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New guy was in a sort of "trial period" for our game group (private residence, not FLGS). He started talking about how his neighbors all give him weird looks when he mows his lawn.
Why you ask?
Because he mows it wearing a gas mask.
He has allergies and THAT is the option he chose as the best possible solution. Forget Claritin.
Now, you might be wondering if he's off his rocker or just made a bad decision...
I've known several that use filter masks of various sorts. Maybe not a mil-spec style "are you my mummy?" mask, but cheap disposable paint masks at least. I have bad allergies myself (especially this year) and would probably be hurting if I was doing something outside all day and kicking up pollen and stuff despite claritin and a prescription nasal spray.
The last time he came over, the owner of the home where we play asked him, outright, if he was crazy or just stupid. This was right after he went on a diatribe about how the American Dental Association is trying to control Americans through the fillings in their teeth.
Bat sh** crazy was MY vote.
But, yeah, that's a different level of crazy.
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liquidjoshi wrote: Yeah, that's the original. Magnificent tale. Reminds me of the Black and white Space marine on the Black and white bike...
NO NO NO STAP Comparing those two stories is like comparing Dan Abnett with C.S. Goto Only one of them leaves you in stitches when you read their stuff. XD
I'm leaving this thread if that story comes up.
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Here's my P&M blog - http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/551978.page And here's a thread of my completed miniatures -
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/551971.page 'You have that the wrong way around. Space Hulk teaches the inmates how large numbers of fast moving vicious hand to hand combatants can over come a small number of gun armed adversaries, in a sequence of narrow corridors.' -Orlanth
liquidjoshi wrote: Yeah, that's the original. Magnificent tale. Reminds me of the Black and white Space marine on the Black and white bike...
NO
NO
NO
STAP
Comparing those two stories is like comparing Dan Abnett with C.S. Goto
Only one of them leaves you in stitches when you read their stuff. XD
I'm leaving this thread if that story comes up.
On behalf of myself and everyone who hasn't heard the story, we demand to hear it.
Shotgun wrote: I don't think I will ever understand the mentality of people that feel the need to record and post their butthurt on the interwebs.
The spoilered content ahead is the Black and White Space Marine Story. DO NOT OPEN IF YOU HATE IT.
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
Spoiler:
There once was this Black and White Space Marine on a Black and White Bike, and being the hero-type person that he was, he wanted to marry the commander's daughter. So he went up to the palace, and the guard naturally inquired "Who goes there?"
To which the Black and White Space Marine replied: "I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter."
"Not the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike?"
"Yes, the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike."
"OK, pass."
So the Black and White Space Marine proceeded up to the commander's chamber.
"Who goes there?" asked the commander.
"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike and I want to marry your daughter" replied the Black and White Space Marine.
"Not the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike?"
"Yes, the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike."
"OK, if you complete three tasks, you may take my daughter's hand in marriage" the commander told the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike. "Your first task is to slay the dragon on Xylon III".
On the Black and White Space Marine's way out, the guard once again asked, "Who goes there"?"
To which the Black and White Space Marine replied "I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter."
"Not the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike?"
"Yes, the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike."
"OK, pass."
The Black and White Space Marine then proceeded with ease to kill the dragon and six months later returned with the head of the foul beast. On his way into the palace the guard inquired "Who goes there?"
To which the Black and White Space Marine replied "I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter".
"Not the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike?"
"Yes, the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike."
"OK, pass."
So the Black and White Space Marine proceeded up to the commander's chamber.
"Who goes there?" asked the commander.
"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike and I want to marry your daughter" replied the Black and White Space Marine.
"Not the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike?"
"Yes, the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike."
"OK, if you complete three tasks, you may take my daughter's hand in marriage" the commander told the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike. "Your second task is to climb the highest peak on Desgrus Beta".
On his way out the guard once again asked, "Who goes there?"
To which the Black and White Space Marine replied "I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter".
"Not the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike?"
"Yes, the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike."
