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Mastiff wrote:I'm guessing "HurricaneGirl" is not a dude, but I could be wrong. I'm probably not really a dog...

But I second your motion on the cyan text. I also view this with the white background theme, it's pretty hard to read.

"Dude" is far more universal now than in the 80's, when we called them "Dudette's." LOL

Also, the "Dude" was meant more as an exclamation (pardon the punctuation error lol).

Eric

Not in a store but my wife and her sister had a fight, I thought it was funny until a shoe came flying across the room past my wifes head and smack onto my brand new Bloodthister (it was a new release at the time) and I had JUST finished painting it and was setting it up for photos. The model hit the ground and everything that could break off did. The fight was not funny anymore and they both knew they took it to far when they had broken my "toys".

I was watching 2 guys play, one with a nob bikers list, the other a mono-nurgle list. The nurgle figs were nothing special, but the nob bikers guy had the forgeworld warboss and 10 custom-made bikers, all beautifully painted and based wonderfully.

Some 17 year old kid walks over, hits on me for a couple minutes, then, when one of the nob bikers finally die, he asks to look at it. Nothing wrong so far.

He looks it over, and then breaks one of the arms off. On purpose. To see if he had used super-glue or plastic glue.

@Sildevan: That guy was an idiot.

Rory - That guy is possibly the most sadistic donkey-cave to ever not play Nob Bikers.

MagickalMemories wrote:

HurricaneGirl wrote:My most horrible experience was when I first started painting (pre-40k) figs in my teens. I was staying at my grandmother's and so was a very young cousin, who had wandered into my room and managed to find and open my fig box and snap off every part that I had glued on. I found her right as she was finishing up with the last couple.

Dude.
Seriously.

Cyan?

How about a color that isn't nearly invisible on the white background some of us use?

Eric

No one should be using the painful white background. It killed the children for laughing you know? How could you support the white background after something like that?

Canonness Rory wrote:I was watching 2 guys play, one with a nob bikers list, the other a mono-nurgle list. The nurgle figs were nothing special, but the nob bikers guy had the forgeworld warboss and 10 custom-made bikers, all beautifully painted and based wonderfully.

Some 17 year old kid walks over, hits on me for a couple minutes,

Boys will be boys.

Canonness Rory wrote: then, when one of the nob bikers finally die, he asks to look at it. Nothing wrong so far.

He looks it over, and then breaks one of the arms off. On purpose. To see if he had used super-glue or plastic glue.

Augh, no! That's horrible!

On purpose?!

...why not just ask what glue he used? Was he afraid he wouldn't get an honest answer or what?

Dude.
Seriously.

Cyan?

How about a color that isn't nearly invisible on the white background some of us use?

Eric

I honesty don't know how to respond to this. Pretty much anything I say is going to mark me as rude, bhy, sarcastic, or a drama queen.

...

it's very important to know what type of glue a complete stranger used to stick their minis together. This must be done by breaking them; as this is apparently more effective than getting the story from the mouth that built them.

I am so glad that none of this has happened to me or my friends! Although I do get the occasional annoying kid who comes by mid-game and picks up some of my guardsmen without asking; usually I just glare at them and ask, "what the hell are you doing?" I guess Im one of the few guard players at my FLGS that fields a valkyrie because I get a lot of gawkers. I havent had anyone touch it without asking yet; Im glad for that too because I, in all my wisdom, carved out some plastic to make the stand fit the valk better and now it is a bit wobbly. I do find it funny that at the sound of clattering plastic or metal, everyone in the store stops what they're doing, cringes, and the lets out a pained "ooooh..."

*raises hand*
Same here.

HurricaneGirl wrote:

Dude.
Seriously.

Cyan?

How about a color that isn't nearly invisible on the white background some of us use?

Eric

I honesty don't know how to respond to this. Pretty much anything I say is going to mark me as rude, bhy, sarcastic, or a drama queen.

...

How about "Stop using a god-damned white background!"?

Who cares if it's rude?

@HurricaneGirl: Pay them no heed! Your Cyan words have brought much cheer to the chidren of Dakka!

