I play 40k

Since chuds are terminally online secondaries, they're the ones loudly shitting up discussions. That loser Arch is a prime example. The few times he's posted actual hobby stuff, it's unpainted, no conversions or kit bashes, mold lines everywhere, and guns without their barrels drilled. I think he was trying to pivot his channel away from fluff, but he got laughed out of the room.

generally-accepted labeling of ontological evils that absolutely must be genocided to their very last unit

That's what always gets me about Warhammer 40K.

"No, it's not fascist, it's a satire of fascism!"

"How does it satirize fascism?"

"By having it be objectively correct within the game's setting and making the all-male perpetually adolescent beefy killing machines the good guys."

their conception of grimdarkness is stuffed full of racism

Sometimes, the racism is merely "historically accurate" absence. "Historically accurate," mind, in fictional lands with made up places in them.

Get into Malifaux. You can literally run an Abolitionist boxer

Fash grimdark fetishists only like grimdark settings because their conception of grimdarkness is stuffed full of racism, SA, and generally-accepted labeling of ontological evils that absolutely must be genocided to their very last unit. Why I stopped fucking with anything Warhammer, I'm sick of running into chuds and despite hearing how many trans folks are into the IP, I've only ever met them in one-off, two-off, or happenstance circumstances, and have been otherwise mass polluted with chuddery.

What you've observed above is why I dread ever seeing 40k phrasing in the internet wild, like "heretics" or "xenos" because 99% of the time fascist oinking accompanies it.

Okay: farming clones of Christ for his meat

In the Drifters manga, a very pissed Jesus got kidnapped into fantasy world, did 180 on the whole idea of humanity salvation and leads an army of orcs, goblins, ogres, trolls and every other more or less standard fantasy opponents and uses his power to heal them and feed them making them basically unstoppable.

The lore for the artillery witches rock. If I reccal correctly they open a portal to a dimension filled with bombs and then they just throw them with their own physical power. You'd think the throw was magic, but it isn't.

The worst thing Elon did to twitter was making it so you get paid for saying stupid shit

That hog's chosen name is "Daddy Warpig" and he's offended when the grimdark isn't just about making him oink happily without a single uncomfortable thought?

The last insufferable 40k meme I remember from right before I finally stopped caring about it was “the planet broke before they did”

AFAIK they are still working on plastic kits and nothing official has been released outside of a few STL files. Everything you see posted is generally stuff people have made on their own. A lot of people have built their starting warbands out of Perry minis or other historicals bashed with 40k/AoS bits.

With that said I dont think most of the minis live up to it (from what I have seen at least)

Yeah, alas

Copied from the offical page.

Trench Crusade is a skirmish-scale tabletop miniatures game that will plunge players deep into a horrifying alternate timeline. During the Crusades a heretical band of Templars dared defy the Almighty and, casting aside their sacred vows, unleashed the forces of Hell upon the Earth. Over 800 years later, in the Year of Our Lord 1914, this brutal, merciless war between the forces of Heaven and Hell rages on. This is not just a fight for survival, but a cataclysmic struggle that will decide the very fate of humanity's soul.

The factions so far are (if im not mistaken) EDIT I copied a short overview of the factions from TVTropes

Principality of New Antioch: The armies of the fortress-city of New Antioch, serving as a bulwark of the Faithful nations against Heretic advances.

Trench Pilgrims: Disorganized groups of Christian pilgrims following prophets of the Lord to the front lines, the Pilgrims are a mix of volunteer soldiers and members of holy orders.

The Iron Sultanate: The soldiers of the Sultanate of Rûm, protected from the forces of Hell by the Iron Wall of Dhu al-Qarnayn. They make widespread use of alchemy in both their weapons and the takwin creations of the House of Wisdom.

Heretic Legions: The forces of the nations ruled by Hell on Earth, with conventional initiate soldiers supported by monsters manufactured in Hell's pits.

Cult of the Black Grail: The creations forged from biological matter by Beelzebub's Black Grail plague, and the few mortal cultists who embrace it.

As a small bonus some art for an Assassin of the Iron Sultanate. (The art for Trench crusade absolutely slaps) Artist name is Mike Franchina

I think it's just the matter of numbers and time, Warhammer 40k being so popular for so long managed to gather enormous amounts of cringe in time and it continues. Trench Crusade took internet in one short sweep and its afaik receding so it have much less.

Anyone remember Mutant Chronicles universe? It heavily borrowed from 40k and everything i read about TC makes me think TC heavily borrows from it.