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 Kroothawk wrote:

GW Fulchester wrote:Pre-orders for the Warhammer 40K eighth edition rule book are now available. We have no firm date as yet; we should have a better idea six weeks after the seventh edition comes out.

Remember we only get 12 editions before it runs out of regenerations.

One of the comments was hillarious "Does the digital edition come in hardcover"

M.

 Kroothawk wrote:

GW Fulchester wrote:Pre-orders for the Warhammer 40K eighth edition rule book are now available. We have no firm date as yet; we should have a better idea six weeks after the seventh edition comes out.

Remember we only get 12 editions before it runs out of regenerations.

That's a pleasantly clever joke

Coming soon: A twenty novel long mini-series explaining why the wheat on Barbarus was so tough.

Some of the comments on there are quite amusing

Poster:
According to GWs new trade policy online stores are bad for retail. Are you worried GW Fulchester will be shut down by GW online?

Games Workshop: Fulchester We aren't an online store, come to Fulchester and see. We are every bit as real as the threat to GW from online bits suppliers.

A pretty good one today..

GW Fulchester wrote:Please note that Daily Mail readers will not be allowed to play Necromunda in our store.

This is because Daily Mail Readers can not count to 6.

And previously

GW Fulchester wrote:Our new 'Golden Demon Themed' paint sets come with the heady smell of nostalgia. Be aware that similarities between 'nostalgia' and 'solvents' are entirely coincidental.

 Kroothawk wrote:

GW Fulchester wrote:Pre-orders for the Warhammer 40K eighth edition rule book are now available.
We have no firm date as yet; we should have a better idea six weeks after the seventh edition comes out.

Remember we only get 12 editions before it runs out of regenerations.

oh, the remember part is so full of awesomeness

Sad news from Fulchester ..

Finally, the hordes of chaos have come for us. By which we mean GWHQ's legal team.
We've tried barricading the doors, but our barricades are small and made of plastic. We attempted to black out the windows but we only had one pot of chaos black left in stock.
For our own sanity, we're going to have to close our doors, probably for good. Stay safe and remember to laugh.

Eldercaveman wrote:
Sad news from Fulchester ..

Finally, the hordes of chaos have come for us. By which we mean GWHQ's legal team.
We've tried barricading the doors, but our barricades are small and made of plastic. We attempted to black out the windows but we only had one pot of chaos black left in stock.
For our own sanity, we're going to have to close our doors, probably for good. Stay safe and remember to laugh.

Its quite clearly satire. isn't satire protected under fair use etc?

It is, but it probably falls under the "too long, involved and costly to be worth fighting" umbrella.

However, anyone with any connections in the press should make them aware, would make an excellent follow up to the Spots debacle.

I have the feeling that the whole satire fair use thing might be one of those things that is, "Law really useful and taken up and embraced by American companies but actually doesn't exist in UK law."

Well then, I eagerly await the opening of Games Workshop: Mockingham.

(as suggested by one of the posters on facebook).

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

Eldercaveman wrote:
Sad news from Fulchester ..

Finally, the hordes of chaos have come for us. By which we mean GWHQ's legal team.
We've tried barricading the doors, but our barricades are small and made of plastic. We attempted to black out the windows but we only had one pot of chaos black left in stock.
For our own sanity, we're going to have to close our doors, probably for good. Stay safe and remember to laugh.

Its quite clearly satire. isn't satire protected under fair use etc?

From my understanding this does fall under "Fair Use", the page might want to make it more clear though that it is satire. This is a case though of how much legal effort do you want to put in? I would at the very least make GW make Facebook take it down, they don't have to respond to whatever GW sent to them.

I like to imagine how Fulchester was discovered...

GW Intern: Sir, I have the list of all stores that have Facebook pages
GW Manager: Excellent, we can inform them that they too need to get rid of their pages. All this website hullabaloo, hurumph!
GW Intern: Very good, sir. I noticed a discrepancy in a store in some place called Fulchester, I thin---
GW Manager: By GOD, look how many people are using this website! Johnny, get the manager of Fulchester on the phone immediately so I can fire him right now!

 tastytaste wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

Eldercaveman wrote:
Sad news from Fulchester ..

