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Not exactly on topic but...

Really, when learning a new language, the only thing I find difficult is the alphabet.

Took forever to learn Russian with their 33 letters, some of which look like english ones and sound different, some of which look different and sound the same

im2randomghgh wrote:Not exactly on topic but...

Really, when learning a new language, the only thing I find difficult is the alphabet.

Took forever to learn Russian with their 33 letters, some of which look like english ones and sound different, some of which look different and sound the same

I found Mandarin surprisingly easy. The sentence structure is better then most languages I have seen. Very simple.

Learning the alphabet is hard though, as they have "characters" instead of letters (except for pinyin, which is really just something to help you with pronunciation), kinda like Cyrillic Russian, where it is close to symbols (from my limited knowledge of the Russian language). A word is composed of 1+ characters.

Another hard thing is that the separate parts of the language are not differentiated. It is all clumped together.

As always though, a major use is calling people things without them knowing, or conversing with someone and no one knows what you are saying (I do this a lot with my brother).

That sinking feeling when the kid in your FLGS asks you to write kanji on all his banners and stuff.... EVERY model in his army has a banner on the backpack.... damn kids and their one hundred models....

UltramarineRV wrote:That sinking feeling when the kid in your FLGS asks you to write kanji on all his banners and stuff.... EVERY model in his army has a banner on the backpack.... damn kids and their one hundred models....

Why did he want that?

because it was his birthday, and im the only asian at the store... Who happens to know kanji

...The tau your wyches were in combat with run away, leaving you sitting in front of their whole gunline.

That sinking feeling as your opponent has a WAAC moment and decides I cannot contest an objective because I'm out of the range by less than half an inch.

tarnish wrote:When you realize you speak only 3 languages and that your terrible at 2 of them

Same.

When you play daemons and the first wave all mishap, the second do the same some turns latter; the enemy enjoys a nice coffee break.

When an enemy krak missile blows up your raider killing all the incubi inside and wounding your archon with a 2++, then killing the 5 scourges and 3 reavers that had been within 6"

When you field a mech tau list (except for 1+ commander, everything had an AV [because my fw were inside their D-fish the whole time]) And you have one piranha blow up, and the explosions kill 8 ork boyz

That's less of a sinking feeling for you, though...

The feeling you get when playing a 2vs2 game, and your opponent both playes GK

Trondheim wrote:The feeling you get when playing a 2vs2 game, and your opponent both playes GK

When you play a 2v2 and you face a double horde.

When you play a 4 way 500pts gamer, and all of the armies are an identical 5 model army.

Draigo+ 2 squads of Paladins, one model with mastercrafted Halberds, the resrt with normal Halberds.

Such a short game.

Sunoccard wrote:

Trondheim wrote:The feeling you get when playing a 2vs2 game, and your opponent both playes GK

When you play a 2v2 and you face a double horde.

Double horde isn't so bad if you run double anti infantry, or just two more hordes yourself.

p_gray99 wrote:That's less of a sinking feeling for you, though...

It is still a sinking feeling.

That sinking feeling when your opponent comes dressed as Darth Vader.

im2randomghgh wrote:Not exactly on topic but...

Really, when learning a new language, the only thing I find difficult is the alphabet.

Took forever to learn Russian with their 33 letters, some of which look like english ones and sound different, some of which look different and sound the same

Yeah, I had to give up on Russian with midterms coming up. B sounding like a v was just throwing me off. German is easier because the alphabet is more or less the same as English.

Oh yeah, guys the white background is currently being replaced with a dark green and light green energy coil looking one.

p_gray99 wrote:
That sinking feeling when your opponent comes dressed as Darth Vader.

And people call us nerdy and out of touch... silly and totally unfounded...

p_gray99 wrote:...The tau your wyches were in combat with run away, leaving you sitting in front of their whole gunline.

Those poor girls

That sinking feeling when your giant falls over in the 1st turn of combat.

The sinking feeling you get, when someone mentions giant, and you remember one of his rules that mention stuffing an unfortunate victim into his mouth, bag, or if they are really unlucky, down his trousers...

*shudders*

When a giant picks you up and shoves you down his trousers

W hen a giant picks you up. Period.

Allways found it wierd that a giant would die from falling over. whats the ground made of? poison?

tarnish wrote:Allways found it wierd that a giant would die from falling over. whats the ground made of? poison?

I think it's the troops it's in combat with swarming over it and hacking chunks out of it that make it fatal. Either that or giants always fall on their faces. Maybe that's why they're all ugly?

tarnish wrote:Allways found it wierd that a giant would die from falling over. whats the ground made of? poison?

It's a long way down. . .

tarnish wrote:

p_gray99 wrote:
That sinking feeling when your opponent comes dressed as Darth Vader.

And people call us nerdy and out of touch... silly and totally unfounded...

That was me who said that! How dare you quote someone else


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Castiel wrote:

tarnish wrote:Allways found it wierd that a giant would die from falling over. whats the ground made of? poison?

I think it's the troops it's in combat with swarming over it and hacking chunks out of it that make it fatal. Either that or giants always fall on their faces. Maybe that's why they're all ugly?

Plus the fall is bigger the larger you are. Because of the square/cube law, there is a reason that creatures only come so big. This is also why elephants cannot jump. It is also why ants are proportionally stronger than anything bigger than them by orders of magnitude.

im2randomghgh wrote:That was me who said that! How dare you quote someone else

sorry got that mixed up.

im2randomghgh wrote:
Plus the fall is bigger the larger you are. Because of the square/cube law, there is a reason that creatures only come so big. This is also why elephants cannot jump. It is also why ants are proportionally stronger than anything bigger than them by orders of magnitude.

in that case dragons should die when they land from flying, the stegadon should die when it rams a tower, and so on. besides, the giant is robust enough to jump around all the time, but it cant fall? bullplop. but then again, the entire idea is bullplop. There are quite a few giant creatures in the warhammer game that would be just as easy to see fall over, but that never happens.

tarnish wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:That was me who said that! How dare you quote someone else

sorry got that mixed up.

im2randomghgh wrote:
Plus the fall is bigger the larger you are. Because of the square/cube law, there is a reason that creatures only come so big. This is also why elephants cannot jump. It is also why ants are proportionally stronger than anything bigger than them by orders of magnitude.

in that case dragons should die when they land from flying, the stegadon should die when it rams a tower, and so on. besides, the giant is robust enough to jump around all the time, but it cant fall? bullplop. but then again, the entire idea is bullplop. There are quite a few giant creatures in the warhammer game that would be just as easy to see fall over, but that never happens.

Well dragons have very, very different reasons for being implausible, but this isn't one of them, as it's wings can soften the landing sufficiently and it would likely have the same type of bones as bird.

And the stegadon would die because the tower is eaither thick enough to stop it (which would be like a human sprinting into a tree full force) or the tower is small enough that it breaks the tower...and gets killed by falling rubble.