https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egc2ciXSdmo>We've seen the Space King audience numbers but all our funny writers left 20 years ago
>>98768225jesus this is cringe
>>98768225reddit will love this
>>98768267no they're in love with space king too much for that.
>>98768225total GW deathGW leaning into the memes is just a complete show of weakness. No one at the company left who has anything of actual depth or meaning to offer beyond the most surface level nonsense.This shite is just a final spasm in hopes of remaining relevant
>>98768225>safe-edgy space king
>>98768225GW is run by the kind of people who think an edgy joke is a literal crime, so I don't know what you were expecting.
>>98768537GW have been "leaning into the memes" for 20 years now, that's why 40k is a flanderised mess.
>>98768225Literally my exact thought the second this was posted>We want the Space King audience>We have no idea what actually makes Space King successful though, here's a horribly paced extraordinarily cringe millennial heckin chungus reddit video out of nowhere.>>98768290Space King is the opposite of reddit, that's why it works and this video which is pure 150% reddit does not.
>>98768804It wants the Bluesky audience really.
>>98768225I feel like I'm watching a toy commercial
>>98768804>Space King is the opposite of redditIt literally has a massive subreddit of drooling SK retards, who do you think bought the game?
>>98768804Even ignoring what that anon said about it literally being a massive hit on reddit, it's the most reddit thing I've seen in the last year. Reddit humor, reddit animation, reddit fans.
>>98768804If you went back to 2016 and told me that the "muh death of art and beauty" people would be soijacking over a calarts animation... honestly, I probably would have believed you. They've always been pretty retarded like that.
>>98768225This smells of desperation and panic at the success of FlashGitz. I bet they remember them from the C&D they filed against them and now they must be pissing and shitting themselves at how BADLY they fucked up.GeeDubs will never learn that fan creations is literally free advertisement. they had so long to learn, ingrain and use this lesson but failed to even learn it in the first place.GeeDubs is likely not going down any time soon, but the mainstream attention they have is only hindering them in the worst ways.
>>98768225I watched like 20 seconds of this and this feels like a really kiddy looney toons animation. Like Tom and Jerry with zero of the charm. Wtf is this
>>98768804>Space King is the opposite of reddit?
>>98768225Grim
Somebody at GW really loves them some Gundam.
>>98768225Little conspiracy theory, body dysmorphia in cartoons is done to ruin kids' perspective of human body and brainwash them to troon out.
>>98770791When will Bandai Namco buy out GW?
>>98768225Did Fallout 4 saw the Space King audience and copied the style?No wait... this is from 10 years ago.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26UDmZRCbm0
>>98768225This is animated desperation.
>>98773893First point: this style has existed in Fallout ads since Fallout 3, if not before that, and the second point is that this makes more sense as a diegetic thing within the Fallout universe, since Fallout is retrofuturist, inspired by the 50s sci-fi raygun gothic, Art Deco, and mod designs, Part of Fallout's inspiration is things like the Duck and Cover PSA animation, so it makes sense to make Pastiches or such things for Fallouthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60&t=398s40k, on the other hand, isn't really based on such a specific art style where this sort of jokey PSA comedy works, so it doesn't make sense as a piece of in-universe media and out of universe feels like GW is playing catch-up to a parody of 40k.
>>98768225I was waiting for a joke, but then the video but then the video ended. Is this really the best GW can do?
>"Bu-But we have Space King at home!"
>>98774435>Is this really the best GW can do?They had good time to get something ready.Seems like the answer is: YES.
>>98770622The 4chan subreddit has over 1 million members.
>>98768225Space king and its consequences
>>98768225I can't watch this it's too cringe, could barely take 30 seconds.
>>98774553Makes sense. Modern 4chan is the most Reddit thing.
>>98768225This was the single cringiest thing I've seen all day. The only joke that was remotely funny was the tactical rock and the narrator kept getting drowned out by the sound effects.
>>98768225Emperor TtS can't exist but this canChaos truly has won...
>>98774797>Chaos truly has won...If Chaos won, where the fuck are the Chaos V-tubers/Idols?
>>98774816Well that's some of the ugliest Bae art I've seen.Thanks.
