Warhammer 40k

[Spilled Spaghett]

If you don't play, don't read the books/lore, don't play the video games, and don't paint... then what are you doing? Yet these channels persist.

As far as the rivets, on what was a brand new model at the time there was no "accurate number" of rivets to have. It was bitching for the sake of bitching. it wasn't about the number of buttons on the jacket of a historical mini or something.

And no, custodes are not space marines and never were. People quit talking about the femstodes crap because no one cares about it and it had zero impact on the faction being played, getting to the point of more of the right wing grifters complaining about it months later than the amount of cheering the trannies did(who eventually went back to ignoring it).

The point I'm trying to make is that what is "worth complaining about" is different for everybody. Not saying you can't hate them, but they definitely have at least some involvement in the hobby. There's no way GW hate watching is profitable enough for someone with literally no involvement in the hobby to do as a job.

I really fail to see what the difference is between custodes and space marines. They're just superer super soldiers. I get they're better, faster, stronger, and have the best toys but they really are just space marines but better. If you want to argue that they have more authority than other space marines or have special privileges then yes, they don't operate like space marines. But if you say they're just better space marines you wouldn't be wrong.

People do obviously care about femstodes if they still talk about it. I don't think it's that people stopped caring. I think it's that most people said everything that needed to be said. Honestly this forum is the only place where I've seen people freak out so much about other people talking about femstodes other than reddit. Back to my original point, I get to you it's dumb and isn't worth talking about. To other people it is, and it's not worth getting upset over.

 

[Judge Dredd]

why are we pretending like female space marines haven't happened yet when we already have femstodes?

I hadn't noticed that before, but you're right. The femstodes battle was lost when that CGI show came out (was it Secret Level?) and people laughed at how terrible that particular character looked. As far as I know that show was never declared non-canon?

This is a bit off topic, but I'm reminded how whenever there's a female model it gets praised for not being some supermodel with her tits hanging out. Where are these sexy minis? I've never seen them. Maybe a few Infinity characters, but never seen anything like that from GW. Maybe the dark eldar count? Sister repentia?

There's no way GW hate watching is profitable enough for someone with literally no involvement in the hobby to do as a job.

Maybe, but as a side hustle it could work. These videos are low effect. Rant for 20 minutes about the drama of the day, slap it over gameplay of Space Marine 2 or looping footage of GW CGI trailers, and call it good. These can be cranked out in an hour, maybe less if you don't edit.

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

This is a bit off topic, but I'm reminded how whenever there's a female model it gets praised for not being some supermodel with her tits hanging out. Where are these sexy minis? I've never seen them. Maybe a few Infinity characters, but never seen anything like that from GW. Maybe the dark eldar count? Sister repentia?

I've only ever seen them from third party 3D modelers. Most stores don't like you bringing titty models because they want to be family friendly. Super heroes seem to be the only exception to the rule.

Maybe, but as a side hustle it could work. These videos are low effect. Rant for 20 minutes about the drama of the day, slap it over gameplay of Space Marine 2 or looping footage of GW CGI trailers, and call it good. These can be cranked out in an hour, maybe less if you don't edit.

Sure but if your goal is to make money off slop you could make more money covering something more popular with the same amount of effort.

 

[Salt_Merchant]

I hadn't noticed that before, but you're right. The femstodes battle was lost when that CGI show came out (was it Secret Level?) and people laughed at how terrible that particular character looked. As far as I know that show was never declared non-canon?

shes from the tithes series of animations they dropped on warhammer plus last year, not secret level.

the gnashing of teeth died down because geedubs didnt event release

1) a single piece of artwork featuring female custodes

2) any lore besides a single short story in their codex

and most importantly

3) any models

its actually what baffled me about the decision, i was fully expecting the new model custodes got to be female or atleast have a female head, but nope, then i expected the warhammer plus models, the store anniversary models or the convention exclusive models to be a female custodes, nope.

they didnt even have one of their artists churn out a piece of official artwork of a female custodes when they were posting on twitter about how custodes have always had female members since the founding of the 10,000.

and thus the rage merchants died down, because its hard to make content out of a few lines in a codex, a short story and a twitter post.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

Lets not forget the "Ultimate Guide to 40k" came out and had none of the FemStodes shit in it, either. The current theory from the "chuds" is that GW is just going to ignore this stupid shit to death.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Lets not forget the "Ultimate Guide to 40k" came out and had none of the FemStodes shit in it, either. The current theory from the "chuds" is that GW is just going to ignore this stupid shit to death.

Considering I haven't heard of FemStodes or anyone talk about it in a while, sounds about right. INB4 next Codex or supplement has them.