"OK, pass."
The Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike easily climbed the mountain and returned 4 years later. On his way into the palace the guard inquired "Who goes there?"
To which the Black and White Space Marine replied "I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter."
"Not the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike?"
"Yes, the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike."
"OK, pass."
So the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike proceeded up to the commander's chamber.
"Who goes there?" asked the commander.
"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike and I want to marry your daughter" replied the Black and White Space Marine.
"Not the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike?"
"Yes, the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike."
"OK, if you complete three tasks you may take my daughter's hand in marriage" the commander told the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike. "Your third and final task is to swim across the acid lake outside the palace."
On the Black and White Space Marine's way out the guard once again asked, "Who goes there?"
To which the Black and White Space Marine replied "I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter."
"Not the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike?"
"Yes, the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike."
"OK, pass."
Once again the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike easily completed his task and returned to the palace for the final time.
On his way into the palace the guard inquired "Who goes there?"
To which the Black and White Space Marine replied "I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike and I want to marry the commander's daughter".
"Not the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike?"
"Yes, the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike."
"OK, pass."
So the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike proceeded up to the commander's chamber.
"Who goes there?" asked the commander.
"I'm the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike and I want to marry your daughter" replied the Black and White Space Marine.
"Not the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike?"
"Yes, the Black and White Space Marine on the Black and White Bike. May I marry your daughter now?"
"OK."
"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill
NO DON'T It's not even a real story or an awkward gaming experience... So I don't see what it has to do with this thread.
EDIT: NOOOOOOO NINJA'D!!!
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Here's my P&M blog - http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/551978.page And here's a thread of my completed miniatures -
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/551971.page 'You have that the wrong way around. Space Hulk teaches the inmates how large numbers of fast moving vicious hand to hand combatants can over come a small number of gun armed adversaries, in a sequence of narrow corridors.' -Orlanth
Gutsnagga wrote: NO DON'T It's not even a real story or an awkward gaming experience... So I don't see what it has to do with this thread.
EDIT: NOOOOOOO NINJA'D!!!
I admit. I enjoy posting it when someone asks for it because I feed on the misery it generates.
:3
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"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill
So there was this awkward time on a wargaming forum where someone didn't want to hear the story of the Blakc and white Space marine on the Black and white bike, but it was told anyway.
Just made it relevant
An actual awkward experience was at an old club I went to for game nights. Every Wednesday there'd be 40K or Fantasy nights, and every day was Magic downstairs. We'd have to pass the magic players with our stuff, which always resulted in glares and murmurs. The Magic players were an angry bunch.
Anyhow, one day there were too many magic players. Most of the top floor was filled with fat sweaty men who refused to move. The 40K players were forced onto two tables. There were about twelve of us. It was not fun. The worst part was that we still had to pay for entry, despite not getting to game.
Oddly enough, after some words with the store owner the Magic players were confined downstairs permanently.
Pretre: OOOOHHHHH snap. That's like driving away from hitting a pedestrian.
Pacific:First person to Photoshop a GW store into the streets of Kabul wins the thread.
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liquidjoshi wrote: So there was this awkward time on a wargaming forum where someone didn't want to hear the story of the Blakc and white Space marine on the Black and white bike, but it was told anyway.
Just made it relevant
An actual awkward experience was at an old club I went to for game nights. Every Wednesday there'd be 40K or Fantasy nights, and every day was Magic downstairs. We'd have to pass the magic players with our stuff, which always resulted in glares and murmurs. The Magic players were an angry bunch.
Anyhow, one day there were too many magic players. Most of the top floor was filled with fat sweaty men who refused to move. The 40K players were forced onto two tables. There were about twelve of us. It was not fun. The worst part was that we still had to pay for entry, despite not getting to game.
Oddly enough, after some words with the store owner the Magic players were confined downstairs permanently.
Along those lines...
