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"GW models have no valid competition/comparison to other models on the market"

 Verviedi wrote:
I'd have to say "Most stupidist".

Or perhaps anything that the pilot and "bombardier" said when I ended up the tail gunner for a pair of vocal neo-nazis in Planetside 2. But that's a story for another day...

No its not. Do tell!


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 Vulcan wrote:
I'll call myself out on this one.

Before WE got their 8E book they had a reputation for being a weak army So when I was paired up against a WE army in a local I said to my friend "Oh good, this will be easy."

Then I found out how a really really good WE general can make fighting WE a real Vietnam experience...

WE? Wood Elves?

Not sure the guy was a gamer, but he was at the counter in a store that sells games so we'll go with it:

"The tolerance of homosexuality is what led to the fall of the Roman Empire."



There's just...so many....what the...gah. Still hurts my head to try and contort into the facsimile of (il-)logic that would lead to such a statement. Even the store owner, who leans fairly conservative, had to do the "let me stop you right there" kind of routine. I mean, sure, there were a myriad of factors that caused the fall of the Roman Empire, but in ranking them I'm pretty sure the use of lead pipes and serving dishes contributed far more than "tolerance of homosexuality."

Believing in superstitions regarding dice such as other people touching them, only using specific dice, rituals, putting a huge emphasis on "lucky" or "unlucky", etc.

This assumes the dice aren't loaded which is such a small percentage that it's similar to a conspiracy theory anyway if someone mentions "cheating dice".

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:
"Dark Eldar are overpowered."

Said during 7th edition.

"Tyranids are overpowered."

Said during 5th edition, by a mech IG player.

You must've faced the same guy I did, after my carnfex got done eating his commander. XD

Hate to quote this guy since I still play with him all the time, he just overestimates the ability of his models. Dude scouted up a wolf lord on a wolf, allowing me to charge him with 20 boyz, a warboss, and 3 meganobz. His response once the assault started was,

"I think you'll be surprised at how this goes," with a smug, completely genuine grin on his face.

To be fair, I was surprised, because somehow his wolflord only managed to get a single wound off of a boss nob before dying horribly.

 Bookwrack wrote:

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:
"Dark Eldar are overpowered."

Said during 7th edition.

"Tyranids are overpowered."

Said during 5th edition, by a mech IG player.

You must've faced the same guy I did, after my carnfex got done eating his commander. XD

My Trygon had just stacked 3 Leman Russ tanks on top of each other.

"You can't lose weight through just dieting."

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
"You can't lose weight through just dieting."

It's always hilarious when bro science or weight talk occurs.

"FRFSRF is overpowered, actually all Guard orders are overpowered and you should only be able to use them once a game like chapter tactics" - said by Timmy during 6th edition after the new SM codex had dropped.
Actually there are a bunch of quotes from him, but I'll spoiler them so you dont have to read them if you dont want to:


"I'll set myself a budget and stick to it" - myself, deluding myself into thinking I had any self control.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
"You can't lose weight through just dieting."

Well, he is sort of right. Long term. With no follow up. Not something I see as the dumbest thing ever said to you. You have had dumber things said to you, be honest. You had something dumber said today to you.

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:

 Bookwrack wrote:

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:
"Dark Eldar are overpowered."

Said during 7th edition.

"Tyranids are overpowered."

Said during 5th edition, by a mech IG player.

You must've faced the same guy I did, after my carnfex got done eating his commander. XD

My Trygon had just stacked 3 Leman Russ tanks on top of each other.

Hey, he's just making sure that the battlefield is tidy! There's nothing wrong with that!

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 Verviedi wrote:
I'd have to say "Most stupidist".

Or perhaps anything that the pilot and "bombardier" said when I ended up the tail gunner for a pair of vocal neo-nazis in Planetside 2. But that's a story for another day...

No its not. Do tell!

Very well.

