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 sing your life wrote:
I wish I could call this a joke, but they're probably being serious

"Probably"? It's the Daily Mail....

Now that rock is dead, drugs are hip and videogames are a billion-dollar business, it was only a matter of time before trash journalism found their new scapegoat in wargaming, or cosplay, or whatever other niche activity or subculture it deems aberrant.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Mazes and Monsters is a far out game.

+1 internet for the obtuse genre reference.

 LuciusAR wrote:

'You used your considerable computer, technical and strategy skills to spy on these women to the extent of putting a recording dictaphone in Ms Arbon's bag.'

I like that by this judge's account, Dakka is a mastermind-filled community of strategic and computer genuises.

Anyone feels like conspiring to take over the world

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:
trash journalism found their new scapegoat in cosplay, .

you westerners and your inferior cosplay abilites will never pose a threat to the glorious cosplay of the land of the rising sun!

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:
Now that rock is dead, drugs are hip and videogames are a billion-dollar business, it was only a matter of time before trash journalism found their new scapegoat in wargaming, or cosplay, or whatever other niche activity or subculture it deems aberrant.

Rock and roll ain't noise pollution...rock and roll will never die...

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:
Now that rock is dead, drugs are hip and videogames are a billion-dollar business, it was only a matter of time before trash journalism found their new scapegoat in wargaming, or cosplay, or whatever other niche activity or subculture it deems aberrant.

Yup, pretty much the Daily Mail's M.O.

 easysauce wrote:

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:
trash journalism found their new scapegoat in cosplay, .

you westerners and your inferior cosplay abilites will never pose a threat to the glorious cosplay of the land of the rising sun!

Nicely done.

I have never murdered anyone and I have never played Necromunda.

Make of it what you will.

Clearly, Necromunda is the problem, for I have never played, nor have I murdered!

Wait, the guy in the report never actually played either, he just said he was. So...

 Kilkrazy wrote:
I have never murdered anyone and I have never played Necromunda.

Make of it what you will.

I play Necromunda, and have never been caught after murdering anyone....

The Auld Grump, the assize was most concerned about the manner in which Dr. Lucky turned the tables on those that had gathered at his mansion, each with the intent to murder him.

At the time of writing Dr. Lucky is still at large, and only parts of the would be murderers have been recovered.

I play mainly as Scavvies in Necromunda. Should I be concerned about reverting to cannibalism?

Well, killing in Necromunda I take it is like a personnel choice in the game. We practice whole sale killing moving entire squads across the table to engage other squads. Make Pask the number target to git rid of in his Leman Russ with the freaking 20+ die roll of death. No clock towers near any of you is there?

 liquidjoshi wrote:
Clearly, Necromunda is the problem, for I have never played, nor have I murdered!

Wait, the guy in the report never actually played either, he just said he was. So...

No he played, apparently, he just missed his regular dose.


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 Grimtuff wrote:
I play mainly as Scavvies in Necromunda. Should I be concerned about reverting to cannibalism?

Only if you stop playing.

I hope this bloke gets sent to Pentonville Prison for this!

No harm in having a another Necromunda player in the area...

 Orlanth wrote:

 liquidjoshi wrote:
Clearly, Necromunda is the problem, for I have never played, nor have I murdered!

Wait, the guy in the report never actually played either, he just said he was. So...

No he played, apparently, he just missed his regular dose.

Ah, right, that would explain it.

Burn the heretic!

Wait...

The problem with Necromunda being the cause of violence is that modern GW gamers would first have to ask their parents about what this cool game called Necromunda that they keep talking about actually is.................

 Orlanth wrote:
Actually not playing Necromunda leads to murder.

If the accused turned up for his Necromunda game at the time of the murder he would have got his murderous urges harmlessly dissipated by rolling to hit.

That's actually literally true in this instance. I mean, Necromunda was his fake alibi. If he had been playing, then he wouldn't have been at the murder scene, murdering someone.

Ah, the Daily Fail. A bizarre publication that is quite mad. What's sadder is the Fail is currently the most read daily paper in the UK. For me, anyone of education or sense or moral decency wouldn't touch that hypocritical rag with a barge pole.

I'll leave off with a quote from Stephen Fry which just about sums this up:

"How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?"

The only way that article could have been more typical of the daily mail, is if it included a reference to an article that claims wargaming causes cancer:
http://www.anorak.co.uk/288298/scare-stories/the-daily-mails-list-of-things-that-give-you-cancer-from-a-to-z.html/

 Leigen_Zero wrote:
The only way that article could have been more typical of the daily mail, is if it included a reference to an article that claims wargaming causes cancer:

Immigrant cancer.

Well that's more than GW has said about Necromunda in the past decade.

 Orlanth wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Mazes and Monsters is a far out game.

+1 internet for the obtuse genre reference.

-1 internet for saying the word obtuse when you should have said obscure. Or oblique.

 Grimtuff wrote:
I play mainly as Scavvies in Necromunda. Should I be concerned about reverting to cannibalism?

Friend of mine plays Spyrers. Is he going to start hunting poor people?

 Leigen_Zero wrote:
The only way that article could have been more typical of the daily mail, is if it included a reference to an article that claims wargaming causes cancer:
http://www.anorak.co.uk/288298/scare-stories/the-daily-mails-list-of-things-that-give-you-cancer-from-a-to-z.html/

Good grief, I thought my opinion of that worthless rag couldn't get any worse. Apparently, two of the many things which cause cancer are being a man and being a woman.

 sebster wrote:

 Orlanth wrote:
Actually not playing Necromunda leads to murder.

If the accused turned up for his Necromunda game at the time of the murder he would have got his murderous urges harmlessly dissipated by rolling to hit.

That's actually literally true in this instance. I mean, Necromunda was his fake alibi. If he had been playing, then he wouldn't have been at the murder scene, murdering someone.

The post was also intended to have multiple meanings, it's how I like my humour.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Orlanth wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
Mazes and Monsters is a far out game.

+1 internet for the obtuse genre reference.

-1 internet for saying the word obtuse when you should have said obscure. Or oblique.

Oops, good catch, that was clumsy of me. +1 internet, -1 internet, thus is the balance of the universe restored.