What is the 'Average' home like in the Imperium?

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  • @PhthaloGreenskin
    @PhthaloGreenskin Місяць тому +1771

    A dark Eldar Hamonculus was on Terra to try to fix the golden Throne. He was OVERWHELMED by the amount of suffering on terra. The Dark Eldar mad Scientist was overwhelmed by the suffering on terra. That's like when Charlie Sheen comes up to you and says "listen, you're doing to many drugs".

    • @maddoc1366
      @maddoc1366 Місяць тому +307

      Or, to make a 40k analogy, it's like Slaanesh saying " Dude, don't do that. You're going too far, you need help. "😯

    • @avid4810
      @avid4810 Місяць тому +22

      😂😂😂

    • @John.Doe.272
      @John.Doe.272 Місяць тому +30

      This is Terra.

    • @PopCultureCat
      @PopCultureCat Місяць тому +33

      Madness? This! Is! Terra!

    • @titanomachy2217
      @titanomachy2217 Місяць тому +89

      Why would a Dark Eldar, let alone a Haemonculus, want to help the Imperium fix the Golden Throne? Also that doesn't really make sense, I can't imagine Commoragh having less suffering in it than Terra, I mean it is massive and utterly filled to the brim with psychos torturing people in the most horrific ways imaginable. I think sometimes the writers just suck at consistent worldbuilding.

  • @mdforbes500
    @mdforbes500 Місяць тому +1124

    Joe has a window... his wife is crazy for leaving him

    • @TheOneTrueD
      @TheOneTrueD Місяць тому +122

      The ganger she ran off with had TWO windows

    • @JiresHacob
      @JiresHacob Місяць тому +1

      Bro I didn't even have a window for the first five years of my adult life on EARTH 38,000 years sooner when people still had some rights because I rented a basement.
      But Joe does.
      Lucky fucker.

    • @stuckinaloop6637
      @stuckinaloop6637 Місяць тому +74

      She got tired of him spending all his time playing some tabletop game called Battlespork 2024.

    • @indiomoustafa2047
      @indiomoustafa2047 Місяць тому +57

      ​​@@stuckinaloop6637 Actually he was playing Hamwarmer 80,000

    • @adrianj2666
      @adrianj2666 20 днів тому +10

      He wasn't rich enough to play the original game originating from the forgeworld called G.Workshop so he played a knock-off version called Spacemace 69 using heretic technology; non ad-mech approved 3d printed models invented by an outlawed imperial commisar Gamza. He was hunted by the Forgeworld's merciless group of enforcers called the Legal Defense Team.

  • @kolsfug3148
    @kolsfug3148 Місяць тому +615

    My favorite description of being an Imperial Citizen was something along the lines of "Not having any sort of badge of office, gang-symbol or other sign of ownership on your person is a death-sentence. Everyone NEEEDS to belong to something or someone, because being alone means people can do whatever they want with you without fear of retaliation or even investigation."
    Great personal narrative, and makes it easy to see why a lot of people would sell their souls just for the chance of escaping to something better or just 'different'!

  • @antonyhart6757
    @antonyhart6757 Місяць тому +312

    Look at Mr Fancy Pants with his nutrient sticks and window

  • @JHattsy
    @JHattsy Місяць тому +715

    "we're gonna describe a hab unit!" describes a 1 bedroom apartment in California / New York.
    40k ain't so far away...

    • @huntercoleherr
      @huntercoleherr Місяць тому +49

      Korea and Tokyo are already there.

    • @eimhingalvin8864
      @eimhingalvin8864 Місяць тому +33

      I was going to say, the comparison too the Soviet Union and China is abit poor like at least the soviet's had green space around buildings lol

    • @cyberpunk-2O77
      @cyberpunk-2O77 Місяць тому +34

      40k is the monthly rent

    • @dirtynessenjoyer
      @dirtynessenjoyer Місяць тому

      @@huntercoleherr ain't gonna mention China or Hindustan?

    • @FedkaSlovanich
      @FedkaSlovanich Місяць тому +4

      @@eimhingalvin8864That was only in certain parts were government officials were or were Western diplomats traveled through, like the reagan parks.

  • @MGrey-qb5xz
    @MGrey-qb5xz Місяць тому +498

    can't imagine this is what emperor ever wanted for humanity

    • @AKUJIVALDO
      @AKUJIVALDO Місяць тому +165

      Neither he expected to be half dead on life support, while being a lighthouse, gatekeeper and an Imperial Garlic to Chaos Satans.

    • @kogorun
      @kogorun Місяць тому +20

      I bet that's what he wanted either way. It doesn't matter to him in what condition humanity exists so long as it does, and so long as it keeps being warp-free.

    • @MGrey-qb5xz
      @MGrey-qb5xz Місяць тому +67

      @@kogorun that would imply he be ok with space marines ruling over humanity which wasn't the case, he wanted humanity to be self functioning atheists in order to combat any xeno and chaos horde

    • @terranaxiomuk
      @terranaxiomuk Місяць тому +27

      It isn't. He abolished religion and united humanity. The imperium is everything he hated.

    • @MGrey-qb5xz
      @MGrey-qb5xz Місяць тому

      @@terranaxiomuk well it's not like the current situation is not without proper justification, they are now at constant war and can't use stuff like AI cause of chaos

  • @theodoreslavo5385
    @theodoreslavo5385 2 місяці тому +608

    No wonder joining the PDF just to get a shot at joining the Imperial Guard is seen as such a glorious thing.
    Better rations, medical care, pay, and they also give you a lasgun. What more could an Imperial citizen wish for.

