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 Compel wrote:
Most of my truly awful 'that guy' experiences have been from either GW managers or staff that I've had the misfortune to play with.

I've got to say that, I'm not the only one who has read through this thread questioning, "that could be me, right?"

Well I hope to god we can all say we're not an ogre with a yellow pit stained shirt who walks around the store staring at women's chests XD

So see? We could all be worse!

Ofcourse not, I do that where your supposed to, at the bar!!!!

We had one guy at a store who would pick his nose quite openly and then ask to play games and would try and move your models for you (and not in a cheating way just trying to be helpful). So not super TFG, but would fall into the personal hygiene category quite well.

 Ustrello wrote:
We had one guy at a store who would pick his nose quite openly and then ask to play games and would try and move your models for you (and not in a cheating way just trying to be helpful). So not super TFG, but would fall into the personal hygiene category quite well.

Call me weird, I actually find this worse than TFG. TFG I can just catalog and freely ignore later because feth that not worth it.

But this is an otherwise nice, maybe even great guy, who just has an unfortunate or obnoxious habit. I don't want to write him off like TFG because he's not a bad person he doesn't really deserve that, but I also don't want boogers all over my stuff so your its just awkward and weird and really messes with your head space. In this case you can just politely ask to move your own models, which hopefully any reasonable person can respect, but then there's Billy the Great Guy who is always full of helpful and cool advice, knows all the rules verbatum and happily saves people the time of flipping and is an all around joy... Until he turns his back to you and his fat crack is slapping in the air as he waddles away

 MechaEmperor7000 wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I got one,
The Judge that is very bad, very few like, and is horrible......Ok not weird....
And Threatens suicide if he is no longer judge because it is his only will to function.

See if anyone ever blurted this out to me I would pull up a chair, grab some crisps, and tell him "I'm silently judging you."

I have seen enough actual suicides in my life that I am fully out of tosses to give to people who threatens it for silly reasons.

Honestly, a few laughed and said that is kinda sad.

New addition to the rosters here.

The guy that has a god-awful work schedule, can't game on weekends, and whines because no one can game with him when he gets off shift at 10 PM. Like, I get it. You've got to make ends meet. But don't sign up for leagues and campaigns if you can't make it, and don't get mad because other people have to work a normal schedule (and my days begin at 0500). The dude just always ends up whining because he can't get games in, knowing from the moment he slaps his name on the bracket and drops his fee that he'll not be able to make games.

The guy that can't manage his finances but buys a bunch of 40k stuff. A dude I game with will buy damned near every new model for AoS AND 40k when it comes out, but he drives a busted car and lives in a dump- dude never had gas money, never had groceries, and was always getting his mom to send him money. People felt bad for him and offered to buy models from him, and he sold them to... buy more models. He actually called and asked for money to pay a ticket because he had no insurance on his car.

The Vapist. Dude, I get it- it's cool if you vape inside, I do it here and there- but when you're clouding up the game room so much I can't even see the table? You're just being obnoxious. Go suck your metal smoke-penis outside or something.

This reminds me of the old game shop I would go to.. great shop but had it's "usual suspects" game club..
Normally never played at the shop because of them.. good thing was they always wore their club shirt so
you could spot them easily..

Funny thing is a buddy that still lives locally said the "ringleader" decided to open up his own shop..
That is going to be a train wreak waiting to happen...

As for "that guy" my favorite is always been the gamer geek Casanova; any girl that walks in the door must
love the fact he can run a game of D&D, etc... Years back my wife and I went to the shop; the game shop
was large enough to have a lounge area buy the check out.. She would just sit there while I did my
excursion through the store. A local game guy sat beside her very close and with a suave voice
"Hi".. My wife looked him straight in the eyes and loudly said "NO!" He quickly got up and walked off..

 Genoside07 wrote:
As for "that guy" my favorite is always been the gamer geek Casanova; any girl that walks in the door must
love the fact he can run a game of D&D, etc... Years back my wife and I went to the shop; the game shop
was large enough to have a lounge area buy the check out.. She would just sit there while I did my
excursion through the store. A local game guy sat beside her very close and with a suave voice
"Hi".. My wife looked him straight in the eyes and loudly said "NO!" He quickly got up and walked off..

