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Royal Mail issues Warhammer stamps celebrating 40 year anniversary
- RNase 3y agoMAIL FOR THE MAIL GOD! STAMPS FOR THE STAMP THRONE!
- npsomaratna 3y agoDEATH TO THE FALSE EMAILER!
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoIn the sticky darkness of the far future there is only stamp glue.
- bodge5000 3y agoThey are my posties, and they shall know no fear (of poor weather conditions)
- ilyt 3y agoAre spammers just Tyranid?
- duxup 3y agoI wish I sent more mail. USPS and other places have some amazing stamps.
- lapetitejort 3y agoHave a friend's address? Send them a quick letter. It'll be the most surprising thing that will happen to them that week.
- usrusr 3y agoTrue enough, special edition stamps or not.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoI randomly send cards to friends and loved ones for fun and to stay in touch. Latest stamps that went out were James Webb Telescope. You can too! https://store.usps.com/store/product/buy-stamps/james-webb-space-telescope-stamps-s_482704 https://store.usps.com/store/product/buy-stamps/james-webb-s...
- neilv 3y agoIf it's not on postcards they want to keep, friends' kids might have fun collecting the stamps as free little art, if they knew how to soak off and press canceled stamps.
- neilv 3y agoAt one of our startups, we had a dinosaur theme for internal codenames, and one day we floated around the idea of stockpiling a bunch of dinosaur postage stamps, so that we could make that our thing for company mail, using them long after those stamps were no longer available from USPS. But we soon decided that beating inflation with USPS Forever stamps probably wasn't the best ROI of investor funds. (Codename Raptor (Velociraptor) was an awesome internal app, for eviscerating counterfeiters with swarms of fast-moving iPhones.)
- no_wizard 3y agoI mean I get it, but couldn't you just bill it out as employee morale or something.
- neilv 3y agoYes, or hiring appeal, or marketing (another factor to A/B test for paper mails, which we did use in some of our B2B and enterprise approaches). IMHO, dinos (including a team break to brainstorm a suitable next codename) are better for morale than many packaged corporate team-building activities.
- vrtnis 3y agoA real silver plated metal stamp! https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/warhammer/warhammer-stamp-ingot-stormcast-eternals https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/warhammer/wa...... btw the first 'metal' royal mail stamp was probably their Iron Maiden series https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64173882 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64173882
- er4hn 3y agoWarhammer is a historic gaming institution which has had ripple effects throughout so many places: Starcraft having the Zerg based on Tyranniads, the lore text and novels leading to "grimdark" sci-fi as a genre, even other games like Gears of War have a lot of inspirations from this. With all that said it is very amusing to see the British govt create a series of stamps that commemorate a game setting that could be summed up as "religious facism with roman empire themes".
- n1b0m 3y agoFor most of its history, the Royal Mail was a public service, operating as a government department or public corporation. Following the Postal Services Act 2011, a majority of the shares in Royal Mail were floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2013. The UK government initially retained a 30% stake in Royal Mail, but sold its remaining shares in 2015, ending 499 years of state ownership [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail
- rvense 3y ago> With all that said it is very amusing to see the British govt create a series of stamps that commemorate a game setting that could be summed up as "religious facism with roman empire themes". While I don't at all doubt that it goes over the head of some of the fanbase, I don't get the sense that the existence of a religious fascist empire in the game is really an endorsement of that as a political philosophy...
- mustacheemperor 3y agoIt certainly isn't, and that's especially obvious considering the origin of some of the lore figures like the "Dark Angels" led by "Lion El Johnson," or the heroic stronghold planet of "Caliban" being named after a gay club located down the street from the pub where the setting's original creators would hang out. Part of the point of 40k (which certainly DOES go over the head of some of the fanbase) is that the humans really are the bad guys. I mean, so are lots of other factions, but that's the dark future of the 41st millenium for you.
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- detritus 3y agoI missed out on the 'Video Games' Stamp edition they did a few years back that had much-cherished games from my youth. Silly me! https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/video-games https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/video-games
- readyplayernull 3y agoSo many Warhammer games, which is the best?
- EamonnMR 3y agoPainting the minis is a fun hobby. Boltgun is the best video game from the franchise that I've played.