    • @cyberleaderandy1
      @cyberleaderandy1 2 місяці тому +49

      Its interesting listening to the characters comments in Darktide about rations and such that the Inquisition is seen as a step up from the guards. Even their basic accomodation and potential to survive is seen as better than what they got previously.

    • @toobig7150
      @toobig7150 2 місяці тому +34

      ​@@cyberleaderandy1 Also that the mechanicum rations are more filling but taste horrible, and that's somehow so telling with so little info

    • @KingLich451
      @KingLich451 2 місяці тому

      ​@@toobig7150mechanicum aint here to please your weak fleshlings

    • @thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong
      @thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong 2 місяці тому

      also gives context to why so many humans join the T'au. I don't care how xenophobic you are, getting THAT much free shit is hard to pass up.

    • @Knights_Oath
      @Knights_Oath Місяць тому +13

      The best case of this is the Mordian Iron Guard. They and their family do not have to work the mines and get guaranteed food rations. It's an awful world even by Imperium standards and self end is the leading cause of death.

  • @KrautGoesWild
    @KrautGoesWild Місяць тому +292

    Ciaphas Cain and a pre-Heresy Horus are the only people I ever saw smile in WH40K artwork.

    • @palestinalibre4
      @palestinalibre4 Місяць тому +17

      There are evil demons and monsters that appear smiling. But yeah, no humans.

    • @maestromike8694
      @maestromike8694 Місяць тому +28

      Orks are having a good time.

    • @KrautGoesWild
      @KrautGoesWild Місяць тому +17

      @@maestromike8694 Cuz hoomies furgot to smoil? Gud thin-kun ✌😎!

    • @alastor8091
      @alastor8091 Місяць тому +10

      Nurgle's gang is full of smiles, care for a quick sermon?

    • @nickcher7071
      @nickcher7071 15 днів тому +3

      To be fair, Cain books feature different Imperial worlds where life can be genuinely decent, even quite nice. At least, when they are not being actively invaded by somebody ofc. Perlia for example seemed as a pretty chill place to live, when there are no orks around

  • @forthrightgambitia1032
    @forthrightgambitia1032 Місяць тому +127

    It's worth remembering that when GW were designing 40k in the late 80s, Kowloon Walled City was somewhat well know in the UK (Hong Kong still being under British control). Along with other sources of inspiration I do think that this was one of the big things that fed into Necromunda - even down to how the Hong Kong of the time and especially Kowloon were under triad control when game that we now know as proto-Necromunda, Confrontation, was being developed (released in 1990).

    • @0ff868
      @0ff868 Місяць тому +13

      yeah, the chance GW knew about Kowloon at that time is pretty high, considering it was featured in many cyberpunk media of the 80's and 90's
      funny thing about Kowloon, when it eventually got dismantled, it's former residents complained about being relocated, apparently they liked that place very much

    • @MauseDays
      @MauseDays 21 день тому +1

      Kowloon ishe baiss of much of the genre so 100%

  • @alexalexander1772
    @alexalexander1772 Місяць тому +77

    His hobbies. I’d like to think he’s painting miniature social workers and counselors for some crazy table top social engineering game.

    • @Squig96
      @Squig96 Місяць тому +15

      Or hes painting miniatures of a fictive universe in the year 80000 which is even more grim dark than his own to have a sence of "well at least its not that bad"

    • @Goldsrc17
      @Goldsrc17 8 днів тому +2

      He paints miniature townsfolk for the hit tabletop game peacehammer

    • @TaylorfromPapaLouie
      @TaylorfromPapaLouie 2 дні тому

      bold of you to assume he has one. or even know what a hobby is

  • @Monolith308
    @Monolith308 Місяць тому +226

    At least the Skaven have social mobility

    • @jabloko992
      @jabloko992 Місяць тому +29

      legit bro, omg what a thought. Imagine living worse than the Skaven.

    • @ZrrMe
      @ZrrMe Місяць тому +8

      Oh? You want Skaven social mobility? * Hangs a bell up over your house and rings it 13 times *

    • @kiravatheargonian
      @kiravatheargonian 18 днів тому +2

      Granted your back is gonna look like Julius Caesar’s everywhere but you’re correct 😂

    • @kiravatheargonian
      @kiravatheargonian 18 днів тому +1

      @@jabloko992if you wanna be technical, the IoM _is_ the 40k Skaven

  • @Knights_Oath
    @Knights_Oath Місяць тому +186

    There is a reason people will stand in a que for most of their lives so that one of their great grand children can become a menial scribe in the Administratum. The Guard is a privilege to most in the Imperium, they feed you at least. Even if the average life span of a Guardsmen in combat is 15 hours.

    • @siluda9255
      @siluda9255 Місяць тому +9

      Tbh if life like this i rather go die to some alien/demon than live there, at least i get a cool death

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 Місяць тому +7

      Good promotion prospects though. Survive your first battle and you get to be an officer.

    • @Alex-xt1rr
      @Alex-xt1rr Місяць тому +34

      The 15 hours stuff was in one very specific combat operation and is not the average across the whole Astra Militarium.

