Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Warhammer made everyone mad.." video.

@Fordo007 Why would you want them to be the same though? It's just a zero-brain perspective on worldbuilding. Imagine you're a writer and you have the potential to make a whole new army/faction due to gender restrictions. Should you make them the exact same, or should you make them different and therefore interesting?
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@groundmasterc Those of us who care about the worldbuilding understand what this means. The Emperor was either incapable of creating a gene-seed that would work on anyone but men (because it was crafted in his image) or unwilling, because he was afraid of what would happen if Space Marines could reproduce organically (the Horus Heresy would have had even more dire consequences). It would be one thing if they said someone like Bile or Cawl figured out how to implant women with the gene-seed and turn them into Marines or Custodes, but no. They went for the pants-on-head retarded route and said that there have always been female Custodes. This means that necessarily there should have also always been female Marines. This means that necessarily the Sisters of Battle shouldn't exist, because why have worse Marines when you could just have Marines? And so on, and so forth. The "no female marines" and its related topics are not just some minor detail in 40k. It is literally a cornerstone of the worldbuilding of the Imperium and the Emperor that would have insane butterfly effects if changed. It also undermines the satirical elements of the setting. All that stuff about the Ecclesiarchy and being outlawed from mustering "men" that bear arms, gone and undermined. It undermines the depth in general. When someone is told that Marines or Custodes are male-only, the natural instinct is to ask "why" and then a writer can provide an interesting reason. When there is nothing different about them, no one has any line of inquiry and therefore there is no reason to provide interesting reasons.
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It's just really fucking lazy writing, probably demanded by some executive that walked in on a meeting with no further comment.
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Blanks are a superset of Sisters of Silence. Anyone can be a blank just by birth, if I recall right, but Sisters require training and augmentation
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The bizarre thing about this is that they created a whole new type of Space Marine in the lore just so they could update the tabletop miniatures and justify it in the lore, even though people have been begging for better miniatures for decades and they didn't need an excuse to do that at all. But female Custodes, something that didn't even exist before? Barely worth the tiniest amount of effort. Just a stealthy mention in the Codex and some social media gaslighting.
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@lazymansload520 Eh, debatable. The Emperor failed to create a gene-seed in his image that would work on anything but men. Hard to imagine he'd be able to transition successfully. In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, there are still only two genders.
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@groundmasterc The same inadequacies that prevented The Emperor from making female-compatible Astartes gene seed would then logically prevent female Custodes from being created. To suggest otherwise would be to suggest that other humans are better at gene crafting than the Emperor, which is heresy in both a literal in-universe sense, and in a meta worldbuilding sense. If humanity has surpassed the Emperor, then the tragic theme of the setting is undermined and he has outlived his purpose. There would be hope on the horizon, which goes against the point of the setting. It raises a plethora of questions, like why didn't we just make better Custodes/Marines before now, and so on. If we take the most charitable possible position on this inclusion of a female Custodes and subsequent flippant one-tweet reply, it is that GW's writers or their managers didn't think this change through at all and had no understanding of its impact on the setting in general or the questions it would raise. This type of change could be the main plot point of an entire novel, or perhaps a trilogy of novels, that explores its impact on the Imperium and/or explains why it has not been relevant until now. The implications are quite profound.
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Orks are technically completely agender and asexual. They just take a masculine form because it's better for hitting stuff.
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