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Ghostse said:
Its less dark-skinned dwarves and more thye are absolutely nigger-coded with the rest of their equipment is Steampunk Viking themed not Afrocentric.
But also tanned dwarves don't make sense since, IIRC, in the lore all the dwarves live underground in mines.
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I was originally going to try and play the advocate until I saw this shit was for Sigmar. I could rationalize it in 40k squats or the newer Votunn, but not here.
 
Ghostse said:
Its less dark-skinned dwarves and more thye are absolutely nigger-coded with the rest of their equipment is Steampunk Viking themed not Afrocentric.
But also tanned dwarves don't make sense since, IIRC, in the lore all the dwarves live underground in mines.
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Kharadron were dwarves that responded to Chaos taking over the Mortal Realms by launching sky cities.

They survive by acquiring raw cloud pockets of magic gas and turning it into energy.

They have the Code, a series of interpretable guidelines for how to gain profit and manage society.

Essentially, they are Jewish Steampunk Whalers/Miners/Pirates. Which now makes me want to make an army of Orthodox Jewish Kharadron.
 
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So Konami has shit the bed once more but this time it's not video game related but Yu-Gi-Oh related. Like MTG, Yu-Gi-Oh has alternative formats, Goat format (cards playable until the April 2005 ban list) and Edison format (cards playable until the April 2010 ban list). These formats were a bit like the MTG highlander format in that was entirely community created and run with no official support.
Like wizards, Konami stepped in and recently started hosting side events using these formats or what Konami called "Time Wizard" events. Just before US nats Konami announced the Time Wizard events would be under Edison format but using current rulings rendering many decks garbage in what was still an evolving meta. After huge community backlash Konami walked back the change which people suspect nobody on Judging staff had knowledge of the card rulings at this time.
Fast forward a month or so and Konami are threatening stores abilities to host normal Yu-Gi-Oh events of they continue to host either of the alternative formats.
Both of these formats are hugely popular and brought back a lot of players to the game and people who only played advanced format were even giving it a go. Not sure what will happen from here but community ran events won't be effected.
 
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Tactical Wizard said:
That’s just Age of Sigmar in general: Warhammer with all of the serrated edge filed off; the serrated edge that made people like these properties to begin with.
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Its funny how warhammer fantasy looks like generic grimdark but the amount of fluff and flavour they actually pack into the setting was enough that they pretty much became the memetic face of Dwarves 2nd to LOTR and even Elves to an extent.
AoS is the opposite, they try so hard to be unique so they can copyright it to shit but it ended up being as likeable and memetic as sandpaper

People have more respect for an empire state troop or dwarf warrior than "Le Freeguild Steelhelm" and the, oh, right, there is no generic axe and board Dorf in here unless you count the Soup list that had the old Empire and High Elf figures, all you have is "Army of Slayers" and "Army of wacky air pirate inventors" no in-between

If it didnt have the GW backing, AoS would be like a cheap made in china WoW/Warhammer pastiche
 
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Flexo said:
Some of you may enjoy Yakubian Ape's post
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Oh yeah, this article is about World of Darkness.

Though what little remained of that original milieu was dismissed by Paradox Interactive during the label’s dissolution in 2018 as punishment for edgy bullshit they published in the 90’s (with all their more recently hired personnel being caught in the cross-fire), it was this incongruous and motley mix of outsiders and their transgressive interests that brought about the first - and most popular - of the line’s games, Vampire: The Masquerade.

The world of vampires presented in the game was a sprawling, byzantine underworld of predatory (and usually sexy) blood-suckers that I can only describe as what you might get if you threw every one of Anne Rice’s books, the entire discography of Joy Division, and some BDSM gear into a blender, set it to purée, and poured the whole thing into a plastic skull-shaped chalice you bought at a Spirit Halloween store (don’t forget to chill and garnish with a razor blade).

And you know what? It’s kind of awesome. It’s one of those things that’s very of it’s time and so of the people who made it that it really couldn’t have ever come about by any other eclectic mix of incongruous world views, and at no other period than the early 90’s.

Some of the art looks like it could be used for a Meatloaf album cover, which is one of the greatest compliments I can give.
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p1138 said:
It took me a moment to notice these were even new models. I don't see how they're any dumber or gayer than they've been for the past 8 years.
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Yea, they've been dumb and gay for years, but somehow this army worsenes with each update.
HTTP Error 404 said:
I don't hate dark skinned dwarves but Female dwarves is a fucking disgrace. No one wants them but GW doesn't dare say "but dwarves are male" because the second they did people would say mean things on bluesky and make their social media troll cry, and a crying social media troll won't give you a handjob in the bathroom for being a good boy.

And yeah, those look fucking retarded and shoving stunning and brave on the cover is just rubbing their ideology in everyone's faces. I do not think "sassy nigger queen" when I think "Dwarf." I think "Angry Drunk Scottish Biker Gang."

I do have to thank them for this, however, I was almost interested enough in the faction to pick up a starter box at one point in the not too distant past. Not any more.
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Ghostse said:
Its less dark-skinned dwarves and more thye are absolutely nigger-coded with the rest of their equipment is Steampunk Viking themed not Afrocentric.
But also tanned dwarves don't make sense since, IIRC, in the lore all the dwarves live underground in mines.
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Dark-skinned Dwarfs aren't a problem, but the DEI model just looks terrible. The other models don't look much better when you compare them to older KO models.
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This one is a thousand time better looking than the dread lock mongoloid. This army always had design issues because the idea of a steampunk army could work, but they dropped the ball with so many bad designs.
 
Henri Barbusse said:
Black dwarfs just have too much soot on their skin.
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If you painted one like that you would get like 5 or 6 articles in the tourist blogs (Spikeybits, Bell of Lost Souls, etc) for racist blackface. If you did it right you might even get a negative shout out from the Warhammer community bluesky. Sigmarxism would swarm you demanding you be put down for your heckin' invalid wrongthink chudlyness.

Now I want to buy that squad so I can get the niggercoded one, paint her up like the most Swedish of Aryans... Blonde hair, pale white skin, A10 blue eyes... with coal black soot blackface as a sort of OSL-like effect.

Edit: hey hey, guess who has a tutorial on how to do it, too

 
HTTP Error 404 said:
If you painted one like that you would get like 5 or 6 articles in the tourist blogs (Spikeybits, Bell of Lost Souls, etc) for racist blackface. If you did it right you might even get a negative shout out from the Warhammer community bluesky. Sigmarxism would swarm you demanding you be put down for your heckin' invalid wrongthink chudlyness.

Now I want to buy that squad so I can get the niggercoded one, paint her up like the most Swedish of Aryans... Blonde hair, pale white skin, A10 blue eyes... with coal black soot blackface as a sort of OSL-like effect.

Edit: hey hey, guess who has a tutorial on how to do it, too

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Chaos Dwarves would make decent Salamander tier coal blackness wouldnt they? Considering all their lore of living around fire and volcanos and shit
I kinda em, i know Mantic and numerous other 3D modelers do em, seems like a fun enough army to paint up, even if the only real options to use em are Kings of War or OPR
 
Loose Goose said:
Someone's going to get raped here, and nobody is even noticing.
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Oh, there's people noticing; they're just not going to be doing anything about it. From experience, I deal with a lot of people talking about how fucked it is, but when given the opportunity to actually do something about it, they just turn and walk the other way, even trying to prevent others from doing anything. People would rather keep their heads down/live in their own little fantasy worlds rather than do anything about freakshit.
 
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Sunflower Samurai said:
Chaos Dwarves would make decent Salamander tier coal blackness wouldnt they? Considering all their lore of living around fire and volcanos and shit
I kinda em, i know Mantic and numerous other 3D modelers do em, seems like a fun enough army to paint up, even if the only real options to use em are Kings of War or OPR
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You summoned them back into existace. GW just un-squatted The Chaos Dwarves for AoS. "The Helsmiths of Hashut."

They're showing them now and there's not a single female Chaos Dwarf anywhere. Not a single one. It's hilarious.
 
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