Diplomacy is also great for people who don't mind getting drunk while playing and then getting into wrestling matches/fistfights to blow off some steam.
I am usually incredibly cheap in Soulcaliber. I just use the rapier guy and spam forward attacks until the other person dies. Against anyone who is actually good this just means they counter or block or dodge and then kill me though.
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While racing light mechs, your Urbanmech comes in second place, but only because it ran out of ammo.
The legality of lolicon is sorta shaky, and varies pretty wildly by area.
It can't be prosecuted under child porn laws, since there are no real kids involved. But, it can be prosecuted under general obscenity laws. A friend of mine is a child porn/obscenity prosecutor with the DOJ. Probably about 95% of the cases they go after are real live child porn videos. Most of the other 5% are obscenity prosecutions involving people distributing simulated or animated child porn.
It's not illegal to own it, but you are pushing your luck if you show it publicly. Distributing it is even more risky.
I remember someone being brought up on CP charges within the last couple of months for cartoon images. I can't remember if it was here in the US... something tells me it may have been in Australia. The artice was on Slashdot, I'll check there.
are the Korean Starcraft players really THAT good?
I've heard a rumor that they are genetically bred to specifically play Starcraft. Not sure of the validity of this statement, but it wouldn't surprise me.
are the Korean Starcraft players really THAT good?
Yes.
Yes they are.
It's very scary.
It's the national sport there. People think that's a joke, but it's really not far off the reality.
Starcraft just hit at the right time, with the right style and the right gameplay, and became a phenomenon in South Korea as a result. Televised tournaments on national TV, soft drinks, shoes, it's all there. When Blizzard revealed SC2, they did it to a select group of high profile SK players first. Heck the last update to Starcraft was purely to improve language compatibility for South Koreans IIRC. Pro SC players are mini celebrities, that's not a joke. Right now, Blizzard are balancing SC2, and they're doing it with a large amount of help from players on the professional circuit.
I mean... I've been spanked up pretty quickly when I play on BattleNet, but 3 minutes??? Geez! I can't even imagine what the hell to do in under 3 minutes that would get you enough offensive units to send out like that (for the record, I NEVER play Zerg, primarily Protoss, but I have the most fun as Terran).
I think my roommate might be a nerd rager. He plays SFIV competatively, Spic Tom / Vigilante being the two names he goes by. He plays it all day. Every day. It's amazing how dedicated he is. But boy does he get pissed when he loses to a random person online. He always blames lag. Or the person is a scrub. He's never lost an online match fair and square. It's amazing to listen to him bitch.
I am usually incredibly cheap in Soulcaliber. I just use the rapier guy and spam forward attacks until the other person dies. Against anyone who is actually good this just means they counter or block or dodge and then kill me though.
Yeah, anyone who's played the game for more than ten minutes should be able to guard impact that. Raphael's forward attacks are so quick you don't even need to time it, just spam the impact and he's fubar.
My only brush with nerd rage was actually with Soul Calibur 2. In college we played it more than we went to classes, which put any visitors who decided they'd like to try in the unfortunate predicament of getting ass raped like a red-headed 11 year old in a Tijuana prison.
I typically used Mitsurugi, and in SC2 he had a particularly ridiculous extra weapon that looked like a blue damascus sword. It had something like 200% additional damage and increased the user's defense a hefty amount, but completely removed the ability to block. This basically resulted in the opponent getting their face cut off in a couple combo's with me saying "I can't even block, all you have to do is hit me!" This was blatantly untrue, as without the opposing player using someone like Sigfried or Astaroth they basically couldn't afford to get hit. At all. We're talking half the life bar gone by the end of the first combo.
Without going into the exact specifics, it is a very bad idea to do this to someone who had never drank before the time in question, never played SC2 before the time in question, and has lost five or six rounds in a row without getting a single hit in. Said person might find the situation disagreeable, start wailing gibberish, and pull on the controller cord as hard as possible. The PS2 then might fly off the top of the tv like some kind of black plastic hate missile only to crash into the glass center table in the middle of the room, shattering it.
