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Greetings earthlings,
Who is the funniest gamer you've seen in your gaming life?

Mine is this 40year old guy who act like a kid and fought me for a cupcake

^^^^^^^^^^^^ That is awesome

I once fought an socially slowed person. And no, im not trying to be mean. He was very nice and used tactics by rolling a coloured dice.

He was awesome.

I used to game with this teenager in syracuse who would blurt out absurd stuff like "that's hot like the fire in my pants. Woof." when his plasma gun got hot. This guy was so over the top it was nuts.

lol...I LMAO

Funniest gamer(s): The guys who get so intense about the rules during a casual game. I want to play by the rules, and play the game. But arguing the semantics of particular rules...just isn't worth it to me.

I've played a kid who screamed when I purged his Genestealers with flamers, and who almost blew a fuse when my DH force weapon sent his Carni screaming to the warp!

Gw employee who used to work in Dublin used to have full conversations with his high elves, and I mean full on prep speeches, before the game started to each unit and commander.

He would reprimand each death gently and explain how to do better next time to each model.

Also sliced open a water melon I brought in one day with the stores replica chaos sword, while drunk, surrounded by children.

Man was a legend.

A few weeks ago I went to the local GW with a buddy, as he was picking up his order of 2 deffrollas. We spent a couple hours building his battlewagons and attaching the deffrollas on. While we were there, there was a group of 3 kids, ages 8-10. The oldest of the bunch was a real cocky know-it-all about the game. He kept explaining to his buddies why his tyranids were the best, and every else's army in the city was crap. Eldar suck this, imperial guard are weak that etc.

Then a couple mid-twenties guys came in and started playing. The little gak would not leave them alone, telling each of them in turn how he could annihilate them while they were playing. He kept insisting how everything they did was terrible, and that he was way better than either of them. He was unrelenting. It was hilarious to watch. The guys playing knew what they were doing, and themselves got a kick out of how cocky the little gak was.

I saw this guy at my lgs that put on an ork mask and tribal clothing, complete with boss pole and stuffed toy heads. He played snakebite orks and hissed when something died. I mean this guy also came with sound effects such as "DAKKA DAKKA" and "KABLOOIE". super double fab.

I'm not sure i'd list anything in this thread as funny. Most seem to range from disturbing to annoying.

I've played some funny guys, but it's mostly situational stuff that doesn't translate well to a written account.

Ifalna wrote:Gw employee who used to work in Dublin used to have full conversations with his high elves, and I mean full on prep speeches, before the game started to each unit and commander.

He would reprimand each death gently and explain how to do better next time to each model.

Also sliced open a water melon I brought in one day with the stores replica chaos sword, while drunk, surrounded by children.

Man was a legend.

WTF? A drunk adult, a sword and children. That doesn't help with clichés (about Irish and booze)

Erasoketa wrote:

WTF? A drunk adult, a sword and children. That doesn't help with clichés (about Irish and booze)

For sure, in fact the only time I recall the staff of that GW being sober, was while they were high after burning through resin by accident and filling the shop with fumes.
They had to put a gaming table across the door to stop kids coming in and the entire road stank, 2 of them were inside "cleaning up" but the fumes got to them and they ended up rolling on the floor giggling while the public watched from outside.

This is the same store where the staff would play the "Lay down" game, which involved lieing face down under the gaming tables and timing who could do it the longest in the middle of the day without eventually getting up, customers be damned.

I was sitting at the painting table once and one of them just picked it up with me still on the attached seat, held it above his head for about 10 seconds, then put it down without saying a word and walked off. I have infinite stories about that place, it was the shop where dreams were made.

Wayyyy back in the RT days one of my buddies, who happened to be a gunny sergeant, would dress down his marines when they failed their shooting rolls or saving throws. He wasn't pathological about it or anything, but where you or I might be vexed and swear at the dice, he'd dress down his marine. Guess it was second nature to him. Was sure funny... even he'd laugh about it.

"Marine... your faith is WEAK, you're not worthy to serve the Emperor! A real marine would have shrugged off that plasma fire and kept on fighting! Get off of my battlefield!!" etc... etc...

Im the funniest gamer I have ever met..

Sad but true.

