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For_Great_Justice posted:I just find it amusing still ppl were dead set big marines were not a thing launching csi wannabe posts why they weren't. Then they were. But its cool now apparently. The funny/interesting thing is the other part of the rumor on Bell of Lost Souls was that they are going to deprecate support for legacy and the new big marines are going to be new chapters/forces.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:The funny/interesting thing is the other part of the rumor on Bell of Lost Souls was that they are going to deprecate support for legacy and the new big marines are going to be new chapters/forces. "Everything you own will be usable in Age of the Emperor" has been brandied about a lot, but technically I can still use my old Bretonnians to play Age of Sigmar. I just get lovely jokes rules and bringing that up makes everyone sitting on a pile of Space Marines very uncomfortable.
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Atlas Hugged posted:"Everything you own will be usable in Age of the Emperor" has been brandied about a lot, but technically I can still use my old Bretonnians to play Age of Sigmar. I just get lovely jokes rules and bringing that up makes everyone sitting on a pile of Space Marines very uncomfortable. Yeah, the rumor quote:…Imagine how the sigmarines are to the standard empire soldier. Wouldn’t it be a weird twist of fate if AoS copy pasted space marines into the fantasy setting as Sigmar’s answer to chaos always winning, that somehow w40k kind of copy pasted the end times and reboot of fantasy AoS into 40k with the same fundamental idea….. hence new marines will spearhead offensive for the emperor following on from current w40k fluff events/outcome. http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2017/03/40k-rumors-guilliman-planning-new-space-marines.html
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Moola posted:x-wing is my favourite "hey wanna try this game?" game, you dont need many ships for an intro game I like it because it is wayyyyyyy cheaper than 40k. I have about 80% of the models and have paid Ess than some people have paid for their big 40k armies.
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Raged posted:I like it because it is wayyyyyyy cheaper than 40k. I have about 80% of the models and have paid X wing is great but has a massively cynical purchasing model. Competitive fleets can easily cost around £150, not for the models but for purchasing models you don't ended just to get the cards. When I play at home or with friends we just just one of the army builders that proxies all the cards
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Serotonin posted:X wing is great but has a massively cynical purchasing model. Competitive fleets can easily cost around £150, not for the models but for purchasing models you don't ended just to get the cards. That's how everyone I know plays. They only time I pull out my actual cards is for tournaments. The community is actually not poo poo either. Just about every tournament I have gone to has at least one person who forgot a key card for their list or just doesn't own it. Every single time multiple people have offered to loan them the missing card. The game ain't perfect but it's still pretty good. Last big multiple game event I went to you could hear 40k players arguing the whole time. Then got to laugh when all the admins had to run to the 40k area to break up a slapfight between two idiots.
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Sure, no argument from me that the X Wing community is nice, then again there arent many gaming communities that are terrible on my experience. I've heard people chatting poo poo about how awful tournament Warmachine is, whereas here in the UK it's a really nice scene, and in the twenty plus tournaments plus attendance at Europe's largest Warmachine con a few times ive never had or witnessed a bad experience. I heard bad poo poo about the GW tournament scene a lot but having never played a GW game in a tournament, my only experience is casually watching tournaments at our local shop and tbh everyone seems super chill. I guess area and meta play a large part in what players it attracts.
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Raged posted:I like it because it is wayyyyyyy cheaper than 40k. I have about 80% of the models and have paid same I love being able to pickup a new random ship every now and then for a tenner
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Serotonin posted:I've heard people chatting poo poo about how awful tournament Warmachine is, whereas here in the UK it's a really nice scene Yeah, it's always going to be a local matter but the difference between this side of the Atlantic and the other one has always been a bit of a shocker. The UK Warmachine stuff I've seen usually has a really cool vibe and a feel that they want to teach new players all the combos and stuff so as to have opponents who can match them. It's a really good atmosphere. Even between games in the same company you can get a big shift in welcome just due to who buys in and who quietly bails out. Spartan products are quite big at my FLGS and the Firestorm Armada scene was great while it lasted; not so Dystopian Wars. It seemed to inherit a lot of bitter Uncharted Seas players who quickly drove out the more socially competent ones. 40K seems to be the rotten apple here, it's the perfect storm of high buy-in price, complex rules, and fanboy defensiveness (although the Epic guys are really nice - I suppose they have to be or people won't stick around). By far the worst scene I ever encountered was Battlefleet Gothic back when that was a thing. Jesus Christ they were vile. Some guys set up a "nostalgia" game at my FLGS a few months ago and suddenly a huge pile of creeps came out of the woodwork - one of the players physically shoved people away from the table to stop them even looking at his precious spaceship models.