Leaving you with a broken PS2, a broken table, and a room full of drunken idiots laughing their asses off at one poor bastard (until they comprehend the broken console and surplus of glass shards in the room) who's crime was walking into a meat grinder.
I think my roommate might be a nerd rager. He plays SFIV competatively, Spic Tom / Vigilante being the two names he goes by. He plays it all day. Every day. It's amazing how dedicated he is. But boy does he get pissed when he loses to a random person online. He always blames lag. Or the person is a scrub. He's never lost an online match fair and square. It's amazing to listen to him bitch.
Granted, I'm not a very good SC player, and when I played my Korean friends I had not played SC at all in years.
But yes, everything you hear about "Man Koreans love SC" is absolutely true. I'm trying to teach them English, and if I want to for sure get some responses from my students, I talk about SC and Terrans and Siege Tanks and they are onboard.
I think my roommate might be a nerd rager. He plays SFIV competatively, Spic Tom / Vigilante being the two names he goes by. He plays it all day. Every day. It's amazing how dedicated he is. But boy does he get pissed when he loses to a random person online. He always blames lag. Or the person is a scrub. He's never lost an online match fair and square. It's amazing to listen to him bitch.
I scream and yell while playing SFIV, scared the crap out of my girlfriend.
I'm a pretty huge nerd by most standards, but somehow I had managed to miss out on Warhammer Fantasy Battles until pretty recently. I mean, I knew what it was, but I wasn't huge on painting or assembling $500 worth of miniatures so I gave it a miss. A friend of mine, we'll call him M, is pretty hard core about it. One of those guys with half a dozen painted, tournament sized armies for WFB, plus a couple of 40K armies and assorted other Games Workshop merch. M bought a house a few years ago and has a room dedicated to Warhammer. He would always invite people over to play games at the house, and I checked it out a couple of times and played against him and a couple of other friends of his.
A few months ago, M emailed me an ad that this other GW fan had posted on a local mailing list about the subject. This dude had a huge quantity of Orks and was disposing of them for $150. M told me this was a good deal, and I run Dungeons and Dragons, so it's not like I can't find a use for Ork miniatures. So I buy these Orks and play some games with my friends with them. Orks aren't the greatest army in Warhammer but they're fun.
Over the course of the summer, M starts making some noise about going and playing some games at the GW store. I figure that this might constitute a Warhammer overdose for me, but M eventually wears me down and I try it out. The first time I just play M and this other mutual friend and it's all good and I agree to go back.
Now here is the thing: Over the summer, the GW store essentially becomes a sort of nerd babysitting service. Nerd kids spend all day there under the watchful eye of the minimum wage staff. So we head in and the place is chock-a-block with teenage Warhammer fans. It is today that I made the fateful decision to play Warhammer with some guy I'd never met before.
I wound up paired with these morbidly obese guy who I thought was a college student due to his size, but was actually like 14. He had a Tomb King army (Egyptian themed skeletons and shit) and promptly stomped the ever living shit out of the Orks I was playing. Everything he did came with an associated comment about how stupid I was, how ugly the Orks were, essentially. Basically a bunch of smack talk that culminated with him bellowing "MASSACRE" at the end of the game.
Now M gets it in his head that this might be a negative experience that would put me off future games, so he challenges the guy. He busts out this Lizardman army he had recently purchased and goes to town on this kid. M's opponent doesn't take this very well. He had a gorgeously painted army (actually found out he had bought this painted from the store's display case), and when it became apparent that M was going to roll him, and badly, he got increasingly agitated. He started throwing each of his minis into the toolbox that they had come packed in, and he did so with increasing force as the game went on. This ended with him hurling one of his priest models and missing the box, so that it hit the floor and broke into pieces. At this point he started cursing a blue streak and getting kicked out of the store. Since his parental unit had apparently dropped him off there for the day, he spends the rest of this summer's afternoon sitting in front of the store looking dejected.
Warhammer, hell any games-workshop game is prone to drive people up the wall.
