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Agamemnon2 wrote:

Ketara wrote:Probably something to do with the fact that kids tend to be less intelligent, immature, more prone to emotional outbursts at games, and generally less fun to play with then someone of the age of about 17+.

Aptly put. And really, what else can you expect? They're kids. Works in progress. Unfinished merchandise. Rough drafts.

A rough Diamond is still a Diamond. In Time with work it can be crafted into something worthwhile.
Coal on the other hand will never be anything but a Lump of Fuel.

90% of Kids who play 40k are Coal, not Diamonds.

I call BS. Just from random games at the GW store, I'd say the number of dumb kids I've had to deal with is pretty much on par with the number of dumb adults.

A rough Diamond is still a Diamond. In Time with work it can be crafted into something worthwhile.
Coal on the other hand will never be anything but a Lump of Fuel.

90% of Adults who play 40k are Coal, not Diamonds.

Agamemnon2 wrote:

Ketara wrote:Probably something to do with the fact that kids tend to be less intelligent, immature, more prone to emotional outbursts at games, and generally less fun to play with then someone of the age of about 17+.

Aptly put. And really, what else can you expect? They're kids. Works in progress. Unfinished merchandise. Rough drafts.

Except, "kids" shouldn't then be defined as <17.

It should be defined as 13 to 30 or thereabouts, because that's the age at which "kids" are most annoying.

Cannerus_The_Unbearable wrote:The first gaming/comic store I started going to when I was 10 always kinda smelled "funny" (like drugs, as I would later learn). They had a microwave set up, and from time to time you'd see dirty clothes back by the office door. The walls of the bathroom were covered in posters of half-naked female superhero-type people, and there were comic boxes labeled "Do not look in this box if you are not 18" in sharpie. Regardless, I went to this place to play Pokemon when it first appeared. I loved playing in the tournaments though some of the older guys were really mean, and I would see the TO taking money from them and them telling him who they wanted to play. Not to mention he would sometimes compete in the tournaments he was judging, which was always a no-no. After I stopped going there the shop closed down, and he and the owners got arrested for having kiddy porn. The thought of the place always creeps me out now. I never understood why my dad would insist on staying with me at the tournaments then.

And this, gentlemen, is why in the thread about opening a new game store, there have been so many warnings against letting the place become a nerd-cave. The worst of the worst thrive in the darkness without the rest of the social spectrum to keep them in line.

My awkward moments

1) Losing to a 13 year old. Mind you, he didn't have his codex or rule books and the TO didn't have the dex available at the time.
2) Slaughtering a young player's 1750 point Eldar army, while only losing 3 tactical marines and a bike.
3) Constantly explaining to the MtG players that i don't really play it, just every now and again when i can't get a game of 40k or WHFB.
4) Taking my (now ex) GF up to my LGS (She played MtG) and having her hit on by all the 13 to 16 year olds

Freaky Freddy wrote:My awkward moments

1) Losing to a 13 year old. Mind you, he didn't have his codex or rule books and the TO didn't have the dex available at the time.
2) Slaughtering a young player's 1750 point Eldar army, while only losing 3 tactical marines and a bike.
3) Constantly explaining to the MtG players that i don't really play it, just every now and again when i can't get a game of 40k or WHFB.
4) Taking my (now ex) GF up to my LGS (She played MtG) and having her hit on by all the 13 to 16 year olds

4) I have had something similar happen with my girlfriend. When she dresses like a lady, and wears her glasses, she looks like someone in her mid-twenties, while when wearing her normal attire (t-shirt, jeans) and her contacts, she has been hit on by 13 year olds...

At which of course, I go into a jealous rage, and tell the 13 year old to stay away from my women or suffer my wrath!!!
Actually, it just gives me a good excuse to poke fun at her for a couple of days...

I was playing with my Tau against a Kroot Mercs player, Objective mission, he controlled 1 objective, I controlled 1, and 1 was uncontested, with a team of my fire warriors a single turn's run away from it, so i felt pretty confident in my victory. There is a piece of high, LOS blocking terrain between him and the uncontested objective.

Turn 6 rolls around, and he announced a difficult terrain test, rolls a 6, measures, and puts his squad on the other side of the building, taking the objective.

I contested that he couldn't do that, as the terrain was obviously impassable, and his gigantic models could never fit through the tiny decorative doors and windows (it wasn't official GW terrain)
We got into kind of an argument about it before he just packed up his army (well, the 2 remaining squads of it) and left, saying "if you're gunna be such a bitch about it i'll just leave"

Che-Vito wrote:

Freaky Freddy wrote:My awkward moments

1) Losing to a 13 year old. Mind you, he didn't have his codex or rule books and the TO didn't have the dex available at the time.
2) Slaughtering a young player's 1750 point Eldar army, while only losing 3 tactical marines and a bike.
3) Constantly explaining to the MtG players that i don't really play it, just every now and again when i can't get a game of 40k or WHFB.
4) Taking my (now ex) GF up to my LGS (She played MtG) and having her hit on by all the 13 to 16 year olds

4) I have had something similar happen with my girlfriend. When she dresses like a lady, and wears her glasses, she looks like someone in her mid-twenties, while when wearing her normal attire (t-shirt, jeans) and her contacts, she has been hit on by 13 year olds...

