Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2 REJECTS Woke Agenda?! + Modern Gaming Pushes INSANE Pronoun Demands

Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2 is shaping up to be a game that could be the next Helldivers, but could it reach those heights?
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[@NoshikiYT]

Who actually buys G-Fuel these days tbh

[@NoshikiYT]

I guess the stuff happening is fine but I genuinely don’t care about it since I don’t play video games much anymore

[@johndodo2062]

Xmen 97 was not great. It was passable at best

[@the_gratefulgamer]

18:00 That's BRIDGE. That's the beginning of their stranglehold of influence.

[@SuperStarlord0915]

I thought unreal engine for every one and we can create what we want?

[@NeoN-PeoN]

It's so frustrating to see people pretend like WarHammer's fanbase isn't 99.99% male.

[@2stroke438]

As are most nerdy fandoms and gaming, excluding mobile games which aren't real games.

[@starvr]

That's only because most women don't have hobbies.

[@MrWhateverfits]

And Taylor Swifts fanbase is 99.99% female whats your point?

[@MrWhateverfits]

I replied with a so what, but youtube doesn't like me. I said a certain singer named tee swift fan base is 99.99% non male so what?

[@TT09B5]

Well men can't have their only thing. women love to take away or bust up any "boys club" but its totally ok they have their female only spaces. Hell the local hospital has a women's only wing, no male only one though..

[@TerryB01]

If they rejected woke from the start we wouldn't be here.

[@NoshikiYT]

True that

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Always cut the bloat off.

[@saiodiaspaladin3391]

Don’t give them an inch Literally and figuratively

[@deinbarenbruder6570]

Yes but also: "Better late than never"

[@christianedwards9025]

Blackrock is why this stuff even went this far.

[@基督教是光和道路]

The supposed anti-wokeness of SM2 is a bait and switch. DO NOT pre-order. Wait until about a month after release when they release the "Trans rights" power armor.

[@captainnyan-nyan2005]

Yep

[@jonw7937]

Yuuuuup

[@the1magageneral323]

That's why the month of June needs to be abolished.

[@deegeegeeretrogaming6684]

Do not buy it! A Troon is a writer for that Game! Do not support Troons! Troons are disgusting Creatures!

[@JV-nm1fy]

@@the1magageneral323 What is the reason for that thought process behind that? Why?

[@sloppysausage1662]

Why do these people insist on self inserting their own sexuality and politics into all modern media ? Whys does being Trans or gay have to be your whole personality ?!?

[@SSGLGamesVlogs]

You haven't figured out yet? Political Power.

[@Profmorphious123]

Why can't they be creative and make their own stories with out altering or corrupting established stories.

[@unknownsoul1206]

Cuz they think they're special and deserve special treatment.

[@superfrans100]

It's mostly big companies caving to an extreme agenda for some reason. Believe me, us normal gay people do not WANT all this dumb shit.

[@StellaConnoisseur]

Trans women are wo-ACK

[@doctordoubledakka3939]

Sony didn't do it for "no reason". The people in charge aren't stupid, they're manipulative. " oh i didn't know" is the #1 excuse guilty people use

[@Jonathan_Collins]

Henry Cavill should announce that the Chaos wokies have destroyed the entire Warhammer IP to fully expose the loyalists from the traitors.

[@NoshikiYT]

Not to burst your bubble but Henry is overrated and I’m begging for people to stop spreading misinformation about him Anyone defending his Superman role needs to open their horizon besides as much as I like Superman as In the comics and the past movie adaptations Batman v Superman was trash and Superman in the movie was trash too thankfully we are getting a new person who will replace Henry just like the Witcher besides as much as I love both of those franchises Henry is overrated and boring

[@NoshikiYT]

@jennymelo2098most of the stuff Endymion says is BS

[@user-BadUsername]

@@NoshikiYTdo you know anything about how Cavill fought against Netflix during Witcher?

[@vitaliyred622]

@@user-BadUsername yeah so? How did it end? Do you really think he has a say in ANYTHING? Especially in GW and Warhammer's case?

[@dziku2222]

@@NoshikiYT Which stuff though? Neutral question.

[@seagrey75]

Don't trust activists disguised as game developers and journalists.

[@iguanobro9925]

Let’s be fair: Activism is a waste of time, effort, money and life. Zookeepers who scoop the poop do more for society and the planet than activists.

[@PopeMetallicus]

At this point, I don't trust anyuone from the "marginalized" categories, the ones we're dealing with got there by being lying, manipulative shitbirds, so they can all get treated that way

[@Machoman50ta]

We need to know their name lets have them personally speak on their decision why they want to disrespect us and betray everyone for agendas lets see if they keep this mentally ill attitude

[@seancollins661]

Amen to that

[@diabollikealldaddy]

So thats all of them i guess😒

[@Peter_Parker69]

All this is guaranteed to fail for them. None is based on logic or reality.

[@EndymionTv]

If they’re smart this could be a smash hit. But…yeah

[@Peter_Parker69]

@@EndymionTv Yes. I also mean their whole movement across all modern entertainment, it's not sustainable for much longer. Thanks for your excellent work Endymion!

[@NoshikiYT]

@@Peter_Parker69nice pfp dude

[@Docktavion]

It’s not meant to make sense, that’s the point. It’s to get you to believe in fantasy, then they can sell you anything. They will and do tear down all heroes and strong role models. Leaving everything and everyone confused.

[@love2hateit1]

It'll stop when Blackrock and Vanguard stop pushing this shit. Stop investing in them. I spoke to a few financial advisors and they all said to invest in them... "safe investment."

[@brianmurphy6480]

Epic Games: "We're totally doing and advocating this on behalf of the rest of the world." Also Epic Games: Doing and advocating things that matter to only 0.01% of Americans and actively angers 99.99% of Americans and 100% of the rest of the world.

[@juups86]

Damn that is bloody accurate depiction right there LOL!

