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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/17 11:45:33
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Shas'o Commanding the Hunter Kadre
Missouri
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n0t_u wrote:Kung Fu Hamster wrote:As anyone with even a modicum of retail experience can tell you, the average American consumer is dumber than a bag of hammers.
I've seen it happen here too, I doubt it's restricted only to America. 
Stupidity is everywhere, people just like to focus on ours to draw attention away from theirs.
Platuan4th wrote:I seriously want to kill the entire video game industry for stealing that word.
...I just can't believe this is seriously an issue. I've seen the word "entitlement" thrown around here a lot and I'd say this is probably the first case where it's actually applicable.
How did they "steal" the word? "Gamer" is just the catch-all term for people who play games, and last I checked, video games were games, so people who play video games are gamers. Why should the term only refer to wargamers/card-gamers/role-players? What would you prefer we call video gamers instead (nothing derogatory I hope since I do have a modest-sized Steam library)?
Personally I find it easier just to let people assume I'm talking strictly about video games and leave it at that: I don't see a need to advertise just how geeky I really am to people. I couldn't imagine trying to explain what wargaming is to the guys I work with...most of which probably still link D&D to devil worship, by the way...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/17 14:48:06
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Sidstyler wrote:
How did they "steal" the word? "Gamer" is just the catch-all term for people who play games, and last I checked, video games were games, so people who play video games are gamers. Why should the term only refer to wargamers/card-gamers/role-players? What would you prefer we call video gamers instead (nothing derogatory I hope since I do have a modest-sized Steam library)?
My point is that the word gamers should refer to people that play a variety of games, not just one type of game(this applies to people who only play wargames or only play card games, too). The media, video game industry, and average person, however, only use it to refer to video game players(which answers your last question) which is what gets my goat(and not only mine, I've heard the complaint from a large number of people).
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/17 14:58:30
Subject: GW official store funny things
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We're going OT so let's not make too much of this, but the term only refers to what is known to be the most well known form.
If I tell you that I'm a drinker, do you need to know if I'm beer man, vodka man, girly alcopop drinker? Not really, yeah you learn more specific information about me but in the long run it doesn't change much.
If you really want to expand on this point, should we not say that we "stole" the term gamer from dark age football (or soccer depending on your location)? Or is that not a game?
Automatically Appended Next Post: Just to expand a little on what I said, as I kind of missed your point (sorry):
The term gamer does refer to the broad spectrum of gamers, full stop, period, end of. However as video games are more widely known about (they've been out as long if not longer than GW for instance) people associate gamer with this style of gaming, as it's more widely known.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/17 15:09:41
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Boosting Ultramarine Biker
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Before GW pulled all of their stores out of the malls, we had one here. I'm sure those that worked there could have you guys entertained for hours, but I managed a sort of greatest hits for you.
1. Guy comes in asking if they had Turbo Tax
2. Woman came in with a christmas list for someone. On it that person listed Space Marines, so she asked if they had any, and said, phonetically, Spak-eh Mara-nays. They new guy thought it was some sort of special character he didn't know about. It took about 5 minutes, when they actually read her list, that they figured it all out.
3. Parents treating it as a baby sitter for kids who knew nothing about the game, nor wanted to know.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/17 15:11:27
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Some odd queries ive hear whilst in GW.
"Do you sell guns?" says an old chap with a small child, "I want to buy my grandson a gun to shoot vermin with"....
"Do you sell magic the gathering" X 1million
"whats with these board games you sell here, you tell me they dont come the playing pieces!"
"Do you know where i can buy proper board games?"
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/17 15:18:25
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Boosting Ultramarine Biker
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brainscan wrote:Some odd queries ive hear whilst in GW.
"Do you know where i can buy proper board games?"
Wow... what do you call a stuck up Brit? lol
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/17 15:38:34
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Cold-Blooded Saurus Warrior
The Great White North
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Good thing GW dosent sel video games....
They would retail for over $99 each and break if you take it out of the package and use it.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/17 16:53:51
Subject: Re:GW official store funny things
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One of my FLGS' is called the Fantasy Shop.