Boss 'eadbreaka wrote:I was in GW a few weeks back when, for no reason at all a mother comes in with a one year old in a pram, comments on what a lovely 'toyshop' this is and park the slobberin' baby next to the table I was playing at.

What does the bub go for?
My warboss. Grabs it, bites its head off and only spits it out when the git spikes its gum on the boss's helmet horns.

.................................................................................Seriously, I doubt it. You would have told everyone at scholl if a baby did that. Unless the 'git' was you after missing your sandwich and grabbing the warboss.

Man, I totally despair of this 'if you so much as sneeze on me, I'm gonna sue!!!'-attitude. It's even making it's way across to this side of the atlantic! Perhaps this is why people think they can just do whatever they like to your property - because they know there's no comeback at all.
I'm not saying 'yeah just go around beating people up if they touch your stuff', far from it. But there was a time in this country when even the coppers would give you a sharp clip round the head for just mouthing off to them! OK, it's not ideal - but adults were'nt getting their heads stamped on and killed by gangs of kids roaming the estates. That's a fact. When I was a kid(omg how grandad?), I knew that if i destroyed or otherwise vandalised the property of an adult, then I'd get dragged by the scruff of my neck either to my mum's house or the Police Station. Thus, I had a healthy respect for grown-ups. I didn't grow up in the 50's - this is the 80's we're talking about!
My partner is a Primary-school teacher - if a kid falls and cuts his/her knee, she can't even put a plaster on it in case she's sued or accused of sexual assault, school policy!
Madness.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Please read this post properly before you decide to diss me, as no-one seemed to last time...

I DON'T BEAT CHILDREN AND STEAL THEIR LUNCH-MONEY.

I was teaching English in Korea and sometimes took some models to show students as curios....

Until I noticed the first thing every kid did was grab an arm or weapon and pull until it came off...

That's right Kim Sumin, they are breakable.

Then I noticed adults had the same tendency to test the break point of everything....

Must say something about the universal human soul....

OTG

I vote for the cyan. Makes people stop using the white background.

Something like this has happened to me only once. I had stowed my dark angels in one of the old double sided GW cases and behind a panel on my corner computer desk. In front of this was a couple of boxes of miscellaneous junk from around the house. My little boy who was maybe just over 1 at the time got the case. How I'm baffled as the boxes in front of all access looked like they had never been touched, him and his brother (1 year older) had decided to open the case up (they are evil geniuses) and nosey around.
Only when the elder one came through and told me one had broken while waving a banner and marine at me did I even realise they had managed this. Yep sneaky. The army was then pretty much busted everywhere in their frantic effort to put them away while I was getting upstairs to see
Most didnt bother me, it was sorting the devastators out again one night where I thought they were lucky they were in bed or I'd have been tempted to glue their fingers together to keep them out of these things in the future

My eldest managed to pinch a lot of eldar off me as his own, complete with a case for it, his favourite was a falcon and being aged 2 it was a spaceship that went "ZOOOOOOM!!!". So when he dropped it and the scatter laser broke off he was really upset and worried (it had been repaired before) and I explained dont worry, look it can be fixed and showed him how I was gluing it etc, while tellign him glue's dangerous for little boys, only let daddy use it and if he sees daddy stupidly left it laying around tell me . He was really happy. So 5 minutes later when he dropped it again and it literaly exploded with the main parts even somehow coming apart, weapons flying off, he just picked the peices up (spending ages looking for the clear conopy and insisting only he can look for it) bringing them over and ordering me calmly "Daddy fix it." and wandering off to get a seat to watch. Still makes me laugh

Awww, how cUte!
This is one of the few 'model molester horror stories' that has made me smile. =)