>>98774797Sadly yes the company that owns the IP can do whatever dugshite they want with it, as GW have shown for decades now.
>>98774816Kill yourself ausfailian
>>98770622They all think it's a satire of chuds.
>>98768809the whole 5 people who use that site?
the thing is spaceking isn't a competitor, you aren't building armies of blapblaps and star defenders, it's a tongue in cheek comedic parody.Warhammer used to understand thisbut that was literally before half the audience (including me) was born 40+ years ago, the current writers are ESG retards and w*men. So they made their 'own version' of space king, but that's not even necessary.
>>98775395It's not a competitor to mainstream 40k YET.Space King is only just now releasing a "Star Crusade" equivalent, and if they follow the same path that GW did then a tabletop wargame isn't far behind. Give it five years.
>>98775439GW will shut them down before they ever get that far. I doubt they'll even let the boardgame release.
>>98775439They won't do that because space king exists and only works as a parody.
>>98775463Shut them down for what exactly?
You either die a 2000AD comic or live long enough to see yourself become an early 90s gag anime.
>>98775540...Why not both?
>>987755402000AD has it's own Gag strips
>>98774209>isn't really based on such a specific art style where this sort of jokey PSA comedy worksExcept in the past they already had silly things for 40k. Remember the Red Gobbo? Or the trailer for the Beast Snagga? or the 'Ere we go Song for the Goff Rocker?Warhammer Community always puts up a lot of memes and attempts at humor, even when they did the April's Fools fake trailers. The whole thread is goin "omgggg they are afraid of Space King who made some money, theya re totally dying!"Meanwhile Space Marine 2 is doing numbers, Darktide keeps releasing stuff and not only they are gonna release Warhammer 40k Total War but Dawn of War 4. And you think that they are afraid of a parody of a group of people they already spanked twice? Come on
>>98768225I don't think this is as cringe as the rest of you think, I just think it's bad. It's like the writer has never heard of setups or payoffs.
>>98770099>>98770239>>98770248We're hitting levels of disingenuous trannyposting never before imagined.
>>98774209First of all, this, second of all, the guy you're responding to is being retarded on purpose, and your reply is more than he deserves.>>98775937>Remember the Red Gobbo?You mean that joke that was actually funny?>Or the trailer for the Beast Snagga? or the 'Ere we go Song for the Goff Rocker?You mean those extremely recent things that were fucking gay and part of the same decline as the thread video? Actually no, I haven't seen either, but they sound retarded.
40k lore has grown beyond GW at this point. They might own the IP but they no longer can control where it goes. Its like Star Trek and Star Wars
>>98776064its true even more so since the tabletop allows a lot of leeway for custom stuff
>>98776077Yep. Like ST and SW there are tons of people who fully engage with 40k and the setting without ever putting a single dollar in GW pockets. I'd argue Battletech is there too.
>>98776104One of the strong points for BattleTech was that Catalyst didn't technically own the Miniature rights, so they were instead publishing Alpha Strike Stat Cards with bonus plastic Minis that could CONVENIENTLY work with Classic's hex grids with the good graces of Iron Wind Metals......But now that they own IWM...
>>98775977>I didn't even saw the video because I have bias, but trust me you are the one acting retarded>40k is in clear decline because Wahrmmaer Community makes some memes from time to time>Completely ignores how well received Space Marine 2 was and all the hype behind the new upcoming videogames which often make people want to try out the actual tabletop gameSure buddy
>>98776064>Its like Star Trek and Star WarsThey do control where it goes, though. Fandoms might not listen to them or might create their own stuff (usually bad, sometimes good) but most people have accepted primaris, for instance, many people want to see primarchslop, etc.
>>98768225absolutely btfos space king
>>98776668>but most people have accepted primaris, for instance, many people want to see primarchslop, etc.Does this mean that most Star Wars people have accepted the sequel trilogy as good? I like the prequels because they're bad. Or did Disney pump out enough extra media with the sequels that people like them now with all the added context?
>>98776795>Does this mean that most Star Wars people have accepted the sequel trilogy as good?I don't think so, just because of how badly Rian Johnson shot them in the foot after JJ's empty Mystery Boxes...
