I think the tau are compensating for something

I think the Stormsurge should have more range, like a Basilisk or a Deathstrike. Also, I would like to refluff them as anti-orbital platforms.

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A weapon to surpass Metal Gear?

>>52821376
Probably their lack of spotlight or general importance in the universe they're in.

They're basically the annoying little brother that demands attention from everyone since he was born last and feels like a useless leftover.

Plus, he's too into shitty anime. Not even the good stuff, we're talking annoying Bakugan and Yugioh Zexal.

>>52821459
Hey! Bakugan was...Okay...ish.
Zexal is pretty lame cookie-cutter shit, but hey, at least it isn't 5D.

>>52821397
It is strange how such a large weapon is actually relatively short ranged.

>>52821519
ZeXal has a bad start but goes out on a high note; 5D's does the opposite.
Bakugan is like someone wanted to make a card game, found some marbles and watched transformers all at the same time.

>>52821376
They use giant robots to try and pick up human and kroot chicks because their women are all fish-faced uggos.

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>>52821624
Only the ethereals are fish faced

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>>52821624
>t. Imperial Propagandist
CHING CHONG WHERE THE GUE'LA AT?

>>52821812
At the other end of my lasgun.

>>52821561

It's even worse when you know that these are classified as starship class weaponry.

>>52821376
Imperial Titans, if I recall.

Also the Ethereals told the engineer that designed those giant robots to stop designing giant robots and do something that actually fits within the Tau war doctrines, but the engineer told them "nope, giant robots". Cue the Riptide.

Then they told him they needed a new stealthsuit. He said "here's a stealthsuit. It's also a giant robot". Cue the Ghostkeel.

Then they told him they needed a counter to Titans that isn't the Manta. He said "what better to destroy giant robots than a giant robot!". Cue the Supremacy and the Stormsurge.

The Ethereals then gave up and just let the dude do his thing.

>>52821563
It's essentially the Sharknado of TCG stuff.

Transformer Beyblade: the Trading Card Game sounds awesome, but in terms of execution, there's very little that's interesting about it.

Then the anime is just... bland, forgettable. Every spiky brown-haired protagonist ever has to stop the bad guys, and picks up a girl, a midget, a comedy relief and a Solemn Rival along the way.

The video games were more interesting... you got to go through one of those marble chute mazes you had as a kid playing as the marble in order to pick up powerups before landing on a card and actually battling.

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>>52821812
Plebs choose Tau
Patricians choose Eldar

Prove me wrong!
you cant

>>52821376

Yes, they are compensating for their lack of knight titans and titan legions. That's literally what the Riptide and Stormsurge are for: to combat enemy Imperial titans and to fill the lack of Tau walker titans.

Surely they wouldn't build an army of giant war robots just to do something penis related.

>>52823222
Guilliman wants an Eldar, that tells me enough.

>>52821975
I actually really like that idea as a serious piece of canon.

The reason that the Tau are so reliant on battle suits instead of more practical designs is because the earth caste (with some collaboration from the fire caste) keep on pumping out these designs against the wishes of the ethereal caste. Whenever the ethereal caste tells them to engineer a new tank that is more practical, they'll do it. But the result is uninspired and not particularly effective. Whenever they're allowed to go hog wild they produce these mechs. It's almost like they're subconsciously rebelling against the greater good. Giving into their baser instincts to make (and pilot) rad shit even at the expense of the Tau

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>>52823222
and kings choose slaanesh and co.?

>>52823222

Eldar are almost as tall as Space Marines, so what platform shoes are that officer wearing to tower over her like that?

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>>52823222
>knife ear scum

>>52823369
I thought they only opposed the big suits like riptides? XV 8 series meant to be the cap of suit size?

>>52823636
Canon changed. They went up to 10, which is like 12 in Tau numbers.

>>52821376
>I think the X are compensating for something
40K in a nutshell.

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>>52823222
Patricians go abhuman

>>52823612
>le fishface tau are better XD
Fuck off

You're all wrong, Admech girls are better then filthy xenos.

>>52823891
I'm suddenly reminded of some of the Cain books. He did bang the mechanicus girl right?

>>52823936
And an Inquisitor girl.
Hero of the Imperium, indeed.

