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Gwar! wrote:Why is it women always seem to either Play Dark Eldar, Tyranids, Emperors Children or Sisters of Battle.

Huh? Women like Eldar, too.

meh not so awkward but ULTRA NERDY.

biig 40k tourney in the middle of manchester. now i'm young (possibly youngest on dakka) at the age of 12. and i LUV da tourneys. the game was called battle for lucius forge. walked in at 5 pm (i thought there and then its gonna end late) and OMG shock horror. EVERYONE (including me) was a nerd. I mean long greasy hair everywhere. i was the youngest by at least 10 years. got out my chaos army. OMFG where is the friggin army list. the guy made me wirte it all out again. so ye played a couple of rounds. mixed results. killed a few enemys got a few objectives. now I'm not great on the rules. I have never played an apocalypse game this size. I have only played small seize objective games. never knew you could take objectives with anyone. I thought it was just troops. so anyway the game ended at about 10 pm and the whole centre was shut. I had 2 lug a heavy case to the nearest exit (quite far away) and sit there whilst a security guard opened the door. All the time i could tell he was just thinging about me being a nerd (and hardcore porn ((he was 26 what do you expect))) so ye. I got home at 11pm. 4 ours later than i should have. HARD CORE NERDINESS FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Um, okay?

How about my dad showing his friends the club. (I wanted to crawl under a rock). I think he was having a luagh at my expense...
(Whisper: Revenge shall be mine...)

<chuckle> </chuckle>

Dad? I-is that you? No, it's not possible! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! (Quote from Star Wars)

Anyway what is with the chicken pic Mr. Deadly Chicken?

"Okay, so like, I was playing the nerdy game we all like. WITH OTHER NERDS! And we were all being all nerdy and gak. And then I lost my army list. And then I got to go home and the security guard was like 'Wow you're a fething nerd' and I was like 'I KNOW!'

Nerd nerd nerd!"

Reading that post was a pretty awkward moment for me.

um, the nerdy corruption is seeping through my comptuer screen... No, no, nooooooooo!!!!!

you all need help. (apart from mistress)

Help meeeee!!!!!!!

deadly chicken wrote:you all need help. (apart from mistress)

Not in my state!

though, then again, I know no one else who lives in the state of denial (probably why I failed Geo class :p)


Yesterday, I had planned an 8 man Apocalypse game, 3,000 points with 750 points per man. I had all the lists written out and damn near memorized. I had been planning this for two whole weeks. I had written down the objectives, which benefits they had, and even a house rule to spice things up.

We got to turn 3. Everyone quit either out of boredom or the fear that they would lose.

/sigh.

Here’s a moment of inadvertent cruelty on my part:

I was hanging out at my local gaming store and a kid comes up to me and starts going off about Pokemon. I had seen the show due to a friend pressuring me to watch it with him – as he swore it was the funniest thing ever.

Well, I knew enough of the show’s premise to involve myself in the little amount of the conversation the little guy desired. He was clearly fully immersed into the fantasy realm. So, he was rambling on about the show and the card game when I posed the following query. Since all the fauna in the in the Pokemon world are either humans or pokemon. Who is Ash and his buddies eating when they enjoy a hamburger? Well the kid paused for a moment, considered it, and concluded that I had just destroyed his world. I swear I was just entertaining a notion that just popped into my head, I had absolutely no desire to scar the kid. I still feel a little bad about it to this day.

Grunt13 wrote:Here’s a moment of inadvertent cruelty on my part:

I was hanging out at my local gaming store and a kid comes up to me and starts going off about Pokemon. I had seen the show due to a friend pressuring me to watch it with him – as he swore it was the funniest thing ever.

Well, I knew enough of the show’s premise to involve myself in the little amount of the conversation the little guy desired. He was clearly fully immersed into the fantasy realm. So, he was rambling on about the show and the card game when I posed the following query. Since all the fauna in the in the Pokemon world are either humans or pokemon. Who is Ash and his buddies eating when they enjoy a hamburger? Well the kid paused for a moment, considered it, and concluded that I had just destroyed his world. I swear I was just entertaining a notion that just popped into my head, I had absolutely no desire to scar the kid. I still feel a little bad about it to this day.

