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galateus ([info]galateus) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2009-06-30 02:53:00

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Current mood:Amazed

In the Grim Dark reaches of the Internet, there is only Stupid.

It's amazing that Warhammer 40000 fandom hasn't wanked its way here before now. But here it is!

It all started when someone on a bizarre conspiracy theory site makes a play to become the next BADD (see also: Dark Dungeons), by writing the article "Space Marines - Death Toys" about the super-soldiers from Warhammer 40k. It lays bare Games Workshop's nefarious plot to brainwash our children for the coming of the New World Order.

Now, Warhammer is a game about psychotic humans fighting psychotic aliens with MANLINESS, phallic weapons and killer fetish-nuns. (TVTropes has the details.) But PBSBlog.com (no affiliation with the Public Broadcasting Service) shows us the true evil lurking beneath the facade of juvenile violence:

What's really fun about this particular toy set is finding all the occult and new world order references. They abound and if you peruse the page you'll find it chock full of nifty, or is it creepy, predictive programming and even tactics to go street by street in a town near you murdering every person you can find. This will make your child a hero. 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.

They are deeply concerned for the mental well being of the legions of small children who play this game of horrific warfare, children who will one day be breaking down the doors when the NWO unveils its secret super-soldier program... any day now.

Sucked in by cool graphics and continuously injected with bizarre ideation and glamorization of death, killing and destruction, and the strange assertion that it is perfectly normal to have unquestioning obedience to who ever has the tallest hat, kids will not be given an equal opportunity to learn how to question such obvious mind control techniques.

In what way do Angels have anything in common with superhuman genetically modified killing machines?
They make it sound like a gift. "I am here to kill you. You can thank me later".
This is supreme head fu*king.

THIS IS HOW THEY GET YOU. THIS IS HOW THEY GET TO YOUR KIDS WITHOUT YOU EVER KNOWING IT.

This teaches children to think of being defiled by the government as something cool. I can't speak for you but I've got REAL BIG problem with that.

The reactions are mostly LOL and TROLL with only a little serious fanrage wanking(But as we'll see later, the wankers skip the forums and head straight to their email boxes...), and the obligatory "HERESY! UNCLEAN! PURIFY IT WITH THE CLEANSING FIRE OF OUR GOD-EMPEROR!". It's mostly pointing-and-mocking at GameFAQs, Digg, the Escapist, (ETA: someplace called DITL,) and Twitter ("Jack Chick meets Warhammer 40,000"), but DakkaDakka somehow derailed it into "the Bible inspires violence, too y'know"; "I am reporting you to a mod for saying that"; "I find you reporting him to a mod hypocritical" so someone starts a new thread when that one gets locked.

There was also an inexplicably bahleeted thread on warseer.com that partially degenerated into cries of "but why was the old thread deleted?" and political sniping like this before it disappeared:

ThisGuy: As a social conservative these people make me want to punch my hand into concrete until the bones shatter and I can't feel anymore. [...] I mean this **** totally ignored the fact that 40k is largely a joke about how easily people can be convinced to do evil things for "good reasons."
ThatGuy: Irony much? keep punchin' :P

And this one guy's friend just has the best summary:

"By targeting children through Warhammer, these fiendish Masons ensure that our most handsome, athletic and socially proficient children will be caught in their sinister net. "

But then it gets juicy: after a week or two the conspiracy folks moved the page to a new URL and replaced the original with this stunning comeback to all the hatemail: (screencap) (ETA: C&P).

Sorry PARENTS WITH SMALL CHILDREN, you are required to ask Warhammer players what you are allowed to think, and what you may and may not tell your own children.   Only their opinions matter, not yours.  THEY own the subject.  I'm sure they'll be happy to help you in the most objective possible way.  They're lovely, caring, people.

The greatest quote:

What on earth was I thinking. Warhammer players should control everyone's opinions because they are fully qualified for the job. Their way is the ONLY way. You must love Warhammer because they insist that you do. If you fail to love Warhammer you are a moron and a lesbian and you are also a cannibal.

At the article's new location, the haters get served again, only in, like, giant scrolling marquee font at the top:

The results are in. Violent games and violent entertainment does affect people. Warhammer fanatics PROVE I AM RIGHT with their own emails.
The results are in.  Your own unbelievably rude emails prove my point exactly.  Many gamers are affected by violence in entertainment.  Some of you have no manners at all.  None.  You feel entitled to brutalize people just because you want to.  You choose to lash out first and not ask questions later.  You are self centered, insensitive, combative and mean.  You are foul-mouthed and ill willed.  You posture like bullies and talk like thugs.    And you can't grasp a simple concept outside of yourselves.  It's exactly what I'm talking about here. 
You just proved me right.
No one came barging into your territory to trash you and diss the game and tell you all where to go. ONE OF YOU took my web page and my personal email address without asking and threw me down before you spoiled brats to be sacrificed.  I am the victim here not you.  You are so selfish and nasty it's disgusting.

Sadly, having discovered some semblance of class, they replaced the old URL again with a much less fun version with no 'PARENTS WITH SMALL CHILDREN' in sight. (backup screencap)? (ETA: And C&P.) I'm totally checking up on that page in a month to see if this all starts up again.

ETA, 2009/08/21: It begins.



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