    • @conscript900
      @conscript900 Місяць тому +1

      @@Alex-xt1rr (Damn good novel though)

    • @thatflyingsaucer9340
      @thatflyingsaucer9340 Місяць тому

      It was 5 hours, not 15.

  • @teeheeteeheeish
    @teeheeteeheeish Місяць тому +73

    I feel like having a door and some privacy is almost too luxurious. I'd expect crude bunks in an open bay lol.

    • @MrPaPaYa86
      @MrPaPaYa86 Місяць тому

      Well Joe can be considered a member of the elite to some extent. Maybe event a 1%er, considering hive cities host hundreds of billions

    • @Firguy
      @Firguy 7 днів тому +3

      I think a lot of people in 40k wouldn't even have carpet to sleep on. They'd get used to sleeping on hard steel and concrete from an early age.

  • @jonathanchow993
    @jonathanchow993 2 місяці тому +158

    I can imagine it to be like living in a massive prison block especially on the worker levels where people there have no hope of ascending their position

    • @dystopianchimp
      @dystopianchimp  2 місяці тому +15

      Yeah I don't think you are far off

    • @cyberleaderandy1
      @cyberleaderandy1 2 місяці тому +11

      ​@@dystopianchimp joining the Guard is a way out, possibly a deadly one though and for those in Darktide who made it to the Inquisition thats seen as a massive step up in status as they now mock many of the guards they pass on missions.

  • @WarpsmithDoviculus
    @WarpsmithDoviculus 2 місяці тому +123

    After years of lurking in the 40k lore side of UA-cam, I have never seen a better video about the average life of a regular citizen. The production is good, the music soothing but yet captivating. Your voice kept me concentrated on both your dialogue and my miniatures. I absolutely love your content. I will watch your career with great interests.
    A personal recommendation of mine would be a video on traitor guardsmen. Their fall, their life, notable group in the lore, etc.

    • @soccerandtrack10
      @soccerandtrack10 2 місяці тому +4

      They just got some toys.
      Theres still no "army" for chaos inperial gaurd though.

    • @dystopianchimp
      @dystopianchimp  2 місяці тому +11

      My thanks Warpsmith! Glad you liked the video and love your suggestion - would definitely be an interesting perspective

    • @irishmoney4291
      @irishmoney4291 Місяць тому

      ​@@soccerandtrack10 I'm going to assume that you never heard of the blood pack or sons of sekt

  • @rattled6732
    @rattled6732 Місяць тому +454

    Still better than Detroit

  • @jorikrouwenhorst7220
    @jorikrouwenhorst7220 Місяць тому +19

    I’m imagining that as we follow Joe throughout his day you’ll hear context clues in the background.
    Walking through the red light district Joe gets an offer by a “Lady of the night” for some company, underneath her collar we can make out a mark of Slaanesh.
    When Joe gets his protein slab and nutrition sticks you hear in the background that the composition of ingredients has steadily been changing and how the protein slab tastes different.
    In his apartment building people talk about worsening damage and about how this block maybe also will collapse or crash into the factory underneath it.
    When Joe is home and crawls into his bed and looks at the picture of his wife the camera zooms out as Joe curls up, we either have a silent fade to black or have a single quiet sob from Joe.
    Post credit scene two/three decades later we see Joe again, he looks even worse then before and we follow him home again. We hear different things, about how rumours of war in the lower hive, a hussed discussion about a strange ship.
    When Joe’s home and curls up his noticeably more worn bed he hear a commotion, as he looks up sleep still in his eyes his door burst open, heavily armed men grab him and push him roughly onto the hallway floor and a needle is injected into him, screaming of other people being handled the same way echo throughout the building.
    Joe wakes an unknown amount of time later in a darkroom, bound to a chair, in front of him an agent of the inquisition, in his hand he holds a datapad with footage of Joe.
    The inquisition agent says “Did you think we wouldn’t catch onto you! Traitor!”
    The footage consists of Joe’s collisions with servitors he had over the years and mistakes during his work. Next to the footage we can read the damages his actions has caused to the imperium.

  • @haggleman3232
    @haggleman3232 2 місяці тому +119

    I'm glad the model hive city was based off the ancient forgotten metropolis known as Los Angeles.

    • @cyberleaderandy1
      @cyberleaderandy1 2 місяці тому +4

      A lot like Mega City 1 in Dredd, minus the Judges.

    • @Ner0sys7
      @Ner0sys7 Місяць тому +17

      You know 40k as a whole is a satire of conservative capitalism and fascist nationalism, right?

    • @TrinityShoji
      @TrinityShoji Місяць тому

      ​@@Ner0sys7and you understand that the US is a conservative, capitalist hellscape?
      Just one political party wears a liberalist cape and the other a fascist one.

    • @danielmartin531
      @danielmartin531 Місяць тому

      ​@@Ner0sys7 add in hard-line Stalinist communism somehow and the picture is complete.
      Bleak af

    • @gordonstevens9074
      @gordonstevens9074 Місяць тому +6

      @@Ner0sys7 It's hard to think of any part of 40k caused by capitalist private industry. Most events and conditions are the direct result of command economy.

