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2016/05/18 21:14:14
Subject: Re:What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Ancient Venerable Black Templar Dreadnought
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Hmmm... skills specifically playing 40k?
- Patience. 
- Wait till the other person looks like they are finished.
- How to partner with a person to get things done quickly (and have fun).
- Understand there are multiple ways to interpret what was written in a document.
- To understand any process, even something as simple as rolling dice has "bias" within it... it is just a matter of an acceptable level or not.
- Everyone has a different agenda on what they want to get out of a process.
- How to still function within messed-up rules handed down by a large organization. 
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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2016/05/18 21:47:51
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Stitch Counter
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If you can paint the eyes on an Ork, then you can pipette the nucleus out of an egg cell.
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 Thousand Sons: 3850pts /  Space Marines Deathwatch 5000pts /  Dark Eldar Webway Corsairs 2000pts /  Scrapheap Challenged Orks 1500pts /  Black Death 1500pts
Saga: (Vikings, Normans, Anglo Danes, Irish, Scots, Late Romans, Huns and Anglo Saxons), Lion Rampant, Ronin: (Bushi x2, Sohei), Frostgrave: (Enchanter, Thaumaturge, Illusionist)
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2016/05/19 01:14:18
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Mekboy Hammerin' Somethin'
Kapuskasing, ON
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I've tried to get the pics on my phone in thus post but it's not happening. I can paint the eyes on a helmed ork. I can even fix it up if I ooops'd.
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2016/05/19 10:32:17
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Junior Officer with Laspistol
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Quick maths.
Dealing with people I don't like.
A little manual dexterity.
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Star Trek taught me so much. Like, how you should accept people, whether they be black, white, Klingon or even female...
FAQs |
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2016/05/19 12:05:53
Subject: Re:What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Frenzied Berserker Terminator
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 Talizvar wrote:
- How to still function within messed-up rules handed down by a large organization.
Yeah, that!
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2016/05/19 13:51:56
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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How to rage quit. I have a mastery level in "Table Flipping" skill.
"Well. I guess the meeting is officially over."
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2016/05/19 14:08:57
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Sculpting. Lasercutting, moldmaking and casting stuff.
Sadly they all are completely useless in my professional life.
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Inactive, user. New profile might pop up in a while |
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2016/05/19 14:58:52
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Rogue Daemonhunter fueled by Chaos
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malamis wrote: 4. A calm demeanour in the face of hostility and/or mental illness (sadly)
40k, or even gaming, isn't the only place I've learned how to relate/work with some defective personalities, but it's definitely got it's fair share. 
40k brought me to Dakka, which is one of the first places that I really understood that how my message is received is more important than how I intended to send it. Meaning, I learned to focus less on what I meant, and more on how to reach my audience.
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2016/05/19 19:28:26
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Slaanesh Chosen Marine Riding a Fiend
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How to stay calm in front of both adversity and morons.
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Please note, for those of you who play Chaos Daemons as a faction the term "Daemon" is potentially offensive. Instead, please play codex "Chaos: Mortally Challenged". Thank you. |
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2016/05/19 20:31:03
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Terrifying Doombull
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That the world is populated by fools, and to never expect good things to happen
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2016/05/20 03:12:28
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
Seattle
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That hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
That there are no answers, only death.
That knowledge is power, so guard it well.
That zeal is its own excuse.
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It is best to be a pessimist. You are usually right and, when you're wrong, you're pleasantly surprised. |
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2016/05/20 03:18:25
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Crushing Black Templar Crusader Pilot
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I rediscovered the merits of rote learning.
It's weird that it was 40K that retaught me this rather than my Maths Degree, but you'd be surprised how little opportunity there is for rote learning, especially if your lecturers and/or tutors are lazy haha
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2016/05/20 03:20:28
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Ultramarine Master with Gauntlets of Macragge
What's left of Cadia
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I learned how to be patient from engaging in the psychic phase with Eldar.
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TheEyeOfNight- I swear, this thread is 70% smack talk, 20% RP organization, and 10% butt jokes
TheEyeOfNight- "Ordo Xenos reports that the Necrons have attained democracy, kamikaze tendencies, and nuclear fission. It's all tits up, sir."
Space Marine flyers are shaped for the greatest possible air resistance so that the air may never defeat the SPACE MARINES!
Sternguard though, those guys are all about kicking ass. They'd chew bubble gum as well, but bubble gum is heretical. Only tau chew gum
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2016/05/20 03:24:06
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Crushing Black Templar Crusader Pilot
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 War Kitten wrote:I learned how to be patient from engaging in the psychic phase with Eldar.
