40K Memebusters - (Meme)bustin' makes me feel good.

[@gaia9020]

I love how "Magnus did nothing wrong" evolved to "Magnus was told to do nothing and he did it wrong" :D

[@vxicepickxv]

It's probably for the best because of the origins of X did nothing wrong.

[@Vespuchian]

My favourite spin on it is 'Damnit Magnus, this could have been an email.'

[@s.a.l.1974]

I know he did a LOT wrong but I pretend not to care because he is cool as hell still and kinda a tumblrsexyman which is just really funny for 40k

[@Transgirlwar]

Idk i heard magnus did nothing wrong and is a good boy.

[@Pazuzu4All]

@@s.a.l.1974 Oh god you're right...Magnus is peak tumblrsexyman.

[@guilhermeissaRbbr]

DONT MESS WITH US LEAGUES OF VOTANN FANS, we will keep making references to DRG and diggy diggy hole cause we have no lore yet

[@vxicepickxv]

Yeah, something more than imperfect clones and Rock and Stone would be nice.

[@iaet585]

ROCK AND STONE FOREVER!

[@Scott-zo9mt]

FOR CARL!

[@Ruggedtoaster]

Hey it can’t be a ten year old meme if you’re army isn’t ten years old yet

[@kekkoinen]

Drg is accurate, there is a deeprock kindred mentioned in the codex

[@BH_test]

Purple orkz actually does show up in one 40k instance. In the game Dakkajet: Flyboyz edition. You can choose different paint jobs To increase your plane’s stats. Choosing purple increases the “stealth” which mechanically does nothing.

[@011284mm]

"Drive me closer so I can hit them with my sword" Always funny.

[@Pazuzu4All]

Probably the first WH40k meme I ever encountered. Those old demotivational poster memes were great.

[@HatterDrivenMad]

or the better variant "Fly me closer so I can hit them with my sword."

[@ki3657]

That is probably the only 40k meme I can recall without a search and still my favorite by far. It's just so dumb but totally in line with 40k, to the point I'm still not sure it's a joke in-lore... cause I could totally see an IG commissar giving such an order.

[@bighairguy7]

“Ork memes are more important than official 40k lore” Truer words have never been spoken. I casually mentioned an ork meme to my mom and now she’s collects them. Never even the remotest interest in tabletop games before that moment.

[@leadpaintchips9461]

Orks frankly should go back to the before times, when the setting didn't take itself seriously at all.

[@abaddungeonmaster7622]

Genuinely, Ork memes are how I got into 40k, how my sister got into 40K, and how several of my friends got into 40K. Genuinely, Orks, and the fan hype around them are infectiously entertaining, and so easy to get hyped about. Whether official or meme status, Ork stuff has brought way more people I know into the fandom than most of the rest of the setting. The other factions are hard to sell at a first glance a lot of the time. Imperium? “Eh it’s and just grimderp nonsense that is too up its own rear.” Chaos? “It’s edgy over-gratuitous slop of murder and torture toting about how ‘enlightened’ they are” Orks? Undeniably stupid and charming, which immediately gets people listening , and bare minimum interested in Ork lore. Genuinely, Orks are one of the best jumping in points in my mind, as they have their dark stuff, but not only do they really embody the mix of “it’s so ridiculous you can help but laugh, but weirdly get invested and take it seriously too”, but it’s hard to just not get into the hype of them, just like the Orks do with themselves. People like to WAAAGH I guess!

[@samnemeth-smyth6109]

"I'm a tank! I'm a tank! I'm a tank!"

[@AfunnynameWEE]

"we'll never let a joke die", that's exactly why the emperor is still in his chair

[@OGXenos]

The most staggering part of Dante's lifespan is not just that he's older than the Primarchs, but that he has been the leader of the Blood Angels for FIVE TIMES LONGER than Sanguinius was. The Great Crusade only lasted roughly 200 years, wheras Dante has been Chapter Master for over 1,000 years. He deserves a vacation.

[@MarrowChiller]

No wonder the dude is looking old. If he took a decade off for vacation or something, he'd probably be back to his youthful self.

[@burnin8able]

making a video about "who can beat a swarm lord" based on encountering them in novels would be so funny because you've got all these named space marine characters who just barely manage to eek out a win with heavy damage sustained, and then Caiaphas Cain and Jurgen manage to get the win without even destroying their car.

[@MarkOfTzeentch]

His name is Jurgen, and he is the most lovable smelly guardsman

[@burnin8able]

@@MarkOfTzeentch thanks for the edit, gotta spell his name right, he's the Commissar's Aid after all.

[@punkypink83]

Ahhhh. My fav commissar and my introduction to 40k novels. truly touched by the emperor he is

[@burnin8able]

@@punkypink83 I hadn't started reading his novels until I had read quite a few others, but I agree they are an absolutely perfect introductory series.

