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Goofing around while playing. Some people just take it too seriously for some reason.

Gay!

Hey, don't forget that in the prison enviorment, it's only gay if you are on the recieving end!

No, I don't buy it either, but it sounds good!

TR

Trench-Raider wrote:

malfred wrote:Sometimes I forget I 'm not on the Internet and I crack jokes about our game being a
"play-date" and how pretty our dollies look at our tea party. I also make other kinds of homo-
erotic jokes incessantly.

Hehe...I feel you there.
I've been a Correctional Officer for over 17 years and we prison employees tend to have a very crude sense of humor when it comes to things like that. I sometimes slip up and will tell one of my non-prison friends something like "Do that again and I'll bend you over and f--- you!". The look of horror that I get is priceless.


As to my bad gaming habits, I have an annoying habit of "talking out" my opponent's dice rolls as i would my own. For example I will say something like "your looking for threes to hit, fours to wound". I don't know how I picked that up, and thnkfully my regular opponents don't seem to mind. However I did get a nasty comment from an opponent at a tourny who snapped "I know what I need to roll!" at me.

I also curse a bit. Although I do try to tone it down in public...especially when there are children present.

TR

Yarr, I sometimes tell people what they need to roll or look for in their roll's. I put this down to being a hangover from the days when I used to work as a Part Timer in my local store. Did it for 18 months, and the intro games...they get into your head man. I must have run at least 3 a week, meaning in my initial 18 month reign of terror, I'd have done...erm...3 to the power of frog, divide by superman...umm...258 at a minimum. It's ingrained in my consciousness! And it's not just me. Some of the guys who proceeded and followed me in that position do the same thing!

Unless I'm really steamrolling the other guy, I always end up losing some VP loaded, only-thing-that-can-kill-you-in-my-army unit because I was ballsy with it or depended on the dice to make something happen, and then fatalistically declare "Well, that's game." What follows is a winner of a turn in which I either sulkily lament about dice or angrily toss f-bombs about probability being a trap ... and then I often win anyway, to make myself more ridiculous

More generally, whining about dice and angry rolling (which is always worse than normal rolling, if possible!) makes me want to smack myself.

Also, I'm apparently a terrible spectator, who can't let the dudes work their own game out and have to pipe up in answer to rules questions and whatever. Thankfully I just manage to bite my tongue and not actually point out what to do in the game.

- Salvage

Well Doc, at least being the ex-GW staffer you have an excuse. I've never worked at a game shop, so I have no clue were my habit comes from....and I've been doing it for years!
It's also not confined to GW games. In a Field of Glory game I tend to work through the "points of advantage" table even during my opponent's turn. "Ok, the Romans get two points for being impact foot on the charge, while the Seleucids have one point for being three ranks of pike stationary and another for their fourth rank. Looks like we are even with both needing fours to hit."...that sort of thing.

TR

If you've introduced a lot of people to gaming, it's little different to my experience.

But is it a bad thing really? After all, you're just showing you are paying attention.

I dunno if this is good or bad , but in situations where both sides cant figure out what to do next, instead of rolling for it i always say let the other player get the benefit.

So they say im a docile gamer ( hmm...... )
well cant complain i get free food after playing with them xD

LunaHound wrote:

well cant complain i get free food after playing with them xD

FNARR FNARR!

?? Whats fnar?

er....

fnarr
noun, verb
When used singularly:
a slightly self-dejectory nasal exclamation, not disimilar to the common nerd or geek's 'gowoohayyay'


I dont get it

Trench-Raider wrote:

Gay!

Hey, don't forget that in the prison enviorment, it's only gay if you are on the recieving end!

No, I don't buy it either, but it sounds good!

TR

I thought it wasn't gay as long as you don't make eye contact, hold hands, or cuddle afterwards.

Fnarr fnarr! ; exclam.

Suppressed childish exclamation of amusement uttered after a double entendre. Also k-yak k-yak, wurple wurple, yik yik yik.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Fnarr fnarr! ; exclam.

Suppressed childish exclamation of amusement uttered after a double entendre. Also k-yak k-yak, wurple wurple, yik yik yik.

I understand what double entendre means but ...... the rest of the sentence is just weird lol

Do you mean "harr harr" or "herr herr" by chance?

Ah, blessed is the mind unaware of Viz!

Profanisaurus for the win! Where would I be without my lexicon of 10,000 foul-mouthed definitions?

halonachos wrote:

Trench-Raider wrote:

Gay!

Hey, don't forget that in the prison enviorment, it's only gay if you are on the recieving end!

No, I don't buy it either, but it sounds good!

TR

I thought it wasn't gay as long as you don't make eye contact, hold hands, or cuddle afterwards.

Your balls can't touch either.

yiff!

Oh wait, that's different.

CrimsonTurkey wrote:

halonachos wrote:

Trench-Raider wrote:

Gay!

Hey, don't forget that in the prison enviorment, it's only gay if you are on the recieving end!