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>>52823879
Eldar shouldn't post on /tg/, it makes them ungraceful

>>52824115
Would a blueberry pie with a Tau girl inside of it taste like blueberry, fish, or chicken?

>>52824232
why chicken?

>>52824829
Everything taste like chicken

>>52821376
I can never tell which is what.

For they are bigger Riptide named Stormsurges.

>>52821519
Screw you, 5D's was the best iteration of yugioh other than the original.

>>52823351
Yes. That Eldar are the Blandest most boring of Entry Level Waifus out there. Of course little boy blue would like them, look at his Space Marines, yet another bunch of Space Greco-Romans who are jack of all trades and specialize in nothing.

>>52823222
Does he point a bolter to her head in that image?

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>>52823222
>Stick Figures
>Super-Chinky Faces
>The most humble of them have the Personality of a stuck up Queen Bee
>Have a Soulstone wedged so far up their ass that it's stabbing their brain and blocking off the chemicals that allow them to loosen up and have fun
>Not even that much better looking than Human women.
[spoilers]>No Hooves[/spoiler]

Absolutely awful, I'll stick with a qt3.14 Tau waifu thank you.

>>52821376
Tau players have tiny dicks

>>52826110
If you want to fuck a woman with hooves just fuck your mom, she's a cow.

>>52823369
What kind of new tank could the tau get?
I would say auxiliaries but eh.

>>52826767
Literally take the legs off that armless retardation in the OP and you'd have a good tank.

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>>52826792
I'm not convinced.

>>52826872
Think of it like a devilfish/hammerhead
The main gun goes where hammerhead main gun goes, cluster missiles integrated into engines, twinlinked weapon where burst cannon would go on, sms and d missiles would go where drones go
Ta da

>>52821376
To fight monsters, we created monsters of our own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH_6iFYiryY

>>52826975

Those monsters being Imperial Titans. Wait till they get Emperor class level.

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OP...

>>52823222
Patricians go Felinids sir
Yes I'm aware that hot felinids are probably headcanon, but hot Tau definitely are.

>>52826872
Now put a set of hover pods or whatever the blue bastards use to move shit under it and it'd be a tank.

>>52827063
Not big enough! We need a titan big enough to BE the battlefield.

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>>52827080
If felinids were fugly furshit, they'd be classified as beastmen. Hot felinids are quite probable.

>>52826110
This. I'll never understand why people waifus the Eldar so much, there's just so much more bad than there is good about them.

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>>52827063

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnJ4DyIU-E0

My body is ready.

>>52826110
>Stick Figures
>Super-Chinky Faces
>The most humble of them have the Personality of a stuck up Queen Bee
>Have an ethereal wedged so far up their face vagina that it's stabbing their brain and blocking off the chemicals that allow them to loosen up and have fun
>Not even better looking than Human women.
aliens in 40k are pretty awful

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The Stormsurge has always reminded me of the Soviet KV-2 Heavy Tank armed with the 152mm bunker-buster cannon with its brutal design, firepower, and intimidating shape. The only difference is that the Stormsurge actually works.

Give them Dyson Spheres already.

>>52821975
So Earth Caste engineers are actually hardcore Imperiaboos.

>>52823636
Originally, Broadsides is their biggest mecha, and mass battles isn't something that Tau always in until Damocles, Waaagh and the soon-to-be Hive Fleet incursion draw close.

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>>52826872
Here, i'll show you how its done

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>>52821519
>at least it isn't 5D.
Fuck outa here

Children's Card Games on fucking motorcycles was rad

>>52823597
Standing on the backs of guardsmen as he always does.

>>52823597
Kneeling?

>>52821397
>make stormsurges EVEN better
kys desu

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>>52821449
it is real

>>52823435
>the second snake goes into her pussy

>>52823222
>>52823435
And Emperor purges them all

>>52830792
No, it's her penis.

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>poor
>grow up hanging outside GW stores and marvelling at all the minis
>grow up and get decent job
>decide nows the time to finally start my hobby collection ile i dreamed as a kid
>pick tau
>read this thread

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>>52830868
Stop with this propaganda!
Stop describing her like a trap!

>>52830633

It's obviously artillery. It should have far longer ranges. It not like it matters in most tables. There are no many situation where this thing can blow you up from the other side of the table from the get go.