  • @XSilver_WaterX
    @XSilver_WaterX 2 місяці тому +35

    Now explaining both the Chaos and Dark Eldar living arrangements; if one is to SURVIVE in some measure of piece. For Chaos, food is PERSONALLLY made for the Death Guard and World Eaters so any mortal to consume said food will...experience inappropriate bowel movement to say lightly. Living in your hab-block where the literal ceiling wants to crush you, windows showing all sorts of horrors even without LOOKING, utility failure happening every minute and forcing you to pay for maintenance, your neighbors sending IEDs and horror mail, oh and let's not forget your landlord is secretly the Demon Govenor over the Demon Planet who is planning your demise!
    For Dark Eldar...Emperor save me as a sinner; one of the least bad facts of being their "toy" is having a "warm" bed and possibility you may give birth to a half-breed. Regardless of gender. Oh, and the fetus is psychically aware its growing inside you and CHOOSING which END to come out.

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 Місяць тому +7

      Those who serve chaos at least get to have some fun and spend their time doing what they love. Nurgle might be the only faction leader to really care about the happiness and well-being of his followers.

  • @lazylazymule
    @lazylazymule 2 місяці тому +97

    Lives of the average citizen is something we really don't get enough of in 40K!!!

    • @valance10
      @valance10 Місяць тому +6

      Wish they'd do more stories from the perspective of average imperial citizens rather than space marines

    • @TheLazyFinn
      @TheLazyFinn 14 днів тому +1

      @@valance10 Well there are a ton of IG and Inquisition books too

  • @rottingcorpse1990
    @rottingcorpse1990 Місяць тому +15

    In Darktide, you can see the living conditions of the general populace in the mission Hab Dreyko. They live inside hab blocks that are made of lots of apartments that contain shared living space with bunk beds. Also at the beginning of the mission Power Matrix HL-17-36, the characters comment about the horrible conditions of the workers in the manufactorum which are even worse than in hab blocks. You can see stuff like blankets, pillows, clothes and sleeping bags randomly spread in areas that look like small locker rooms, right next to enormous factory rooms that contain massive machinery and scorching heat of Metalfab 36.

  • @N7-WAR-HOUND
    @N7-WAR-HOUND Місяць тому +23

    Consider there’s a decent chance if you get dropped on a random planet in 40K you may not realize your in 40K for a very long time

  • @xili0966
    @xili0966 Місяць тому +26

    Me watching this video in my studio apartment after a dinner of fried spam: "Warhammer 40K is so dystopian!"

  • @beanieb0b
    @beanieb0b Місяць тому +61

    In a short story King of Pigs, the main character is just a factory worker, but he has his own apartment with a bathroom and closet (I picture it like V's apartment from 2077) and, I'm not gonna say there's no planets in the imperium where the homes are that bad, hell there's probably thousands just like that, but I feel like a larger percent of the Hive worlds are more like that.
    Of course the main character literally has to paddle through a river of blood to get to work every morning, so maybe it is all just terrible forever.

  • @Derekthetau
    @Derekthetau 2 місяці тому +133

    Wow, I just assumed this was a bigger channel. Nicely done. I look forward to more of your work!

    • @sammule83
      @sammule83 2 місяці тому +2

      Backhanded compliment, nice 😅

    • @dystopianchimp
      @dystopianchimp  2 місяці тому +9

      Thank you! ❤ More vids on the way

  • @RebelInTheF.D.G
    @RebelInTheF.D.G Місяць тому +28

    Sounds like working 3rd shift at a Dennys.

  • @leonmumford179
    @leonmumford179 Місяць тому +29

    In 41st millennium, no one cares if you scream.

  • @adc1222
    @adc1222 Місяць тому +13

    As much as space marines are the poster children of 40k, one of my favourite things is just seeing how average people cope in the awful universe. More stuff like this would be lovely! The Bloodlines book is a great example of more down to earth 40k stuff

  • @gasmonkey1000
    @gasmonkey1000 Місяць тому +5

    Id imagine that a considerable portion wouldn't even get the "coffin apartments" you see in Hong Kong. Arch mentioned there being massive dorms and i remember in the Krieg story "Left For Dead" that such dorms are employed. And from the dialogue it sounds like these are far from uncommon.
    So yeah, you'd get back from work, and you cant even get some privacy. Your most private is your cot, maybe a container to hold personal shit, and what you carry. And Emperor help you if there's an old couple or kids, cause then you are getting no sleep.
    Granted id imagine if you're married they'd let you and the missus have a room after getting proper documentation so you can "make more little soldiers for the Emperor" in relative private.

  • @deathangel7335
    @deathangel7335 Місяць тому +8

    I would think there would probably be some dispensation for extra space or other amenities if you have at least two kids; this would be a thing the Impirium would want to encourage as they always need more meat for war machine. Front line or factories.

    • @dystopianchimp
      @dystopianchimp  Місяць тому +4

      Interesting point - unless the administration is concerned about overpopulation in the hive? Probs a bit of a balancing act and would likely depend on the hive and / or planet

  • @laurisjones
    @laurisjones 2 місяці тому +54

    More Joe Imperium! This was better than most actual 40k fiction.

  • @callhunter34
    @callhunter34 Місяць тому +28

    What would I do after a 16 hour shift in a hive world? Same thing I do for a 12 hour in this world. Feed my cat, Smoke weed, and pass tf out? No time to eat or cook sounds like the same thing here. The smoke helps get past the uncertainty and troubling times. Wait sorry I forgot we were talking about 40k

  • @pentacosttb2565
    @pentacosttb2565 Місяць тому +40

    The thing about the average is numbers. While hive worlds aren’t anywhere near numerous enough to be what the average 40K world looks like, the sheer number of people living on them absolutely tips the scales in their favour.
    The ‘average’ world of the imperium would be a civilised or Agri world. So likely not too bad unless you get invaded or a chaos/genestealer cult takes root.