Back in the day, I played quite a lot on Waterson, and occasionally hopped in public Liberators, to help them out by tail-gunning or belly-gunning. I jumped in this Liberator, was invited to a squad containing the pilot and belly-gunner, and was greeted through voice chat. We were talking about random stuff, until suddenly the pilot says "All hail our lord and saviour, Adolf Hitler".

I obviously questioned this, and was given a very thorough (and nonsensical) explanation as to why the Holocaust didn't happen (something about a disease outbreak), was called "Professor Goldstein", and was told that my historical knowledge was all false when I tried to tell them that their theories were bs. After about 5 minutes in this super awkward situation, we got shot down by a bunch of flak turrets, and I coincidentally had to go eat dinner, left the squad, disconnected, and only went back on the server a few days later.

"But your Sisters of Battle can't be black, because Sisters have to be pure.'

also

"Man, I really raped your Sisters last time."

" bolt action is to expensive, I'm sticking to Mtg" as he was opening his 10 packs of cards.. I stared at him like a dick was growing from his forehead.

"I don't understand why there aren't more female gamers..." then belched before wiping his Cheetos stained fingers across his greasy worn out shirt that stunk of stale sweat and old taco bell.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

WE? Wood Elves?

Sorry. Yes, Wood Elves.

 stanman wrote:
"I don't understand why there aren't more female gamers..." then belched before wiping his Cheetos stained fingers across his greasy worn out shirt that stunk of stale sweat and old taco bell.

Along with Hybrid's post, this, and having opponents give uncomfortably graphic descriptions of what casualties to my Soritas squads entail. Have had it happen separately over the years from a Dark Eldar player, a Space Marine player and one fielding Tyranids, I'm pretty sure marine opponents didn't get to hear that.

"This Creature Caster kickstarter is going to be awesome for my Daemon army" 3yrs later when he finally got his pledge that army was a distant memory

 Rolsheen wrote:
"This Creature Caster kickstarter is going to be awesome for my Daemon army" 3yrs later when he finally got his pledge that army was a distant memory

I missed the whole kickstarter fracas, but I recently got a CC pincer demon from eBay for quite cheap and I gotta say, it was one of my best purchases. Beautiful sculpt and mold. I'm a bit worried about painting it up though as I've washed it three times and it still seems really slippery in spots like it has some release agent remaining.

Various political stupidity that I won't start an argument over here.

Various "FW is illegal/overpowered/etc" comments.

Every player who has whined about how unfair and unrealistic it is when lasguns kill a space marine.

 Peregrine wrote:
Every player who has whined about how unfair and unrealistic it is when lasguns kill a space marine.

Do they elaborate further? I'm confused as to why getting vital organs cooked by a laser is considered unrealistic in terms of lethality?

I've got no particularly stupid 'quotes', but I've got my share of general stupid experiences/conversations.

I've had someone go on for thirty minutes about 'female space marines' and why they should be a thing, and literally no one cared enough to argue with him- yet he kept going on, as if he were preaching some kind of religion to us. And when someone finally told him to shut up and play the game with his models, he stormed out with them. He came back ten minutes later with his wife, who attempted to lecture us about being sexists. There were about four women and six men in the gaming room. We basically called him a spineless worm and laughed him and his obnoxious (and possibly high) wife out of the shop. They wrote a scathing review on facebook, but left their personal profiles public and this gave everyone some insights into their fetishes. Needless to say, nothing of value was lost when they said they no longer wished to be a customer.

A gamer once made the mistake of asking if we could wrap up our 40k game so he and his friends could use the table for D&D. The thing is, at this place- it was limited on tables and we were using our own personal table, and the establishment allowed us the floor space. When we told him it was our table, he went and... purchased a card table and came back, then stood over us huffing and whining. Weirdly, no one showed up to play with him. He just sat there flipping through his books.

I've had a gamer beg me for a box of models I'd just bought. Like, 'give me please'. He was ten years older than me.

