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I get no such comments from my girlfriend. She does seem overly interested in my collection of over 40 Dark Eldar Wyches (scantily dressed women) I think she's still shocked that they get sold to kids lol

Oshova

That's not as bad as my Dad, who refers to them as '28mm of overpriced nerdy junk'.

He agrees that the tanks are cool however.

As all good men should! Tanks=win in the eyes of us men =D

If a jobs worth doing, it's worth doing with a tank! =D

Oshova

Ouch, parents insulting the hobby is bad. Very bad, however I won't go into just how bad it is, but I will if someone asks politely.


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In the words of Solar Marcharius himself, "What I cannot crush with words, I will crush with the tanks of the Imperial Guard".

"Khorne? Isn't that something you eat?"

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Tim the Biovore wrote:Ouch, parents insulting the hobby is bad. Very bad, however I won't go into just how bad it is, but I will if someone asks politely.


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in the words of Solar Marcharius himself, "What I cannot crush with words, I will crush with the tanks of the Imperial Guard".

*In cute squeaky voice* Please Mister Biovore Man... Pleeeassseeee...

You asked for it.

Parents insulting the hobby is the wargamers equivalent to a 9/11 event. The results are catastrophic, resulting in some young gamers giving up the hobby to remain "normal" in the eyes of their elders. In short, it is like a good kick in the nads.

(Maybe a slight over-reaction)

I'm fortunate my dad plays as well.

Anyways, I hate people who take ten years to set up and ten more to put away their pieces when they finish up, so I can't end up having a fething game!

olympia wrote:

Cheesepie wrote:Some things that us wargamers just cant stand to hear

"Honey, I'm pregnant." No more gaming for you!

I already told my girlfriend, if we have kids they're playing with me.

Ludovic wrote:

Deff Rider Warboss wrote:When my freind tells me my deffkoptas are not actually flying.

Its in the air! its not flying, but its in the air!

No offense BlackVanguard

Well it's more of a ground effect.....

See Ludovic's got my back. You have no proof.

Tim the Biovore wrote:Ouch, parents insulting the hobby is bad. Very bad, however I won't go into just how bad it is, but I will if someone asks politely.

Surprisingly it's not as demoralizing as it should be to hear your mother calling "Have fun playing with your toy soldiers."

TheBlackVanguard wrote:

olympia wrote:

Cheesepie wrote:Some things that us wargamers just cant stand to hear

"Honey, I'm pregnant." No more gaming for you!

I already told my girlfriend, if we have kids they're playing with me.

Your kids will be awesome. Just remember - no Wyches for the little kiddies!

Definitely getting my kids into wargaming. But getting them to stay as far away from GW as possible, for as long as possible. Can;t be doing with that much of a sink in my wallet =p

Oshova

Timmah wrote:"We need comp or no one will want to come to the tournament"

"We need sports scores or no one will want to come to the tournament"

"Man, (insert army X) is so cheesy and overpowered"

"Fantasy is far more tactical than 40k, everyone in 40k has guns so you just line up and shoot at each other"

Oh hell yeah, I hate it when FAACers get all bitchy about tournaments, especially when they sign up for them and wonder why they do crap with their all radical daemonhunters army.

As for the fantasy one that one really burns my ass, I tried to get back into fantasy and its like playing 40k with your hands tied to your nards. Its like an excercise in stupidity when I have to paint 20 models to gain rank bonuses when only 5 do anything, then you lose combat and loose all 20 anyway, that and its all about who has the better deathstar. Regardless after seeing the "deep tactics" (aka the level I have to sink to) in order to win I said no thanks. I'd rather play war of the ring over fantasy any day and I ing hate LotR.

When one of my friends/work colleagues says 'You play Warhammer [insert 10 secs of annoying laughter] but you play rugby and stuff why would you do that you geek'

Er #1 does the fact I enjoy playing sport and working out mean I can't play with toys/minatures (trying to please everyone0
#2 Why does that make me a geek? Sorry I prefer playing with toys/minatures to watching an unhealthy ammount of porn/getting drunk everynight/speaking to my wife (she doesn't read Dakka I am safe )
#3 What gives you the right to laugh you dill weed I am nearly 30 and I can make my own choices without needing the approval of the playground.