    • @dystopianchimp
      @dystopianchimp  Місяць тому +21

      Yeah exactly - pure population density alone forces us to consider life in hives as 'average' even though hive worlds themselves are actually quite uncommon in the grand scheme of things

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 Місяць тому

      Even the Agri-worlds are hardly comfortable. They aren't made to be sustainable - the level of chemical enhancement needed to maximise yield renders the planet toxic to most animal life, including humans, and work hours are just as long as anywhere else. Less crowded, at least. The world is too toxic to use after a few centuries, but that's ok - it's more practical to just terraform a new one. Sustainable farming just can't produce the yields required.

    • @FarremShamist
      @FarremShamist Місяць тому +5

      @@dystopianchimp Yeah, I'm happy you actually took into account that the population of hiveworlds are just so vast that it IS the average for Imperial living situations. Most of the time people go into weird "Imperial Apologetics" and go for the average world type instead just because it doesn't make the Imperium look all that bad.
      Heck, I know we've all seen people use as "examples on why the Imperium isn't so bad to live in!!1!"
      Honestly, I think there's a possibility another hab type for hivers wasn't mentioned though, and that's the communal capsule type, where it's effectively just a sealed off bed in the wall that has the barest amount of room. Though places like that are probably on-site habitation, and may not be the actual average. It's hard to say though.

    • @doomguy9049
      @doomguy9049 Місяць тому

      ​@@FarremShamist The unimaginable wealth and luxury of bigshots like planetary governors, inquisitors, etc would skew the average quality of life back in the opposite direction too though, making it seem not as impoverished and dire as it is for a majority of people.

    • @FarremShamist
      @FarremShamist Місяць тому

      @@doomguy9049 I mean, if you include the unimaginably wealthy in the census, they're going to skew something if you give too much weight on them.
      More likely, it's not going to affect the slide at all. It would barely even nudge it, with how many people live just worse lives.

  • @Huseyin-nh9vt
    @Huseyin-nh9vt 27 днів тому +4

    This whole imperium of man needs a “RED REVOLUTION” 😅

    • @ironguard4048
      @ironguard4048 19 днів тому

      You could argue that this world isn't capitalist in nature but more collectivist in nature. There seems to be little privatization in his description. Sure it's not collectivist for the workers but a corrupt collectivism feeding a war machine.

  • @retnuhretnuh
    @retnuhretnuh 2 місяці тому +31

    I would love a video covering "The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer"

    • @dystopianchimp
      @dystopianchimp  2 місяці тому +7

      Great idea - I think GrimDark Narrator might have already done a series on that but will still give it a think

    • @terranaxiomuk
      @terranaxiomuk Місяць тому

      I have the damocles gulf edition of that in mint condition.

  • @louisazraels7072
    @louisazraels7072 Місяць тому +7

    The best thing the imperium could do to stem the tides of chaos is to improve the living conditions of their population

  • @KneeCapHill
    @KneeCapHill 2 місяці тому +2

    Top tier content dude. Hope you do many other deep dives like this one

  • @randomguy2809
    @randomguy2809 Місяць тому +8

    I'm most curious about what the equivalent of a middle manager is like in 40k. Not the super rich, but what is it like to make the equivalent of say 100k or 200k in the 40k universe (adjusted for inflation, obviously) that person is moderately successful, the kind who should be able to support a family and have a decently materialistic life.

    • @KalashVodka175
      @KalashVodka175 Місяць тому +6

      Warhammer crime story describes the life amenities of local police detectives (not arbites) who might fit the bill. Basically they’ve got apartment, assigned cars and live in relatively safe part of town.

    • @randomguy2809
      @randomguy2809 Місяць тому

      @KalashVodka175 yeah I was wondering if there was anything like upper middle class in 40k. Like how does that guy's boss's boss's boss live?

  • @aggressiveoatmealmemes6881
    @aggressiveoatmealmemes6881 2 місяці тому +20

    No wonder people join the guard

  • @Hurricanelive
    @Hurricanelive Місяць тому +5

    Well, he hasn't reported his wife mia, so he gets double share luxury and doesn't have to be busted down to an even SMALLER hab unit. One could possibly imagine a long term stay in an ISO-cube would be a true luxury compared to the majority of situations one may find themselves in 40k. Always a roll of the dice. I think joy comes down to possessions and friendships rather than cold hard cash. Even cash can only get you so far and some thugs are deaf to that. Owning a relic laspistol (heck, even a zip tube), a 200sq foot apartment possibly with a drop down lav that doesn't smell too much, and an acquaintance or two that you may consider a friend, these are the true riches. Cash could get you up a few hundred floors, maybe even a bodyguard or two, but can you really trust them? That's a big bullseye. Heck, even Joe's wife and lover might come knocking one day looking for a quick score.

  • @totalpartykill999
    @totalpartykill999 Місяць тому +15

    i am just wondering what sort of fever dream Rick Priestly had in order to come up with this all those years ago.

    • @andresr.viguera9791
      @andresr.viguera9791 Місяць тому +6

      I guess he was in 80s Hong Kong and got inspired

    • @dominicmassa5492
      @dominicmassa5492 Місяць тому +3

      I'm of the opinion that over time, more authors have mad e the world increasingly grim and derpy.