[@DeathsjesterKMNP]

I would agree with that on some points, but it's definately less than 99.99% being angered. Sadly there are a lot of young people (younger Millenials/Gen Z) who have been indoctrinated from youth to support the kind of stuff the game industry is peddling. Not as large a percentage as those companies would like, but still sizable.

[@Sethae]

It's sometimes hard to grasp some american or english terms in games or in code. Especially if they are new. But most of the time it's just matter of time before you get them. Dumbing it down is never a good idea. I've been looking into unreal engine to try it out, but I guess not then. It's not these guidelines but the idea that they actually see it's a good idea to include such things. Like, you'll never know what's next.

[@sevenredundent7256]

Now if only they would pander to the 0.01% of Linux users, I could believe that they want competition.

[@Bundalaba]

Wokies want to be included ? Turn them into a FACTION . Isn't that what Warhammer is About ? Turn them into Rainbow colored transgender feminist Dragon f-ing army or something .

[@MrJ-b1n]

Bruh, a trans space marine would literally be a chaos marine. Probs from the Emporers children

[@julienamand4472]

given all the body modification they undergo during their transition, you could argue that any Space Marine is a trans in some ways.

[@mr.misfit8444]

​@@julienamand4472the termage often used for Space Marines in lore and codexes is "transhuman". Space Marines are beyond what human can be, that they can no longer be classified as 'human'.

[@Salt-Oil]

All trans radicals are slaneesh worshippers even in our world. I'm not Christian but the Christians call it worshipping the jezebal spirit which is basically the demon of lust.

[@seiglegar]

Trans gender, not so much... given the themes of Slaanesh I would not be surprised if an Emperor's children marine had some facsimile of female organs, but that would be more likely to be hermaphroditic than trans. But I agree with the other replies before me, Gender as a concept is irrelevant to Astarties, they are beyond human and don't reproduce that way. The arguments about female marines also VERY MUCH MISSES THE POINT, first anyone who actually knows what utter dehumanising torture that becoming Astarties entails would not aspire to enforce their own identity upon them... and second the gender argument has already been addressed in setting anyway. 1) the process is integrally tied to male hormones and biology, the process AS IS simply does not work on a female aspirant. 2) the setting is in a dark age of technology where most understanding has been lost, technology is heavily ritualised and any attempt to innovate is seen as heretical. 3) "I petitioned him to make you sisters..." Malcador to Dorn, addressing the fact that female Primarch/Astarties had in fact been considered at a point when it was an option, but a decision was made... BY THE EMPEROR... and there is no one left with the authority or knowledge to change it. 4) THE SISTERS OF BATTLE EXIST, they use very similar weapons and armour, but without the genetic augmentation, are all female, and are still just as bad ass as the marines. Arguably more so as while they don't achieve things quite as insane as the marines do, what they do achieve they do so WITHOUT many of the advantages the marines have. 5) Astarties are the ONLY all male faction (Aside from Custodies, but apparently that's no longer the case there)... Tyranids are bugs, Orcs are fungoid, Necrons are robots, these factions don't have gender as we understand it... Eldar and Dark Eldar are gender equal, with the individual kits having a 2:3 bias due to how they are made but being pretty balanced over all, and Tau are desexualised to the point that without getting their armour off you can't tell. Arguments can be made about the Guard, Cadians are supposed to be mixed but the kits are all male, Catachans are all male for cultural reasons, I'm unsure about the other regiments that have had actual kits but by Lore there are all male, all female, segregated, and mixed regiments as dictated by the culture of the home world, yet notice how the woke crowd don't harp on about them....

[@nexusoflife]

Exactly. A trans space marine would 100% be a Slannesh altered space marine.

[@Jonathan_Collins]

Developer: "You can pre-order!" Customer: "You can provide playable demo!"

[@hunterwolf5482]

Pirates: Argh! I'll share the full game with you with the cost of online play!

[@nullbubble791]

Developer: "Only if you preorder"

[@christianedwards9025]

You can gameplay and demos used to be quite common. It's why I don't pre-order, I wait and see. Tends to save me tons of money.

[@ikochomi3070]

Just pirate it.

[@pegeta]

@@hunterwolf5482 oh you can play those games online my friend....oh you can

[@BleeDinglies]

Remember, never pre-order. Making games "safe" is a sure fire way to make a crummy game.

[@fredEVOIX]

this should also come with at least a one month delay before buying if not more because they only add the bad stuff in patches post-release now only after most reviews are out

[@DavidMartinez-ce3lp]

Never cared if Xmen 97 was woke. Not watching anything made by Disney.

[@AssassinatorScout1]

Same!

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Never supporting anything Sony either.

[@the1magageneral323]

X-men 97 was an insult to the comics and the 90s show.

[@TrackMediaOnly]

I'm more about not giving a company money just so they can continue making woke garbage. One good thing doesn't mean there has actually been any change. It just means they need the money to continue their activism.

[@oXRaptorzXo]

@@the1magageneral323It wasn’t though.

[@m.k.738]

Slanneesh is all about Trans representation. The thing is there aren’t enough good writers that can twist a story where the Imperium comes across as the bad guys and the trans-slaneeshi worshipers are the good guys. Which in Warhammer 40K the point is everyone is a bad guy.

[@damascusraven]

That Ashley dude is a complete nutcase, what a surprise! I'm going to avoid this like the plague.

[@TheBayzent]

Who would have thought getting estrogen poison in your body would make you as unstable as a woman without any of the perks women have.

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Rejecting masculine men, feminine women, and sex dimorphism is true homophobia.

[@agr0nianTV]

So true

[@razor1uk610]

..a fear of humanity's humans

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

@@razor1uk610 Only nature can fight back to heal itself.

[@BrandonScott-mi5pz]

EXCELLENT WORK. ENDYMIONTV SKIP WOKE ACTIVISTS RUINED ENTERTAINMENT.

[@patrickwebster9153]

Well said, because the current social contagion doesn’t subtract from the straight population, just preys on confused kids who would eventually come out as gay or bi.

