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@Lorek - Bait? What Bait? You've lost me, I'm afraid.

To be honest, I'm not interested in anyone else's 'hobby' - I paint and collect my miniatures, build my terrain and generally play the game the way I want. Doesn't everybody?

We all spend our money, and put time and effort into our armies/game systems - we shouldn't subscribe to anyone's concept of the hobby but our own. Doesn't mean you can't play people who don't subscribe to your own philosophy - just that the 'baggage' that other players bring to the table doesn't even remotely interest me. It's a game - let's play!

avantgarde wrote:Can we just go back to making fun of casual gamers?

or you could, you know, go back to 4chan and stay there.


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on topic: I only have "My Hobby". I don't really care about anyone elses hobby, or whatever. Yeah, I'm like that. I barely play, I go to the local GW store to paint basically because it is my excuse to get out of the house on my days off and not spend 15 hours on World of Warcraft Monday thru Thursday.

My hobby is bitch slapping GW. Is that anyone else's?

For me hobby = fun and relaxation. If it's not then, then it's work.

For me my hobby is the 40k universe, i collect relictors cos of the fluff, i paint, but ain't a golden deamon painter, i convert but ain't amazing at it and i have started to play more, to me 40k is a hobby, just like posting on dakka dakka, i can't understand people that get obsesed by winning, losing the fun of the game, but thats their hobby

Hi all.
Perhaps if we define our own hobbies with more clarity, we can converse in a more defined way?

I agree the term ' the GW hobby' is just a mis nomer for 'please buy GW products exclusivley'.

40k competative gamer is a hobiest, a narrative driven artist that likes to convert and paint 40k minatures is also a hobbiest.
However thier views on what is important to them will be quite different.

Perhaps GW plc is to blame for trying to tell people what thier hobby should be ?(..the GW hobby...)
And the inferance that GW products are all there is to the table top minature gaming hobby, doesnt help much IMO.

If exposed to the wider range of products available the hobbiests would spread out in to more focused groups perhaps?
If we look at the dispersion of NON GW gamers ,(approx 2.5 million, ) they are divided in to much smaller more focused groups than the GW customers .

If the choice is 12,000appx different games ,suported by 2,000appx companies , (world wide), then the hobbiests can find somthing VERY close to thier ideal .

Rather than 400,000appx GW customers (world wide) shoehorned into 3 core game and one set of minatures, which means 'GW indoctrinated hobbiests' compromising 'ideal' for 'get by with'.

TTFN
lanrak.

I play for fun. I've only been in one tournament and the rule's nazis and etc drove me farther from sanity.

I don't lie I love to see lots of thing's go boom, even if their mine.

Is this the new painting thread?

I don't like this idea :(. It reminds me of Buster Olney on ESPN talking about "The Game" (referring to baseball... and always with a capital "G"). It's just "a game"... for us all to enjoy however we like... not something for its own sake...

Gornall wrote:Is this the new painting thread?

This one was spawned off of it soon after its beginning.