I’ll never forget when a fucking Games Workshop puff piece writer interviewed him and asked about the whole (CW: gore)
spoiler
“Grey Knights butchering Sisters of Battle to make magical talismans out of their body parts to ostensibly ‘protect’ them from the evils of the Warp in a totally not-evil way”
thing and Matt Ward was fucking giggling during his response about how cool and epic that was.
I swear, that shit was so awful that just seeing the word “gray/grey” describing things in fiction made me pre-emptively groan in anticipation of even more “all the cool perks of evil but you can’t call this power fantasy wankjob evil, maaaaaan” edgelord writing.
I think that even got removed from canon. It wasn’t even necessary tbh the point of the grey knights is they are downright impossible to corrupt. Hell they have kaldor draigo roaming the warp for hundreds of years (although hes like a gary stu)
I keep saying 40k is over the top and even that was just goofy. The emperor gets fed 1000 psykers a day to keep him going. Then I remember covid coming along and over 1000 were dying a day and it was seen as acceptable sacrifice to grease the wheels of this machine and suddenly you realise FUCK
And the former is somehow more… Reasonable? If the golden throne collpases humanity is fucked unless the small chance of the star child happens. The latter… Lol who is the over the top world 40k are the fanatics yet here we are
Matt Ward is such an awful writer that exposure to his prose is an actual psychic damage hazard.
I’ll never forget when a fucking Games Workshop puff piece writer interviewed him and asked about the whole (CW: gore)
spoiler
“Grey Knights butchering Sisters of Battle to make magical talismans out of their body parts to ostensibly ‘protect’ them from the evils of the Warp in a totally not-evil way”
thing and Matt Ward was fucking giggling during his response about how cool and epic that was.
I swear, that shit was so awful that just seeing the word “gray/grey” describing things in fiction made me pre-emptively groan in anticipation of even more “all the cool perks of evil but you can’t call this power fantasy wankjob evil, maaaaaan” edgelord writing.
Thats probably the only context gamers like in OP are fine with seeing women.
Matt Ward was truly a
gater at heart.
I think that even got removed from canon. It wasn’t even necessary tbh the point of the grey knights is they are downright impossible to corrupt. Hell they have kaldor draigo roaming the warp for hundreds of years (although hes like a gary stu)
That already sounds like bullshit developer-preference power fantasy to me. Matt Ward just liked to giggle at gory acts of misogyny I suppose.
I keep saying 40k is over the top and even that was just goofy. The emperor gets fed 1000 psykers a day to keep him going. Then I remember covid coming along and over 1000 were dying a day and it was seen as acceptable sacrifice to grease the wheels of this machine and suddenly you realise FUCK
40k is about over the top absurd stakes like needing mass sacrifice to maintain a psychic beacon to navigate through space.
Burgerland is about needing mass sacrifice so the treats are more convenient.
And the former is somehow more… Reasonable? If the golden throne collpases humanity is fucked unless the small chance of the star child happens. The latter… Lol who is the over the top world 40k are the fanatics yet here we are