Despite the comic and game posters in the windows, you'd be amazed how many people come in expecting it to be a more... adult-oriented venue.
The phone calls can be hilarious too. "Fantasy Shop, how can I help you?..... No, not that kind of Fantasy, sorry. We're a comic and game shop."
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/17 17:09:23
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Lol what type of people show up to your FNM nights.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/17 17:23:49
Subject: GW official store funny things
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The boss at the GW store at the mall once had a guy come in trying to be funny and asked where the dildos were. Since it was in front of children, the mall didn't think it was all that funny and he got banned from the mall.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/17 17:25:38
Subject: GW official store funny things
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My store once had a temporary manager who had used to own a LGS before joining the company, really nice guy. It was just us two painting when a man comes in asking about the game and models. The temp guy asks him if he's heard of GW's main game Warmachine. At which point I start laughing.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/17 21:33:59
Subject: GW official store funny things
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kitch102 wrote:wowsmash wrote:I saw a guy do an epic face plant on the front door. Was like watching one of those windex commercials.
Lol, you just reminded me of a guy that tried to bunny hop his bike over the kerb, failed, and went right over the handle bars, that was piss funny 
Across the road from my local is a bank with a rather large mirrored window. You see no end of women doing their makeup and checking themselves out in in (some guys too). I can only imagine how much the people behind the window in the bank are laughing at them, or if it is as much as we are...
MisterMoon wrote:The boss at the GW store at the mall once had a guy come in trying to be funny and asked where the dildos were. Since it was in front of children, the mall didn't think it was all that funny and he got banned from the mall.
I think we might need a bit more context on this one as he may have been genuinely looking for directions. It's not too hard to imagine he may have been looking for another store in the mall. For example, there's an Ann Summers store just a few doors down from my local GW.
Just sayin'
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/18 13:09:41
Subject: Re:GW official store funny things
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Dwarf Runelord Banging an Anvil
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/18 14:24:42
Subject: GW official store funny things
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I'll occasionally play at the GW in Ottawa, Ontario. It's on the third floor of a large shopping mall. Right next door is a hair salon and one time when I was playing this stench of burnt hair from the salon made its way into the GW. It actually kind of added to the atmosphere with all the 40K and Fantasy games that were going on.
Another time a young woman in a wheelchair came in and started watching. I thought that it would make an interesting Ork conversion for a counts-as bike. A few others in the store, including an employee started brainstorming ideas on what bits we could use to make this happen.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/19 02:16:14
Subject: Re:GW official store funny things
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My LGS does sell video games (on the left wall, obscured in this picture) and it's great. It allows for a much bigger store and it is thriving were others game stores might not (I presume, never been specifically told by employees). I love that my awesome hobby can benefit from the hordes of people that have to spent $150 on call of duty alone every year.
Were seriously spoiled. To bad I never have a chance to play there.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/19 08:09:21
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Excited Doom Diver
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We often get people coming in, looking around for about five seconds, then when the manager jumps in with the usual "You alright guys, looking for anything specific today?" they either turn and walk out without a word or sheepishly mumble something about XBoxes before being directed to the local Game.
As for the "gamer" issue, I do play some video games but not many, and I also play P&PRPGs, Magic etc, so I tend to describe myself as a tabetop gamer.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/19 20:18:18
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Grimtuff wrote:kitch102 wrote:wowsmash wrote:I saw a guy do an epic face plant on the front door. Was like watching one of those windex commercials.
Lol, you just reminded me of a guy that tried to bunny hop his bike over the kerb, failed, and went right over the handle bars, that was piss funny 
Across the road from my local is a bank with a rather large mirrored window. You see no end of women doing their makeup and checking themselves out in in (some guys too). I can only imagine how much the people behind the window in the bank are laughing at them, or if it is as much as we are...
MisterMoon wrote:The boss at the GW store at the mall once had a guy come in trying to be funny and asked where the dildos were. Since it was in front of children, the mall didn't think it was all that funny and he got banned from the mall.
I think we might need a bit more context on this one as he may have been genuinely looking for directions. It's not too hard to imagine he may have been looking for another store in the mall. For example, there's an Ann Summers store just a few doors down from my local GW.
