in the far future there is only bonuses for everyone!

[likesfish]

Games Workshop hands staff £2,500 bonus as half-year profits rise 12%

Retailer says workers will share £7.5m bonus pool, with Christmas bonuses £1,000 larger than last year

www.theguardian.com

games workshop providers of high quality plastic crack give their staff a £2500 bonus admittidly that's a space marine command squad and a dozen paints but a company doing a decent thing for it's workers ishould fucking rare.

 

[Ming]

God i've spent a lot of money in that shop. Nice to hear they're cool employers also.

 

[SpookyFrank]

GW changed the names of all their Warhammer races to things they could copyright (most of the original ones were nicked from Tolkien, Heinlein etc) and the staff are now forbidden from mentioning the old names. They've even retroconned their whole fictional universe.

 

[DotCommunist]

Imperial Guard isn't even a fictional name, theres been real imperial guards, but they tried to own it anyway. Now its astra militarum.

 

[Throbbing Angel]

I wonder if this is boosted by the monies from the impending Warhammer TV show coming to Amazon?

 

[Chilli.s]

Good

 

[Artaxerxes]

GW changed the names of all their Warhammer races to things they could copyright (most of the original ones were nicked from Tolkien, Heinlein etc) and the staff are now forbidden from mentioning the old names. They've even retroconned their whole fictional universe.

They are bringing it back next year because people got pissed off (also total war players wanted to play in the Old World and asked what the fuck age of smegmar was)

 

[likesfish]

GW changed the names of all their Warhammer races to things they could copyright (most of the original ones were nicked from Tolkien, Heinlein etc) and the staff are now forbidden from mentioning the old names. They've even retroconned their whole fictional universe.

tbf Wrahammer is more expensive and less socially acceptable than Heroin!

at one point the Fluff about the god emperour of mankind had him being jesus and a certain middle eastern warlord strangley that bit of lore got retconned harder and faster than the squats cant imagine why

 

[MickiQ]

They're based in Nottingham and their HQ is near the NG2 tram stop on the Toton line. It has a huge emblem of a double headed bird of prey on the side of the building, (The symbol of the Imperium of Man apparently) It's clearly visible if you're riding on the tram and I have to admit it does look pretty awesome.

 

[likesfish]

They even have a fv432 armoured personnel carrier done up to look like a land raider a tank from the game.

 

[DotCommunist]

They're based in Nottingham and their HQ is near the NG2 tram stop on the Toton line. It has a huge emblem of a double headed bird of prey on the side of the building, (The symbol of the Imperium of Man apparently) It's clearly visible if you're riding on the tram and I have to admit it does look pretty awesome.

one eye blind to the past, the other looking to the future. This is because they abhor mankinds technological golden age as 'the dark age of technology' and shun complex computers in case they turn AI (abominable Intelligence).
Reminds me of the russian imperial eagle with one head looking to the east and the other head looking west

 

[MickiQ]

They even have a fv432 armoured personnel carrier done up to look like a land raider a tank from the game.

Someone else told me that but I haven't seen it. Next time I go into Nottingham,I must get off at NG2 and go and have a look.

 

[DotCommunist]

most of the original ones were nicked from Tolkien, Heinlein etc)

I was reading jack vance's Dying Earth stories last year and guess what some gribbly creatures were called? Termagants. Thats exactly the name of GW's Tyrranid shock troops, the cheap pawny units you sacrifice for strategic advantage. GW is a big magpie grabbing all the shiny bits from every sf and fantasy setting.

 

[yield]

I was reading jack vance's Dying Earth stories last year and guess what some gribbly creatures were called? Termagants. Thats exactly the name of GW's Tyrranid shock troops, the cheap pawny units you sacrifice for strategic advantage. GW is a big magpie grabbing all the shiny bits from every sf and fantasy setting.

Michael Moorcock, Lovecraft, 2000AD loads from Nemesis the Warlock & Judge Dredd, The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller

 

[DotCommunist]

Judge Dredd

GW briefly did minis for a Judge Dredd game in '85 lol. I love that mad max, punk, dystopian ramshackle techno future spirit of the 80s. Jayce and the wheeled Warriors.