Ifalna wrote:

Erasoketa wrote:

WTF? A drunk adult, a sword and children. That doesn't help with clichés (about Irish and booze)

For sure, in fact the only time I recall the staff of that GW being sober, was while they were high after burning through resin by accident and filling the shop with fumes.
They had to put a gaming table across the door to stop kids coming in and the entire road stank, 2 of them were inside "cleaning up" but the fumes got to them and they ended up rolling on the floor giggling while the public watched from outside.

This is the same store where the staff would play the "Lay down" game, which involved lieing face down under the gaming tables and timing who could do it the longest in the middle of the day without eventually getting up, customers be damned.

I was sitting at the painting table once and one of them just picked it up with me still on the attached seat, held it above his head for about 10 seconds, then put it down without saying a word and walked off. I have infinite stories about that place, it was the shop where dreams were made.

In Ireland, this is hilarious (one of the reasons I've loved my time spent there.) In America, it would be disturbing.

Why?
Usually the drunk American would also be packing more firepower than the local SWAT team.

Ifalna wrote:Gw employee who used to work in Dublin used to have full conversations with his high elves, and I mean full on prep speeches, before the game started to each unit and commander.

He would reprimand each death gently and explain how to do better next time to each model.

Also sliced open a water melon I brought in one day with the stores replica chaos sword, while drunk, surrounded by children.

Man was a legend.

Nice.
Only a true man uses a sword to cut melons. QFT
Not for 40k, but you've all heard about the obligatory Chinese gamer yea? Plays WoW 24/7 sells the character for money etc.
No joke was walking down the street here when i saw this guy (6:30am) in a net bar in nothing but his underpants, about 5x800ml empty beers, dirty hotdog/snack wrappers around his ankles and ash from infinite cigarettes/forgotten chips on his bloated chest.
Funny in a sort of "The rumours/jokes are true!" way, and not funny in a "That was a person once" sort of way.

Fat people who always bring snacks

Ifalna wrote:For sure, in fact the only time I recall the staff of that GW being sober, was while they were high after burning through resin by accident and filling the shop with fumes.
They had to put a gaming table across the door to stop kids coming in and the entire road stank, 2 of them were inside "cleaning up" but the fumes got to them and they ended up rolling on the floor giggling while the public watched from outside.

This is the same store where the staff would play the "Lay down" game, which involved lieing face down under the gaming tables and timing who could do it the longest in the middle of the day without eventually getting up, customers be damned.

I was sitting at the painting table once and one of them just picked it up with me still on the attached seat, held it above his head for about 10 seconds, then put it down without saying a word and walked off. I have infinite stories about that place, it was the shop where dreams were made.

Sounds awesome. Wouldn't get that in Other Realms. :(

Thanatos_elNyx wrote:
Sounds awesome. Wouldn't get that in Other Realms. :(

I can imagine some of the other realms staff would be very entertaining if drunk on the job

Ifalna wrote:Gw employee who used to work in Dublin used to have full conversations with his high elves, and I mean full on prep speeches, before the game started to each unit and commander.

He would reprimand each death gently and explain how to do better next time to each model.

Also sliced open a water melon I brought in one day with the stores replica chaos sword, while drunk, surrounded by children.

Man was a legend.

This sounds like many of the GW staffers that became legends within the company itself.

But my favorite is a kid in Auburn Hills, MI.

He would show up to the store with like 20 IG and someone would ask how many points he had and would reply, oh like 800 or even more. The whole time he was playng he would say, in a normal voice, "in yo' face" every time the dice were thrown.

He once brought those IG plus 2 missile launcher teams to an Apoc game and said I got 2000pts. We plunked him down and everyone ridiculed the staff, but then in the only effective thing I ever saw him do blew up 2 Baneblades with those teams.

To this day I still use "in yo' face" in my everyday slang for anything ridiculous.

I'm not sure i'd list anything in this thread as funny. Most seem to range from disturbing to annoying.

Or fake.

The funniest gamers are the fat little kids that talk like they know so much. I know the type.

There was also this one kid who picked up an ork boy and pretended it was attacking a dreadnought (on the AoBR display) complete with sound effects, and picking up the model in question, pretending the boy was making a 20 foot suicidal leap attack. I wanted to clock that kid so much.

Shadowbrand. Because he was so stoked to see Marbo blow up my Rhino in a Death or Glory... And the Rhino ended up running him over. The game was put on hold for about 5 minutes until we could each get our breath back, we were laughing so hard.