Just sayin'
It would take a lot of skill to walk into a store with kids in it and think it's Ann Summers.
But OT, other than random people coming in to make fun of people in GW there haven't been many funny moments in my local GW.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/19 20:40:29
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Agile Revenant Titan
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Makutsu wrote:Last week was my first time gaming at an official GW store...
The situation at the GW store was really funny.
People came in and ask if they sold, Minecraft, Wii, Call of Duty etc...
I heard from my friend that one time a guy just stormed in dropped his NDS at the counter and said "I want it to be fixed when I get back in an hour", then he just left
Do you guys have any funny stories at stores?
Honestly, this thing happens ALL THE TIME. I game at my GW quite a lot, and the number of people that come in/phone up asking if they can fix their playstation or whatever. Honestly though, I think it's really good for GW's business. I've seen a fair few families come in looking to purchase video games. The GW staff would then go on to explain about the hobby and the same family would come in the next day, have an intro battle and buy a starter set...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/19 20:45:11
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Back in the early 90's my local GW stocked Frontier: Elite II.
So its not unheard of to get computer games from a GW, just saying.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/20 10:38:23
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Quite some time ago, I was chatting with a GW manager. A woman walked in, probably mid sixties, very much an upper-middle class Surrey woman, hands full of bags, if you get the image.
Woman: Do you have Monopoly?
Manager: Sorry, no, not at the moment.
Woman: What about Cluedo?
Manager: Again, no.
Woman: So what board games do you have?
Manager: Well...
She walked out with a copy of the Necromunda box. Goodness knows what she though of it.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/20 17:21:33
Subject: Re:GW official store funny things
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Evasive Pleasureseeker
Lost in a blizzard, somewhere near Toronto
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Some random escapades of sheer stupidity from my time working at GW Burlington before it closed up;
a) Stoner kinds would come in all the time to poke fun at the kids playing 40k/Fantasy while laughing like dweebs at their own stupidity. After the almost mandetory highly inaproprite comment, I'd point them to the glass facade and ask them to please exit using the "stupid door".
You'd be amazed how many of them tried to actually walk through a solid pane of glass!  (much to the halarity of the kids who'd then point and call them names right back!)
b) +1,000,000 times the age old, "where are your video games." The best ones though were;
- Angry Mom who tried shoving her little brat's DS, which he'd thrown against a wall in anger, up my nose and demanded, "fix this pile of crap you sold my kid!" At which point, I gently informed her we were a table top gaming store, as evidenced by the walls of models and rather suspicious lack anything elictronics releated...
She then demanded to see my manager, (who wasn't in that day), declaired she would have me fired for my lip and then told me I should have been selling the proper product for a gaming store to begin with!
At this point, I happily informed her that the store she wanted to look for was at the opposite end of the mall, just a little .3km hike away! (she was quite fat to boot, which made her even more unhappy at the though of the impending exersice!)
- 'Blondy Mom' who came in, ignored every friendly hello & queery I made while looking at me like I was something she'd just scraped off the bottom of her shoe. She then spent 10 minutes looking at the walls and all the models, the dice on the gaming tables and the scenery, then told me off saying, "What the hell kind of 'gaming store is this? Where's your r eal games - my son wants Xbox!"
- 'Stupid' Mom who first accepted that maybe not all game stores sell just video games and at least let me give her Little Timmy an intro game, while my manager looked on and heckled me for my crap dice rolls!
At the first mention of blood/killing other models, she litterly screamed at me for trying to sell some overtly violent crap to her son and warping his mind with talk of evil aliens & druged-up super soldiers... (even my manager was taken aback by her agressive name calling!)
I then asked Little Timmy what his favourite video he was playing at home was, to which he quickly and loudly exclaimed, "CALL OF DUTY MODERN WARFARE'S THE BEST EVERRRR!!!"
I looked at his mom, shook my head, and just about died laughing along with my manager at her stupidity!
...More to follow later!
