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[petercooman123]

You should get that idiot fired!!!

[flamingkillamajig]

Hopefully i'm not exaggerating things. He's not a good employee. Maybe i just get pissed off at the dickish people most. I'll admit i have problems too but he insulted some kid and the kid responded back nicely. That kind of shit shouldn't be tolerated. Guy's such a douchebag.

Man though i hope i don't make enemies out of nothing. What i don't get is this friend i never talked to until things started going wrong reminded me of why i never talk to him anymore. Am i attracted to assholes or is it all in my head and a lot me. I think it's a bit of both because i don't understand how this friend used to insult me so much previously and it's like he's only mildly interested in what i say and he just gets kind of mad at me when i talk and he doesn't want me to. I just don't understand how he says i'm blaming everybody and it's my fault. Actually i somewhat get that but i get pissed at assholes. What i don't get is how he said he only has problems with me and his behavior seems to suggest otherwise. This includes that supposed guy he took off his web show that he's doing that he and his friends didn't like. I wonder if the reason why he gets along so well with people on his web show is that it's probably mostly his friends. I mean i get along well with most of my friends.

I guess something else is the friend has had some good qualities in the past but so far most of my attempts at being good with this have been dashed. I tried to talk to him about the roleplay i did with jarms and he didn't want to even hear it. He didn't want to talk about diablo 3, skyrim and he even put the things i was most looking forward to doing with him (the "let's plays" for computer games and an abridged series) on the back-burner. I'm just quickly seeing why i tried breaking off the friendship with him for 5 months or so and probably why i shouldn't have regained contact just days ago.

Meh i guess i just bitch a lot. I was thinking of writing another blog or two maybe. We'll see. Nice to have you commenting peter. Lord knows without both of us this site would most likely die .

[petercooman123]

Well there was a topic on this on dakka a while ago. There was this guy that had a guard army centered around my little pony. Now i don't like that, but it is his army so i don't care.

Now he went into his games workshop and showed his colour scheme for a marine army he wanted to make, also related to my little pony.

The gw employee said that the store was not a fucking gaybar.

Now you can say whatever you want about it, even if he buys nothing there, he still IS a costumer. He had the store employee fired. Not only for the thing he sad, but other costumers started saying related stuff. The manager clearly found he was setting a bad tone in the shop and threw him out.

Moral of the story, you are a costumer in the store. It's not even his store, it's the store of GW. He should be respectfull. No holding back on telling him that. Let him know how you feel about it, and tell him you will report him to customer service if he treats you badly.

Customer is always right.

And we'll keep this forum alive

[flamingkillamajig]

Today i find myself interested in beastmen. I think it's the look of them, the monsters, base guys and the the constant hatred rolls you get with leadership on every unit for every turn. I still think for the most part the lore of beasts sucks except for the final transformation of kadon. That's it's saving glory.

Other than that i still have to think about my skaven, possibly do vampire counts, think about dark eldar and finally maybe do beastmen. I think i'll get the screaming bell next. It's just far too needed what with the boosts in a wide radius for multiple units as well as the unit pushing the bell and then there's all the attacks and other stuff the bell does. Just hope it doesn't destroy itself before i hit enemy lines. I think i won't roll 3 dice for results until i hit into an enemy. That way it won't get destroyed and the abilities for casting magic from the bell or getting the unit into combat happens instead. It'd be a waste to roll 3 dice and have the bell give my army attacks to guys which aren't in combat yet.

Other than that playing some more diablo 3. I'm in act 3 and we're defending a fortress somewhere. Thankfully there were almost no disconnects or none at all this time around. My computer did go to blank screen but i don't know why. Maybe the cable leading from the cpu to the monitor got messed up or something overheated like a video card.

Anyway it's nice to see good people around and to get to talk to them. I'll play more diablo 3 tomorrow. I think i'm also going to download a PDF for the beastmen and dark eldar codexes/army books now that GW won't allow people to read the store copy of their books even just to see what they'd be facing, looking at a new army or seeing if they'd be interested in an army. It just seems like a very stupid greedy and inexcusable move to me. I know GW staffers agree to it but they're practically paid to spew bull shit for the company. Also i never get how GW employees deny rumors so hard even when they usually end up being true. I don't get the whole paint change or guardsmen reduction from 20 to 10 guardsmen for more money could ever be seriously defended.

Also just as a bit of a rant i'm kind of pissed off rappers and people that do remixes of songs totally ruin old classic songs. I also look at spiders some days and if bugs are flying around i feel like yelling at them to be more pro-active. I don't mind most house spiders as they catch bugs but they do make quite a mess and i'm tempted to kill them.

[petercooman123]

Why is it called a store copy if you may not read it?

[flamingkillamajig]

Dude don't ask me. Supposedly now they only use them for rules confirmation and they might even get rid of the store copies entirely. Personally i think it's bull shit.

Anyway i'm gonna go back to diablo 3. I'd like to talk more and rant and blog but i'm tired and diablo 3 is calling.

[petercooman123]

Well the way they are raising there prices.....

Maybe the books have become to expensive for gw themselves lol

[flamingkillamajig]

Hehe. I know i shouldn't be asking this being the admin here but i kind of want to see the PDF files for different codexes or army books. Specifically right now i'd like to see the beastmen, dark eldar, empire, tomb kings, ogres and other books. Normally i wouldn't say this and think it's wrong but i'm not buying a 33-40 dollar book just so i can see what an opposing army has and then do it for 15 armies in fantasy and all the 40k armies. I only buy army books for armies i'm going to play or that i'm so interested in that i will probably play. If you send it to me send it through my inbox though. I don't want this stuff posted on the site. We could get in trouble.