This is pure 100% unadulterated win.

Grunt13 wrote:Here’s a moment of inadvertent cruelty on my part:

I was hanging out at my local gaming store and a kid comes up to me and starts going off about Pokemon. I had seen the show due to a friend pressuring me to watch it with him – as he swore it was the funniest thing ever.

Well, I knew enough of the show’s premise to involve myself in the little amount of the conversation the little guy desired. He was clearly fully immersed into the fantasy realm. So, he was rambling on about the show and the card game when I posed the following query. Since all the fauna in the in the Pokemon world are either humans or pokemon. Who is Ash and his buddies eating when they enjoy a hamburger? Well the kid paused for a moment, considered it, and concluded that I had just destroyed his world. I swear I was just entertaining a notion that just popped into my head, I had absolutely no desire to scar the kid. I still feel a little bad about it to this day.

Hahahahaa

Gotta EAT THEM ALLLL!!

I see a whole new food line...Pokeburgers... served in those lil red & white spheres....(this may seem funnier to me since I jsut woke up and have a migraine.....)

i used to play pokemon. 3 pounds for 5 cards. RIP OFF

I used to wonder about that when I was a kid. I ultimately decided not to think about it.

Glad you guys enjoyed the story. I actually have a history of such spontaneous, callous acts of jackassery. Two more examples come to mind. Both are non-gaming related, happened when I was in high school. I feel the need to point out that I was a jock in the sense that I am a big guy who played football and lacrosse.

First: While in high school there was a petite, preppy girl who was one year my junior. I knew her because she was always hanging around one of my friends who she was obvious was interested in. Well I walked into the cafeteria half way through lunch and saw that she was sitting alone by a large table and her body language and demeanor spoke that she was clearly upset. She was not someone I normally associated directly with and only knew her through my other friends, but I decided to sit at the other end of the table and quietly ate my lunch without speaking to her.

After I finished my meal I looked up at her and she smiled apparently grateful for my silent company. I returned her smile and sat there with neither of saying anything for a few minutes. Then I turn my view up to the ceiling and said the following:
“ I wonder how many dead and frozen animals are orbiting us right now thanks to early American and Russian space exploration?”

She managed to land a kick to the shins and a few blows to my head before I threw my hands over my head and fled the café. Still don’t know what had her worked up to begin with, but I hope I let her vent some frustration.

Second: This happened during math class. My teacher was out so the period was turned into a study hall. I was sitting there wearing my football jersey as I had an upcoming game doing my homework when I noticed the individual sitting next to me. She was reading a huge book on fairies, one that I had glanced through at one time. The girl, at the time I didn’t even know her name, was a bit of a shy, free spirit type. She would wear glitter and I remember seeing her in a fairy wings and similar getups in the past. I also knew she worked at a pet store and was likely an animal lover.

I looked over to her and make a comment about how I enjoyed the book she was reading. She lights up on the fact that another person from the school could even be remotely interested in fairies let alone the big jock sitting next to her. The book was a very serious portrayal of fairies their anatomy culture, how they conceal themselves from humans the whole bit – fairies were real, the book said so.

So we get into a riveting discussion about fairies, their culture, perspective, basically everything. I am enjoying myself and she is near ecstatic to be involved in a fairy discussion. Right about now some small dark part of my psyche said, “She vulnerable strike now!!” So despite the fact I was having a pleasant and intellectually stimulating conversation, I started the following dialogue:

Me: Yeah fairies are cool; too bad they don’t exist.
Her: (shocked look on her face, like someone slapped her) They do to exist!
Me: If that is true how come my all fairy traps keep turning up empty.
Her: (Half laughing half crying, clearly worked up) They’re just too smart to get capture in your traps!
Me: Ah come off it, they can’t be that much smarter than squirrels.
Her: (Speechless)........

Well she was… I guessed worked up would be the best way to describe her state of mind. A voice behind me from someone who was listening in just said, “Awesome”. She went back to reading her book and I went back to finishing my homework. If it makes people feel better we later became friends after that and we often had many more interesting conversations.

I just can’t seem to help myself when presented with these opportunities. It's instinctual or something- I have made enemies due to this personality fault of mine.

