Warhammer 40k on the BBC!

[Brakkart]

Well on their news website anyway, with a nice article about the games 25th anniversary. You can read it here:

[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17274186"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17274186[/URL]

[Necron_Lord]

Actually that was pretty decent and it didn't put the hobby or hobbyists down at all. Conceding that the hobby is a bit 'geeky' is true, and the bit about it skewing heavily towards males shouldn't come as much of a surprise. I wonder what the demographic for Strawberry Shortcake merch is?

Nice to see the hobby getting some decent and non-negative attention across the pond!

[gendoikari87]

Actually that was pretty decent and it didn't put the hobby or hobbyists down at all. Conceding that the hobby is a bit 'geeky' is true, and the bit about it skewing heavily towards males shouldn't come as much of a surprise. I wonder what the demographic for Strawberry Shortcake merch is?

Nice to see the hobby getting some decent and non-negative attention across the pond!

Be ye not ashamed, wear that geek badge proud. AND WE SHALL KNOW NO SHAME!!!!!

[Necron_Lord]

Be ye not ashamed, wear that geek badge proud. AND WE SHALL KNOW NO SHAME!!!!!

I am not and have never been ashamed about being in the hobby. I have always had an artistic bent and found TT wargaming a fun and enjoyable way to spend my time. Playing golf or watching sports all the time has never interested me in the least. Painting my undead robots and drugged-up sadistic space elves and playing war with them is much, much more fun!

[Grenadier]

I revel in my geekery. It is who I am. I found the movies "Revenge of the Nerds" to be an uplifting and self-affirming series of movies. Once, when I was drunk with geekery I stripped naked and rolled about in my bed covered with my 40k models. Alas, it was a bad idea. For many were broken. And spiky bits got lodged in some very uncomfortable places.

[Haggis McMutton]

Hey, at least the article wasn't like that one in the Greek media a few months ago... (the one that basically made 40k gamers out to be devil worshipping, racist anarchists)

[Grenadier]

I'm still incensed by that piece of garbage passing for journalism! Clearly she knew nothing about the game, approached her article with an assumption guiding her narrative, and her interview method was questionable. Likening the Black Templars to the ****s just on the basis of the colors red, black, and white?!? Anyone who knows nothing of them can tell, just by looking at a model, they're based on the Knights Templar.

This BBC article covered "The Hobby" in a very good light and was written very well. And I'm not even fond of the BBC but I'll praise that article. I also liked that it addressed the issue of prices. But I can't help but wonder...

How much does Games Workshop advertise over there in England? If at all? And how do they advertise? Here in America I've never seen any single advertisement (in any form available) for Games Workshop. As a kid a lot of stuff that interested in me would be advertised in comic books. So I'd have thought GW would at least do that. Or maybe even a television commercial. But I've never seen a bit of advertising at all. Is there some reason they don't do it?

[Kataklysm]

Be ye not ashamed, wear that geek badge proud. AND WE SHALL KNOW NO SHAME!!!!!

Mind if i use this as my signature?

[DrLove42]

Actually that was pretty decent and it didn't put the hobby or hobbyists down at all. Conceding that the hobby is a bit 'geeky' is true, and the bit about it skewing heavily towards males shouldn't come as much of a surprise. I wonder what the demographic for Strawberry Shortcake merch is?

Nice to see the hobby getting some decent and non-negative attention across the pond!

What article did you read?

I avoid piece about the Hobby in the mdeia because of the condasending tone they always take

From the headline of "Why are grown men still launching tabletop war" you can already read that is made up its opinion of belittling things

EDIT - Also...don't read the comments. Theres 3 different people all claiming to be Rick Priestly...

[lattd]

He spells necrons wrong the second time he uses it But i liked the article it seemed to embrace the geekyness of the hobby, at the same time looking at it from the outsiders point of view.