I played the hell out of their games as a kid. My best was a warhammer 40k blood angels army in 4th edition rules, where you could really make broken as all hell armies, I caused a lot of problems.
No video game caused more nerd rage moments for me and my friends than Everquest. EQ didnt have the perks of modern MMO's such as xp debt and respawing with your stuff. When your group wiped at the bottom of a dungeon, you respawned naked, shivering and with a large chunk of XP gone. It wasnt uncommon to DE-level if you were not far enough into your current level.
I had just grinded through the worst of EQ's "hell levels" which for some reason took considerably more XP to get through and hit level 41. One of my roommates came into my room and ended up spilling a drink all over my desk as my group was pulling. I ended up dead and lost roughly half a level of XP and ended up back in the middle of level 40.
I may or may not have tried to murder him with a wireless keyboard.
Oh God... EQ....
Just one word will haunt every EQ players dreams: Trains.
Oh, the trains.
I was about to disagree with this until I remembered that I was a Shadowknight therefore while I was pretty much goddamn useless on raids,
I don't play Warhammer because it's a ridiculously expensive, imho. Also, every game I have ever seen was started before I got to the store and had not ended by the time I left several hours later. I've always liked the idea in principle though, and if you could duplicate and streamline it on like a Surface or something I think it would be cool.
And that there is why I only play Warhammer with friends.
Every now and then I consider maybe trying a tournament some time, but then someone posts one of those stories. :P
As someone who played 40k competitively during the halcyon days of 3rd edition: this is the best policy and plan. Tournament Warhammer brings the assholery worse than CCGs, and there's not even a good reason for it.
And that there is why I only play Warhammer with friends.
Every now and then I consider maybe trying a tournament some time, but then someone posts one of those stories. :P
As someone who played 40k competitively during the halcyon days of 3rd edition: this is the best policy and plan. Tournament Warhammer brings the assholery worse than CCGs, and there's not even a good reason for it.
Yeah I played back in those days as well, tournament warhammer turns people into psychopaths.
Maybe it's because people spend so much time with those books, and painting, and then there is the money investment.
On to turn around and get rolled by somebody that made a really crazy army.
Warhammer where you play campaigns and other silly stuff with friends, is fine. Warhammer where you play just one off win/lose for competition, bring a gun.
Also blood bowl, blood bowl makes people go insane.
Regarding the lolicon as child porn thing, isn't it the consensus that it'll hit eventually reach the US Supreme Court and get shot down(again)?
And Pony, while the guy sounds like he was a creep in general, hitting someone for lolicon really is kinda a dick move. I know arguing this is setting myself up to be socially ostracized, but...he had a point in that it's not real child porn; just because it's gross to most people doesn't make it immoral.
Now, contributing to the thread:
I tend to nerdrage over the little things for more than the big things. Actually this is kind of the general rule for me, not just for nerdy things, but yeah.
Wiping 10 times on the same boss in WoW because of stupidity? I'm laughing my ass off and using a macro to /yell Rickroll.
Get knocked off my mount and dazed by a mob I can oneshot? Expect a cluster F-bomb.
Regarding the lolicon as child porn thing, isn't it the consensus that it'll hit eventually reach the US Supreme Court and get shot down(again)?
And Pony, while the guy sounds like he was a creep in general, hitting someone for lolicon really is kinda a dick move. I know arguing this is setting myself up to be socially ostracized, but...he had a point in that it's not real child porn; just because it's gross to most people doesn't make it immoral.
Now, contributing to the thread:
I tend to nerdrage over the little things for more than the big things. Actually this is kind of the general rule for me, not just for nerdy things, but yeah.
Wiping 10 times on the same boss in WoW because of stupidity? I'm laughing my ass off and using a macro to /yell Rickroll.
Get knocked off my mount and dazed by a mob I can oneshot? Expect a cluster F-bomb.
I think part of what's infuriating about games like 40k for some people is the simple I go-you go structure.
