Re: [GZG] Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi!

Beth said:

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> 2) As a female and a mother I actually really dislike the images
> presented in the background world for W40K. They are not nice
basically.

As a bloke and a father I agree with you. There is something inherantly 
nasty about the imagery in the artwork in the books, magazines and 
poster/box art. I'm not sure if it's something particularly British (or 
particular to a segment of British culture) but I kind of noticed it's 
development in comics like 2000AD in the late '80s - weird but
interesting 
became weird and twisted and then twisted and psychotic and hyper
violent. 
It's almost a cliche to walk into a GW shop, nowdays, to find a group of

black-tee-shirt wearing young guys hanging around listening to Death
Metal.

Now this could mean we're getting old and reacting to the youngsters who

have, of course, just invented a way to freak out the fogies but there
seems 
to be an element of self-loathing in the fluff pieces that the rules are

embedded in that disturbs me a little.

But that is just my reaction to what I see when I browse in a shop. I
know 
the games are fun and that those who play them really enjoy them and I
know 
listening to Death Metal and wearing black tee-shirts doesn't make one 
psychotic (I prefer classic metal, myself).

Anyway, that's my 2c on it. Play what you want, enjoy what you do, don't

believe everything you read.

David 

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