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| Radish 696th Post
 
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, posted Sun 29 Dec 17:16:
I know a couple people here play one of the many versions of Warhammer (or at least used to) so they may be able to relate. I haven't played in 5 years, but today I was reminded of why I quit. I always seemed to meet the most pompous assholes playing and meeting them wasn't worth the exorbitant prices of the game pieces.
I wandered into one of their stores yesterday just to see how the game was progressing and I wasn't there 2 minutes before I ran into some jerk. I was walking in a narrow path between two tables, one of which he was playing on. I guess my shirt was pretty big or something (not that I am; I'm the C- of size) because apparently I knock off one of his models without knowing it. I heard the sound of plastic hitting the floor, looked around and saw a plastic model on the floor whose glued on arm had come off. Thinking nothing of it (the store was crowded so I assumed that someone had nudged the tabled causing the model to fall) I picked up the pieces and placed them back on the table and turned to the books on the wall. About half a minute later as I was reading a manual, the guy makes eye contact and the following conversation begins...
Ass: So man, where's my apology?
Me: ???
Ass: You knocked that off.
Me: Oh, did I? I didn't know...
Ass: Well, you were the closest one there.
Me: Oh, I'm sorry about that. I'll get some glue for you.
I walk to the check out counter to get some glue from the manager. 7 feet away the guy is still talking to somebody.
Ass: ...then he picks it up and looks around like nothing happened like this *starts a spastic head waving, imitating me trying to look around innocently*
I return and hand him the glue.
Me: Here. I'm really sorry. I didn't know I knocked it off.
Ass: Yeah, whatever (in a really inconvenienced tone)
This may not sound like much (and it isn't) but it's just another dick in a long line of jerks that's I've run into while participating in the hobby. I would have understood his indignation if I had ruined an important model, but honestly the arm that fell off comes separate in the box and is a 2 second glue job, additionally I still know enough about the hobby to see a 5 minute paint job when I see one (where somebody slops on paint in order to make them game legal).
I'm sure no one here cares, but it feels good to bitch about it.
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| GekigangerV 252th Post
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| "Re(1):Warhammer" , posted Sun 29 Dec 21:08
quote:
I know a couple people here play one of the many versions of Warhammer (or at least used to) so they may be able to relate. I haven't played in 5 years, but today I was reminded of why I quit. I always seemed to meet the most pompous assholes playing and meeting them wasn't worth the exorbitant prices of the game pieces.
I wandered into one of their stores yesterday just to see how the game was progressing and I wasn't there 2 minutes before I ran into some jerk. I was walking in a narrow path between two tables, one of which he was playing on. I guess my shirt was pretty big or something (not that I am; I'm the C- of size) because apparently I knock off one of his models without knowing it. I heard the sound of plastic hitting the floor, looked around and saw a plastic model on the floor whose glued on arm had come off. Thinking nothing of it (the store was crowded so I assumed that someone had nudged the tabled causing the model to fall) I picked up the pieces and placed them back on the table and turned to the books on the wall. About half a minute later as I was reading a manual, the guy makes eye contact and the following conversation begins...
Ass: So man, where's my apology?
Me: ???
Ass: You knocked that off.
Me: Oh, did I? I didn't know...
Ass: Well, you were the closest one there.
Me: Oh, I'm sorry about that. I'll get some glue for you.
I walk to the check out counter to get some glue from the manager. 7 feet away the guy is still talking to somebody.
Ass: ...then he picks it up and looks around like nothing happened like this *starts a spastic head waving, imitating me trying to look around innocently*
I return and hand him the glue.
Me: Here. I'm really sorry. I didn't know I knocked it off.
Ass: Yeah, whatever (in a really inconvenienced tone)
This may not sound like much (and it isn't) but it's just another dick in a long line of jerks that's I've run into while participating in the hobby. I would have understood his indignation if I had ruined an important model, but honestly the arm that fell off comes separate in the box and is a 2 second glue job, additionally I still know enough about the hobby to see a 5 minute paint job when I see one (where somebody slops on paint in order to make them game legal).
I'm sure no one here cares, but it feels good to bitch about it.
Yea, jerks playing games can get annoying. Although I haven't played Warhammer. At my school I hang out in a class room where plenty of people play card games like Yu-Gi-Oh or Magic and those people can get intense. You took a nice cool approach, however if I was in the same situation instead of grabbing glue I would have gotten a baseball bat and instead of giving the guy an apology i would have given an ass beating. But that is just me.
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