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Sarge wrote:I'd say send the Tau Codex. A book about Commie training would likely send'em over the edge.

So true.

MinMax wrote:

slowed PBS Bitch wrote:There are swell icons like Azrael, (Israel?) the supreme Grand Master who's "codex" description sounds like something out of a high mason's ceremony.

I Lol'd.

That was too funny. Bookmarked!

I'd like to know what she has against Israel.

Trying to rationally analyze irrational ranting is the wrong move here, you have to just take a step back and realize that someone has devoted their life to protecting mankind against 40k.

Its also an opportune time to play "guess what radical group this is from".

I'm going with People for the Ethical Treatment of Grots.

gremmie0 wrote:
I'm going with People for the Ethical Treatment of Grots.

New GorkaMorka gang name: found.

I am not sure what to call that.

I laughed at times.

But seriously, beneath that roll of garbage was a real message, under certain conditions warhammer 40000 might be harmful to children. But to be frank, it is the parents duty to see to it thattheir kids are not formed by 40k fluff, not the governments to ban them. And I am sure anyone failing in this should immediately be banned of raising their child

And by the way, I am sure there are a high number of video games she or he could rage just as well, or not better over, but WAIT, the majority of the human people now like computer games. Lets go bash the ethnic shitstorm out of a minority interest hobby.

My biggest gripe however is how every little bit of it recks of not enough knowledge of the subject being rewiewed. Things like missing the nation of origin, Azrael (The stupid! IT BURNS!) and the complete refusal to accept it as a distopian science fiction game originally made for grown-ups.

Well, that's just my two cents, a lot of the people here have already said a lot of the things I wanted to say before I knew I wanted to say them, I'll just sit back and enjoy the rest of your comments and wait for the thread to eventually be locked by frazzled with an outrageously funny picture sequence.

There is alot of things in this world i must admit this seems almost like it was manufactured to be propaganda against propaganda. I think its a joke.. a real life joke. Meaning the person who did it is poking fun at society how they could take this game and twist it around to fulfill some dark conspiracy... I hope.

You could do this with any comic book, video game, religion, tooth fairy, instruction manual....

Anyways i hope its a joke i would rather see someone apply this kind of "Speculative slander" to other things like organized religion. Thats no different than 40k right? A fantasy world concocted by man with rules and regulations and instruction manuals on how to be a good soldier of the emperor(god)?

On an other note, added to the list of things we NEED this person to rewiew should be Cuthulhu books and the roleplay-game.

what's this bozo's email addy? we should all send him a nice letter explaining the difference between fantasy and reality.. (letting him know it's a game with little toy plastic soldiers, not a religion that is secretly recruiting young teenagers to turn them into space marines by removing their organs and putting in new one..)

I love people who glom onto one aspect of something and then twist that aspect into something they can vilify

I can see some point to the article. But, if you're concerned about what your kids see, spend more time with your kids, not worrying about what everyone else's kid sees.

I think this is a case of good intentions run amok. Should you just plunk a kid down with the game? No. That doesn't mean the game is bad or damaging to them, anymore than a violent movie or video game would be. As with everything, if you introduce the game to a kid and discuss it (hey, the Imperium isn't really 'good', and you know that daemons aren't real, and neither are 7-foot tall superhumans) with them, it can be fine. Kids are smarter than adults give them credit for being - I'm pretty sure that my 9-year old niece would understand that Space Marines aren't real, she doesn't need gene modification, daemons aren't real either, and she shouldn'd go burn the heretic, and that Azrael is just a name and not some propaganda to support Israel.

two_heads_talking wrote:what's this bozo's email addy? we should all send him a nice letter explaining the difference between fantasy and reality..

contact@pbsblog.com

you're welcome.

just gonna leave this here.....

Seriously, I bet a game called "Catholic Space Nazis" would sell like dollar lap dances.

oomiestompa wrote:Seriously, I bet a game called "Catholic Space Nazis" would sell like dollar lap dances.

But not as much as the expansion: "Catholic Space Nazis In Space!!"

Which has all those pesky rules for setting your Catholic Space Nazi campaign in, you know, space. My Level 6 Catachist Commandant just got the "Holy Crap" feat... letting him rebuke the Calvinist Space Zombies From Space with a +3 modifier when wielding his feces as a holy symbol.

BrotherStynier wrote:
If memory serves me wasn't Azrael an angel in the bible? Or was he a Fallen Angel I'm not sure I never could read that book.

No.
Azrael is wordplay on ISRAEL.
Clearly, it's an indication that BOTH are blood-hungry war crazed sadists on a false mission from Gawd.

Geez. Didn't you even READ the page before posting?

You FAIL on Intrawebz reading comprehension.
; )

Eric

But not as much as the expansion: "Catholic Space Nazis In Space!!"

That would sell like dollar lap dances in space. Zero G, you know.

If memory serves me wasn't Azrael an angel in the bible? Or was he a Fallen Angel I'm not sure I never could read that book.

Azrael was a fallen angel in the movie Dogma.

