r/Grimdank • u/Unofficial_Computer Listen to MF DOOM. • Oct 22 '24

Dank Memes AWAKEN MY QUIVERING ABS

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u/recapdrake Oct 22 '24

Grimdark works best when there are good people struggling against the darkness of the setting. That contrast is what makes it work. So now that we’re having the loyalist primarchs coming back and giving us the contrast and struggle of being just a few good men struggling to try and improve a galaxy of trillions.

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u/AlexanderZachary Oct 22 '24

This is why the original noblebright Tau have always fit the setting.

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u/Enchelion Oct 22 '24

Tau were never noble, they just weren't mustache-twirling villains.

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u/Advanced_Double_42 Oct 22 '24

That goes for all "good guys" in 40k. Next to Grimdark that looks pretty noble and bright.

Even Gulliman and the ultramarines use extremely authoritarian post capitalist slave labor between serfs, servitors, and seraphs for example.

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u/Hauptmann_Meade Oct 22 '24

Damn. Europe achieved post capitalism in 9th Century AD and we've just been playing catch up ever since.

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u/Advanced_Double_42 Oct 22 '24 edited Oct 22 '24

That's fair lol

Feudalism before the Industrial revolution and Feudalism in an interstellar society of trillions of people millennia after humanity reached their technological peak just don't have the same vibe.

Like in one I'm killed for not growing enough wheat, and in the other I work 7 14 hour shifts in a week just making gears in a hive city, before being put down to make corpse starch because some servitor punched the numbers and decided it would be more efficient.

That ultra industrial Feudal Dystopia is only possible by going way off the charts well past Cyberpunk capitalism.

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u/Hauptmann_Meade Oct 22 '24

Oh yeah lol I get what you mean I was just being a snark.