I see saying I won't blame it on my list was just speaking too clearly for you.
I guess I'll stop beating that drum. Your inability to grasp my point is not really a surprise.
I play under my own name.
GW's inability to write my name down on a piece of paper and transcribe it to a spreadsheet correctly is certainly shocking, they are well known for their excellent customer service skills.
Speaking of well known, maybe you really haven't noticed I don't recognize the names you fawn over. I guess I should care but I don't, your spot off "analysis" probably makes hobbyists wonder why they should bother coming to
GT's in the first place.
And this?
"You claim undefeated status at
GT's. Yet with the exception of las years Vegas, you played under others' names after buying a ticket from them off of ebay or whatever....but still not winning a trophy or placement....apparently only because you refuse to "kiss up to" other players."
There are more tournaments with my name in them than just one. I believe
GW managed to get two of them correct on their website. I have 9 stubs with my name on them. Would you like pictures? A trip through the magic time machine? Shall I take a polygraph? Did I just figure out how
GT's work and suck by going to one?
I suspect my interest in your comments is probably going to go to ignore with your next ignorant reply, but we'll see.
I just don't think you've got it within you to not be your internet personality.
By the way, if from what I gather from the crews you've mentioned...looking at the lists they post, why should I be afraid? I can only pray they keep running their crap instead of stuff I run, because I know my
DH sure as hell don't have a chance against good lists .
I suspect the two
GT noobs I'm bringing this year and the second year "vet" will show you how good (or how bad) my tutelage is.
Tell ya what. My army is very very bright. If you somehow miss it at the Vegas
GT (see, everyone somehow missed my apparently crappy paint job on my Eldar and the fact that I even existed, despite the fact I was on tables 3,4, and 5 for the tournament) I guess I will just have to run a video camera at adepticon and stream it live to the g-d damn internet for you to get a clue.
If you beat my
DH, you don't suck--because you beat my generalship, and I'll take my generalship over anyone every single day of the week. If you don't beat it, I'm afraid I'm going to have to tell you that you suck. There won't be any excuses, because you all think so little of my
DH army.
See, you can't scoff and tell me I can't win a game with it, then lose to it.
Maybe you haven't figured it out, but the real genius is this:
I'm willing to test the limits of my skill.
I'm not afraid of any army because my fellow generals have so far in TEN YEARS of play, been tabled by the end of turn 4 (that's the average). Just because I've been silent on the slowed ass internet for that long doesn't mean I don't exist.
Everyone at my local store says it's my lists and frankly I'm sick of it. So now I have a nice friendly fluffy list that frankly doesn't meet my exacting standards for a powerful army to take to a
GT, but I've got the guts to take trash AND tell you to your face sight unseen that I have a better chance of beating you than you do of beating me. All your cute little names and supposed power lists off the internets make me die inside. The only list I saw that was original last year was that silly ass 180 grot army. Sure it'd been done before but the guy was entertaining. All the other lists? Standard internets crap, all the way. Barring my list and stjohn70's lists.
I have said this before and will say it again--the
GT system is busted, I love seeing the armies, but competitive play? Please. Everyone says Adepticon is where all the assh--er I mean all the "serious" competitors go, but I went the first year and was unimpressed by how it isn't
40k they are playing. Nothings changed, but sure I'll go there next year and see if it's still full of assh--er I mean "serious competitors". I'm more interested in helping out and judging than I am in playing. Titans?
FW cheese? Gee, why don't we just throw softballs at each others armies and whoever knocks the most models down with 3 pitches gets 'the trophie'.
Don't take most of this personally, when I say you I mean the overall tournament community. I'm blaming YOU and YOUR actions for the loss of the hobbyists at the
GT's, and if I hear one more twit tell me they're just fine I'll scream.
I've noticed that NOT ONE person has asked for my phone number. I'm not afraid of you. I want to be on your radar. I know you're afraid. I want you to be. Because you should be. I've got the humiliation wagon all set up for you to take a ride back to suck city.
