"May your hobby go mainstream" is the most insidious curse I know in the english langauge

"The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal" . It's an actual quote from Warhammer.

"Who would have thought that an oppressive, xenophobic totalitarian military regime wouldn't have diversity and inclusion" got me

Star Wars Refugee: ...god damn it I just got here...

We're Warhammer 40K fans... We ARE weaponized autism. Not one backwards step.

Where were the female Custodes when the Westfold fell?

My favorite part is the least fleshed out groups are the sisters of silence and battle sisters, but instead of fleshing them out or doing anything with them they’re just ignored. They had a lore way to do it and just didn’t care

No need to change, the "modern audience" is represented anyway in W40k: as cultists of Slaanesh.

Somehow Palpatine returned

"It's easy to ask 'Why do you care so much?' after you've already gotten what YOU want". Absolutely nailed it.

"We don't create good things. We change yours. We don't tolerate. There is only us."

"Why are you gatekeeping?" Custodes: "We're LITERALLY Watchers of the Gate"

"The Emperor bestows upon us the gift of intolerance." -Darktide loading screen

It's especially silly since: 1. Female Imperial guard (and Eldar) have always been a thing. 2. Sisters of Battle

If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll want a glass of milk.

Blackrock. Vanguard. State Street. Know thy enemy.

GW has awoken an autistic giant and filled him with a terrible resolve

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. -George Orwell 1984

As a fan of Wh40k I was scared to see the title of this video on your channel.. It has begun indeed

Literally the most hardcore sci-fi universe around.... And they want to bring dei in...

Ah yes. Games workshop saw wizards of the coast, Netflix (Witcher) and Lucas film and was like we want to fail in under a year too!

"And the elite among the space marines are the Custodes" My eye started twitching uncontrollably and so did yours.

Even by your high standards Drinker, that was some loquacious shit you just laid down, thoughtful and supremely well articulated. Chapeau Sir.

Reddit defends BlackRock likes it's the only oasis in a desert.

Henry Cavill’s agent is in the running for one of the Worst Agents ever

Investors: "Yeah it's a great painting and all, but, could you make her smile more?" Leonardo Da Vinci: "Uhhm..." Investors: "and more of an eyebrow so they're visible? and whilst you're at it, she needs to look to the left, and can you get a larger canvas?"

And please remember, that GW is working towards this show for several years now. What many people have forgotten is, that GW went after content creators, who produced warhammer content. When Syama Pederson started to publish the Astartes series, GW saw how widely accepted it could be, and started to send out cease and desist orders to content creators, threatening to take legal actions, if they did not remove their content. Then, they offered them to work for GW (but had to sign NDAs, so nobody can talk about it). The content creators faced a choice to either join GW or stop their entire channel and waste all the work they had done for it. Btw. Syama Pederson did join GW, but he does not talk about it, as he is not allowed to. So, looking at how vehemently GW is forcing Warhammer to go mainstream, I think they will do anything that Amazon demands from them, resulting in the total destruction of their lore and everything that made Warhammer great.

“Maybe if I feed this crocodile just a finger, it’ll be satisfied and possibly even befriend me” -Games Workshop

The French Foreign Legion says - "do not surrender the little things - otherwise you will surrender them all"

The fight for man’s last, sacred hobby has begun

"And the elite among the space marines are the Custodes" raises finger to correct hesitates... "Okay, never mind, that's a fine way to explain it to the non-initiated if we don't want an hour lore discussion"

My Armour is Contempt My Shield is Disgust My Sword is Hatred In the Emperor's Name, let none survive!

Its been brewing for years now, GW has never been a consumer friendly company- constantly attacking fan content, putting out statements meant to be 'signaling for inclusivity' while simultaneously shouting at anyone who disagreed with the message to gtfo- this was inevitable.

