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So, recently, I was out with my wife and her co-workers, and it turns out a dude she works with is into Blood Bowl (Games Workshop miniatures game, basically tabletop football with elves and orcs and shit like that). Blood Bowl has a pretty small fanbase seeing as GW has discontinued it, so it was nice to meet another fan. We talk for a bit about it, and decide to play a pick-up game using his minis (all of my minis are in a box at my mom's place in Ontario).
We play, and I decide a couple days later, fuck it I may as well and see if the GW store in town has any Blood Bowl minis collecting dust sitting in a back corner somewhere. If not, then maybe there's like, a cheap Warhammer Fantasy regiment box of plastic orcs (sorry, I guess they're officially called "Orruks" now) that I can hack the axes and stuff off of to make Blood Bowl guys.
I walk in, and the two dudes working there immediately stop what they are doing and go up to me and say "Can I help you?" with the sort of tone you take when you're talking to a teenager you're suspecting of shoplifting. I say "Yeah, uh, I used to play Blood Bowl back in the day, I was wondering if you guys still have any Blood Bowl minis kicking around"
"We don't. We haven't carried that game for years." he says, in this really hostile tone.
"Okay, well, wasn't sure, I did hear something about GW possibly relaunching Blood Bowl soon." I'm trying to like, maybe take the hostility down a few notches, y'know? Break the ice with some friendly conversation?
And a dude I can only describe as a ponytail in the way you can describe a human being as like, a mullet or a pompadour says to me "I haven't heard anything about that." with the tone of basically get out.
At this point I've had enough. This is the second time I've basically been immediately rustled out of a Games Workshop store as an unwelcome outsider, so fuck this shit. I say "Cool story bro. Okay, well, I'm gonna leave then. Peace." and I walked out.
Fuck Games Workshop. Fuck their grody clubhouse stores. I hope they go under and their IP gets bought out by companies that don't hate money.
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
I would say it's a violation of the spirit of the game. Aggressive, very rude. It was simply Not Done.
what makes it aggressive or rude?
It's like yelling in exultation. It's a combo dominance behavior/victory celebration that operates, in the moment, on an animal level. It appeals to people who connect to sport in that mode and see the displays as genuine and proper. It offends against the strict decorum civilizers who would like the object-level conflict of sport to play out less like a frank animal struggle and instead get wrapped up under a layer of gamesmanship which includes utmost respect, handshakes all around, we played a good game, etc.
Or that's my sense.
(Guess which camp I'm in).
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TL DRNot at all confident in his reflexive opinions of thingsRegistered Userregular
bioware romances are actually great btw i love them and they're way better than considering whether i want to go with crossbow reload speed or boot tightness around calves fyi hth
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
It sad to see Fox News eating Megyn Kelly alive because she stepped out of line.
Part of me is like "Well, that's what you get for throwing your lot in with people that think of you as lesser for having a vagina"
but the part of me that is not terrible is pretty much like, what utter fucking shitcocks
girl I went to school with just got arrested for felony larceny charges. that makes about ten kids I went to school with who have wound up committing a felony
girl I went to school with just got arrested for felony larceny charges. that makes about ten kids I went to school with who have wound up committing a felony
It sad to see Fox News eating Megyn Kelly alive because she stepped out of line.
Part of me is like "Well, that's what you get for throwing your lot in with people that think of you as lesser for having a vagina"
but the part of me that is not terrible is pretty much like, what utter fucking shitcocks
Eh she's fed this beast as much as anyone else at this point. She's frankenstein surprised the monster hates her the same way she hated everyone else.
She's the worst kind of "this effected me" person who changes their mind.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
Also, @Tav , thank you for posting that article. I don't actively seek out Patton Oswalt news, and I'm always glad to read what he writes about grief, as it has been very therapeutic for my own.
It sad to see Fox News eating Megyn Kelly alive because she stepped out of line.
Part of me is like "Well, that's what you get for throwing your lot in with people that think of you as lesser for having a vagina"
but the part of me that is not terrible is pretty much like, what utter fucking shitcocks
Conservative radio folks had Opinions about the Newt exchange today.