How's them apples? Whatcha gonna do, nerd rage and take me out in an alley?
lol
Remember what I've said, deadshane. Win big or lose big, all I really want to do is show all of you pansies just how bad you really are. How your tactics and army lists make for a deplorable tournament scene, and that there has always been an alternative to the internets famous lists of doom which are just the most obvious stupid combo lists ever. No tactical insight, no real tactics, just point and click and hope your dice don't fail you. Yeah, that doesn't impress me in the least.
By the by, 150+ players have "run" into me and lost. I have never played the same guy twice. It's a miracle no one has ever heard of me. I'm quiet, I kill you, you go to the back tables and I never see you again. Stunning, really.
Personally I am praying for lots of major losses, so I have a reason to keep making superior lists and beating people down with them. Cause right now at this point in my life, I am bored to

tears sitting on the top ten tables waiting for SOMEONE to challenge me instead of scrubs every single game.
I know, I know. Bring a trygon or a titan and go pwn at Adepticon. Thanks, but I prefer playing
40k and they don't play that game there. They play Adepticon
40k and it really doesn't excite me terribly to see 2 titans on the table.
Win or lose, frankly I'm looking forward to the Ard Boyz the week after because the guys I'm coming with know me well enough to give me a serious challenge--and
GT players don't.
I think I've ranted enough. Don't be offended by my rant. I'm quite unhappy that the
GT's are in danger of going away, and I blame everyone who goes (including myself) for this sorry state of affairs.
I'm hoping to change the community for the better. Right now the message is overwhelmingly critical, because the tournament scene is (In my view) on life support because of poor stewardship on
GW's part and very much
WAAC on our part.
So I'm setting
WAAC aside, and we'll see if I can still have a fun time or if it's just impossible without bringing one of my death lists.
It's going to be a damning endorsement of my view on things if it's impossible to bring a fun army AND win AND convert it myself AND paint it myself AND not kiss ass like everybody else does; and not place in the top 25.
If you think that's what
GW wants, I think you're a fool.
I've got my hobbyist hat on. In the end if the results don't change...doesn't that tell you something? I know it will make me despair of ever having a truly competitive tournament environment without running it myself.
I hope now you understand, I think I've said everything I want to.
The vitriol isn't directed at you personally deadshane, it's directed at the kind of
WAAC gamer I am often accused of being but in reality am not and never can be, because that isn't what
GW wants.
No matter how much I might rant at them, I do genuinely love their game despite all it's flaws, and I want them to succeed instead of failing over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
Other game companies run excellent tournament systems.
Why do we have settle for

dominated ones, run and organized like it's a rogue trader, with crappy prizes and a meaningless tournament system?
When there's just me and 3 other guys at the tournament, that'll be a good thing yes? So I know I can at least get a trophy no matter how badly the system is setup?
Want me to start ranting about Games Days? I can write another whole story just on those, if you really want me to.
Sorry I cuss on a podcast. I cuss in real life, all the time. Know why? I learned long ago cursing in front of people is the quickest surest way to find the shallow people out. I'm not saying you are shallow, but it's just words. Plus, I don't really give a damn if I offend someone by saying a naughty word. Grow up and stop crying. Maybe you haven't noticed the general decline of western civilization, but 12 year olds have worse mouths than I do--hell, they're having sex these days. So get a grip on reality and hang on tight, it's not going to "get better" it's just the way it is. Man up and accept that I've got a potty mouth.
George Carlin, Lewis Black, Eddie Murphy, Dennis Miller, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Lisa Lampanelli....they are all "my" kind of funny. A more crass bunch you couldn't find if you looked in a Bangkok brothel.
Anyway I hope you'll notice how much of this is tongue-in-cheek, but then again...I'll put it this way:
Paraphrasing a Miller quote: "...the less we involve ourselves in the tournament process, the more special interest groups and fanatics move in."
From a favorite blog of mine: "As Americans we are bathing in bullsh!t every single day. It's unavoidable. So, if we can't avoid it, we might as well come to understand it. This is a group exercise, so if you'd like to point something out to us, by all means, do."
I'm pointing it out, and I'm getting re-involved instead of running away.
Besides attacking me, what are YOU doing to make the tournament scene better?