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Aeanagwen ([info]aeanagwen) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2007-10-27 03:11:00


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Entry tags:fandom: warhammer

 Hey, all!  Remember this wank?  About the baby not!elephants, and whether or not the abuse of such in a fantasy figure game crossed some line of common decency?  There was a lot of tl;dr about the validity of the complaints?  

Well, Privateer Press sure noticed.  See their October 25 front page announcement (not directly linkable, but currently right up top) about merchandise to capitalize on/ruthlessly mock the whole flamey affair.  Best line:

Privateer Press would like everyone to know that we share this sentiment and are deeply concerned with the ongoing abuse of these noble, fictitious animals.

It's no great surprise that this stirs things up again.  While the topic previously died down after a mod-locking, it rises again in a new thread.  Highlights thus far!

How about being a responsible business PP and donating the proceeds from these items to local human societies instead of just pocketing them?


[...] grow a pair and bash the baby titan's brains out before it mashes up your army! 


If this merchandise offends your "sensibilities" I strongly suggest you go play some other game, like Pokemon.


As early as Post 23, a staffer steps in to say of the merchandise that P.P. was not intending to poke fun at people, but simply at their ideas.  This goes over about as it would reasonably be expected to--it adds fuel to the fire.

Not too long as of yet--only two pages--but possibly worth keeping an eye on, and notable for possibly the most amusing display of filthy capitalism I've ever seen.

EDIT:  Ah, the perils of posting something just before you go to sleep for eight hours.  Thanks [info]harrylovesron for pointing out the Rich Text thing.  Fixed!



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[info]caito
2007-10-27 11:27 am UTC (link)
Psst, html.

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[info]jat_sapphire
2007-10-27 05:26 pm UTC (link)
Weird thing is, can you see anything wrong with it? The code looks just fine to me, it just isn't working. What's going on?

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(no subject) - [info]harrylovesron, 2007-10-27 05:39 pm UTC

[info]smashingstars
2007-10-27 12:07 pm UTC (link)
Got some borken HTML there. I like the Post 23, though, very calming. "No no, we just hate what you stand for! Not YOU! It's totally not personal."

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[info]malana
2007-10-27 12:31 pm UTC (link)
Ha! I have no interest in any of their products, but I am now in love with this company.

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[info]gloria_mundi
2007-10-27 05:08 pm UTC (link)
Seconded.

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[info]mistressrenet
2007-10-27 05:47 pm UTC (link)
Thirded!

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(Anonymous)
2007-10-28 01:14 am UTC (link)
Your merboy looks emo.

-35141

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[info]cjk
2007-10-27 02:58 pm UTC (link)
Your HTML is very, very sick.

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(Anonymous)
2007-10-27 04:19 pm UTC (link)
Psst, your html is borked! ;)

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[info]staroverthebay
2007-10-27 07:43 pm UTC (link)
How about being a responsible business PP and donating the proceeds from these items to local human societies instead of just pocketing them?

I... can't get past the typo. Donate them to local human societies instead of pocketing them? Give money away to ungrateful bastards like you, instead of pocketing the proceeds for their own work?

(Ooooh, you mean humane societies? Not human societies? Well that's different.)

Nevermind, I'm just giggling at the stupid typo.

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[info]katarin
2007-10-27 08:41 pm UTC (link)
This is in like, .5 font on my flist, FYI

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[info]mistal
2007-10-27 09:09 pm UTC (link)
zymspyder- i just had a fictional (fake) idea for a fictional (fake) creature. now i am going to rip its fictional (fake) skin off and torture it to death. it will never sleep or poop or breath in a proper fictional (fake) way again.

sue me for it.

lich lord burns- My fictitious lawsuit has been filed with the appropriate fictitious authorities. Expect to hear from my fictitious attorney at some future fictitious date.


*giggles*

The announcement is a thing of beauty. And that P.E.T.T teddy bear is a cutie. (and so is that baby titan)

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[info]makeshyft
2007-10-27 10:45 pm UTC (link)
Ok, when can we expect more wanks to use the line.. "It was a social experiment Marketing Ploy!"?

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[info]blackjackrocket
2007-10-28 01:12 am UTC (link)
If this merchandise offends your "sensibilities" I strongly suggest you go play some other game, like Pokemon.

Ooooh no you don't. Stay out of my fandom!

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[info]imp
2007-10-28 01:22 am UTC (link)
I strongly suggest you go play some other game, like Pokemon.

But Pokemon is nothing BUT fighting fictional animals! And they're kept in tiny containers! OH WILL THE FICTIONAL INHUMANITY NEVER FICTIONALLY END?!

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it seemed appropriate...
[info]baskinglizard
2007-10-28 04:06 am UTC (link)

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(Anonymous)
2007-10-28 04:19 am UTC (link)
SERIOUSLY. Pokémon may be non-violent and child-friendly, but that doesn't mean it's exactly ethical. As an ARA I would Not Approve if anything of that sort happened IRL, but the games are a fun way to waste time, so who cares?

Not that I don't appreciate the occasional goodfic that challenges the assumptions people make about training. Even better when it breeds wank.

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(Anonymous)
2007-10-28 04:24 am UTC (link)
I think that anyone who isn't a vegetarian ought to be automatically disqualified from wanking about the FICTIONAL suffering of FICTIONAL animals. Priorities, people!

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(Anonymous)
2007-10-28 04:30 am UTC (link)
And vegetarians should also be disqualified on the grounds that it makes the rest of us look ridiculous by association.

There! No more wank!

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(Anonymous)
2007-10-28 05:34 am UTC (link)
http://www.adultswim.com/video/index.html
Am I...Am I the only person reminded of this by the not!elephants? I mean, he's not an elephant, you guys. He's not.

-Lin

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[info]vzg
2007-10-28 10:03 pm UTC (link)
I'm guessing you meant to link to Max Reebo's Greatest Hits?

I love that. I love the whole Star Wars episode. :D

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[info]anonyrat
2007-10-29 12:39 am UTC (link)
LOL Wargamers. The only people at my local gaming store that manage to get weird looks from the LARPers.

Though this reminds me quite a bit of the sort of D&D player who will hurble endlessly about the poor baby orcs whose parents you're killing in your hack-and-slash dungeon crawl.

Caring about fictional creatures is great -- you don't have to give to charity or anything!

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[info]kahteh
2007-10-29 02:27 am UTC (link)
LOL Wargamers. The only people at my local gaming store that manage to get weird looks from the LARPers.

I swear we're not all as crazy as the people in this wank. D:

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[info]elemcee
2007-10-29 03:38 am UTC (link)
WoW has orcish and human orphans, now, so there's probably something about that, somewhere. :D

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(Anonymous)
2007-10-29 02:59 am UTC (link)
The Internet will rise up and will take revenge against fandom wank sluts and journalfen. you whiny punks already suspended my friend [info]thisiswar but you will not get away with it. with your suspension of my friend you faggots have lost one battle already! GET READY TO LOSE EVEN MORE YOU PUNK ASS FAGGOT SLUTS!!!!

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