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If you want to have an encounter with the absolute dregs of the geek community, try running an anime tabletop rpg like my friend did at our local university society. He had to bring deodorant because the stench of some of the players were physically repelling him.
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MikeCrotch posted:If you want to have an encounter with the absolute dregs of the geek community, try running an anime tabletop rpg like my friend did at our local university society. I think this is more a feature of anime groups in general. At my university, the anime club apparently had to rotate its meeting place among the various residence halls because no one hall would tolerate them for very long (because of the smell). Unfortunately my hall leadership decided they'd be the ones who ultimately welcomed them, and declared that the anime club could meet on my floor, in the floor kitchen (which was right across from my doorway). The smells that came out of there were... strong, and would take a few days to air out. When they met we even took to rolling up a towel and jamming it into the crack of our door to try to keep the smell out.
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My roommate invited a friend from anime club over to our apartment one day in university. Our apartment was 3 stories and we had to sit on the 3rd floor while this guy lounged on the first for several hours. We informed the roommate that this friend was never to be invited back. The stench was loving ungodly.
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I understand some people legit have medical problems that cause them to smell but when you don't shower daily that's like clinical depression level issues.
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Atlas Hugged posted:My roommate invited a friend from anime club over to our apartment one day in university. Our apartment was 3 stories and we had to sit on the 3rd floor while this guy lounged on the first for several hours. We informed the roommate that this friend was never to be invited back. The stench was loving ungodly. Oh, a good friend of mine had the most anime roommate in first year. We'll call him Harry. Harry was, at first glance, a pretty nice kid. Kinda short, pudgy but not obese or anything, with long shoulder-length hair that was (at first) well-groomed and washed. After talking with him for a few minutes, you'd get the impression that he was a doted upon and sheltered rich kid, but he wasn't at all an rear end in a top hat about it and was generally pretty humble about his upbringing. He had odd word choice, but that hinted more to his sheltered life than anything else (an inside joke among the rest of us who were the closest things to friends he had was that he would often ask if we wanted to go to dinner in the dining hall, and that he could go a minute or two before the rest of us to "requisition us a table"). Weird, but harmless. We didn't mind too overmuch, since Harry also was pleasantly introverted and often would smile and tell us no thanks, he didn't want to go out with us that day, he'd rather stay home and play Guilty Gear or something. One of the Chinese exchange students liked to watch people play video games, and apparently did it a lot with Harry. When Harry wasn't gaming, the exchange student would float around to other rooms and watch us. If I was playing Halo at the time, he'd plop down on our couch and demand "you play Harry game, I watch." Guess he didn't care for shooters. Fast-forward through to the end of the first semester. Both guys in the room (Harry and my friend) weren't exactly the cleanest, but Harry's half of the room was just... ungodly. Piles of trash everywhere (not really any food stuff as far as I can recall, mostly just books/mangas/wads of discarded paper from notes and coursework). I had no idea how he managed to even get to his desk -- until I found out that he at some point had given up trying to wade through the trash to get to his desk, and instead chose to do his work on the top bunk. The wall beside Harry's bunk was a boogerwall. Despite owning tissues, Harry seemed to have grown a collection of boogers that must have been intentionally placed or wiped on the wall next to his pillow. There were also... strange white specks on the window just next to his bunk. One night (I think it was during finals week), another friend in my group spotted Harry's laptop unattended and alone in the residence hall's study lounge. As many 19 year olds would do, he thought he'd hop on it and prank him with the old "take a screenshot of the desktop and set it as wallpaper, then hide all the icons" trick. That's when he discovered Harry's folder... of underaged furry porn. It was the end of the year, but Harry got an intervention. Not just about the porn, but about everything -- the trash heaps, the boogerwall, the white stains. I'm not really sure what became of him after that -- most of us moved out of the dorms after that year, and the group kinda split up around campus. Occasionally we'd see him on campus and make friendly but brief smalltalk, but that's it. I mention the story because Harry is the reason why the anime club set its crosshairs on our residence hall, as he was its treasurer or something. RagnarokAngel posted:I understand some people legit have medical problems that cause them to smell but when you don't shower daily that's like clinical depression level issues. I think a lot of it is just ignorance, honestly. We had another guy who was otherwise totally normal, except that he literally had no idea that you were supposed to watch your crotch. Had never soaped up down there, ever. Thankfully, he had a somewhat patient and well-groomed roommate who sorta explained to him how showers work. Drone fucked around with this message at 13:30 on May 1, 2017 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:I understand some people legit have medical problems that cause them to smell but when you don't shower daily that's like clinical depression level issues. I once went 19 days without a shower and no one complained being the infantry can suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
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We've not had hygiene problems at our FLGS, actually. It helps that the ventilation is good and they've set up a big onsite bathroom in a small shipping container. All the problems I've been talking about have entirely been arsehole issues, not smell issues.
