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Friday night at flgs a very annoying kid was talking my ear off. He is admiring my IG and just picks up my Basilisk. Doesn't ask me. I can't remember who said it, but they equated touching someone elses dice is like touching their balls. When he picked it up it was like he grabbed my weiner.

I didn't know what to say so I just said something along the lines of, "It's customary that you ask before you pick up somebodies miniatures". He puts it back down (after about dropping it) and just says "sorry, I've had a bad day."

barlio wrote:Friday night at flgs a very annoying kid was talking my ear off. He is admiring my IG and just picks up my Basilisk. Doesn't ask me. I can't remember who said it, but they equated touching someone elses dice is like touching their balls. When he picked it up it was like he grabbed my weiner.

I didn't know what to say so I just said something along the lines of, "It's customary that you ask before you pick up somebodies miniatures". He puts it back down (after about dropping it) and just says "sorry, I've had a bad day."

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID WHEN SHE GRABBED MY WEINER!

But srsly, wtf kind of excuse is that?

After I thought about this kid I came up with a relatively easy way to explain him. Think of Opey off of the Andy Griffith show, but if Opey was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and Sheriff Taylor spent most of his free time drinking and making Opey sleep with the dogs.

This kid is basically the same, except that this kid is in the National Guard. I can't believe that I could be defended by his ginger butt someday.

Yea, i agree with almost everybody on this. I haven't played alot of games (Barely any, in fact) but i did play enough to play one with a like 11 year old, who, once i started to own his face, he started complaining that everything i did was against the rules and i just quit. Than, this little D-bag starts bragging that he totally owned me, even though it was just victory by default. I almost broke that kids neck, but i thought about those other kids that can be cool, and let him be, cause i didnt want to get thrown out of the store.

Ahh yes, I share your pain Beastmaster.

My neighbor does this ALL the time, not funny.

captain.gordino wrote:

Grunt_For_Christ wrote:I can't tell you how many awkward moments I've had. There have been ... team because after I glued it back together he didn't say a word.

"Grunt for Christ?"

Dude, you Are Christ!

Captain, Jesus Christ never kicked this much ass!


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Had a kid once knock a full coke, by accident into a tub of minis (layered in egg crate for transport) that I had (like a spastic moron) left open. He realizes what's gone on as soon as he does it, whips the coke out and puts it back where he knocked it from, looking around to see if he's been made.
I was upset, and took a moment to collect myself since the damage was already done. Also, it was partially my fault since I was the dumbass who left the tub lid off, AND it was a legit accident; I saw it happen.
I walked over and gently explained to the lad that his best course of action would have been to alert someone rather than try and cover it up (really, that's the only thing the sprog did wrong, upsetting as it was). As I was, rather gently, explaining this to the kid, dad sees me down on one knee talking ot the kid (Hey, I'm 6'3" and the kid was maybe 10), starts heading over to defend his spawn; until I explained it to dad and told him the great portion of the fault was mine. Pretty tense, but no one to be pissed at but myself in that case.

Cryonicleech wrote:Hmmmm.....is it coincidental that there is an army recruiting center right next door to my FLGS......Let's hope not..:p

The armed forces always need more targets.

This post deleted by Modquisition with suspension to follow.

Grizgin- great 'tude mate- I wouldn't have been so polite/introspective about the situation.

+1 Karma

Cheese Elemental wrote:This post deleted by Modquisition with suspension to follow.

akira5665 wrote:Grizgin- great 'tude mate- I wouldn't have been so polite/introspective about the situation.

+1 Karma

Wow WTF happened here? Flew past me like a freaking rocket. If someone could PM me as to What in Blue Hell Happened here, I would be much obliged.

PM sent per your request.

Gwar! wrote:

Cheese Elemental wrote:This post deleted by Modquisition with suspension to follow.

akira5665 wrote:Grizgin- great 'tude mate- I wouldn't have been so polite/introspective about the situation.

+1 Karma

Wow WTF happened here? Flew past me like a freaking rocket. If someone could PM me as to What in Blue Hell Happened here, I would be much obliged.

dittoes

spartanghost: here's the text of the PM I sent to gwar. Really, it wasnt worth all the interest.

The two posts you quoted here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/330/237130.page

were actually not related in their content. The Cheese Elemental quote that was "This post deleted by Modquisition with suspension to follow. " was basically an attack on the United States Marine Corps, calling all Marines homosexuals. From what I understand, the mods had a race to see who could ban Cheese fastest for the comment.