Showed up on a Saturday at Noon to one (of the 4) local FLGS near me to play 40k with a friend. Magic players EVERYWHERE. Asked the store owner if he could make room for a table for us. He said he would check. There was one empty table at the back. Comes back a few minutes later and says he's full, no room for us to play. I asked him if we could use the empty table at the back. "Nope, that's reserved for magic players."
Haven't been back since.
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Have a few awkward moments that I have experienced all from one GW store before I went to Uni.
1) The child who burst into tears and sat in the corner crying after his Shas'o lost one wound in his first game, he got so upset that his brother had to call the mum to pick him up.
2) One of the regular teens who went there was quite a nice kid but was unfortunate in that he had a rather attractive mother that everyone knew about. He got a lot of stick over it, especially from the adult punters and staff. So one day he was getting the usual stick and his mum walked in and happened to hear what was being said about her being so hot etc. Cue lots of embarrassment upon realising she was there. What was worse this was a staff member saying this at the time.
3) This one was on me, I was playing against a father/son team who were quite friendly; Necrons vs my Khorne army. They both had strong Irish accents and as the game went on I started to pick up the accent, when I realised it sounded as though I was mocking him I got embarrassed and apologised, that was a more than a little awkward.
Another more recent event was that I had gone into town after the end of a series of nights followed by an early to get something from the GW store. There was a teen there who started following me around asking me questions as nobody had turned up to participate in the day's summer activities. I told him that I was tired and had had only an hours sleep in 36 hours yet he still would not leave me alone. The manager noticed this and encouraged him to leave, which gave the whole store peace as there was no more disruptions.
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Ah, the crying kid. A friend of mine was on the receiving end of such a thing. This kid with his shiny new CSM Dreadnought decides to charge my friend's Seer Council in this massive game around the time of the EoT campaign (so, 3rd ed. Eldar). My mate asks him multiple times if he thinks this is a wise move, as he could see exactly where this was going and how it would end up, this was back in the days when Witchblades tripled the user's strength vs. vehicles. The kid charged in and the Dread promptly destroyed due to the sheer mass of high initiative S9 attacks coming down on it.
The kid then bawls his eyes out and runs out the store. We all have a complete look of disbelief on our faces. Same went for the kid that failed Cypher's "no VP for you!" save (4+ on 3D6). That one, however was funny.
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Another more recent event was that I had gone into town after the end of a series of nights followed by an early to get something from the GW store. There was a teen there who started following me around asking me questions as nobody had turned up to participate in the day's summer activities. I told him that I was tired and had had only an hours sleep in 36 hours yet he still would not leave me alone. The manager noticed this and encouraged him to leave, which gave the whole store peace as there was no more disruptions.
I think it's some kind of international law that mandates all hobby type stores are required to have one weird Creepo who continually talks to strangers uninvited about stuff they don't care about.
Another more recent event was that I had gone into town after the end of a series of nights followed by an early to get something from the GW store. There was a teen there who started following me around asking me questions as nobody had turned up to participate in the day's summer activities. I told him that I was tired and had had only an hours sleep in 36 hours yet he still would not leave me alone. The manager noticed this and encouraged him to leave, which gave the whole store peace as there was no more disruptions.
I think it's some kind of international law that mandates all hobby type stores are required to have one weird Creepo who continually talks to strangers uninvited about stuff they don't care about.
We had a kid that would always ask everyone when getting their models out "Are they Dark Eldar?"
Every.
Frikkin'.
Time.
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Users on ignore- 53.
If you break apart my or anyone else's posts line by line I will not read them.
And as for that story of the Black and white spacemarine on the black and white bike.......
My fingers, eyes, brain and soul are revolting as i type this......
WHO MADE THAT HORROR!?!?!?!?
Phobos wrote: I think it's some kind of international law that mandates all hobby type stores are required to have one weird Creepo who continually talks to strangers uninvited about stuff they don't care about.
definitely.
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I worked at an FLGS for 6 years and was a regular tournament goer for years before that. You could say I've seen a few awkward gamer moments in the same way you'd say climbing Mount Everest is a bit of a hike. 2 events stand above the others however.