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Loxbourne posted:All the problems I've been talking about have entirely been arsehole issues, not smell issues. they poopin everywhere huh?
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RagnarokAngel posted:I understand some people legit have medical problems that cause them to smell but when you don't shower daily that's like clinical depression level issues. Part of it is that these kids have never lived on their own before and now they have no parents forcing them to adhere to basic needs of hygiene or diet. So now that no one is telling them to shower or brush their teeth, they're freeeeeeeeeeeee I had a roommate in college get scurvy because the only things he'd eat were cheeseburgers, chicken tenders, and milk. He had to start mixing up his diet with Hi-C when his teeth started rattling around. And it was basically because no one was putting a plate of vegetables in front of him and being like "that's your dinner, eat it"
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I only ever briefly interacted with the anime club in my first Uni, then I transferred and never joined the second one's club. In the first, I befriended a couple people and just watched anime with them outside of the club. So I can't say I have hilarious horror stories like some of you guys since I mostly knew of people's anime fandom through Facebook. The various martial arts clubs were more or less anime clubs anyway since we were all huge weebs. The MMA club in particular was very useful in figuring out the tier list of waifus since we'd schedule sparring matches to decide which one was superior and ~defend the honor of our waifus~. The stench for the impromptu anime fighting club was bad since we were after all rolling around wrestling and punching, so in the end we were no better than the other anime clubs.
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Chill la Chill posted:The MMA club in particular was very useful in figuring out the tier list of waifus since we'd schedule sparring matches to decide which one was superior and ~defend the honor of our waifus~. 
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I'll fight you if you talk poo poo about my waifu!
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Chill la Chill posted:~defend the honor of our waifus~ mods plz ban this sick filth
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Cat Face Joe posted:mods plz ban this sick filth
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First off, 2d>3d, and second of all, waifu wars are about proclaiming one's favorite character from a show. That I sometimes date asian women has nothing to do with it.
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Leperflesh posted:isn't referring to asian women (or is it just Japanese women?) as "waifus" pretty racist, sexist, and gross? stupid baka
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Chill la Chill posted:I only ever briefly interacted with the anime club in my first Uni, then I transferred and never joined the second one's club. In the first, I befriended a couple people and just watched anime with them outside of the club. So I can't say I have hilarious horror stories like some of you guys since I mostly knew of people's anime fandom through Facebook. The various martial arts clubs were more or less anime clubs anyway since we were all huge weebs. The MMA club in particular was very useful in figuring out the tier list of waifus since we'd schedule sparring matches to decide which one was superior and ~defend the honor of our waifus~. The stench for the impromptu anime fighting club was bad since we were after all rolling around wrestling and punching, so in the end we were no better than the other anime clubs. goons.txt
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I always love when goons let just a little too much info about their personal lives come out. "Heh yeah I spent a few years physically fighting and jacking off other smelly guys so that we could determine which anime is best."
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Yeah dude, or it could be a funnier way to describe a lame everyday activity. Was wondering if I'd ever get on that goons.txt twitter.
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Chill la Chill posted:Yeah dude, or it could be a funnier way to describe a lame everyday activity. Was wondering if I'd ever get on that goons.txt twitter. I fight people over which anime girl is best. This is an everyday activity.
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panascope posted:I fight people over which anime girl is best. This is an everyday activity. 
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Hey guys, when I woke up this morning I found a report on my desk, and it said "Games Workshop is bad". Just thought you all would be interested in the latest news and updates.
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FrostyPox posted:Hey guys, when I woke up this morning I found a report on my desk, and it said "Games Workshop is bad". I won't lie though, watching DoW3 streams (regardless of whether or not it's a good game) has gotten me into a 40k mood again, something I didn't really think was possible. Is there a tl;dr on what stupid poo poo GW has put out fluff-wise during their whole push to move the 40k plot clock a minute closer to midnight? I know something about Gullyman coming back (somehow?) and there are apparently gonna be Bigmarines, but that's about it.
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Chill la Chill posted:waifu wars are about proclaiming one's favorite character from a show oh But not just "favorite" right? It's the one you want to imagine marrying? now I have involuntarily gained another small insight into anime watching culture, and am worsened for it
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