No, I don't buy it either, but it sounds good!

TR

I thought it wasn't gay as long as you don't make eye contact, hold hands, or cuddle afterwards.

Your balls can't touch either.

You also can't enjoy it I believe.



This is what I meant when I said goofing around.(not the gay sex, the jokes about gay sex)

i tend to laugh when i make a good move
it seems to piss off alot of people and i dont mean to do it

also when i make a charge i tend to bellow a waagh of my own hahaha, although not in a glass shattering way

I'm generally very loud and boisterous during games. Often cheering my own troops on and cursing my opponents, but sometimes cursing my own and cheering my opponent's

I can't be too bad because I've had a few people tell me that I'm their favorite opponent... despite the fact that I stomp them into the ground most of the time.

Reminding my opponent of anything and everything they can use as an advantage against me. Mind you, it's only really annoying for me.

With me I ask my opponent for a stat (eg toughness of a Carnifex) and then quote it before my opponent says it. Half of the time I have never even read the book but remember it from an online tactics article or summat. Damm photographic memory.

I bite my fingernails.

I'm a total prince amongst grots, other then that.

I often get really depressed if I'm loosing. My opponents can usually tell when it happens to.
I also hate when people woun't roll their scatter die near their target, and will often threaten to not allow shots (or abuse) if it happens more than 3 times in a game.

I'm a backseat general. I can't help but make comments on what people should be doing. And it's not just with 40K. The other day I did it to someone playing Fallout 2. Fallout 2 for feth's sake!!!

I also concede too quickly, but that's often tempered by my stubborn refusal to just give up. I know that's contradictory, but that's just the way it is.

Could be worse though, I could be like the guy in our group that laughs hysterically whenever something goes right for him or wrong for us. And I mean every time.

I also concede too quickly, but that's often tempered by my stubborn refusal to just give up. I know that's contradictory, but that's just the way it is.

This can and does come up in other discussions, but I don't see a willingness to admit defeat and concede when the conclusion is obvious a bad habit. I suppose it comes from my long history in real wargaming were the ability to accept when one is beaten and admit such in order to avoid a tiresome time wasting conclusion that is no fun for the loser is seen as a sign of a gentleman.

edit-
The ability to be man enough to admit when I was beaten and honor my opponent's ability by stating as much and the willingness to offer a quick ending to a defeated opponent was drilled into me quite early in my wargaming career. The first time I ever recall it coming into play was about 1983 or so in a Colonial Zulu war game against one of my early wargaming mentors. I was playing the British and was getting very roughly handled by my opponent. At one point he told me "look, you don;t have to play these games out to the last figure if there is no feasable way the outcome will change. Your last infantry figure is going to die within six inches of that nail in the table top within the next three turns and there is really not alot you can do to change that at this point." I stubbornly refused to give in, and about 45 minutes later my last figure did get slaughtered very near the place my opponent predicted. Playing out this unavoidable conclusion really did not seem to add much to the gaming experience for either me or my opponent. So from then on i had learned my lesson.



TR

I have slightly different versions of the below.

H.B.M.C. wrote:I'm a backseat general. I can't help but make comments on what people should be doing. And it's not just with 40K. The other day I did it to someone playing Fallout 2. Fallout 2 for feth's sake!!!

I'm not a backseat general, but I mock my friends who are playing the game. At one point I could do it in such a way that it would increase my friends anger towards the game to the extent he would yell at it, yet didn't have much angst towards me.

H.B.M.C. wrote:I also concede too quickly, but that's often tempered by my stubborn refusal to just give up. I know that's contradictory, but that's just the way it is.

I do this in some manner. I don't exactly concede but I can see the writing on the wall usually within the first couple turns on how the game is going to go. I refuse to quit and will make my opponent kill everything on the table, even if it's plainly obvious I'll loose.

I tend to gloat a bit if some thing particularly awesome occurs in the game. I recognize this and try to limit it because I do think it's annoying.

This sounds counter-intuitive, but I quit asking people I play against if I can get them a drink (soda, water, etc...) during tourneys. I found that when I would ask they would always decline. I think they believed that I was trying to bribe them at some level. I am just trying to be polite and I'm getting up anyways.

Has this happened to anybody else? Am I imagining thing?

My worst habit is losing too easily and denying my opponent a decent game.

Other than that, I can pace a lot.

barlio wrote:This sounds counter-intuitive, but I quit asking people I play against if I can get them a drink (soda, water, etc...) during tourneys. I found that when I would ask they would always decline. I think they believed that I was trying to bribe them at some level. I am just trying to be polite and I'm getting up anyways.

Has this happened to anybody else? Am I imagining thing?

You're not doing it right. What you do is you buy two for you and offer one to them.

If you're like a Filipino mom, you open the darn thing and practically pour the soda
down their throats as a gesture.

And if you're a Fremen, you spit on the ground to share water.

I swear when I miss-roll dice