Trying to gaslight a community so authistic they can mention minor details from a book that was written back when the dinosaurs still romed the earth is one hell of an idea xD

My girlfriend loves the 40K universe exactly for how masculine and brutal it is. While at it, add men in Adepta Sororitas as well...

"Somehow, no one noticed this for 10,000 years"

"DONT YOU BOYZ KNO THEY ALWAYS BEEN ORC CUSTODES, WE WAZ DE EMPORORS SHINYEST BOYZ ZOG!"

Just to clarify, space marines are made using a gene seed that can’t be used on females due to hormone differences and some other lore specific stuff. Custodians aren’t space marines, and they aren’t made with gene seeds. It’s a wholly different process that the first borne sons of nobles in Terra (40K earth) were put through. I don’t recall anything saying the process would work on males exclusively, but it was heavily implied… until two weeks ago.

It has the same level of effort as "somehow Palpatine returned"

GW "There's always been five lights." Fans “There are four lights!”

I've never seen a company hate its own fanbase as much as GW

And this is why you've hit 2M subs. You've just summed up the culture war of the past 20 years in one succinct video. My hat is off to you, sir.

'We have always been at war with East Asia.' Using 1984 references to denote brainwashing was a good touch. We need more of these.

"Why does this keep happening to me?" - Henry Cavill

"I remember my grandmother saying to me: I don't care what they tell you at school, the Custodes always had femele." GW's X admin (probably)

I haven't heard of Warhammer much but I saw this short film called Astartes and I automatically know that this stuff is SACRED!!!

This situation looks like a good example of thought police, the game is a fictional world! A piece of art.

Female space marines. I like the idea, we can even call them the sisters of battle. Wait a minute

As soon as you see Blackrock/Vanguard on the list of shareholders, you know it's over.

"We've always been at war with East-Asia" Nice one. 1984

I’m surprised the video didn’t mention the fact that their developing a TV show and probably some of doing this is the fact that by the time the show comes out, they can include those things and claim they were canon.

“The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal.” Oh how their own lore predicted this.

Henry Cavill: respect the source material Netflix Witcher: no u Henry Cavill: that’s okay i’ll go to warhammer Warhammer: hold my space beer Henry Cavill: ….fuck

Remember to not just 3D print your models, but pirate your codexes, movies and shows moving forward. GW gets no more money from us.

Wish they did surveys to check what their actual audience wants. Also sororitas not badass enough ? 😢

Remember Arch and RazorFist motto: ALWAYS GATEKEEP OR LOOSE YOUR FANDOM

I love how you included Henry Cavill's "Fuck..." meme in the most perfect way possible - thank you for that good sir!

GW got rid of squats (space dwarfs) back in the nineties. Any mention of squats would get you banned from their message boards. They never have been particularly interested in cannon consistency.

I guess little correction for your "lore" segment. Custodes are not space marines. There is nothing in the lore making it impossible for girls to become custodians its just that the lore always stated it was the first born sons of nobles. Space marines are augmented with surgically implanted organs and the thing that requires them to be male, the Gene seed, custodes are crafted from the ground up by gene crafters that alter them to grow them into the perfect beings. The only thing really needed from the infant becoming a custodian is a soul since that can't be grown in a lab. With all the modification the base flesh of the custodian is meaningless since they are perfected from being an infant on a cellular level. After all the gene modifications that go into make a custodian they are barely human so you most likely wouldn't be able to tell male from female anyway. Maybe a softer voice and a prettier face. The big thing is changing the lore and hitting us with a "they always have been" its insulting.

Next time in 4k: Soldier to Space Marine: Thanks for saving me, sir ! Space Marine: IT'S MA'AM !

Fans: “Can we have more Sisters of Silence models, they are so cool!" GW: "LOL, no. Here, have female custodians that no one asked for."