It's not as if a person is slapping down a single card and then you play a card or something small. They can easily spend 10 minutes moving one unit, rolling a giant handful of dice, you have to remove half a dozen units, then they move another unit, roll, remove, and so on.
I think the feeling of powerlessness as you watch someone succeed against you in numerous discrete ways over and over in one turn which can decide the entire (hours long) match is what gets people all riled up.
I don't play Warhammer because it's a ridiculously expensive, imho. Also, every game I have ever seen was started before I got to the store and had not ended by the time I left several hours later. I've always liked the idea in principle though, and if you could duplicate and streamline it on like a Surface or something I think it would be cool.
Simulated child pornography was made illegal with the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996. The CPPA was short-lived. In 2002, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, holding that the relevant portions of the CPPA were unconstitutional because they prevented lawful speech. Referring to Ferber, the court stated that "the CPPA prohibits speech that records no crime and creates no victims by its production. Virtual child pornography is not 'intrinsically related' to the sexual abuse of children." (Sourced from Wikipedia, but whatever).
Doubt the court's opinion on this would have changed much. So yeah, I imagine it'll be gone again eventually.
Edit: But this is off topic, so if we're gonna continue this it'd be better to do so somewhere else.
I refuse to play card games where the rulesets are basically made up as people go along and always favor the people making up the rules (who also happen to be playing the game). We'll sometimes do poker night and a couple of people want to start playing "Fuck Your Buddy" or some other bullshit game that allows them basically to steal everyone's money because they're the only people who know the ruleset (because it's a non-existant game that they just made up). At that point, I take all my money off the table and go drink a beer, play with the dogs, or chat-up someone's wife (incidentally, the the two who make up the rules also have wives with big hooters and even bigger moral voids). I get shit for that, but after I explain, "look, either I sit out the game or I'm in your neighbor's tree in the morning with a rifle, waiting for you to go get the paper", and they get the drift. We're not even playing for large money, but it still makes me ax crazy when they start ripping everyone off. Goddamn it, I'm pissed off now just thinking about it.
And that there is why I only play Warhammer with friends.
Every now and then I consider maybe trying a tournament some time, but then someone posts one of those stories. :P
As someone who played 40k competitively during the halcyon days of 3rd edition: this is the best policy and plan. Tournament Warhammer brings the assholery worse than CCGs, and there's not even a good reason for it.
Yeah I played back in those days as well, tournament warhammer turns people into psychopaths.
Maybe it's because people spend so much time with those books, and painting, and then there is the money investment.
On to turn around and get rolled by somebody that made a really crazy army.
Warhammer where you play campaigns and other silly stuff with friends, is fine. Warhammer where you play just one off win/lose for competition, bring a gun.
Also blood bowl, blood bowl makes people go insane.
I disagree with you a lot in the politics stuff, but you're spot on here.
Haven't doen Blood Bowl, but I've only heard good things about Blood Bowl leagues.
No video game caused more nerd rage moments for me and my friends than Everquest. EQ didnt have the perks of modern MMO's such as xp debt and respawing with your stuff. When your group wiped at the bottom of a dungeon, you respawned naked, shivering and with a large chunk of XP gone. It wasnt uncommon to DE-level if you were not far enough into your current level.
I had just grinded through the worst of EQ's "hell levels" which for some reason took considerably more XP to get through and hit level 41. One of my roommates came into my room and ended up spilling a drink all over my desk as my group was pulling. I ended up dead and lost roughly half a level of XP and ended up back in the middle of level 40.
I may or may not have tried to murder him with a wireless keyboard.
Oh God... EQ....
Just one word will haunt every EQ players dreams: Trains.
Oh, the trains.
I was about to disagree with this until I remembered that I was a Shadowknight therefore while I was pretty much goddamn useless on raids,
I played as a Ranger.
I think I win all arguments about being useless
Hey, at least in Luclin you had weaponshield and could uh.. tank bosses for 15 seconds? That was longer than the two seconds I could. We used rangers to move Emperor Ssraeshza to his corner!