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/20 19:50:21
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Boosting Ultramarine Biker
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I remember once speaking with a friend who had the fortune of working at both a video game retailer, and a GW store at different times. The first job at the video game retailer in contrast to the job at GW was brutal he said, due to parents. He said parents would constantly come storming in asking why they sold a particular violent game to their kid, or why (insert console) broke, and also just the many spoiled bratty kids with their parents demanding you be on your their personal beck and call.
He said that the GW store was a total breath of fresh air, and when the parents came in for a brief second with their spoiled brat kids looking for video games he knew the brief second to point them to the video game store was great, knowing they'd quickly be someone else's problem.
He also mentioned that kids that play GW tend to come from a different cloth parents wise. They value working for your craft, and the many other skills needed to play; problem solving skills etc. So when the parents did come in, they were far more delightful then the video game parents. He said it was frequent to see a kid spending allowance money on kits, not just having free reign with mom and dad's visa like at the video game store.
I hope this isn't hijacking the thread, but it just came to mind.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/20 19:57:07
Subject: GW official store funny things
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MisterMoon wrote:I remember once speaking with a friend who had the fortune of working at both a video game retailer, and a GW store at different times. The first job at the video game retailer in contrast to the job at GW was brutal he said, due to parents. He said parents would constantly come storming in asking why they sold a particular violent game to their kid, or why (insert console) broke, and also just the many spoiled bratty kids with their parents demanding you be on your their personal beck and call.
He said that the GW store was a total breath of fresh air, and when the parents came in for a brief second with their spoiled brat kids looking for video games he knew the brief second to point them to the video game store was great, knowing they'd quickly be someone else's problem.
He also mentioned that kids that play GW tend to come from a different cloth parents wise. They value working for your craft, and the many other skills needed to play; problem solving skills etc. So when the parents did come in, they were far more delightful then the video game parents. He said it was frequent to see a kid spending allowance money on kits, not just having free reign with mom and dad's visa like at the video game store.
I hope this isn't hijacking the thread, but it just came to mind.
I could see that, is kinda like when you see the gamer parents bringing their kids into a GW to bring them into the fold :3
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/20 21:13:32
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the funniest thing I saw was to kids ride into the local store on a pair of push scooters ride around then go out again. then this huge monster of a man who was in the store playing a game legs it after them. he comes back into the store carrying both the kids by the scruffs of there necks scooters in tow and in a thick German accent says "what should we do with them?".
it had the whole store creasing with laughter.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/20 21:20:53
Subject: GW official store funny things
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MisterMoon wrote:for a brief second with their spoiled brat kids looking for video games he knew the brief second to point them to the video game store was great, knowing they'd quickly be someone else's problem.
He also mentioned that kids that play GW tend to come from a different cloth parents wise. They value working for your craft, and the many other skills needed to play; problem solving skills etc. So when the parents did come in, they were far more delightful then the video game parents.
You know what, I guess you're right. As weird as it seems for such an expensive hobby, there are very few 'spoilt' kids I see in my Local GW, which is kinda weird if you think about it.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/20 21:41:53
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If you think about it, it's not terribly expensive. Lets say it's 500 bucks for an army. Another 100 bucks for supplies. So that's 600 bucks. That's an army you can play for years, you might spend 100 bucks a year on new kits to tweak it this way or that, but trust me, on what kids want, that's NOTHING.
I got a friend who's kids play sports, they spend 100s every year on USED equipment, and camps. Hell a gaming console costs half that and you haven't bought your first game. The same friend would talk about how parents would drop hundreds of dollars a pop on stacks of video games all the time.
In the end it's just another hobby, and it's cheaper in the long run.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/20 21:51:20
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/20 22:02:34
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The games workshop phoneline in the store I used to go to was famed for the calls 80 percent of the time asking where Game is located in the building, thinking Games Workshop was Game. Was so funny.
It was even the number one thing the store manager put on his list of Things He Would Not Miss in the stores closing party.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/21 00:13:52
Subject: GW official store funny things
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Revving Ravenwing Biker
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Boy....makes me wanna go to a flgs just to see these things happen.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2012/08/21 02:44:50
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I remember a guy that came in looking for model Vietnam soldiers. The employee tired to sell him some Catachans as "they sort of look like Vietnam soldiers"
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