>>52831591
>her
Slaanesh is both and neither, though most often refered to as a he.

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>>52831613
To humans it's a "he", to Eldar it's a "she". Really it's probably a trap no matter what.

>>52825793
Arc-V, last I checked, was looking pretty swell.

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>>52821449

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>>52821812
>>52821704
Reminder

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>>52831813
It's not like the people play these games or who work at these companies have any real contact with women, they'd never notice the difference.

>>52829377
Why not? They arent so bad. And besides, no one is good in 40k

Humans-Catholic space nazis
Eldar-regular space nazis
Dark eldar-sodomite space nazis
Tau-landfish space commies
Tyranids-hivemind subhumans
Orcs-standard subhumans

>>52823222
Be a real man. Choose anything that piques your interest.

Except daemons. Fuck that noise.

>>52831813
Surely all Tau are beautiful.

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>>52821376
Not if you compare them to Mechanicus

>>52831813
Given literally every human model with a face is uglier than 80% of people in reality, I feel that I can't trust the xenos heads either.

>>52833408
Commissar Cain said that he cannot tell the difference between female and male Tau. The guy had extensive shoulder rubbing with the Tau diplomatic missions.

>>52833407
Why are the small folks there scared? Even the Custards stances make them look they are startled.

>>52832118
Is she a Squat?

>>52821704
>tfw Tau girls
Fire>Earth>Water>Wind
Ethereals are disgusting desu.

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>>52833351
>Except daemons. Fuck that noise.
only for experiments, thas rite?

>>52821975
>>52823369
That actually is canon for the FW Riptide variants. Both were designed by the same Earth Caste engineer on a sept embroiled in a long conflict against Tyranids. They were designed to counter large Tyranid bio-constructs, a jobt they performed admirably. The only problem is that the funds to create them were supposed to be allocated to new heavier stealth suit design, a fact the Etherals were not veyr happy about. Still, the new suits performed very well so they're approved for combat trials. The Ethereals still want to have a word with the engineer, though, but he keeps postponing the "honour" to design more robots.

The same guy also designing Ghostkeel is fanon, but considering it is a new stealthsuit and also a giant robot, it seems a pretty reasonable assumption.

>>52833407
>moving city with guns the size of a city block stares at you

>...by the emperor...

Although this is probably a celebration of some kind, I don't think anyone could get used to one of those machines. Walking death, a titan that most civilizations can't even fathom the work required to build/maintain such a device.

>>52833407
A-Are those strippers in that thing in display windows?

>>52831813
Litterally all of GW plastic faces are ugly as fuck. I don't see what this proves.

>>52833452
The piloting it is a student driver.

>>52833452
the titan is threatening the council of terra to allow the creation of the adeptus mechanicus.

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>>52821704
Tau are CUTE

>>52832118
How short are their torsos jesus christ

>>52834425
Why do you think being a Titan Pilot is such a big deal? Sure, you get to shoot the biggest guns in existence, but that's just icing on the cake. The real treat is private strip clubs the pilots have in their titans that they don't have to pay for.

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>>52823222

>>52829432
>stick figures
Actually that's only the Air Caste

>super chinky faces
Have you see the size of their eyes? If anything Tau would have Animu faces

>The most humble of them have the Personality of a stuck up Queen Bee
Actually Tau are much more humble and down to earth than the "my life is worth a thousand of yours" Eldar.

>Have an ethereal wedged so far up their face vagina that it's stabbing their brain and blocking off the chemicals that allow them to loosen up and have fun
Ok fair enough, I'll give you that one.

>Not even better looking than Human women.
Personally I think that Blue is a very attractive color. Besides at least they aren't just slightly taller human women with pointy ears.

Face it, even if you don't like the Tau you have to admit that they're still better than the Eldar.

>>52835255
Dorn was there, yes? Why didn't he wretle the titan down?

>>52836812
>Face it, even if you don't like the Tau you have to admit that they're still better than the Eldar.
(not that user)
they're not and I prefer eldar (I like elves)
But Tau does have original design that is still appealing for humans, so yeah, ill give them that

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>>52831813
If you think that's a turn-off, I have news for you...

>>52833457
Squats are no longer canon because their chicks look like that and they decided, fuck it, let's just die out.

