Quote from: d_Guy on 06 August 2016, 07:03:38 PM
Depends on whom you are curling up with 

To Kitty: I couldn't figure out how to say the above without ending on a preposition or, in one case, letting my participle dangle! 

Only pedantic teachers who are looking for mindless rules to give students as a meretricious short cut always object to ending on a preposition. With phrasal verbs in particular the alternative is often unthinkably silly ("something up with which I will not put").

Thanks for the pass , ya'll - English is, after all, my second language 
Incidently, "pendantic" and "dangling" seem to go together somehow.

 

Quote from: d_Guy on 07 August 2016, 02:26:08 AM

Incidently, "pendantic" and "dangling" seem to go together somehow.

 

You should give 'Pendants Corner' a listen to: Sean Keavney on BBC 6 Music.

Quote from: petercooman on 23 July 2016, 07:23:48 AM
I moved up an age bracket too, went from 21-30 to the 31-40 bracket last weekend .....

Still lower than a lot of you guys i reckon   

You can go off  someone quite quickly you know. 

Quote from: d_Guy on 06 August 2016, 07:03:38 PM
Depends on whom you are curling up with 

How about curling up with one of these?   Afterwards you at least could talk about something interesting 
Bettanny Hues

Suzzanah Lipscombe

Kate Williams

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 07 August 2016, 09:58:26 AM
You can go off  someone quite quickly you know. 

Hear, Hear.

Why do we allow kiddies on this sensible forum !.....PAH !! 

Cheers - Phil

'ow did you get in Phil ?

'Cos I'm old venerable. 

Cheers - Phil

First version is more accurate 

It may be a futile attempt to get this thread back on track, but here's another intermediate update: http://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/wss/blog/wargaming-worries/

For me, the competition is not just Real Life (tm) and the competing pulls on finance and attention required nor the problems of finding suitable opponents or, indeed, opponents at all but the competing forms of gaming the same subject. If you're interested in WWW2, why spend time collecting figures, vehicles, paint and terrain when you can get Heroes of Normandie* and have full colour forces and detailed terrain ready in half an hour? Or you can get Company of Heroes* and have forces that actually move and which provides opponents from across the planet.

I love the tabletop game and fully expect it to outlast me but I do wonder if we are going the way of men preceding motor cars with red flags and the makers of horse brasses.


*Other games are available

That reason for decreasing interest was mentioned, but only once or twice.

To me tabletop wargaming is about one's interior life which makes it difficult to find a suitable vocabulary or set of metaphors that can be used to casually explain it to someone else. It is much easier to explain if the competitive nature is emphasized. Everyone grasps the concept of winning and losing and the lengths taken to win. Everything is competitive (and can even be made into a team sport), jig saw puzzles for example:

For any pursuit to satisfy and remain satisfying, in my mind at least, it must address the interior life. Essentially I think a tabletop wargame is, at its best, a piece of performance art. Something that even the uninitiated can look at and see the depth and be engaged. It doesn't even have to be stunningly beautiful or amazingly detailed - it simple has to provide more questions then answers.

Once everything falls into rituals and formulas the fun goes away and people leave.

My view anyway (and hardly unique).

Quote from: ianrs54 on 07 August 2016, 12:39:27 PM
'ow did you get in Phil ?

Took a wrong turn when heading to casualty i think...