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drakedeming wrote:It is never genetics and is always diet and lack of exercise.

Yes, but pretending that diet and exercise simply exist in isolation is very wrong. It's useful to point at a fat person and say 'they are bad because they're fat', but it's absolutely useless if you want to help people get healthy.

Look, here's the thing, in December last year I did my ACL, and was laid up for long time. I didn't exercise much, cooked less and ordered junkfood more. I put on a few kgs. My knee is getting better, I'm able to exercise (not run much, but everything else) and I'm back to eating like I was before. The weight is coming off, but it isn't because I have some incredible discipline that other people lack, because I am really, really not disciplined. It's just that I'm returning to my regular routine.

It isn't that other people lack discipline. Some of my hardest working co-workers are quite fat. It's just that food takes on an important part in our lives and in our psychology, and when people are told that they just need to eat healthier without ever addressing why they eat like they did... they're doomed to failure.

Well, my LGS doesn't disappoint again. Walking in the gaming and painting room to go to the bathroom I was followed by a gamer so damn proud of this custom built chaos lord with a jet pack which was cut off from a jengo fett star wars action figure. Not only was the jetpack way to big it looked like an excited horse all over the damn thing from all the cheap superglue he used to attach it together. I stepped into the bathroom and he was still inside my three foot comfort zone so I quickly slammed the door. I hoped it hit him but he wasn't phased by it at all because I heard him hunt down another person inorder to show off this piece of .

Don't get me wrong, I encourage new people in the hobby or anyone for that fact to learn how to learn how to kit bash their own custom builds but for sake I know you are proud of it but let me see it on my own time and not stick that ing model into my face that still wet with cheap super glue fumes coming off it.

If you are new to kit bashing I don't mind looking at your stuff, your stuff might be awakward looking at first since most people don't know how not to over do the bashing yet but with trial and error you can get some really good stuff. But don't do what this d-bag at a tourny did. He ripped apart a Jabba the Hut action figure, spend 12 hours rolling 40 USD in GS rolling into long sausages,coilling them around some painting space marines, then pouring two jars of testors gloss red paint over it all calling it his Summoned Greater Daemon of Nurgle. While this is not bad, but to tell me point blank that it looks better than the FW Greater Daemon of Nurgle I was borrowing from a friend that is an expert painter. You d-bag my damn 5 year old niece can make sausages from play doh too and hers look like spilt entrails.

That damn model cost you next to nothing sinc eyou said that you found that Jabba action figure in a 2nd hand store. You can see where the model use to turn in waist and the tail would move. It is like I take a Cobra Commander figure, put him on a 40mm base and call him Abbaddon you stick! Not only that you based it on a a base that over 120mm big. God I hope you are reading, I didn't want to say this to your face because I would have gotten kicked out of the store but you said that you are an expert modeller but that POS makes you into a the biggest liar in the store and also you looked like you damn model you uber fat and ugly as ing sin.

Don't get me wrong, I am not mad at the game he played since it was a strong list and beat me fair and square but the first thing he does with god forsakened cross nerdery model was to jam the thing two inchs in front of my nose and go, "See him, he looks better than the FW Nurgle Greater Daemon." I know you are ing proud of your ing model but for sake you fat, ing nerd. I could have seen that damn thing better from three feet away on the table then jammed into my face.

Enough ranting on my . The moral of the lesson is kiddies is that if you are proud of a kit bash don't run around with it jamming it into people's faces. Three foot view of the model is better than a two inch view. People will not mind looking at your mini when they have time. Just keep on building and you will get better to the point where your minis will look like GW production quality. And for ing sake, do not say the model is better than a FW Model that was painted by an expert painter with your kit bash that is 90% star wars or another nerd fiction (i.e. star trek, dr who, ect...) and gakky GS work. You will be suprised on how many people will not allow you to place that ing piece of on the table if you continue to call it better than the other player's model to their face.

By the way here is a picture of the FW Greater Daemon model that I borrowed so you know that I am not just talking out of my . http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/6803-Bloated%2C%20Daemons%2C%20Forge%20World%2C%20Greater%20Daemon%2C%20Nurgle.html

Dude, you got way too much ing anger.

Mediocre rants from the mind of a gamer.

Fixed.

Seriously, seriously, seriously, damn. How high is that horse?


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Though it beats taking zoloft and talking to a therapist.

BrookM wrote:Mediocre rants from the mind of a gamer.

Fixed.

Seriously, seriously, seriously, damn. How high is that horse?


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Though it beats taking zoloft and talking to a therapist.

And cheaper too, ZING!

I've met enough of my fellow Missouri/Kansas Gamers to know that Pipbody is not exaggerating (well a teeny tad, but 95% of the time his observations are spot on). Sometimes when you live in the armpit of the gaming universe you cross some of "those" people.

@barlio: If those are my RL / FtF gaming options, I think I'd be playing a lot of MMO until I could get outta Dodge...

Word

Granted I've just got back into the game several months ago so I haven't reconnected with all of the guys in the area, but of the 40k gaming population in SW Missouri, SE Kansas, etc... I only play 10% of the 40k population on a regular basis. The other 90% are more like Pipboy's observations (maybe not as massive, but are "special").

And Pipboy is dealing with the KC crowd as well. I haven't played a lot of the Fantasy crew up there (I hear they are actually good guys, in general that is), but I have a certain 'meh' attitude over traveling to the SW or North for any 40k event.