[@alexkogan9755]

Considering Space Marine 2’s tumultuous development, I’ll reserve judgement on the wokery until I see otherwise. Especially so considering a bunch of Black Library writers have been exposed bending over backwards like pretzels themselves to insert wokeness where it never existed.

[@the1magageneral323]

I've noticed that pattern of how much these woke LEFTISTS are majority women.

[@redacted5985]

still laughing at Mike Brooks for making Sargon Of Akkad’s dorky ass part of WH40k canon

[@alexkogan9755]

@@redacted5985 The attempts at mockery by the left at the expense of the “wrong people” only seems to make the latter more powerful.

[@tiergeist2639]

are you all excited about female custodis?

[@tiergeist2639]

they will rip and tear any toxic males ass....so strong and independent 🎉🎉🎉🤣🤮

[@NormLenhart-v4l]

Only enablers would give money to a woke company.

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

No investor has trillions of dollars. The companies are only being lied to.

[@the1magageneral323]

Mainly nongamers like Feminists.

[@NormLenhart-v4l]

@@LuigiTheMetal64 They aren't being lied to by anyone. They freely, and of their own will, chose to ignore Econ 101 and embraced woke progressivism. They do this crap because 1: They aren't led by economic literates,/they exist in their progressive fantasy world where Marxism is their guide...and 2: They will always place ideology over profit because by their own admissions, Capitalism is what is wrong with the world. Less we forget, they are notorious for paying Jack and Squat to their employees, while backing every political and ideological edict the leftists controlling them demand Side note, Also consider the pay results in those very employees who will live 7 to an apartment just for the 'privilege' of putting "Woke Company" in their Twitter bio for the 'authority' it gives them. They ARE those companies.. These companies have no reason to exist. They put out things no one wants and that only enrage their supposed customers. On the other hand, their customers have proven repeatedly that they will enable 'woke' in their entertainment no matter how often they get bent over. There is no such thing as a lock box where peoples money goes for only non-woke products. Money is a fungible instrument... thus it's only enablers who fund them.

[@TheBayzent]

@@LuigiTheMetal64 Oh Blackrock and Vanguard have infinite money, everytime they are hard for cash, they fit the bill on the American people thanks to bail outs and their private debts become public. I thought this was public knowledge by now. The point is to force them to tighten the rope so much the government can't give them any more bail outs or face all out revolution, but we are a long way for that, you need to see famine happen in America due to inflation and we are not even remotely close.

[@SonOfWalhall]

Not even the woke people will buy woked games...

[@xavierdraco33]

In the year 40,000 there only war. As in no time for luxury, pleasure and privilege. Ya get it now?! It’s supposed to be a horrible miserable time.

[@charlietrueman7865]

Yeah in a time where the worst nightmares exist i dont think being woke or pushing lgbtq+ is a sound survival choice. (Giant tyranid approaches) Space marine: im trans! (Proceeds to get torn in half) Other space marine: what was he expecting plot armour?

[@chrisdiokno5600]

I mean, there is not just war, but people too, many of whom live relatively "normal" lives

[@chrisdiokno5600]

@@charlietrueman7865 I mean, I wouldn't say it's pushing it. Rather is like, "Oh, this thing we have now still exists in 40K's time."

[@Zanair]

On Helldivers 2, Sony still hasn’t reactivated access to around 177 countries on PC. Which is why over 50% of the player base vanished practically overnight and still has yet to recover.

[@royaltyfree9607]

Good, fuck helldivers

[@MrShoryuken1]

Sony don't care about cross play. If you don't play on PS5, they give zero fucks :/.

[@jefe9301]

Sony did not reverse the decision, still 180 countrys banned from PSN, so no Helldivers 2 for them.

[@gaetanhillion8342]

That's probably why the numbers took the dive.

[@MrWhateverfits]

Right now the list is at 175 they just recently added U.S. Territories. They are also for now only blocked fro purchasing the game. They can still play and access it if they had installed but if they lose the install they can't get it back.

[@MrWhateverfits]

@@gaetanhillion8342 The player loss for HD2 is normal for a live service. Specially right now when they stopped updates so they could focus on not making new bugs every time they rush a war bond out. The PSN thing had little to no effect on player numbers cause 90% of them were just virtue signaling and never cared about the psn link in the first place. They just wanted to feel important and took the first out they could.

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Sony supports bigotry, and must go bankrupt.

[@Hurdleizer]

That's what I thought. Sadly, people took Sony at their word and put out the all clear sign.

[@matiasdlm24]

In 2022 there was controversy when Ashley Cooper's tweets were discovered, she had to apologize and even the developer studio (Saber Interactive) had to talk about it to calm things down. Curiously, months after that Ashley "left" her position (she even says so on her LinkedIn profile) and the game was delayed an entire year. I wish Space Marine 2 doesn't have any woke crap, I'm really sick of seeing that agenda in any recent product that comes out

[@liamrichardson6830]

The harder they force it on us, the more we start to despise the people it's targeted for, too. I find myself less and less accepting of those kinds of people because of it.

[@DECIMATOR69]

I hope the game is good and they dont fuck it up with woke bullshit rewriting the story and adding bullshut that has no place here

[@cosmictreason2242]

Why are you calling them she, do they have a uterus?

[@matiasdlm24]

@@cosmictreason2242 English is not my main language, if I had said "he" someone would come to cry, and saying "they" for me makes no sense if it's not to refer to two or more people. I'm sorry but it's very confusing to me. In Latin America we say "he" or "she" and we make fun of those who say "elle", simple. That's why the latin american dubbing of Spiderman 2 is hated so much here for including that pronoun XD

[@Pr0m3th310us]

​@@matiasdlm24 do what I do, call them by what they were at birth like a sane person would and ignore their loud mouth crying. Just cause they mutilated themselves doesn't make their delusions real

[@AEGISDEFENSE]

Trans? Sounds like Slaanesh.