>>98776795>Does this mean that most Star Wars people have accepted the sequel trilogy as good?Some people like them, yes. Some peole don't. Regardless of whether or not what they release is any good, Disney still continually shapes starwars, its and its discussion with what they release. A star wars fan very rarely has no opinion on what disney puts out, and the vast majority of people even tangentially into starwars have engaged at least somewhat with Disney starwars shit.People always have and always will have their own based or lame stuff outside the main series, it doesn't mean that they don't somehow 'not control it'. That would only happen if there was fan media that significantly steered the direction of star wars in the general public or fan communities. This isn't the case. Most people who don't like disney just fall back to pre-disney materials.
>>98776795its impact, or something like that, I meant to put in.
>>98775960Cope
>>98775439>yetLmaoThis shit will die harder than TC
>>987758122000ad doesn't just have gag strips, it's also extremely funny in general
>>98775812This isn't a gag strip, it's satire. Something that 40k doesn't know how to do, but don't tell that to Sigmarxism.
i need to get the fuck out of this fandom
>sigmarxismholy 5 years out of date batman
>>98768225>reddit love it>facebook love it>youtube love it>instagram love it>tiktok love it>4chan and twitter hate ittotal GW victory, space king btfo
The wholesome chungusification of 40k is pretty insane, I've never seen anything like itIt's sold as a grimdark world of despair and suffering, yet it never does anything actually risky or dark because that would affect sales for JamesHas this happened before?
>>98768225kekaroo that Tactical Rock
>>98777421They're silly five years ago and still are today. Like a high school phase they never grew out of.
>>98777462the most evil villain of 40k deliberately misgendered someone
>>98777421>>98777654still going strong
>>98777462ification implies it didn't already happen like 10 years ago
>>98770340>GeeDubs will never learn that fan creations is literally free advertisement.GW still struggle with understanding that so is vidya. TWWH basically resurrected WHFB right after they'd killed it off because GW are morons
>>98777676>still going strongHonestly given what happened when tumblr died I hope sigmarxism keeps going to act as a containment.
>>98777734it's already basically dead, 'still going strong' implies more than like 10 threads in a week
>>98768225OH NO NO NO NO NO spamxisters what will we do now that GW daddy embarrassed us??!????
>>98777149It does have gag strips though; something like Zombo isn't really Satire
>>98777460The fact Reddit loves it is damning enough we don't need the rest
>>98777676strong!!!
>>98768225Pathetic. Praise Space King.
>>98777353>fandom die
>>98775463GW can't do shit.
>>98768225>dude...TACTICAL ROCK JOKE!!! AGAIN!!!its not clever to point out your shitty practices if you continue to do them after
>>98778124Oh no, he's self conscious about his obsession with an intellectual property!
>Warhammer is to grimdark!!!>it has corpse starchOnions Green did that already.>it has senseless loss of human lifeYe, never see that in the real world>slave labor and no libertiesSee above>servitorsYe, not unique to Warhammer>evil dark gods that will win, no matter whatThey were writting shit like this in the early 20th century and before.>but there's no racism or sexism between humansMan, that's some fucking utopian shit.
>>98778261Nta, but "Fandom" as a notion implies a sort of fixation that a lot of people maybe felt once, but are slowly losing.You ever seen The Never Ending Story?It's more like watching your world be devoured by "The Nothing".Except instead of Gmork, it's some nigga in a suit with a briefcase, and a buncha graphs about women's feelings about little plastic spacemen for boys.
>>98778319When you put it like that, it makes me realise that they are slowly engineering 40k into HFY, and I hate it.Warhammer should be HFN
>>98768225Wasn't Carbot doing 40k parodies after Blizzard drove him out with the cringe of Diablo Immortal? They should had given him money.
>>98778319Don't forget they have free sex reassignment surgeries in THE CRUELEST REGIME KNOWN TO MAN
>>98778738you lost iranny
>>98778757What are you on about? I think them adding SRS available to lowborn shuttle pilots to 40K in some random BL book is fucking retarded, but it's still in there. I could buy it as freaky degen shit that the nobles get up to, especially ones on the road to slannesh corruption, but lowly shuttle pilots chopping their dicks off and calling themselves Sallycus is just retarded.
