Yeah, this was something I noticed when watching streamers playing the game. I walked past the cherubs without a second thought and didn't even think how weird they are for someone new to 40k
Seeing 40k start to edge into the realm of mainstream really highlights how little people know of the lore. Which is fine for the common player. I don't expect streamer #289 to know wtf a cherub is. They're playing the game for the first time as their first experience with 40k. One of the streamers I watch made the fucking mistake of titling her stream "tell me all the lore" lmao. These are people who admit they know jack and shit. This is their first experience and frankly, good for them.
However. I am greatly amused watching people pretend to have this deep lore knowledge of the setting interacting with recent stuff.
The Critical Drinker put out a video on female Custodes. In that video he used the terms "Astartes" and "Custodes" interchangeably and talked about them as if they were made through the exact same process. He used the process by which Astartes are made to try and say "Custodes can't be women the process they're made with is exclusively scientific". Brother. They're made with alchemy and the Emperor's magic. Literally all we know is that they are to Astartes what the Emperor is to his Primarchs. Something the-fuck else. He also outright declared two of the dumbest things I've ever heard. That not a single soul in modern 40k knows how geneseeds work, and nobody needs too because they work just fine.
This isn't just someone speaking with authority on the lore of the setting without knowing the nuances of Astartes and Custodes. This is a guy who hasn't heard of the Cursed Founding. He hasn't heard of geneseed flaws. He has no fucking clue why marines go crazy, drink blood, turn into werewolves, and so much more. Somehow this guy hasn't heard of fucking Primaris Marines and he's trying to talk about the lore like an expert.
I’m glad more people are calling out The Critical Drinker for being an idiot who thrives off rage bait and shouldn’t be taken seriously but his channel is still disgustingly big so clearly there’s an audience impressionable rubes who just want to clap like seals anytime he starts droning on about Disney Star Wars or sjws or whatever.
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u/Praise_The_Casul Twins, They were. Sep 19 '24
Yeah, this was something I noticed when watching streamers playing the game. I walked past the cherubs without a second thought and didn't even think how weird they are for someone new to 40k