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 Sgt_Smudge wrote:
You don't need to measure how tall the Burj Khalifa is in millimetres, just like how you don't need to measure how old you are in seconds.

You need to measure how big the nuts and bolts that make up the Burj Khalifa are in millimetres. You need to measure how much a plasma pistol is worth in an Infantry Squad in pts even if the overall cost of the unit can be measured in PL.

nou wrote:
40k would prevail, as it always did, because this is a gakky game to begin with and everybody playing it deep down accepts this simple truth and endures whatever GW throws at them. Or rage quits along the way, as I once did, but then comes back after few years. Or decades.

Pts is seeing how good 40k can be at times, PL is accepting 40k at its worst and the we'll deal with it in our communities like we always have. But a lot of people haven't dealt with it and have quit over the years because of one balance problem or another. Pts can be better, but for that to happen GW has to believe that it can happen and that it is worth putting in the effort. When the "I prefer playing with half the points my opponents brings" and "I can't tell the difference between a plasma pistol and a las pistol" crowd comes in they need to be politely told to go back to licking paint off their brushes so that GW can hear the clamour for greater internal and external balance that the rest of us want.

I mean I was down for PL as a system before this thread but after talking to PL advocates I'm thinking it needs to go.

Andykp wrote:

How about we kill all the jews, written in an attempt at a German accent isn’t hypothetical, it happened. What eve argument you are trying to win, that gak won’t win it. Unless the argument is “am i a Nazi?” You would win that.

Now I am going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you aren’t a Nazi, but only just. What this definitely shows about you insectum7, is that you are incapable of a mature or sensible conversation, even about toys. I don’t believe for a second you didn’t think this would be offensive. You knew full well what you were saying was as gakky as it gets. So we’ll, done, I hope you are proud of yourself. You did a petty nasty thing to make yourself feel clever. But all you did was reveal what a prick you are. Bravo.

If that's your interpretation, you are a moron.

Of course I thought it was offensive, that was the whole effing point. A million facepalms for you, sir.

 vict0988 wrote:

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:
You don't need to measure how tall the Burj Khalifa is in millimetres, just like how you don't need to measure how old you are in seconds.

You need to measure how big the nuts and bolts that make up the Burj Khalifa are in millimetres. You need to measure how much a plasma pistol is worth in an Infantry Squad in pts even if the overall cost of the unit can be measured in PL.

nou wrote:
40k would prevail, as it always did, because this is a gakky game to begin with and everybody playing it deep down accepts this simple truth and endures whatever GW throws at them. Or rage quits along the way, as I once did, but then comes back after few years. Or decades.

Pts is seeing how good 40k can be at times, PL is accepting 40k at its worst and the we'll deal with it in our communities like we always have. But a lot of people haven't dealt with it and have quit over the years because of one balance problem or another. Pts can be better, but for that to happen GW has to believe that it can happen and that it is worth putting in the effort. When the "I prefer playing with half the points my opponents brings" and "I can't tell the difference between a plasma pistol and a las pistol" crowd comes in they need to be politely told to go back to licking paint off their brushes so that GW can hear the clamour for greater internal and external balance that the rest of us want.

Re: the bolded part
Why insult people? Seriously.

 vict0988 wrote:

 Sgt_Smudge wrote:
You don't need to measure how tall the Burj Khalifa is in millimetres, just like how you don't need to measure how old you are in seconds.

You need to measure how big the nuts and bolts that make up the Burj Khalifa are in millimetres. You need to measure how much a plasma pistol is worth in an Infantry Squad in pts even if the overall cost of the unit can be measured in PL.

That's if you're trying to build the Burj Khalifa. I'm not trying to build it - I'm just admiring the spectacle of the structure.

Leave the engineers to measure the nuts and bolts, let them measure them in millimetres, centimetres, micrometres even - but I'm not an engineer, just like how I'm not a points player.

When the "I prefer playing with half the points my opponents brings" and "I can't tell the difference between a plasma pistol and a las pistol" crowd comes in they need to be politely told to go back to licking paint off their brushes so that GW can hear the clamour for greater internal and external balance that the rest of us want.

So, in other words, screw the people who are enjoying themselves playing a game mode that you don't have to even play?

Also, "licking paint off their brushes" - again, what a charming remark to make about people who enjoy PL.

Did people miss the fact that it was intentionally inflammatory to prove a point that hypotheticals can make people angry or offend people?

Hecaton wrote:
I mean I was down for PL as a system before this thread but after talking to PL advocates I'm thinking it needs to go.

You call what you were doing "talking"? Last I remember, you were calling them "filthy casuals" who deserved to be gatekept.


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 TheBestBucketHead wrote:
Did people miss the fact that it was intentionally inflammatory to prove a point that hypotheticals can make people angry or offend people?

"Hahahahaha hey guys I just broke your kneecaps to show that people get upset when I break their kneecaps!! NOOOOOOO don't call me out on breaking your kneecaps, I only did it to prove a pooooooooooooint" - Insectum's logic.
No-one cares about the hypothetical. We care that it was a fething Holocaust comment, being related to how people feel about toy fething soldiers. I frankly don't care if it was intentional, and honestly, that makes it *worse* - the fact that Insectum knew it was a grim comment to make, and still thought it was a good idea.


If hypotheticals about TOY SOLDIERS make folks upset enough to go on tirades about how people who like PL are "paint lickers", "filthy casuals", and other choice phrases, they've got a bloody problem, that's what.

 TheBestBucketHead wrote:
Did people miss the fact that it was intentionally inflammatory to prove a point that hypotheticals can make people angry or offend people?

This is genuinely amazing to watch.