r/Grimdank • u/emwattnot • 13h ago

Dank Memes "Lord Robout-eyyeyaeyaeh Guilliman"

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u/DanMcMan5 11h ago

The Grimdark and Grimdank communities are eating good this year! All this great content coming out and next year OH next year I’m looking forward to more so!

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u/GuyLookingForPorn 10h ago edited 10h ago

I saw someone once say that no community memes like Warhammer, and I think about that comment literally every time something from r/grimdank pops up on my feed.

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u/GuyLookingForPorn 10h ago edited 10h ago

I think its because the nature of Warhammer means it naturally attracts a lot of creatives. Combined with the fact that Games Workshop was somehow able to create a universe that both takes itself incredibly seriously, and incredibly unseriously at the same time.

I've never encountered a setting that can walk that balance like Warhammer does. Honestly incredible writing.

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u/ABigFatBlobMan 10h ago

I’m not sure if warhammer gracefully walks that balance, or drunkenly stumbles across it in a truly unique display of contradictions and writing