Rant over.

oh not quite

When I play with a new army and people assume that because I am not verbatim on that Codex (cause I have only owned it a few weeks) that I don't know the main rules or the rules from most other codexes so try to make up bs rules.

Quote from gf (edited because of bad memory lol)

"It's a game for tweens and spotty geeks or guys who can't get a girlfriend. It doesn't produce anything, or lead on to anything."

That's what I can't stand about people who diss Warhammer. Yes, we're 20 (30) or even 40 plus year olds who paint small plastic and metal figures and play roleplay games with them.
But is the fact we're teenagers or older mean we should stop?

Don't think so

What 's me off more than anything else in the entire universe is when someone who I know spends time doing some absolute crap like watching soap operas or reality TV or some other mainstream nonsense has the balls to call my hobby stupid or boring or nerdy or weird (same applies to books, movies, video games).

Makes my ing ears bleed.

Corennus wrote:Quote from gf (edited because of bad memory lol)

"It's a game for tweens and spotty geeks or guys who can't get a girlfriend. It doesn't produce anything, or lead on to anything."

That's what I can't stand about people who diss Warhammer. Yes, we're 20 (30) or even 40 plus year olds who paint small plastic and metal figures and play roleplay games with them.
But is the fact we're teenagers or older mean we should stop?

Don't think so

Mental stimulation, artistic ability, vocabulary, reading, social interaction and expansion of the imagination.

I am a 33yr old man, happily married and in a well paid job.

What feths me off is the comments like the one above and others who do jack-gak with their own lives and then think they can look down on our hobby, people who do nothing but 'watch football' (paint drying) or 'jog' (run round in circles moar!!1!). These same people who are stood in my office right now having intent conversations about who's going to win X Factor or whether or not Brad and Angelina are going to break up. The dislike of our hobby usually stems from an inability to understand it. So, stupid people don't get wargaming.

"A new edition is coming with big changes for your army..."

"Dark Eldar are being squatted"

Ugh that's blasphemy! GRR!

Oshova

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

Corennus wrote:Quote from gf (edited because of bad memory lol)

"It's a game for tweens and spotty geeks or guys who can't get a girlfriend. It doesn't produce anything, or lead on to anything."

That's what I can't stand about people who diss Warhammer. Yes, we're 20 (30) or even 40 plus year olds who paint small plastic and metal figures and play roleplay games with them.
But is the fact we're teenagers or older mean we should stop?

Don't think so

Mental stimulation, artistic ability, vocabulary, reading, social interaction and expansion of the imagination.

I am a 33yr old man, happily married and in a well paid job.

What feths me off is the comments like the one above and others who do jack-gak with their own lives and then think they can look down on our hobby, people who do nothing but 'watch football' (paint drying) or 'jog' (run round in circles moar!!1!). These same people who are stood in my office right now having intent conversations about who's going to win X Factor or whether or not Brad and Angelina are going to break up. The dislike of our hobby usually stems from an inability to understand it. So, stupid people don't get wargaming.

So , so true . I enjoy this hobby it encorporates so much I like in one neat tidy package. I like art , so painting my minis or even drawing stuff , I get so much inspiration from 40k. I like war stuff , sci-fi/fanatasy anything with an interesting sotry line and playing games. I really hate people idea that if you arnt "normal" ,they theres something up with you .But its the total oposite , these peopel lead boring lives and just do average things. Reallly the weaks ones are there to justify the strong

"Fantasy is like chess, 40k is checkers."

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Thats actually not far from the truth, to be honest ^.^

I hate it when youngin's think they can touch my mini's without asking. That reminds me, a redshirt in my store makes this one dumbarse kid do pushups whenever he touches someones stuff without asking. 5 per finger.

That's awesome! That should be the 11th GW commandment "Make all kids do press-ups for touching others figures" =D

Oshova

Karon wrote:

I hate it when youngin's think they can touch my mini's without asking. That reminds me, a redshirt in my store makes this one dumbarse kid do pushups whenever he touches someones stuff without asking. 5 per finger.