[@CanadianPale]

Slaanesh for the sexual deviance, Tzeentch for the obsession with change, Nurgle for the necrotic decay of the surgically-altered genitalia, Khorne for the rage at "deadnaming" and "misgendering." It's Chaos Undivided.

[@btf1287]

Female custodes? A trick of Tzeentch the changer of ways

[@tychodragon]

they hate identifying with the demons because reasons LOLOLOLOL

[@manshowjugyyes7235]

Id follow nurgle ...maybe khorne but deffinately not the others....i sopose abbadon is a possability, but, probably not

[@OVERLORDstretchyXD]

BLOOOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

[@MegaFuzzyPickles]

Starfield's story is the biggest example of "sanitized" that we have today.

[@MrSpartan993]

And most people hated it.

[@JohnDoe-jc5kt]

Yeaaahhh, Ima call bull on GW there. Their "authenticity" includes retconning lore. Authenticity means nothing to them.

[@marcelofeijao8411]

Nah I really doubt that Warhammer Space Marine 2 is safe. There's no game safe to be honest.

[@Greenapple30]

Don't hold your breathe guys they'll probably end up pulling a naughty dog and lure you in then boom bait n switch

[@TheHijabiGamer]

No one likes Nimbus. If Bungie wants to increase sales of Final Shape they need to get rid of him in the most humiliating way possible. He is extremely annoying

[@barbatos7233]

Rohan should’ve been the one to live

[@celphalonred1999]

Nimbus uses they them my friend. Cant wait for FS, but yea my boi * nimbus is annoying. Cantbwait for cayde

[@TheHijabiGamer]

@@celphalonred1999 Very well then. If he isn't male IT is a pain in the a$$. No one likes it. Hopefully they remove it from the game. I don't do that sh!t. 🖕And clearly neither do most Destiny 2 players.

[@Maybeyoudorho]

Tbh I hated everything about Neomuna. Passionately. The reason we fight so hard in the beginning was because we were protecting the literal Last City of humanity against the forces of evil. A city we rarely if ever got to see outside a Raid and some sepcial events. Even Amanda said we should go down and see the city we work so hard to protect. It’s not a perfect city either, Zavala laments all the electricity Rasputin used during Defend Rasputin missions and how they needed to find other ways to power the city. Even Drifter said we should start collecting Vex milk to help power the city. Paper books are special and rare, we even hand made toys for the kids of the Last City. But Neuomuna is like a slap in the face to all that. It’s like the devs thought “hey you know what would be interesting? If the Last city wasn’t actually the last city!” Is it a fun concept for a video game? Yes. did it need to be in the D2 universe? No! Those people had action figures and arcade games, threw paper away like we do now, none of it felt like it blended well with Destiny 2’s world. It felt too much like ours. Like a quirky little gimmick. We didn’t need a new faction of allies, we needed new enemies, new maps, and for them to focus more on the allies we have now.

[@barbatos7233]

@@Maybeyoudorho that’s precisely why Destiny 1 felt special.

[@ancientmariner9460]

"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it." Orwell warned us, he did and yet, here we are...

[@MrSpartan993]

Not yet. Far too many people see through the lies.

[@18despues]

Just learned the matrix had something similar. When you find out the storyline was repeated like 7 times for the machines to figure out how to make uprisings in the matrix not reoccur by playing the system out as it does in the movies. But the movie Inception type move where even Zion was a complement to the matrix. You escaped the matrix into Zion but not really out of "the matrix"

[@ignis2638]

> huge fandom > mostly male audience > game made for them > looks inside > appealing to female audience Why?

[@jackball344]

DEI kills art

[@vitaliyred622]

Never PRE-ORDER! Optimization may be a huge problem and it may be just a disguised live-service game.

[@wedgeantilles8575]

19:00 as a non-native English speaker I feel INSULTED AS HELL that Epic uses me as an excuse to not speak proper English but an artificially designed version of it to "please modern audiences". I know perfectly well that you execute a program or a command. And cultural references? Well, sure, I do not know all of them - especially if it is more foreign culture like the Asian one. But either I just ignore it - or if the topic is interesting - I research the term and LEARN something about the culture. So if you want to censor your employes like in Orwells 1984? Your choice. But don't you DARE to use me as an excuse for your dictatorial wet dreams.

[@Direwolf13PS3]

Helldiver 2's big issue is the they keep nerfing the 'good' options instead of buffing the bad ones. Its the exact wrong way to balance things. As for Warhammer I can't buy Space Marine 2 out of principle as GW has decided to destroy the core lore of the game to pander to an audience that doesn't exist. I will not abide heresy.

[@bigk4968]

I removed Space Marine 2 from my wishlist. I want GamesWorkshop to fall on it's face. Until they abandon the woke ideology and fire Ashley Cooper and other idealogues I wont buy their products.

[@zackc3368]

Good, I don't care.

[@bigk4968]

@@zackc3368 Clearly you do. Move along douche!

[@bigk4968]

@@zackc3368 Clearly you do. Wanna have a cry sesh?

[@kreftegleichgewicht]

same.

[@deathrowy2k]

@@zackc3368 I don't care that you don't care.

[@maxdammit]

not buying untill i know all the info and GW stops pandering

[@mcdoogle_robotman]

The last wall has been activated, resist & speak with your wallet.

[@mariusmitre492]

If they want to be represented so badly, then they should introduce new factions.

[@ThePopo543]

Or, hear me out... MAKE THEIR OWN D* MN IP AND GAMES! SHOCKING!!!

[@UNFORTUNATE_SON]

Or just go and make their own games which is why I applaud the devs behind Dustborn!

[@mace3314]

As a non-warhammer player, I always thought Sisters of Silence were space marines. I thought space marine was just a human grunt class, and Sisters was like a specific unit of space marines.

[@mr.misfit8444]

Hoo boy... Please tell me you have someone you know to help guide you through the 40k stuff if you're interested, cause it's a shifting maze of Tzeentch design.