- nailer 3y agoI haven’t played Boltgun personally but I can confirm it’s has great reviews from FPS YouTubers
- mattl 3y agoWarhammer 40,000 is the flagship game. If you’re looking to get started, Kill Team is a smaller model count game. A new edition of 40K is out in the next few weeks. The core rules are a free download and the points for all the models will be free downloads too.
- mpsprd 3y agoIt depends on your preferences. For a l4d style horde shooter, vermintide 1&2 For a boomer shooter, the recent 40k boltgun is allegedly excellent For tactical in the 40k realm the dawn of war 2 is great. Space marine was a nice linear action game, worthwile on sale.
- iamevn 3y agoI've recently gotten into Necromunda which is a very fun skirmish game but horrible for how many books and minis you need to buy.
- Semaphor 3y agoThere is currently a turn based CRPG in beta by owlcat (They created two successful pathfinder CRPGs). It looks great so far.
- dataduck 3y agoMy personal fave is Blood Bowl. A really tightly designed game that plays in 150 minutes (and has turn timers so this is pretty reliable), works just fine if you don't know the lore (but will bring you in), and doesn't require buying additional models in the same way most of the others do. I think it got a reprint semi-recently too.
- comrh 3y agoWarhammer is so much fun but the pieces are just so ridiculously expensive. Especially Warhammer Fantasy which has races that can require a hundred individual units to field a 2000 point army.
- belfalas 3y agoIt's definitely like Magic the Gathering - a rich man's game.
- mrguyorama 3y agoAt least it's clear from the get go that Minifig based games are not just pay to win, but pay to even come to the table. Magic tries to pretend that it isn't gacha with clear metas that cost a thousand bucks.
- Tade0 3y agoSome find their own minigame in this. One good friend of mine is apparently in it to produce the most powerful deck at the lowest cost - usually via second-hand purchases. Others just fish for foil cards, which apparently are measurably heavier than normal ones and with a precision scale it's possible to tell whether a booster has one. I'm not a collector, so I stopped buying them when power creep rendered a second deck of mine useless already.
- mrguyorama 3y agoThere's playable game in playing what essentially amounts to no longer "legal" rule sets, but that requires finding a niche partner in an already niche game.
- twic 3y agoMiniatures games aren't really play-to-win, though. You have to spend (lots of) money to be able to play, but you can't spend arbitrary further money to increase your chance of winning. The size of your army is limited by the points cost of the units, and the composition is limited by various rules, so you can't just buy twenty super-duper battle robots and steamroller everyone. I don't think it's even reliable that the point-for-point best units are the most financially expensive ones. With 40k, i believe the most expensive stuff is often obscure Forge World models that usually have terrible rules.
- ndsipa_pomu 3y agoI recommend watching Astartes, a fan made short that really captures the spirit of WH40K (based on my playing of Dark Heresy RPG). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hgjuFfn3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hgjuFfn3A
- Tade0 3y agoBlessed Sigmar, the Old World is also featured in this collection!
- debacle 3y agoI remember when Warhammer + GW were the bad guys for being money grubbing + elitist. And now people look at Hasbro and WotC and wish they were more like Games Workshop.
- WalterBright 3y agoAfter WW2, post offices around the world discovered philately, in particular, the penchant for philatelists to collect "mint" stamps. The post office could literally mint stamps in endless variety and sell them to the suckers (philatelists) who think they're collectible. Since these are never affixed to envelopes and mailed, it's free money for the post office. Imagine that, you print up a sheet of paper and sell it for $10 to $100. Ok, they are collectible, but they're still worthless as having value beyond the postage value. Sort of like NFTs. If you want to collect stamps with any collectible value, ya gotta go before 1940.
- gameshot911 3y agoAren't the pre-1940 stamps just "pieces of paper, and free money for the post office if they were never used (which is desirable if you're looking for mint specimens)"? I agree with your initial point, but don't follow your distinction at the end.
- WalterBright 3y ago> Aren't the pre-1940 stamps just [...] Yes, absolutely. It's just that the post offices did not recognize the money-making potential of releasing endless varieties of commemorative stamps. Once they did, however, it was game over for philately.