They... veered dangerously close to being outright gross. Like there was a pot on a hot stove top, and the lid would move ever so imperceptibly now and again.
I would say it's a violation of the spirit of the game. Aggressive, very rude. It was simply Not Done.
what makes it aggressive or rude?
cred obviously falls on the other side of the debate line here (and tbf idk how big a deal this is anymore) but ultimate has this "spirit of the game" thing that's all about a higher level of sportsmanship and is mostly borne out of the fact that for the longest time the game was unreffed even at the highest levels. obviously it's fucking hard to make unbiased calls in the heat of the moment when you also want to win really badly, so eventually the powers that be got their heads out of their asses.
anyways, part of that whole deal was that people found spiking/excessive celebration to be Too Much
but to that I say take your polite clapping over to golf im full of adrenaline right now and im gonna express it
Be nonchalant when you win. "Hm? Oh, I guess I was playing a game."
bioware romances are actually great btw i love them and they're way better than considering whether i want to go with crossbow reload speed or boot tightness around calves fyi hth
I like the concept
I'm just usually left feeling pretty meh about the actual execution
(solas was still great tho)
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
that apathy of getting older is something that bugged me recently
i realised that the last time i had genuinely excitement about the unknown was when i went to the states last year because i was travelling to a different continent to tell jokes which was literally one of my dreams
now i am working in an office and travelling for gigs means i just less sleep and time to relax, i feel really worn out about everything
abolish the wage system, i think is what i'm getting at
The Games Workshop of the last few years has been pretty great. It's not like nerd stores aren't filled with guys like that on the whole.
Grody nerd holes are a dime a dozen, they don't have to be GW to be awful. There's one in this town (Yellowjacket Comics) that is known around town for being really heinous. My wife works with a bunch of nerdy women, none of them will go into Yellowjacket, they all have stories. The place has an odor to it that is best described as "convention funk". Year round.
My experience with GW stores is if you are "their demographic" they're perfectly fine and fun nerdy clubhouses. It's just that their demographic is straight white cis men that are... how do I say this gently... very conventionally nerdy. Considering how very little of what I just described applies to me, I almost get hissed at when I walk into these places.
The last time I got rustled out of a GW store before this, Cass was with me. This time, I swear to god if I had stayed I was gonna get spritzed with Mountain Dew from an aspergillum.
So this post is probably going to be nonsense. I want to talk about it anyway.
I used to get this feeling sometimes. I don't know what it was, and I don't know how to describe it. It was a very pleasant feeling, though, and before any dorks ask, no it was not drugs or alcohol related. If I really had to narrow it down, then maybe it was a sense of wonder? Excitement for new things in life? I don't know. It is a long gone feeling, either way. i would think this longing for it is the early sign of a midlife crisis, but even when I used to feel it, I would always try to hold on to it as long as I could, becayse it would be so fleeting. Like the feeling of nostalgia before there is any reason to feel nostalgia. I dunno. I mostly just want a word to describe the feeling but even trying to write about it, it is still super cryptic and vague as fuck.
Maybe that's how a not coward feels? I wouldn't know.
I ordered delivery more than an hour ago and the delivery time keeps getting pushed back 15 minutes. But there is no policy (that I can tell) for refunds on very late delivery. I made an effort to come home at a reasonable time and get healthy vegetarian food and instead I can't even play League because my food might maybe arrive.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
The Games Workshop of the last few years has been pretty great. It's not like nerd stores aren't filled with guys like that on the whole.
Grody nerd holes are a dime a dozen, they don't have to be GW to be awful.
That reminds me, I used the word "grody" for the first time in a very long time last night while talking to my roommate's son about something. Then I was like "Grody? Who still uses that word?" and felt old.
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We play, and I decide a couple days later, fuck it I may as well and see if the GW store in town has any Blood Bowl minis collecting dust sitting in a back corner somewhere. If not, then maybe there's like, a cheap Warhammer Fantasy regiment box of plastic orcs (sorry, I guess they're officially called "Orruks" now) that I can hack the axes and stuff off of to make Blood Bowl guys.
