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I just kinda want to rant. Our store just dropped a chunk of change on some new chairs for the store. The reason being is we have had a bunch of our gamers who like to lean back on the legs or lean sideways. I am sorry, but what kind of slack jawed moron cannot sit in a chair properly. Rant off.

Are there any other destructive behaviors you see at your LGS that people just pass off on.

Terrian and tables pretty much get cheeto stained and eaten over time.

beowulfhunter wrote:
I just kinda want to rant. Our store just dropped a chunk of change on some new chairs for the store. The reason being is we have had a bunch of our gamers who like to lean back on the legs or lean sideways. I am sorry, but what kind of slack jawed moron cannot sit in a chair properly. Rant off.

Are there any other destructive behaviors you see at your LGS that people just pass off on.

It is hard to paint when you can taste the funk in the air that is coming from the unwashed masses that are gaming nearby.

Folding tables that some 300 Lb Melon-fether just has to lean on right at the join all game long, every game..

Makes for some interesting tables where all fights happen in dry river valleys...

Also the occasional a-hole who likes to mess up scenery. Case in Point being a fight at my house with a friend's friend i didn't know.

The guy set up his Kroot in a forest. Fair enough. They're kroot.

He found he couldn't get them all in, and didn't want to leave any hanging out to be shot. Ok. Not a prob. I was willing to let him just have them touching the base of the scenery to count as in it.

Then the MF decided that this might be forgotten, and that the Kroot really looked better on the forest scenery, so he pulls out several trees to make room, then jams them in again, making new holes.

Good thing my friend had fast reflexes, as i could have killed him.

It took me six weeks to make the thing. I have nerve damage from shrapnel in both hands, making crafty/painty stuff not so easy (and my typing spelling a bit erratic). I was about ready to plant the think in HIS compost heap.

My friend, being the champ he is, b-slapped his friend before i could and explained that this isn't legos he's playing with.

I'm still pissed about it.

Or when you have a game board that's larger than the table underneath, and some fat guy leans on a corner with his full weight, sending all miniatures flying... and he does this every fething week for more than 10 years now.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Or when you have a game board that's larger than the table underneath, and some fat guy leans on a corner with his full weight, sending all miniatures flying... and he does this every fething week for more than 10 years now.

Everyone's got to have a "thing".

My previous local decided that vinyl tablecloths from the dollar store were suitable replacements for textured gaming tables. No sir.

Every store has the one guy. My store has a kid with a ridiculous obesity problem, which in and of itself wouldn't be so bad, but he keeps leaning back in the chairs, which rips them apart. I've been gaming here for decades now, long enough to remember the one-room-shop days when the gaming community banded together to purchase comfy chairs with donations so we wouldn't have to use steel folding chairs, and it really irks me to see this weiner-breath blithely tearing stuff up.

We have chairs in my old flgs that we called "chicken chairs" These were chairs that were sat in by a rather large man, nicknamed... Chicken (Never knew why, I think he started it). These chairs were uncomfortable to sit in because they would start to angle in the other direction (if your chair is at a nice 45 degree angle or so with the back of the chair, chicken chairs were more like 65 to 70 degree angles)...

beowulfhunter wrote:
I just kinda want to rant. Our store just dropped a chunk of change on some new chairs for the store. The reason being is we have had a bunch of our gamers who like to lean back on the legs or lean sideways. I am sorry, but what kind of slack jawed moron cannot sit in a chair properly. Rant off.

Are there any other destructive behaviors you see at your LGS that people just pass off on.

I'm going to take the opposite tack here. I think it's a bit foolish to run a business that caters to teenage boys and young men, a twitchy group if ever there was one (ADHD, Caffine/Energy Drink Addiction, Hormonal overload) and not expect chairs to be leaned, tipped, etc.

As for the overweight guy affecting the chair or table I offer up the same advice. For whatever reason, geek hobbies seem to have a somewhat higher proportion of overweight folks. Deal with it. If you're runningn a FLGS where cheap chairs are your choice and folding tables are your solution for wargames tables, you're not planning ahead anyway.

I don't condone those who are careless with FLGS property, but the FLGS owner needs to know their audience.

My pet hate,

anywhere using a 'large board over a small table' setup where they don't have s decent method of fixing the board to the table

put a bolt through the 4 corners of the table to fix the boards down (either hidden under scenery or foam), it easily solves the tippy top problem

(I understand you can't do this if it's a home dining table, but a table in a store or our garage?)

Or i don't know you could may just not lean on the table. What your mother never told you not to slouch.

My only pet peeve and maybe it's just me but flags owners need to keep their bathrooms clean on a regular basis. Is it so hard to stick your head in every couple hours and make sure it's still clean. Most of the ones I've seen are worse than gas stations, ugh.

On top of that if you can't hit a 8in by 12 in target then you need to sit down. I don't care if you got the pluming you can't aim for gak. Take a seat.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
My pet hate,

anywhere using a 'large board over a small table' setup where they don't have s decent method of fixing the board to the table

put a bolt through the 4 corners of the table to fix the boards down (either hidden under scenery or foam), it easily solves the tippy top problem

(I understand you can't do this if it's a home dining table, but a table in a store or our garage?)

Actually this bolt idea isn't half bad, what you could do is put bolts or something so that it creates a border. 2 bolts on each side of your boards, so they catch all edges of the smaller table.

One of the staffers at the LGS brings his big disgusting dog to the store when he's working. That annoys me.

More of an issue with 40K 5th rather than 6th.

You're at the end of turn 7 having had a great game and you just know the game is going to be decided by 1/8th of an inch... are you close enough to the objective?

