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What are the most blatantly incorrect or plain idiotic things you've heard said a bout a tabletop game-related subject?

For me it's got to be this:

uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Games_Workshop

"OMFG wargaming SUCKS I'm, off to play CALL OF watch the language please. Reds8n DUTY!!!!!!"

please only nominate stuff said by fans or player please.

p.s: this is not a GW hate thread [as much as some want it to be]

sing your life wrote:
please only nominate stuff said by fans or player please.

Why? I find the best quotes come from non-fans and non-players.

fishy bob wrote:

sing your life wrote:
please only nominate stuff said by fans or player please.

Why? I find the best quotes come from non-fans and non-players.

I meant that you're not allowed to nominate anything said by waragmes companies I[i.e Privateer Press]

Huh?

Why are there so many rules for something like this? :\

 curran12 wrote:
Huh?

Why are there so many rules for something like this? :\

Wow, seroisly? 2 rules isn't "so many".

Stupidest thing I've ever heard about a wargame: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/539184.page

 Peregrine wrote:
Stupidest thing I've ever heard about a wargame: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/539184.page

Too cool man, good move

Stupidest thing i've heard: "its too expensive, imma go play magic".

Some random guy walked up to me in the game store and tried to convince me to play Warmahordes because apparently the models are cheaper than 40k.

No they're not.

I wasn't even playing 40k. I was playing Malifaux.

I dislike the aesthetic of Warmahordes out of personal preference; I hate the fans out of personal experience.

 Absolutionis wrote:
but I outright hate the fans even more.

Stupid statement is stupid. With that attitude the feeling is mutual mateybobs.

Well I went to a Games Workshop store with a friend (non-fan, non-player) to pick up something. It was a crowded day at the store, and my friend said loudly "So that's what this is? Fat grown men, playing with tin soldiers?"

Everyone heard him and the store froze up and got completely silent. While true, it was an incredibly idiotic thing to say. This was a few years ago.

More recently a girl thought my Warmahordes stuff was Skylanders

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Absolutionis wrote:
but I outright hate the fans even more.

Stupid statement is stupid. With that attitude the feeling is mutual mateybobs.

Edited the post for more clarity.

Also, you're a case-in-point regarding Warmahordes fans. Insult their game even indirectly and they attack you. I guess you gotta play like you gotta pair or something.

 Absolutionis wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Absolutionis wrote:
but I outright hate the fans even more.

Stupid statement is stupid. With that attitude the feeling is mutual mateybobs.

Edited the post for more clarity.

Also, you're a case-in-point regarding Warmahordes fans. Insult their game even indirectly and they attack you. I guess you gotta play like you gotta pair or something.

You didn't insult the game. You insulted the players. The unedited quote is right there.

" It plays quick!"

When I hear this I tend to avoid the game. When the most important element of an activity done for enjoyment is the speed at which that activity ends, my mind starts to cramp. I mean, if I really wanted the game to end FAST I could not play at all. This way it ends super fast! Before it even begins.

I think minis gaming is a nice relaxing hobby with lots of modeling and painting. What is the rush?

I think you might be reading too much into "it plays quick". What they probably mean is that it doesn't play super slow.

Also, "it plays quick" can also mean that it's great for huge games.

Also, "it plays quick" can be used to give someone a chance to try the game out without spending a huge amount to time to figure out if they like it or not.

It plays quick usually means, I'm almost always in the action.

The statemetn about games in general that bugs me "quick to learn, hard to master."

It's the game marketing equivilent to "pro painted."

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Absolutionis wrote:
but I outright hate the fans even more.

Stupid statement is stupid. With that attitude the feeling is mutual mateybobs.

What? He's allowed to hate something he had a bad personal experience with.

 Polonius wrote:
The statemetn about games in general that bugs me "quick to learn, hard to master."

It's the game marketing equivilent to "pro painted."

I will say this though, it's very valid in plenty of cases. I found Warmachine, Malifaux, and X-Wing extremely quick to learn... I am still very much big fish in little pond with those games. I'm a good and solid player in my local scene, but expand me into other metas, and I'm an average to subpar player.

Edit: But I guess it could be said that I'm only able to quickly learn these games because of my knowledge of games in general.

 Polonius wrote:
The statemetn about games in general that bugs me "quick to learn, hard to master."

It's the game marketing equivilent to "pro painted."

This isn't always bad: X-Wing is an extremely simple game to learn how to play, but getting good takes a lot of work and toying around with it. Chess is the same way.

 sing your life wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Absolutionis wrote:
but I outright hate the fans even more.

Stupid statement is stupid. With that attitude the feeling is mutual mateybobs.

What? He's allowed to hate something he had a bad personal experience with.

Nope, not Warmachine. If you say one bad word about Warmachine on the internet, you're in for it.

 sing your life wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Absolutionis wrote:
but I outright hate the fans even more.

