Haha, the codex thing reminds me of being in the Warhammer store once: "Oh can I look at the codex?" "Sure" "ah this one has the plastic on it" "yes." "ok....."

Dude! You can't call out one guy for shortening mathematics to just math singular (not the correct, maths plural) then go on YOURSELF to refer to the plural of codex as 'codexes' not the CORRECT codices!

“But I also know people in those sectors who are…quite nefarious in their sector” you can watch literal hours of content on KZfaq about drama involving furries who turned out to be absolutely reprehensible. The majority of these are individuals that not even _the furries themselves_ want to deal with.

There was this one manager we all loved, he had this method that worked like 90% - 95% of the time. He would put the item he was talking about in your hand and it would trick your brain to buy it! Something about it being in your hand, psychology blah blah. He was cool one of the best he was lenient on rules to a degree i.e. store copies of codeices to look at among other things (he let me use some store paints to help me paint my first model) The store was always packed even on weekdays especially after school and his numbers were always something to be praised After he was let go for reasons I won't go into they put a temp manager that was awful, she was never interested in the hobby, was either using her phone or on the PC (granted the PC was likely to do work but I digress) and would often bring her kid who at the time was like 4. The kid was annoying, either crying the entire time or he'd shuffle product making it difficult to find anything. But the absolute worst thing this kid would do is go to tables that players left to grab a bite and take their models and play with them on a center display table. Luckily no one straight up yelled at the kid but we all would regularly complain to the mother who would just tell him to stop and that's it. The store recovered a bit when the new permanent manager took over and I wad cool with him but he rubbed me the wrong way when I he told me "if warhammer is too expensive then you need a new hobby" I told him why that's just wrong thinking, left and never came back. I've been there maybe twice in 5 years new manager but the store is almost always empty now.

I had a simular experience. I used to play in the Tottenham Court Road store back in 7th edition. Massive community, vet night ect. I went up there last month and no games are played. I asked if they knew where games are played locally and none working there knew. Games workshop is not the same anymore

Here's how that prison ship segment would have gone at my table: Russ: "nyeh-heh, I seal Mike in the corridor and blast him into space by opening the air lock!" Me as the GM: "No you don't."

The old Plaza store on Oxford Street was great (Top floor days in the late 80s), never the same when it moved to Tottenham Court Road.

Ah, Tottenham Court Road... I was on vacation in London back in '05 (I think) and decided to pop in and get a box of Temple Guards for my friend's Lizardmen army as a souvenir. The clerk or whomever was at the till didn't want to sell them to me and tried to convince me to swap to playing Eldar in 40k instead. Insert me, a socially awkward 15 year old, trying to explain to him in my third language that no one I know plays 40k and that they are a gift to a friend and getting bullied by an employee for playing the wrong game and the wrong army. Avoided that store like the plague on my subsequent visits to London. Even to this day.

When I heard you talk about bad gw managers I had to feel something, I'm more than happy to hand off info but long and short of it, just pre COVID one of the local GW to me had a manager that lost a sale of a codex due to trying hell or high water to push me to pick up models first as he thought I was a beginner (I am not)

10:20 More cheer in a graveyard - I love it ! ! !

13:10 you still got that salesman’s drive north ;)

12:31 GW and the lost art of SALES ! ! !

16:04 And GW manages to survive as long as they have ! ! !

I went to my local games work every Friday arvo for a while. Playing 40k every Friday night against random people. It was great. I remember forgetting my codex once or twice. Store manager would just give me the store copy to use.

Saw Jurassic Park and Hook in the cinema the first time round. Sooooooooooooo good

I’ve been in the Tottenham Court Road ws for years and I’ve seen the same Spanish guy who is a nice guy and always recognises me even though I pop just to see the new models

Alfabusa got me interested in world of darkness so I’ve been thinking about trying vampire the masquerade lol

Did anyone else get an edvert the moment the 3 seconds of silence kick in ?!

I would love to see JP in theaters again. The effects still hold up and it is just an S tier movie.