[@danhill99]

Well of course they do, you can’t expect something so pathetic to be any trouble to a HERO OF THE IMPERIUM.

[@somerandommorron7069]

khornflakes for the milk throne

[@destroyer-dv6jv]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! MILK FOR THE KHORNEFLAKES!

[@Vespuchian]

GUMMY FOR THE GUMMY GOD SUGAR FOR THE SUGAR THRONE TREATS FOR KHANDY KHORNE

[@meccevil321]

@@destroyer-dv6jv BLOOD FOR THE EMPEROR! SKULLS FOR THE GOLDEN THRONE!

[@thomaswhite3059]

ARMS FOR THE ARMCHAIR

[@destroyer-dv6jv]

@@meccevil321 yes inquisitor this comment right here

[@UnrealMisterD]

List of future memes: Tau can't Melee I am Alpharius Drive me closer, I want to hit it with my sword Lotara Sarrin scares the living piss out of Angron

[@Fox01313]

That book Betrayer from the Horus heresy is an underrated gem & not only does it's captain scare the hell out of nearly all the World eaters but me too if she was nearby.

[@RaptieFeathers]

"I am Alpharius" is incredible because it's actually a meme in-universe among Alpha Legion. There's a meeting between the leaders of their factions, and one steps up with the whole Alpharius thing-face changed and all-and he gets dunked on almost to the point of crying, because everyone else thinks it's cringe. Alpha Legion are the best. :D They've been together for 10,000 years and the effect of time spent living as renegades has done unique things to their legion. It's less a hydra and more a bunch of snakes tied together pretending to be a hydra.

[@superkeaton9912]

​I loved that bit. Overall I think the book was mediocre, but seeing the way the Alpha Legion splintered after the Heresy was great. Daemon summoners, death cultist leaders, trait guard guerillas, and of course I Am Alpharius ​@@RaptieFeathers

[@Rawnblade13]

​@@RaptieFeathersNot to mention, to outsiders, they really do all say they're Alpharius.

[@emzetkin1100]

​@@RaptieFeathers Is this from Harrowmaster?

[@Bricky]

God I love spreading misinformation EDIT: Just you wait Brad once I cross those 14 United Kingdom’s into your state you’re gonna get it

[@aidanjudd5488]

The lasgun charging is based on historical precedent. In the Battle for Hill 314 near the town of Mortain during the Normandy campaign, the 30th American Infantry Division was cut off from all supplies for a week while they held back a german counter attack. In order to continue using their radios to call in air support, they had to resort to squeezing every last bit of power from their batteries, which they did by placing the batteries in direct sunlight. This only gave them about six minutes of extra radio time per battery, but it was enough to continue to call in fire support. It did completely drain the batteries though, and they were unusable afterwards.

[@thomaswhite3059]

What you're saying is it's based on a German tank

[@justinrockholt7055]

The SturmTiger, perhaps?

[@dimitrisperdikouris2029]

I stoped watching these bozos after they didn't rank Magnus high as a tank... They don't even know he is based on the Sturmtiger smh

[@carlosmiguelteixeiraott3643]

I CATO SICARIUS demand to appear on the next episode so you can discuss the great deeds that I, CATO SICARIUS have performed in the past. (You read that in his voice didn't you?)

[@FifingFossil]

Noone can resist reading in his voice

[@warmachine5835]

Emperor TTS has rotted my brain.

[@BrotherBoot97]

i did

[@tuskedclover3308]

Cuntos Shitarius indeed is annoying

[@THEHOLYCHAINSWORD]

Who can't is my question

[@Sir_Bucket]

19:20 As a french, listening to a human have to explain that WW1 was horrible felt weird because it made me realise how obvious it was for us. We're constantly reminded of how awful WW1 was in our culture. WW1 is taught at school, Verdun has an entire museum, but most importantly: there is a statue dedicated to the dead of WW1 in every french village,each statue has a list of the men who died as soldiers during the war. Even in the smallest villages I've never seen the number of dead go below 20. WW1 was rough.

[@KillerOrca]

There's the Iron Harvest too right? It's been a century and farmers are still digging up UXO and abandoned field guns

[@billybbishop]

Canadian here. Our history books and education does focus a lot on WW1, as it is considered to fill a role in our history somewhat equivalent to the American Revolutionary War to the US. Public education on history in Canada is largely a matter of "look how fucking crazy bad this was, let's not do it again if we can help it"

[@luketfer]

Same here in the UK, WW1 is taught just as much as WW2. Heck we have 'Remembrance day' and whole thing is you wear a poppy for the day since poppies are symbolic of World War 1 due to the fact they were the *only* thing to grow in no-mans land. With the UK you had the 'Pals Battalions' which were where entire towns worth of men would sign up all at once and be shipped out to the front as one big unit...with sometimes only one or two or often none at all coming home, villages and towns just lost an entire generation of young men. However, I do notice an interesting thing with, at least in the UK for the War in Europe during WW2 is taught about, the Pacific war is largely ignored/glossed over, at least it was during my primary school years some 30 years ago. Now I imagine it's included due to the fact that the Australians also took part in the Pacific campaign in a big way.