He's the Archangel of Death otherwise.


Also,

It's very highly elite you know. Killing is good.
It is.
No really.
Well is it, or isn't it?


Okay so if it's not, then why this elaborate production of killing toys for children?


If killing is NOT good, does it make for appropriate toys? I'm confused here, you tell me.


Because it's good if you don't actually think about it too much and if it's you doing the killing but it's only bad when the other guy does it.
That's a total break down of logic.


I guess that's how they keep
the good old war machine churning
all around the world.


It's only possible for the other guy to be
the bad guy, it's never us, only them. Right?
And we know that's true because... because....? How do we know it's true?

WHOA MAN THAT SURE IS A WELL THOUGHT-OUT OPINION ON VIOLENCE YOU HAVE THERE

must accept war.
must become robot.
must train for next world war.
mustnt think for myself.
must modify body.
must self-multilate to condition self to pain.
must be ok with killing everyone.

RandomX wrote:Pttthhhhh

She needs to work harder. Come on, I mean she is only regurgitating garbage that other, truly, crazies are spouting off. Nothing really original besides the 40k stuffs. Lightweight doesn't even have any Jewish Hollywood/Bank Control that I saw. (I am a Portal of Evil vet, this is tame). And there are in no way enough GIFs.

A dash of 911 conspiracy, a sprinkle of NWO, and some Vaccine garnish. Its standard fare, though I particularly enjoyed the GW bit.

GW should hammer her for the improper use of the images. So I helped it along and forwarded the page to GW Legal, though I have kinda violated the PD on this one for it. Satire, funny, or whatever, it hurts the hobbies image at a time when it really doesn't need any help doing it (Prices and such).

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Eric

I request an Orkmoticon of an ork wearing a tinfoil hat

That request is seconded, and its overflowing with Win.

GW can't stop people using their images for the purposes of review and criticism.

All that and he didnt mention the prices...

Freedom of speech needs an IQ test ..

PC people make me laugh, Mankind is a violent beast, and always will be, The violence is just controlled a bit better nowadays.

Dronze wrote:

oomiestompa wrote:Seriously, I bet a game called "Catholic Space Nazis" would sell like dollar lap dances.

But not as much as the expansion: "Catholic Space Nazis In Space!!"

Which has all those pesky rules for setting your Catholic Space Nazi campaign in, you know, space. My Level 6 Catachist Commandant just got the "Holy Crap" feat... letting him rebuke the Calvinist Space Zombies From Space with a +3 modifier when wielding his feces as a holy symbol.

HOLY CRAP! You win LMAO

Nurglitch wrote:Satire isn't dead. It's been recovered from the battlefield and placed in the ancient shell of a Dreadnought.

I chortled. Win.

I know an 8-year old who started painting Orks

Also, reading this, one would think that this is a religious nutcase, but then there's this whole Azrael issue.

Wait, if Azrael is a synonym for Isreal, what does that say about Gargamel's cat?

Dronze wrote:

oomiestompa wrote:Seriously, I bet a game called "Catholic Space Nazis" would sell like dollar lap dances.

But not as much as the expansion: "Catholic Space Nazis In Space!!"

Which has all those pesky rules for setting your Catholic Space Nazi campaign in, you know, space. My Level 6 Catachist Commandant just got the "Holy Crap" feat... letting him rebuke the Calvinist Space Zombies From Space with a +3 modifier when wielding his feces as a holy symbol.

In Space, No One Can Hear You Pray.

karnaeya wrote:All that and he didnt mention the prices...

Freedom of speech needs an IQ test ..

PC people make me laugh, Mankind is a violent beast, and always will be, The violence is just controlled a bit better nowadays.

Violence isn't controlled any better now than it ever has been. In "civilized" cultures, it's looked down upon as reactionary - but reactionaries are often idolized in those same cultures. Refer to mainstream film, television, and radio media for examples.

The author of the blog clearly cherry picked the fluff to see what they wanted to see, but the fact remains that GW is focusing sales on a younger generation of gamers (likely the children of gamers...) and the imagery of the game is definitely mature content. It makes me wonder if 40K as a whole will become a softer, more gentle and child friendly game as the target age of GW's customer gets younger and younger...

"I wanna box of Barney Space Marines daddy!"

Anung Un Rama wrote:I know an 8-year old who started painting Orks

Also, reading this, one would think that this is a religious nutcase, but then there's this whole Azrael issue.

Wait, if Azrael is a synonym for Isreal, what does that say about Gargamel's cat?

It says that Smurfs represent the poor, helpless Middle-Eastern nations, preyed upon by them/her/it.

Duh!

Hello? McFly!?
; )

Eric

So does Gargamel represent the vast, broken-down power of the western nations, specifically the United States? And if so, who are the prince and is lack-witt side kick?

Things that make you go "Hmmmm?"

Smurfs are communists.

Soviet Men Under Red Father.

Papa Smurf is Karl Marx, Brainy is Leon Trotsky.

Hell yeah space marines are hardcore killers. And don't you forget it!!