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05/30/11(Mon)23:11 No.26397392>>26397211
Short answer: Yes. Let me tell you a story, anon:
Once upon a time there was a lot of sci-fi of the nickel paperback variety, and most of it wasn't very good. A group of RPG makers came up with a concept mocking some of the most overused aspects of these stories, and they came up with Warhammer 40,000. In this game, every alien was just some fantasy race IN SPACE, everything that wasn't human was irredeemably evil, and humans themselves were (as a group) petty, stupid, and comically bureaucratic and inept. All in all, it was pretty funny.
Then, a strange thing happened. See, a lot of the cheap crappy sci-fi went away, but 40k stayed. And after a couple of decades, the original creators of the game had retired or moved on, and been replaced by a new set of game designers. These game designers had grown up playing 40k, but they didn't really know anything about the material that it was parodying. Since they'd been introduced to the parody first, they took it at face value and future updates tended to show the game universe as unrelentingly grim and dark because it was 'edgy' and 'futuristic,' not because it was making fun of people who couldn't come up with a more original vision of the future than 'It's like WW2, but with plasma cannons!' And people kept buying their stuff, so this shift in tone was never addressed or corrected.
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