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>>Thread Question:
>What is the most uncomfortable truth relating to 40k and the hobby you can bear to tell us?

An incredible amount of people are going to think you're super fucking weird and that it's not a real hobby. We're engaging in really fun escapism that others will see as childish unfortunately. Most ITT have thousands of hours painting alone listening to lore or music. You're rolling dice and playing army men with your painted toys. Wait - get this: My Aunt thinks I'm weird because I have a few IKEA cases of minis. She has snow babies in china cabinets in comparison. People have a hard time "Seeing" the hobby correctly or understanding that I like to imagine and escape into the hobby. I've been going through Ian Arbitor's stuff on youtube while painting a new army and this is all I want to do for the next few months. It's a lot of solo enjoyment but I can't find anything like it in another hobby or video game. It's what does it for me - but a stack of people seem to think it's weird I spend my weekends at the shop.