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Who are some weirdos that come or have seen at your local gaming store?

I once saw a furry come in with his girl friend to check out the models at the local gamesworkshop(of which I hate like the plague); the fact that he was furry didn't make him weird(there are 2 furries at my local friendly non GW gaming store but they keep all of their stuff to themselves) but for the fact that he wore a tail in public did(he was also one of those prepi kids that spoke with some sort of surfer accent though he dressed like a hipster without the hipsterness)

See anyone similar?

I predict much entertainment value in this thread's future.

coolyo294 wrote:I predict much entertainment value in this thread's future.

Likewise. Waiting with pleased anticipation.

We had the fat guy with the ponytail and the same Dream Theater shirt every weekend that talked the most gak of anyone I've ever seen and to this day has still not played a game while I'm there.

@ OP: And no, I have not seen anyone that would resemble said preppy, hipsterless hipster surfer furry. But I will keep an eye out.

There's a fat guy that comes to our store at gaming night, but doesn't actually play. He just takes up space, plays WoW, and laughs loudly.

There's a small cult of folks in the local gaming community around here who wear tails. We've got smellies and fatties and mouthbreathers, just like any other place I suppose. But what makes us unique is the nasty hippies.

The Rainbow Gathering takes place around here. It's a big party of travelling hippies. They all get together outside of town and hang out doing drugs and having wanton sex, all while refusing to bathe and engaging in whatever manner of deviant behavior tickles their fancy. Crime rates spike for a while, and a lot of shops start closing early. For some reason, they frequently swing through our game store. They never buy anything, just come in with dyed pink ponytails coming off their temples and a half a dozen weird piercings, hang out for a bit, stink up the place, and then leave.

We also have to deal with a sudden influx of juggalos shortly thereafter for Cavefest, and they're far worse, but at least they don't come to the game shop.

Hmmmm idk miniwargaming dave is definatley weird .. but in a good way

there once was a guy that was so fat and smelled so bad it was rediculous, im not sure why those guys were his friend, they must have known him before he turned into a life sized michelin man. He broke SEVERAL chairs, and the owner of the store had to buy fabreeze to un stink the store, the guy once went into the bathroom and broke the toilet by sitting on it. Not too long following these events he was banned from the store.

With that said we also have this really slow guy that acts like he got hit REALLY hard in the head at some point in his life, he has peters stroke face from family guy and is all around loud and annoying, but at least he doesnt smell like gak and is actually a pretty nice guy.

I think I'm considerd a bit of an oddity, but thats because i'm "..that bloke who plays Epic and BFG..."

Phhht...wait till I start Warmaster too...

I've seen a couple of kids (I use that term in reference to maturity, not age) dressed in full on black metal get up. Facepaint, spikes, bullet belts, the whole deal. Don't get me wroing, I like black metal, but the look is quite comical.

And on the polar opposite, as the GW I play in is in a mall, we get the evangalists in every so often. Preaching we're playing with a tool of the Devil, and we'll all burn in Hell and the like. We usually just shout 'Blood for the Blood God!'...get them moving away pretty quickly...

There's an Old Game at my Good Games he has 1 Wooden leg, 2 hooks for hands and he plays Iron Hands.

At my local GW there is the Cyber goth with his mowhawk and he plays necrons. He calls them his "little cyborgs".

Once I saw a girl with cat ears on...

First time I went to a hobby store near my town they had a 40k tournament, after about 5 mins their, I had to leave because of all the weirdness in their, one guy was HUGE and wore jean shorts while wearing a nascar cap, another guy had weird piercings all over his face and acted like a the biggest hipster wanna' be on the planet, another guy was dressed from head to toe in black punk clothing with chains and the like, and the whole place smelled like B.O. and rotten cheese......I found a different FLGS shortly after.......

*Shrugs* I AM one of the weirder people at my FLGS. I mean posing some of my Blood Letters as dancing and then singing whenever they move/attack something doesn't help.

Having a very poor sense of smell, I'm immune to all but *food left in refrigerator for a month* smell and really bad farts.

I don't hang around the two FLGS's on the island (that one in to the east in the atlantic) all too much and so all I've seen is the typical lack of social skills. But the weird thing would be the owner of one that is the spitting image of the stereotype of his customers. Rather funny right up to the point social skills become involved.

I once saw a store full of entirely normal people!!!!11111oneoneonepisquared.

guyperson5 wrote:Once I saw a girl with cat ears on...

You say this like that's strange or not cute.