Oh hey, that reminds me of a moment where I probably deserved some rage time. Our first Emperor kill. One of my fondest memories in gaming. Two 2-handed swords drop. A ranger wins one. Quits a week later. I continued to use the same weapon for the entire expansion and all the way into Plane of Fire in PoP where I got a minor upgrade. (For anyone not familiar with EQ, this sort of weapon was literally useless on a ranger. Not even for stat reasons like the old Hunter debates in WoW.)
Goddamn that Ranger. I can't even remember his name...
Anyway, at least Rangers started doing decent damage in PoP. I think within only the past year or so have SKs been able to tank anything that was meant for more than a single group.
I quit after PoP but hell, I really felt useless except on a handful of fights like Rathe Council.
Would Warhammer 40k allow me to show up with a LEGO army as long as I gave them appropriate stats?
So long as they are on the appropriate bases, I would relish a game of anything against Lego men.
I have seen a Lego Empire army in Warhammer Fantasy destroy pretty armies in casual games. It was hilarious.
At least in 40k, it's pretty frowned upon, as at least a small part of the game has a role playing aspect to it, and it's just more fun when two finely painted and modeled armies go at it. It's also usually the mark of a more sane and better person to play if they have a nicely done army.
But between friends or simply as a way to test out a new army before you buy anything, I wouldn't have a problem with it, in fact that's kind of how 40k got it's start, the 1st 40k tank was a deodorant bottle. I certainly wouldn't haul them into a lgs unless you knew beforehand it would be ok though, because then you would definitely see some nerd rage.
What I don't understand is how this thread went this long without a mention of No Mutants Allowed (edit, I was going to provide a link, but I decided against it, out of fear)
For those not in the know, NMA is a Fallout fan site that takes their infinite, undying obsessive love of Fallout 1 & 2 to extreme lengths. So much so, that when Fallout 3 was announced, its forums went batsh*t insane. For years. I think some of them are still foaming at the mouth that Fallout 3 is presented in FP instead of overhead like Fallout 1 & 2.
If you truly want to see forum nerd rage firsthand, visit their forums and read some of the threads. Be prepared to take a shower afterwards, because you'll feel dirty.
Depends if you are targeting elitist asshats or just people who just like the game a lot. You're just falling into Internet Dickwad territory if you do asinine things because "It's just a game."
Edit: Didn't realize you were talking about 40k. In that case, ignore the Internet bit. But the point still stands.
What if my goal was to create nerd rage because I enjoy pissing off the people that take the game too seriously?
If you really wanted to do that, just show up with a cast army you bought off the nets on the cheap and then loudly brag about it, nothing pisses off the 40k crowd more than guys who buy or make 3rd party cast figurines.
Depends if you are targeting elitist asshats or just people who just like the game a lot. You're just falling into Internet Dickwad territory if you do asinine things because "It's just a game."
Edit: Didn't realize you were talking about 40k. In that case, ignore the Internet bit. But the point still stands.
It's always "just a game" unless prize money is involved.
Then shit gets real.
I was thinking about it and I realized I made a kid semi-nerd rage over Street Fighter IV once.
So this place that used to exist in Mass, Tokyo Game Action, had the only SFIV arcade consoles in the north east. The guy that owned the place went to Japan and bought 4 of them. They linked together, etc. Well on the way there, my friend explained to me that these being Japanese machines, the sticks were a little different. More subtle movement was better for specials than the more deliberate style of American sticks. I still couldn't get it down. I couldn't throw a fireball or a dragon punch or a hurricane kick for the life of me. Just could not do it. So I gave up on it and just went with straight attacks. So I'm playing this guy, I'm Ken, he's whatever, I don't even remember. I'm on the farthest one to the left, he's on the one farthest to the right. I'm beating him down with nothing but regular attacks. And I hear from the far end "This shitty ass scrub mother fucker! He doesn't even use specials! What a shitty ass scrub!" So I yell back "If I'm such a shitty ass scrub, why did you just get beat?!" Oh boy did that set him off. "FUCK YOU, N! YOU SUCK! YOU FUCKING SUCK!" I just sat there laughing my ass off at him as he stood there yelling at me.
