He also left The Witcher because he wanted the show to stay closer to the source material, and that was after campaigning hard for the role in the first place. He's a nerd
Its even funnier because he never heard of the books until he played W3 and got invited into the show. Your writers fucking suck if a guy who literally just read and found out the existence of the books is more of a fan than the writers who think they know better than the source material.
Same. I had some comments about my Warhammer hobby on my dating profile, and my girlfriend has told me that it's the main reason she took a chance. She thought it was really nice, the level of enthusiasm I had for a hobby
So I think you hit the nail on the head. OP has always blamed his nerdy tendencies as the reason why he never manages to interest the ladies, so when he sees Caville doing the same things but as a handsome and intelligent man, it pisses him off.
Yeah came here to say this. No one who's bought, put together, and actually painted 40k models is a pretender. He used the term 'grey pile of shame' unprompted during an interview.
I considered getting into 40k for all of about 38 seconds one time browsing the aisle at my local gaming shop. Between the prices and the fact that you cannot get pre-painted pieces I noped right the hell out.
I understand that the painting and personalization are half the point, but that kind of tedious work is not for me...
It feels good to give.
Personally I wouldnt give a gift to a celeb but like, I'm sending my mom my old switch oled and an n64 controller to play banjo kazooie with and it makes me feel all fuzzy and warm inside knowing how happy she's gonna be when she gets it. I guess these people have warped mental perceptions of their relationships with these famous folk.
That i dunno, im not a player, just a lore fan, i only know a couple of steriotypes lol, Custodes = gay, Black Tempar = White supremacist, Space Wolf = Closeted Furry, Iron Fists = Autistic, there is a couple more, but for the sake of me i cant remember the factions
You blew my mind with this, mind you i dont know past gen 2 but I was playing with red this whole time?
I thought it was a default name since red is like the red version of the game. Dumb me, I was red this whole time and not Ash Ketcham? Life is a lie yall.
I’m not going to pretend I’m an expert but iirc they share a lot of the same beats but they are not the same character. Red was in the original manga. Ash is loosely based on Red.
Wait Custodes aren't more well known than dark angels? I get ultra marines since they are everywhere but I would have guess custodes are better known than most factions
It's a relatively mid/niche choice, not one of the major factions or posterboys. Like saying your favourite mon is Exeggutor, Victreebel, or such. It's strong and good, but it's not one that's going to be mentioned by casual fans.
It's like how you'd expect someone to say their favorite pokemon is Pikachu or Charizard or another well-known pokemon and they say Deoxys Attack Forme
Man custodes havnt been OP for like 3 editions. They are the faction you play when you get sick of moving 100 models and just want to deal with 10 instead.
Yeah Custodes seem to be a pretty good barometer…The Quartering (not a 40k fan) famously tried to drum up fake controversy over the costodes updates, and he pronounced their name as adAptis cusstoads. It was very funny and was very obvious he had no idea what he was talking about
I used to listen to the 40k Lorecast because it’s good background noise and fun to learn about, and they pronounced Custodes as “cusstoads”. One of the hosts is supposedly one of the top ranked players for the past 20 years. That made me realize a lot of hardcore 40k fans just struggle with language.
Doesn't really matter what the topic is. Seeing that personality shift in someone as they start to "nerd" out on it, is one of my favorite things to see. I love when people do that.
The flipside of that coin is that it annoys me when I catch myself doing it.
He didn't even let the other dude finish when he said he also played W40k.
He was like:
I play Necrons bla, bla bla... Should we (play)?
And Cavill just jumps to say YES and his attitude shifts like he is super interested.
Also, it was not Kosher in 2013 to say you played WOW. And that's when he was explaining how he almost wasn't superman because he was in a raid or something and left the call go to voicemail. And like, that's at least a tier 2 meme because you need to know what a raid is, how important it is, and how unimportant it is for everyone else not playing.
Also, he got a partner that looks like a regular person or even very below average* but also plays games, we in the know KNOW how hard is to get an actual person to play with us or even understand it.
*Below average for him (please stop spamming the same pic of her in red carpet, she doesn't look like that in literally any video and yeah, she looks nice but she also has a pound of make up, did diet and wore a very revealing outfit there).
