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Lord_Inquisitor wrote:Also, I've seen a bunch of 40k tattoos online, but not really any WFB ones.
Are they out there at all?

Other than this one?

Sadly, as the ink fades and the skin wrinkles and falls to gravity, such an amazing tatoo will look stupid... at best.

Captain Godfrey wrote:I wanted Blood Angels blood drop with wings on my right shoulder, and DUTY on my left Forearm, and HONOR on my right.

Are you also tattooing your nipples gold?

Shas'O Dorian wrote:

Captain Godfrey wrote:I wanted Blood Angels blood drop with wings on my right shoulder, and DUTY on my left Forearm, and HONOR on my right.

Are you also tattooing your nipples gold?

He's got a couple hundred more years to go before he's earned his gold nipples.

Before the days of even discovering what 40k even was I've always had a winged sword as my own personal iconography, so I shall likely be getting a DA-esque tattoo on my left arm, may even throw in a knight in robes of some sort, kind of like the Angels Sanguine banner.

this whole idea takes geek to a new level... sorry.

Playing the game doesn't make you a geek.

getting a tatoo? yes, it is. it's like getting a womans name tatooed onto your arm. what happens if you give up?

Captain Solon wrote:what happens if you give up?

You start claiming that "Mary" was your buddy in the Navy, and if we'd gone through what you two went through, we'd understand.

And "FOR THE EMPEROR!!" was the name of our ship.

I know a guy who plays ogres for WHFB and got a Maw tattoo on his belly.



i always considered, if i ever got a tat, it would be a Crux terminatus.

GW couldn't sue over that as Maltese crosses are public domain.

Lord_Inquisitor wrote:

Terminus wrote:

Lord_Inquisitor wrote:Inquisition seals on my fingers

Now that's a badass idea.
Finger tattoos (and neck/face/head ones for that matter) do have an unfortunate side-effect on your career options: bouncer, barkeep, trucker, hobo, or an artisté of some sort (i.e. hobo).

...What the hell's a career?!
Hell, I've always wanted an armed forces/PMC/shootin' stuff related job anyway...

I don't know about other countries, but you'll have a hard time getting in any U.S. armed forces with any visible tattoos when in uniform (i.e. mostly hands and above the collar of the uniform). I think the Army recently changed their policy to be a little more relaxed (they need more meat for the grinder), but even then it has quite a few limitations and is judged on a case-by-case basis.

insaniak wrote:

Lord_Inquisitor wrote:Also, I've seen a bunch of 40k tattoos online, but not really any WFB ones.
Are they out there at all?

Other than this one?

That tattoo rocks.

SaintHazard wrote:Eh. I have trouble reconciling breaking any law based on the fact that "durr, this tattoo will look cool bro."

In other news, SaintHazard has never downloaded an MP3, ripped the tag off a mattress, or rebroadcast major league baseball with implied oral consent.

Ouze wrote:

SaintHazard wrote:Eh. I have trouble reconciling breaking any law based on the fact that "durr, this tattoo will look cool bro."

In other news, SaintHazard has never downloaded an MP3, ripped the tag off a mattress, or rebroadcast major league baseball with implied oral consent.

I also don't speed, run red lights, perform rolling stops at stopsigns, or get drunk in public.

What's your point?

Also, the person who has the tattoo hasn't broken any laws...

Alpharius wrote:Also, the person who has the tattoo hasn't broken any laws...

No, the person who gave them the tattoo has. But I think paying someone to break a law FOR you is just as reprehensible as breaking the law yourself - and makes you equally culpable. At least in the U.S. I have no idea how it works anywhere else.

I think a purity seal with a real littany on the little danglies would be a very cool tatoo. Wouldn't have to be big either.

Gitsplitta wrote:I think a purity seal with a real littany on the little danglies would be a very cool tatoo. Wouldn't have to be big either.

That one would be legal, because "Purity Seals" are as much GW IP as I own the patent for the Teapot.

And I suspect you could find some great things for the littany out of classical literature that would be entirely applicable, so you wouldn't run into copyright issues either. (I'm talking stuff so old that there is no copyright issue any more.)

make something up that is close enough and GW could never prove infringment as strip of parchment with fancy writing on them affixed with wax isn't anything new.

Moot point too, as GW will never go after this sort of thing...

Ink away!

Alpharius wrote:Moot point too, as GW will never go after this sort of thing...

Ink away!

...and that makes it right? I agree that if you make it ambiguous enough there's no way GW can sue, as they don't own the copyright, but just because GW won't go after minor cases of copyright infringement doesn't make it okay to actually break copyright law.

