-The eternal nature-v-nurture debate

-Blood, genes, and destiny at the point of conception

-The changing form and role of the father for their aging children

-responsibility, duty, and answering the call to action

Back in the HateShed, we sat down to discuss faith and belief as it applies to the setting of 40k, our world, the strength it gives in both cases, and the inherent need humans have for structures of belief.

-SW fans are boob-nervous furries

-The disconnect between early lore and later portrayals

-Yet more reasons why the Heresy should never have been made explicit

-GW’s inability to portray European culture when genuinely attempting to do so vs their accidental reiteration of western canon when trying to avoid it

And more!

-The plot, generally

-The illuminated life of an Imperial hive citizen, and why it is, in many ways, better than our world today

-How dissent, resentment, and ultimately corruption emerge in a society

-The role and fate of traitors

-Why are foids always Tyranid players, and how their ravenous uncontrolled simulacrums of children (‘nids) pair with their ravenous uncontrolled simulacrums of children (pitbulls)

And more!

-the place of the Ordos in Imperial society

-Sovereignty, who has it, and what it means

-the mantle of nobility being synonymous with the mantle of sacrifice

-Eisenhorn posting

-How much does the knowledge of corruption sway you? Is it inevitable to become corrupted yourself?

And more!

-Big E confirmed as a deity, fighting other gods in the Warp.

-The origin and power of deities, in this world and ours

-The development of the greater myth and how it brings meaning to individual sacrifice

-The begrudging and (unconscious) inclusion of folk soul in the developing 40k mythos

and a lot more!

-Story vs Myth vs Narrative

-GW hates their fans (again)

-What it means to be an IP company and what that means to us

-Why AoS is garbage

And more!

-The origins of Chaos, including its intent

-why Mikey Moorcock is dumb and wrong

-stealing saintly relics via the holy prison wallet

-why purpose is a greater antidote than order

-feudalism vs fascism in the Imperium

-the duty to protect innocence

and more!

-Adepticon news, 11th edition, new models, new rules speculation etc

-replacing good characters (men) with new bad characters (foids)

-incompetence, malice, stupidity, or spite? A GW question

-The end times might be ending again?

And a lot more!

-The longstanding lore and tabletop rules of IG regiments being uniquely meaningful

-Humans as the principle bulwark of the Imperium

-The continued consequences of Marvelizing the setting

-The loss of the old/midhammer culture of creativity, DIY, and the true nature of the hobby

-Why this keeps happening; spite, ineptitude, or apathy?

-And more!

-The role of the gang in social orders and as a necessity in patriarchal culture

-The nature of loyalty, to one’s brothers, one’s leaders, and ideals, and when each go wrong

-Hives, gangs, and recruitment from within

-Who rules, how, and by what right

-Rants, diatribes, and crass humor generally

-How “progress” destroys the setting

-The nature of a stagnant society and its opportunity for heroism

-Retconé Guilliman and Belisarius Lols

-The death of consequence in a setting defined by consequences

-And More!

-Big E, his depiction in early vs late works-The trouble with portraying mythic characters-Power, it’s use, and why western culture avoids it thematically-Women generally, abortions specifically-And more!

The Warrior Lodges, their role in the Heresy, their role in life, the fraternal nature of man, and the power of ritual

Man as the natural romantics, while foids are the ultimate pragmatists

The corrupting nature of tolerance

Mild to severe Japan and WW2 posting

-what is a creation myth/its role in a civilization

-positive vs negative mythos

-making the implicit lore explicit in 40K

-is our fantasy creation myth better than reality (yes).

-single mom caused the Heresy

-Do your curls and I might give you stuff

-federal grants for bullying (early and often!)

-Star Trek (never watched) goes from space liberalism to gay race communism

-HEMA vs. medieval lesbians

- the Primarchs' Return Monkey's Paw

-The spirit of 40k

-The reality of a politicized world on our hobbies and subcultures

-Why the things we like are cool, why the things we don’t like are bad

-Power, power fantasy, and power realities.

-More brainiac s**t since we weren’t drinking

You can find Paul’s great short form podcasts here, along with much of his other work

Femstodes (we were right again).

space pirates.

the gutter trough that is age of Sigmar.

some points were made, mostly we attack each other and ourselves

-The Monkey’s Paw situation that is official 40K media

-Is Cavill cool despite being a thespian?

-how and why must the galaxy be under human dominion instead of the Astartes

-Pro-humanist, wholesome, hope and hero posting

*EDIT

There was a goddamn metronome playing the entire first audio file, salute to anyone who actually suffered through that. It’s been corrected

- Chuds own the hobby

- Age of Shitmar Poasting

- Books-R-Gay reading club, feat. Ashes of the Imperium

-Twisted Tea

- We Wuz Space Wolves

- The +3 Sword of Jeetslaying

- The Intergalactic Longhouse

- The Battle for Art.

(Brought to you by Twisted Tea Extreme).

-Troon models from Troon writers for Troon consoomers

-The Gellar Field fails

-We examine the latest burnt offering onto the slop-heap altar of wargaming.

*EDIT: weird audio issue fixed!

-Turning the tragic setting focused on decline into another iteration of Marvelization and capeshit.

-What GW did to Warhammer Fantasy...