>>98778788He's making a joke about Iran. Burgers seethe about it being a super repressive hellhole ie the cruellest regime known to man, but it also weirdly has a lot of sex reassignment surgeries because "gays don't exist, if you are gay that means you are a woman, so we will turn you into a woman". I don't know how widespread that practice actually is though.You're right about 40k though. It's retarded. They should be more likely to mutilate you into a servitor than a tranny.
>>98778347That is a fucking weird interpretation of a word that just means "fan community" or "the act of being a fan". But I assume you have your own sordid tale to explain how you came to that connotation.
>>98778788>irannyHe is probably referencing the fact that Iran gives free SRS to homosexuals as a form of punishment for being homosexual.
>>98778804>>98778808>iran forced sex changesAh, didn't even make that connection since those are, you know, forced and all that. Meanwhile the imperium is now totally tolerant of both fags and trannies and does its utmost to support both despite being THE CRUELEST REGIME KNOWN TO MAN with 18 hour workdays and a life expectancy of 30 in its most humane segmentum and all that.
>>98778419the problem is the fans have been HFYfags for like 20 years
>>98775463Retard alert.
>>98777676>doesn't buy the models>thinks the game should pander to themI'll bet their books are all .PDFs, too. It honestly boggles the mind that GW should prefer to court these non-customers at the expense of people who actually buy their products, but leftoid ideology expects nothing less.
>>98778816On one hand the Imperium having active mental healthcare seems dumb, on the other that active mental heathcare literally mutilating people in accordance with their delusions is fairly in keeping with grimdark.
>>98768225Buy a banner.
>>98778808that sounds too retarded to not be isreali propaganda.
>>98778738I don't keep up with warhamster lore. What is this?
40k should have ended at 4th edition
>>98779387I probably would have ended up like them as a an early age teenager back when I was in the phase and first getting into Warhammer 40k if I found out about them. I'm pretty glad I didn't find out about them back then. They have an icky high school clique vibe with their beliefs and conduct at first glance. Really though I don't think anyone there is truly a "decent human being" as there is toxic positivity aura off that place. I'd wager that most posts are tip toeing around trigger happy mods so the vibe isn't good there as much as it presents itself as a positive spot.One wonders whether it is all a self sabotage larp, but it is not. They're being themselves and they aren't rebellious teenagers who happen to be into Warhammer and Warhammer 40k that's what makes it funny to some and second hand embarrassment inducing for others.
>>98780234Exactly what I said here: >>98778816A random BL book has some paragraph about a random tranny shuttle pilot choosing (((her))) new name from a book of saints. I'm too lazy to find the excerpt but it's out there. It's so obviously forced and shoehorned-in too, the pilot basically addresses the audience directly and shouts BTW IM TRANS AND MY NAME IS NOW LILITH
>>98780285How can you say that? In 4th there were so many mechanics that stifle the use of tactics. Units cannot split fire. Rules like Rend were completely overpowered and only in the lists of a few armies. Having to make leadership checks to test Target priority one that should be a tactical decision on your part.
>>98768225
>>98777676Ah, I was hoping it was a joke about Slaneesh marines
>>98779387the secondary menace goes beyond partisanship
>>98770622>going to reddit in a futile effort to claim Space King is redditSir you are the reddit.
>>98777676>tranny>secondary
>>98780535>How can you say that?Better to die with people wanting more than to die with people hating every new releaseHH and 5th started really bad trends for the lore and model focus
>>98768225They made this because they were afraid of the immense power Jumpchain has over the industry.
>>98777676
>>98777757Just because they migrated to discords where they can control who sees their more insane, deranged, and degenerate conversations and plan their raids in privacy also doesn't mean these fucks have just faded away. Shit some of them are probably working at GW by now.
>>98783316>Shit some of them are probably working at GW by now.That's somehow incredibly sad that one would go this far to ruin Warhammer to spite their rent free chud boogeyman.