[@Ultr4l0f]

You read the deathtolls on something like Wikipedia. And you go "thats alot of people". But its so abstract. Memorials like that sound wonderful in honoring and makeing sure we remeber. And such an unecessary war as well. A terrorist shoots a prince in Sarajevo and now Germany and France are killing hundreds and hundreds of thousands of each others young men.

[@Jfk2Mr]

Polish here, as far as historiography goes, WW1 here is somewhat of an oddball, as it is considered costly, but ultimately beneficial event due to regaining independence and destruction of three empires that partitioned Poland in the tail end of 18th century. Meanwhile WW2 is the event that scarred collective consciousness.

[@falsehero2001]

Something that was glossed over that's kind of a "missing link" in the whole "Guilliman/Yavanne ship/Guilliman loves Eldar" meme: the name of the Farseer who Eldrad sends as a diplomat to Guilliman is Illiyanne Natasé. It's not simply a random name they made up for this character, but a reference back to a character from the Rouge Trader era. This character, Illiyan Nastase, was the chief librarian of the Ultramarines before he was retconned with Varro Tigurius. Oh and he was also a HALF-ELDAR SPACE MARINE! So, this leads us back to the Yvraine/Guilliman ship and the joke "Where does a Half-Aeldar Half-Space Marine come from? Well, when a Primarch and an Aeldar prophetess have mild feeling for each other..."

[@divineknight9261]

Okay, i can actually contribute something here! For purple orks! The first audiobook I got was "The Rose at War", a Sisters short story collection by Danie Ware. It details the early life of Sister Augusta of the Bloody Rose, from new Sister to Sister Superior. The first story has a fresh faced Augusta with her squad cleansing Orks off a ship. She falls off the railing into the water below, and as she is trying to find her way out something is stalking her. She can't see it until its feet from her. And it is indeed, a sneaky purple Ork!

[@Rawnblade13]

I was just posting this on several comments! Glad I'm not the only one who read that book. xD

[@EdBurke37]

"I'M A TANK" predates Adeptus Ridiculous, it came from 4chan back in the day.

[@ChuJungyin]

Please talk about "IMMA TANK" in another memebuster video.

[@kennethphillips6006]

I’d always assumed that purple was “invisible” could have been related to a potential company policy to not use any purple paints for ork clothes. A big strong green angry guy that speaks in a dumb way wearing purple shorts might stray too close to a certain Marvel property.

[@user-zp4ge3yp2o]

Wait has gw ever worried about copying something else?..

[@HereticalFlayer]

​@user-zp4ge3yp2o Normally no but i think the house of mouse is a bit bigger lol

[@DetectiveLance]

​@@HereticalFlayerI think the joke is older than Disney owning Marvel, but now it's definitely a policy lol

[@HockeyJock310589]

As if james workshop ever cares about other people's IPs

[@sodinc]

By the way There is an example of orks painted purple appearing from seemingly nowhere in the AdMech complex. In Brutal Kunnin

[@sachsrussel8295]

Another ship more rooted in facts is Saint Celestine and Greyfax, where the latter first believed the living saint to be a demon in disguise and then fell in awe realising that no, she was the real deal.

[@icycoatl3185]

I mean…. Living saint basically = daemon prince of the emprah so technically…

[@burnin8able]

I always thought that ship was more meme than anything, but in Fall of Cadia the first time we get an overly detailed description of any character at all is the first time Greyfax lays eyes on Celestine and the whole section is just Greyfax absolutely thirsting all over every tiny detail of Celestine's whole body. It is not subtle in the slightest to the reader, but then Greyfax has to make up a BS reason as to why she's so """interested""" in her.

[@KillerOrca]

​@@burnin8ableIt's spicy enough to work and that's all I need

[@duckrutt]

I have Greyfax, Celestine and a plan. I'm not sure it would count as a duel though....

[@luketfer]

Not only that but there is *several* times where Celestine purposefully flusters Greyfax by doing not so subtle innuendo at her because Celestine knows that the whole "Grr she could be a demon in disguise" is basically a terrible cover story. As @burnin8able mentions, the description Greyfax gives of finally seeing Celestine in Fall of Cadia is thirsty as fuck, like it's not even subtle about it. Not to mention Greyfax saves Celestine from Abaddon and does the whole "Yeah, well, erm, I didn't save you, just Abaddon was the bigger threat, if you didn't have your acolytes around you I would totally kill you...yeah..." The audio book 'Our Martyed Lady' has Celestine refering to Greyfax by her first name (Katarinya) and generally being friendly towards her, whilst Greyfax is her usually grumpy self but begrudgingly comes to accept the friendly nature of Celestine by the end of the book. The relationship gives off very Tsundere vibes from Greyfax especially since this takes place after Fall of Cadia.