    • @generaldelasmontanas2699
      @generaldelasmontanas2699 Місяць тому

      @@dominicmassa5492 kowloon is apparently grimderp

    • @terranaxiomuk
      @terranaxiomuk Місяць тому

      I wouldn't be surprised if the 2000AD comics had some influence. He just took it further.

  • @p.rpatriot4170
    @p.rpatriot4170 14 днів тому +2

    Great video i like you want into the details with this one i have been looking for lore vids on hab units but i think your the only one that went in depth please make more vids like this.

  • @soccerandtrack10
    @soccerandtrack10 2 місяці тому +17

    "Inperial fauder🤲🧎‍♂️inperial fauder
    🤲🧎‍♂️veeeere aut,my inperial fauder🤲🧎‍♂️?...."
    Random old person="whaaaaah aaaaaat!!!!???..."

    • @dystopianchimp
      @dystopianchimp  2 місяці тому +2

      🤲🧎‍♂️Amen 🤲🧎‍♂️

  • @soulsmoke01
    @soulsmoke01 2 місяці тому +5

    That was a dope vid! Great delivery,and presentation

  • @PariahPernicus
    @PariahPernicus Місяць тому +1

    Love to see your channel rise ever higher, you deserve it. Great work sir o7

  • @ZacharyReaper
    @ZacharyReaper 2 місяці тому +9

    I would expect this from a bigger channel. Great work mate, you earn my sub!

  • @kuzzii
    @kuzzii Місяць тому

    Great idea for a video, I rly want to see more channels explore general concepts like this one rather then mainly focusing on a very specific instance of lore.

  • @davidmiddleton7958
    @davidmiddleton7958 2 місяці тому +7

    The answer to that is a rockrete box, if you're lucky!

  • @pyroparagon8945
    @pyroparagon8945 7 днів тому

    One of my favorite parts of WH40 Space Marine on the ps3 were the tapes of imperial citizens talking before the orc attack, and trying to stay together and stay alive during it. You also walk through living quarters in a lot of areas.

  • @quazar5017
    @quazar5017 2 місяці тому +12

    Imperial GDP stonks

  • @LeHunter70
    @LeHunter70 Місяць тому +8

    Dang, that is a good video for me, as you can visualize from the highest of kings to even low lives who have no purpose other than working.
    Either way, it is good, now i want to see an average life of an citizen in an imperial knight world. As always, i will wait for you to make that, thank you

  • @Honza67382
    @Honza67382 Місяць тому +5

    This video makes me wanna see Wojack's life in the Imperium.

    • @dystopianchimp
      @dystopianchimp  Місяць тому +4

      Haha if I had the animation skills I would definitely give it a go - No Budget Stories style

  • @jonathanstempleton7864
    @jonathanstempleton7864 Місяць тому +3

    On the plus side, you finally found your bottle opener. Now you can open that 38,000 year old bottle of ... Damn, where did that go?

  • @andynorton4854
    @andynorton4854 Місяць тому +6

    So basically, its like living in Leicester.

    • @TheVillyham
      @TheVillyham Місяць тому

      Lmao this sounds nicer than Leicester

  • @cyberleaderandy1
    @cyberleaderandy1 2 місяці тому +3

    This is very much like you see in the hab areas of Darktide. Only when you get into the archives or the tower areas do you get to see the posher parts of a hive.

  • @majorkalashinikov1277
    @majorkalashinikov1277 Місяць тому +2

    Joe has a mind, and desires, for his life is bleak and his lords failed him, desires of lust, of knowlage, of health, of rage...

  • @docutains
    @docutains 29 днів тому +1

    I was looking for a new 40k tuber, was on fence until the synthwave intro kicked in and I'm sold. Subbed right up bud, lets get it.

    • @dystopianchimp
      @dystopianchimp  27 днів тому

      Haha thanks mate - now you just need to check out the chimpwave volumes

  • @tianchris2517
    @tianchris2517 Місяць тому +5

    The first two examples would lead to such massive attrition that the hive would simply die out. Grimdark has never been too realistic (North Korea is an exception because it is at odds with human nature) and at one point, 40k needs to answer the questions humans ask themselves. Why am I doing this?
    The worst way it could work while still maintaining survivable odds would be accomodation similar to the industrial centers in the 19th and 20th century. Which was terrible enough as I know from history lectures in university.

    • @FarremShamist
      @FarremShamist Місяць тому +4

      It's probably why the actual average is some sort of enclosed habitation unit, even if it's communal. Bunk beds or beehive sorts where you are in stacked wall capsules. Even if those are not preferable, definitely better than sticking next to death-fumes while you're asleep lmao

    • @tianchris2517
      @tianchris2517 Місяць тому +4

      @@FarremShamist At least it will be a good sleep. I mean...the workers would literally die in their childhood without being able to procreate. Even satire can only go so far.

    • @MichaelDavis-mk4me
      @MichaelDavis-mk4me Місяць тому +2

      North Korea proves your point actually. Their population has been falling for decades. I also hold the view that the Imperium could not exist. People in such condition will not have children since they don't have the time, energy, living space and desire to build a family in this world. Children would die before even reaching adulthood due to pollutants. Disease would wipe the rest of the population out. Also people don't work well at all when doing 16 hours every day, they will doze off, botch their job, be unproductive. Massive parts of the population would rebel, they don't have anything to lose. And if they succeed, they won't care about the Chaos invasion, it will take thousands of years, far more than they or their children will ever see.