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There was a RTT player pretty well known in the southern California area back in 3rd edition for his yellow Black Templar army that he had based on the actual Crusades (this becomes important in a bit). He was a very good player and won quite a few of the RTTs and Grand Tournaments (back when GW still did such things) with what was at the time the most powerful army you could field. While this player was a really nice guy he would club baby seals without batting an eyelash if it got him more tournament points and people hated playing him because of it. After every game he used to give his opponent a custom t-shirt he had made that was crimson with a white cross: the heraldry for his army since his BTs were based on the actual Crusades and worshipped Jesus, not the Emporer. The back had some choice bible verses, ones about righteous vengeance and the fury of God being brought against God's foes and such. The player was not shy about sharing his personal faith or bringing it into the game, another thing that rubbed some people raw.
One of the regulars, a very loud, very opinionated, very boisterous former US Marine didn't take very kindly to being soundly handed his arse and then given a shirt that was preaching at him, so he promptly took it outside, pulled out his cigarette lighter and burned it in the parking lot. Everybody just kind of nervously laughed it off and went on like it didn't happen, but the rest of the night was pretty awkward and there was more than a little deliberately avoided looks. I've got a dozen stories about Loud Opinionated Former US Marine, but this one pretty much encompasses all the others and certainly this one was much-discussed for months afterward.
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Probably the worst for me personally was a confrontation between a few regulars while I was working. I'll just call them Bob, Painter, Friend and Brother. Bob had had an army painted for him by Painter. Bob also had a lot of money issues and family issues that affected his gaming quite a bit (and his ability to pay rent) and so he sold the army even though he still owed the painter quite a bit of money for it. Painter, being a true gamer-geek, was this super nice, VERY timid guy that never confronted Bob about it, but Painter's bestest buddy and childhood Friend had no such problems.
Months go by and Bob's been dodging Painter, or more specifically, Bob's been dodging Friend and the Painter's 300 pound, 6'2" gorilla of a Brother who have taken up the cause on Painter's behalf. Clearly enough is enough, Bob owes Painter money, and they know Bob's been gaming again so they decide it's a grand idea to confront him mob-strongarm style about it. In the back of the store. During regular game night. While bob is playing a 14 year old kid at 40k while a half dozen other games are going on. And I'm the only one working. Fan-bleeping-tastic. I see the 2 walk to the back of the shop, hear them start arguing, then Bob starts screaming for help. Now I'm stuck in the middle trying to keep the 2 from pounding Bob into the ground. I like Bob, but he certainly brought this on himself, and yet this kind of thing CAN NOT happen in a store where children are trying to play games and I tell them as much, not-quite-yelling at them about how incredibly stupid it is for them to do this and not-quite-yelling at Bob for causing all the drama to begin with. I'm 24 everyone else involved has well over 10 years on me, but I proceed to give them my best verbal lashing to convince them they're all acting like petulant children. Thankfully I carry enough clout with them that it works and they all feel bad and kind of stupid and apologetic and I don't have to call the police, which of course is probably the real reason they feel so bad and sorry.
I convince everybody involved to trade current contact info and ban them all from the shop until they get it resolved and give Bob and extra helping of "get your crap sorted" as he packs up his brand new 40k army (yeah) to leave. Not suprpisingly the rest of the games ended pretty shortly and pretty quietly after that and I got an early night out of it. Bob pretty much stayed clear of the store for a couple months till it blew over (and payed what he owed) and I don't think I ever saw Friend or Brother after that, which is fine by me because I was pretty salty about having to break up an almost-fight and lecture grown men almost twice my age.
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I was just getting back into gaming after taking a couple of years out due to the local gamers' social graces and personal hygiene skills. There was a new games club starting up in the city centre, which was perfect for me since I don't drive and the other games clubs are on the complete opposite end of town.
- You'd have thought a new club might have been an opportune time for all the gamers going to a) shower, b) wear clean clothes and c) wear deodrant. I was wrong, and being in a cramped pub function room with only one small window was not a pleasant experience for my nose.