Ifalna wrote:This is the same store where the staff would play the "Lay down" game, which involved lieing face down under the gaming tables and timing who could do it the longest in the middle of the day without eventually getting up, customers be damned.

We used to play 'funk in da trunk'. That being who could stand and talk to the smelliest gamer the longest. Loser had to buy the winner a $6 blister. One guy puked, but he did win a blister. The game gets interesting when models are on the line!!

Ifalna wrote:...sliced open a water melon I brought in one day with the stores replica chaos sword, while drunk, surrounded by children.

Man was a legend.

What a winner. My DA opponent (whilst being a tactical genius) is a hilarious guy. When you consider the pains most adult males go to hide the Warhams from the ladies, and even from other males who just wouldn't get it, every now and then this guy gets all "I'm proud of who I am" about it. A couple of occasions spring to mind, one of which was in the garden of our local. After a few too many bevvies, he starts bellowing into the air "I PLAY WARHAMMER! I PLAY WARHAMMER AND I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK!!" If that wasn't enough he then starts embracing random members of the public and telling them earnestly that he plays Warhammer.

Another occasion saw me and my IG opponent walking to his house to play a big scheduled game. IG guy keeps his army in a toolbox, as it's not unusual to see a man with a toolbox (I used to keep my army at DA opponent's house) and you know, like I said - we didn't want any females to see us and cajole us about being fat smelly nerds*. So there we are, two burly young men, with a toolbox - nothing to see here girls.
Then DA guy drives right past us, up his road to his house. Apparently he'd been at the FLGS all morning, and came speeding past waving a ginormous empty GW carrier bag like a flag, shouting "Space Marines - Fear, but Follow!!" ond many other DoW quotes. He's doing this whilst driving his car, mind. Imagine mine and IG guy's illusion of manliness, shattered by this spectactle of nerdom. He's my hero.

*It's worth pointing out that neither of us, nor anyone I play with, is fat or smelly. We're all socially well-adjusted young males with great personal hygeine and fit, healthy bodies. Take that stereotypes!

@TEK
*It's worth pointing out that neither of us, nor anyone I play with, is fat or smelly. We're all socially well-adjusted young males with great personal hygeine and fit, healthy bodies. Take that stereotypes!


QFT

kanelom wrote:
Only a true man uses a sword to cut melons.

^ this is sigged

well my friend used to talk quietly to himself when he was working out his armylist/next move/whatever.
It was strange, I thought it was pyschological warfare or something...but we had a good laugh about it

Maybe not 40k but i have made the nerdiest joke ever...


One time, after playing Magic a looooong time ago, me and my friend were talking about how our game went and smack talking as usual. After he said something to me, i pulled out a counterspell and said "I counterspell your insult!"


Yes, i am a terrible, terrible nerd at times

@ Commissar Agro: Cheers for the sig ha.

Actually now you mention psychological warfare.. i slipped a video of me strip dancing to Sexy B**ch-David Guetta in amongst Manowar battlemusic and the DoW Intro movie that was playing on my tv while we were having a game at my place with the boyz. Everyone was like.. who changed the music?!

OH DEAR MOTHER OF MERCY TAKE IT OFF
...
win.
yes really.
Our team won, the other guy completely forgot to contest the objective.
Whatever it takes!

viva revolution!

The saddest gamer I ever saw was a guy in Washington state that had a Dark Angels tattoo on his shoulder and wore sleeveless shirts to show it off. He also wore a crocodile Dundee hat and old school BDU bottoms in a military town. He carried a cocodile dundee knife around too.

That isn't so bad but the day the last Dark Angels codex came out he started to cry because he thought they weren't strong enough. Then he asked another older weird gamer guy for a hug to feel better.

I am disturbed all over again writing this now.

It was a DnD night, and about an hour in, the group comes to a village. "What do you do?" asks the DM.

"I go to the bar and hit on the bar wench while enjoying a pint!"
says my friend Justin.

"I check around town and see if there're any tasks for us."
says the group's leader, Cam.

"I Pickpocket!"
Says by friend Troy. The DM makes him roll an attempt.

He failed, to which the DM replied "You fail, and get caught in the act. What will you do?"

Troy grins, and simply shouts out "Pocketsand!" Then makes the motion of throwing sand from his pocket into the DM's face. He then gets up and bolts into the kitchen, returning with a beer while the rest of us are still on the floor laughing.