You have tape measures at the ready... then some moron walks up and scoops the figure off the table to 'have a look.' Cheers mate, you just screwed up our three hour game!

 angel of ecstasy wrote:
One of the staffers at the LGS brings his big disgusting dog to the store when he's working. That annoys me.

Ugh. Agreed

 Ugavine wrote:
More of an issue with 40K 5th rather than 6th.

You're at the end of turn 7 having had a great game and you just know the game is going to be decided by 1/8th of an inch... are you close enough to the objective?

You have tape measures at the ready... then some moron walks up and scoops the figure off the table to 'have a look.' Cheers mate, you just screwed up our three hour game!

That's a whuppin! (verbally of course )

But then, that happens any time anyone grabs a mini without asking.

 Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:

 angel of ecstasy wrote:
One of the staffers at the LGS brings his big disgusting dog to the store when he's working. That annoys me.

Ugh. Agreed

Hey it could be worse, you could go to the same store as the Naked Rambler.

1. People touching without asking.
2. People arguing with players about a game that doesn't involve them.
3. People who don't remember that killer combo they saw online and spend 18 minutes looking up rules so that they can slaughter you unmerciful.
4. People who don't bathe.
5. People who smoke directly outside of the shop where others have to walk to get in or out(take that gak around the corner).
6. People who nerd rage when they don't get their way.
7. People.

 mattyrm wrote:

 Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:

 angel of ecstasy wrote:
One of the staffers at the LGS brings his big disgusting dog to the store when he's working. That annoys me.

Ugh. Agreed

Hey it could be worse, you could go to the same store as the Naked Rambler.

Is... is that a thing where you're at?

 Aerethan wrote:
1. People touching without asking.

What, you or your models?




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 angel of ecstasy wrote:
One of the staffers at the LGS brings his big disgusting dog to the store when he's working. That annoys me.

Ugh. Agreed

Hey it could be worse, you could go to the same store as the Naked Rambler.

Is... is that a thing where you're at?

Have you not heard of that bloke?

I don't think he plays 40k though.. where on earth would he keep his dice?!

 mattyrm wrote:

 Aerethan wrote:
1. People touching without asking.

What, you or your models?

Both.

Oh, and girl gamers who use their gender to try and weasel their way about and get what they want. I have 100% respect for legitimate female gamers(we have a few locally) but I absolutely hate women who rely on sexuality to get what they want. I generally remind them that those tricks don't work as well when they get older and gravity takes hold.

 mattyrm wrote:
Have you not heard of that bloke?

I have not. Story time?

That one mouth breather kid that never has anything good to say with all the poorly constructed and painted models who is able to uncannily pick out any flaws in your painstakingly assembled and painted models. The same one who will nerdrage when he does something dumb and doesn't realize it for a turn or two then nerdrages when you don't let him fix it because too much has happened since. He usually walks around eating and picking up models mid game to critque them. Or the morbidly obese fellow who thinks everyone elses armies are quaint and who is always beaten by some "technicality" rather than just not doing well in a game or being a crappy general. Also around here the game stores use like 3 or four lengths of plywood over the top of a folding table, really easy to F up your models and terrain.

Generalizing, but nerds/geeks/whatever you want to call them tend towards poor hygiene and social skills. I don't understand the hygiene side of it because said group is typically somewhat more intelligent than the average population and should know better. Poor social skills is very dependant on your POV as you can accuse lots of social groups of having poor social skills on the basis that they are loud and obnoxious.

Mouth breathers, neckbeards, poor hygiene, ill fitting clothes, social awkwardness, and especially body odor are rampant. There is always one or more morbidly obese neckbeards sporting a stained shirt that barely conceals their gut, hasn't bathed in a week, breathes so loud it sounds like he needs an oxygen tank, has long and greasy uncombed hair, and doesn't know how to speak in an inside voice.

The number one thing that keeps me away from tabletop RPGs are the people. It's almost as if being disgusting is a part of the culture.

The guy that hangs out at the counter, but doesn't work there, and criticizes everyone's purchase. "Jesus, you're buying Tau? They suck man. Here, try the Space Wolf Codex!"

Going to visit the local store here, just the fething stink, not from the adults, but it's the kids, it's all those horrible kids who've undergone puberty but not adjusted their cleaning, washing and clothes changing regime to match... That particular smell.

Wife and I joined the local D & D group and, of the 10 around the table, 3 smelled so badly you could recognize they were in the back of the store when you entered the front of the store.

'Assassin's Creed' with your hoodie pulled up, your fingerless gloves, thinking your some anime antihero
'Captain Sweatpants' with your constant leg twitching, talking over everyone because you believe you're right and making us all watch you eating chips
'Underbite' with your moronic laugh, endless SHOUTING because you cannot communicate any other way and your constant scratching...

... you all fething smell of too many vinegar strokes and not enough showers...

Change this shiz up, if you sad buggers ever actually want to stand a chance of applying your devil to a lady, start showering every single day, use a deodorant, change into fresh clothes each day and please clean yourself up and use handsoap if you sneak off to the toilet to pull one off during the course of your day.

And here I was thinking I was a callous donkey cave. MGS, I salute you.

I was the smelly kid in 6th grade and to be honest and fair, I didn't noticed it until it was pointed out to me... Since then I have maintained a staunch record of daily showers, except when sick... which those days are rare.

 Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:

I have not. Story time?

He is basically a guy who doesn't want to wear clothes, ever, and is constantly being arrested and imprisoned for public nudity. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9739000/9739766.stm

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
a chance of applying your devil to a lady

My preferred euphemism is laying pipe.

But I approve the rest of your post!