- I overheard numerous rape "jokes" about the only lass in the room.
- "LITTLE GIRLS?! YUM YUM YUM!!!" - shouted out by a bloke who hadn't showered in days at least.
- One of the club organisers made comparisons between myself and Jimmy Saville after I didn't like one of the latest GW releases.
This is the same group that would:
- Gather in the window in the GW store and make comments on the lasses going in and out of Anne Summers (a lingerie shop) a couple of doors down.
- One of them challenged THE ONLY GIRL IN THE STORE to game, bought a brand new Daemonettes army especially for the occasion and spent the whole game stroking them and asking if she liked his army.
- One of them felt it necessary to stroke his (unwashed) moobs to try and distract you mid game.
I was just getting back into gaming after taking a couple of years out due to the local gamers' social graces and personal hygiene skills. There was a new games club starting up in the city centre, which was perfect for me since I don't drive and the other games clubs are on the complete opposite end of town.
- You'd have thought a new club might have been an opportune time for all the gamers going to a) shower, b) wear clean clothes and c) wear deodrant. I was wrong, and being in a cramped pub function room with only one small window was not a pleasant experience for my nose.
- I overheard numerous rape "jokes" about the only lass in the room.
- "LITTLE GIRLS?! YUM YUM YUM!!!" - shouted out by a bloke who hadn't showered in days at least.
- One of the club organisers made comparisons between myself and Jimmy Saville after I didn't like one of the latest GW releases.
This is the same group that would:
- Gather in the window in the GW store and make comments on the lasses going in and out of Anne Summers (a lingerie shop) a couple of doors down.
- One of them challenged THE ONLY GIRL IN THE STORE to game, bought a brand new Daemonettes army especially for the occasion and spent the whole game stroking them and asking if she liked his army.
- One of them felt it necessary to stroke his (unwashed) moobs to try and distract you mid game.
Fun times!
Wow... that's actually slightly terrifying. I'm surprised at the obvious amount of perverts among this group, most groups I've been in contact with will make the occasional vulgar joke, but that's a bit extreme.
I'm not sure if these people ever realized that objectifying women isn't going to go make them immensely popular...
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red space marines, (almost angry enough!) 2000 points
Here's my P&M blog - http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/551978.page And here's a thread of my completed miniatures -
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/551971.page 'You have that the wrong way around. Space Hulk teaches the inmates how large numbers of fast moving vicious hand to hand combatants can over come a small number of gun armed adversaries, in a sequence of narrow corridors.' -Orlanth
Daedleh wrote: - One of them challenged THE ONLY GIRL IN THE STORE to game, bought a brand new Daemonettes army especially for the occasion and spent the whole game stroking them and asking if she liked his army.
That's pretty disturbing. Did THE ONLY GIRL IN THE STORE ever return?
Shotgun wrote: I don't think I will ever understand the mentality of people that feel the need to record and post their butthurt on the interwebs.
Daedleh wrote: I was just getting back into gaming after taking a couple of years out due to the local gamers' social graces and personal hygiene skills. There was a new games club starting up in the city centre, which was perfect for me since I don't drive and the other games clubs are on the complete opposite end of town.
- You'd have thought a new club might have been an opportune time for all the gamers going to a) shower, b) wear clean clothes and c) wear deodrant. I was wrong, and being in a cramped pub function room with only one small window was not a pleasant experience for my nose.
- I overheard numerous rape "jokes" about the only lass in the room.
- "LITTLE GIRLS?! YUM YUM YUM!!!" - shouted out by a bloke who hadn't showered in days at least.
- One of the club organisers made comparisons between myself and Jimmy Saville after I didn't like one of the latest GW releases.
This is the same group that would:
- Gather in the window in the GW store and make comments on the lasses going in and out of Anne Summers (a lingerie shop) a couple of doors down.
- One of them challenged THE ONLY GIRL IN THE STORE to game, bought a brand new Daemonettes army especially for the occasion and spent the whole game stroking them and asking if she liked his army.
