work and varnishing, I'll post a pic of all 20 of them.

Based horus heresy player, do many people in this thread play horus heresy?

I've got 2-3k points of salamanders but I've never really counted thoroughly.

Spoiler

great models btw

 

[soup peddler]

Only tangentially on topic, but has anyone here played imperium maledictum and have some opinions on how it feels/plays?

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

Based horus heresy player, do many people in this thread play horus heresy?

I've got 2-3k points of salamanders but I've never really counted thoroughly.

Spoiler

great models btw

I haven't played in a while, but I've got HH Imperial Fists and Alpha Legion armies.

 

[Snekposter]

furry succubi servants

Sounds like a job for the witcher Eskel.

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

I have a passing interest in Horus Heresy but I don't even own a 2000pt 40k army yet. Buying into another system isn't really on the table for me, especially when it takes months for me to build up any motivation to paint. It sounds like a fun alternative to 40k. I typically enjoy playing Xenos more, but I can see myself playing Salamanders.

 

[Humble Architect]

Based horus heresy player, do many people in this thread play horus heresy?

I've got 2-3k points of salamanders but I've never really counted thoroughly.

Spoiler

great models btw

My EC were an investment, carefully planned to get me into three game systems with only one army, KT, 40k and HH.

Lorewise the EC looked like this only months after the Istvaan fun and games so I had no problem mashing up the AoD box with CSM to make my army.

My guys do lean into the HH aesthetic because that system does place value on the narrative, AKA no fucking Primaris bits, I hate those helmets on modern CSM trophy racks.