  • @soccerandtrack10
    @soccerandtrack10 2 місяці тому +5

    0:22 "loyal".
    Like how serviters are "loyal".

  • @bluedotdinosaur
    @bluedotdinosaur 24 дні тому +1

    IIRC, as 40k's fiction has grown over time, the hive cities have been framed like this: originally they were very different during the golden age of humanity. The hives were supported by technology that has long since failed and been removed, replaced with far cruder machinery to keep them barely livable.
    Originally, the hives were arcologies that were clean and healthy. The purpose was to avoid humanity paving over entire worlds and destroying their ecologies, by keeping most humans living in central locations. Advanced technology and engineering was used to make the cities pleasant. One might imagine even if the average person had a small apartment it was mainly a sleeping room, and most time was spent out and around the mega city. In vast parks, libraries, arcades, and universities. Remember at the height, most labor and manufacturing was performed by "men of iron" or AI servitors.
    The problem is after the fall, the megacities began to fail. When the Men of Iron were destroyed, humans were forced to labor under conditions originally meant for machines. Dark, hidden underground, unsafe, without adequate atmospheric circulation. Most of the healthy public facilities would have vanished, with a minority being preserved for the noble families who seized control at the topmost levels.
    Since the hive city paradigm seems to have been one of the standard practices for humanity colonizing the galaxy - back when such a city provided a good life - it explains why most of humanity lives in squalor now. They are being forced to inhabit environments that have not only fallen apart, but were never actually intended for human beings to live and work in.

  • @mediaenoctem
    @mediaenoctem 2 місяці тому +7

    I really enjoy this.
    I love seeing space marines like any other Warhammer enjoyer, but also seeing the world is interesting as well.

  • @berkaltuglu8140
    @berkaltuglu8140 29 днів тому +2

    Goverment sponsored housing?! Sign me the duck up!!!

  • @raffaelbaumkaenguruh2654
    @raffaelbaumkaenguruh2654 Місяць тому +2

    great video! suprisinlgy chill atmosphere :)
    btw, did you make your PFP/the chimp in the outro? cuz it looks really cool!

  • @Furzkampfbomber
    @Furzkampfbomber Місяць тому +3

    Liked and subbed. I am a sucker for Wh40k lore videos and I regularly listen to Baldermord, Luetin09 and Oculus Imperia to help me fall asleep. I can imagine seeing you in the same league. Not because your vids are so boring that I can't help but to fall asleep, but because of the structured way of your videos and your calm way of moderating them. Informative if you are into Wh40k and totally relaxing.

  • @nicolaipetersen5675
    @nicolaipetersen5675 Місяць тому

    Dude this was amzing!

  • @pikenson4974
    @pikenson4974 Місяць тому +1

    I would love to see the Daily life of a tech-priest, especially a low-level one

  • @Peter2k84
    @Peter2k84 5 днів тому

    For every comparison, while interesting to explore, always have to remember that in 40k, Humanity would have stopped existing if the Imperium would have been less cruel.

  • @itsbezerkintime67
    @itsbezerkintime67 2 місяці тому +1

    Please make a series out of this all the things you listed i would love to hear about especially guardsmen’s every day life

  • @JoshuaAdim
    @JoshuaAdim Місяць тому +1

    This is one of the only 40k lore videos that didn't bore me to sleep, more please!

  • @Bill-ix2zc
    @Bill-ix2zc 20 днів тому

    One of my favorite descriptions of a Hive World's hab blocks would have to come from Arch, as he basically calls the habs storage units, in which the millions of human tools are stored from floor to ceiling until needed.

  • @ricks5756
    @ricks5756 Місяць тому +1

    I'd imagine 40K hab blocks looking a lot like the mega-blocks from Dredd (2012) or apartment blocks from Fifth Element (1997)

  • @krisk4875
    @krisk4875 Місяць тому +1

    Graat vid dude!

  • @Jetstoanywhere
    @Jetstoanywhere Місяць тому

    Nice work! Really good!

  • @UltraRaditzStane
    @UltraRaditzStane Місяць тому +2

    This lovely Toronto apartment can be yours for only 10,000 a mouth!

  • @Laikafan02
    @Laikafan02 Місяць тому +2

    10:59 ultra-rare moment of optimism in WH40k, even if it is bleak and pitiful, it’s still a ray of hope for someone like Joe

  • @JamesTheLamenter
    @JamesTheLamenter 2 місяці тому +43

    I assumed that a "middle class" hab block in a stereotypical hive city would look like a council estate or a Soviet style apartment block.
    Perhaps even a Dread style hab block (The 2012 movie) or City 17 from half life 2 including enforcers patrolling the streets and breencasts.

    • @gawkthimm6030
      @gawkthimm6030 2 місяці тому +9

      When I think Imperial "middle class" hab block, I to think of Soviet style apartment, but with Brazillian or Indian favella like slums and infrastructure from the 70's too

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 Місяць тому

      Don't knock the commie blocks. They are rather spartan, but they were built with urgency and they did achieve their primary goal: Housing huge numbers of people in acceptable conditions as quickly and affordably as possible.

