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Shaman wrote:I use to call them space puppies cause it makes em sound wimpy.. And leman russ fanboys are the worst of all primarch fanboys on the internet.

No, the Dark Angels ones are! -Pouts-

Shaman wrote:

Gwar! wrote:

TheBog wrote:I'd bet that the people who spend a ton of time on the internet are some of the better educated folks out there.

Also true. I have learnt more from Wikipedia (oh great infallible bastion of mankind's knowledge that it is) than I ever learnt from 13 years of school

didn't you learn to read at the school under the bridge (your avatar contains a troll no?)

I use to call them space puppies cause it makes em sound wimpy.. And leman russ fanboys are the worst of all primarch fanboys on the internet.

Funny, I call them Space Puppies as a term of endearment.

I assume by "worst" you mean "the most intelligent, awesome, best painters and strategic thinkers in this entire hobby"

thanks for the compliment.

I like the "Space Puppies" thing, for sounds cute.

And what's more cute than a pack of 15 Blood Claws running towars you wanting to tear you in pieces in the name of the Allfather?

Dark wrote:I like the "Space Puppies" thing, for sounds cute.

And what's more cute than a pack of 15 Blood Claws running towars you wanting to tear you in pieces in the name of the Allfather?

A Pack of 15 Blood Claws in a Land Raider Crusader with a Wolf Priest

The Emperor forbid it! That so cute and sweet that might give me diabetes.

We just strait insult one anothers armies at my table. You would hate playing at my place. If hearing people call your Space Wolves puppehz or however the kids spell crap these days. Youd want to murder yourself after my assault phase. I get personal.



GWAR - its nice to see your old avatar back. The other one confused me

I don't mind insults. Trash talk can be a fun part of the game as a whole, and is not what concerns me. If you sit across the table discussing how you're about to break your big choppas into the posterior end of my rampantly homosexual puppies, then I'll just laugh and wonder what their war boss has been teaching them. Green must be the new pink, and all that.

Talking about any army, whether it is the Space Wolves or other, in phonetically spelled gibberish or other alternative is a mild irritant. Very mild. I don't see it, and feel like stabbing my eyes out. My ears don't bleed when I hear it. I don't feel like taking a swing at the writer/speaker. It does give me pause. I do think, 'That's how you choose communicate with the world around you?'.

The bigger point for me, is that last question.

There are those that use such ways of talking/writing as a way of having fun. Some people are far better at it than others. If you have to tell me it was a joke, it can't have been a very good one. Not to say that there haven't been a few that made me chuckle. As is the case with any form of humor with an easy meme, (e.g. - "You know you're a [insert stereotype here] when...) it gets used by people that don't have the capability to use it in the same interesting ways as the initial user.

There are then those that use it as a term of endearment. If you take someone like Gwar! whose Dakka rank shows where his allegiances lie, then it's easy to see this. However, when you see something like "Guess it's time to give the puppies a try", I tend to think of the guy at the diner hitting a little too hard on the not interested waitress.

The last are the ones that intrigue me, those that just talk that way. Their reasoning summed as being that's the way they roll. By drawing in breath, they cannot help but to type SPESSS PUPPPEHYXZ. Just by playing this game, we set ourselves a little bit outside of mainstream society. Do they set themselves even further out by not being able to talk to 'regular' people in a shared communication system? Or, can they choose not to?

Much like the seeing a guy at a convention with multiple facial tattoos and piercings, what do they do to get by? Where do they work? Do they have trouble getting housing? (Which might go a way in explaining the parent's basement stereotype.)

There are probably others that I'm missing, or that will not fit into the criteria of those that give me the most pause.

Once again, if I'm at a tourney and my opponent tells me that he's about to spay my pups, I'll do my best to have some Grey Hunters put that kind of talk to an end. Whether I win or lose, I will shake the hand of my opponent, and commiserate about bad die rolls. I will not be heading off to cry because someone referred to my Space Wolves as pups as a means of insult. Nor will I be taking the trash talk personally. I'll be happy that I played some 40K.

Not to mention crying at trash talk is about as un-Space Wolfy as you can get. Next you'll be drinking milk and doing needlepoint.

The troll (pic) is back

Armandloft wrote:Pick up Beowulf and read it. Or, just go watch the movie....

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (wait, which movie?)

More seriously though, I mostly agree with you, but sometimes it's fun to say things as a joke (but not ALL THE TIME)

This thread confuses me.

Armandloft wrote:I'll admit, I'm a bit of a grammar stickler. I abhor text speech, and view it as a sign that the human race may be moving itself into the "not worth saving" category. When my favorite army, the Space Wolves, becomes a subject for some of the most horrendous misuses of English words and language, it makes me even more disappointed with my fellow gamers.

Primarily, I do not field puppies, or, for that matter, PUPPPEHHHS. My opponents face my Space Wolves. Sometimes, I refer to my Blood Claws as pups, more as a term of encouragement to get them to shoot a little more accurately. However, my Long Fangs, Wolf Guard, and Grey Hunters are definitely not pups.

Secondly, though the term can be used for the other Astartes, I don't think that SSSPEEEEEHSSS (or any other form of rolling your face/appendage across the keyboard spelling) can be applied unless the little flag beside your avatar shows a country where English is an unnecessary language.

Let's be honest here, Space Wolves are Vikings in space. As such, it's easy to just look at the image of mead-swilling berserkers and miss that they had more culture than just drinking and pillaging. Pick up Beowulf and read it. Or, just go watch the movie... Read the Sagas. These were a people that were able to put a story together, and use grammatical rules.

To talk in such ways about the space-faring, spiritual descendants of such people does a disservice to their history and to the current, real world users of the English language. Do yourselves proud.

Now, I have to go, for I think I hear the rumbling engines of Hellhounds and Chimeras bearing veteran flamer units.

These grammatically incorrect terms are used as terms of hatred. People get sick of always having to play against marines and get tired of relentless GW support of marines as opposed to other factions. Spehss puppehs deserve even more hate. I like to call them space woofs because it feels more degrading. They wear power armor and ride giant wolves. They act like dwarves from crappy fantasy pulp and have no personality whatsoever beside the dwarf stereotype which is highly uninteresting. They have rune priests that ruin a lot of games by making low initiative monstrous creatures worthless, and on top of all this their colour scheme is the ugliest scheme i've seen. I don't think space puppies is derrogatory enough. Maybe I should start calling them space poops.

Aduro wrote:Except Necrons. People haven't really made up a mocking nickname for them because face it, playing Necrons is punishment enough.

Toaster heads and Cyclon trash quickly come to mind.

Yarr, dis tred be spekin' da troof uv da mattuh. Te' spess puppuhs mus' be respecced.

I like turtles

I tried to give a crap. I failed.

Well, how about Space Marines?
They are tin cans for Eldar kin players.