- One of them felt it necessary to stroke his (unwashed) moobs to try and distract you mid game.
Fun times!
That......
That.........
That............
Im not sure what to say..... Why? Why would you do that? How could you be so socially challenged that you would think it appropriate to make RAPE JOKES about a girl WHOM IS IN THE FETHING ROOM And the Daemonettes part...... Why? What makes these people think that this is socially acceptable to behave in this way?
And the little girls bit... He didn't actually SHOUT that did he?
I feel quite lucky that my local store and my club have no members like this and would take serious action if there where such members to join...... NO I AM NOT TAMPTING FATE-NOT THE MOOBS, NOOOOOOOOO....... [Transmission ends]
Free from GW's tyranny and the hobby is looking better for it
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I think the biggest problem with that particular group is that a lot of them spent their entire teenage years hanging out in the GW store learning their social skills there. It's kind of a feedback loop too - a couple of "normal" people stop going because of the creeps means that there's a higher proportion of creeps for the teenagers to learn from. A higher proportion of creeps causes more "normal" people to stop going leading a higher proportion of creeps etc.
There's also a bit of an attitude that calling someone out on their behaviour = bullying so it doesn't happen very often. If I had been one of the regulars when I witnessed those incidents then damn that attitude - I'm calling them out on that. Being an outsider and calling someone out on what the group thinks is acceptable behaviour aint going to go down well.
I'm sure it's all anecdotal/confirmation bias, but I'm sure there's been a shift in the normal/creep ratio since I got back into the hobby ~10 years ago. I have heard similar sentiments expressed about that group elsewhere in the city. One lass stated that she was too creeped out by that group to ever go back to their club - no idea if it was one of the ones in the incidents I witnessed or yet another.
I think the biggest problem with that particular group is that a lot of them spent their entire teenage years hanging out in the GW store learning their social skills there. It's kind of a feedback loop too - a couple of "normal" people stop going because of the creeps means that there's a higher proportion of creeps for the teenagers to learn from. A higher proportion of creeps causes more "normal" people to stop going leading a higher proportion of creeps etc.
There's also a bit of an attitude that calling someone out on their behaviour = bullying so it doesn't happen very often. If I had been one of the regulars when I witnessed those incidents then damn that attitude - I'm calling them out on that. Being an outsider and calling someone out on what the group thinks is acceptable behaviour aint going to go down well.
I'm sure it's all anecdotal/confirmation bias, but I'm sure there's been a shift in the normal/creep ratio since I got back into the hobby ~10 years ago. I have heard similar sentiments expressed about that group elsewhere in the city. One lass stated that she was too creeped out by that group to ever go back to their club - no idea if it was one of the ones in the incidents I witnessed or yet another.
Believe that's no excuse, I spent most of my social experiences in my early years and in my 12-14/15 in a GW and I would not ever behave like that...... You just don't do that in society.
And whilst I understand your reasons, I would have called them on that. Its just not right that people can do that and get away with it, and quite frankly shouting what that other man did was down right sick.
But as for the shift, well I havnt noticed it yet.... But then again I only game at my club and I havnt been into GW for a looonnnng time. Atleast not to game, I still need to buy IG every now and again. I just hope that those creeps stay away from my area, as I do not wish for my groups reputation to become sullied by that kind of pervert.
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I think the biggest problem with that particular group is that a lot of them spent their entire teenage years hanging out in the GW store learning their social skills there.
But on a more serious note, I think there are some genuinely nice people in Games Workshop. I have a good relationship with a store manager here in Melbourne, and a lot of the people that go to GW Camberwell and GW Ringwood are quite decent.
Although this leads me on to a new awkward gaming experience...
I hadn't been to GW Ringwood for ages until recently, and there was a whole new group of people when I went in for the store's birthday.
One of them has been there forever, he looks about 16 but I think he's about 18, and he's a bit of an odd person.
