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Old 22-07-2005, 16:29   #1
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Default The Bubble Ghost Games Workshop-O-Predictor

Not many people know this but as well as bubbles, I'm also the Ghost of Wargames Yet to Come. So I decided to use my magic ghostly crystal ball or whatever to peer into Games Workshop's future, and report back to dedicated GW fans everywhere. Here's what happens…

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  • April 2009: In the build up to the new version of 40K, a statement is issued that the new edition will reduce the dominance of Space Marines in the release schedules.

  • May 2009: The next edition of 40K is released under the title "Space Marine 40,000". SM40K's rulebook consists of a single page which explains the revised stat line (a single characteristic, "Kewl", replaces the eight originals – Space Marines have a Kewl of 10, everything else has 1). After deployment, each player rolls a D6, and adds the highest Kewl value in their army plus the number of pages of wargear in their codex book. Highest score wins the game.

  • November 2009: It is announced that a Fishmen army is planned for Warhammer (main weapon: the pike).

  • December 2009: The Fishmen army is denounced as cheesy and overpowered on various internet bulletin boards, with fans blaming Gav Thorpe for the imbalance even though he has been on a year's sabbatical in Asia.

  • February 2010: The tone of internet opinion towards the Fishmen softens, and it is generally thought that they are not cheesy after all.

  • March 2010: Work begins on the Fishmen army list.

  • June 2010: Military historians (people who own a book on the Crusades) begin to complain that 40K's Kewl stat does not feature armour save modifiers. Modern soldiers (paintball players) say that actually, with current ballistics and armour production, armour penetration is fairly predictable. Game designers (17 year olds who write house rules) argue about the difference between realistic and believable. Moderates (people who don't know anything but want to join in) paraphrase other people's opinions, but with cautious "IMO"s on the end in order to bypass having to provide reasoning.

  • August 2010: Following a board meeting on GW's plans for the future, brief doubts over the ethics of their intentions are voiced by one board member who calls the plan "almost supervillain-like" in its machination. Tom Kirby assures him this is ridiculous, although to be safe then presses the trapdoor release button, dropping him into the shark tank. With all opposition crushed "Plan Z" can now be initiated.

  • September 2010: Warhammer: Fishmen is released. No one notices. Games Workshop marketing blames Gav Thorpe.

  • February 2014: Games Workshop bulldozes a local orphanage to make room for the board's new money bin, which board members can often be seen swimming in as they cackle at the rain-soaked orphans peering sadly in from the cold.

  • March 2015: Games Workshop moves from Space Marine chapter variants onto supplements for other 5th edition 40K races.

  • April 2015: 40K 6th edition is released, with a streamlined rulebook. "Kewl" has been ditched; the entire rule set consists of the sentence "Space Marine armies always win".

  • September 2015: Someone posts a question on a message board asking what would happen in the hypothetical event of no Space Marine armies being involved in a game. This is considered too extreme an unlikelihood to be worth an FAQ.

  • May 2016: Warhammer 8th edition is released, with background written by the GW design team collaborating with Ian Rankin, Neil Gaiman and Bernard Cornwell, and with characterisation of the game's major figures by Kazuo Ishiguro. The Warhammer rulebook becomes the first non-novel to win the Booker prize and immediately appears on many English Literature curriculums, while Malus Darkblade places above Harry Potter and Spiderman in an international poll to find the most popular fantasy characters of all time. Fans of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1st edition emphatically state that the game has been dumbed down and the old background was better.

  • September 2016: It is announced that there will be individual 40K codex books for all 1,000 Space Marine chapters. Other races will be compiled into a volume entitled "Codex: Not Space Marines".

  • December 2016: North Korea annexes South Korea and Japan, instigating World War III. In the aftermath of the 2-year war, an international war crimes tribunal blames Gav Thorpe for the conflict.

  • April 2019: Games Workshop lowers some of its prices in the wake of an announcement from the Church of England that hell has frozen over.

  • May 2019: Tom Kirby purchases Nottinghamshire, renames it The Imperium of Man, and secedes from the UK for tax reasons.

  • October 2021: The Imperium loses 14-1 at home to Wales in a World Cup qualifier. Ryan Giggs, 47, is still Wales' best player.

  • January 2022: The Imperium of Man is eventually forced by public pressure groups to alter its name to The Imperium of Persons.

  • April 2022: The second price reduction in Games Workshop's history is announced after a high-tech, cost-saving method is discovered of casting models out of GW retail workers' dignity, which until now has wastefully leaked away into the upper atmosphere.

  • May 2026: The champions of The Imperium of Persons Premier Football League, Eldar Rangers, reach the final of the European Cup where they lose in a nail-biting penalty shootout to Bristol Rovers.

  • May 2027: 40K 8th edition is released. The rules are now so simple that they embody the perfect emptiness of zen, accidentally causing thousands of players to become one with the universe.

