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Moola posted:*searches kilt* "I'll just have to help you safely discharge it first"
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The Supreme Court posted:I got through a border with hefty security in record time when a guard found out I was Scottish: he said "Sean Connery land?" then joked around and waved me out of the queue and past the security. It was brilliant! On the other hand, my non-Scottish friends had to wait a bloody long time in that queue and had their bags meticulously searched before walking through the same doors. Leperflesh posted:People from Austin really should get a pass, though. 
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Moola posted:*searches kilt* They're blanks 
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Leperflesh posted:People from Austin really should get a pass, though.  DO NOT KEEP GW WEIRD
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I used to live in Texas when my dad was stationed there and it's v embarrassing, yeah. The stereotypes are true.
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Chill la Chill posted:I used to live in Texas when my dad was stationed there and it's v embarrassing, yeah. The stereotypes are true. I lived in Southern California for 7 years after Texas, and then the UK for 12 years now, and having just visited San Antonio for a week, my first visit in probably 4 or 5 years, OMG the stereotypes are all there and will never ever go away.
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Maybe you scrubs should live somewhere that isn't a bunch of stereotypes. Excuse me, I gotta go buy craft brews for a locally sourced organic brewery *sips Starbucks, turns up Soundgarden and drives away in my Tesla* 
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Also not to continue the derail but the person who said you're screwed if you land in specific states is wrong. If your guns are unloaded and in a locked case you are legally protected if you enter a state with different firearms provisions as long as you are just passing through. It's called the Firearm Owners Protection Act and if you own and fire guns you should really know everything in it, and if you are anti-gun you should doubly know whats in it since it's the single most important piece of gun legislation ever. Basically if you want to know why gun law in the US is extremely hosed (because it really really is) and you're from a nation with more reasonable firearms legislation you should at least glance at the wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act New York and New Jersey have decided FOPA applies to cars and trucks, not planes and trains. There are about 50 people who have gotten arrested for thinking like you do.
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I'm very basic and I love fall (grew up in Germany) and #PSLs and cute basic white girls in Han Solo costumes. 
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Pumpkin spice latte they are delicious. My friend works at Starbucks so he gets me fat for the Xmas advent season.
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Chill la Chill posted:Pumpkin spice latte they are delicious. My friend works at Starbucks so he gets me fat for the Xmas advent season. Friend, those things are gross, a white chocolate mocha is far far better and iirc less calories. Even the gingerbread one is better and that is a very situational drink even still. I used to frequent a bar that served this stuff and drinking gallons of that has put me off the PS train.
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Drone posted:
I get the impression that some of you ferriners don't believe/understand the absurd level of reactionary and irrational paranoia that 9/11 fostered in this country. Ugh, I don't even want to think what it would be like to try to fly with a decent array of paints now that liquids needs to be bagged separately, can't be more than 3 oz, can't have more than N of them, etc. But hey, at least this way I have an excuse for fielding an entirely bare-plastic-gray army.
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Ilor posted:I get the impression that some of you ferriners don't believe/understand the absurd level of reactionary and irrational paranoia that 9/11 fostered in this country.
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Chill la Chill posted:Pumpkin spice latte they are delicious. My friend works at Starbucks so he gets me fat for the Xmas advent season. I had one of those a few days ago, real good also the egg nog ones too
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Spiderdrake posted:I mean we've all seen Donald Trump in his ridiculous shade of jokaero orange but I don't think most people realize interacting with the TSA is basically like that all the time and has been for years. Most of the time you don't see it. Then, abruptly, you do - I once got accosted for carrying a bag of salt.
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bongwizzard posted:Friend, those things are gross, a white chocolate mocha is far far better and iirc less calories. Even the gingerbread one is better and that is a very situational drink even still. DON'T GIVE GW COFFEE
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Moola posted:I had one of those a few days ago, real good I often have eggnog dribbling down my chin after an eggnog sesh and it gives me the warm fuzzy feelings.  bongwizzard posted:Friend, those things are gross, a white chocolate mocha is far far better and iirc less calories. Even the gingerbread one is better and that is a very situational drink even still.