[@joelkurowski7129]

Shit would indeed do numbers. Just wait a week and do it then. barring that, wait for April Fool's Day

[@Humuhumunukunukuapaa]

'The Imperial Infrantyman's Uplifting Primer' 2008. Page 20. (iii) Loading and unloading (a) *To recharge power pack* A laser power pack will last for many shots and can be recharged from a standard power pack. Placing the pack in an open fire will also have an effect, but this shortens the pack's life and reliability. It is recommended that this method of recharging is only used in an emergency.

[@luketfer]

Yup, as they mention, in several places in books and background lore the whole 'charging it in an open fire' is mentioned as a 'literally only do this if you have no other option'.

[@theshinken]

I vividly remember reading the line in that very booklet at a friend's place back in 2008 (after watching the DoW2 cinematic trailer that also dropped that day like 20 times in a row) and agreeing with him that this particular snipped of lore was incedribly stupid.

[@bug1494]

So one thing that should be kept in mind with Life expectancy statistics is that high early mortality skews those numbers really really hard. its the same reason people think middle ages people just dropped dead at 30 all the time when in reality if you lived to 30 you where probably going to make it to 60. All the raw recruits who only live 5 minutes in a battle are going to make it look like everyone is just dying all the time.

[@vxicepickxv]

Also, Commander Chenkov skewed those numbers through sheer every mission is a suicide mission. He also got a few commissars when he was swapping waves.

[@EndofTransmission]

That's true, but doesn't really make it any better imo. That just means that for every single soldier that survived even just a few days, you had a bunch that lived less than one.

[@Evarakeus]

There's also a sort of reverse survivorship bias at play, in that every soldier which sees a full career and retires isn't going to contribute to the battlefield mortality rates; statistically, they're non-applicable, so while many soldiers will skew the average down, any veteran who lives to retirement age isn't going to inversely skew those statistic back upward. Especially important when you consider that veterancy leads to promotion, which leads to less combat-prone jobs, further reducing the odds of death

[@vanillaicecream2385]

the thing is, the books dont talk about "average battle number 3031" where its a force of guardsmen fighting a force of humans with casualties comparable to ww1, yea in the main battles and major pushes you wont last very long at all, but from the time you arrive on the battlefield it'll be weeks until you see one of those, most of your time is patroling, sweeping, holding guard duty and marching, which is also where the human wave meme comes from, battles on cadia and vigilus for example you shove as many troops as you can onto the planet where the only thing you can do is throw them wave after wave because squad tactics go out the window when there's millions of raving chaos lunatics charging at you

[@connendarf3857]

2 memes I'd like tested: Perturabo is a crying petulant man-child, and Lorgar is hiding in his house from Big Bird Corvus Corax

[@keyanklupacs6333]

It's more like a big tower but he's meditating on the primordial truth and his understanding of chaos. Corax is hunting him but he's not lile "being spawncamped" persay. So they reframe it only slightly.

[@connendarf3857]

@@keyanklupacs6333 Makes sense, iirc Lorgar is still moving and shaking in the galaxy too, but just how far from the truth this is would be interesting to see them address

[@SolarArmadillo]

I believe the latest CSM codex states that Lorgar is out and about leading a huge host of Word Bearers.

[@connendarf3857]

@@SolarArmadillo that's what I thought, would still love a deeper look at whether it was ever true and to what degree

[@borklazer5907]

Perturabo is literally a man-child. He was a child with a fully formed consciousness and intelligence. He never went through the mental formative years to become an adult. He is literally a child mentally, with the knowledge and responsibilities of a demigod.

[@chronovac]

To be fair to the "Erda" and "Amon Astarte" names, one of the primarchs is called "Ferrus Manus", and another "Corvus Corax" aka "Iron Hand of the Iron Hands" and "Crow Raven of the Raven Guard"

[@RanVor]

Yeah, but those names were invented back when the 40k setting was a joke, and stuck around due to tradition. Recent examples of lazy naming are much harder to excuse.

[@Lsvn1957]

Purple being the sneakiest color was made canon in Catachan Devil in 2022

[@Rawnblade13]

I think it's been canon for a while. I remember reading a Sororitas book where they encounter a Kommando who painted himself purple.

[@Ruggedtoaster]

The 15 hours thing is a reference to combat statistics, the point is how veterans have a wildly different survival rate than new recruits. And how you integrate new soldiers into military units affects their survival rates but also decreases the effectiveness of those veterans. So the guard is so callus that rather than risk the effectiveness of veteran units they feed new units into the meat grinder and then replenish their veteran units with the survivors.