I couldn't have lasted for that long in a serious conversation about faries. I'm not even going to our next gamer hang-out because one of our players is inviting 2 of his friends that are curious about 40k. the problem? All 3 of them are Mormon. I can barely deal with one at a time...

Grunt13 wrote:Glad you guys enjoyed the story. I actually have a history of such spontaneous, callous acts of jackassery. Two more examples come to mind. Both are non-gaming related, happened when I was in high school. I feel the need to point out that I was a jock in the sense that I am a big guy who played football and lacrosse.

First: While in high school there was a petite, preppy girl who was one year my junior. I knew her because she was always hanging around one of my friends who she was obvious was interested in. Well I walked into the cafeteria half way through lunch and saw that she was sitting alone by a large table and her body language and demeanor spoke that she was clearly upset. She was not someone I normally associated directly with and only knew her through my other friends, but I decided to sit at the other end of the table and quietly ate my lunch without speaking to her.

After I finished my meal I looked up at her and she smiled apparently grateful for my silent company. I returned her smile and sat there with neither of saying anything for a few minutes. Then I turn my view up to the ceiling and said the following:
“ I wonder how many dead and frozen animals are orbiting us right now thanks to early American and Russian space exploration?”

She managed to land a kick to the shins and a few blows to my head before I threw my hands over my head and fled the café. Still don’t know what had her worked up to begin with, but I hope I let her vent some frustration.

Second: This happened during math class. My teacher was out so the period was turned into a study hall. I was sitting there wearing my football jersey as I had an upcoming game doing my homework when I noticed the individual sitting next to me. She was reading a huge book on fairies, one that I had glanced through at one time. The girl, at the time I didn’t even know her name, was a bit of a shy, free spirit type. She would wear glitter and I remember seeing her in a fairy wings and similar getups in the past. I also knew she worked at a pet store and was likely an animal lover.

I looked over to her and make a comment about how I enjoyed the book she was reading. She lights up on the fact that another person from the school could even be remotely interested in fairies let alone the big jock sitting next to her. The book was a very serious portrayal of fairies their anatomy culture, how they conceal themselves from humans the whole bit – fairies were real, the book said so.

So we get into a riveting discussion about fairies, their culture, perspective, basically everything. I am enjoying myself and she is near ecstatic to be involved in a fairy discussion. Right about now some small dark part of my psyche said, “She vulnerable strike now!!” So despite the fact I was having a pleasant and intellectually stimulating conversation, I started the following dialogue:

Me: Yeah fairies are cool; too bad they don’t exist.
Her: (shocked look on her face, like someone slapped her) They do to exist!
Me: If that is true how come my all fairy traps keep turning up empty.
Her: (Half laughing half crying, clearly worked up) They’re just too smart to get capture in your traps!
Me: Ah come off it, they can’t be that much smarter than squirrels.
Her: (Speechless)........

Well she was… I guessed worked up would be the best way to describe her state of mind. A voice behind me from someone who was listening in just said, “Awesome”. She went back to reading her book and I went back to finishing my homework. If it makes people feel better we later became friends after that and we often had many more interesting conversations.

I just can’t seem to help myself when presented with these opportunities. It's instinctual or something- I have made enemies due to this personality fault of mine.

You, sir, should be idolized.

I'm not sure why that was such a horrifying realization in the case of the Pokemon kid. I was under the impression that they didn't really keep it a secret. Hell, in the first game (if I remember right, this was back in middle school after all) Team Rocket starts catching/stealing Slowpokes with the intent of selling their tails as they're considered a delicacy or some such, right?

Sidstyler wrote:I'm not sure why that was such a horrifying realization in the case of the Pokemon kid. I was under the impression that they didn't really keep it a secret. Hell, in the first game (if I remember right, this was back in middle school after all) Team Rocket starts catching/stealing Slowpokes with the intent of selling their tails as they're considered a delicacy or some such, right?

Indeed they did. I also believe they ate pidgie eggs at some point on the show, but its honestly been a million years since I saw that. I couldn't say for sure. I seem to have forgotten much of my childhood. Damned adolesence.

Grunt13; you should win a prize in jackassery.

