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for most of us, this hobby is a large part of our lives and inevitably, it leaks over into other parts. Im curious about times when thats happened to you.

I'll go first:

at work, we have a notoriously unreliable truck we sometimes use. It has a temperamental battery, it struggles to start when its cold, takes like 10 seconds of ignition to catch,etc.

So, one cold morning, i walk over to this truck to get it ready. Just as i am about to turn the key, i full on, out loud, invoke "Sprit of this machine, HEED MY WILL!" , and turned the key....the engine caught almost instantly. I was full on giggling to myself in geek glee for about 10 minutes afterward, much to the confusion of my co-workers.

so, anyone else got a similar or better story?

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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon






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That’s pretty 40K

   
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I lost a war against fungi.

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 lord_blackfang wrote:
I lost a war against fungi.


I am horrified and intrigued in equal measure...

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 lord_blackfang wrote:
I lost a war against fungi.


We've all been there at some point.

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Devon, UK

I've had internal organs surgically removed and replaced with mechanical alternatives.

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Calculating Commissar





England

I've assisted in cutting people open and replacing bits of them with mechanical alternatives.

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London

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Newcastle, OZ

Best I've done is to speak the canticles of activation, while striking the machine's casing with the holy hammer of retribution.


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I unironically chased a police officer down a street (yelling at the guy to halt him) all the way up to his car and then went to the station to confront him there aswell.

(corrupt officer)

I know how badass that sounds and I am still suprised myself of that having actually happened.

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Denison, Iowa

I channeled my inner Guardsman and killed a deer with a single shot from. BB gun (actually a pellet gun shooting bb's). I didn't know it was fully pumped up and shot the deer in the chest.
   
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 Haighus wrote:
I've assisted in cutting people open and replacing bits of them with mechanical alternatives.


Yeah, but only as a hobby.

   
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Struggling about in Asmos territory.

 cuda1179 wrote:
I channeled my inner Guardsman and killed a deer with a single shot from. BB gun (actually a pellet gun shooting bb's). I didn't know it was fully pumped up and shot the deer in the chest.

Best to be sure, that deer could've called reinforcements .. making you have to fight off a dozen wildwood rangers.

"Why would i be lying for Wechhudrs sake man.., i do not write fiction!"

 
   
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My squad and I charged out of the boarding ramp of an M113 and assaulted an objective. That's pretty 40K.



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Northumberland

 Gert wrote:
Killed a wasp with a Deathwatch Codex in my local GW once. Does that count?



Using one of the designated holy scriptures to pulverise a hated foe? Yes that's the most 40k you can be.


The most 40k thing I've ever done is carry a lot of skeletons around in a van.

One and a half feet in the hobby


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You an archaeologist as well Olthannon? For me it was working here

Norwich Castle during the refurbishment just such a 40k scene.

"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
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I dislocated my kneecap and tore my patellar tendon. After popping it back in I tried walking it off.

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you have crazy storys.
   
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Southampton, UK

After a succession of 3 different outsourced IT providers, I get a real Imperium vibe at work these days. Current teams are struggling to support old systems and seem to be relying more on ritual than actual understanding...
   
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The Dark Imperium

Crispy78 wrote:
After a succession of 3 different outsourced IT providers, I get a real Imperium vibe at work these days. Current teams are struggling to support old systems and seem to be relying more on ritual than actual understanding...


We must work at the same place.

   
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 Olthannon wrote:

The most 40k thing I've ever done is carry a lot of skeletons around in a van.


I did have to accept a box of human remains as a postal delivery once. That was an odd day.

Then I had to wash my hands, as the package had been roughed up a bit on its journey from Florida and the ashes were seeping out. I didn't even realized what they were until I turned the box over and saw 'human remains' stamped on the top of the box. Yeah, the US Postal Service has an (ink) stamp for that.


[I was doing contract work at a national park with an attached military cemetery, and was the only person in the building, and it absolutely had to be signed for. The deceased's kids thought the best way to handle his full honorary burial was cremation and packing him up in the post. The sheer level of callous disregard feels very 40k.)

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Voss wrote:
The sheer level of callous disregard feels very 40k.)


That does sound 40kish. At work a few of us joke that management is just there to root out heresy.

   
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 lord_blackfang wrote:
I lost a war against fungi.


Sounds like a mold problem.

[/sarcasm] 
   
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