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Melissia wrote:Okay, they should look aboriginal Brazilian.
Uh, why?
There are rainforests in Africa and Asia too, you know.
Given the level of medical technology available it'd be doubtful whether their skin colour would change at all in such a climate - if the variables that determine survival are things like how quick you can pull a trigger, how well you can make a shelter, skin colour won't really come into it.
Death worlds are environments with quite a bit of scarcity and in five thousand years traits like skin color will adjust to the environment whether there is medieval levels of medical tech or not.
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To be fair, I've seen a few catachans with dark skin. But In all honesty, I've never had a problem integrating with your typical WASP gamer, despite the rubbish music they often listen too. If anything IMO, GW workers have tended to bend over backwards more than often because of my background. I know somebody who works near Westminster who was hassled to appear in a political photo shoot, as a politician wanted a PR friendly multi-ethnic photo. so yeah, I can be strange sometimes.
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Other people can say it, you saying makes you sound like an ass. It's like when attractive people tell you how attractive they are, it's fine when other people say they are attractive but when they do themselves they are douchebags. Unrelatedly I'm gorgeous.
Also most "child prodigies" I've come into contact with tend to be kids trying to show off their epeen or the result of parents trying to show off theirs by proxy of their child.
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Corpsesarefun wrote:Other people can say it, you saying makes you sound like an ass. It's like when attractive people tell you how attractive they are, it's fine when other people say they are attractive but when they do themselves they are douchebags. Unrelatedly I'm gorgeous.
Also most "child prodigies" I've come into contact with tend to be kids trying to show off their epeen or the result of parents trying to show off theirs by proxy of their child.
Yep.
Most people who've claimed they're smart kids in front of me have managed to pull off a farce of some magnitude.
Anyway, off topic of me acting like a dick. On topic of the actual thread!
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BlapBlapBlap wrote:What sort of idiot quotes themselves in their sigs? Who could possibly be that arrogant?
At my store, I really can't think of a single non-white male Warhammer player. Flames of War has some white females, and the RPG groups have them as well. But as hard as I think about it, I cannot recall ever seeing non-whites playing any of the games. The area I live in has a pretty good racial mix-up so it is interesting.
Most of my gaming experience has happened at military locations around the world, and again there is a good racial/gender mix-up, but in all of that I only have one black male, and one white female that comes to mind for non-white male players.
I'm not a sociologist, so can't explain why, that's just my observations on make up.
For all we know you are a child prodigy at macaroni art, which has no bearing on the conversation. Of course even if you were a piano prodigy the same would be true. Being a prodigy doesn't mean a person mastered everything at a young age. If you feel the need to point out that you are a prodigy at least have the courtesy to also say what field.
I'm still betting on Macaroni Refrigerator Art.
The general area here has a good mixture of ethnicity but I can only think of one black guy I see at the store playing an RPG (Pathfinder), a few females spread out among Magic and RPGs, and about half and half male to female for some Werewolf game where everyone sits around in a circle and makes a lot of noise while others are trying to play. Flames of War and Warhammer is almost entirely white male. I can only think of one black male who used to play, but that was years ago.
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Ahtman wrote:For all we know you are a child prodigy at macaroni art, which has no bearing on the conversation. Of course even if you were a piano prodigy the same would be true. Being a prodigy doesn't mean a person mastered everything at a young age. If you feel the need to point out that you are a prodigy at least have the courtesy to also say what field.
I'm still betting on Macaroni Refrigerator Art.
I'm going with trolling, 5 to 1 odds, any takers?
On topic, I'd venture that 40k/WHFB simply has minimal appeal for women and non Western cultures. Women simply have less of an interest in war games than males typically do. I think the cost of 40k/WHFB and advertising/WoM has prevented from spreading outside of its current audience.
I'm in the minority in my community because I'm a half-orc who plays Hordes... most of the half-orcs here play 40k... the elves keep to themselves with yugioh and don't get me started on the halflings and their stupid Dreadfleet campaigns.
djphranq wrote:I'm in the minority in my community because I'm a half-orc who plays Hordes... most of the half-orcs here play 40k... the elves keep to themselves with yugioh and don't get me started on the halflings and their stupid Dreadfleet campaigns.
What the hell am I reading?
Corpsesarefun wrote:Nah he is just a socially inept kid, like most of the kids on this site.
Why so serious?
Spoiler:
In before someone brings up Vin Diesel as being a D&D player.
Corpsesarefun wrote:Nah he is just a socially inept kid, like most of the kids on this site.
I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that the name calling and emotional personalization in this thread is a distinct sign of immaturity and that by using such terminology you are in fact painting yourself as a "kid" (whatever those are, brazilians probably).
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It's not a bad thing, just most folk in their early teens on dakka tend to be not too good with people and generally lacking confidence. Hell, the above adequately described me when I first joined.
Confidence and social skills normally improve quite rapidly as you get older though.
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