Fully agree on the Tottenham Court Road GW (or WARHAMMER) as it is now called. I pop in remorselessly for model of the month and have bought like 3 pots of paint in total. I remember telling him that I wasn’t a fan of Primaris and where I think GW writing had gone wrong; but I am very smiley person it’s hard to be pissy with me, I think 😂😅 Dark Sphere and Magic Mad House for the win.

Your 3 seconds of silence.. caused an ad 😂

30 Years ? ! ? ! ? Christ ! ! !

“They will find a way” corperate finds a way.

5:00 Living the dream . 😀

21:05 A clear difference between corperate drone and a business proprietor ! ! !

I didn't get bronys but then I had children who watched the show and I was like "damn this isn't half bad". Now they don't get to see my kids anymore 😂

always wanted to know what game is playing in the background? im still new to 40k and wanted to browse some of the video games when im not learning the table top game

I have an email to sent you about my experiences working at GW in the 90s, how can I find your email address? I'm not on discord... thanks 😅

That's some solid GM:ing in such a situation.

Vampire the masquerade is a great game done right. But it does bring in some pretty seriously deviant "characters" As a stoyteller, that is something i will not allow in my games with no exceptions. Boundries and veils are stated before each game and are strictly followed, and i have no qualms about kicking people to the curb if they act up. Its within the storyteller / DMs purview to control events like this and to stop them from occuring so everyone can have a safe gaming environment and enjoy a good story. I havent quite finished the story yet but i hope that the storyteller had put his foot down eventually.

Long live VDR 1,2, 3 and Plays as rules, and white dwarf plans and upgrades / conversions, lol.

8:39 Simple, bring back Old World .

These thumbnails are 🔥🔥🔥

Traveller RPG rocks 🎉

Man, these stories are great. Have a sub and a like.

The table top story. As a mildly seasoned GM, I would have booted this guy after talking to him once or twice. Especially if the rest of the group started getting uneasy. This is exactly the reason why I hold a small “post game council” just to make sure everything is fine. Good on the DM here for trying to rectify the situation. But if he did anything like that. I’m not sure how I would handle it in the moment

Officially subscribed 💣💣💣

Im going to have to dust a channel insult off the shelf for that manager.... What a spurgey bastard!

Is that a modified version of Dev's (ShortFatOtaku) avatar in the thumbnail?

If I'm considering putting together a new army, and wondering what core units I should buy to fill things out, and you don't let me look at a Codex to figure out what suits my playstyle? See if I even actually like the faction at all? Yeah, fuck you, I'm buying somewhere else.

I was about to do the "le not all furries are the same" bit because well, im clearly a furry who likes to think im pretty normal heh but right when I went to type it out you mentioned being lonely as one of the "broken" aspects of us and I immediately said out loud "FUCK, thats me" lol

6:32 Lay low. 😃

Whats the game being played in the background?

24:51 I have seen big and tall dressed well and did well.

You can choose to not judge people for playing AoS, i can. We'll see how well it does with TOW finally out

I worked at a university bookshop for a few years, and the idea that you arent allowed to look through a book before buying it is totally bewildering to me. If i knew they wouldnt really need the book butjust a few pages i even advisedthem to go to the library and copy them, thats totally within copyright. sounds stupid? Guess where these guys bought their books from for the rest of their student years

17:26 Rules are made to be BROKEN ! ! !

*waits for 3rd Legion / Fulgrim content*

what about us who make things or scratch build because not a lot of money or just want to mix it up and have different stuff on the table. we have lost a lot of players and hobbiest due to GW snobbs. they wont let scratch builders even play in some spots. i been playing since 1990 here in the states. its sad to see the art for and imagination lost in some cases. lot of nightmares in this sunject here in the US.

6:50 😂😂😂 that dude has an irony deficiency. Jesus dude...self awareness is important.

Engagement

For the Algorithm!

It's Math* test in the most important country in the world. But yeah correct him again ;D

Nice listens I'm support 9/10 takes you have. I do thi know you will figure out how to pick you rants better.