Do you even know when to shut your mouth?
That was pretty mean, man. Mabye you meant it, mabye you didn't.

That either makes you a cruel donkey-cave, or an idiot. Take your pick.

Grunt13 wrote:
I just can’t seem to help myself when presented with these opportunities. It's instinctual or something- I have made enemies due to this personality fault of mine.

Yeah, some do have that instinct. It's called schadenfreude and is correlated with envy or self-esteem issues. In a few cases, it manifests in males when they feel someone receives a just punishment.

/Did I just schadenfreude?

nintendoeats wrote:

Sidstyler wrote:I'm not sure why that was such a horrifying realization in the case of the Pokemon kid. I was under the impression that they didn't really keep it a secret. Hell, in the first game (if I remember right, this was back in middle school after all) Team Rocket starts catching/stealing Slowpokes with the intent of selling their tails as they're considered a delicacy or some such, right?

Indeed they did. I also believe they ate pidgie eggs at some point on the show, but its honestly been a million years since I saw that. I couldn't say for sure. I seem to have forgotten much of my childhood. Damned adolesence.

Actually, in one of the earlier episodes, Ash mails a Krabby to Professor Oak. When they speak on the video phone, Oak tells him that Gary sent him a much bigger Krabby, and then goes on to talk about how he's going to eat the Krabby. Additionally, in the first season, the pokemon world does seem to have non-pokemon fauna. Additionally, it stands to reason that it must, based on the description of the pokemon (if Pikachu is defined as an electric rat, then clearly they must have a "rat" to compare it to, etc.).

Why do I know that?

We visited our store today to browse and use the tables during a tournament. Two kids came over and talked to us the entire time. It was brutal. We got out of there quick because they had someone set us up for a 2 on 2 game we had never even agreed to.

AgeOfEgos wrote:

Grunt13 wrote:
I just can’t seem to help myself when presented with these opportunities. It's instinctual or something- I have made enemies due to this personality fault of mine.

Yeah, some do have that instinct. It's called schadenfreude and is correlated with envy or self-esteem issues. In a few cases, it manifests in males when they feel someone receives a just punishment.

/Did I just schadenfreude?

I don’t think that’s the proper label for it. I wasn’t fuelled by a desire to inflict pain or injury to people – it’s not like I laughed at people falling down a flight of stairs or being set on fire. I was more driven by a curiosity of seeing human behavior when teased with a different perspective – I was not setting out to inflict duress. But I will admit I probably went to far with some people in my day, that pokemon kid will not likely forget me.

A while back at my LGS, this young kid (complete idiot) asked me and a few of the other guys if one of us could help him put his Tau together. I offered to assist him in doing so, and he asks if he could look at my Marines, i allow him to and he goes "Why would i want someone who has a gak army like yours to help me" as most of my minis are just starting to get painted. He then asks a mate of mine to look at his (Eldar Jetbike army) and is somewhat more skilled with a brush then me and the young idiot goes "Your minis and conversions are heaps nice, can you help me do that" my mate turns round and goes "i only paint, i don't do the conversions" then he points to me and goes "He did all the conversion work". The kid just finished his drink, looked at me and then walked out, we haven't seen him for around a month now

Grunt13 wrote:Glad you guys enjoyed the story. I actually have a history of such spontaneous, callous acts of jackassery. Two more examples come to mind. Both are non-gaming related, happened when I was in high school. I feel the need to point out that I was a jock in the sense that I am a big guy who played football and lacrosse.

First: While in high school there was a petite, preppy girl who was one year my junior. I knew her because she was always hanging around one of my friends who she was obvious was interested in. Well I walked into the cafeteria half way through lunch and saw that she was sitting alone by a large table and her body language and demeanor spoke that she was clearly upset. She was not someone I normally associated directly with and only knew her through my other friends, but I decided to sit at the other end of the table and quietly ate my lunch without speaking to her.

After I finished my meal I looked up at her and she smiled apparently grateful for my silent company. I returned her smile and sat there with neither of saying anything for a few minutes. Then I turn my view up to the ceiling and said the following:
“ I wonder how many dead and frozen animals are orbiting us right now thanks to early American and Russian space exploration?”

