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Since 1995, I have been playing tabletop games but playing GW games since 1997 and I have won my share of games. However, compared to the rest of my gaming group I am a mediocre gamer. But (I know I am about to get with both barrels) I do not play the games to win, just play to play because it is fun. Sometimes the epic fails (losing an entire 2500 point Empire Army to one skeleton kicking a spearman in grapes, f-ing morale tests) in my game is about just as much fun to watch as the rare epic wins (Tau Crisis Suits beating an Eldar Avatar in close combat).

So over that time I have had some great times playing but there are issues at times that really gets under my skin such as, game store kids, their dumb a*s soccer moms, gamers that think they are cool that they listen to talk radio and think that their views are always right even though their pasty white butts barely peal themselves away from WoW or Pron to get more Mountain Dew and Tissues with aloe to realize that if they explored the real world that their minds would expand and not just their billboard like posteriors.

I do realize that my point of view, thoughts and rants are my own and I do not care to influence anyone with my words. I might offend some but at times I need to let go and rant. So here we go…

For years I was in the military, then in local law enforcement but now I am in college to get a better job. Even though I do not work out like I did in the military I did not let myself go. When I started playing WH40K it was when I was in the military so time I played in a tourney two players could fit in between two tables at the same time. But at the LGS tourneys I have noticed that there is a least a metric ton of players for every three tables.

So does the number of each edition of the game multiple the waists of the gamers’ pants. At what point do you think it is time to cut back in the Pron Surfing, Special Edition Blue Rays, and junk food when your Marine Tac Sqd is fighting in the shade because of your massive gut. And it is not glandular; it is because of the fist to maw cramming crunch wrap supreme and BK in between swilling massive amounts of soda and flavored coffees. In the lunch break of the tourney walking down to the chain sub store 50 feet away the living version of the Greater Daemon of Nurgle waddling behind use bellowing a deep sickly laugh at something his chubby digits found on his I-Phone was sweating profusely even though it is only 65 out.

My friends order normal sandwiches and I order a half turkey with a full load of veggies. Still not the healthiest food choice but I don’t feel my heart screaming with every bite. But, the bacon teats gamer orders the Italian Sub with double meat and cheese and I can’t make this one up, “I want it on wheat because I am watch my calories. What, just extra mayo.” At that point I wish his heart would slap him in the head and hand him a V8.

Wheat bread does not constitute a health alternative when you add double meat and cheese covered with extra mayo. WTF! When does some step in with in intervention or maybe a new pair of walking shoes? When to you realize that you are so disgustingly big that your sweat is ubër pungent with a hint of McD’s secret sauce making birds drop from the sky, butterflies wilt and small children cry? Why is the becoming more and more typical of gamers in LGS?

A couple pieces of advise to these gamers before they get extra charges from the EMS because they needed extra equipment for lifting their massive bulk after suffering a cheeto induced heart attack are as follows:

1. There is a little something called exercise. No it is not some crazy Eldar psychic power or something you can download on the internet. Ask your mom to help you out of her basement, put on a pair of walking shoes and walk. This is for exercise and not down to the 7 Eleven two blocks over for a slurpee and Bomb Burrito.

2. Double meat and cheese on wheat bread is not a diet food. Especially when you cover it with extra mayo. Do you want airlines worker to have to lift you up into a plane because the stairs can not take the stress from you’re a*s. Turkey, more veggies than meat, no mayo and water. If you do this you will be able to see Mr. Pete again and not have to pay for broken FW models because of your disgusting bulk.

Well I have ranted for long enough. You might not agree with me or you might agree. You can comment if you want or not it is up to you. I will rant again next week.

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So does the number of each edition of the game multiple the waists of the gamers’ pants. At what point do you think it is time to cut back in the Pron Surfing, Special Edition Blue Rays, and junk food when your Marine Tac Sqd is fighting in the shade because of your massive gut. And it is not glandular; it is because of the fist to maw cramming crunch wrap supreme and BK in between swilling massive amounts of soda and flavored coffees. In the lunch break of the tourney walking down to the chain sub store 50 feet away the living version of the Greater Daemon of Nurgle waddling behind use bellowing a deep sickly laugh at something his chubby digits found on his I-Phone was sweating profusely even though it is only 65 out.


This is so choice

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I want it on wheat because I am watching my calories.


Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
 
   
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I was in the Army for 12 years, maxed out my PU and SU events and passed (barely sometimes) the run on my APFTs. God how I hated the run event. I've been out for a couple of years now, and I've got a little belly action going, but nothing much. Living in Houston there's just no way of getting me out there to run during the summer months. If you pulled a gun and told me to run or die, I'd probably tell you to just shoot me lol.

I don't really care how people live their lives. If they want to be in good shape, more power to them, if not, who am I to judge. What gets me though are those who lack in the hygeine department. I can't stand going to the store to play a game or paint or whatever and have somebody who smells like a damp gym sock roll over to where I'm at. It's rude to subject people to your various odors. If you want to sit at home in your own filth that's fine, it's not hurting me a bit. If you decide to go out into public places... bathe first. Put on clean clothes, brush your teeth. If not for some degree of self respect at least do it so I don't have to regrow my nose hairs after an encounter with your aura of pestilence. Being a fan of Nurgle doesn't mean ya have to live the life.

I went to a Gamesday once, and despite all of the cool stuff there I will never go to another because of the unwashed masses.

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You may be a mediocre gamer but your intolerance is of Olympic quality. You remind me of my brother after he got out of the army, which is why I haven't spoken to him in fourteen years even though he owes me $500. I see an Ignore button in your future.

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warpcrafter wrote:You may be a mediocre gamer but your intolerance is of Olympic quality. You remind me of my brother after he got out of the army, which is why I haven't spoken to him in fourteen years even though he owes me $500. I see an Ignore button in your future.


Oh my lord, here we go again..... he is not being intolerant. he has a good point. One dose not have to look like a greater daemon of Nurgel or a Orge for that mather if you are into Tabel top. Taking care of ones healt is the SMART ting to do.
I know how the feeling is to be surroned by massive amounts of unwashed gamers... its just horribel

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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Besides, who wants a six pack when you can have a keg?


I don't think I would like what shoots out of your tap though...

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I've seen the problem and I feel for the guys. I think a lot of it comes down to people who just give up. They are happy with their computers, books, and little plastic men and it is quite a mountain to climb to lose that much weight. To them it's probably like why even bother?

I think wc is just overreacting slightly. The OP is just pointing out something really obvious. I think at times that is what needs to be done. I've got my fair share of pudge, but I don't suffer from dunlap disease or wease when walking up stairs. Then again I've always tried to be fairly active and I've had jobs that require me to be active.

Regardless of size and financial restrictions everybody, and I repeat, everybody should wear deodorant and take a shower at least once a day. If you cannot do either of those things you really shouldn't be in public (if your a gamer that is). If you're homeless then do whatever you want to do.

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Was an entertaining read for me. But in all seriousness the weight that some people put on does make me worry about them though. I don't want to be playing a game then all the sudden they get a stroke or heart attack because they were overweight. Or hear that something of that natured occured over the week and i don't get to see them anymore. In general, i wish that people would get out more and sweet.

And for me, smelly people are intolerable.
   
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Jacksonhighlander wrote:And for me, smelly people are intolerable.


At least somebody agrees. It's unfortunate that many people of the gaming variety seem to have issues in this area of life. I didn't run into the problem amongst the clubbers and bar hoppers from when I was big into that scene. I didn't run into it when I was big into the outdoors (paintball, SCUBA, hiking etc) after we were done with the activity it was straight to the showers. It's only since I've interacted with gamers, video and table top, in larger numbers do I always seem to end up in the proximity of the Golgothan from the movie Dogma. That rank smell of hot, salty sewage wafting over the tables from somebody who hasn't bathed since grade school walking in from triple digit heat and 100% humidity. Makes me want to carry around a supersoaker full of soapy water. Either that or a freakin exorcist... some of those smells have to be wrought from the fires of hell.

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Let them die of their ignorance.

Either that or actively make an effort to help people get in better shape.

Which will you choose?

Frankly, I find your complaining to be annoying.

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I tend to be annoyed when I go to the bunker because of the constant confirmation of "loser" stereotypes there. The 13 year old talking about the "slave girls" that he's going to model on his daemon's base, the GW employee who goes so far into the fluff during a demo game that none of my friends are willing to consider the game despite the fact that they had fun playing it.

I will say, however, that it has served an excellent purpose. Once I had to pick up some plastic glue and I happened to be hanging out with my girlfriend. Now, she's been a close friend forever, was aware of my gaming habit, and the relationship is reasonably serious, but the fact that she didn't dump me after I showed her around a store full of skinny 13 year olds and less skinny 40 year olds arguing over the true nature of Slaanesh, I knew she was a keeper. (not Of Secrets, either)

It would be nice if gamers could rise up and throw off those negative stereotypes. Some of them are already falling (I've seen girls in the store! OMG!).