Finally, the hordes of chaos have come for us. By which we mean GWHQ's legal team.
We've tried barricading the doors, but our barricades are small and made of plastic. We attempted to black out the windows but we only had one pot of chaos black left in stock.
For our own sanity, we're going to have to close our doors, probably for good. Stay safe and remember to laugh.

Its quite clearly satire. isn't satire protected under fair use etc?

From my understanding this does fall under "Fair Use", the page might want to make it more clear though that it is satire. This is a case though of how much legal effort do you want to put in? I would at the very least make GW make Facebook take it down, they don't have to respond to whatever GW sent to them.

Unfortunately parody accounts are not allowed on FB (or instagram for that matter). They are explicitly allowed by Twitter as explained here

If FB shut them down, reopen on Twitter where they're clearly allowed to operate without fear of shutdown.

They were already on twitter as @GWFulchester

However, as one of my mates comments is: "About time, I have never read so much profanity in all my life! This FB page should have been closed a long time ago!"

It really does make me thhink that GW are going to continue acting the way they are for many years to come.

It's a shame GW just can't take a joke, really. Sad to see this site shut down, they were always a laugh.

GW is so backwards when it comes to modern forms of communication that they're even shutting down other people's Facebook pages!

As, that's sad - they were hilarious. Hopefully they'll continue on Twitter, and don't let GWs legal trolling keep them down.

Lets add a page to the Dakka wiki to commemorate the greatness that was GW Fulchester.

 BunkerBob wrote:
Lets add a page to the Dakka wiki to commemorate the greatness that was GW Fulchester.

Seconded.

The Auld Grump

Wait Dakka has a wiki?

Oh man...this is a sad day...a sad, sad day. My heart bleeds.

GW Fulchester did virtually no ill to GW. Good-natured, clean, creative, ribbing never hurt anyone. Fulchester uplifted the GW brand. This is daft...as daft as being upset that Weird Al Yankovic has parodied your music.

GW...oh, GW... this is like punching a sad clown.

 Compel wrote:

However, as one of my mates comments is: "About time, I have never read so much profanity in all my life! This FB page should have been closed a long time ago!"

He doesn't get out much does he.

I'm only surprised that this took so long, after all it is probably the most popular GW facebook page now

 Palindrome wrote:

 Compel wrote:

However, as one of my mates comments is: "About time, I have never read so much profanity in all my life! This FB page should have been closed a long time ago!"

He doesn't get out much does he.

I'm only surprised that this took so long, after all it is probably the most popular GW facebook page now

Don't you mean "only"?

Oh, wait. Thanks Obama GW.

Sad, sad day

(assuming of course it really is a C&D from GW legal that's killing it, although It does seem the sort of nonsense they get up to)

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Sad, sad day

(assuming of course it really is a C&D from GW legal that's killing it, although It does seem the sort of nonsense they get up to)

As I already said, parody accounts are not allowed of Facebook so they were on Borrowed time from the outset. Even if GW have not done anything here they're still in breach of Facebook's terms of use.

Still doesn't stop it from being a stupid move though as they're doing no harm. I say retreat to twitter and stick alongside accounts like Fill Werrell and WWEcreative_ish knowing you're safe.

Are they entitled to do it legally? From what I have read above, absolutely.

Is it the right thing to do? Absolutely not. Seriously, they are inserted so far up their own rectums that they must almost be coming out the other side.

I wonder what the straw was that broke the camel's back?

 Compel wrote:
They were already on twitter as @GWFulchester

However, as one of my mates comments is: "About time, I have never read so much profanity in all my life! This FB page should have been closed a long time ago!"

Have to ask him what it's like back there in 1967?

Yeah really. Hear more profanity on BBC Radio 1 these days...

 Pacific wrote:

I wonder what the straw was that broke the camel's back?

Almost certainly the reference to the Daily Mail and Necromunda, which could lead to Timmy's mum putting 2 and 2 together and getting 'Games Workshop Games Make You Murder'.

The ultimate satire - close and claim someone else made you close

We shall now never know if GW really did send a letter or not!

We shall sing a lament for our lost satire source.
Never more shall the sounds of laughter ring out from the web,
nevermore shall FB be a recluse for us whom dare mock the tyrants.
Now all is ash and barren,
And GW's rules role un-challenged,
None to rise and stand,
To point and mock and laugh,
As the Legal teams circle the carrion,
Wherein the ruins,
Of GW Fulchester lay.

Seriously though, how anally retentive can GW be?