The second post you quoted (Akira) was in reference actually to an on-topic post I made concerning an Awkward Gaming Moment that I had concerning some of my minis, a kid, a coke, and a poor choice made. The date time stamp of the post Akira was referencing: 01/06/2009 01:50:56 AM, just a few posts above in the thread.

Hope that answers your question.

ah. I figured he'd go too far sooner or later. Hope he learns his lesson.

spartanghost wrote:ah. I figured he'd go too far sooner or later. Hope he learns his lesson.

He went too far sooner AND later.
It was really just a matter of time.

Reading many of his posts were Awkward Moments for me.


Eric

Cryonicleech wrote:Hmmmm.....is it coincidental that there is an army recruiting center right next door to my FLGS......Let's hope not..:p

Seconded. I wouldn't trust any of the nerds I know with an automatic weapon.


Or any weapon.

IAmTheWalrus wrote:

Cryonicleech wrote:Hmmmm.....is it coincidental that there is an army recruiting center right next door to my FLGS......Let's hope not..:p

Seconded. I wouldn't trust any of the nerds I know with an automatic weapon.


Or any weapon.

Which would be very awkward indeed.


I've seen a kid cry recently since NONE of his friends would play 40k with him. I felt sad for him, so I played a game.

Well........he basically won by a landslide.

Only because I shot his Land Raider, he cried and yelled how he wasn't good at anything, and I consoled him by totally throwing the game.

His parents came over and gave me this long "thank you" type speech.

/Uber Sigh

Now you see, I was the other kind of person. I would have steam rolled him and made him quit 40k, because the game doesn't need players like that.

I'm also a bitter old man of 21 annoyed at how kids today get everything they want handed to them on a silver platter.

my vindicator got taken down by 2 shapers and 3 krrot hounds.
im never playing kroot mercenary army again

A young lad who used to play at my local GW had what I assumed at the time to be some kind of psychological issue. Essentially he would rant and cry that the world was against him at the drop of a hat, and would go extremely red faced whilst doing so.

Anyway one games night he plays his SM against another kids IG. They play without much terrain and what little there was was concentrated in the deployment zones. I tutted but didn’t interfere figuring they would both learn the hard way how boring such games would be.

Anyway on the second turn the IG player fires his Lemon Russ and Demolisher and takes a massive chunk out of the Marine Squads standing in the open. Needless to say the kid started to scream and rant like nothing I've ever seen. What's worse was that he started to rave about how much of a looser he was and that it was no wonder his Dad had left him before bursting into tears. It transpired afterwards that the kids father had left his mother for another woman and the kid had been on medication for depression ever since.

It was really awkward and whilst I felt a great deal of pity for the lad his behaviour was very disruptive to the store. After a while he stopped coming to games nights, I feel guilty for saying this but I was very relived at that.

Gwar! wrote:Now you see, I'm also a spring chicken of 21 annoyed at how I can't separate myself from the generation that I so often criticize, as it IS my generation...

Fixed it for you.

Che-Vito wrote:

Gwar! wrote:Now you see, I'm also a spring chicken of 21 annoyed at how I can't separate myself from the generation that I so often criticize, as it IS my generation...

Fixed it for you.

Yes, because all those late 90's kids who have never been told in school that they are wrong because it might hurt their self esteem, or where they are not allowed to play team games with winners and losers because it might damage them emotionally are exactly the same as the Late 80's Kids who grew up like normal people.

Seriously, I deal with these kids EVERY week at the Local club that I run, and let me tell you, it wears thin after a while. They think they know everything and are never wrong, because no-one ever tells them they are.

Although, you are right on one point, 90% of "my Generation" are idiotic ****wits who don;t know left from right, and it saddens me that in the age where we literally have more information in a Week of the new York Times than someone got in their ENTIRE LIVES not 200 years ago, that very few utilise it.

Gwar! wrote:

Che-Vito wrote:

Gwar! wrote:Now you see, I'm also a spring chicken of 21 annoyed at how I can't separate myself from the generation that I so often criticize, as it IS my generation...

Fixed it for you.

Yes, because all those late 90's kids who have never been told in school that they are wrong because it might hurt their self esteem, or where they are not allowed to play team games with winners and losers because it might damage them emotionally are exactly the same as the Late 80's Kids who grew up like normal people.

Seriously, I deal with these kids EVERY week at the Local club that I run, and let me tell you, it wears thin after a while. They think they know everything and are never wrong, because no-one ever tells them they are.

