My Life In Fandom: When Winning Means Just Showing Up

Warhammer's own David Attenbourough has good news.

Arch is to be commended here. Regardless of long-term effectiveness, he has single-handed lead a counter-attack that bloodied the SJWs' nose yet again. He's already been a boogeyman for the cohort in the Warhammer fandom for a while, so seeing him lead an email campaign that gets Games Workshop to walk back--even a little bit--their push is a win that will catapult him to Supervillain status and let him live in their heads rent-free for years.

And yes, Arch gets all the usual smearing and so on. ("Far right", LOL. He's as right-leaning as Sargon.) Like I said, he lives rent-free.

Let's been realistic here. The SJWs in Warhammer aren't going to go away quietly. We all know the Three Laws of SJWs by now, so we can expect them to double-down. We should plan for that, and plan to exploit that now-known psychological rigidity. Arch isn't saying "Go home" to his supporters. He's saying "Let them fuck themselves over" because that's what's going to happen, so it's time let the SJWs piss off the normies and fuck up their own optics. Then we can resume with the optics advantage and move from there to seize the moral high ground.

Arch may not say so in such blunt terms, but he's smart enough and savvy enough to grok that this is the situation. He has the position and credibility to pivot to a hardcore Scorched Earth campaign if it goes that badly, but--as it often the case with Pop Cult related issues--he's reluctant to close the wallet due to nostalgia and brand loyalty. (And yes, GW goes hard on Muh Officialdom to establish and reinforce the Cult of GW; it's why you rarely hear 40K channels talk about using so much as Age of Sigmar figures in 40K, nevermind not-GW minis- it's that hard a prohibition.)

Is it enough to get what he wants? No. But he isn't such a pushover. Once it's clear he needs to do this again, and harder, he'll not be hard to convince to do so. Like all the other gamers, and those that just want to grill, etc., he too will walk the path that many have before him as the Death Cult pushes him down it. We all know how this ends, but it starts with just showing up to say "No." That's what he did here, and that's why he got this win.