>>98777676Back in the 2010s when this shit was in full swing everywhere, everyone was asking why are these companies changing everything for this woke shit before they found out about Blackrock and USAid giving grants for pushing this shit and hiring woke DEI hires to ruin your series to the point. DC and WB died and was sold off, Marvel brand is a shadow of it's former self. Star Wars and Star Trek are a joke compared to 20 years ago. Dr. Who is so dead that even the BBC might go under if they can't force a another tax to push their woke shit NO ONE is watching. I swear from 2015-25 will be the woke years and death of classical media IPs
>>98779387>boggles the mind that GW should prefer to court these non-customers at the expense of people who actually buy their products,It's because they think their current customer will show up no matter how shit they turn their product so they try to expand to whatever the mythical "modern audience" is.It happen for video game too. Bioware did the piece of garbage that was Dragon Age the Veilguard (shit writting, tranny pandering, abysmal gameplay) and when it unsurprisingly fail they said they believed that "rpg fan will buy the game no matter what".The true mystery is why they believe the wider audience is trannies and obese women doomscrolling TikTok.
>>98781951Hard disagree. Nobody's out here trying to force Jesus into 40k, but there are an awful lot of trannies trying to force their AGP fantasies into it.The leftoid subversives are actively trying to change the game to suit their political ideology by inserting explicitly progressive shibboleths into it at scale. Just like the did to Star Wars and Marvel and, mot recently, Halo and Gears of War with their functionally interchangeable butch ethnically ambiguous lesbians constantly demeaning the main character. The same cannot be said for right-wingers and reactionaries who she, definitionally, trying to preserve the game - or their perception of it - as it currently exists. This kind of disingenuous both-sidism only serves to smuggle in one side's agenda by falsely claiming both are just as bad. They aren't. There aren't any right-wing secondaries ruining your wargame but leftist identity politics - whether that takes the form of race, gender, sexuality or a combination of the three, has had a corrosive effect on every form of media or franchise it has seeped into and your unwillingness to acknowledge it means you're either a useful idiot or a subversive, yourself.
>>98783433>Nobody's out here trying to force Jesus into 40kNTA but a lot of tradcath larpers have definitely glommed on to 40K. I do agree that they are less subversive than leftists and less subtle/parasitic whenever they do strike, but that's just because they lack the power to do so currently. To think they're your friends or care about the integrity of things you like is just setting yourself up for betrayal when they decide to declare your interests as demonic or woke.Just look at how quickly they turned on sexy anime and vidya babes the second they thought they had the cultural clout to do so with that goonergate faggotry.
>>98783686Oh, no! The big, scary Crusader fanboys are way too into Black Templar and unironically believe that mutants and degenerates should be purged! It's surely only a matter of time until they have the whip hand over us poor little apolitical smol bean gamers who just want to paint toy soldiers and roll dice and turn our wargame about a totalitarian theocracy into... a wargame about a totalitarian theocracy? What's your thesis, exactly? That the tradcath larpers secretly want to ban secular fantasy fiction that already aligns with their world view as "demonic?"We're not talking about sexy anime and nobody's pretending like religious busybodies have anyone's best interests in mind, but if it's a choice between a guy with a Deus Vult tattoo on his chest or a hammer-and-sickle on his throat, I know which one is more aligned with my interests - and, again, even if you're not that anon your behaving as if the two are equally bad is disingenuous both-sidism. The tradcath larper doesn't enjoy institutional power the same way that the intersectional genderqueer has for the last decade, and when their culturally conservative antecedents DID have that power over culture it produced the media that the leftoids are trying to subvert today."But muh vidya babes!" It's not the tradcaths that made a post-op transexual beat Joel to death with a golf club, gave Lara Croft a breast reduction or tried to cancel Stellar Blade for having the audacity to accurately represent the performance capture model as a petit Korean woman. If the reactionary momentum swings too far in the opposite direction, that says a lot more about how far the leftoids overreached than it does about the oppression of Christian conservatives.But please, do go on about how shame culture for the chronically horny on main is proof that Christcucks are ruining Warhammer.