[@SilverGarrison]

Isn't it also active combat hours, so it's not all in one block? Advances and skirmishes within a battle can be fairly quick and have down time in between the next one.

[@purplefood1]

In the book it's actually very specific to that particular battlezone.

[@Ruggedtoaster]

@@purplefood1 ok nerd

[@purplefood1]

@@Ruggedtoaster Be more insecure

[@Ruggedtoaster]

@@purplefood1 na, you (also remember that I’m rubber and your glue)

[@gl0r1a56]

Also love in cawls book, the man who discovered the goldilocks zone, the distance from a star where the temperature is safe for life to form, is named Gul de lac and named it the three ursine hypothesis, of course refrencing Goldilocks and the three bears.

[@artemiscrimson]

I think it was more a bastardization of the fairytale and the real life thing, in 40k? Like goldilocks zone is misremembered

[@some_dude_that_just_showed_up]

"Sly Marbo once was tourtured by a Drukhari Dracon, after nine solar days of excruciating pain, the Drukhari Dracon died."

[@blam320]

As far as Guilliman’s resurrection is concerned, while Cawl’s armor healed the physical wounds, it was actually Yvraine and her Eldar Death God magic which healed Guilliman’s soul. I believe there’s a passage in The Gathering Storm where Guilliman and Yvraine are speaking and this fact is brought up.

[@denharte8670]

Any time GW announces a new Space Marine or Stormcast model I hear the “Doofenschmirtz Evil Incorporated” jingle in my head because they’re about to tell me about their newest KILL-INATOR or EXTRAPO-LATOR.

[@Cracktopus.]

Well, you guys got me to buy my first miniatures, paints and brushes in ~15 years. I hope you're happy for ruining my financial wellbeing, you monsters.

[@sofifyfofum]

IM ON THE TV YAHOOOOOO

[@Bluecho4]

Congratulations.

[@idiotbakashini2025]

🎉

[@thefloatingcontinent9897]

You’re famous!

[@GeneralKiwi19]

The shovel meme is very much real. In the Warhammer+ animation "The Exodite" a Krieger uses a shovel to kill a Tau Pathfinder.

[@jaqssmith1666]

Isn't the exodite an acquired fan animation though.

[@mariopalenciagutierrez4318]

also in darktide the shovel id one of the modt common melee weapond

[@valentinriedo7661]

It wasn't Just a Pathfinder, it was a stealth battle suit (the older one, not the egg)

[@johnmerrill8840]

Also, in ww1, bayonetts were more like slightly smaller swords, and most found them too big to use in trenches

[@redmondthealien7840]

I would object to Guliman and Eldrad simply because Eldrad is already his step father.

[@thepoorhammerpodcast]

I can hear John Banks read the line now... "Hypothetical: Step father, I am stuck in the Armor of Fate."

[@hazardousmaterial5492]

​@@thepoorhammerpodcastahh shit, i read that in the Amber King's voice

[@ancientgearsynchro]

“ SW are war criminals “ They are a faction in 40k, it would be odd if they weren’t.

[@lordcastellan4735]

So, the shovel meme is based on WW1 trench warfare. It was quite common for a soldier to use a spade to either assault a trench or defend a trench. It's a fairly heavy piece of steel that can be and was sharpened for use in melee. Essentially, not only can you hack a man to death with a shovel, but it's heavy enough to be a bludgeon too.

[@BlommaBaumbart]

Since battle axes were a lot thinner and smaller than Fantasy designers think, a sharpened shovel is essentially a terribly designed doubleheaded battle axe.

[@FifingFossil]

Fact that every solider have shovel with him combined with how hard is to maneuver Lucius pattern lasgun(much longer than other patterns) in narrow trench to stab someone, gives very, very big chance that krieger will grab his shovel to smack some heretic in the head during CQC

[@lordcastellan4735]

@BlommaBaumbart that is very true. Battle axes weren't very thick.

[@ogreevans]

The issue is when improvised weapons are assumed to be the default, but Krieg models come with trench clubs and hand axes. Also bayonets. Even if an E-Tool can be used as weapon, they have actual dedicated melee too.

[@user-zp4ge3yp2o]

I don't know if it was common, a bayonet is a much more effective melee weapon.

[@markman11111]

My favorite objective marker update podcast is back!

[@patg1094]

*Grabs shovel and gasmask* Time to make Bricky burst a blood vessel from rage. Also in the short story "Forsaken" (by Danie Ware) Sister Augusta Santorus kills a purple Ork, so they do, in fact, exist.

[@internetzenmaster8952]

^This. And Sister Augusta only sees the Ork because she's down in the bilges of the Ship and some of the purple (multiple shades of it) camouflage pattern the big green git had was starting to wash off.

[@Kyle-of6hk]

Love the zoom in on the Yvraine Booty at like 8:15 ish so silly

[@mycatistypingthis5450]

It's even better at 35:18 about jokes repeating.