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Milk punch is superior to eggnog. My family's recipe is more or less just half and half and bourbon and some spices. 
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And then you realize bourbon is superior to watered down bourbon and then you're an alcoholic
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Spiderdrake posted:And then you realize bourbon is superior to watered down bourbon  Like I don't drink bourbon straight.
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Ilor posted:You must have missed the part where I was describing that actually happening. I used to bring minis and paints and stuff with me on travel because boredom. Some time in the early 2000's, I had a TSA guy make me check my carry-on (no one in their right mind entrusts their jewel-like objects to filthy baggage handlers) because he felt the sword on a pewter Space Marine constituted some kind of imminent threat to air-traffic safety. I probably should have screamed "Allah hu akbar!!!!" and stabbed him in the eye with it. Or maybe "For the Emperor!!!!" would have been more thematically appropriate. I had a set of jewelers files in my luggage and TSA had to have a conference as to if the 3" barette file was a deadly weapon. Ugh.
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Safety Factor posted:Milk punch is superior to eggnog. My family's recipe is more or less just half and half and bourbon and some spices. I tried a goon's recipe for Coquito a few years ago and I've made it for Christmas ever since. Goes down so good I never make enough. e: though it seems to get stronger every year I make it 
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Reminder that despite the fact the TSA are such belligerent shits, when they were put to the test in an experiment they let 95% of contraband through without stopping it lol
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Hello again thread. A new year is almost upon us and I was wondering if we are still taking predictions for the fall of GW. Also bring back boom boom boom
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I was on the TSA's "give this guy extra screening every time" list for a while. No idea why, but every time I had to do the standard poo poo, then they'd make me do it again off to the side.
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Did you play Eldar? That's probably why.
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Sir Teabag posted:Did you play Eldar? That's probably why. Only dark eldar gets shoved into players' rectums, actually. But, I'll defer to Moola.
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malal posted:http://unpluggedgames.co.uk/features/blood-dice-and-darkness-how-warhammer-defined-gaming-for-a-generation/ It's funny watching Rick steadily give fewer and fewer fucks about poo poo-talking GW. After he left, you could barely even get him to mention the company, then he was being very carefully neutral in any GW talk. Now he's gone full bittervet. There's an Ex-GW staff group on Facebook and it's all peanut-gallery and (stdh.txt) horror stories all the time. From time to time, someone who is still a fanboy joins and makes a 'hey guys, I used to work at <almost always a US store>, loving AoS, what are you guys into?' and then gets dogpiled by the bitterest of bitter vets.
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Well even six months ago he had a few sparingly nice things to say about AoS. Now that he has a game directly competing for the market share he gets the added benefit of page views and getting his message out to disgruntled 40k players. All for the low cost of finally speaking his mind.
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Helen Highwater posted:There's an Ex-GW staff group on Facebook and it's all peanut-gallery and (stdh.txt) horror stories all the time. Please please leak us a few of the best. Anything juicy and untraceable, or that the authors would happily allow into the public domain for us to snigger over? I'd like to hear someone like Andy Chambers or Rick Priestly comment on Specialist Games, myself. It was rumoured even at the time to be a boondoggle for vets to be quietly buried in if they were too high-profile to fire. Was it just a happy niche for pensioned-off vets who offended senior management? What happened internally when it went down? Alas for the dramamongery, I've met AC at conventions when he was out promoting Dropfleet, and he is too much of a gentleman to spill the beans. I still hold out hope for some nicely catty tell-all memoirs.
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He invited me and friend to have breakfast with him over ten years ago at a California con. Very nice guy from the hour or so he spent with us.
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Id rather hear stdh.txt and peanut gallery myself, actually. Good stories are good stories, even if they're fake.
