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22
Apr/2008

Gaming Etiquette

Let's talk about My Bits Are Better Than Yours Syndrome. Tonight, I encountered it while playing Marvel Heroesi Friendly Local Game Store. While remarking to a Heroclix player visiting our table that the Hulk was ready to do some smashing up in the Bronx, his response was to plunk a Nightwing figure on the board, announcing he would own the town.

I get that it was meant to be funny. And I'm sure it was, back in 1968 when someone dropped their Civil War era artillery models into a hex 'n chit recreation of Agincourt. But not anymore. Not the first time I saw it when someone put his Warmachine 'jack in the middle of our Frag board, not anytime since and not tonight.

Call me humorless if you must. I often am, and typically about things that don't really matter. This is one of those things. If you want to watch the game, fine. But don't throw your pieces into our game just because you think it's a funny juxtaposition. Barely funny then, not funny now.

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From: ShadowKing
04/23/2008 14:25:58
I agree. He should have at least put down a Hulk figure for use in the game. Nightwing isn't even a Marvel character, sheesh! Some people eh?


From: Cosmic_Emu
04/23/2008 14:18:35
This has got to be right up there with the wandering observer picking figs up off the minis table and looking at them without asking. They never put them back where they were and really having no business grabbing pieces in play. Would you walk by a Chess board and grab my king to check it out?

You are not humorless.  Those who are not directly involved in the game should be respectful and not interfere. These same tonks would pitch a fit if I rifled through their clix stuff or thumbed through their DMs notes.

-Eli


From: DaneOfWar
04/23/2008 10:47:22

This happens so often in 40K. Some things just do not make games enjoyable, and I often wonder if people really understand that.

I'm all for playing for fun - but not when it turns the game into a parody.



From: Groovydave
04/23/2008 10:37:54
Agreed. But allow this: The types of people attracted by our hobby (in it's many insidious forms) are well known for a lack of social graces. Not everyone, mind you, and many grow and ripen with age, becoming functionally charming. Still, this is a hobby with a high number of geeks, nerds and dorks populating its ranks, and while that doesn't make this guys behavior right, or forgivable, it at least makes it understandable. Now, on top of this, our society in general is on a slippery slope of rudeness and inconsideration. It seems every day we see new outrages of petty and common affronts to our fellow men and women. Where will it end? I can't imagine.


From: blinovitch
04/23/2008 09:14:04


socom242 wrote:
Seriously...Nightwing? Just curious...did the Hulk...um...SMASH HIM?!?!?

I chose not to dignify it with a response. 

From: socom242
04/23/2008 05:45:44
Seriously...Nightwing?  Just curious...did the Hulk...um...SMASH HIM?!?!?



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