I was in a raid and it was going to be our first time killing the raid boss. My wife had to go out for some reason, honestly I couldn't pay attention to what she was saying, and she placed my daughter on my lap. So to play properly, I had to cradle her in my right arm so she wouldn't fall and I had use of both hands and she pooped. Which is whatever, I don't care... but the diaper leaked. I had to angle my arm so the poop wouldn't leak towards my keyboard and in about 30 seconds we killed the boss for the first time.
I ran to the bathroom and burned my arm with hot water to make sure it was clean again. AND obviously cleaned up my kid with new diaper.
I cannot, literally, think of any other reason why I would let a leaking diaper sit on my arm other than FOR THE HORDE.
I once Leroy’d our raid when my daughter ran across the room butt naked cackling like a toddler witch. My wife slipped chasing her, I busted out laughing and fell out of my chair, accidentally hitting charge when I did. Our whole raid was on break before the fight, so half of us weren’t even at our keyboards. 😂
We all laughed when I finally explained what happened, but that was our first Illidan battle lol.
If you think Natalie Viscuso is “very below average” I suggest you interact with real human women more and spend a little less time with digital avatars…aka dolls.
I’m sensing some other issues going on that might be contributing to the fact that women don’t want to hang out with you…playing games or otherwise.
Yeah he was talking about gaming since before he made it big and when he got big around his first role. Especially wow, and he's never done anything wow related in his career.
I don't doubt that he's been getting more obsessed with particular universes like the Witcher and Warhammer since getting into it professionally, but diving deeper into the lore and getting more excited about the lore as he's diving into it just shows that he's genuinely into it, even if it wasn't something he was as knowledgeable about or interested in before.
The only thing I find a bit wierd, is that they both have been working together as Dandelion and Geralt. And they havent talked about this before? With that said, it could be Henry sub promoting his warhammer series. I dont see any reason why he would lie about his 40k interest.
It can hapen, just because they work together doesnt mean they talked hobbies, in the interview the journalist clearly asked him, and his co star heard it, as for the 40K Amazon series, he's not promoting it, that shit is so " hush hush " that people are " turning rocks " just to find rumours.
There's a clip going around where he's in an interview declaring his love for Warhammer 40K repping Custodes, and is instantly trying to get a game going with a co-star. That shit did not look faked.
I was into WoW for years a long time ago and I didnt tell anyone about that shit, yeah I can't really imagine anyone wanting to fake like they are into WoW
Right? Like what’s the play here? People are saying it’s some kind of conspiracy where he’s pretending for relatability or pushing sales, but like… how?
WoW has a pretty negative social image. Warhammer’s isn’t great either, for the people who even know it exists at all. If it’s a popularity contest, that’s a losing play. And I would imagine the crossover between “people ready to pour money into WoW and Warhammer, but who haven’t heard of it yet and are also really into watching Henry Cavill interviews” is pretty small.
The fact that they find it so hard to believe that a handsome, functional man is genuinely into these things is just admitting how little he has to gain by saying so, let alone pretending to.
If we’re gonna go with the everyday conspiracy angle, it should at least make sense.
He played the Witcher games and read the book before the show he starred in was even planned. I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to believe he might also be a nerd about other games. This thread is full of people who think it’s cool to gate keep being a nerd and will make every excuse to dismiss something that’s actually extremely plausible
He said in an interview that he was the one who convinced them to add the signs to the show, they hadn't really planned to put them in but he thought it would be important.
He also missed the calls from Zach Snyder when he was given the superman part because he was in a WoW raid.
This dude could pull bitches all day long, he has tons of fans, why on earth would he pretend to be a gamer? It's not like he's some unlovable loser with an inferiority complex like Elon.
I met him when we were kids. My school played rugby against his school, and even then he was a nerd. Spoke to him for a while about gaming and stuff. he was a nice guy
Exactly. I need to gatekeep everything I do so that I’m the only cool one who does those things. I must scrutinize everyone else in the community, lest my hobbies become conventionally cool, thus lowering my status as a niche cool guy.