Work around: "What are you targeting?" < Eldar Player Points to a Unit > "OK, well that's dead." haha
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2016/05/20 03:47:32
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Ultramarine Master with Gauntlets of Macragge
What's left of Cadia
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 IllumiNini wrote: War Kitten wrote:I learned how to be patient from engaging in the psychic phase with Eldar.
Work around: "What are you targeting?" < Eldar Player Points to a Unit > "OK, well that's dead." haha
Honestly? I could have walked off, made myself a sandwich and eaten it, and when I got back he would have still been rolling for his powers. It took him like 15 minutes to get through all of the buffs/debuffs that he wanted to cast.
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TheEyeOfNight- I swear, this thread is 70% smack talk, 20% RP organization, and 10% butt jokes
TheEyeOfNight- "Ordo Xenos reports that the Necrons have attained democracy, kamikaze tendencies, and nuclear fission. It's all tits up, sir."
Space Marine flyers are shaped for the greatest possible air resistance so that the air may never defeat the SPACE MARINES!
Sternguard though, those guys are all about kicking ass. They'd chew bubble gum as well, but bubble gum is heretical. Only tau chew gum
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2016/05/20 03:55:25
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Crushing Black Templar Crusader Pilot
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War Kitten wrote: IllumiNini wrote: War Kitten wrote:I learned how to be patient from engaging in the psychic phase with Eldar.
Work around: "What are you targeting?" < Eldar Player Points to a Unit > "OK, well that's dead." haha
Honestly? I could have walked off, made myself a sandwich and eaten it, and when I got back he would have still been rolling for his powers. It took him like 15 minutes to get through all of the buffs/debuffs that he wanted to cast.
Wow... that's definitely patience on your part! haha
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2016/05/20 04:00:06
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Ultramarine Master with Gauntlets of Macragge
What's left of Cadia
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IllumiNini wrote: War Kitten wrote: IllumiNini wrote: War Kitten wrote:I learned how to be patient from engaging in the psychic phase with Eldar.
Work around: "What are you targeting?" < Eldar Player Points to a Unit > "OK, well that's dead." haha
Honestly? I could have walked off, made myself a sandwich and eaten it, and when I got back he would have still been rolling for his powers. It took him like 15 minutes to get through all of the buffs/debuffs that he wanted to cast.
Wow... that's definitely patience on your part! haha
Indeed. It wasn't as bad as the shooting phase with my friend's Tau but it was pretty fething close. 40k is great for learning that patience is a virtue.
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TheEyeOfNight- I swear, this thread is 70% smack talk, 20% RP organization, and 10% butt jokes
TheEyeOfNight- "Ordo Xenos reports that the Necrons have attained democracy, kamikaze tendencies, and nuclear fission. It's all tits up, sir."
Space Marine flyers are shaped for the greatest possible air resistance so that the air may never defeat the SPACE MARINES!
Sternguard though, those guys are all about kicking ass. They'd chew bubble gum as well, but bubble gum is heretical. Only tau chew gum
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2016/05/20 11:46:15
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Regular Dakkanaut
UK
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I know how to deep strike in team meetings and also how to outflank my managers.
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2016/05/20 13:30:58
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Librarian with Freaky Familiar
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Never trust space elves
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To many unpainted models to count. |
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2016/05/20 13:41:38
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Committed Chaos Cult Marine
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 MrMoustaffa wrote: I can also eyeball similar distances at work, and people tend to get very annoyed when I'll bluntly say "that's not going to fit" and I'm right by about half an inch 
Dirty man.
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2016/05/21 06:26:19
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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The Last Chancer Who Survived
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 ChazSexington wrote: MrMoustaffa wrote: I can also eyeball similar distances at work, and people tend to get very annoyed when I'll bluntly say "that's not going to fit" and I'm right by about half an inch
Dirty man.
Girth is not a joke.
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2016/05/23 01:26:16
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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War Walker Pilot with Withering Fire
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This might sound dumb, but being honest about faults - acknowledging that my unit wasn't jinking because I forgot to declare it, admitting I got rules wrong even though nobody called me on it.
It's served me well so far.
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2016/05/23 17:36:07
Subject: Re:What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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How to be a better sport
Learning that I am wrong sometimes and that winning a game of toy soldiers isn't an extension of your manhood.
How to deal with extremely difficult people.
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Square Bases for Life!
AoS is pure garbage
Kill Primaris, Kill the Primarchs. They don't belong in 40K
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2016/05/24 01:43:03
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Always stand near the board edge when the big guns start firing.
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2016/05/24 17:16:28
Subject: What skill did you learn playing 40k that you use in the workplace?
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The Last Chancer Who Survived
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How do you apply that at work?
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