comparing this diorama with real life gory pictures? That's a pretty unfair comparison.
I said "it puts me in mind." It's not the same thing as equating the two. My point in bringing that up is that some materials or subjects are increasingly likely to elicit an undesired reaction in the viewer, who has little-to-no say as to whether they want to view it (yes, coming to CMON is voluntary, but I'm pretty sure if someone'd had been asked 2 months ago, very very few people would have said that they would be likely to see a miniature scene of rape on the site,) and they're stuck with the reaction and the memory. It's not enough to say "vote and move on," because it's not that simple.
Also, in case you didn't get it, my "think of the children" comment was a bit of a joke. You're right that kid's aren't likely to understand the implication of the scene (other than BOOBIES!), but it should be apparent from the varied reactions that there are a few adults who would prefer not to view material like this, for whatever reason. Yes, I know, they can go elsewhere, and if CMON becomes a place where people can depict any subject, no matter how extreme, they just might do that. Personally, I'd like to see bit of restraint.
[edit] You know, I wonder if part of what's going on here (I think someone alluded to it earlier,) is the fact that, since this is a hobby, and with heavy elements of fantasy, some of us really do prefer to tone it down a bit- because if we get to thinking too much about what it
really is that we're playing at, it'd lose the fun. A personal example is the Orks. Now, I find them very humorous and fun, largely because of their comically single-minded approach to life and boisterous nature (and cockney accents, of course.) But if you really stop and think about it, holy hell, would they ever be the most horrific thing to have to live next door to! Adventure and conflict can be fun fantasies to indulge in, but I doubt there's anyone here who, if they really had any idea what war is like, would have the slightest desire to run headlong towards one giggling with glee, and I guess some don't like to be reminded of what it REALLY is we're playing at in this hobby.
Nakatan, you raise good points about John Blanche's work, and those are all reasons that there are some Codices I don't own or read through, and there are definitely times when I think they're taking the GrimDark to a level that's just not necessary for a game. I think one thing is that, while it's known that all the stuff you mentioned goes on (seriously, we ALL know what kinds of things the Emperor's Children get up to) it's usually alluded to with at least another degree of separation than your diorama depicts. While fluff might talk about depraved acts in more general terms, you're showing someone exposed, at gunpoint, with a leering trooper standing over her with his fly open- you've made it much harder to gloss over. Many applaud you for it, but I question if it's necessary. For me, this is a hobby that I do for fun, and rape (even attempted) just takes the fun right out of everything. It drops the ugly reality of the sorts of horrible suffering that people inflict on each other right into plain view, and there's enough of that in the real world that I'd rather do without it here.