Tolerance is pandering to a lion in the hope it'll eat you last

Really takes you out of the grim dark lore when you realize the 1 person army that is a Custodies let the emperor fall because her pumpkin spiced latte had too much foam and had to speak with the manager

It’s just wild they went out of their way to create “female custodes” when the sisters of silence literally exist…

'The Dunmer never had slaves, they were always allied to the Nords.' 'The Jedi Order always used red lightsabers, and can use lightning attacks.' 'The Subway foot-long was always 10 inches.' It's not that we're making a massive fuss over this particular change- it is the bold-faced LYING while changing something we already love for nonsensical, corporate interests beyond our control. That is what we're so upset about.

I have to correct the "6 minutes" statement of the 80's. About the "generic" nature and design. It was done like that on purpose so you could make your own army. They added parts when they could produce the models. I think it's easy to say "they hadn't designed it yet" however that wasn't correct. They had designed it, just couldn't build the models.

I've said this before. They don't actually want what you have. They just don't want you to have it.

"This universe that essentially represents the largest amount of suffering for the largest number of sentient beings possible needs to be made inclusive."

There is no fight, ever time this happens to a franchise it’s over. Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who, Terminator, Lord of the Rings, The Witcher, Wheel of Time, He-Man, the MCU, the list goes on and on. Once a franchise goes full-retard it NEVER recovers.

Custodes are not space marines. That's a complete separate branch of human based super soldiers.

Hey drinker! I am a huge Warhammer nerd. I've been in the hobby for many many years, and I have a fairly robust understanding of the lore. I just want to point out an important lore-error in this video: Custodes and Space Marines, though both representing humanity, and both being a type of 'super-soldier,' are entirely genetically different from each other. From a pure-lore standpoint, firstborn Space Marines (who are being replaced by a newer generation known as the Primaris) MUST be male. The same may not be true about the new primaris marines, but we don't have much info on them in the lore yet. This 'male-only' thing has been repeated and explored in great detail in multiple novels, so there is basically no chance to argue that female firstborn marines could exist. The same is not true of custodes. There are only ever 10,000 custodes, never more, and there is exactly ONE mention of their sex in the lore, stating: 'the *original* 10,000 were taken from the firstborn males of the noble houses.' There is no other mention in the lore about the custodes' sex. The process that creates them also doesn't require male-specific organs and physiology as well, so in-universe reason that a custodian couldn't be female. Them saying that there have been females since the original 10,000 though? Ridiculous lol

Gw: "We need more women in the setting!" Fans: "OK how about updating the sisters of battle, or silence, or the guard, or giving the assassins actual rules, or taking the Harlequinns out of the freezer?" GW: "Don't you know the Emperor was always an equal opportunity boss for his elite guard?"

The Cavill clip hits so hard cause Custodes was his army too. Poor man can't have anything without it being fucked with.

"I never wanted this, I never wanted to unleash my legions. Together we banished the ignorance of Old Night, but you betrayed me, you betrayed us all. You stole power from the Gods and lied to your sons. Mankind has only one chance to prosper, if you will not seize it then I will. So let it be war, from the skies of Terra to the Galactic rim. Let the seas boil, let the stars fall. Though it takes the last drop of my blood, I will see the galaxy freed once more and if I can not save it from your failure Father, then let the galaxy burn!" This shouldn't fit this well.

Wonder how necrons fits into the idea that 40k lore does not change only gets fleshed out. Or tau, or squats. Should abbnerisms be part of the lore or ignored? I like his books but he often just does his own thing conflicting with lore. Warhammer lore tends to shift and change and I think it is far more wierd to have emperors bodyguard ever leaving terra then the genderstuff. Atleast they all have armour now instead of the old shirtless hunks with helmets i was introduced to growing up. Still more miffed over whf endtimes tho that literally killed a world i loved then all 40k changes even the drastic changes of almost every aspect of the necrons culture, history and function.