 

[daniel day]

The reason that female space marines will never exist is because GW cant paint a female face to save their fucking lives. Look at the new Lotara model. Yeesh. At this point I firmly believe weve already had female heads on space marines and the heavy metal artists fucked up the paint job so bad the big wigs shrugged and said "fuck it, its a blood angel model now."

 

[The tired cat]

and thus the rage merchants died down, because its hard to make content out of a few lines in a codex, a short story and a twitter post

I mean, hasnt stopped retarded fucks like Endymion from pumping out 10 plus videos on that shit alone.

 

[HTTP Error 404]

Considering I haven't heard of FemStodes or anyone talk about it in a while, sounds about right. INB4 next Codex or supplement has them.

There's an ever-present threat that they'll make a mini (random HQ seems to be their go to for this kind of thing -- but they had made one just before this, and it is most decidedly male, which plays into the "this wasn't intended by GW's lore team" thing) or do some art or what have you. But what I could most likely see is the lispy queers at Black Library tossing female Custodes in everything they can just to try and solidify their "win" over the "chuds," that fits the standard entryism playbook. That would be a ~1-3 year delay, so we wouldn't see that content until 11th anyway, so...

Lets also not forget HH3.0 is coming. They could also shove a Female Custodes in there, which would counteract the whole "there have always been FemStodes" thing. But the rumor is the HH guys (who are far more autistic than the BL and 40k and AoS guys) were fucking furious because due to the weird little segregation thing they have going on inside of GW, the Custodes are a "HH thing" and the lore being changed by the 40k guys without discussing it supposedly didn't go over very well.

 

[p1138]

There's no way GW hate watching is profitable enough for someone with literally no involvement in the hobby to do as a job.

You'd think, but there are a few channels that specialize in it. Also depends on where you live, if you moved back in with your parents as a grown ass adult, and so on. Gamza livestreams, had some deals with 3d printer companies for a bit, had some basic ass looking STLs on his patreon as well(looks like he recently deleted a couple years worth of videos and the livestream vods again leaving just the 3d printing stuff). The tranny discourse miniatures did venture into making a D&D hate channel as well, so he's got two revenue streams to complain with about shit that he never does. That said, it's fucking obnoxious to see the same thumbnails, damn near the same video descriptions, repeatedly no matter how many times to click on "do not recommend this channel" or however its worded.

Sure but if your goal is to make money off slop you could make more money covering something more popular with the same amount of effort.

No one ever accused them of being intelligent. I assume they have a day job since I doubt anyone is going to actually support themselves off of 100k views a month and a whole $200 patreon. Or like @Judge Dredd pointed out, do the bare minimum daily. Northern Exile isn't a GW hate channel(criticizing GW, and having all of your content dedicated to bitching about GW are two different things) and just reads garbage over 40k video game footage. Hell, maybe the channels are finally dying off because the people running them realized they're a waste of time? Great.

Lets not forget the "Ultimate Guide to 40k" came out and had none of the FemStodes shit in it, either. The current theory from the "chuds" is that GW is just going to ignore this stupid shit to death.

That really is the best case scenario. Their excuse for the "ultimate guide" was that it was written separately from the codex, with that portion written months earlier. There was clearly not a coordinated effort for femstodes at GW(the model the faction got being another example pointed out in this thread)

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

That really is the best case scenario. Their excuse for the "ultimate guide" was that it was written separately from the codex, with that portion written months earlier. There was clearly not a coordinated effort for femstodes at GW(the model the faction got being another example pointed out in this thread)

I'm still convinced that whoever wrote the Custodes codex went rogue and nobody outside the rules team noticed until it was already on its way to the printers.

 

[Muad'Dick]

The reason that female space marines will never exist is because GW cant paint a female face to save their fucking lives.

Its worse than that. They can't even sculpt them. Or can they? If you go through their catalogue you get the impression they're more reluctant to make feminine-looking human characters than they are non-human ones. The paint jobs don't help, especially when the quality of paint job varies wildly these days (just look at some of Forge World's offerings), but there is definitely something going on there when it comes to female sculpts.

They're capable of doing them. Just look at the sculpts for The Lady Elisse or the Handmaiden of The Lady. Perfectly feminine looking. Even fucking Goldberry is more feminine looking than any of the Sisters of Battle. They don't have a problem making female xenos characters either, eg the Genestealer Cults Magus, arguably the best female sculpt in the entirety of 40K or anything adjacent (even with the Klingon head). So why do they struggle so much with human female sculpts?

The closest you have to respectable ones are Sisters of Silence (even with the masks). The worst offenders by far are the Sisters of Battle. You have the Canoness that looks like Terry Crews in drag (even the alternative head/paint job looks rough), the Repentia that look like a troon hockey team and the heads across the entire range just look awful. There are outliers like some of the Novitiates, but it doesn't look good.