I walk in, and the two dudes working there immediately stop what they are doing and go up to me and say "Can I help you?" with the sort of tone you take when you're talking to a teenager you're suspecting of shoplifting. I say "Yeah, uh, I used to play Blood Bowl back in the day, I was wondering if you guys still have any Blood Bowl minis kicking around"
"We don't. We haven't carried that game for years." he says, in this really hostile tone.
"Okay, well, wasn't sure, I did hear something about GW possibly relaunching Blood Bowl soon." I'm trying to like, maybe take the hostility down a few notches, y'know? Break the ice with some friendly conversation?
And a dude I can only describe as a ponytail in the way you can describe a human being as like, a mullet or a pompadour says to me "I haven't heard anything about that." with the tone of basically get out.
At this point I've had enough. This is the second time I've basically been immediately rustled out of a Games Workshop store as an unwelcome outsider, so fuck this shit. I say "Cool story bro. Okay, well, I'm gonna leave then. Peace." and I walked out.
Fuck Games Workshop. Fuck their grody clubhouse stores. I hope they go under and their IP gets bought out by companies that don't hate money.
It's like yelling in exultation. It's a combo dominance behavior/victory celebration that operates, in the moment, on an animal level. It appeals to people who connect to sport in that mode and see the displays as genuine and proper. It offends against the strict decorum civilizers who would like the object-level conflict of sport to play out less like a frank animal struggle and instead get wrapped up under a layer of gamesmanship which includes utmost respect, handshakes all around, we played a good game, etc.
Or that's my sense.
(Guess which camp I'm in).
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Part of me is like "Well, that's what you get for throwing your lot in with people that think of you as lesser for having a vagina"
but the part of me that is not terrible is pretty much like, what utter fucking shitcocks
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Really?
wow we must have been the bad generation.
Eh she's fed this beast as much as anyone else at this point. She's frankenstein surprised the monster hates her the same way she hated everyone else.
She's the worst kind of "this effected me" person who changes their mind.
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but they....GW's re-releasing....blood bowl...
I don't understaaaaaaaaaaand
all my local games stores won't shut up about it
theres a website! I don
They would've likely said or done anything to make me leave, dude.
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i got my registration in the mail and it came with a sticker that says 17
but it doesn't have a sticker for the left side of my license plate that says october!?
i've been hoodwinked or
They... veered dangerously close to being outright gross. Like there was a pot on a hot stove top, and the lid would move ever so imperceptibly now and again.
Don't you already have an october on your car?
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Nah cause it will renew the same month next year right? I don't think I got a second sticker either.
Be nonchalant when you win. "Hm? Oh, I guess I was playing a game."
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I like the concept
I'm just usually left feeling pretty meh about the actual execution
(solas was still great tho)
we will never speak of this again
Preacher why am I special
i have found all game store staff to be either apathetic and detached or super enthusiastic and helpful
why actively drive someone out
I just wanted you to especially know Chu's shame. Like I had to highlight it for you, a shame cocktail.
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i realised that the last time i had genuinely excitement about the unknown was when i went to the states last year because i was travelling to a different continent to tell jokes which was literally one of my dreams
now i am working in an office and travelling for gigs means i just less sleep and time to relax, i feel really worn out about everything
abolish the wage system, i think is what i'm getting at
A story of betrayal on par with rugged and Ludious
Grody nerd holes are a dime a dozen, they don't have to be GW to be awful. There's one in this town (Yellowjacket Comics) that is known around town for being really heinous. My wife works with a bunch of nerdy women, none of them will go into Yellowjacket, they all have stories. The place has an odor to it that is best described as "convention funk". Year round.
My experience with GW stores is if you are "their demographic" they're perfectly fine and fun nerdy clubhouses. It's just that their demographic is straight white cis men that are... how do I say this gently... very conventionally nerdy. Considering how very little of what I just described applies to me, I almost get hissed at when I walk into these places.
The last time I got rustled out of a GW store before this, Cass was with me. This time, I swear to god if I had stayed I was gonna get spritzed with Mountain Dew from an aspergillum.
somewhere dk emerges from his coffin, deeply aroused
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Maybe that's how a not coward feels? I wouldn't know.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr