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I have not ever seen someone cry at the gaming table, and I hope I never do, because if it happened neither one of us would be having a good time. I don't think it would be something I would be happy to recount either.

If I ever made someone cry at the gaming table, I think I would feel pretty horrible, and I don't think it would be funny.

This thread is shameful.

Thanks for getting it Polonius....

For those that think its shameful...I understand, I really do, but no one said you had to read the post.

Oh, I dunno. I think I'd laugh quite a bit if an adult opponent started to cry. Now, I'd feel bad about whatever else is going on in the poor bastard's life that has him crying over toy soldiers. But in terms of the game itself it's probably something I'd still laugh about years later.

Seriously, change the setting. Imagine you're out with friends at a bar, and you play darts or pool against someone who starts bawling after you beat him. You don't think that's something you and your friends would laugh about for at least the rest of the night?

Of course, I'd wait until he put down the cue before starting to snicker...

lets_get_em_boyz wrote:I made a grown woman cry, I punched her in the jaw after she talked back during the shooting phase

Wow. That was unnecessary.

PS: Fixed your typo.

I vote we change the direction of this thread:

Subject: Ever Seen a grown man Naked?

Body: So.... ever played Warhammer naked? Or with someone who was naked?

Is there any other way to play?



Maybe that causes the weeping....hmmm

At one of the games me and some chaps from the FLG have every sunday, this 12-ish kid came along for the first time with his Ultramarines army. He had Calgar and Tigurius, since it was a big game, and I had brought my W.I.P Black Legion force. I was using a Terminator Lord with a Daemon Weapon (fairly lenient of me), and he managed to get in 1v1 combat with Calgar. He hit seven times and wounded five. Calgar went down and his Veterans followed with a single Demolisher shot. He started blubbering as I mauled his pimped Tac squads and began crying soon. He threw my Defiler on the floor and kicked it away. It was intact which made him cry more and he stepped on my Termie Lord's pointy trophy racks and started trying to hurt me. The store worker playing with us kicked him out of the FLG.

But no, I haven't seen a mature player cry.

I had a friend in high school who would cry whenever he lost any game Smash Brothers, Magic it didn't matter. If he lost 1 round and the water works started.
It was really funny because he had a really squeaky voice.

He was starting to get into 40k but I lost touch with him after we graduated.

My friend's younger brother cries when either of us beat him at SSB, but he's six so meh.

About 6yrs ago when I first started in this hobby/game, I watched a game w/someone who was obviously new & a well experienced veteran. It was @ a store I'm actually glad is out O'business. It had a very cliquey crowd. The exp'player (who looked like he stepped out of a Bon Jovi video) was wiping the table w/this newbe (he looked about 14) & the exp'player was talking trash like he was on the court in the NBA the whole time. You could see on this kid's face he just wanted to go home & cry in private. The thing that realy P!$$ed me off was nobody in the store said anything, accept me. That was the last time I stepped in there. Don't get me wrong I have no problem w/someone totally running the table. I've done it once or twice myself & have deffinately had it done to me (the latter can definately be attested by a couple members of this websight) but there's no reason to be a prick about it.

Cheese Elemental wrote:At one of the games me and some chaps from the FLG have every sunday, this 12-ish kid came along for the first time with his Ultramarines army. He had Calgar and Tigurius, since it was a big game, and I had brought my W.I.P Black Legion force. I was using a Terminator Lord with a Daemon Weapon (fairly lenient of me), and he managed to get in 1v1 combat with Calgar. He hit seven times and wounded five. Calgar went down and his Veterans followed with a single Demolisher shot. He started blubbering as I mauled his pimped Tac squads and began crying soon. He threw my Defiler on the floor and kicked it away. It was intact which made him cry more and he stepped on my Termie Lord's pointy trophy racks and started trying to hurt me. The store worker playing with us kicked him out of the FLG.

My God that's brutal. I don't know how you didn't backhand him across the room in Matrix-esque fashion.

JediRaptor wrote:For those that think its shameful...I understand, I really do, but no one said you had to read the post.

Oh gee, you're right! No one came to my house, knocked on my door, and said, "Well golly Hordini, you simply must read this post on Dakka about grown men crying over wargames! It's absolutely top-notch!"

The rest of my opinion is clearly invalidated, because no one told me I had to read the post.

Forgive me, JediRaptor, my e-Fu is weak. But I still haven't seen a grown man cry over a game!

Thanks,

-Hordak

Yeah I've seen it happen before, and its never pretty cause you just know that something really bad must be happening in their life for them to break down over Warhammer or the like. But if ever someone picked up my painted models and started trying to break them I think I would straight punch the person full in the face after spending so much time on them. That may make me a bad person but what person who plays this hobby could have such the nerve to destroy someones prized models.

I saw one of my opponents cry after he came back from getting a soda to find me trying to retrieve his Land Raider from snot nosed kid who ran up and grabbed it before I could stop him. The kid then proceeded to drop the land raider when he got nervous being as the original owner got back. The Land Raider busted into about 5 pieces. My opponent dropped his drink and rushed after the kid who ran out of the store. He then came back and started to pick up the pieces. I would have helped but I think he needed his pace. I offered to give him the win in deference to his misfortune and my inability to stop it. By then he was sobbing and let him be. We ended up calling the game a draw and arranging a rematch after he fixed his land raider.

Valhallan42nd wrote:We had an area manager who make a kid pee his pants during a demo. Dude was a 6'+ tall marine who jumped up on the table, waaghin' and such.

That must have been the point all the normal people left the store and security was called.

Cheese Elemental wrote:At one of the games me and some chaps from the FLG have every sunday, this 12-ish kid came along for the first time with his Ultramarines army. He had Calgar and Tigurius, since it was a big game, and I had brought my W.I.P Black Legion force. I was using a Terminator Lord with a Daemon Weapon (fairly lenient of me), and he managed to get in 1v1 combat with Calgar. He hit seven times and wounded five. Calgar went down and his Veterans followed with a single Demolisher shot. He started blubbering as I mauled his pimped Tac squads and began crying soon. He threw my Defiler on the floor and kicked it away. It was intact which made him cry more and he stepped on my Termie Lord's pointy trophy racks and started trying to hurt me. The store worker playing with us kicked him out of the FLG.

But no, I haven't seen a mature player cry.

This story should be told to everyone playing a noob for the first time as an example of what can happen if you don't adapt your play to let them feel like they are having fun,

if someone can play like they've got a pair (of braincells to rub together and possibly use to get an idea of what the rules are), then yes lay the smack down, otherwise you're just being a jerk who's getting his kicks from beating small kids...


...though it can be satisfying to completely destroy someone who is really fething you off, I've done it once, kinda felt bad about it afterwards, but the guy was a cretin, I starrted off going easy on him but there's only so many times i can hear that my "orks suck because they only have a 6+ save" followed but 10 minutes of gloating after his terminators killed a 20 strong grot squad i was using as a speed bump, despite me pointing out the 30 boys with choppa's (back in the day) who were going to charge him if he did this.


I just snapped and to avoid jumping over the table and beating some sense into him (mainly as this would involve touching him and i hate to think what I'd catch) I let rip and wiped him out in two turns, for not a lot more casualties than the 20 grots.

dr vompire wrote:I just snapped and to avoid jumping over the table and beating some sense into him (mainly as this would involve touching him and i hate to think what I'd catch) I let rip and wiped him out in two turns, for not a lot more casualties than the 20 grots.

Did he cry

not that time, after the game he was telling anyone who would ignore him that he should have won because he killed those "groats" and that was cool.


a few weeks later when my stompa mega-dakka-gun thingy wiped out all of his marines bar one five man squad in one shot, who then got charged by said stompa,

that time he cried.

turns out i'm not as nice as i'd hoped, but hey ho, I think I'm unbearably nice when I don't throw things at him

dr vompire wrote:
I let rip and wiped him out in two turns.

Your statement could be misinterpreted, and frankly, I'm the ideal person to do that.


You must have been well fortified with Mexican food or maybe some excellent red beans and rice.

JediRaptor wrote:For those that think its shameful...I understand, I really do, but no one said you had to read the post.

No one said you had to post such either.

It reflects badly on the person who not only enjoys such, but encourages others so that they may share such experiences. It adds nothing to Dakka..

This thread is about relevant as if someone made a "How stupid is jediraptor?" thread.
The negative nature doesn't promote a sense of community...in a community.

Eldramesha wrote:I saw one of my opponents cry after he came back from getting a soda to find me trying to retrieve his Land Raider from snot nosed kid who ran up and grabbed it before I could stop him. The kid then proceeded to drop the land raider when he got nervous being as the original owner got back. The Land Raider busted into about 5 pieces. My opponent dropped his drink and rushed after the kid who ran out of the store. He then came back and started to pick up the pieces. I would have helped but I think he needed his pace. I offered to give him the win in deference to his misfortune and my inability to stop it. By then he was sobbing and let him be. We ended up calling the game a draw and arranging a rematch after he fixed his land raider.

That's a slightly different situation, really. I could see myself getting somewhat emotional if someone destroyed something I spent a long time building. Especially if it was my Malcador. Dunno why, but I have this mental image that it'd shatter like a porcelain doll if you dropped it from any height.

MOD
Moved to OTT. A little too off the beaten path, but feel free to continue there.

jfrazell wrote:

dr vompire wrote:
I let rip and wiped him out in two turns.

Your statement could be misinterpreted, and frankly, I'm the ideal person to do that.


You must have been well fortified with Mexican food or maybe some excellent red beans and rice.

you've clearly heard me before. sometimes i suprise myself.

I'm off to do a monumental poo

that'll bring a tear to my eye

All our eyes DV, all our eyes

Wow....there are some people who really dont get it...its not abut superiority or intimidation. Its about telling stories of a game we love, and how some people...like the cretins and such that take it too seriously get theirs...because in my experience, the ones that get worked up enough to cry are the ones that have made the game no fun in the first place.


As for the 'how stupid is jediraptor' thread....

that would be awesome...like a new idioitic chuck norris!!!


and whatsyourame...you know I had those two biga** sicillian men come over. but you know they didn't make you post...just asked "polietly"

Well, jediRaptor, I do have a story about a grown man crying over a game, but it's not 40k...

When Magic was the rage locally, we had a guy I knew from high school win one of the major tournaments in Las Vegas and return home to gloat and begin a reign of terror in the FLGS's. He bragged on a regular basis that his black mana deck had made it to finals in the national competition.

I had never played Magic, but knew the basics. I played a few of the guys at the FLGS and watched TFG to observe his tactics. A few borrowed cards here and there, nothing extremely rare or overly powerful, bolstered my fairly solid blue-white combo.

The day came to topple the tyrant from his lofty throne. I sat down near him and after a while he began the usual speil of verbal abuse and challenge: "You never play me cause you're scared. You don't want to play me cause I'll send you packing, my deck is killer, never been beat by anyone here!" yadda yadda... I accepted his challenge and soundly thrashed him without losing more than a life point or two.

And continued to do so: he couldn't stand the fact that he lost, said that it was beginner's luck, and demanded that we play again. And again. And again. Each time we played, he became more and more introspective - trying to figure out how this no-name player deflected his attacks, spoiled his tactics, and stayed alive while beating everything he had. By the fourth game, he had the sniffles with glassy eyes, packed his cards and left abruptly.

The next time I saw him, he was a changed player: while still a bit blustery (his normal personality) he no longer gloated or beat down his opponents. He became more interested in other player's tactics than his own and was a better player for it.

Well. I have never actually made someone cry.

BUT.

At adepticon 2008. I was playing my last game my tau vs. a space wolf players with loads of wolves. In turn, two he got lots of wolves into CC with my gun line (bad news for my tau). However, what he did not know was that apparently my tau had spent years in CC training. it took a while but I fended off something like 20 wolves (seams more like 100) in CC with losing around 6 fire warriors, 12 gue la's some crisis suit shield drones, and one crisis suit.

About this time, his buds came up and started laughing at him because his CC units got beat by Tau.

He was perfectly fine, he still had a lot of stuff that kept me cornered and the game was still up in the air.
This game was easily the most enjoyable game I had at a-con 08.

Then his friends started talking about some guy that lost (BIG lose. Like all his stuff was killed, and almost nothing from the other guy died) and went to a corner and started to cry.
I almost felt bad for him. What with breaking down and crying at a very large tourney like that.


Another time. At flatcon 2007 (I think 07, might have been 06)

A friend of mine beat some guy so bad he gave him a seizure or some such. And he had to be taken to the hospital.

Lol....Gav, that reminds me of the VERY last time I played the DBZ card game.

I had been living in one town, and was pretty much the big fish of the game. Everyone wanted to play me, and I didn't always win, but never was demolished. In this town, it was just sort of a test of a new deck to play my Trunks Black deck...(you see, this was a WHILE ago).

Well, eventually I moved away due to work, and hopped from city to city until I landed here.

Sooooo, I go to the local comic shop to see everyone playing magic, Lo5r, rings, masqurade, pokemon, yu-gi-oh, star trek, and even the old decipher star wars ccg. I asked the manager.."Doesn't anyone play DBZ?"

not really, not anymore. he replies.

hmmm, why not I wonder

Well needless to say I found out why after I asked around and found a game.

I lost in three turns to a colorless anger deck.

I think I sold my cards off the next week.

okay so here's the opposite end of the spectrum.

I've never cried a a tournament I'm not that lowly but here's what happened.

my gf that I had been with for 2 years had broken up with me and she had a date that night. I practically knew she was gong to say yes if he asked her out and i had become suicidal.


I really thought that day was the last day I'd ever play 40k again or be alive for that matter.. I was planning on killing myself when I got home that night.

now I lost all my games but I could care less, I always did. the only thing that struck me was when the organizer asked if i was okay I just nodded and picked up my composer and went on not really talking to anyone.

on a psychological stand point think about it. you pour your heart and soul into your army, you work for weeks maybe months to learn and build it. yes its unreasonable to cry but you have to realize not everyone has the same psychological experience you have even if they are an adult. I learned that lessen quit well when I was in the hospital.

if your playing a friendly game and your opponent starts to cry you ***ed up, if its a tournament leave it to the officials.

this falls under the 'don't kick their ass the first time they play' for some people you can't let them win and then slaughter them. not only do they know that you went soft on them to begin with but that they really do suck and all that time was wasted.

If that post doesn't kill this thread, nothing will.