[@darktenor4967]

On the game issue, one of the finest pieces of interactive fiction I've ever played is the 2004 game Lash by Paul Obrien. "lash", stands for local asynchronous satellite hookup. the game first involves you controlling a robot via text commands, exploring the house of a historian and scientist after some sort of nuclear disaster; possibly a racially motivated war. You give the robot commands and it describes the area to you, and you essentially play a classic treasure hunt. The second part of the game involves you discovering the stored memories of a black slave from the plantation era, seeing the ruined house you just investigated and experiencing an extremely unpleasant day in the life, and the robot's experience of those, then the third part involves your now changed interactions with the robot. As someone who lived in Britain and knew little about black slavery, and likes good reality bending scifi, and was living in a time before American black slavery was this obsession! the game taught me a lot and was a great experience. Having a robot who refers to you as master and pleads with you not to quit the game and temporarily shut it down towards the end of the game was pretty shocking, especially since you'd been giving the robot commands like: "pick up object", or "open door", through the entire game! Yet, according to these guide lines, Lash would absolutely be banned! Since yee gods is the game dark, and there are definitely some pretty triggering scenes, but wow! its hell of effective and one of the finest pieces of interactive fiction I've ever played!

[@rhyblanques874]

I think the only way to resolve this infection is by boycotting any, and all games workshop products.

[@Midragar]

They use a tradicional male as bait and after they get your money they switch to woke. It was like that with spiderman, TLOU, tomb raider and gow reboot. I really wanted to get space marine 2, but after all that is happening it's obviously going to switch to woke.

[@Stonecold300]

God of war? How?

[@Midragar]

@@Stonecold300 the first game is a about Kratos (only to a certain extent since he's a way more of a hypocrite pacifist than anything), but on the second is all about he's simp son and the diverse Nordic character. And just like the witches said (he still kill gods, but now he gets sad about it". The game itself acknowledges that Kratos is a walking contradiction. Besides that, Freya is constantly looking down on him.

[@mcmarkmarkson7115]

The speech police and big brother no longer a conspiracy, 1984 getting real real

[@orangesonicc]

The problem is that the young generation nowadays gets butthurt really fast

[@janwhite3877]

Doesn't matter, it still belongs to the company that hates its fans. Pirating only, don't give GW any money ever.

[@panwu6602]

Probably won't even pirate it.

[@ayonmetar2301]

Dear Ashley Cooper, Transphobia is not a dealbreaker for me. I welcome it openly.

[@celphalonred1999]

Right? I mean, there's no one that's scared of a cross dresser lol. We're sick of em.

[@ayonmetar2301]

@@celphalonred1999 Yeah, the word phobia is wildly misused here to imply that people are "afraid of something just because they don't understand it". We just lack a proper latin suffix for disgust or annoyance.

[@Dracusmage]

@@ayonmetar2301The Greek -misia ending for disgust or revulsion probably fits the best (-philia and -phobia are also Greek, so symmetry). It's more flowing than tacking the Latin "odium" on onto the end, but that would work OK too because it has the Latin ending and starts with a vowel to allow for easy appending.

[@ayonmetar2301]

@@Dracusmage Oops, of course I meant greek, not latin. Seeing Space Marines simply makes me think of latin. Thanks for correcting that. I had not heard of -misia as a suffix before, only as part of misophonia or misogyny. I like it. Way more appropriate =)

[@xxgunnsxgamingxx5901]

@@Dracusmageso it would be transmisia?

[@Pa-taytoe]

Helldivers was the absolute best, but they really bamboozled us. Cutting of all those PC players. Major orders being failed, weird balancing changes in a PVE game, not surprising we’re losing Helldivers :(

[@Guardsmen4]

yeah i one of them keep nerfing my guns is real fast way fore me to uninstall

[@spartan9963]

I quit that shit too. Devs are anti fun.

[@Star4wars1]

Riddle me this: what's hard to get but easy to lose? Answer: trust

[@gouravchakraborty9801]

Epic Games is really asking to go bankrupt

[@NoshikiYT]

Epic games is worth $32 billion as of 2024 so I’ll take a while to make them go bankrupt besides large companies that get boycotted still exist like the bud light boycott the company of bud light had so much backlash over a trans person which looking back was childish in my opinion

[@NoshikiYT]

@@TheXstasyaverage Endymion watcher comment But seriously use your brain instead of being a braindead fool

[@ASoldierify]

​@@NoshikiYTTell me you could not be more clueless. The boycott happened while that clown was parading as a woman on their product yes but the actual backlash came because their own marketing manager insulted their customers.

[@TheBayzent]

They are not going bankrupt ever. Every Unreal Engine game you play gives them money, even if they aren't the ones developing. And Fortnite is a goldmine.

[@TheBayzent]

@@NoshikiYT Question is what does Dylan had to do with beer, you think it is childish but it clearly is important for the target audience of that beer. If Paulaner or Franziskaner suddently started to use LGTBQ+ people in their beers I wouldn't drink them anymore either, because I would think those are for that kind of people and I am not.

[@thetode]

While I do believe the HD2 playerbase has suffered from the whole Sony situation, I largely think that the reason many people aren't playing is because the devs are finding it harder to balance fun with challenging. They have pretty much gutted any weapon or strategem that could level the playing field, all while releasing 1 decent item per warbond (battlepass.) I stopped playing because I became tired of struggling, finding something that works, and getting that something snapped in half with no resolution.

[@fredEVOIX]

the good old wizard of the cost card game tactic, let something be good as long as it brings sales and when those go down, nerf it to hell and push a new thing that will make line go up

[@Carribla]

That's why I have trouble playing as well. Sick of getting annihilated every game despite having the "meta" when half the time I would rather be using different gear, but it's all too weak. Playing with randoms makes it so much worse because the moment shit hits the fan, everyone leaves. Then it's just you and maybe one guy that stayed against hordes and hordes of ridiculously strong enemies. As a dark souls fan, there's challenging and fun, and then there's just impossible. I don't expect to not die, or struggle. But I do expect to at least have fun, which I was for the beginning at least 🤷

[@carlknight7899]

IF I am not mistaken isn't a large chunk of their player base still locked out of the game. I know they dropped the PSN requirement but they still haven't restored sales in places that dont support PSN. I see it is back on steam here but I can see that holding people back as well

[@gwood2991]

Nah, was a big HD2 player and I quit completely after the Sony thing. I don't care if they reversed it, they actively tried to screw me and only backed off when FORCED to. I am not giving that game or Sony another minute or penny.

