A New Challenge

[Orcs]

As many of you know there is a certain amount of banter and P*ss taking between the two of us, and now he has managed to get his   "Can you see how this went wrong?" threads locked. 

This is something I have never achieved despite many "near the mark comments", Sending Techno a complete first aid kit ( that probably needs topping up by now  ) and some very rude jokes.  I once had to get Leon to delete a thread after I copied a page of jokes without reading all of them. (some  were beyond the pale even by my very non PC standards)

So now I have a new challenge. Getting a thread locked without being banned (permanently) from the forum!!   

[fred.]

I think asking nicely is cheating?

[Orcs]

I think asking nicely is cheating?

Oh I am not going to cheat, I am going to think of a suitable controversial thread and post it.

[Last Hussar]

Only Orcs could challenge someone to a contest he's already lost. Thread locked. I'm still here.

I win.

[Last Hussar]

I think asking nicely is cheating?

This is the only way he will never cheat then.

[Orcs]

Only Orcs could challenge someone to a contest he's already lost. Thread locked. I'm still here.

I win.

You have had a thread locked , so by default I want one as well. So my challenge is to get a thread locked, not to beat you to it

[sunjester]

I sometimes worry what it says about me when I have to admit to personally knowing both these people! :-

[Orcs]

I sometimes worry what it says about me when I have to admit to personally knowing both these people! :-

LH and I  worry about what it says about us  having to admit to knowing you as well 

[Ithoriel]

Oh I am not going to cheat, I am going to think of a suitable controversial thread and post it.

A post on the finer points of crochet or a critique of the works of Menella Bute Smedley would likely get closed down pretty quickly

[Leman]

Crochet sounds a lot like crotchet, which I assume is a small crotch, somewhat dissimilar to Blackadder's Black Russian.

[Raider4]

You have had a thread locked , so by default I want one as well. So my challenge is to get a thread locked, not to beat you to it

Mention:

• Behaviour on other forums, especially American ones (although this one has been done recently, so it may seem like you're just being a copy-cat)
• How anybody that's interested in playing fantasy is obviously a pre-pubescent adolescent
• Brexit

[Last Hussar]

LH and I  worry about what it says about us  having to admit to knowing you as well 

No, just knowing you.

[Leman]

Oy! 'ang on! Fantasy bashing is my bag. Go and find your own bit of Non-wargaming to be rude about.

[Orcs]

Oy! 'ang on! Fantasy bashing is my bag. Go and find your own bit of Non-wargaming to be rude about.

We know you only bash fantasy because you would like to be young enough to remember your pre-pubescent adolescent days, when now that are lost in the mists of time. 

[Leman]

No they are not. My pre-pubescent wargaming days involved the ACW, WWI, WWII, cavalry and Indians and the Wars of the Roses. Faeries and sprites were for girls.

[fsn]

I will admit to doing some Tunnel & Trolls in my youth, but I was young; it was the 80's; I drank vodka, I was on my first fiancee*. When I got my first job I concentrated on Peter Laing's Marlburians, switched to whisky and met my second fiancee**.

Truisms are truisms because they are true. Women on average have smaller muscles than men, Asians on average tend to be brighter than the rest of us and (look at the surveys) Fantasy gaming is preferred by younger gamers. The switch comes at about the age of 40. Whether that's because fantasy as a genre became popular at some point, and we will see that age rise as we older historical gamers die off, or there is some sort of brain switch that clicks into the off position with our 40th birthdays and turns us towards other genres, I cannot say.

I am not against fantasy per se, I like many red blooded men enjoyed watching Jason Momoa as Conan, but I have recently re-read some of the books I enjoyed as a youth (Elric, LoTR) and my boat remains firmly unfloated.

Anyway, if you want a real heated debate, why not ask what colour is butternut, or suggest non-standard basing is OK, or argue that Colonialisation was good for Africa and all those little wars were justified.

* So was someone else, but that's a different story.
* Who was a twin, and that's also a different story.

[Leman]

Some very interesting points there - a double hickey from twins when you're 14 is pretty good. Still not sure about the age 40 switch off. A good few of the faerie players in Liverpool are past 40. I never got into fantasy because it didn't exist when I started wargaming - it was purely historical, and I remember the horror on the faces of my friends when somebody decided WWIII would be a fun idea, and manufacturers actually started to make the models. LOTR definitely kicked off the fantasy thing, along with D&D (although that's not even vaguely a wargame). Personally I think fantasy wargaming (as opposed to the much more pertinent title fantasy gaming) appeared because it was wargaming figure makers who satisfied the demand for figures (and who can blame them - at the end of the day they are businesses in a capitalist economy) - as far as I can remember Minifigs produced the first LOTR range in the mid-70s - I even bought some mounted Saxons/Vikings, although they were not described as such in the catalogue (remember them?). As an historical wargamer I also like the idea of imaginative or alternative historical games, i.e. Leonardo's machines or VSF machines - no magic, super beings or the like, just a different direction in human endeavour.

[FierceKitty]

I will admit to doing some Tunnel & Trolls in my youth, but I was young; it was the 80's; I drank vodka, I was on my first fiancee* . When I got my first job I concentrated on Peter Laing's Marlburians, switched to whisky and met my second fiancee**.

Truisms are truisms because they are true. Women on average have smaller muscles than men, Asians on average tend to be brighter than the rest of us && and (look at the surveys) Fantasy gaming is preferred by younger gamers. The switch comes at about the age of 40. Whether that's because fantasy as a genre became popular at some point, and we will see that age rise as we older historical gamers die off, or there is some sort of brain switch that clicks into the off position with our 40th birthdays and turns us towards other genres, I cannot say.

I am not against fantasy per se, I like many red blooded men enjoyed watching Jason Momoa as Conan, but I have recently re-read some of the books I enjoyed as a youth (Elric, LoTR) and my boat remains firmly unfloated.

Anyway, if you want a real heated debate, why not ask what colour is butternut, or suggest non-standard basing is OK, or argue that Colonialisation was good for Africa and all those little wars were justified. &&&

* So was someone else, but that's a different story.  &
* Who was a twin, and that's also a different story.

&   At the same time?  

&&  NOT if my students are anything to go by!

&&& ...or whether balrogs have wings.

[Ithoriel]

I'm 65. So ever so slightly older than 40.

Started fantasy gaming sometime around 1970.

The king from the Airfix "Sheriff of Nottingham" set acquired a paper cloak and an all black paint job to become a Nazgul.

A roughly two foot tower, constructed of cardboard tubes and papier mache, was variously Dol Guldur, Minas Morgul or Barad-dûr.

Sauron's dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham's troops fought the somewhat unconvincing "elves" of Robin Hood. A converted Britains baby elephant became an oliphaunt or mûmakil.

No fiancées were involved

[Westmarcher]

* So was someone else, but that's a different story.
* Who was a twin, and that's also a different story.

 

Interest piqued. So which of the above was the "first fiancee*" and which one the "second fiancee**?"

Or were they both the "first fiancée*?" Oh, oh .... wait .... were they both twins? Go on, tell us. ...... pleeeezzze.

[Or did you simply miss out the second asterisk ...... ?]