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2011/09/29 10:26:54
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Sadistic Inquisitorial Excruciator
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http://www.slate.com/slideshows/arts/portraits-of-retail.html
I was reading/viewing a photo essay titled "Brian Ulrich’s Portraits of Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores". It is about a guy who took surreptitious photos of shoppers in mid-shopping trance... affectionately referred to as "shopping zombies".
Behold, slide 2 is a kid in GW!
The photographer likely doesn't even realize how apt the photo, because the kid is staring at the undead of the 40k universe! 
Slide title:
Retail, untitled, 2006
Edits: to fix hyperlink, and correct autocorrect error
Final edit: Here is the essay that accompanied the slideshow... above link is to slideshow only. It all makes a lot more sense when you read the back story: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/09/28/brian_ulrich_s_sneaky_photos_of_zombie_shoppers_and_dead_malls.html
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This message was edited 3 times. Last update was at 2011/09/29 11:11:11
"When your only tools are duct tape and a shovel, all of life's problems start to look the same!" - kronk
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." - Darth Helmet
"History...is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortune of mankind" - Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
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2011/09/29 10:40:18
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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The Hammer of Witches
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Zombie nothing. Look at his left hand. He's totally about to pinch one of those Necrons. That's his 'inconspicuous face.'
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htj wrote:You can always trust a man who quotes himself in his signature.
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2011/09/29 11:06:19
Subject: Re:GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Sadistic Inquisitorial Excruciator
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@htj- LOL Totally possible.
BTW, if anyone recognizes the kid or the store, please do tell...
Edit: the kid may be a regular here
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This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2011/09/29 11:21:41
"When your only tools are duct tape and a shovel, all of life's problems start to look the same!" - kronk
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." - Darth Helmet
"History...is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortune of mankind" - Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
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2011/09/29 11:15:26
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Bloodthirsty Chaos Knight
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I'm surprised it wasn't a red shirt with a pocket watch putting people into a trance to buy stuff
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2011/09/29 11:56:47
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Krazed Killa Kan
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He's not a zombie...
He's just had the sudden realisation that he left the family computer on and forgot to clear the temporary internet files, and now he has to wrap this game up in about 15 minutes because his mum comes home in an hour
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My P&M Log: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/433120.page
 Atma01 wrote:
And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
Phototoxin wrote:Kids go in , they waste tonnes of money on marnus calgar and his landraider, the slaneshi-like GW revel at this lust and short term profit margin pleasure. Meanwhile father time and cunning lord tzeentch whisper 'our games are better AND cheaper' and then players leave for mantic and warmahordes.
daveNYC wrote:The Craftworld guys, who are such stick-in-the-muds that they manage to make the Ultramarines look like an Ibiza nightclub that spiked its Red Bull with LSD.
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2011/09/29 13:26:23
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Esteemed Veteran Space Marine
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Leigen_Zero wrote:He's not a zombie...
He's just had the sudden realisation that he left the family computer on and forgot to clear the temporary internet files, and now he has to wrap this game up in about 15 minutes because his mum comes home in an hour
So very possible.
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2011/09/29 14:03:50
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Servoarm Flailing Magos
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Couldn't he be in the middle of playing a game, and thus concentrating not in a 'shopping trance.'
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2011/09/29 15:31:24
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Wicked Warp Spider
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Balance wrote:Couldn't he be in the middle of playing a game, and thus concentrating not in a 'shopping trance.'
Does that really look like a concentrated face?
I've seen dilute orange juice which is more concentrated than that.
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LoneLictor on thread about an ork choking the Emperor:
 LoneLictor wrote:I like to imagine the Emperor kills so many Orks that he ends up half buried beneath a pile of corpses, with only his head sticking out. A lone grot stumbles across him, and starts choking him.
Then Horus comes across the lone grot, somehow managing to kill the Emperor, and punts it into space.
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2011/09/29 15:33:12
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Sadistic Inquisitorial Excruciator
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Balance wrote:Couldn't he be in the middle of playing a game, and thus concentrating not in a 'shopping trance.'
That is exactly what a zombie would want you to think...
I think his redshirt was actually waving the pocketwatch, as Vermilion so astutely postulated...
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"When your only tools are duct tape and a shovel, all of life's problems start to look the same!" - kronk
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." - Darth Helmet
"History...is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortune of mankind" - Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
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2011/09/30 18:08:03
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Wrathful Warlord Titan Commander
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Dos this make Redshirts shopping vampires, you know preying on the young and helpless. Slowly bleeding them dry.
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How do you promote your Hobby? - Legoburner "I run some crappy wargaming website " |
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2011/09/30 18:18:00
Subject: Re:GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Sniveling Snotling
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The caption for that picture should be:
"If it wasn't for my stupid dad draging me here, I could be at my friend's house playing Warmachine"
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2011/10/03 05:13:23
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Hallowed Canoness
Ireland
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That's just his poker face. 
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2011/10/03 08:00:14
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Pulsating Possessed Chaos Marine
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Funny.. i think i get that same face when a red shirt at a new store i visit attempts to sell me something for an army i dont even play.. silly red shirts..
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Owner of R.S. Commission Studios. PM For a quote. Link in profile. |
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2011/10/03 09:16:07
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Mekboy Hammerin' Somethin'
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Man Ghazzie is so about to krump them Necrons into the dust...