[@carlknight7899]

@@gwood2991 That is good to see. It is nice when people stand up to companies that pull shit like this. I was waiting for the XBOX release which may or may not ever happen. May just give it a pass altogether now.

[@SilverShine47]

The reason why Helldivers is failing is because it not available in lot of countries. Which is a shame because I wanted to play the game. But it is not available. 😭😭😭

[@Seven-o7]

Ohh. I didn’t realize THAT individual was the LEAD writer for Space Marines 2. Damn, I already pre ordered the ultimate edition, I’m not supporting any woke agenda gated bs. I’ll likely be canceling that pre order lol. Why are these companies so hell bent on destroying themselves to disrespect their core audience for a small loud and pouty minority who really don’t care.

[@TheHijabiGamer]

Yes! Finally someone speaking about the insanity in Destiny 2! I've been talking about this for months! And worse with Osiris and Saint 14 they retconned them. According to the original lore and the canon comic they were friends and brothers but you know that is impossible these days. They spent over a year focusing on their relationship in a FPS action game! It was so annoying. I don't play action packed FPS games for a cheesy romance. But then my issues go as far back as Season of the Splicer when they turned the Guardians into horrible oppressors of the Fallen. 🤦‍♀️ Or the stupid tea cup scene with Saint 14 and Osiris but left out any cut scene where they ended Lakshmi 2. But then I found an article that has said over time the original D2 writers have been replaced and right now the D2 writing team is made up of a lot of women. The most female department in Bungie. After I found that out I was not surprised by the changes.

[@liamrichardson6830]

Yeah, it sucks. Thanks to the weirdos, male characters in games can't have friends and immediately have to be shipped with eachother. It's part of the reason why I really don't like some of thePersona fan base.

[@David_Hez]

Yeah, if you watch any vidoc you'll see why lol, i can't take that shit seriously...

[@briancrooks5982]

I gave up on Destiny a long time ago, and it’s sad because that game and the friends I made playing it, got me thru some VERY dark times

[@SmokinTonic]

i can imagine how giddy the colored hair chick got when they landed on "transcendence" for the new reused asset subclass

[@mikelitten7489]

The fact that we know the lead writer is trans means we know his “identity” is paramount and it will be impossible for it to not be pushed in the games narrative. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m pretty much out of hope these days.

[@GrayKuma]

It has been a few years now, that they tried to get rid of the word master in coding. But the git master branch is the master branch for a reason. And so is the master/slave pattern. They describe exactly what their purpose is. I now take extra care to always refer to these as master instead of main or whatever bad replacement people would like to take root. And fun fact, every good developer I've ever met doesn't care about this sort of stuff, and if they do it's the exact opposite of what these woke tech people want. Only the woke mediocre ones really care.

[@TheAurgelmir]

The Epic Games argument - Other cultures don't have the same insane language brain rot as English. I think we'll manage if you say "A poor man's axe." Many actually get confused by all the new speak coming out of America.

[@johnnysteele5934]

There's one thing I really love about Endymion. Every time he talks about someone, first thing he says in a way is "This is what they said, but don't go harassing them." And I love that, that for me is a mark of a great journalist. A way of "I'm just reporting what's happening, not trying to agitate you against someone." Keep doing what you're doing!

[@underthepale]

He "has to" say it, every time, or these people will claim it's "hair ass mint" and "Bali moobs," when they do the same damn thing to us. Never forget, everything they accuse us of, they are already doing, or want to be doing, and they want to do worse still.

[@mk_wizard]

The funny part is that taking back your free speech which extends to creative freedom (making the game or media how YOU want to make it) is in fact progressive.

[@cosmictreason2242]

Not in the historical usage of the term.

[@mk_wizard]

@@cosmictreason2242 Why not?

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@mk_wizard because progressivism was never for liberty historically. What is the difficulty

[@mk_wizard]

@@cosmictreason2242 Uh, yes it was. Most of the time it was. Think gender equality, the abolishment of slavery, the abolishment of racial divide, the legalization of gay marriage and gay adoption, and more. Lots of acts of progressivism were for freedom and human rights. And they all started through being made aware thanks to people exercising free speech or at least fighting for free speech as well.

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@mk_wizard slavery was abolished by Christians, and thethe rest of those things you listed have been terrible scourges on western civilization. Sure, they have been pushed by progressives. But none of them are promoting liberty like you are trying to argue in your first comment

[@mikeg5039]

“No microtransactions…except all these microtransactions” are they havin a laugh?

[@sentient_trash]

2:58 Fun fact about the diversity amongst the Astartes: The Ultramarines take aspirants from the entire mini-empire Rowboat Girlyman made known as Ultramar. Not just the planet of Macragge. So it’s not only possible, but lore-accurate to have a wide range

[@Kross415]

I don't care who writes the game, I don't care about their gender, their sexuality, their skin color or anything else, the only thing I care about is the writing being good and lore accurate. Don't preorder, don't give in to fomo and wait a few weeks to see is the game is worth your money.

[@jaymack6981]

Ahhhhhhh the Tyranids are coming!!! I need transitional surgery stat!!!! Great writing.

[@86BarbOmega]

But you DO care who writes the game, saying you dont care who writes it just invalidates the rest. So you DO care who writes it if you want it to be good writing and lore accurate.

[@Kross415]

@@86BarbOmega True, it wasn't the best phrasing, it happens sometimes when you're not a native speaker. However I think the point is clear to whoever has a shred of gray matter so I'm fine with that.