I didn't win much that day, but man that was a good win.
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Yes.
Yes they are.
It's very scary.
I remember someone being brought up on CP charges within the last couple of months for cartoon images. I can't remember if it was here in the US... something tells me it may have been in Australia. The artice was on Slashdot, I'll check there.
I've heard a rumor that they are genetically bred to specifically play Starcraft. Not sure of the validity of this statement, but it wouldn't surprise me.
^^^I believe this is one of them I was thinking about.
But it's been upheld in a case in Virginia as well: www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1A1-D9563DJO0.html
It's the national sport there. People think that's a joke, but it's really not far off the reality.
Starcraft just hit at the right time, with the right style and the right gameplay, and became a phenomenon in South Korea as a result. Televised tournaments on national TV, soft drinks, shoes, it's all there. When Blizzard revealed SC2, they did it to a select group of high profile SK players first. Heck the last update to Starcraft was purely to improve language compatibility for South Koreans IIRC. Pro SC players are mini celebrities, that's not a joke. Right now, Blizzard are balancing SC2, and they're doing it with a large amount of help from players on the professional circuit.
I think my roommate might be a nerd rager. He plays SFIV competatively, Spic Tom / Vigilante being the two names he goes by. He plays it all day. Every day. It's amazing how dedicated he is. But boy does he get pissed when he loses to a random person online. He always blames lag. Or the person is a scrub. He's never lost an online match fair and square. It's amazing to listen to him bitch.
Yeah, anyone who's played the game for more than ten minutes should be able to guard impact that. Raphael's forward attacks are so quick you don't even need to time it, just spam the impact and he's fubar.
My only brush with nerd rage was actually with Soul Calibur 2. In college we played it more than we went to classes, which put any visitors who decided they'd like to try in the unfortunate predicament of getting ass raped like a red-headed 11 year old in a Tijuana prison.
I typically used Mitsurugi, and in SC2 he had a particularly ridiculous extra weapon that looked like a blue damascus sword. It had something like 200% additional damage and increased the user's defense a hefty amount, but completely removed the ability to block. This basically resulted in the opponent getting their face cut off in a couple combo's with me saying "I can't even block, all you have to do is hit me!" This was blatantly untrue, as without the opposing player using someone like Sigfried or Astaroth they basically couldn't afford to get hit. At all. We're talking half the life bar gone by the end of the first combo.
Without going into the exact specifics, it is a very bad idea to do this to someone who had never drank before the time in question, never played SC2 before the time in question, and has lost five or six rounds in a row without getting a single hit in. Said person might find the situation disagreeable, start wailing gibberish, and pull on the controller cord as hard as possible. The PS2 then might fly off the top of the tv like some kind of black plastic hate missile only to crash into the glass center table in the middle of the room, shattering it.
Leaving you with a broken PS2, a broken table, and a room full of drunken idiots laughing their asses off at one poor bastard (until they comprehend the broken console and surplus of glass shards in the room) who's crime was walking into a meat grinder.
Are you sure your roommate isn't darksydephil?
But yes, everything you hear about "Man Koreans love SC" is absolutely true. I'm trying to teach them English, and if I want to for sure get some responses from my students, I talk about SC and Terrans and Siege Tanks and they are onboard.
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I scream and yell while playing SFIV, scared the crap out of my girlfriend.
A few months ago, M emailed me an ad that this other GW fan had posted on a local mailing list about the subject. This dude had a huge quantity of Orks and was disposing of them for $150. M told me this was a good deal, and I run Dungeons and Dragons, so it's not like I can't find a use for Ork miniatures. So I buy these Orks and play some games with my friends with them. Orks aren't the greatest army in Warhammer but they're fun.
Over the course of the summer, M starts making some noise about going and playing some games at the GW store. I figure that this might constitute a Warhammer overdose for me, but M eventually wears me down and I try it out. The first time I just play M and this other mutual friend and it's all good and I agree to go back.