I was playing a game with a buddy of mine at my FLGS one day. His girlfriend wanted to see what all this Warhammer stuff was about, so she came along too despite me telling her that it's really not fun to watch, it's just guys pushing plastic and rolling dice, but she insisted. So we go in there and there is the dictionary definition of a nerd there. He's just this gangly, awkward teenager who talks with a lot of awkward pauses and mouthbreathing. He wants to play 40k, so I let him watch us play - after all, just because the guy looks funny and is a bit odd doesn't mean he's not a nice guy. Well, as we start playing, I explain things to him very clearly. Like "Okay, this missile just hit my rhino and it exploded, so I'm taking it off the field." at which point he asks me why I'm taking models off the field. So we play for a bit longer and he's basically second guessing everything I say about the game even though I'm trying to more or less give him a runthrough of the rules. Late in the game, out of the blue, he asks me if I know how to check if somebody's been arrested. I look quizzically at him and ask him why. He sort of proudly says a friend of his is robbing a place today and wanted to know if he got away with it. This entire time, the manager at my FLGS had his really weird friend over who has no volume control and talks a lot about his mother. A LOT. Normally I exchange contact info with interested Warhammer folks at the end of the game, but this time I didn't. I profusely apologized to my buddy's girlfriend for witnessing such an uncomfortable day in the game store.

What I find kind of odd at my FLGS is; That it seems that most of the pen&paper RP guys, look like redneck/country boys. I find it really odd. They don't look like the nerdy 40k crowd at all.

I am sure this exact same thread came up about a year ago, not saying its the same OP, but I clearly remember a thread about a furry with a tail in a GW/LFG being moaned about a good while ago.

Odd.

guyperson5 wrote:Once I saw a girl with cat ears on...

Not weird
That is cute


It is sounding like a bunch of teenage girls in a High School drama.
It's like this guy, he's like so gross
Wants to hang with us way cool popular kids. ewww.

So what if some folks dress differently.
If you are all so normal why are you spending time playing toy soldiers?
We are the nerdy kids

As the old saying goes. there is nowt as queer as folk.

I think there comes a point where even we can tease folks.

Like when people wear tails or cat ears to the mall and it's not Halloween.

Kanluwen wrote:I think there comes a point where even we can tease folks.

Like when people wear tails or cat ears

Wow
Revenge of the Nerds
It's gonna get ugly on the mall

Aren't we all the "weird ones" who hang out at a FLGS, just on different levels? I mean come on... We play fantasy toy soldiers. I'm 38 years old...

Isn't anyone at a GW store a wierdo? Seriously, I mean-

Ecurb The Mighty wrote:we get the evangalists in every so often. Preaching we're playing with a tool of the Devil, and we'll all burn in Hell and the like.

I take that back. Why the feth would anyone say that plastic models are Satanic? I admit to saying Hail Satan every so often, and there are model daemons, but...what?

I have a hobby shop in Texarkana, about an hour away, that I visit on an inconsistent basis. We have a terrific collection of guys there. That's a serious comment. They're all pretty normal. Sure, they get into arguments over rules, and can break out into quotes from 40k fiction novels with the best of them, but they bathe, use deoderant, and can carry on a conversation about things outside of comic books.

Then, we have another fella. He's what you might call a geek. He has massive, coke-bottle glasses, a mohawk that brings his height up about a foot that's dyed in two different colors, and a squeaky voice. He addresses us by 40k-based code names, has never given us his real name (he calls himself "The Unkown.") and he believes firmly in extraterrestrials and will not only tell this fact to everyone in sight, but will actually yell at people who disagree. He's been kicked out twice that I've seen. Oh, and he prays to the Blood Gods before rolling his dice, eating, and deciding what to buy. I'm not even joking. I typically avoid the store if he's in, simply because he makes me so uncomfortable.

That's the weirdo at my gaming store

he believes firmly in extraterrestrials and will not only tell this fact to everyone in sight, but will actually yell at people who disagree

Class!

All part of life's tapestry.
Sometimes there just happens to be a bit more warp than weft!

^ Lol, ain't that the truth

I laughed my ass off but I dont get what is the problem with guys looking diffrent from the stereotype? What is the problem with a pony tail on a man's head? Some guys look better that way. A lot of cool and manly men like the vikings and the huns had long hairs/pony tails. I find the long hair very unpractical in combat but if you are not a fighter/warrior/soldier/sportist I dont think it is going to be a problem having it. Also I dont get you americans when somebody smells go tell him "Dude you smell! Go take a bath!". If you gossip about that behind their backs well that makes you worse than them. What is better being an unmanly "man" or a smelly guy?