    • @FarremShamist
      @FarremShamist Місяць тому +3

      @@vylbird8014 When refitted (like they're supposed to be) they can be pretty decent places all things considered. One of the things that more modern constructions could do is soundproofing, for one. Everyone I've talked to who's lived in one that's been properly maintained (which is a key factor), they quite liked it.

  • @toobig7150
    @toobig7150 2 місяці тому +6

    This channel it's dripping with personality and character, so many channels focus on the "wow isn't this so dark, imagine lol" but you actually point how, by the common Joe of the imperium, that's just how things are, and how they just live day by day, just as we do, no extreme aspirations, no insane dreams, just living, or rather, surviving, it's the goal.
    I'll be watching your other videos, I usually just put 40k videos as background noise but this actually made me stop what I was doing and actually listen, it felt like I was watching a movie.

    • @dystopianchimp
      @dystopianchimp  Місяць тому

      Thanks mate ❤I do think 40k needs more 'showing' rather than 'telling' when it comes to living day-to-day (in every faction), I find it really refreshing looking into this stuff especially when most of the lore is mostly stuff that goes beyond mortal comprehension

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 Місяць тому +1

      @@dystopianchimp Easily done, too... it would be interesting for a story to involve some of the often-covered Space Marines doing battle in a hive city and being reminded how most of the imperium lives, and how privileged their own position is.
      Being so heavily trained for loyalty, this would probably just remind them what they fight for - the day when the enemies of the Imperium (ie, everyone else) are defeated, the fighting may finally end, and all the resources and lives spent on weapons may instead be used to better the lives of the people. But still, it's going to have an emotional impact even on the Astartes.

  • @passchen-fail3704
    @passchen-fail3704 2 місяці тому

    Excellent video. This is super cool.

  • @callumstuart9094
    @callumstuart9094 2 місяці тому +5

    Another top tier video mate. Your quality is consistent and rivals the big channels, I hope you go a long way here you deserve it! We need more non-meme enjoyable content, and you explore aspects of the lore that others may overlook. Keep it coming mate I love it.

    • @dystopianchimp
      @dystopianchimp  2 місяці тому +1

      Much appreciated mate! Glad you liked the vid - more on the way

  • @Caspero83
    @Caspero83 Місяць тому +2

    Thank you!

  • @darabyrne2515
    @darabyrne2515 2 місяці тому

    Good video! Keep em coming

  • @HorizonIsHere1337
    @HorizonIsHere1337 2 місяці тому

    Solid content mate.

  • @SpannSr1970
    @SpannSr1970 2 місяці тому

    Awesome video!

  • @nanettesage1112
    @nanettesage1112 Місяць тому

    Thank you. A wonderful video.

  • @Rapture-nv5vj
    @Rapture-nv5vj Місяць тому +1

    Well, well, well another 40K channel... But a really good one. Subscribed and i will wait for more 😁

  • @TheKingofbrooklin
    @TheKingofbrooklin Місяць тому

    This seems to make joining the guard a great opportunity.

  • @raphadias4741
    @raphadias4741 Місяць тому +3

    I would join chaos 1000%

  • @dreyri2736
    @dreyri2736 Місяць тому +1

    Is that guy supposed to look like Sebastian from Blade Runner?

  • @lionsoldier1179
    @lionsoldier1179 Місяць тому +1

    Another factor in citizens daily lives in 40K is where they live in the galaxy. A hive city in Ultramar is genuinely a better place to live than some agri-worlds, simply because Ultramar is a sector of the galaxy where the Imperium (more specifically, Guiliman) actually cares about you to an extent. I mean, sure, they’ll still throw you to the meat grinder if needed, but they do care about whether you’re warm and fed, and have a voice. It all depends.

  • @xrinn6
    @xrinn6 Місяць тому

    Whats the background piece of music used in this video?

  • @garethjohnstone9282
    @garethjohnstone9282 3 дні тому

    Bit like living on a council estate in Birmingham, Bristol or London lol.

  • @thewarhammerguy5995
    @thewarhammerguy5995 Місяць тому

    From what I’ve heard civilized worlds can be pleasant depending on the planet, just exposed when a Chaos or Eldar fleet decides to attack

  • @GunterThePenguinHatesHugs
    @GunterThePenguinHatesHugs 19 днів тому +1

    Klaus Schwab listens to this to fall asleep.

  • @btf1287
    @btf1287 2 місяці тому +3

    love the music choice
    very blade runner
    which I believe is set in the same universe as 40k btw

  • @toi_techno
    @toi_techno Місяць тому +1

    Always good to find a non Ai narrated channel
    Workers living in bunks in Chinese Manufacturing Zones would get deja vu

  • @saintdamo8295
    @saintdamo8295 Місяць тому

    well this cheered me up!

  • @SpaceCowboy57
    @SpaceCowboy57 18 днів тому

    8:02 ngl I was kinda hoping for this to turn into a meet-cute.

    • @dystopianchimp
      @dystopianchimp  17 днів тому

      Deleted scene... had to cut it out since it turned R rated real fast

  • @QueenBitchization
    @QueenBitchization Місяць тому +30

    I think it's really neat that you take a narrative approach to questions. I was expecting yet another WH40K description channel, but instead you narrate a day-in-the-life. I appreciate that, so you've definitely earned a sub. Cheers!

  • @timmya6111
    @timmya6111 2 місяці тому

    Nicely done

  • @weekendbernes9923
    @weekendbernes9923 Місяць тому

    Got your self a new sub 😮