<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/7.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/looters-return-stuff-to-games-workshop-201108124191/

SCORES of disappointed rioters queued up this morning to return goods they had mistakenly looted from Games Workshop.

The crestfallen thieves had raided the store hoping for a PS3 or Nintendo bounty but arrived home to find they had stolen a box containing 300 unpainted Orcs and a board game called Beyond the Ultraforest of Kwang.


]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189846.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189846.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189860.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189860.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189881.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189881.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
"It includes two dice, each with about 40 sides and instructions on how to gain the trust of a 'cloud wizard'."]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189882.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189882.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189902.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189902.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
Hmm...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189907.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189907.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189912.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189912.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
MandalorynOranj wrote:Haha, if only they knew how much those 300 unpainted orcs cost.


Haha lots of chash ther

]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189948.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3189948.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) GW since Viz published the "War Workshop" strip:

http://johnstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2009/12/viz-and-war-workshop.html]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190016.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190016.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190037.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190037.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
tantan628 wrote:This is so great. This shows how stupid the rioters were that they didn't think to look at what they were looting or to check how much it was worth once they had taken it and were home.

I think the idea was that this was a hoax?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190038.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190038.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
ROFL



Just to make this clear for everyone. The Daily Mash is not real news it's satire. It's like The Onion, but for the Brits.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190053.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190053.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
tantan628 wrote:This is so great. This shows how stupid the rioters were that they didn't think to look at what they were looting or to check how much it was worth once they had taken it and were home.


Oh double whammy......now that's how you score the most laughs out of one joke!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190056.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190056.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
oni wrote:"And in Manchester, people who stole copies of Limitless starring Bradley Cooper having been setting fire to them and throwing them back through the window of HMV."

ROFL

I think it spoke volumes that one report mentioned the fact Waterstones was the one shop in the highstreet of a particular town that had remained untouched during the chaos and looting that took place in that period of time.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190063.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190063.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
oni wrote:"And in Manchester, people who stole copies of Limitless starring Bradley Cooper having been setting fire to them and throwing them back through the window of HMV."

ROFL

I thought that movie was pretty good...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190078.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190078.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190089.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190089.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
It's a joke, and I loved it. Tres droll.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190099.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190099.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)


Damn... Ninja'd by htj. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190100.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190100.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190116.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190116.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) Between the original article and those that thought it was real, Im in tears here.
Great stuff.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190142.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190142.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
Carmine the Wolf wrote:Probably the best mainstream recognition of GW since Viz published the "War Workshop" strip:

http://johnstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2009/12/viz-and-war-workshop.html


Don't forget that warhammer was the subject of an article in the metro (a free newspaper available on british public transport and people handing it out in the street):

http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/862364-opening-up-the-world-of-warhammer]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190246.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190246.page GMT Re:YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) GW doesnt register everybox so couldnt track it. They would have been caught with the electronics eventually.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190320.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190320.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
GW makes so many rediculously named things that with 30 seconds of google-fu they could have made a considerably funnier and more cutting commentary.

Still a nice chuckle though.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190574.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190574.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
Trickstick wrote:
Carmine the Wolf wrote:Probably the best mainstream recognition of GW since Viz published the "War Workshop" strip:

http://johnstoysoldiers.blogspot.com/2009/12/viz-and-war-workshop.html


Don't forget that warhammer was the subject of an article in the metro (a free newspaper available on british public transport and people handing it out in the street):

http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/862364-opening-up-the-world-of-warhammer


Huh, that was interesting. Not sure why so many of the comments are so ragey about him getting his facts wrong. I didn't notice anything wrong in the article. I think a lot of them might have just gotten bent out of shape about being calleds nerds. Poor dears.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190578.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190578.page GMT Re:YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190908.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190908.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190928.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190928.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
Skycrawler wrote:Funny. I seem to remember a recent episode of Eureka where the new girl asks the Sheriff if he has ever played Warhammer.