Well earlier this year we had a kid by the age of 12 come into our FLGS. We got to know him after a couple vistis and he seemed a little annoying, but ok. One day he just walks in and grabs a couple boxes of dwarf warriors (that he did not pay for) and opens them up and start to take the models of the sprues and put them together. Right in the middle of the store! Our FLGS is really small so it wasn't we couldn't see his every move. We were all speechless, trying to figure out what gave him the idea to do this. Then my friend, FLGSO, and I, who were the only ones in the store walk over and ask him if he was planning on paying for those boxes, and he replies with the answer of "No my dad will pay for them". Well we look around the parking lot, and sure enough there is no dad to be found. So we call up his dad and ask if he was aware of what his son was doing, he throws a tantrum on the phone, because apparently he had plans for paying for anything. So my FLGSO tells the kid that his dad was not paying for anything and asked him to pay him for the dwarves, and the kid gave the most arrogant answer saying "You owe me for those tournament fees i've paid in the past and not won anything.", and at this my FLGSO gets not so friendly and I swear he was fixing to call the the full fury of the 4 chaos gods on that kid, it took both my friend and me to restrain the store owner from beating the crap out of that kid. He banned the kid from the store and we have never seen him since. Now we have a sign posted on the door saying no one under the age of 14 is allowed in the gamestore without parental supervision for the safety of their kids.

Albatross wrote:I DON'T BEAT CHILDREN AND STEAL THEIR LUNCH-MONEY.

And that is why you disappoint me so.

Strangely my wife is prone to breakage. When I first started dating her she had successfully (by dropping!) broken an early eldar swooping hawk (2 pieces - wings and body) at the waist without breaking off the wings. Her following feat was returning an early carnifex to its 8 component parts. Still, she plays Warmachine.

Oldgrue wrote:

Albatross wrote:I DON'T BEAT CHILDREN AND STEAL THEIR LUNCH-MONEY.

And that is why you disappoint me so.

Strangely my wife is prone to breakage. When I first started dating her she had successfully (by dropping!) broken an early eldar swooping hawk (2 pieces - wings and body) at the waist without breaking off the wings. Her following feat was returning an early carnifex to its 8 component parts. Still, she plays Warmachine.

LOL you got swooping hawks?

Ketara wrote:I vote for the cyan. Makes people stop using the white background.

Hang on, you can change the backround?

anyway, on topic, the only thing I've seen was (and be aware I was the stopper in this) I had introduced a mate to the hobby and now that he had an army I was showing the nearby clup and a couple of weeks ago another mate had converted (litterally the only thing not hand made was a land raider body and marneus calgers fists.) marneus calgars land raider and this mate (being used to me not minding if something breaks as its just a little blob of plastic/super glue away) and picks it up by marneus's fist luckily I got there in time so nothing broke but that was the closest I have ever seen to someone doing something like this and after reading this I feel so privaliged.

Click on the "Switch Theme" to change the background colours.

My eyes..

I love this darkness screen thingy, works so well when I'm only just awake, doesn't force me to wear sunglasses to stare at a screen.

Back on topic: I have noticed that the Amsterdam store is leaving less on their gaming tables and more in their display cabinets. They are especially catty when you look at the store FW models these days.

Emperors Faithful wrote:@HurricaneGirl: Pay them no heed! Your Cyan words have brought much cheer to the chidren of Dakka!

I third this. They chose the white background and all the EVIL that comes with it

Neconilis wrote:
No one should be using the painful white background. It killed the children for laughing you know? How could you support the white background after something like that?

I find it easier to see the breaks between posts, myself.
Plus, some kids deserve the killing. lol

HurricaneGirl wrote:

I honesty don't know how to respond to this. Pretty much anything I say is going to mark me as rude, bhy, sarcastic, or a drama queen.

...

Don't take it personally. It was just a friendly jab. I don't troll for fights like some.

Eric

" If you are a no body who has no friends to back them up and are a nobody who doesn't contribute to the community, you probably deserved being walked all over. "
That is kind of a scary sentance... that and your earlier post make me need to point out that society is usually roughly definied as "everyone other than you" when it comes to the law. Gamers, of all people, should recognize that not having friends or associating with other people is not a good basis for determining whether you deserve to be walked over.


On topic, I second being my own worst enemy when it comes to models, partially because we have a nice group. I used to run 3 penitent engines, only one of which I finished painting. Guess which one I knocked off the edge of the table.
It has gotten to the point that when my wife and I are watching tv and and I am cleaning models or some such, she responds to "oh, bloody f*cking hell" with "What's it look like?" while checking out the carpet. Knowing my own sins against models, I am thusly very careful to never touch other people's