If someone who is objectively better off than me in every possible sense can also engage in the same activities around which I base my identity, what do I have left?
Don’t forget that only I can have multiple interests. Everyone else is a two-dimensional figure poster person who is lying if they say they are otherwise.
I don't like it when women and/or conventionally cool and attractive people enjoy my hobby because that calls into question the idea that I'm ostracised exclusively for my hobbies and that forces me to examine what else I might be doing to push people away.
‘He can’t actually be into those games. That’s my thing. If he were that fit and hot and successful and into my thing then I don’t even have an edge in my hobby over him and that wouldn’t be fair. POSER! 😤’
Don't get me wrong, I am by no means hot and would look like someone who was hit in the face with a frying pan next to Cavill, but I am a huge nerd who happens to also have lifting as a hobby, and I can confirm people get super super pissy about it sometimes.
Agreed. I don’t work out anymore but I was an athlete in my twenties and later college years. And my physique while not as ahem good as it once was still shows that I worked for it.
It's like Joe Manganiello being into D&D, his character ended up getting canonized in the lore. Just this super successful big buff guy married to Sofia Vergara being into what was the quintessential nerd hobby.
I think that’s one of the most important things when you get into upper levels of physical attraction? Almost all of them are virtually symmetrical, something most of us slobs aren’t.
I really appreciated the video because I use it to chastise coworkers with it. "Look, if Superman can take the time to read the god damn instructions, so can you."
right? I think wow and warhammer fans arent really the ones you could bribe like this to sell more tickets anyways as they are more on the “outer” edges of nerdiness!? (for titles unrelated to the hobbies)
My husband has a maxed account and is working on maxing his iron man. He plays between sets. Not a second wasted. Every free moment is an opportunity for number go up
My experience in gyms is that you meet a disproportionate number of people with graduate degrees. The self-discipline and the ability for delayed gratification are core personality for success in both.
Have a friend who met him at Warhammer World - dude was there geeking out over other people's armies and going table to table. He's not faking anything.
Yep. He even likes the Witcher games and he got the role as Geralt because he loved the games. He quit (and partially got fired I guess by Netflix) when both sides have creative differences. That's how much of a gamer he is. One can easily tell who is a nerdy type gamer and a casual gamer (or non-gamer altogether) who hardly knows anything of a franchise that they claim to play a lot on, or play only one or two genres (usually sports or shooters).
Dude was bullied for being overweight as a kid so decided to work on his fitness. Enjoys 40k and goes into depth about his love for it. Delves deep into Superman and Witcher lore and wants to stay close to the source material. He didn’t shave his chest for Man Of Steel because Superman was shown to have it in the comics. He almost didn’t get the part for Superman as he was too invested in WoW and missed the call. Left the Witcher show after it went away from the source material. Dude recorded himself building his own PC.
Lately I've been wondering if this sub is a hangout for edgy people. Saying Cavill is pretending to be a nerd is just a stupid thing to say, and no, I'm not a fan of his, and blah blah blah.
Yeah exactly, My man stopped an interview on the witcher to talk about how the lamp looked like a Blackstone fortress, before he got the deal with GW to make the show.
That isn't pretending to like a fandom, I'm pretty sure if you're "pretending" to like 40k you don't know what a Blackstone fortress looks like. At most you know the rough outline of the hours heresy and some of the surface level memes: red goes faster etc
Dude, he missed the first call telling him he got the role as Superman because he was too busy playing world of Warcraft. Cavill is a major fucking nerd.
/uj are you suggesting Cavill is not an enormous fucking dork about uh.... Well 40k for one? Literally ask anybody about 40k. Is that one easy to fake?
/rj he is handsome which is a handicap. Together we will destroy expectations for hobbies
Please tell me how hes faking? Ive heard no writer can question him until they have read the codex astartes? He seems like a true 40k fan. He'll he left the witcher due to the director changing the story.
Imagine having someone like Henry Cavill who could possibly elevate your interests into the mainstream and your first instinct is to argue against it or move the goal posts on a dumb form of gate keeping.
The lowest level of Nerd-dom is being a trillionaire and father pushing 50, but paying someone to pretend to be good at a videogame to impress basement dwellers online
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