I could sell you loads of stuff, but it's more important to me to make you feel uncomfortable and unwanted. That's my idea of what a store manager does, and Games Workshop loves how low much this mentality helps keep operating costs down. No plastic for you, I'm the games Nazi. 😂

I think the problem with furry is definitely one of oversharing. It's fine for a community to be sex-positive but that's in YOUR space with people that are also into that, and NEVER minors. NEVER. Now when you're talking to someone who isn't into it you don't need to mention how X anthro character is hot, you don't need to have some artwork of Krystal the Fox with her tits out as your phone unlock screen, and you don't need to be so excitable all the time with the animal noises and stuff. I've been sat around a table of nerds who all like a variety of things and it's ALWAYS the furry that's so performative, tmi and just... doing the whole LOLRANDOM thing. You're in a nerd fandom and find the generic artwork of furry characters that people draw hot. We get it. Just read the room and chill the fuck out. I've met several furries and they're just not... Someone you can relax with and have a drink with and casually interact with, their obsession always bleeds through. It's quite sad really.

Ooh, careful... If you've not watched Hook since you were young, I'd recommend sticking to your fond memories and avoiding it! I watched it recently, about 25+ years after last seeing it and it was fucking wank.

When it comes to 'furries', i think it's just a case of horses for courses (sorry- i couldn't resist making that pun)

GW need to really stop being so precious over the codex. Free rules resources exist all over the internet and on apps. If you want to read the store copy of the codex why not honestly

Either most DMs are such pushovers if these types of stories are taken at face value… Nothing against you but these stories where it’s one person saying another person was that guy, always have matching themes every single time. They are like creepy pastas. It’s always a person who is outwardly degenerate, doesnt wear deodorant, is a furry, claims they’re an incel, rapey stalker vibes etc. and while I definitely know for a fact these people exist, there’s far more stories than seems plausible. It’s damaging to any game that these stories are over saturated and exaggerating. Seriously according to these stories everyone will encounter a “that guy” and they are just allowed to do these egregious social taboos and bad behavior, yet time and time again these stories they just let this behavior go til a screaming match months down the road? Bullshit, I guarantee you half these stories or more are somebody just giving their side of things and it’s likely them and the person in the story were problems for the group cuz it makes more sense that a DM wouldn’t want to kick two people, but the fact all these stories are somehow one person is a problem and is allowed to play and stay with the group until something extreme happens. It always comes off as unbelievable to me. I’m a DM for D&D and I’ve never dealt with someone half this bad, and if you act any way like that and make no changes within a game session you’re out of my game. Therefore these stories are unbelievable to me, and if true the DM is to blame for not removing the problem and allowing them to ruin the game. Worst of all This is damaging to potential new players who will be inclined to avoid the community because these countless negative, sorry to sound so disregarding, but fan fiction.

the furries at the store I go to,tend to stink really really bad. x,.,x

Hold on there, let's not forget to include the anime people as well. They might on first glance not be as overtly depraved as the other two groups but quite similar to left wing extremists, they are by far the most dangerous of the bunch because their antics have become more socially accepted during the last couple decades. Making an off handed reference to your favorite waifu smut at my table will always mean the first strike, if you show any further signs of deviancy you'll be kicked from the group, no further questions. Keep the trash out.

In the States its Math.

MATH no s.

*Math. It’s singular. Just like how y’all say bayamoth (behemoth) Lefttenant (Lieutenant) Potato you pronounce right, but then say tomotto (tomato) Don’t correct people on their English, it was y’all who changed your pronunciations and accents after losing the Revolution. I’m picking on you by the way.

Reminded: Math** tests saved you from Germany. 😉

Look up kero the wolf and his gang if you want to know how awful furries are.

It's 'math'. You don't say 'histories' or 'readings' class. Same concept

"No man is free who is not master of himself." -Epictetus. (keep up the good work.)

8:47 dude. People play a game because they like the game. How should they react when some feckless Jabroni changes everything about it?

Its math not maths, we dont say histories to refer to history class.