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2011/10/03 20:44:59
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Sadistic Inquisitorial Excruciator
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Ronin wrote:Man Ghazzie is so about to krump them Necrons into the dust...
Yeah I saw that too... 
Wonder if the kid is thinking, "Huh, the redshirt told me the Necrons were ten tons of awesome, super undead robots with incredibly ancient yet advanced weapons. I was totally taken... wonder if I can return these or sell them to that other kid over there?"
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"When your only tools are duct tape and a shovel, all of life's problems start to look the same!" - kronk
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." - Darth Helmet
"History...is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortune of mankind" - Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
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2011/10/03 23:14:10
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Anointed Dark Priest of Chaos
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Balance wrote:Couldn't he be in the middle of playing a game, and thus concentrating not in a 'shopping trance.'
No, kids don't paint their armies and are never clean nor quiet.
At least if you listen to what regulary gets posted here on Dakka concerning them...
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2011/10/07 08:08:58
Subject: Re:GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/index.php/article/2011/10/ways_to_wage_war_while_battling_wits
bit that got me
Once all that’s finished, you’re ready to actually test your skills as a general. Now, bear in mind you can play casually whenever the models are built, but to actually play in tournaments — and win money — the army needs to be done.
emphasis mine.
Is it really that usual for people to play for money in the USA then ?
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We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2011/10/07 08:54:31
Subject: Re:GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Norn Queen
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Man Ghazzie is so about to krump them Necrons into the dust...
Haha, He seems to have outflanked them too!
Dirty Snikrot!
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Dman137 wrote:
goobs is all you guys will ever be
By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
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2011/10/07 08:57:32
Subject: Re:GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Big Fat Gospel of Menoth
The other side of the internet
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reds8n wrote:http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/index.php/article/2011/10/ways_to_wage_war_while_battling_wits
bit that got me
Once all that’s finished, you’re ready to actually test your skills as a general. Now, bear in mind you can play casually whenever the models are built, but to actually play in tournaments — and win money — the army needs to be done.
emphasis mine.
Is it really that usual for people to play for money in the USA then ?
Not in my experience.
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Be sure to use logic! Avoid fallacies whenever possible.
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2011/10/07 09:00:02
Subject: Re:GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Worthiest of Warlock Engineers
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Man that kid looks weird and that army is just to well painted to be his.
what we cant see is that minutes later the resident blackshirt nabs him fo trying to walk out of the store with half the crons and gazy.
either that or his mum runs in screaming about all the porn that he left loaded up on the computer.
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2011/10/07 09:43:30
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Noble of the Alter Kindred
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Nothing wrong with the kid in the photo any more than any Dakka member in a store.
Taking the piss out of an anonymous kid is poor form.
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2011/10/07 17:45:35
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Wrathful Warlord Titan Commander
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Shuddup uggy.
Not everyone can be pretty like me, and they should be mocked mercilessly for that.
Its one of the main reasons i stopped eyebrow modelling and took up professional warhammering.
Mercilessly I tell you!
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How do you promote your Hobby? - Legoburner "I run some crappy wargaming website " |
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2011/10/07 18:36:27
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Noble of the Alter Kindred
United Kingdom
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I ain't ugly, just facially challenged.
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2011/10/07 19:11:29
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Misery. Missouri. Who can tell the difference.
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Gymnogyps wrote:
That is a turtle heading face if I have ever seen one. That kid looks like he is thinking, "That fart didn't feel right. Did I just poo alittle bit? How can I blame that smell on the fat kid next to me?"
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This message was edited 3 times. Last update was at 2011/10/07 21:07:44
  251 point Khador Army
 245 points Ret Army
Warmachine League Record: 85 Wins 29 Losses
A proud member of the "I won with Zerkova" club with and without Sylss.
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2011/10/07 20:19:55
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Wrathful Warlord Titan Commander
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That's more like it.
Well done pipboy, well done.
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How do you promote your Hobby? - Legoburner "I run some crappy wargaming website " |
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2011/10/07 20:49:07
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Misery. Missouri. Who can tell the difference.
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Your welcome.
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This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2011/10/08 12:48:41
251 point Khador Army
245 points Ret Army
Warmachine League Record: 85 Wins 29 Losses
A proud member of the "I won with Zerkova" club with and without Sylss.
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2011/10/09 06:05:11
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Rampaging Khorne Dreadnought
Wollongong, Australia
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The kid is probably thinking "Why didn't I bring my Space MArhinesz".
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2011/10/09 19:46:19
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Bloodthirsty Chaos Knight
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Pipboy wins. And I shall make no comment on the redshirt vampires thing. Some doors really should not be opened...
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3511/10/10 00:01:58
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Norn Queen
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Thanks for the laugh pipboy. poo jokes are always awesome on a Monday morning at work.
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2013/08/05 09:19:48
Subject: GW in the media: shopping "zombies"
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Misery. Missouri. Who can tell the difference.
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Just doing my part to dumb down those interwebs since my first pixelated boob downloaded from AOL on a 28K dial up connection.
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251 point Khador Army
245 points Ret Army
Warmachine League Record: 85 Wins 29 Losses
A proud member of the "I won with Zerkova" club with and without Sylss.
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