>>98784023Damn, you didn't read a single thing I typed despite how short my post was, did you? Lemme break it down for your tribalistic peabrain even more>Leftists are worse, but only because they're more effective. >Given the opportunity, rightoids would be just as controlling and restrictive as the left, as they have attempted in the past.But hey, go on and cry about how it's "not the same" because I brought up the failed goonergate as the example. There's also Jack Thompson's failed GTA crusade, the Harry Potter and Pokemon failed pearl clutchings of the 00s, the failed satanic panic of the 80s, and plenty more. You'll notice the only difference between them and the left is that the right constantly fails their moral crusades while the left succeeds in their moral subversions.
>>98779582It's true.When the shah was ousted and Iran transformed into theocracy, there was one transwoman who knew the ayatollah, she got to him and personally convinced him that turning into women isn't a sin, so the ayatollah issued a fatwa that said "trannies are ok as long as they cut the peepee off".
>>98768225God's. That hurt me to watch. Spaceking utterly broke gw
>>98784081>Reaching back THIRTY YEARS to cite Jack Thompson and Harry Potter outrageNext you'll be crying about the Satanic Panic over Rosemary's Baby and the Exorcist. Get with the times, old man - Thompson was disbarred and it's the trannies that hate Harry Potter, now.
>>98784133>muh thirty yearsYeah, that was the last time christian-right had any real power. Not my fault they squandered it all and any time they start making inroad in the modern era they immediately attempt to backstab their less religious right-wingers like with goonergate.
>>98784081The left succeed in ruining things and making sane people hate them. God's be good, there will be a purge soon.
>>98784168Famous right-winger Tipper Gore lead the pearl clutching campaign against violence in video games in the '90s. Renowned fascists Joe Lieberman and Herb Kohl headed the 1993 congressional hearings.No, wait, those are all left-wing Democrats and Jews. But that doesn't fit your narrative about christofascism, does it? No, you've gotta rely on the buffoonery of a widely ridiculed clown and discredited ambulance chaser who was objectively too crazy for Florida, or vague platitudes about a moral outrage over the witch book that was, at best, a surreal anecdote on the six o'clock news when it was happening. And goonergate, whatever the fuck that is. None of which is actually relevant to the matter at hand.
>>98784266>the left is more successful than the right, but both are trying to censor everything that doesn't slot into their respective ideologiesDamn bro, it's almost like that's what I've said from the start. Glad you finally caught up.
>>98784318>>98784266>guys with basically the same views argue and call each other retardsThat was a funny exchange.
>>98783363It will be viewed as the datk ages of media and culture in history books, provided the whole west doesn't continue on the trajectory where we are heading towards becoming like South Africa, in which case there won't be any history books.
>>98784388South Africa? My brother in Christ, we are headed towards Rhodesia.
>>98768225It's simple. I see a black or trannie, I don't buy it. HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAI'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm just ...not going to buy it. Uggghhhhh I know, cringe right?Still its just uhhhhhh I'm not buying it. If it has blacks or trannies in it, that is. Like, at all.
>>98770791>>98773100Would be sick if Games Workshop made kits as well as Bandai aka sprues with zero mold lines.Even after all this fucking time, Games Workshop still won't make sprues without mold lines, but Bandai are spitting them out cheaper en masse.Games Workshop have become anti-hobby.
>>98784085that's literally not what the other guy said. So you're just telling me that was retarded probably Israeli propaganda but based on the entirely different story you just told.
>>98784392South Africa is just Zimbabwe minus a decade.
>>98783433Jesus isn't right wing.
>>98786939Jesus is not a political figure.Jesus is God come down to earth to live and die as a mortal man, for your sins.However, Jesus is not a proponent of sodomy or suicidal altruism, a universalist who extends grace to those who shun his very teachings either.
>>98786981Right wingers are mostly sodomites.
>>98786981>suicidal altruismI'm sorry, but the guy who said "Turn the other Cheek" and "He who is without Sin cast the first stone" wasn't suicidally altruistic?
>>98787484He knew how both of those things were going to play out and those were context dependent as well.He flipped tables and followed God's law that called for violence multiple times. He wasn't a pacifist and he wasn't a barbarian.