I mean, by your logic, I can go to the grocery store and steal some donuts, because as long as I run fast enough, they won't come after me, right?

What about going into a pawn shop and stealing a hunting rifle? If they can't chase me down or identify me, it's alright, right?

I have a Deff Skwadron one (ork skull in flying cap biting a bomb with the allocade "DEFF SKWADRON" around it). It makes me a proud nerd, and if 'em GW-guys are gonna complain about it, I'll travel over there and cut the damn skin of my arm in front of Jervis!

SaintHazard wrote:I mean, by your logic, I can go to the grocery store and steal some donuts, because as long as I run fast enough, they won't come after me, right?

Copyright infringement is not analogous to theft, no matter what Big Media would like to believe: They've already swung and missed on that one. Ref Dowling vs RIAA (1985)

The shorthand for this is that when you download a MP3, the rightful owner still has that music. It wasn't stolen, it was unlawfully copied. So your donut analogy is baseless. A better example would be if he went to the grocery store and made an exact copy of one of their donuts, in which the store still had 100% of their property afterward.

Except that 1) it's much harder to define the "original copy" with digital media than it is with a physical object like a donut, and 2) it is much easier to copy a file than it is to copy a donut.

The point is, you can spin copyright law anyway you want, but it doesn't make breaking it morally defensible. Regardless of what some nerd with too much free time tries to tell you.

Just buy the goddamn music. A few dollars isn't going to break you.

SaintHazard wrote:Except that 1) it's much harder to define the "original copy" with digital media than it is with a physical object like a donut, and 2) it is much easier to copy a file than it is to copy a donut.

The point is, you can spin copyright law anyway you want, but it doesn't make breaking it morally defensible. Regardless of what some nerd with too much free time tries to tell you.

Just buy the goddamn music. A few dollars isn't going to break you.

Well it might, but thats far less likely than *not* hearing the latest <insert artist name here> song.

I just *really* want there to be a wide take up on digital distribution for films, as there has been for music and games.

The movie companies seem more keen on making money from the problem than attempting to fix it.

This topic started off cool and has now gone into the realm of non-sense. Leave it to us (40k gamers) to take a simple question of "anyone have/seen 40k tattoos?" and turn it into a rules lawyer argument.

we love our rules.

OverwatchCNC wrote:This topic started off cool and has now gone into the realm of non-sense. Leave it to us (40k gamers) to take a simple question of "anyone have/seen 40k tattoos?" and turn it into a rules lawyer argument.

I don't think you quite understand: someone was wrong on the internet.

WOW!! Some of you guys never cease to amaze me with your ability to argue over things that you obviously have no knowledge of. That said, having been a professional tattoo artist for over 20 years, and having dealt with the copyright issue on a number of occasions (Disney), here's the breakdown on it. As long as the artist or shop doesn't offer/provide the images which are being tattooed, there is NO copyright infringement, since we are not profitting from thier IP, but from our services. It's the same as if you walked up to a pay here copying machine & copied a picture out of WD to hang on your wall. The copying machine owner wouldn't be in trouble because all it did was perform a service, just like the tattoo artist. You are paying them for the service, not for the image. That makes ALL of the difference in the world when it comes down to it. We sell 'flash sets' (design sheets, for those of you not in the biz) and retain all copyrights to those sheets. This means that if you buy a set from me, you are allowed to hang it on your wall for customers to check out and you are also allowed to reproduce those images through the medium of tattooing. You are not allowed to go to Kinko's, make a bunch of copies and resell them for profit or have my designs printed on t-shirts that you will sell. It can be a bit confusing, but that is the long and short of it. A few years back, Disney went afte a guy who was tattooed with ALL of the Disney characters for copyright infringement. They lost. Then they lost some more, because he sued them for all of his legal expenses, etc.. If Disney can't make it happen, no one can!

As far as GW tattoos go, I've done a bunch of them. Everything from Asmodai (from the cover of WD) to Chaos warriors, Necron runes and names in Tau. I'll dig up some pics and put 'em up, if anyones interested.

SaintHazard wrote:

Alpharius wrote:Also, the person who has the tattoo hasn't broken any laws...

No, the person who gave them the tattoo has. But I think paying someone to break a law FOR you is just as reprehensible as breaking the law yourself - and makes you equally culpable. At least in the U.S. I have no idea how it works anywhere else.

Meh, you're sounding like law is an unchallegeable monolith entity that should be obeyed at all costs even at the expense of common sense. Laws change quite frequently for a reason.