- Joined
- Apr 25, 2020
There's always one of those.Yep. Had someone loosely attached to my social circle in the dying days of 40k 3rd ed who played nids.
Not a bad guy but an absolute WAAC maven with a 140 decibel voice that could strip paint at twenty paces.
Through creative rules interpretation in the 'nid codex he found a loophole that (he claimed) let his spore mines spawn more spore mines.
There were other players he'd pulled this on and gotten away with it.
He pulled the trick on me halfway through his first turn. I disagreed with his interpretation. He disagreed with mine.
So I reached over the table, shook his hand, and congratulated him on his win, then started packing up.
Much to the amusement of the onlookers, he literally started sputtering like his brain had shorted out.
He told me I wasn't allowed to quit and I told him that there was no rule in 40k that required me to play against him.
The peanut gallery, all of whom he'd tried this trick against (and weren't the kind to object to it), were less than sympathetic to his appeals to them that I was a poor sport.
Funnily enough, he stayed in the shadows at our games nights for a few months, watching us have fun until 4th ed came out.
Then he asked for a few games, stopped being a cheesey cunt, and started having fun himself.
God knows he had a lot more people accept his offers of games than he'd had previously.
To the best of my knowledge he still goes to games nights, isn't a WAAC rules lawyering dipshit any more, and is generally well liked.
In my case it was playing MtG Commander at the local game store. One particular asshole had this extremely cheesy Edgar Markov vampire tribal deck. It wasn't invincible, but it was extremely boring to play against because it was an extreme rushdown deck without easy counters. The Commander never actually hit the board, and since it was black and white it was loaded with removal. It was one of those decks that turned a fun, casual 4-player free-for-all into a 3v1 race to kill him before he built up too much momentum. So people just started refusing to play against him and he threw a huge fit about it. We all told him that his deck was not fun to play with, and that if he wanted to play Competitive EDH he should just sign up for it.
He left for a few weeks, then came back with a new deck. A Narset deck that... immediately turned a fun, casual 4-player free-for-all into a 3v1 race to kill him before he could cast eight spells for free and/or get infinite turns.
No redemption story for this asshole yet, unfortunately.
GW are beholden to public opinion like everybody else, and the screeching harpies demanding female smurfs are extremely loud, and most people don't care about the implications to canon or the setting itself. So there's a good chance it'll happen unless SocJus falls out of favor very quickly.GW are a pack of turbocunts that have moved from flirting with SocJus to giving it a good fingerblasting behind the bike shed, but they know there are things that 99% of the fanbase simply cannot and will not ever forgive.