{"id":1703767,"date":"2026-09-28T13:28:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cHpcf5uJ58kKQxWRavApJQ"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:28:46","slug":"3-warhammer-40000-sickos-share-their-strongest-held-beliefs-and-you-can-vote-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/3-warhammer-40000-sickos-share-their-strongest-held-beliefs-and-you-can-vote-on-them\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Warhammer 40,000 sickos share their strongest held beliefs\u2014and you can vote on them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Warhammer 40,000! It’s absolutely everywhere. You can’t leave the house without almost stepping on an ork (which hurts even worse than stepping on Lego) these days. It’s on your table, in your book shops, even on the TV, but the place you’re most likely to encounter 40k is on your PC. <\/p>\n

Since PC Gamer is, humbly, the global authority on PC games, we naturally have some thoughts on 40k. So I’ve gathered my fellow 40k freaks, Jody and Sean, to share our strongest held beliefs about Warhammer 40,000 and its PC game adaptations. And you can express your agreement or outrage by voting “good and pure” or “heretical” underneath each opinion. <\/p>\n

Warhammer 40k is silly but the videogames take it way too seriously <\/span><\/h3>\n
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Warhammer is deeply rooted in satire and parody. It’s incredibly silly. This might be a touch more overt in the fantasy universe, but 40k certainly isn’t meant to be taken seriously. We are talking about a setting where humanity is ruled by the corpse of psychic Jesus, and where space fascists fight space elves and frequently annihilate entire planets.<\/p>\n

It is incredibly, wonderfully dumb. <\/p>\n

But often it’s presented with a straight face. It can sometimes seem like we’re meant to just find all this edgelord stuff incredibly cool, rather enjoying it for the absurdity. And this has largely been promoted by Games Workshop, but I would love for the adaptations to embrace this seemingly forgotten side of 40k\u2014to acknowledge the silliness or use the setting to say something, to dig back down to its satirical roots, even if it’s just so we can have a good laugh. I mean, c’mon, the first ever inquisitor depicted in 40k was called Obiwan Sherlock Clousseau<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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