Now here is the thing: Over the summer, the GW store essentially becomes a sort of nerd babysitting service. Nerd kids spend all day there under the watchful eye of the minimum wage staff. So we head in and the place is chock-a-block with teenage Warhammer fans. It is today that I made the fateful decision to play Warhammer with some guy I'd never met before.
I wound up paired with these morbidly obese guy who I thought was a college student due to his size, but was actually like 14. He had a Tomb King army (Egyptian themed skeletons and shit) and promptly stomped the ever living shit out of the Orks I was playing. Everything he did came with an associated comment about how stupid I was, how ugly the Orks were, essentially. Basically a bunch of smack talk that culminated with him bellowing "MASSACRE" at the end of the game.
Now M gets it in his head that this might be a negative experience that would put me off future games, so he challenges the guy. He busts out this Lizardman army he had recently purchased and goes to town on this kid. M's opponent doesn't take this very well. He had a gorgeously painted army (actually found out he had bought this painted from the store's display case), and when it became apparent that M was going to roll him, and badly, he got increasingly agitated. He started throwing each of his minis into the toolbox that they had come packed in, and he did so with increasing force as the game went on. This ended with him hurling one of his priest models and missing the box, so that it hit the floor and broke into pieces. At this point he started cursing a blue streak and getting kicked out of the store. Since his parental unit had apparently dropped him off there for the day, he spends the rest of this summer's afternoon sitting in front of the store looking dejected.
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I played the hell out of their games as a kid. My best was a warhammer 40k blood angels army in 4th edition rules, where you could really make broken as all hell armies, I caused a lot of problems.
Every now and then I consider maybe trying a tournament some time, but then someone posts one of those stories. :P
I played as a Ranger.
I think I win all arguments about being useless
Why not just play Mechaton instead then?
As someone who played 40k competitively during the halcyon days of 3rd edition: this is the best policy and plan. Tournament Warhammer brings the assholery worse than CCGs, and there's not even a good reason for it.
Yeah I played back in those days as well, tournament warhammer turns people into psychopaths.
Maybe it's because people spend so much time with those books, and painting, and then there is the money investment.
On to turn around and get rolled by somebody that made a really crazy army.
Warhammer where you play campaigns and other silly stuff with friends, is fine. Warhammer where you play just one off win/lose for competition, bring a gun.
Also blood bowl, blood bowl makes people go insane.
And Pony, while the guy sounds like he was a creep in general, hitting someone for lolicon really is kinda a dick move. I know arguing this is setting myself up to be socially ostracized, but...he had a point in that it's not real child porn; just because it's gross to most people doesn't make it immoral.
Now, contributing to the thread:
I tend to nerdrage over the little things for more than the big things. Actually this is kind of the general rule for me, not just for nerdy things, but yeah.
Wiping 10 times on the same boss in WoW because of stupidity? I'm laughing my ass off and using a macro to /yell Rickroll.
Get knocked off my mount and dazed by a mob I can oneshot? Expect a cluster F-bomb.
AU has spoken - it's kiddie porn.
Courts in Virginia also agree. I don't think it's gonna stop there either.
It's not as if a person is slapping down a single card and then you play a card or something small. They can easily spend 10 minutes moving one unit, rolling a giant handful of dice, you have to remove half a dozen units, then they move another unit, roll, remove, and so on.
I think the feeling of powerlessness as you watch someone succeed against you in numerous discrete ways over and over in one turn which can decide the entire (hours long) match is what gets people all riled up.
Because I wouldn't be using LEGOs like that. I'd show up with an army of yellow guys.
Doubt the court's opinion on this would have changed much. So yeah, I imagine it'll be gone again eventually.
Edit: But this is off topic, so if we're gonna continue this it'd be better to do so somewhere else.
You don't have to associate with weeaboos to learn Japanese, any more than you had to associate with people who jerk off to wuxia to learn Mandarin.
So long as they are on the appropriate bases, I would relish a game of anything against Lego men.
I have seen a Lego Empire army in Warhammer Fantasy destroy pretty armies in casual games. It was hilarious.
