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 DarthMarko wrote:

 Talore wrote:
What disturbs me the most about 40k lore is when people take it too seriously and miss the inherent satire. This includes some of the writers, unfortunately.

Agree, and may I add "fanboy haters" too... It would be a lot nicer if people were more relaxed when dealing with the setting....

Exactly...enough said by these guys

Definitely DE

The moderate and liberal policies of the Imperium.

 Mr Nobody wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
I don't like thinking about what chaos could do with the internet.

Didn't you know? Chaos is the internet. It grew so powerful that it became it's own dimension.

Oh Talos..

We need to stop 4chan before it becomes to powerfull...

Servitors really freak me out they are just weird, they remind me of the strogg from quake.

Urian Rarkath deserves an honorable mention I mean making a deal with the tau for some people and then using the disfigured bodies of the tau to protect the tau....yeah!

What ward turned the newcrons into when the oldcrons were soooo much more interesting

Nothing. It isn't grim or dark enough.

This:

 Happyjew wrote:
This:

Spoiler:

I feel sick...

 Happyjew wrote:
This:

Spoiler:

Holy Iotoa! I'm out of here

I'm sorry guys. This got posted down the board on the Ork reproduction thread, and I had to steal it. At least I was considerate enough to make it a spoiler.

To me the most disturbing thing is that Space Mahrines are supposed to be amazing fighters and tactical geniuses and so on. So why do so many of them fight without a helmet!

The most disturbing thing about Warhammer 40k is that time has been frozen in that universe for nigh on 30 years now.

It's as if Tzeentch has stopped time itself for fear of what the future may bring, like closure or something...

BaconUprising wrote:
What disturbs me most about 40k? Is this anything near an accurate representation of what humanity will become? Who knows. If so the horrible truth is that we are better extinct.


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On a less serious note. Their stupidity! I mean come on! Why send it thousands of imperial guardsmen and titans when you can just send in a single space marine, not even a captain...in fact hell just send in Draigo. Don't worry. He will win...

'Why send thousands of Imperial Guardsmen'
When you can send a single Space Marine
There's a single Space Marine for every thousand worlds in the Imperium IIRC, and you expect a single marine to defend said 1,000 worlds? Against threats like the Tyranids, the Orks, Chaos, even the Eldar and the Tau this is impossible... Guardsmen are plentiful, plentiful enough to get the job done across the Galaxy, and even with the current numbers of Space Marines they struggle.

He was joking. As indicated by the "On a less serious note".

The lack of children.

Marines are considered to be worth 100 guardsmen each in small skirmishes, in big open battles that efficiency drops to 10 guardsmen.

 Alfndrate wrote:
The lack of children.

Like women and regular people not involved in war, they're there, but not a significant part of the story. Somehow guardsmen have to live long enough from childbirth to die for the Emperor and Space Marines are made from children who are crazy strong and brave.

 WarOne wrote:
The most disturbing thing about Warhammer 40k is that time has been frozen in that universe for nigh on 30 years now.

 WarOne wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:
The lack of children.

Like women and regular people not involved in war, they're there, but not a significant part of the story. Somehow guardsmen have to live long enough from childbirth to die for the Emperor and Space Marines are made from children who are crazy strong and brave.

How do they breed? Space Marines can't get with the baby making, and guardsmen all die

The thing that disturbs me the most is the space wolves, and blood angels. This probably comes from how annoying vampires, and werewolves in pop culture are now a days.

Niexist wrote:
The thing that disturbs me the most is the space wolves, and blood angels. This probably comes from how annoying vampires, and werewolves in pop culture are now a days.

I'm planning on starting a Blood Angels army. I'm going to mix a bit of metallic paint with Mephiston Red, so that they will *sparkle*.

I think this is both disturbing and epic at the same time: Tyranids have bio-engineered themselves to near perfection, running at 100% efficiency they break so many laws of the universe, they are also clearly millions to billions of years old and their forms suggest that in other galaxies there are very humanoid life forms. Or rather were, because those galaxies are now entirely void of life. Also the old way Genestealers were made portrayed Tyranid Norn Queens as much more terrifyingly genius rulers. The Zoanthropes as well, have some of the most frail bodies in any of the armies but are such powerful psykers that through their mastery of the power of the warp they maintain one of the strongest shields in the Warhammer 40k game (invulns I usually just assume are form of shield for most creatures as it usually doesn't explain them much).

So in summary, Tyranids because for a species most races assume are just simple-minded creatures they are geniuses. I admire and fear them at the same time! ^.^

 BrotherOfBone wrote:

BaconUprising wrote:
What disturbs me most about 40k? Is this anything near an accurate representation of what humanity will become? Who knows. If so the horrible truth is that we are better extinct.


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On a less serious note. Their stupidity! I mean come on! Why send it thousands of imperial guardsmen and titans when you can just send in a single space marine, not even a captain...in fact hell just send in Draigo. Don't worry. He will win...

'Why send thousands of Imperial Guardsmen'
When you can send a single Space Marine
There's a single Space Marine for every thousand worlds in the Imperium IIRC, and you expect a single marine to defend said 1,000 worlds? Against threats like the Tyranids, the Orks, Chaos, even the Eldar and the Tau this is impossible... Guardsmen are plentiful, plentiful enough to get the job done across the Galaxy, and even with the current numbers of Space Marines they struggle.

 Happyjew wrote:

Niexist wrote:
The thing that disturbs me the most is the space wolves, and blood angels. This probably comes from how annoying vampires, and werewolves in pop culture are now a days.

I'm planning on starting a Blood Angels army. I'm going to mix a bit of metallic paint with Mephiston Red, so that they will *sparkle*.

Part of my soul just died a little...

When I got into 40k back in 3rd edition, some of the artwork in that book was horrific, used to give me nightmares. The awesome kind of nightmares, Blanche is brilliant.

For me I have to divide this between in-universe horror and out-of-universe horror I see in the community.

In-universe I have to say the almost impressive ignorance and arrogance each faction possesses. And every faction has their lion's share of this! From Tau to Chaos itself each group thinks they are the end all be all and instead of seeking reason being the rule it's the exception. Even looking at the allies chart in the BRB you see how everyone has too big of a head for their own good. In the end the fact that the status quo is maintained by people's stupidity saddens me.

Out-of-universe the same thing is far too common in the community (though thankfully to a lesser degree). When I read my codex I see many of the idiosyncrasies in it (though I think 6th ed codices are better about this than 5th ed ones) and compare them to the other dexes I have to get a more even view of the setting. But, time and again I see people take their codex fluff as the final word on the matter irregardless of other valid material leading to long streams of rage and good topics being derailed and killed.



Stepping down from my over-ideological views of humanity (I blame dr. who) I can see how silly I'm being about that and I don't push these views on people for the most part.

Horror for me:

The thought of a blood-stained-10,000-year-old-daemon-infused-semi-unreal-genetically-superior-tank-armoured-giant bearing down upon me...
While his form shifts menacingly with the power of the warp, such as to defy the senses. The smell of rotting corpses choking my lungs, as I hear the final scream of every creature this monster has killed, just before I, too, am butchered.

And that is why I play CSM.

 sing your life wrote:

 Mr Nobody wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
I don't like thinking about what chaos could do with the internet.

Didn't you know? Chaos is the internet. It grew so powerful that it became it's own dimension.

Oh Talos..

We need to stop 4chan before it becomes to powerfull...

Memes for the /TG/ Gawd!Dread knight corpses for the 40k throne!