At which of course, I go into a jealous rage, and tell the 13 year old to stay away from my women or suffer my wrath!!!
Actually, it just gives me a good excuse to poke fun at her for a couple of days...

Hmmm......I don't know how I can even get my girlfriend near a GW

Cryonicleech wrote:

Che-Vito wrote:

Freaky Freddy wrote:My awkward moments

1) Losing to a 13 year old. Mind you, he didn't have his codex or rule books and the TO didn't have the dex available at the time.
2) Slaughtering a young player's 1750 point Eldar army, while only losing 3 tactical marines and a bike.
3) Constantly explaining to the MtG players that i don't really play it, just every now and again when i can't get a game of 40k or WHFB.
4) Taking my (now ex) GF up to my LGS (She played MtG) and having her hit on by all the 13 to 16 year olds

4) I have had something similar happen with my girlfriend. When she dresses like a lady, and wears her glasses, she looks like someone in her mid-twenties, while when wearing her normal attire (t-shirt, jeans) and her contacts, she has been hit on by 13 year olds...

At which of course, I go into a jealous rage, and tell the 13 year old to stay away from my women or suffer my wrath!!!
Actually, it just gives me a good excuse to poke fun at her for a couple of days...

Hmmm......I don't know how I can even get my girlfriend near a GW

call me a lucky bastard, and call it a day my friend. she loves painting 40K minis, d20 and Gurps roleplaying games, Star Wars, you name it.

There's this guy at my FLGS. Amazing guy, fun to play and be around, and just got elected president of our gaming club. He has HORRIBLE luck with his dice. It's always kinda hard to watch, because if something can go wrong, it WILL. I've watched him fire a vindicator at a huge cluster of genestealers, and it scatter the only possible way to miss them all. His lord has probably killed itself with it's plasma pistol more than any enemies have killed it.

Not to say he can't win, his dice just hate him.

Saw a guy walking around the store barefoot today. Strikes me as a bit awkward.

Sidstyler wrote:Saw a guy walking around the store barefoot today. Strikes me as a bit awkward.

You say unsanitary, I say "free spirit"...

Che-Vito wrote:

Sidstyler wrote:Saw a guy walking around the store barefoot today. Strikes me as a bit awkward.

You say unsanitary, I say "free spirit"...

It was you, wasn't it?

MinMax wrote:

Che-Vito wrote:

Sidstyler wrote:Saw a guy walking around the store barefoot today. Strikes me as a bit awkward.

You say unsanitary, I say "free spirit"...

It was you, wasn't it?

No, I go barefoot most places (I travel/hitchhike a LOT), but not into stores...mainly for the comfort of others...
but man do I wish I lived in Canada...

Two guys got in a fight over FNP and a squad of Chaos Marines.

One guy said since his gun was AP 3 it didn't allow his armor so he got no FNP. The other guy retorted that this only applies to CC weapons and suitably insulted him. A fight then broke out and both had bruises. Both were brought outside and were told to finish their game on the sidewalk if they wanted to play.

Damn.

I get more of the kind of thing where guys get bored if they start losing and end the game there and then.

So I played a game last night against a guy that I generally dread playing, but I needed to test a list so I was willing to play anybody. Guard on guard action so I figured it was just going to be shooting fest, but spends the game running into the barrels of my guns. We are setting up terrain and he is a stickler for 5 pieces (I have no idea why). Not a big deal, but when I suggested another piece he gives me this look like I asked him to a dance.

We're into the game and Turn 1 he rips one. It was borderline silent and all of the sudden I am bathed in a stink that Papa Nurgle would be proud of. I'm like and tell him to spare me the stink. No big deal to him. Wouldn't have been too big of a deal, but he drops another stink bomb half an hour later. At this point I'm borderline fed up, but I'm very, very patient with him (he's borderline special I think). Then around turn 5 he does something wrong and I correct him on it. He replies with, "*something unintelligble* ok lolz". He actually says lolz, wtf. The picture on my face was probably priceless. I do my required mental facepalm and carry on. I end up winning and he was cool afterwards (for him at least). I've seen him on the edge of tears after losses before so it was a nice change.

Game highlights: He deepstrikes a squad of stormtroopers in front of my Demolisher. Misses with his one meltagun shot. Next turn I make a Stormtrooper Slushie (very refreshing if I say so myself). He had a squad of Mech vets with meltaguns. He drives them right up to my LRMBT and shoots his meltaguns. Hits with all three. I'm thinking that my Russ is toast. He rolls for penetration and gets two 1s, a 1 and a 2, and a 1 and a 3. I then proceed to drop a pie plate on his squad next turn destroying his Chimera and 5 troopers.