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About to eat your Avatar...

It is a rant, and I have been known to say some pretty honest things too. Wait... yeah that is it HONEST.

Anyway, I agree but I cant imagine the OP actually facing off with Jabba Da Cheezy Poofs in a grudge match of caloric proportions. If you stink, take a shower, use deoderant, and wipe... yes, please wipe, then WASH.

Being hygienic has little to do with being overweight, but it is common sense, and running around spreading poo on all the handles just make my white blood cells angry... I think I may be leaking toxic fluids, natural reaction, sorry about that.


 
   
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Here in Oz, fat we can handle... BO we can't and many tourneys actually provide deoderant for the smellier players.

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In this thread and others I have seen people slinging around accusations of intolerance or bigotry.

Please note that in regards to social behaviour and attitudes, intolerance does not mean saying you don't like something. It means saying you don't like something which a reasonable group of people wouldn't care about.

In Elizabethan times everyone smelt because they didn't have baths. We have baths in the modern world and it is the social norm to wash.

It is not intolerant to say you dislike the smell of people who don't wash properly.

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Kilkrazy wrote:In this thread and others I have seen people slinging around accusations of intolerance or bigotry.

Please note that in regards to social behaviour and attitudes, intolerance does not mean saying you don't like something. It means saying you don't like something which a reasonable group of people wouldn't care about.

In Elizabethan times everyone smelt because they didn't have baths. We have baths in the modern world and it is the social norm to wash.

It is not intolerant to say you dislike the smell of people who don't wash properly.


This thread isn't about people who don't wash.

It's about obese people.

Somehow in this thread smelling bad became universally equated with being overweight so that they are simply one and the same, which is obviously untrue.

I am intolerant of people who don't wash, I'm not intolerant of fat people.

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It's about obese people AND people who don't wash. And the common combination of the two. The two factors are not mutually exclusive, y'know.


 
   
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i love this thread.... i am roflmao....

...

ok, i dislike smelly gamers... i dont care if if your a twig, or if i can make an apple orbit your gut... showers FTW.

now i am no small person, but there is ZERO reason to let yourself get so FAT you need to lug around an O2 tank so you dont pass out (actualy saw this at a large tourney).

how people let themselves get THAT bad just amazes me... at what point do you put down the fried twinkes???


i dident know vaders cheeks were so big

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Bah- if your hobby was Para-sailing, or Sky-diving, or Rock climbing, or Parquor(?) it might be an issue.

But seeing as the biggest muscle most Gamers use is their tongue, you might also consider the eating as Summer-Camp for thier face....... .

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It's an odd thing. Here we all are one of the dorkiest hobbies around, and you'd think gathered under the flourescent lighting of our collected basements, rec centres and main street stores, as we move plastic figures through pretend grass, that one thing is very obvious - our hobby is very lame but that doesn't matter because its our choice and we have fun with it. Of course, not everyone gets that, plenty of folk see a minis game and they'll think you're a loser for playing. Yet despite that geeks are the first to turn on any other group for their own failings.

Yeah, so there's folk that are fat, that's their deal and while they should be aware of issues and health risks, it is at the end of the day their own lives. So maybe you can just play the game and stop being a judgemental goob, it's likely you've got plenty of your own failings to sort out.

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Envy89 wrote:i love this thread.... i am roflmao....

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ok, i dislike smelly gamers... i dont care if if your a twig, or if i can make an apple orbit your gut... showers FTW.

now i am no small person, but there is ZERO reason to let yourself get so FAT you need to lug around an O2 tank so you dont pass out (actualy saw this at a large tourney).

how people let themselves get THAT bad just amazes me... at what point do you put down the fried twinkes???


i dident know vaders cheeks were so big


Thats not Vader....thats Megatron.

Mind you, if you think smelly nerds are bad, trying sharing your taxi with a sweatybetty for a colleague. My lovely clean cab now stinks of his BO. Of course, it might not be so bad if he didn't insist on setting the aircon on circulate, which I can only assume he does to ensure his vile stench permeates every possible fibre.

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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Envy89 wrote:
i dident know vaders cheeks were so big


Thats not Vader....thats Megatron.


really? Its hard to tell when its so... distorted.

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Vader's head is more rounded, and his nose melds into his mouthpiece.

Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
 
   
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Envy89 wrote:

i dident know vaders cheeks were so big



Here's my guess!



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