So yes, as someone who would turn up at table after table, and get turned down for a game with excuses like "everybody plays space marines" and "tau are easy to beat I just march across the table and get into melee." and "Tau don't belong in 40k". Yeah, I care.
I've never seen that happen to a space marine or tau player. But like I said, I've never seen anyone with the balls to say the shit they'll rant about online to anyone's face. The space wolf memes will get talked about in the game store, but I've never seen it happen to anyone's face in a game. If I remember right, you're in bong-land(especially referring to prices in pounds in this post), shit sounds fucked over there.
First, it's that there's no winning. I went into this a bit a while back when talking about slop YouTubers like Inner Circle, but it gives the impression that people hate the hobby. There's a lot wrong with GW, but it seems it gets lost in the noise, or I'm just the odd man out and should shut up.
Outer circle, but sure. The thing is though, he is NOT in the hobby for 40k. I watched a few of his videos, but then caught one a year or two ago where he whined about a non GW event and the tournament organizers screwing him over, but somehow it was entirely GWs fault and not that it was just a local retard, and that he hadn't played or bought anything for 40k in damn near a decade, after already noticing the guy doesn't pay attention to the lore.
Doesn't play. Doesn't paint. Doesn't read lore. Doesn't play the video games or participate with anything 40k related other than running a 40k channel to complain. He isn't in the hobby.
Northern Exile and his channel people write laughably stupid stories for, doesn't play 40k(he quit fairly recently and switched to OPR is my understanding). Claims he doesn't paint 40k. Doesn't even read up on the current lore in any way(he's said so much wildly wrong shit in his videos its kind of absurd), and the background gameplay in his videos is kinda bad but at least he plays the videogames I guess? Barely participates in anything 40k related. May as well be the same as Gamza(who as of a few months ago wiped his channel again) , that discourse miniatures tranny, warhammer man studios, and plenty of other people with youtube channels do not, never have, or quit engaging in anything 40k related years ago and they only exist to bitch about it. So yeah, there's a lot of noise but it isn't worth listening to. No this doesn't mean I suck GWs cock either, I fully acknowledge when they fuck up and I've also suggested just buying recasts at least twice in this thread(including when I told you to find another place to buy characters and other shit from so you aren't paying for $40 for a single character mini), among many other instances here of pointing out how shit their pricing/boxes are for epic(most boxes making you buy crap you don't want to get the thing you were interested in quickly ramping up the cost for a full list into absurdity), the bullshit prices for the app and their stupid books, and so on. The complaints from people who actually play the game and spend money on it current year are not the same as the complaints from people(youtube, reddit, dakkadakka, etc.) who haven't actually touched it in ages.
On the topic of HH, one video I saw complained that it's getting a refresh every 3 years now, and books that came out just a few months ago are now useless. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't getting away from that part of the reason HH was popular in the first place?
It was popular because it wasn't 8th edition or later(so 7th but minus a lot of the retarded jank that plagued 7th), and supported the space marine circle jerk. Yes the mechanicum, custodes, and solar auxilia(guard) exist but 90% of the playerbase doesn't touch them and I actually have seen games refused due to someone wanting to play custodes.
Since I want the current age of darkness box for the minis, I wonder if buying the books used and having that edition locked down would be worth doing?
Don't know. Damn near everything I hear about playing games in the UK seems like a dumpster fire one way or another(not just from your posts). In the US unless you've already got a friend group dedicated to playing HH 2.0, who have said they won't move onto 3.0, that probably wouldn't work as people will inevitably move onto the newer thing(and just continue to use waha, newrecruit, etc. instead of buying the books they don't want to pay for).