  • June 2027: Someone complains on a message board that the 8th edition 40K rules, while the path to true enlightenment, do not feature realistic armour saves.

  • January 2028: Revolutionary new telescope technology allows astronomers to prove that the universe is finite. Physicists blame Gav Thorpe.

  • June 2029: Games Workshop finally folds after the mysterious doomsday device under construction beneath the Lenton HQ malfunctions, destroying the building. Fortunately only IT technicians are injured in the blast. The explosion reveals that GW's entire head office building was constructed from gingerbread with sugar windows, and a child-sized oven is found in the wreckage of the boardroom.

  • July 2029: In a statement to former shareholders, the Games Workshop board blames Gav Thorpe.



So there you go! GW's future. Honest!

Holy crap I was bored this morning.




Disclaimer: there is no vitriol intended towards Games Workshop here. I like GW and its staff a lot. I even like 40K. It's just that anything that forms a noticable trend is easy to make fun of, and I'm a sucker for that. And once I get an idea in my head I have... to do... it...

There might be a little bit of venom in the jokes about message boards though...
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Old 22-07-2005, 16:39   #2
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I would like to quote all my favourite bits, but that'd take too long. I wish I could waste time as productively as you! Very amusing indeed.

(The colours are nice, too)
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Old 22-07-2005, 16:43   #3
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It's all true! We're doomed - DOOMED I tell ye!


*Leads an angry mob of peasants (burning torches mandatory, pitchforks optional) to destroy Lenton before it is too late*
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Old 22-07-2005, 16:46   #4
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OMG!!!

This is quite, quite funny!!!

Good job Frog.

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Somehow I just got a vision of Games Workshop legal department sending their crack strike team (dressed up in bright green skin-tight jump-suits) to track down Bubble Ghost and sue him for having illegally revealed their ultra-secret business plan, which he had somehow got into his hands during his brief stay in Lenton.

Run, Bubble Ghost, run! They are almost at your door!
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Old 22-07-2005, 17:27   #6
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Originally Posted by Gabacho Mk.II
OMG!!!

This is quite, quite funny!!!

Good job Frog.

Although I'd love to take the credit, the first post was made by my good friend Bubbleghost, not me.


Quote Somehow I just got a vision of Games Workshop legal department sending their crack strike team (dressed up in bright green skin-tight jump-suits) to track down Bubble Ghost and sue him for having illegally revealed their ultra-secret business plan, which he had somehow got into his hands during his brief stay in Lenton.
Nah, they'd just send E Cummings, the guy who threatened Trapper and myself with fines and imprisonment - even though he doesn't work for the company.
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Old 22-07-2005, 18:26   #7
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This is quite an amazing piece of satire. Bravo. I seriously couldn't stop laughing through the whole post. I spit Wendy's burger bitz (bitz... *giggle*) on my computer screen twice. I'm still chuckling as I write this.
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My lord ... I almost lost control of my bladder.

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Originally Posted by Brother Frog
*Leads an angry mob of peasants (burning torches mandatory, pitchforks optional) to destroy Lenton before it is too late*
Don't forget the Burn Andy! signs.

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Cynical, aren't we?

Good fun.
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Nah, they'd just send E Cummings, the guy who threatened Trapper and myself with fines and imprisonment - even though he doesn't work for the company.
How did you manage to escape? Did it involve dressing up as a rabbit to look inconspicuous to the Scotland Yard patrols passing under the tree you were hiding in?
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OMG!!!

This is quite, quite funny!!!

Good job Frog.





You are right. I am sorry. I immediately thought of Brother Frog instead of Bubble Ghost...


I especially love April 2019!!!
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Quote January 2022: The Imperium of Man is eventually forced by public pressure groups to alter its name to The Imperium of Persons.
I liked that.
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So much to quote, so little time...

The funniest thing I've read in a while. Seven mutated thumbs up (and the two atrophied original ones).
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Cynical, aren't we?

Good fun.

Nah, BG just knows far too much about the industry. Have more than a passing knowledge of GW's business practices, and you'll be the same...
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ha ha ha, jolly good to the last word.

I especially liked the Imperium of Persons, someone has to sig that, and it cannot be me (read my sig)

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*Leads an angry mob of peasants (burning torches mandatory, pitchforks optional) to destroy Lenton before it is too late*
*joins the angry mob with her flaming torch and pitchfork*

Highly amusing though.
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"I laughed so hard I pee'd a little, I changed right after" - Never has that scrubs quote been more deserved

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Why the hell are you not nominated for funniest poster Bubble Ghost?!?!

Oh and Vallery trust you to be the only one not to be in complete hysterics and say something like that.
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November 2009: It is announced that a Fishmen army is planned for Warhammer (main weapon: the pike).
What happened to their spines and harpoons?

Loved it by the way. ^^
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