I had a gamer actually Doxx me because he thought I had access to a private server. He then threatened to show up to my house and 'beat the IP address out of me'. It was my parents' house, and my father owns more firearms than most SWAT teams. I encouraged him to do it.

 Gordon Shumway wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
"You can't lose weight through just dieting."

Well, he is sort of right. Long term. With no follow up. Not something I see as the dumbest thing ever said to you. You have had dumber things said to you, be honest. You had something dumber said today to you.

He's not sort of anything. Diet determines weight. Exercise determines how you look after.

 Corrode wrote:

 Gordon Shumway wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
"You can't lose weight through just dieting."

Well, he is sort of right. Long term. With no follow up. Not something I see as the dumbest thing ever said to you. You have had dumber things said to you, be honest. You had something dumber said today to you.

He's not sort of anything. Diet determines weight. Exercise determines how you look after.

Nah man, gravity determines your weight. Some people were just born on the wrong planet. And if you believe what you just posted, I got a whole lot of magazines I can sell you real cheap. They have tons of diet plans in them.

nareik wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:
Every player who has whined about how unfair and unrealistic it is when lasguns kill a space marine.

Do they elaborate further? I'm confused as to why getting vital organs cooked by a laser is considered unrealistic in terms of lethality?

"My terminators have a 2+ armor save, which is really good, so they should never take wounds. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAH YOUR UNIT OF GUARDSMEN KILLED A TERMINATOR NOT FAIR NOT FAIR!!!!!"

 Gordon Shumway wrote:

 Corrode wrote:

 Gordon Shumway wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
"You can't lose weight through just dieting."

Well, he is sort of right. Long term. With no follow up. Not something I see as the dumbest thing ever said to you. You have had dumber things said to you, be honest. You had something dumber said today to you.

He's not sort of anything. Diet determines weight. Exercise determines how you look after.

Nah man, gravity determines your weight. Some people were just born on the wrong planet. And if you believe what you just posted, I got a whole lot of magazines I can sell you real cheap. They have tons of diet plans in them.

Mass (since we're being picky) is a function of energy. Energy in > energy out, mass increases, energy in < energy out, mass decreases. There's other far more complicated factors but that's it in a nutshell. Exercise obviously helps because it increases energy out, but tons of people successfully lose mass through diet alone. Whether you're sexy afterwards is the bit where exercise really matters.

"What do you mean, I need to take a shower? Unlike some of you nerds, I actually -work- for a living!"

-a stinky fat neckbeard, to a room of active-duty GI's.

 Corrode wrote:

 Gordon Shumway wrote:

 Corrode wrote:

 Gordon Shumway wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
"You can't lose weight through just dieting."

Well, he is sort of right. Long term. With no follow up. Not something I see as the dumbest thing ever said to you. You have had dumber things said to you, be honest. You had something dumber said today to you.

He's not sort of anything. Diet determines weight. Exercise determines how you look after.

Nah man, gravity determines your weight. Some people were just born on the wrong planet. And if you believe what you just posted, I got a whole lot of magazines I can sell you real cheap. They have tons of diet plans in them.

Mass (since we're being picky) is a function of energy. Energy in > energy out, mass increases, energy in < energy out, mass decreases. There's other far more complicated factors but that's it in a nutshell. Exercise obviously helps because it increases energy out, but tons of people successfully lose mass through diet alone. Whether you're sexy afterwards is the bit where exercise really matters.

The other "more complicated" factors is what makes the statement not so "most stupidest". Yeah, you will lose weight if you put less in, but it's the "long term with no follow up" bit from my post I think you might be overlooking. Regardless, this isn't a weight loss discussion.

 Peregrine wrote:
Every player who has whined about how unfair and unrealistic it is when lasguns kill a space marine.

My complaint about this is not why lasguns kill Space Marines. The armor can only absorb and disperse so much heat.

I'm still confused as to why in Shadow War, a lasgun or even a stubber pistol literally knocks a space marine on his ass if it hits him.