[@edwardtrooper7027]

As woke Fortnite might look. Its player base is pretty based as heck. Like you saw what they did around the time they played this BLM video. Threw paint at the screen XD I saw for myself as well. NO ONE liked it.

[@november_victor9693]

Nope. Im not giving any woke company my money. Lol do you really believe this will not be woke? FFS we need freedom back in gaming.

[@jaegerbomb269]

Yes! Keep up the fight against this woke crap! Never say die and never give in!

[@Saint_Wolf_]

Why do we keep giving Pikamee harassers position of authority to write things?

[@underthepale]

Never forget what they took from you.

[@seagrey75]

Vote with your wallet.

[@Saint_Wolf_]

@@underthepale never will I, I love her like a girlfriend and she has (always did have) boing boing

[@sparking023]

Didn't think I would find a Henyamee fan in a 40k video. What a crossover

[@Saint_Wolf_]

@@sparking023 this video isn't 40k, it's general entertainment news.

[@wolfbrother8043]

You want to make a Black space marine to pander I want to make a black space marine cause the vulcan sons are the only good space marines We are not the same

[@Eric-dg2cx]

It gives me some goosebumps to see "racial" diversity in the same Astartes' chapter. I mean, it is not that I have a problem with it, in absolute. What tickles me the wrong way, is that you have this chapter- the Ultramarines- a chapter whose primarch is well alive and when you know how an Astartes is created well it bothers a wee bit.

[@michaelscalia7080]

You forgot to mention that while Sony removed the account restriction on Helldivers 2, they still haven't released the country lock on Steam. That's where a large portion of those missing players are. They're in countries with no PSN service, and Playstation has upheld the denial of service.

[@ssjmonstar]

I'm pretty sure if they already own the game before the psn controversy they can still play even if there in a country that banned only new players can't

[@michaelscalia7080]

@@ssjmonstar That's fair, but can they connect to the online servers?

[@slaaneshhedonite7068]

It’s too bad the old guard of GW is pretty much all gone. To a lesser point even me. Been playing since the 80s, worked & wrote there the list goes on… I hate to see it go down this path.

[@fugazi32]

They don't make em like they used to!

[@slaaneshhedonite7068]

@@fugazi32 I still have my copy of Rogue Trader. 😈 lost a lot of my old books in a fire but I have some of ‘em.

[@TheBayzent]

Rick is still doing Bolt Action as far as I know, haven't tried his Antares stuff yet

[@slaaneshhedonite7068]

@@TheBayzent Rick, Andy & Jervis were my personal favorites. Ran up a company card to get each of them blitzed a few times. People think conventions could get crazy… after hours were a whole different story. White Wolf had the best parties. But especially back then I had a thing for goth chicks. 😈

[@Sarcastic_Sophist]

​@@slaaneshhedonite7068 once upon a time I would have killed to work at White Wolf and write for world of darkness. Now I just check in to see how far the franchise has fallen. With only a few lengthy KZbin comments and steam discussions of things I'd recommend. As a futile act of altruism towards a company that has no idea how to handle their franchise.

[@theanimeunderworld8338]

If theres one thing the woke era has shown is what NOT to do

[@NoshikiYT]

Define woke?

[@theanimeunderworld8338]

@@NoshikiYT extreme social justice warrior-ism

[@NoshikiYT]

⁠@@theanimeunderworld8338yeah that’s the most accurate description of the word anyways sad how the word has been ruined to death besides most of people/content creators like geeks & gamers using the word “woke” are insufferable

[@fugazi32]

​@@NoshikiYTextreme far left political pandering/Cultural Marxism/Cultural Vandalism

[@NoshikiYT]

@@fugazi32dude nobody asked you and no it’s not there’s something called AAVE in which black people have their own slang sadly the word “woke” has lost its meaning and became political BS

[@Cowboycomando54]

The issue I have with live service is that once the servers go down, the game you PAID for is no longer playable and essentially have had it stolen from you.

[@Mackberserk]

Wokeness is always a slippery slope. Not in a logical fallacy sense, but in the sense the "some wokeness" doesn't simply "accidentally" get into the game. For example, if I created a video game, there would not accidentally be black characters in the game if the years and years of lore had none in it, in the same way that a white character wouldn't be in my game if there were no such characters in the lore. In other words, the injection of "diversity" in the space marines trailer, despite inconsistency with the lore, is intentional and absolutely a hint of more to come. These people play for keeps and will push as far as they can get away with. If they could get away with all black space marines, they would all be black. If they could get away with all black trans space marines, they would all be black trans. Absolutely zero doubt. And if there is not trans agenda in the game, then it's automatically "transphobic" or "anti-trans". If it doesn't glorify lgbtq identities, then it must be "hateful" and not "inclusive". It's always the same bull%&$# gaslighting

[@mikehunt9832]

That Ashley lead writer you mentioned in the beginning already left Saber in May 2023 after being there for 1.5 years. It looks like this lead writer was working on Space Marine 2 for a year (Oct 2021 - Sep 2022). I wonder if there has been any re-writes since then (let's hope). This individual is now with EA working on Iron Man, oh boy...

[@sparking023]

Something I would like to see added in Kabrutus' DEI Detected website is a profile section with all those woke agenda pushers. Most of them are not directly affiliated with DEI consultants like SBI and Gaymers, but they're just as harmful, if not more. We gotta know who they are and what projects they're working on

[@gouravchakraborty9801]

At least Space Marine 2 realizes hus mistake

[@EndymionTv]

SM2 has the potential to go nuclear gangbusters if they don’t fuck this up

[@the.dandy.man2]

beware, hope is the first step on the road to disappointment and gw is desperate for sanctuary

[@TheBayzent]

@@EndymionTv But they will

[@antonkovalenko364]

​@@EndymionTvI'm pretty blackpilled on pretty much anything from GDubs now. There is no such thing as innocence - only degrees of guilt.