I caught that too. It was so quick I wasn't sure if I heard it right and so I rewound it and there it was!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190988.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3190988.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) UK?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3191019.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3191019.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
MightyGodzilla wrote:So how big (well read) is TheDailyMash in the UK?


Not as big as the Onion is in the US. Or possibly in the UK for that matter. It's gaining in popularity though.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3191039.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3191039.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
Eilif wrote:Funny, but they didn't have to make up the goofy sounding fantasy names.

GW makes so many rediculously named things that with 30 seconds of google-fu they could have made a considerably funnier and more cutting commentary.

Still a nice chuckle though.

Substitute the following:

Beyond the Ultraforest of Kwang -> The Island of Blood
The Runering of Fangor -> The chronicles of Malus Darkblade
cloud wizard -> Space Emperor]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3191198.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3191198.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3191262.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3191262.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3191633.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3191633.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) OT for a thread for a mocking article.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3192035.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3192035.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3193509.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3193509.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) GW store was in the background of an episode of Sarah Jane Adventures last year.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3193576.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3193576.page GMT Re:YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
Sagittarius (22 NOV-21 DEC)
This week, if you're feeling so disenfranchised and angry about something or other you overheard at the bus stop that you feel like setting fire to something, why not start with your own s**thole of a house?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3194124.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3194124.page GMT YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
If anything, we had expected riots in AUS over GW pricing first...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3195505.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3195505.page GMT Re:YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
The event that started the riots was the shooting of a Tottenham guy by armed police. At the time the reports were that he opened fire first - it now turns out that he merely had a loaded handgun with him in the car (which is still a pretty huge offence in the UK - basically, if you're driving around Tottenham estates with a loaded gun and a criminal record, you're probably in a gang and you're probably going to shoot someone...)

This led to a peaceful protest in Tottenham, which then became a bit LESS peaceful. At some point, the local teenagers started looting, and suddenly all the little hoodie kids seemed to realise that there weren't enough police around to stop them, if they all acted together, from taking whatever they wanted. Cue the start of days of 'riots', but where all political motivation had been lost and it was basically three days of teenage chavs looting any shop the police weren't currently standing next to.

The first two days were confined to Tottenham, but on Monday horrible teenagers everywhere wanted a new pair of trainers, and so 'rioting' spread over London to Hackney, Bethnal Green, Clapham etc. After Monday night, the police put their reinforcement plans into place, and on Tuesday night London was flooded with 16000 officers and has been suspiciously quiet for the rest of the week. By Tuesday, of course, the same thing had started happening, to a lesser degree, in other cities, most notably in Birmingham. It's all stopped now, and courts are working through the night to process the hundreds of people arrested.

If you believe the government and the Daily Mail (right), it was just 'rampant criminality' by a criminal underclass, and police need to be harder. Send in the army. Cut all their benefits. Etc, etc

If you believe the Guardian (left), it's not their fault, the problem is that the new government have cut youth centre funding and raised university fees, they have no direction, globalisation, consumer culture, poor poor children etc etc.

The reality is somewhere in the middle, as always... ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3196626.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3196626.page GMT Re:YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!)
ArbitorIan wrote:
If you believe the government and the Daily Mail (right), it was just 'rampant criminality' by a criminal underclass, and police need to be harder. Send in the army. Cut all their benefits. Etc, etc

If you believe the Guardian (left), it's not their fault, the problem is that the new government have cut youth centre funding and raised university fees, they have no direction, globalisation, consumer culture, poor poor children etc etc.

The reality is somewhere in the middle, as always...


So, the solution is obvious: Mandatory youth centres enforced by the military.

Also, thank you for making me NOT the only person to address the Knight fallacy in their Sig.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3197628.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3197628.page GMT Re:YES. (Look, it's not often the hobby gets into outside media, so this counts...!) http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3208231.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/389675/3208231.page GMT