Probably because the 90's had the Backstreet Boys instead of Nirvana.

But in all seriousness, age-wise you are not that far off from many of the younger people who play 40k. Most are in their mid-teens (14, 15, 16). That IS your generation, and griping about a few 10 year old players acting like 10 year olds won't separate you from the problem. If you are upset that your FLGS is becoming a daycare, then talk to the parents.

If you aren't part of the solution, you are part of the problem. period.

I hate that whole hippie stuff about your selfesteem
especially that "every body gets an award" DELETED BY MODQUISITION BUT I AM NOT SAYING WHY SO EVERYONE CAN WONDER
I once got an award for doing my homework. getting an award for something im supposed to do.

garret wrote:I hate that whole hippie stuff about your selfesteem
especially that "every body gets an award" bull s.h.i.t
I once got an award for doing my homework. getting an award for something im supposed to do.

Tell me about it. My Younger sisters Sports Day was nearly cancelled by her school because it "did not want to foster a hostile competitive learning environment".

Luckily the Parents had more sense than that and damn near marched on the school and got it reinstated

games not keeping score okay since its just for fun
games where everyone has to play okay
games where you cant heckle the batter not okay
my school almost cancelled cheerleading in order not to make the visiting team fell bad

I hope they don't really feth this up big time.

I hate people my age, and that's freaky. Only because they're all a bunch of fething idiots who always think their right and make sooo much drama it's not funny.

Did they used to tell 8th graders that talking about someone's sexual preference is bad? Or that you shouldn't call someone a whore because she's had 3 different boyfriends IN THE SAME DAY? I don't think so.


regardless, I still throw some games to make kids feel better. when they gripe, they NEVER shut up.

OT, but I just realised Garret is from concord. That's where my dad works (And i work sometimes).

but anyways awkward moments. One time I was playing a 1k point game, my tau against my freind's nids. This was back when i was at around 700 points, so i borrowed another friends armless word bearers to proxy some pathfinders as i was considering getting some. I got soundly trounced, mostly because i neglected to realise than genestealers have both move through cover and fleet, and as a result deployed my 3-man stealth team less than 18 inches away from them (probably close to 12 actually). They got eaten like boneless chicken wings on hockey night in a sports bar. But that's not the awkward situation. A couple weeks later I was playing a game against The friend whom i'd borrowed the word bearers from. He played Word Bearers, and I had a full 1000 points then so we played a 1k annihilation game. The dice gods smiled upon e that day and i soundly trounced him in ways that had us both scratching our heads (things like my fire warriors kicking some lesser daemon's arses in CC, him rolling 1's every time he fired plasma or a demon weapon in CC) but that's also not the awkward part. At the end of the game it turned out he was missing one of his word bearers! we looked for it for around 10 minutes to no avail. I had to go because i had to be somewhere in half an hour. someone jokingly suggested i was trying to kidnap one to which we all laughed. but as we often do in my gaming cvub we took the joke further and pretended as if we could hear him screaming and cursing in my army box. I opened it up to "let him go" and lo and behind there it was sitting on top of my fire warriors! it was kinda awkward for a minute as it appeared i was actually trying to steal his min (I wasn't), but somone said "well, we can cancel the amber alert!" and we all laughed and it was good. (Amber alert is a Canadian thing where they broadcast "Amber Alert" messages on the radio and TV when a child goes missing). i gave it back to him and we figured i had somehow thought they were pathfinders again when i was clearing up my army.

Ahhh yes. The " did you just try to steal my mini?" Gig.


classic.

Cryonicleech wrote:

IAmTheWalrus wrote:

Cryonicleech wrote:Hmmmm.....is it coincidental that there is an army recruiting center right next door to my FLGS......Let's hope not..:p

Seconded. I wouldn't trust any of the nerds I know with an automatic weapon.


Or any weapon.

Which would be very awkward indeed.


I've seen a kid cry recently since NONE of his friends would play 40k with him. I felt sad for him, so I played a game.

Well........he basically won by a landslide.

Only because I shot his Land Raider, he cried and yelled how he wasn't good at anything, and I consoled him by totally throwing the game.

His parents came over and gave me this long "thank you" type speech.

/Uber Sigh

That was a nice thing to do but letting him get his way by crying is doing him no favours at all. If his parents understood that then maybe he'd sort himself out.

My eldest is starting to get interested in gaming (she's going through a wants to be like daddy phase) and I'd be pretty annoyed if I saw someone totally throwing a game against her. Doubly so if they did it because she had a tantrum.