I disagree with you a lot in the politics stuff, but you're spot on here.
Haven't doen Blood Bowl, but I've only heard good things about Blood Bowl leagues.
Hey, at least in Luclin you had weaponshield and could uh.. tank bosses for 15 seconds? That was longer than the two seconds I could. We used rangers to move Emperor Ssraeshza to his corner!
Oh hey, that reminds me of a moment where I probably deserved some rage time. Our first Emperor kill. One of my fondest memories in gaming. Two 2-handed swords drop. A ranger wins one. Quits a week later. I continued to use the same weapon for the entire expansion and all the way into Plane of Fire in PoP where I got a minor upgrade. (For anyone not familiar with EQ, this sort of weapon was literally useless on a ranger. Not even for stat reasons like the old Hunter debates in WoW.)
Goddamn that Ranger. I can't even remember his name...
Anyway, at least Rangers started doing decent damage in PoP. I think within only the past year or so have SKs been able to tank anything that was meant for more than a single group.
I quit after PoP but hell, I really felt useless except on a handful of fights like Rathe Council.
At least in 40k, it's pretty frowned upon, as at least a small part of the game has a role playing aspect to it, and it's just more fun when two finely painted and modeled armies go at it. It's also usually the mark of a more sane and better person to play if they have a nicely done army.
But between friends or simply as a way to test out a new army before you buy anything, I wouldn't have a problem with it, in fact that's kind of how 40k got it's start, the 1st 40k tank was a deodorant bottle. I certainly wouldn't haul them into a lgs unless you knew beforehand it would be ok though, because then you would definitely see some nerd rage.
Y'know, being a troll in real life is often just as frowned upon as being one on the forums.
Not that I play or care, just sayin'.
For those not in the know, NMA is a Fallout fan site that takes their infinite, undying obsessive love of Fallout 1 & 2 to extreme lengths. So much so, that when Fallout 3 was announced, its forums went batsh*t insane. For years. I think some of them are still foaming at the mouth that Fallout 3 is presented in FP instead of overhead like Fallout 1 & 2.
If you truly want to see forum nerd rage firsthand, visit their forums and read some of the threads. Be prepared to take a shower afterwards, because you'll feel dirty.
Edit: Didn't realize you were talking about 40k. In that case, ignore the Internet bit. But the point still stands.
Some dude is playing an fps of some kind. He loses, stands up, grabs his keyboard and breaks it in half over his knee.
He then gets up, goes to make a call, and 10 minutes later his mom (I assumed) is there with a new one for him.
If you really wanted to do that, just show up with a cast army you bought off the nets on the cheap and then loudly brag about it, nothing pisses off the 40k crowd more than guys who buy or make 3rd party cast figurines.
It's always "just a game" unless prize money is involved.
Then shit gets real.
I was thinking about it and I realized I made a kid semi-nerd rage over Street Fighter IV once.
So this place that used to exist in Mass, Tokyo Game Action, had the only SFIV arcade consoles in the north east. The guy that owned the place went to Japan and bought 4 of them. They linked together, etc. Well on the way there, my friend explained to me that these being Japanese machines, the sticks were a little different. More subtle movement was better for specials than the more deliberate style of American sticks. I still couldn't get it down. I couldn't throw a fireball or a dragon punch or a hurricane kick for the life of me. Just could not do it. So I gave up on it and just went with straight attacks. So I'm playing this guy, I'm Ken, he's whatever, I don't even remember. I'm on the farthest one to the left, he's on the one farthest to the right. I'm beating him down with nothing but regular attacks. And I hear from the far end "This shitty ass scrub mother fucker! He doesn't even use specials! What a shitty ass scrub!" So I yell back "If I'm such a shitty ass scrub, why did you just get beat?!" Oh boy did that set him off. "FUCK YOU, N! YOU SUCK! YOU FUCKING SUCK!" I just sat there laughing my ass off at him as he stood there yelling at me.
I didn't win much that day, but man that was a good win.