"Umm, I don't know guys, WAR is a little contoversial. Let's make it Peacehammer 40k!"

saw one comic concluding that this female custodes stuff is just a fourth wall break of the mighty tzeentch, and could be taken as a new plot point. "there always have been female custodes. do you not remember? dummy." certainly helped me cope with the lore update :)

You got one thing wrong - custodes are not elite space marines, they are fundamentally different thing, even if it might not be obvious at the first glance. Process of creating them is different and even harder than that of space marine. Other than that, agreed completely.

"This isn’t about equality. This is about power“

To quote GW from the past: "The world of 40k is satirical not aspirational" I wish they'd stand by this quote.

"We don't want our existing audience." "We want a modern audience." Bold move. Sacrificing 80% of your paying customers for... people who don't exist.

The regressives on the Left have always been included in 40k lore. I always thought they were the Tyranids.

Larian studio's boss said something like "investors are a plague for entertaiment". True.

Guys guys chill, there have always been MALE sisters of battle and sisters of silence

There are some girls who are into tabletop wargaming. But in my experience they are usually some of the most vocal on twitter and reddit about how much they hate the pandering. They aren't playing 40k DESPITE it being 40k. They're playing it BECAUSE its 40k.

For some reason I've never been interested in Warhammer over the years but the video clips in this video looks freaking awesome.

"Give the devil an inch, he'll take a mile" perfectly sums it up.

"grey sludge of inclusion" is the perfect description of everything being made now

Not one step backwards comrades! FOR THE EMPEROR!

From what i know about the custodees , a immortal and almost invincible killing machine that is the average space marine will shit their pants upon realizing they their space ship is being borded by a squd of Custodees or even a single custodian could turn a devastating loss into a heroic victory. And now im supposed to acept that my grandma could've been a custodian if she wanted?

“Adeptus sororitas? Sisters of Battle? They know of them, don’t they?” Merri's voice. “I wouldn’t count on it brother…” Pipen's voice.

"All they care about is that the community bends and reshapes itself to suit them until eventually they bend it so much that it breaks." That statement brought the MCU instantly to mind.

For one hundred years I stood my watch amidst the sombre shadows of the Sanctum Imperialis. I was still as a statue, but always ready, always attuned to dangers unseen. Days, months, years passed by in a frenzied blur beyond those walls, yet within, little moved and nothing changed. For one hundred years I did naught but wait, yet had any threat appeared, I would have struck it down in a heartbeat. For one hundred years I stood my watch, and as it ends I can tell you this - patience is a weapon. -Me at 2 am making sure my wife doesn't eat the last cheesecake slice from the fridge.

I came to know the WH40K community through videogames like Dawn of War, and Space Marine. Will probably never play the tabletop because I have no money and no one to play with in the city and country I live in, but I have read plenty of lore through the years and while I am familiar with the retcons and changes GW has done through the ages, I think they went too far NOT because of the lore change, but the way they handled their response to the community and WHY they did it, as mr. CriticalDrinker so fabulously explains in his video. This brings to mind how the retcon was done in the Horus Heressy when an anonymous guardsman's sacrifice is the trigger for the Emperor to defeat Horus being changed was a disservice to how this was the epitome of humanity's sacrifice as a whole, when the clear underdog would still go up there and wail on fucking Horus out of all people... our willingness to go against impossible odds in order to save what we love.... This is exactly like that. I'm pretty sure the community as a whole won't take it lying when the company spews bullshit and barefaced lies to the fans. And believe it... GW doesn't want to make the nerds and dorks we are not consume it's products, the virtue signalers sure won't buy what they sell, as usual. Great catch there, mr. CriticalDrinker!

“The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal.” This quote has ceased to be satirical, and has become reality.

My armor is contempt. My shield is disgust. My sword is hatred

I don't understand why they had to do this, are the battle sisters not enough?

We need to create our own Black Rock. Either that or we need to destroy the one that exists. And all companies and corporations like it.

If Black Rock were a planet in the 40k universe, I would hope the World Eaters would pay it a visit.

Since the first of the Ten Thousand were created, there have always been Ork Custodians