[@cirno9349]

My grandfather was friends with Vietnam vets and one operated machine gun he always said that he had a life of expectancy of 15 minutes in combat because once a firefight started he would be the number one priority of the Vietcong. He was a kind person and did live a full life. The more you zoom in the worst it gets

[@Fox01313]

Been listening to a military history podcast called Lions Lead by Donkeys & after listening to a dozen or so episodes, it seems like that short life when bullets are flying, accident from friendly fire or communication breakdown from those in charge (or nobody in charge) happened a bunch.

[@11Bbq]

29:40 The “I’m a tank” joke has been told in the actual Army for decades. I heard it as a private, my dad heard it as an officer. It isn’t a 40k meme, it’s a joke about whatever army you’re about to be sent to fight the next day. It goes back to at least Vietnam and I’ve heard claims it was a joke as far back as WW1.

[@MrMaharg79]

The fact that they use the same whatever-ORS naming convention on AOS stormcast as space marines is maddening if you play both systems, sooo many "ors"

[@nakenmil]

22:56 I want to add: when I was in the army in the early 2010s, we had an infantry fieldcraft manual that featured lots of information that I won't go into here, but one part showcased techniques to use when using your field shovel as a weapon. This manual was pretty outdated in many respects, but it was not WW1-age, it was rather probably put together towards the end of the Cold War.

[@SolarArmadillo]

I mean it makes sense. When ranking makeshift weapons a shovel is probably gonna get pretty high up there.

[@PrincessOzaline]

"Only in death does duty end." Dante: Can my duty end, please?

[@vlaandhael]

Purple being the sneakiest color is confirmed in the novel Catachan Devil, around the final 2 hours of the audio book, the kommando nob does mention it!!!! spread the news!!

[@lizardlegend42]

My favourite real life "Land Raider" situation of all time is absolutely Wordle being created by a guy called Josh Wardle 🤣

[@ashtonhoward5582]

That's not really a good equivalent, though. Land is a word that has meaning, before the existence of Warhammer. Wordle didn't exist as a word before the game. It's more like if a brand called Runners was named after John Runners and not because they sell running shoes.

[@lizardlegend42]

@@ashtonhoward5582 Wordle is a game about words

[@ashtonhoward5582]

@@lizardlegend42 yeah, no shit. But that's the reason it's called Wordle and not Wardle.

[@lizardlegend42]

@@ashtonhoward5582 sorry for thinking it's funny how close his name is to word ig? Like you really really don't see how that's a fun coincidence like at all? And even if you don't was there a need to be so pedantic about it? I just wanted to share something I thought was cool 😅

[@meep9454]

Another irl one: German food cake isn't German, but named is named after Samuel German.

[@blakestewart7533]

We better get the goddamn cereal episode.

[@chrisfrank5129]

As one of the few lovers of Blood Ravens, I'd love the myth tested about us stealing everything.

[@DiggingForFacts]

A meme bird enjoyer in more universes than one

[@chrisfrank5129]

​@@DiggingForFacts purple parakeets all the way

[@OldIronJohnson]

When you have Forgebreaker, a full set of Custodes armor and weapons, and one of Skarbarand's weapons lying around, there's not a whole lot of alternative answers.

[@Ninjat126]

The "blood magpies" meme comes from how the Blood Ravens in DoW somehow have a TON of relics in their possession. The best explanation for some of these is that they "borrowed" them from another chapter somehow.

[@meeyatttA]

Having Ferrus Manus's naming conventions be in the next memebuster episode would be great, since there's so little to read about him

[@samnemeth-smyth6109]

You were expecting Alpharius...but it was me ALPHARIUS!

[@AAhmou]

That meme is pretty much confirmed since Alpharius appears in every Alpha Legion book.

[@duard8652]

33:00 Charging with fire is also in Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer, and mentioned (as a bad idea) in Munitorium Manual.

[@FinxOmally]

“He’s portraying a commander, you can’t look like you’re 90 and dying..” * Looks at the next presidential candidates * How does 40K understand this and reality doesn’t?

[@Wanglube]

The lasgun power packs being chargeable in a fire predates Dan Abnett's involvement in the 40k universe. The first mention I'm personally aware of is the core Rulebook for the 1995 Edition of Necromunda, where the fire charging is mentioned in the Lasgun entry on page 50

[@liamboote225]

A classic meme imo is Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka is named after Margaret Thatcher.

[@SkulduggeryGaunt]

My god emperor, won't be able to unhear this now. Makes Yarrick even more of a badass to take on the ol' witch.

[@Fox01313]

I don't think it's a meme as much as fact. I can't remember if it was some game design podcast interview or on Painting Phase podcast where one of the main creative crew of early GW mentioned it as that kind of wordplay got a lot more use in early 40k.