She managed to land a kick to the shins and a few blows to my head before I threw my hands over my head and fled the café. Still don’t know what had her worked up to begin with, but I hope I let her vent some frustration.

Second: This happened during math class. My teacher was out so the period was turned into a study hall. I was sitting there wearing my football jersey as I had an upcoming game doing my homework when I noticed the individual sitting next to me. She was reading a huge book on fairies, one that I had glanced through at one time. The girl, at the time I didn’t even know her name, was a bit of a shy, free spirit type. She would wear glitter and I remember seeing her in a fairy wings and similar getups in the past. I also knew she worked at a pet store and was likely an animal lover.

I looked over to her and make a comment about how I enjoyed the book she was reading. She lights up on the fact that another person from the school could even be remotely interested in fairies let alone the big jock sitting next to her. The book was a very serious portrayal of fairies their anatomy culture, how they conceal themselves from humans the whole bit – fairies were real, the book said so.

So we get into a riveting discussion about fairies, their culture, perspective, basically everything. I am enjoying myself and she is near ecstatic to be involved in a fairy discussion. Right about now some small dark part of my psyche said, “She vulnerable strike now!!” So despite the fact I was having a pleasant and intellectually stimulating conversation, I started the following dialogue:

Me: Yeah fairies are cool; too bad they don’t exist.
Her: (shocked look on her face, like someone slapped her) They do to exist!
Me: If that is true how come my all fairy traps keep turning up empty.
Her: (Half laughing half crying, clearly worked up) They’re just too smart to get capture in your traps!
Me: Ah come off it, they can’t be that much smarter than squirrels.
Her: (Speechless)........

Well she was… I guessed worked up would be the best way to describe her state of mind. A voice behind me from someone who was listening in just said, “Awesome”. She went back to reading her book and I went back to finishing my homework. If it makes people feel better we later became friends after that and we often had many more interesting conversations.

I just can’t seem to help myself when presented with these opportunities. It's instinctual or something- I have made enemies due to this personality fault of mine.

Sounds like you and I have a similar fault my good Sir.

Freaky Freddy wrote:A while back at my LGS, this young kid (complete idiot) asked me and a few of the other guys if one of us could help him put his Tau together. I offered to assist him in doing so, and he asks if he could look at my Marines, i allow him to and he goes "Why would i want someone who has a gak army like yours to help me" as most of my minis are just starting to get painted. He then asks a mate of mine to look at his (Eldar Jetbike army) and is somewhat more skilled with a brush then me and the young idiot goes "Your minis and conversions are heaps nice, can you help me do that" my mate turns round and goes "i only paint, i don't do the conversions" then he points to me and goes "He did all the conversion work". The kid just finished his drink, looked at me and then walked out, we haven't seen him for around a month now

What an SoB!!!!! And you know what I mean by SoB

Frosty Hardtop wrote:Additionally, in the first season, the pokemon world does seem to have non-pokemon fauna. Additionally, it stands to reason that it must, based on the description of the pokemon (if Pikachu is defined as an electric rat, then clearly they must have a "rat" to compare it to, etc.).

I would point out the evolutionary problems with this notion, but then I suppose trying to apply real biology to Pokemon is like trying to give a gun to a scarab.

i always felt sorry for the people without pokemon in the game.

i mean, it would be life or death situations if they forgot to mow their lawn for a while and then went to get the paper

Freaky Freddy wrote:A while back at my LGS, this young kid (complete idiot) asked me and a few of the other guys if one of us could help him put his Tau together. I offered to assist him in doing so, and he asks if he could look at my Marines, i allow him to and he goes "Why would i want someone who has a gak army like yours to help me" as most of my minis are just starting to get painted. He then asks a mate of mine to look at his (Eldar Jetbike army) and is somewhat more skilled with a brush then me and the young idiot goes "Your minis and conversions are heaps nice, can you help me do that" my mate turns round and goes "i only paint, i don't do the conversions" then he points to me and goes "He did all the conversion work". The kid just finished his drink, looked at me and then walked out, we haven't seen him for around a month now

At least he realised his mistake. Some people who hang around in game stores seem so social awkward they wouldn't even realise the situation they just put themselves in!