I read it as a dumb Emperor joke. It's, uh, comically beside the point regarding any actual racism - but it's funny if we're mocking the Empror, who's really bad at shaping human society (assuming he actually had good goals and was bad at them - the "the Emperor was always Hitler" side wouldn't read it that way).
I guess? From outside the 40k fandom I'm not super familiar with the Emperor. All I know is how many nerds idolise him and consider him the pinnacle of humanity or something.
I just rewatched the relevant part of the video, and I was wrong 😅 The « gold is superior » was when talking about the colour schemes of the Space Marines. The conversation about racism was later in the episode.
Maybe? The fandom makes me uncomfortable. I'm only in the periphery but I think I heard a hundred "kill the Xenos" jokes (are they jokes) and some questionable stuff in my time. Doesn't help that one of my first figures when trying to get into it was Majorkill, where I clicked on a video to be met with several slurs back to back.
Let me put it this way:
To be fair, most Xenos in 40k are pretty awful. But I imagine it's mostly joking.
What is so toxic? I must say I don't interact that much with the fandom.
I'm taking a dwarf sniper over any other kind all day every day - steady hands, inimitable patience, reliable gear diligently kept in top condition, good eye for the lay of the land . . .
… and they don't take much space, so they can more easily hide from their target
If the parody aspects/that the whole thing is presented as a bad future go over your head, it seems like it has very strong hard-right/racist undertones.
That's true for the Lights. But a Grey Apprentice being constantly confused non-stop about simple things like what rules are actual rules and what's supposed to be guidelines you're meant to subtly break is an option. And the Jade mindset seems orthogonal to sound judgement and intelligence.
Student loans are wack, yo.
That could have been true, if we had chosen one of two jobs we were offered instead of the Waystone Project.
Every parody of fascism seems to attract actual fascists that praise the work unironically.
Technically Huinitenuchii comes from Pahuax, the same city that Oxyotl comes from and that had the failed ritual that teleported Oxyotl into the Aethry. Huini got himself severely injured after a duel with Slaa'Ulann, a Greater Daemon of Slaanesh, and it took him a long time to recover, which I believe is where his attendants dragged him to a still surviving city. Xlanhuapec likely already had a Guardian Slaan that wasn't Huini.
It is worth noting that Lord Kroak is not the only Relic Priest remaining active. Most if not all Slann who die get mummified and most of those are still active. It's just that Lord Kroak is the only one to remain powerful enough to tear armies apart instead of just sending a few omens or the like.
Lord Kroak is stated to be a mere fragment of who he used to be, so the process is pretty imperfect and he's not nearly as effective as he used to be.
Don't forget he also destroyed millions of demons all over Lustria.
It's extra weird if your not used to needing them. Like, for me the tuition cost per semster was about 500, which includes a semster ticket for bus and train, and also newly introduced. The idea of someone ending up with 100000+ debt just doesn't really compute.
This is kind of an odd comment for Dreng to make, given how he himself is an ex-clanless ex-ranger. Even if he was the kind to still sleep under the mountain more often than not while Snorri was extremely outdoorsy even among the Redbeards or something, he should be sensitive to this oft overused disparaging remark that gets used by traditionalists against the majority of Rangers.
Silly dreamers and their overactive imagination.
I don't think rangers is prestigious, because there's no ranger god. Obviously, they are respected because they fullfill a needful role, but by the nature of the role they're going to be different than the hold dwarfs. It both makes them different, and is attractive to those who already are different. So I can easily see ranger as used for "strange in a not immoral way".
I think what Rafin is saying is that it's weird that Dreng is the one saying it, because he used to be a Ranger too, and Belegar directly chastised him in front of the council for thinking like a Ranger and doing what was immediately convenient rather than looking for the best solution. Rangers are not prestigous yes, but Dreng was a Ranger. A clanless Ranger at that, which is worse than a disgraced clan in the eyes of Dwarves.