We were playing fun make it up as you go along games, and whenever it was my turn, this kid had kinda just been acting kinda pissed off, I don't know why, he just seemed angry at me. I'd never talked to him before, or even seen him in years, so I don't know what prompted this...
It came to a head when I was asking the GM a question about if I could take a certain action, and this kid just yells at me, 'NO, YOU CAN'T! OK!'
I held up my hands and was like 'ok, ok' and everyone around the table was like 'calm down man' 'what was that for?'
The next turn the kid quit the game and went and painted.
I still have no idea what prompted him to get so mad... It was strange at the time, but afterwards it was pretty funny.
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Daedleh wrote: I think the biggest problem with that particular group is that a lot of them spent their entire teenage years hanging out in the GW store learning their social skills there.
Surely they go to school?
When me and my friends are alone we talk vulgar and make jokes that would put us in prison, but in public it's just not acceptable/excusable behaviour. Game store dwellers or no.
Shotgun wrote: I don't think I will ever understand the mentality of people that feel the need to record and post their butthurt on the interwebs.
gossipmeng wrote: I was just curious what some of your awkward gaming experiences have been at your FLGS or GW.
My most recent is when I was playing a game of 40k at my local GW. Sometimes it can be a tight squeeze to get past people near the tables. I was rolling my dice when I sensed someone standing really close to me (to my side, just out of sight for a good 30 seconds). I turn to see some guy a few inches from me just staring at me. I asked if he would like to get by and he replies "Yes". I said he should've just asked to squeeze by because I was busy focusing on my match. He said, "I prefer to just stare at people until they clue in".... andddddd this is pretty much why I would never allow my GF to step foot inside a GW.
The second thing that comes to mind is just after I finished a game of 40k, shook hands, and started packing up. My opponent asked what I do, so I went over my degree and how I got lucky and landed a cool job fairly fresh out of university. I ask him the same question in return. "I'm unemployed". Hmm okay what field do your work in "I didn't do anything past highschool", Hmm no worries what kind of work are looking to get into? "I don't know"...... (crickets). I can't really say anything to the guy at that point aside so it was rather awkward.
I always feel like I'm in the land of misfit toys when I go into GW, should be interesting to hear other people's perspectives.
You mean like walking into a FLGS and wondering if your the only person to have showered in the last day?
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The GW store manager around my area is awesome, stays open after hours for longer games and so on. We got 5 or 6 new gamers in after the "introduction to gaming 101" night.
However, the gamers themselves....I've seen one gamer "cut" himself purposefully in the middle of the store. I've seen downright cheaters, people purposefully flipping dice and changing hull points on vehicles to their advantage.
However, one of the guys in fremantle store, lets call him "bob"...came in one day. He came in and started painting and painting. The manager was out to lunch at that time, came in and saw.....FSA minis. Bob immediately was on the end of a tirade from the redshirt . Finally ended by the tossing of the whole case outside.
The GW was quiet for awhile, Bob ran outside and broke down because his $250 of FSA minis had smashed. Finally, someone called the police in from outside. Talked for about 45 minutes or so about the minis.
Doctadeth wrote: However, one of the guys in fremantle store, lets call him "bob"...came in one day. He came in and started painting and painting. The manager was out to lunch at that time, came in and saw.....FSA minis. Bob immediately was on the end of a tirade from the redshirt . Finally ended by the tossing of the whole case outside.
The GW was quiet for awhile, Bob ran outside and broke down because his $250 of FSA minis had smashed. Finally, someone called the police in from outside. Talked for about 45 minutes or so about the minis.
And I still have a bullet with his name on it...
Shotgun wrote: I don't think I will ever understand the mentality of people that feel the need to record and post their butthurt on the interwebs.
I would say the most awkward gaming moment wasn't really for myself but more so for my girlfriend. She came by to see my at the game store to see if I needed anything and just to surprise me and immediately as she came in the game room it went completely silent. She turned bright red and walked quickly to me because of everyone staring at her. Sadly after that she didn't ever really go back unless she was with me walking in and doesn't get to far from my side now.
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