That's karma for the farts buddy.

stonefox wrote:I was playing a game with a friend at the warhams store. Then a girl walked in.

happened to me too on multiple occasions

stonefox wrote:I was playing a game with a friend at the warhams store. Then a girl walked in.

I see your "girl" and a raise you a stripper with a Necron Army. It was not pink.

I was new to my LGS and very new to 40K. Played against this guy who "played since 40K came out" and my DE were doing very well. Ended up winning the game, but the other guy said that it was a draw. Didn't care since I was new to the game and took it as a moral victory. As we were putting stuff away, he pulled out his figure box and flipped the lid open right down on top of my Talos.

I know accidents happen and all and I was expecting at least an appology. All I got was a shoulder shrug and "Opps." Packed his crap and walked out. Didn't react. Face was so hot I could have cooked an egg on my head.

There was another guy there watching the game and informed me that he was notorious for being a bad sport. Then he informed me that I did win against him.

Some people are just....

Well, special.

Funny thing is he was later caught cheating during friendly play and during a tourney. Yeah. No longer comes to our store.

brotherskeeper74 wrote:As we were putting stuff away, he pulled out his figure box and flipped the lid open right down on top of my Talos.

All I got was a shoulder shrug and "Opps."

No longer comes to our store.

Too bad.

I'd have "accidentally" kicked his minis case at some point.

And really, bad on you for not dumping his minis case to the floor right then and there as you grabbed your Talos...

JohnHwangDD wrote:Too bad.

I'd have "accidentally" kicked his minis case at some point.

And really, bad on you for not dumping his minis case to the floor right then and there as you grabbed your Talos...

Well, I was in shock when it happened and not really sure what to to. But, to be honest, there is no way that I could do that. I try to treat others as I want to be treated.

I know if I break or drop someone elses models, I just about crap myself. And then I feel like ork dung.

Che-Vito wrote:

MinMax wrote:

Che-Vito wrote:

Sidstyler wrote:Saw a guy walking around the store barefoot today. Strikes me as a bit awkward.

You say unsanitary, I say "free spirit"...

It was you, wasn't it?

No, I go barefoot most places (I travel/hitchhike a LOT), but not into stores...mainly for the comfort of others...
but man do I wish I lived in Canada...

For the frostbite when you try walking around barefoot?

Sarge wrote:

stonefox wrote:I was playing a game with a friend at the warhams store. Then a girl walked in.

I see your "girl" and a raise you a stripper with a Necron Army. It was not pink.

Really? wow.......I think I know who wins the "Most Awkward" Award.

he never said it was a female stripper.

Hmmmm, Chippendales

Gwar! wrote:A rough Diamond is still a Diamond. In Time with work it can be crafted into something worthwhile.
Coal on the other hand will never be anything but a Lump of Fuel.

90% of Adults who play 40k are Coal, not Diamonds.

Diamonds are not coal, have never been coal, or ever will come from coal. The diamonds on our planet are about 1.2-2.2 Billion years old. Coal is from a much more recent time frame. 450million years or so. Coal carbon comes from plant matter that was not allowed to decay, and diamonds come from the massive amounts of carbon that are in the mantle of the earth.

Diamonds are found in rare deposits of kimberlite (igneous intrusions) where coal is found in depositional layers of sedimentary rocks.



All that aside good analogy

frgsinwntr wrote:

Gwar! wrote:A rough Diamond is still a Diamond. In Time with work it can be crafted into something worthwhile.
Coal on the other hand will never be anything but a Lump of Fuel.

90% of Adults who play 40k are Coal, not Diamonds.

Diamonds are not coal, have never been coal, or ever will come from coal. The diamonds on our planet are about 1.2-2.2 Billion years old. Coal is from a much more recent time frame. 450million years or so. Coal carbon comes from plant matter that was not allowed to decay, and diamonds come from the massive amounts of carbon that are in the mantle of the earth.

Diamonds are found in rare deposits of kimberlite (igneous intrusions) where coal is found in depositional layers of sedimentary rocks.



All that aside good analogy

I never said Coal and Diamonds were interchangeable. If I wanted that I would have Used Graphite, both Graphite and Diamonds being allotropes of Carbon and all. I was saying that 90% of people who play 40k are Coal, and will never amount to anything, while 10% of people are diamonds that can be crafted into something beauitiful.

;D sorry, my inner geologist spoke out

Gwar! wrote:he never said it was a female stripper.

Hmmmm, Chippendales

NOOOOOO!

Anything but that, absolutely anything, dear lord.

Being forced to watch that crap for a good 2+ hours?!?!?!? I swear I died on the inside!!!!

/Repressed Memories.

Edit: I'm bringing about 8 People to a 40k Apoc game 2morrow, and I hope that 2 things don't happen

A: They get screwy at each other.

B: The guy calling me and begging me to play when I explicitly told him we were full to show up and force his way in the Fething game......