[@gammothdraws]

I know for the Kreig shovel meme, the short movie "Exodite" (which is about the Tau, not the Exodites) I forgot if it was canon or not, but it does depict a Kreiger smacking a Stealth Suit with a shovel

[@reappermen]

It started of as a fan project, but was licensed by GW for warhammer +. I'd say it is cannon since it was officialynpublished via GWs own channels.

[@LaketreeRKR]

Holy bovine, that's me at 0:02 XD

[@return4887]

can you change your comment to say holy cow like bart simpson thanks

[@LaketreeRKR]

@@return4887 Gotcha

[@thetrueteebs1338]

2:01 man. If i didnt know better id say bricky stocks Objective markers like GW stocks Battle Force boxes

[@liefericson6496]

As several others have pointed out, the Uplifting Primer condones laspacks in the campfire. But also, in the 9th edition codex, theres a line about clamavuses (clamavi? GSC info-warfare guys) spreading altered versions of the primer, presumably as a joke about the comically harmful advice present in them

[@uselesspocketwatch]

The Dark Heresy RPG rulebooks have campfire packs as well. Permanently reduces capacity.

[@critmagnet]

Yeah Magnus did "nothing" wrong. He was told to do nothing and even messed that up!

[@caucheka]

The worst part is that "jimmy" is short for james. The emperors name is actually James "Space" Workshop!

[@vanillaicecream2385]

and he named the astartes that way because amar started a coup and thought it was very funny and ironic after she was defeated

[@sonarchy5158]

Schrodinger's Busting It either refers to Ray Parker Jr.'s song or Neil Cicierega's version You can't be sure until you are

[@nwahnerevar9398]

Sounds more like edging than busting to me

[@geoffgrigg381]

23:53 just gonna say Darktide has a shovel for a melee weapon so a 40k product has it so agree this is legit meme.

[@jimmyrussel5558]

The last one (Players reuse the same jokes) has an interesting explanation that makes it more "partly correct" and it has to do with the constantly growing and changing community. The community way back in the past, made the jokes. When the jokes started dying, new players came in, and to them the jokes were new and still funny, so they kept repeating them. So on amd so forth, like a fire constantly getting new fuel.

[@PoorhammerPatreon]

Well I can tell who didn’t think of the implications on this title.

[@thepoorhammerpodcast]

What implication could bustin' possibly have?

[@tomekk.1889]

​@@thepoorhammerpodcastOnly thing I can think of is that it feels good

[@traviscumbest3946]

​@@tomekk.1889child support

[@duneysands946]

I would unironically love to see that cereal episode.

[@aurtosebaelheim5942]

The first time I met one of my not-quite-family members he had a handful of batteries, he was 'warming them to get a bit more charge out of them'. On a more serious note, I can rationalise the lasgun charging thing as some form of energy recycling. The gun gets hot as you shoot it, so the charge packs have integrated micro-thermoelectric generators to recycle that waste heat - something like: normally a lasgun will fire 300 shots per charge pack, but if you 50-shot burst it and let it cool off you can squeeze an extra 20-50 shots out of it depending on the environment. It also lets you slap 'charging ports' on any part of a vehicle that gets hot, which might be relevant for logistics.

[@jonasstreich4405]

That's kinda weird, because these days we generally try and keep batteries cool (some places I work have special fridges for the spare batteries - don't keep food/drinks in the same place). With a lot of newer batteries (outside car battery issues) - being too hot will drain them or cause them to catch fire - vs keeping them cool.

[@aurtosebaelheim5942]

@@jonasstreich4405 It all kind of makes sense. Chemical reactions happen faster at higher temperatures, so theoretically a battery should discharge faster when warmer. So it's good to keep batteries cool when not in use or if they're providing enough power, but if they can't meet the power demand (like a nearly-dead battery) then warming them up might help. Of course, warming batteries will do bad things to their long-term lifespan and the fire risk is real, but the battery-warming incident was some 20-odd years ago with non-rechargeable AA batteries for a TV remote. I suspect it might have been misapplied wisdom regarding car batteries in very cold weather.

[@Lame_One]

Thanks for all the high quality purple Ork models you were able to find, Berilio!

[@christiankoppang8296]

As a Guilliman and Yvraine shipper I ship them as a political marriage to start to form the warhammer 40K ordertide

[@Fenris86]

My one issue with shovels as ccw is, that they keep us from getting cool Krieg sculpts with trench daggers, of which there were a bunch of interesting designs.

[@leadpaintchips9461]

TBH there's a bunch of interesting entrenching tool designs too, but they go with the 'modern' one with the D handle.

[@XanderKaine]

The intersection between anime and warhammer has to be one of the strangest and most fascinating crossovers between fandoms around. So I want to see the warhammer anime memes.

[@M50A1]

It does make me sad that the crossovers aren't more accepted by the 40k community. 40k lends itself well to anime tropes with how over the top both can be.