Stupid statement is stupid. With that attitude the feeling is mutual mateybobs.

What? He's allowed to hate something he had a bad personal experience with.

I'm fairly certain that blacklisting the entire fanbase over the actions of a few idiots - and the guy his story was about was an idiot - is taking things about thirteen steps too far...

The PP elitism thing has two aspects. One is that a huge number of players came over from 40k, and often legitimatly find huge aspects of the rules that are superious. After a decade of playing 40k, I was pretty pleasantly surprised by a lot of the PP rules.

the other is the sort of rabid, irrational partisanship that only fanbois exhibit.

 Absolutionis wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Absolutionis wrote:
but I outright hate the fans even more.

Stupid statement is stupid. With that attitude the feeling is mutual mateybobs.

Edited the post for more clarity.

Also, you're a case-in-point regarding Warmahordes fans. Insult their game even indirectly and they attack you. I guess you gotta play like you gotta pair or something.

Sorry you've had some bad experiences with a few Warmahordes fans. I would disagree with your belief that he is attacking you though - he is attacking your post - your statement. You flat out said you hate all warmahordes players... all of them... which is ridiculous obviously. And of course people are going to come back and say things like "well I'm not too fond of you either..."

I've played Magic for years, Warhammer Fantasy for years, 40k for years, and now into 2nd year of Warmachine. I've met the exact same distribution of Great Players, good friends, ignorant kids, Dbags, and smelly fat men in every single one of those games. You just push away the negative and make new friends with the good and get back to playing whatever is fun.

 Cryptek of Awesome wrote:

 Absolutionis wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Absolutionis wrote:
but I outright hate the fans even more.

Stupid statement is stupid. With that attitude the feeling is mutual mateybobs.

Edited the post for more clarity.

Also, you're a case-in-point regarding Warmahordes fans. Insult their game even indirectly and they attack you. I guess you gotta play like you gotta pair or something.

Sorry you've had some bad experiences with a few Warmahordes fans. I would disagree with your belief that he is attacking you though - he is attacking your post - your statement. You flat out said you hate all warmahordes players... all of them... which is ridiculous obviously. And of course people are going to come back and say things like "well I'm not too fond of you either..."

I've played Magic for years, Warhammer Fantasy for years, 40k for years, and now into 2nd year of Warmachine. I've met the exact same distribution of Great Players, good friends, ignorant kids, Dbags, and smelly fat men in every single one of those games. You just push away the negative and make new friends with the good and get back to playing whatever is fun.

I'm at fault for shoving in that unnecessary "i hate warmahordes players". Several friends play the game, and I obviously don't hate them.

On-topic, my 'stupid statement' about a game are strangers that make backhanded remarks in favor of Warmahordes by insulting 40k. It has happened several times in my presence. Once, it had happened when I wasn't even playing 40k. It was stupid.

I think we'll just shake hands and move on here then folks.

Thanks.

 Polonius wrote:
The statemetn about games in general that bugs me "quick to learn, hard to master."

It's the game marketing equivilent to "pro painted."

Indeed.

 Dysartes wrote:

 sing your life wrote:

 Grimtuff wrote:

 Absolutionis wrote:
but I outright hate the fans even more.

Stupid statement is stupid. With that attitude the feeling is mutual mateybobs.

What? He's allowed to hate something he had a bad personal experience with.

I'm fairly certain that blacklisting the entire fanbase over the actions of a few idiots - and the guy his story was about was an idiot - is taking things about thirteen steps too far...

I only said he was allowed to do this. I NEVER said it was a good idea.

 sing your life wrote:
What are the most blatantly incorrect or plain idiotic things you've heard said a bout a tabletop game-related subject?

For me it's got to be this:

uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Games_Workshop

You do know that uncyclopedia is not a "serious" web site, right?

 Breotan wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
What are the most blatantly incorrect or plain idiotic things you've heard said a bout a tabletop game-related subject?

For me it's got to be this:

uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Games_Workshop

You do know that uncyclopedia is not a "serious" web site, right?

Oh no...my history project...

I reckon the elitism present in gaming is what leads to the silliest comments, either broad condemnations of entire fan bases of games (warmahordes players are dicks, warhammer players are neckbeards, infinity players just like the cheesecake), or blunt dismissals of games that people don't even try because they don't like it, and because of that clearly no one else can either.

And of course, in recognising this I am more elite than the rest of you...

 motyak wrote:
infinity players just like the cheesecake

To be fair, I find this one mostly true. The only person I've seen not like it at all seems to be Kanluwen. But he doesn't like anything.

 -Loki- wrote:

 motyak wrote:
infinity players just like the cheesecake

To be fair, I find this one mostly true. The only person I've seen not like it at all seems to be Kanluwen. But he doesn't like anything.

Hey that's not at all fair to Kan. He likes disliking things obviously