This is why I think the kerfuffle of female space marines or Custodes is moot, because by the time GW have got their hands on them they're going to look like men anyway.

 

[Mr Clark]

Have a chance to get a Champions of Slaanesh box but...the models seem so ugly to me. More fiend-like sure but no more eagle on the shoulder, theyre a mess of pinks instead of purple and they have a decidedly melee focus.

Am I just not getting the point of EC or something? Maybe I'll look to paint regular csm or something the classic scheme.

 

[AncientPhosphur]

I really fail to see what the difference is between custodes and space marines. They're just superer super soldiers. I get they're better, faster, stronger, and have the best toys but they really are just space marines but better.

They’re individually handcrafted works of art down to the molecular level by the Emperor to be his companions. It’s vastly different and unknown process which is why they could handwave all the lore, change wikis and quotes from BigE explaining they’re all men and a brotherhood.

And yeah I’m still mad, I like Custodes!

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

Have a chance to get a Champions of Slaanesh box but...the models seem so ugly to me. More fiend-like sure but no more eagle on the shoulder, theyre a mess of pinks instead of purple and they have a decidedly melee focus.

Am I just not getting the point of EC or something? Maybe I'll look to paint regular csm or something the classic scheme.

They've definitely been retooled to have a melee focus, which tbf tracks with their Heresy schtick of being awesome swordsmen. They've still got the eagle shoulder pads in the box, I was just painting one last night. Speaking of painting: do what you want, they're your dudes. My Infractors are getting the classic purple and gold scheme, Tormentors will probably resemble the box art, and my Noise Marines are getting drenched in the brightest, most saturated colors I can find, because they're sense freaks and they need the bright clashing colors to stimulate their warpdust-fried synapses. There are hundreds of EC warbands out there, so you can always make up whatever color scheme you want and justify it that way.

 

[Muad'Dick]

They’re individually handcrafted works of art down to the molecular level by the Emperor to be his companions. It’s vastly different and unknown process which is why they could handwave all the lore, change wikis and quotes from BigE explaining they’re all men and a brotherhood.

And yeah I’m still mad, I like Custodes!

This. Lumping them in with space marines does them a great disservice. Part of me wishes they never really hit the tabletop. Whenever they crank out a miniature for something they always remove the mystique and have to adjust their power level to fit into the framework of the game.

 

[p1138]

Have a chance to get a Champions of Slaanesh box but...the models seem so ugly to me. More fiend-like sure but no more eagle on the shoulder, theyre a mess of pinks instead of purple and they have a decidedly melee focus.

Am I just not getting the point of EC or something? Maybe I'll look to paint regular csm or something the classic scheme.

GW has been selling their 40k color scheme as being pink for quite a while now, but if you want to paint them as 30k purple, just do it.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

My thoughts on Steel Legion. I think why GW is retconning Steel Legion away is 1. They don't have any new plastics and modern GW won't write lore or rules for things that don't currently have official kits. 2. Steel Legion are considered "problematic" by BluSky/Twitter/Reddit for looking like nazis so GW will never touch them again for the foreseeable future.

I dont think this adds up because Krieg exists and is the darling
Sure, the faceless automaton thing and them being based more on WW1 than 2 gives them some leeway. But from what ive read, The Steel Legion's internal shit isnt even more "muh fashy" than the average guard, and with a tiny re sculpt they could easily just base them more on US GIs, to get people to stop bitching about the greatcoats and helmets. Which the Krieg already have, i digress.

I know the Elysians existed (existed because apparently now the Scions are the paradrop faggots), but they could easily just use their more carbine looking rifles and make them full blown Screaming Eagles (101st airborne) with not M1 carbines to go with the not-Garands the nu-guardsmen have

 

[AncientPhosphur]

This. Lumping them in with space marines does them a great disservice. Part of me wishes they never really hit the tabletop. Whenever they crank out a miniature for something they always remove the mystique and have to adjust their power level to fit into the framework of the game.

Agreed but I still use the broke Custodes rules for kill team as a house rule just because. 2 Custodes and 4 sisters SHOULD rip apart everyone!

 

[HTTP Error 404]

I'm still convinced that whoever wrote the Custodes codex went rogue and nobody outside the rules team noticed until it was already on its way to the printers.

It was written in such a way that it would have been a trivial amount of editing to change -- a few pronouns. Very easy to miss, especially if you're proofreading it and agree with the change. Then you had the social media intern that supposedly started blocking and nutting up to own the chuds which just amplified the problem a dozen times over. Rumor is they were setting up a PR Crisis team to try and figure out what to do and her little stunt with "there have always been Female Custodes" intentionally made that impossible.

The real question is, is there any way to figure out who wrote the codex and if he's still at GW?