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TFG, that frikken guy. I know this word, I strive against it, but I can't put my finger on the meaning. It's quite nebulous. Can anyone lay down some guidance? Or point me to where I should've gone :p

Thanks in advance.

I'm no old dakka hand, but I can gleam that if you've ever shaken your head while thinking, "Ugh, that guy," than you know the meaning.

He's THAT fething guy. You know, the one who whenever you see him, you sigh, and have a strong urge to pick up your stuff and go away, but don't because your absolutely determined to have fun, whether you like it or not.

He's the guy who spends 4 hours in my shop making up stats for the Last Chancers (eventhough they were published or online at the time) from the back of the 3rd Ed. BB vetran rules and then challenges the Tau player (new army at the time) to play. The Tau player promptly drops a pie-plate on the 'Chancers and wipes them out; total game time 6 min. TFG grabs all of his non-GW troop and vehicle models and exclaims that the Tau Codex is broken and stomps out of the store with tears in his eyes.

Allen, you suck.

Tau player got 25% off on his next purchase. He then proceeded to buy every Tau set or blister we had in the store.

Allen, you still suck, but thanks for the sale!

The header on my page earlier said "if you can't find 'that guy', then you are that guy."

Better watch out dude.

Could it be that Jalil plays in a place without TFG's, does such a wonderous place even exist?

No, everywhere has them. Sometimes it's like a sort of Daemonic Possesion.

My local TFG...I just don't play him ever. And the few people who stagger in off the street soon follow suit.

Rules Lawyering? Check!
Badly painted army largely in pieces? Check!
Rolling dice then grabbing 'succesess' randomly? Check!
On both to hit, and to wound? Check!
Uses a beardy army with lots of unclear proxies? Check!
Has his Dad on hand (the guy must be like 22 or so now) to back up his wilder rules interpretations? Check!
Some evidence of TFG being a herditary condition? Check!

Wow! And the store owner does nothing because?

Money.

How much can a jerk and his dad spend?

Nope, we tend to just ignore them both. One is as bad as the other, and you get a curious Victorian Freakshowesque enjoyment from spectating one of their games. Every rule is quibbled, every milimetre split as far as it will go, angles are checked, double checked, triple checked. Whole turns of movement are reset (neatly after the models have been moved, screwing up all cunning posititioning etc)....

They are also very, very boring people.

Oh, the Dad used to be an employee of the Store (GW Store) and I used to work along side him. Not exactly the right sort of dynamic in him for that job. Nice enough guy to talk to, just exceedingly dull! But don't ever, EVER play him. You will regret it. My first game against him was Mordheim, which went entirely my way, including all his Heroes being killed and his Warband being reduced to a single Fanatic and rather badly maimed Zealot..... His hissyfit after that was something to behold, I can tell you.

HoverBoy wrote:How much can a jerk and his dad spend?

True. Probably not enough to make it worthwhile.

Actually, now I think about it, they hardly ever buy stuff in store. Certainly, the Dad has been working on his Beastmen since we worked there (that was 3 years ago) and his son still has the Bretonnians that used to come with the boxed game....Erk!

Then again, the son might have bought new Knights.

Oh well i vote for the chainsaw approach

The easy question is whether they cheat to "win".

Oh yes. Well, you're not going to cheat to lose now, are you?

That'd be utterly pointless.

True.

If you wanted to throw a game intentionally, there's almost never a need to resort to cheating.

In fact, I would like to say it's so utterly pointless, as to be so pointless, it ranks right up there with trying to seduce a young lady by chopping your family jewels off and sending them to her in the post to show her the level of your endowment.

Literally pointless in numerous ways.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:In fact, I would like to say it's so utterly pointless, as to be so pointless, it ranks right up there with trying to seduce a young lady by chopping your family jewels off and sending them to her in the post to show her the level of your endowment.

Literally pointless in numerous ways.

Very Blackadder Mad Dok

Well, I am gearing up to become a Stand Up....

Sorry if some of my jokes are lame, but I'm getting there!

An apoclipse match in the GW i go to, and its veterains vs everyone, a huge, wall of stuck together bags is placed in the middle of the table, we cant see there deplyoment, they cant see ours. We have alot of stuff two baneblades, a defiler formation, i love my defiler. Bags come down and they got twenty-one leman russ's, this guy goes crazy shouting in my ear that were gonna loose etc. Try telling him it doesnt matter, he doesnt listen, i see him moving him plague marines and he moves 10". I ask him why he's moving over 6" and he tells me its apcolipse no-one cares. About half way through the game he leaves, because "this game sucks" and we were loosing, he leaves a whole side of our board without support.
I also found out afterwards that a warboss and two killakanz were heading towards his typhus. Everyone agreed he quit because he was loosing.

Is that a TFG, because he seems like one.

Also when he does win games, he doesnt stop going on about it.

Xav - that is TFG.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:In fact, I would like to say it's so utterly pointless, as to be so pointless, it ranks right up there with trying to seduce a young lady by chopping your family jewels off and sending them to her in the post to show her the level of your endowment.

OTOH, if you've been watching REDDIT and so forth, some young lady got it into her head that the best way to deal with a bad lunch date (based on fake pics) was to drunk-dial the guy at 10pm and come over to do "whatever", then rant about how he's such a bad person afterwards...

*so* much wrong with the whole thing, but such funny reading...

I put people who make a lot of judgments about events and happenings that they where not at into this category.

Does any one here live in alabama.

Alabama has electricity?

yeah we even have a dentist. I bet you do not.

orks rock waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not at the moment...sadly the Dentists in the UK threw a massive hissy fit a few years ago about the NHS Pay and that, and most of them don't do NHS anymore (ungrateful buggers...wonder if they returned their Student Grants?)

As such I am currently 3 months into a 6 month waiting list for my new Dentist.

Thankfully I look after my teeth which are nice and straight. Could do with whitening though, but thats stupidly expensive.

I like the implication that the state of Alabama has a dentist.