I mean that's not how canon works, but I believe it.

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>>52837553

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>>52840533
Squats are just Warhammer Dwarfs in space, and Dwarfs had QT females.

Then again they're also canonically foot fetishist chubby-chasers.

>>52823222
Slaaneesh daemonkin futas is the only true choice senpai, come on, improve your taste

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>>52841610
Incorrect.

The only true Daemonette is the very first kind, by the creator of all Warhammer Daemons.

The Tony Ackland punk rock insect/Ayy LMAO hybrids.

>>52841540
>no beard
That's no space dwarf, son. Just a short, fat, ugly human.

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>>52841723
Warhamer female Dwarfs/Squats never had beards.

Only in Tolkien and Hackmaster in fact.

>>52821376
a lack of huge cannons mounted on their shoulders?

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>>52829575
>The Stormsurge is the KV-2 of 40k.

The stormsurge is but a minor trickle, compared to the trauma that tank has wrought me.

Also
>Derp guns are D weapons.

Makes more sense then it should.

>>52833407
the lights always look like confetti to me at first glance.

>>52842108
That's clearly an ugly norse robot you just posted.

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>>52842297
That's the mother of all Dwarfs.
Games Workshop forgot she exists.

They remember her two husbands though.

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>>52842425
Yet another ugly norse robot this one improbably having an ugly robot candle on his head.

>>52842489
Still better than the fedora-tipping robots they just released models for.

>>52842522
Hey now, Newcrons love head gear! Especially made from supple human skin!

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>>52842634
I meant this shit.

Its fucking steampunk garbage.

>>52842680
Cant help but like the model

>>52842690
You're dead to me, anon.

Sell your 40k and get to Warmahordes where you belong.

>>52842726
I never really liked Warmahordes, but I do play Malifaux a lot. Its kinda steampunkish too

>>52842747
Its alright if that's just your kinda thing, but holy shit that look is such a betrayal of everything aesthetically Warhammer.
Its fucking Jar Jar Binks and Starkiller Base all in one.

>>52842822
Dont get me wrong, I love Warhammer aesthetics, but I love the steamdwarves too. If you look at them, they are more techy version of the last dwarves from WHFB

>>52842906
Those Dwarfs had an industrialist+Saxon theme.

These have literal monocles, tophats, curled mustaches, and fucking chainswords.

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>>52823222
He's right you know.

>>52836878
Dorn was too busy with the pain glove and fortifying shit.

>>52833433
Maybe Tau men are just that QT. Or Cain has face blindness for other species.

>>52821831
You're shooting humans?

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>>52844370
>Most Tau men are Bishie as fuck Twinks who are only distinguishable from the females by the slit on those head
Holy shit that would be hilarious. No wonder their helmets completely cover their faces.

>>52838331
I'm straight?

>>52838331
It's a damn shame this chick went all bald and genestealer-y.

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>>52821704
>>52833485
Fuck you! Ethereals are very attractive! Your shitty opinions shows your ignorance of the Tau, The Ethereals are not just old men sitting in fancy rdress ones like the high lords of Terra! They are capable and powerful front line leader, gloriously bringing the Greater Good to the Galaxy with their Honor Blades! If you had any Good taste, you would know that The Ethereals are just as beautiful as the other Tau!

Pic related, it's an Example of Ethereal Beauty.

>>52844708
Hello Mr. Tau.
I have a question for your people, how do you feel regarding the daemons of the warp? Can the greater good come to them to?

>>52842936
At least they're not covered in gears, pistons and cogs
Heads with monocles and top hats can be swapped out.
Though i still think if that if Gw wanted techy dwarfs they should've just brought back the squats instead of steampunk fantasy dwarves.
>Mfw friends called them dwarfmarines
>mfw they don't even know what squats are
>mfw i have no face

>>52844813
The average tau response to demons is "What the fuck is a demon?"

The tau who know about demons don't fully grasp the concept but understand that they are space monsters who need to be destroyed and that's about it. Like the greenskins and tyranids, they're beyond help, or "help" as the case may be.

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>>52844813
Maybe if they stopped being one dimensional faggots with understanding of the concepts of responsibility and civilized behavior and cut out this whole "We will destroy the the Universe" Edgelord Crap.