Urgh, I hate this too. Playing at my local hobby shop with a buddy, we are newish to the game so are still unsure about some of the rules, so we were looking up a rule when a parent came over to the table and started picking up our stuff to look at as if it were for sale. There's also a couple of younger players that own a mish mash of figures from pretty much all the 40k armies and are always using the demo stuff that the owner uses to teach new players, in one afternoon they must of broke about 10 orks, the owner was not best pleased

So fething true. Wanna know how stupid people are? Well, I'll tell you about one woman. She first thought I was an employee, and I was like .__.

Then, after I said no, she came up to me and asked how many termagaunts are in a package, EVEN THOUGH IT FETHING SAYS ON THE BACK!!!

It was twelve, and I lost about 1,000 brain cells.

Little kids love to touch whatever the little s can get their hands on. Which just so happens to be my miniatures. And if that isn't enough, people constantly interrupt my games to ask stupid questions about the hobby. It blows my mind how dumb people are. I will suppose I have said the opinions of about 100, 000, 000, 000 people world-wide.

JSK-Fox wrote:So fething true. Wanna know how stupid people are? Well, I'll tell you about one woman. She first thought I was an employee, and I was like .__.

Then, after I said no, she came up to me and asked how many termagaunts are in a package, EVEN THOUGH IT FETHING SAYS ON THE BACK!!!

It was twelve, and I lost about 1,000 brain cells.

Little kids love to touch whatever the little s can get their hands on. Which just so happens to be my miniatures. And if that isn't enough, people constantly interrupt my games to ask stupid questions about the hobby. It blows my mind how dumb people are. I will suppose I have said the opinions of about 100, 000, 000, 000 people world-wide.

She must felt you looked professional , so thats a good thing!
If they ask you about the hobby constantly , that means they look up to you as some sort of role model. can be a good thing as well!

If you smile at them and tell them to wait after the game , im sure everything will be fine.
You have fans xD

JSK-Fox wrote:So fething true. Wanna know how stupid people are? Well, I'll tell you about one woman. She first thought I was an employee, and I was like .__.

Then, after I said no, she came up to me and asked how many termagaunts are in a package, EVEN THOUGH IT FETHING SAYS ON THE BACK!!!

Maybe you should calm the hell down. Perhaps someone was trying to buy a gift or something for a gamer friend/relative. God forbid you have a normal interaction with another human being, who maybe doesn't know exactly where it says on the back of a box of gaunts how many models are contained.

Way to blow apart stereotypes of gamers as antisocial weirdos...

I was nice to them and all, it's just that when the number is in bold right where I saw them looking, I start to get a little, angry.

JSK-Fox wrote:I was nice to them and all, it's just that when the number is in bold right where I saw them looking, I start to get a little, angry.

Yeah, I see what you mean, but still if they don't know what they're looking at they still might be having a hard time.

I, for one, like to encourage people in the hobby and answer any questions that they might have about it. After all, the higher the turnout at the tournament, the bigger the prize I might win!

JSK-Fox wrote:It blows my mind how dumb people are. I will suppose I have said the opinions of about 100, 000, 000, 000 people world-wide.

You realise that there are less than 7,000,000,000 people worldwide right? Looks like you're not quite top of the intellectual heap yourself, champ

I've had people I regard as pretty thick call me a sad b-----d for playing warhammer, but in the end I can get over it, I'm not too fussed over their opinions (still stings a bit when attractive women give me crap over it, though)

What I really hate to hear is a few clinking, clattering, snapping sounds, and my mate's cousin going "oh . . . whoops".

I-bounty-hunt-the-elderly wrote:

JSK-Fox wrote:It blows my mind how dumb people are. I will suppose I have said the opinions of about 100, 000, 000, 000 people world-wide.

You realise that there are less than 7,000,000,000 people worldwide right? Looks like you're not quite top of the intellectual heap yourself, champ

Yes I do. I was using hyperbole to emphasis my statement.

Literary devices are not allowed! Pedantic readers will not tolerate hyperbole!