Many years ago, back when metal minis were still a thing for 40k- we did have some of these guys. What was scummy about them was the one or two girls that came in were always getting showered in compliments and adoration from these losers. And the only thing more obnoxious than these guys that haven't been inside a woman since a doctor yanked them out of their mother- one of the girls was really, really into the little fan club. The other was a bit more mature, and reasonable- and kind of blew it off and wanted to just play games and hang out. But the chick that really liked it soaked it up, and was always 'hanging out', and never gaming.

Those losers must have thrown a car payment at this girl every month in terms of models and stuff. She could slap a glob of paint onto a Tyranid and these guys would be talking about it like it was a Golden Daemon candidate (oddly enough, she would only take one model and build and paint it, and these losers did the rest). She could say the ditziest or dumbest things about 40k like "Sisters of Battle should Have Commissars and Terminators!" and these guys would say that all of GW's writers should be fired and replaced with her majesty. I never once saw her playing a game, but I did see some guy moving her models around and explaining things while she just jabbered away to her little fan club. In a way she was very much like a more obnoxious version of EgoQueenAlexis but with a tendency to not wear a bra.

Eventually some dude with a motorcycle came along and scooped her up, got her pregnant, and she was TOTALLY INTO MOTORCYCLE YOU GUYS. HARBLEY DAVILSONS ARE THE BEST!

Sounds like my ideal girl.

That is obnoxious but if she enjoyed the attention then no harm done I guess.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Sounds like my ideal girl.

That is obnoxious but if she enjoyed the attention then no harm done I guess.

The only bad part about it was the fact that she tended to speak ill of the guys that didn't fall for her charms. It turned you into sort of a pariah among her little cult followers. Of course, I say 'bad'... but it's sort of like the trash taking itself out, considering her crowd. It made it a little harder to get a game in than it was before she got there, but I can't particularly say that the wheezing neckbeards with no spine and no self-respect were ideal opponents.

Hard to say she's 'that guy'. She wouldn't have been where she was if not for a little group of losers that fawned over her. And she might have very well known what she was doing all along. Chances are, she never bought a single model, Codex, or paint pot and she was a little queen for a time- I'll show some leg and hug some stinky dudes if it gets me free things. Until, like I said, someone else came along and gave her attention among the motorcycle enthusiasts. And then she got pregnant and I don't really know or care what happened to her next.

But it said a lot about the dudes in the community, and sadly- spineless dudes aren't anything rare among gaming groups. Sad.

Heck, sounds like a girl I used to date!! She went into the game store tagging along with her brother looking for guys. Naughty little redhead with multiple great assets. I'm sure she got knocked up by a motorcyclist, as her family was big into them.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Heck, sounds like a girl I used to date!! She went into the game store tagging along with her brother looking for guys. Naughty little redhead with multiple great assets. I'm sure she got knocked up by a motorcyclist, as her family was big into them.

All sins are forgiven then. I'm such a god-damned sucker for the red heads.

Man, sounds like a co-worker's daughter. (Now, don't get me wrong here. This is a bit of trash talking, but nothing he, himself, has not said).

His youngest son is pretty normal
His middle daughter is super-organized, bordering on OCD and follows the rules
His oldest daughter.......is a mess. Average looks, average grades, but spoiled, lazy, and thinks her poo doesn't stink. About the time she turned 16 she ditched her old friends and slept her way though a few of the popular guys to work her way into high school high society. Kind of got the feeling that she's willing to do about anything to be the center of attention and stay there.

Man, I love these threads. I hope ButteryCommissar makes an appearance because they have some AMAZING stories.

As for me? Eh, nothing out of the norm for TFG's. Personal hygiene isn't a thing, bombastic about the hobby to the point of annoying, and lets not forget - masters of all thing nerd.

Had a dude show up during a HeroClix tournament YEARS ago that talked a bunch of smack, smelled like a pile of dicks, and yes, you guess it, wore this massive trenchcoat in August. Came down to me, him and another regular in the finals - I'd earned a first round buy, but chose to compete anyway and won. So he needed to score perfectly - he didn't and I crushed him.

He lost his gak. I really thought he was going to have a stroke or something given his size and obvious lack of exercise. TO threw him out and told the owners of the game store what happened - shame they forgot about it because he was back in the following week trying to get Warmahordes games. Same nonsense as always. From what I hear he's still going there, it's a shame.