[@RedDragon-yp3tg]

I think you missed the point about the prounoun unreal engine story. They aren't talking about playing the game itself (they've already got woke crap in it). They are actually referring to the coding. They want programmers and coders to avoid word that have long been used in coding language such as "master" and "slave." These are terms used in coding. Epic is so insane they don't even want the terms in the code.

[@almalone3282]

They forbid "whitelist" and "blacklist" too.

[@TheBayzent]

@@almalone3282 This is actually more stupid than forbidding "master" and "slave", far more stupid in fact because, unlike those two which I've only seen referred in hardware, these are actually useful for programmers.

[@FierceZs1]

The push of something that doesn't relate to 99% of your playerbase has always been mind boggling. The fact that this isn't understood by some developers even more so.

[@johnd1758]

You're talking like this is now, but the writer in question left the Space Marine II's writing team back in Sep 2022 and left Saber Interactive entirely in May last year - this is clearly shown on her LinkedIn profile.

[@whitevoid43]

Assley coopers' hands are too deep in this game. I'm still not invested

[@haueinif.l.4448]

I do not trust them... wait and see ... do not preorder ... its a trap.

[@patrickwebster9153]

Assuming Sony has seen the helldivers and destiny failures and learned to keep politics out of SM2 is like assuming GW learned from Disney and target. They will destroy the company to insert their trash, every time.

[@saladinbob]

You just know that you'll get to the final scene of the game, just over Steam's return policy and a Femstodes will stride in and shoot Titus for crimes against the now trans-god-Emperor.

[@irmiwolf]

Wait why would the terms Whitelist and Blacklist be be problematic? White is the presence of all the colors so a Whitelist is a list of INCLUDED things, while Black is the absence of all colors so a Blacklist is a list of EXCLUDED things, who looked at that and thought that its about skin color?

[@sparking023]

Because these r-word individuals can only look at the world through their racial lenses, so when you say whitelist or blacklist, they immediately think of white people, black people, and muh oppression

[@cosmictreason2242]

They genuinely think whitekist means good List and blacklist means bad list

[@speedfreak1548]

If you look at Nimbus VA objectively they did what they were supposed to, which was embody the script they were given which was complete ass.

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Safe while Sony are saving face. Keep boycotting, and spread that boycott. Target and Bud Light are losing money, which is the American way.

[@Caursten]

I would not claim Space Marine 2 is forsaking the agenda until after the game has come out. With everything going on with Games Workshop right now, this is absolutely NOT a pre-order game. Wait until it comes out and people have gone through the content.

[@rbl4ever187]

I bet you the term "Don't disrespect your player base, audience, customers etc." Flies over their heads.

[@OmegaDestroyer99]

Do people not remember the PVE mode of Space Marine? It was really solid.

[@almalone3282]

It was cool for like 5-6 hours but got old really quick.

[@PeterM.Wright]

Epic's coding standard only applies to code that is going to be part of the Engine and engine source code. There's no way they can enforce it on anything else, and they know it. They try to control the way there customers code, and they lose those customers. The indies don't care, they won't follow the standards. And the big companies already have their own idiotic standards, and Epic's won't overule them. They can't even control the people who make engine plug-ins. As they're independent products done by independent companies. They can recommend all they want, but developers don't have to listen to them unless they work for Epic. Still I think with all the stupidity going on by the big developers, there's going to be a leveling of the playing field and the small indies who don't subscribe to the stupidity are going to emerge as the new players. I also see that with the gaming population growing older and seeing that the identity politics are invading the mainstream games that you'll see a shift towards the more 'mature' games. Going to a space where the people pushing the identity politics fear to tred (right now).

[@TheBayzent]

I don't think they have a way to enforce it outside of their own development teams anyway.

[@Hagen838]

@@TheBayzent Hopefully.

[@KniZis]

Helldivers are not the same after SONY scandal. Those 180 countries still can't buy the game in Steam 😢. So no new players from baned countries.

[@romancapulus5577]

*”Remember: No pre-orders.”*

[@Captain40K]

There are firstborn Marines that are the og guys and are a bit smaller than primaris. Tho who would want to be a smaller space marine lol

[@carolpulma2734]

Probably the only reason why Eivor was female is because the director got fired and SBI took over.

[@victormgv]

CS guy here, what they mean by Master/Slave is related to the naming convention in computer science. Master-slave is a model of asymmetric communication or control where one device or process (the master) controls one or more other devices or processes (the slaves) and serves as their communication hub

[@deathwish_bigboss]

I'm new to the Warhammer miniatures side of the hobby and even then I've heard for over a decade about how shit GW is to the 40k IP fans, they recently raised prices for their already overpriced minis so I'm not hopeful for a good Space Marine game

[@sparking023]

This cannot be understated in any way. GW has been a shitty company for years, the woke BS is just the new flavor of shit they decided to throw at the fans. If you're going to feed your plastic addiction, better to invest in 3D printing lol

[@Guardsmen4]

take it from a greybeard started in 1998 GW has always shit on us fans with less models for more money squads of guardsmen used to be 20 men for 40$CDN now its 10 models for70$CDN the new politics pandering is were i drew the line. don't be discouraged so many minis on ebay you can score some great deals and they will never be able to kill the lore there so much now so many books out enjoy the setting

[@SaraBryan-sw7ri]

You've got a knack for this, loving your content!

[@archangelgabriel5316]

FOR THE EMPEROR!

[@EndymionTv]

🤘🏻🔥

[@shaggysweetness]

As for the quote from the writer, Yes. I am indeed pro reality and anti reality denial. On top of the makers of this game lying about not having microtransactions and then saying they will have seasons and skins for purchase, I'm just in a wait and see mode for this game.

[@Steam-Player]

There should be a law in place where people can sue a company for destroying their IPs. All this emotional damage is real, and it's starting to make my mental health take a dive.

[@Carl_Johnson_1992_GSF]

Basically a 1984 Update for the Unreal engine just remember that they will always be watching👁️