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Some things that us wargamers just cant stand to hear

This is the one thing that i cant stand to hear
this coming from my pal that also plays warhammer

QUOTE-Warhammer 40k stole everything from Starcraft just look at the Nids compaired to the Zerg
Same goes for warhammer and warcaft-END QUOTE

When he said that i just looked at him and said
have you even seen when warhammer was made it was way before warcraft

Warhammer and 40k are hardly original, but I'm pretty sure that they predate Blizzard. For this to be true, GW would have to own a time machine.

edit: didn't see your edit when I said that. Still, I'm not too bothered by it. When someone doesn't know what the hell they are criticizing, then there is no point arguing.

Just curious, but do you guys talk without pausing?

It's people like that who suck. Sure, they can have their own opinion, but this is just plain stupid. He should have just said "I hate Warhammer", and saved himself the trouble of having his stupidity laughed at.

RustyKnight wrote:Just curious, but do you guys talk without pausing?

Yes, to be honest i do, and that has led to my share of problems but i wont get into that

Just to avoid putting a useless post

I find it extremely annoying when a people compare halo or any other sci fi thing to warhammer because this often
creates fights
I once had this kid in the FLGS start a fight with a bunch of other underaged gamers, just because he said
A halo energy sword can kill your whole army in one hit
It ended in a OH YEAH MY.....

Another thing Wargamers hate hearing: 'Why do you still play with toys?'

THEY'RE MINIATURES DAMNIT!!!1!

As a wargamer, I really hate hearing "It's time for the anal rape!" from some big burly dude. Can't STAND that.

Lorek wrote:As a wargamer, I really hate hearing "It's time for the anal rape!" from some big burly dude. Can't STAND that.

Lorek mind explaning that one to me, because it seemed my small human brain couldn't comprehend what that has to do with wargaming

Oh and this might not be something someone says but, when someone makes a terrible paint job, and you try help them, and they just say
stop it your just jealous

Cheesepie, some punctuation would be lovely. It really makes your posts easier to read!

I've dealt with the kind of people who say "X stole from Y" on a daily basis. Everyone takes everything from everybody, especially in science fiction.

"Fantasy is like chess, 40k is checkers."

"I think the writers meant for it to be played this way..."

"I just read through the new codex and..."

All guaranteed to start fights.

Lorek wrote:As a wargamer, I really hate hearing "It's time for the anal rape!" from some big burly dude. Can't STAND that.

O_o


Also, i cant stand it when people complain about someone stole an idea from someone else, GW pretty much based thier ideas on something else, Like gene stealers and aliens (xenomorphs).
I can go on about all the things i hear from people about 'X stole from Y' forever, but seriously you should ignore these people, stupidity cannot be cured.

That what i hate to hear,and not only as a wargamer either.

Ultra mortalitas wrote:

Lorek wrote:As a wargamer, I really hate hearing "It's time for the anal rape!" from some big burly dude. Can't STAND that.

O_o


Also, i cnat stand it when people complain about someone stole an idea from someone else, GW pretty much based thier ideas on something else, Like gene stealers and aliens (xenomorphs).
I can go on about all the things i hear from people about 'X stole from Y' forever, but seriously you should ignore these people, stupidity cannot be cured.

That what i had to hear,and not only as a wargamer either.

Well you see, I was wargaming in prison, and

*Pukes on Brother SRM*

Well the fact is that it may be wrong to accuse one thing of stealing,
but that one thing (IE warhammer) most likely stole from another thing,
just not what you or they may be thinking of (IE Random sci fi)

My sincere apologies for my punctuation, but i type here (and anything else on the internet) like i type on msn or any other messenger
Fast and how i like it

Cheesepie wrote:Well the fact is that it may be wrong to accuse one thing of stealing,
but that one thing (IE warhammer) most likely stole from another thing,
just not what you or they may be thinking of (IE Random sci fi)

My sincere apologies for my punctuation, but i type here (and anything else on the internet) like i type on msn or any other messenger
Fast and how i like it

And that is a big no on Dakka, where people value correct grammar.

Cheesepie wrote:
When he said that i just looked at him and said
have you even seen when warhammer was made it was way before warcraft

When you said that i just looked at you and asked
"have you ever seen what Tyranid sculpt looks like before Zergs came out?"

Ironically I find it annoying when people mistake Warhammer for being particularly original, there's usually at least one post a month criticising D&D for stealing ideas off Games Workshop.

Does it really matter if something is "stolen" by another company for their own use?

Cant believe nobody posted this yet:

Yea what Luna said.

You really should see the 3ed Tyranids before the newer models came out.

3ed was also before Starcraft and the "zergy" ones came out shortly after Starcraft was launched.

Yes i have Luna, I am a proud owner of the BBB and i still have fond memories of them

But that raises a good question, zerg might not be ripped off of the nids, as much, then
where were zerg ripped off? and dont say that it was their idea, because that's hard to very hard to believe due to all the sci fi similarity types
but we can all agree that WarCraft is very very similar to warhammer fantasy
It might just be possible that blizzard got leaked data containing what is now current nids

GAH its a conspiracy i say, someone call the media, the world must be informed

Oh and i think i derailed a little bit

The Zerg are just a combination of the bugs from Starship Troopers and the movie Aliens - similar can be said for the Tyranids. Space Hulk was basically Aliens: The Boardgame when it came out back in the mid-late 80s.

I don't think Blizzard got leaked anything. A bunch of guys who liked Lord of the Rings and Warhammer made a fantasy RTS and that was that. If I recall correctly GW started getting super-protective over their IPs after Warcraft 1 came out though, since the Orc designs were very close to the Warhammer Orcs.

Yeah, youre right, as soon as realised that space hulk was base of the movie aliens i saw pretty much every single thing that was base of it.

Now lets back the topic

Actually Blizzard approached Games Workshop about making a Warhammer fantasy RTS, Games Workshop said no. Thus Warcraft was borne. Blizzard has never had an original idea since the company was created. They have a very good business model of taking existing genres and simplifying them.

And Leading Edge games came out with an "ALIENS:the boardgame" in 1990 as well (where each of the characters had their own playing piece and stat card.).

Both 40k and Starcraft borrowed from the same source material - in the same way that all "traditional fantasy" writers have borrowed from collective folklore.

I hate hearing people argue about which space marine chapter is better or that ultramarines can beat anyone. I kindly pull out my Nightbringer and tell those people he thanks you for freeing him and causing the deaths of billions.

I hate hearing "How much did that cost" from my wife...

Also guaranteed to lead to a fight :(

Kurgash wrote:I hate hearing people argue about which space marine chapter is better or that ultramarines can beat anyone. I kindly pull out my Nightbringer and tell those people he thanks you for freeing him and causing the deaths of billions.

Gah! I hate when people do that, fluffwise, the original chapters are the strongest, but are pretty much equal in strength.

While other founding chapters are as good as the 1st foundings, they all have a thing they are strong at (like the original chapters) thus making as good as the original chapters.

So basically, all chapters are equal in a way.

Edit: Also, The reason for so many chapters is that so no sm player is disappointed with the fluff of his army

-Kid comes up-

"Hey do you want to play a game against my Space Wolf army?"

"Sure" me.

-10 mins later-

Kid says "Dante and Marnius Calgar assault [insert unit here]"

I say "Aren't you playing Space Wolfs?"

Kid "Aren't I?"

i hate it when people at my FLGS 'suggest' what to get for my necron army, they always mention this, 'no C'TAN, no LITH , no FO, just get a small unit of 200 immortals and a necron lord'

really pisses me off


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AND they also say it when im in the middle of a game..