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Helen Highwater posted:It's funny watching Rick steadily give fewer and fewer fucks about poo poo-talking GW. After he left, you could barely even get him to mention the company, then he was being very carefully neutral in any GW talk. Now he's gone full bittervet. There's an Ex-GW staff group on Facebook and it's all peanut-gallery and (stdh.txt) horror stories all the time. From time to time, someone who is still a fanboy joins and makes a 'hey guys, I used to work at <almost always a US store>, loving AoS, what are you guys into?' and then gets dogpiled by the bitterest of bitter vets. Any chance you could share that group?
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I'm not going to post stuff from the Ex GW group, it's a private and closed group for a reason. The demographics of the group reflect the company, so there are a lot of ex-retail and a fairly small number of ex-studio. Alessio posts there but mostly to promote his new games rather anything else, a few sculptors and artists and a bunch of former managers hang around and share stories from the pre-Lenton days from time to time. GW back in the day was a weird place, people would migrate through the company almost continuously. Some people had three or four different job titles and areas of responsibility in as many months so anyone who was around for a while probably had direct experience of pretty much the whole company. Specialist games wasn't really much of anything while I was there. Jervis had it as his personal fiefdom as he wasn't really getting involved in main releases at the time - he'd be part of the brainstorming and prototyping stages with Rick and AndyC but, by the time game dev started work on it, he'd step out. I think SG was mostly just him, one or two minions who collated stuff for him from the various LRB groups and that was about it. New stuff for Specialist Games came from the main game dev department - I remember doing some new Necromunda and BFG stuff with Gav and Andy after those games had gone to SG. GW was pretty experimental in those days, they tried a lot of different things to see what worked. There was a Game dev apprenticeship program of sorts just before I joined, Ian Pickstock and Gave were the last alumni of that. The idea was that they ran the Citadel Journal (the old A4 version, not the later A5 one) and created experimental rules, cheap-rear end hobby stuff and so on in a sandpit that no-one really cared about too much and where it wasn't possible to break things. Then they'd graduate to full game development and get to work on official product. They had almost no supervision and were pretty much left to get on with things. Occasionally someone would look at what they were doing and recoil in horror but, for the most part they were just left to their own devices. It was possible to fail there, the pair before Ian and Gav hosed up by showing people how to make cardboard versions of tanks that GW was selling as plastic kits. No-one spotted that until the Journal was out and then the guys were both fired. Ian and Gav did fine at it but it was decided that there should be more supervision and that could only really happen inside the main game dev department, so I came along and was reporting directly to Andy with Gav as my supervisor. Alessio and Tuomas came along after me and had the same start. Andy is very unlikely to be bitter in public about GW these days. He's back writing BL novels for them and I doubt he's interested in killing that particular golden goose just for the sake of some internet pointscoring exercise. It's possible that GW will piss him off again but he's a pretty calm guy who's unlikely to burn bridges.
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Helen Highwater posted:I'm not going to post stuff from the Ex GW group quote:the pair before Ian and Gav hosed up by showing people how to make cardboard versions of tanks that GW was selling as plastic kits. No-one spotted that until the Journal was out and then the guys were both fired I think you just did, Jesus Christ. This is when GW were including cardboard vehicles and terrain in their starter boxes, too. That was grounds to fire two junior staff members because oh noez, it might imperil plastic vehicle revenues? I've always had a soft spot for AndyC even if he did write Battlefleet Gothic and spawn a million internet idiots who swarmed space gaming message forums with bullshit about 30km-long cruisers. I was glad to see him get a job at Blizzard and I noticed the level design of Starcraft 2 was a lot better when he was on their design team! He is a charming old rogue in person, and I look forward to Dropfleet immensely.
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The 2nd edition starter had a cardboard stand in for an Ork dreadnought because the current model was metal and it was too much to include in a starter. It's a bit different.
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moths posted:When were cardboard tank instructions in CJ? I'm pretty sure I have this CJ issue somewhere.
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