[@project4061]

21:33 The only example I can think of is the Exodite series from Warhammer+ where we see a Kriegsman use a shovel to kill a T'au.

[@burnin8able]

isn't it a stealth battlesuit too? like, yeah man, that malnourished trench freak is definitely going to slice through a suit of light power armor with a goddamn shovel.

[@project4061]

An older model, but yes.

[@The_Blackshield]

When there's something meme, in your memebourhood, who're you gunna call? POOR-HAMMER!

[@giantnanomachine]

Girlyman to Cole: "the half-mask stays on during handholding"

[@JPD159DRA]

Dark angles: Brother, I have fallen. Brother charges plasma.

[@Row.]

5:03 Power throuple: Guilliman, Yvraine, and Cawl Edit: 6:28 Power policule: Guilliman, Yvraine, Cawl, and Eldrad, uniting Imperium, Ynnari, Admech, and Asuryani, ready to conquer the universe

[@cyberwarrior2002]

Do it Brad, you know you want to.........

[@Ninjat126]

The "Land's Raider" bit is literally a running gag on Phineas and Ferb, e.g. the Tri-State Area was founded by a guy named John Tri-state. The absurdity is exactly appropriate for 40k, but there's diminishing returns. "Legio Astartes is actually meant to be Astarte's Legio" doesn't commit hard enough- we need more lore reveals like "The Emperor never held the rank of Emperor, it was just his favourite tarot card."

[@FinxOmally]

Wait, “Ad-Mech love Toasters” didn’t make the list? Guess that’s a guarantee for the next meme episode.

[@michaelmiller2418]

Magnus Did Nothing Wrong: Magnus was told to do nothing, and he did it wrong

[@davidhughes7547]

Heres a meme, horus went traitor because of his male pattern baldness.

[@mcnaughe]

"Abaddon has no arms." I'd love to see you test old models.

[@sandaxlovaliii6061]

Little did you know the lawn mower was created by Diana Lawn.

[@luckmyst3r986]

28:14 this was such a good editing bit im dying

[@petrimakela5978]

The shovel use was relatively wide spread in both world wars, as bayonets on a long infantry rifle are really unwieldy in trenches. Clubs, knives and other similar implements were also very popular. The Finnish infantry during winter war used much more knives than bayonets in the trenches

[@Tymb19]

Blood Magpies being thieves who will steal anything from anyone (including even chaos legions and the fucking custodes) anything that isn't nailed down has always been one of my favourite 40k memes even if there is only at best tangential support for it

[@cosmere-gx4ud]

Dont know is a big meme, but my friend group loving joking that because of the audio books for Lords of Silence and Dark Imperium trilogy, Mortarian and Typhus are just Megatron and Starscream

[@joshy7759]

35:44 it's a grimdark era, the people use sparingly the jokes they are given.

[@brigman6]

23:43 If you ever do a V2 on the objective markers, I think you need to add a Krieger shovel to a nod to this confirmed myth. 😂

[@deltaparadox6118]

I would suggest "Who can defeat an Avatar of Khaine", but I'm not sure an 8 hour video would do numbers on KZbin

[@japhettheprophet4619]

You forgot the great old ship of Gabriel Angelos and Farseer Maka

[@Ridley290]

Dante just wants to take the forever nap.

[@alexluksich5207]

One of the common memes you should talk about is corpse starch.

[@NotSoMelancholy]

Ork memes got me into 40k. I never even stopped to question them but, honestly I think they’ll always be my head canon. I just love the idea of power in belief for orks. Being able to drive for miles even though the engines fallen out just for the vehicle to only stop working after you pop the hood to change some fluids and don’t see an engine anymore.

[@royart4781]

Why does this "dante" guy have toe armour? Like is he into feet or somthing?

[@HerraHidalgo]

He’s not a heel.

[@clarenceweaver1820]

I agree with the comments on the Dante books. They’re what convinced me that he’s my second favorite 40k character, just behind Trayzn

[@medicinalmadam]

You should do a video on every faction's hate comments. Just some of the most entertaining or genuinely mean/unhinged stuff that has been said by certain faction fans/players.

[@alexross1816]

I acknowledge that Guilliman x Yvraine is not canon. However, I find the idea of the biggest boy scout in the galaxy being the boytoy of a goth elf enjoyable and I like seeing it referenced. When he comes to Eldrad, it's "this is my boyfriend, Roboute Guilliman. And this is his boyfriend, Eldrad Ulthran."

[@lordeng1ish]

Make an episode about the 40k books Brad has read. You can call it The Definitive 40k Book Tier List and then clarify it's only the books Brad has read. Brad has too many suggestions for 40k books. "Read this if you like this faction.", "Read this if you like that faction."

[@Greyboar]

37:35 Ok, props to Zephics on that Votann, I don't know if the gold Smiley Face on the helmet was intentional, but I can't unsee it now, and I unironically love it