But let's be honest, that's about as likely as Orkz not Fighting, or Necrons not being Perpetually bitter, old, farts, Or Eldar not being arrogant douchebags who are incapable of sharing their precious secrets and being tolerable to be around for more than five seconds to save their lives.

>>52844708
>Noble Aun'la, your Presence is required at an assembly
Not right now Por'la, so faggots online are calling Ethereals Ugly!
>But Aun'la, they are waiting fo-
I'll be there in a bit, just tell them I'm enlighting some Gue'las on the Greater Good and Tau culture!

>>52841540
>that man faced thing
>QT

fuckin how

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>>52842951

>>52842951
Why is there not Porn of these two yet?

>>52821376
Im painting a KV-128 Stormsurge.

The model is fucking cool and is wonderful to work on with an airbrush.

>>52838331
What's her name?

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>>52846732
Sexy, anon. Sweet Sexy.

>>52821704
The first two? All day long and in every hole. The last three? Hell no. I may be a filthy xenos-loving heretic but I have some standards.

>>52842951
>dat fab tau bootay
Kitten has excellent taste.

>>52823435
>slaanesh

Not cannon anymore

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>>52844370
>>52833433
>>52833381

Cain has serious eye problem
>>52844468

If forgeworld mini of an air cast is that ugly and gou think men are indistinguishable from female....

>>52833764

It's a Horus Heresy artwork, so that's probably a Traitor Titan; given the WindowStrippers I'd assume aligned with the Emperor's children.

>>52821376
They're compensating for GW taking away their cool "practical use of hovercraft" theme.

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>>52850450
you fell for a meme

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>>52827247
Like in DoW?

>>52844813
Tau are retarded when it comes to religion and demons
More interesting question is, what Tau reaction would be, when they would understand Human and Eldar relations with chaos

>>52851582
>mfw first time attacking the IG HQ in dark crusade and getting half my forces obliterated by that titan cannon

i was so disappointed they didn't allow me to shoot it

>>52851582
Yes, but now functional and walking while people are fighting on it.

>>52851527
> Inb4 Nurgle was retcon

>>52852102
See, that just sounds like an FPS level to me. Fighting your way from the feet of a Titan all the way up to the head whilst it's walking around and fighting. The noise, the slowly tilting rooms, the juddering of recoil...

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I haven't played 40k but I'm an Infinityfag that's been around the game store numerous times.

I seriously thought Tau were to fill the niche of a species that uses technology to deal with their problems, and not magic/psykers/etc, as sort of a non-cannon-fodder alternative to the imperial guard.

What happened? Are these sick looking motherfuckers just not strong enough?

>>52853285
being outnumbered 1:10000000000 is a small problem but the Tau are fixing it 1 pulse shot at a time

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>>52853285
>I seriously thought Tau were to fill the niche of a species that uses technology to deal with their problems, and not magic/psykers/etc, as sort of a non-cannon-fodder alternative to the imperial guard.
That's pretty much what they are. They're supposed to be the more "reasonable" faction when compared to the others, both in terms of technology (advanced but "realistic" technology that they actually understand, instead of Imperium's arheotech or Eldar's quasi-magical technology), tactics (combined arms approach and emphasis on airpower and mobility, using superheavy flyers instead of big lumbering walkers/tanks; admittedly that seems to have fallen out of favour of GW making more and bigger giant robot models) and attitude (preferrign diplomacy first and militayr force when it fails, instead of "shoto first, ask questions never" attitude every other faction has).

However, they're also a very young race and insignifcant on the galactic scale. In the corner of the galaxy they inhabit they're a fairly major player, having over a hundred worlds clustered together and heavily defended, but the Imperium controls over a million worlds and the Tau lack the ability to project force far outside their borders. If the Imperium wasn't constantly fighting thousands of battles across the galaxy, many agianst threats far more dangerous than a small xenos empire in the arse-end of the galaxy, they'd crush the Tau in an instant. As it is, the Tau mostly survive by being powerful enough to repel the kind of force the Imperium could reasonably dedicate to dealing with them without compromising more important sectors.

>>52844413
I am the Gue'la.

>>52852365
Reminds me of the book Mortal Engines

>>52845425
Maybe he's closet gay, or a really focused chubby chaser.