I'm currently thinking about beastmen though at the same time i was interested in vampire counts and when they got re-released i was really interested. Although hatred with beastmen and all those sick monsters like the cygors and stuff look awesome. Problem is it took forever to see this stuff released and when it finally was everybody else got their big bad monsters before. To be fair tomb kings and beastmen need their big bad monsters and the hellpit was a nice touch. The arachnarok seems a bit unneeded though but maybe it works. Ugh i dunno just the big monsters in fantasy seem unnecessary. Even if there aren't monsters every faction is getting a big something (probably a boner from the new big monsters and machines). I suppose that's not too bad.

I'm unsure if i like the focus on big units of men in fantasy now. It's like if you have a stupidly large unit then most of the time you'll get steadfast and if you have a general and BSB it doesn't matter if you get hit in the flank by cavalry or small units if you have stuff. I mean so what you could lose combat by a bit due to being flanked but if you have more ranks you still get steadfast and then if you remember the rules enough you can still use steadfast leadership and such to reform and face your big block of men towards their's at the end of the combat.

Then magic has been boosted so much in 8th that the 7th edition and earlier army books are noticably weaker with their magic unless they have the base rulebook lores. I mean don't get me wrong some magic is good for army specific spells but warp lightning as a one time per turn spell that only does d6 strength 5 hits and hits the caster on a roll of 1 on a d6 and can only be boosted to d6+2 with an item only one guy can use just sucks. There's just no defending that when you have spells in other armies which can be boosted to be used for multiple other armies. I don't even see why you'd ever need more than a few wizards with skaven and no matter what none of them have loremaster even if we do have basically a level 4 caster that is also a daemon prince. It's not like we have much to give us more power dice in magic unless we take warpstone tokens and it has a high chance of killing you even if it's a grey seer on a screaming bell.

Anyway that's enough of my ranting except for one joke i had. I don't know if vampirism is a blood borne illness. I mean would that make it an STD. In that case twilight makes too much sense. Vampires are the new fantasy AIDS.

[flamingkillamajig]

Just saw this:

www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=2600040-gws

I know the space marine air unit looks cool and all but i have a question. If you have landspeeders why do you need a helicopter/plane? Isn't a landspeeder better? Meh different vehicles i guess. Can't wait until somebody does an old version of the planes like a WWII era ork plane or a bi-plane with orks wearing leather hats and goggles.

[petercooman123]

I'd rather have me an army full of speeders than those butt-ugly things. They look like a guppy fish with weapons added.

[flamingkillamajig]

I don't know what the point is if you have landspeeders already which look faster in design than this new thing even if they probably aren't as fast as these new flyers. Space marines sure like their air vehicles small. Is it me or did space marines and necrons totally lose their accepted feel with the space guppy and other stuff? I know that's not mat ward's fault and they probably threw some crappy designers at it but what he did to the necrons pissed me off. I'd accept anything else he's done surprisingly for the most part and what gets me is some people like the new necron fluff. Meh maybe it needed a good hammering but this was just bleh.

Earlier today i saw 'men in black 3'. It was for the most part much better than i expected.

Also as far as diablo 3 goes i played through the whole campaign on normal and just got through act 1 on nightmare difficulty. As far as the game goes i think it's mostly good and in fact great except for a couple things here and there. It has plenty of gore some perverted joking and some dark humor as well. Some people thought it wouldn't be dark enough. Well when you see bodies chopped up, baskets full of heads, torture chambers, a body on a torture device that falls and gets grinded up when the torture device is destroyed and others you understand the game is pretty dark. It also gets a lot more into the story than the first two games did. Some parts of the story were somewhat dumb but not too much i guess and might even be good. They really should've changed diablo's voice though to something cooler like in diablo 2. I also have to say if things remain unchanged in expansions than damn they killed off some pretty big characters. It's kind of sad actually. I bet it'll be undone somehow though through plot armor and convenience.

[petercooman123]

Yeah you're absolutely right.

I'd love me an army of almost nothing but speeders and drop pods, but not even one of those flyers. Not even if they gave them to me for free.

The thing should have looked more like a land speeder but with larger wings and a closed cockpit. Like this:

www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/LAND-SPEEDER-TEMPEST.html

I Find that very 'flyer' looking compared to the new thing. Heck the new one looks like it would burst in atmosphere.

[flamingkillamajig]

Played a lot more diablo 3. I also am selling an item i found in the diablo 3 auction house for in-game gold. Usually you can earn gold much quicker through auctions if i remember correctly. I used to do that a bit when i played crimecraft. I'm thinking i should probably sell some of my good items for in-game gold so i can have more gold more of the time.

[petercooman123]

Lol what trickery!!

I only sell for real gold that is

[flamingkillamajig]

Well i find crap in the game and then sell it for good prices on the marketplace. The real money auction-house isn't live yet but it will be mid-june. I might try selling things for actual money at some point but probably not.

So you guys may not have known but today is my birthday. It's been an ok birthday. My birthdays and christmases have actually sucked for the last two or 3 years for the most part as my half sister mostly just buys me shit like clothes and cooking devices that i don't use much. I got about 55 dollars, a 25 dollar gift card for an electronics store and the other junk i mentioned (clothes and some george foreman grill). Maybe i'm just thankless but i hated the clothes and esp. the grill and both came from my half sister and brother-in-law. I don't mind the clothes but i don't think i'll use that grill.

I celebrated my birthday alongside my half-sister's neighbor's son who turns 24 early june. The food was pretty good and i talked to some friends and family. Other than that and talking to some new guy and sharing interests in warhammer 40k with him i didn't do much else.

Turns out the roommate or something of one of the guys at the party played warhammer 40k as eldar about 6 years back and we connected and traded phone numbers. I haven't played in like 3 years with 40k and i'm not sure his codex and army has been updated and whether or not he should go by old rules or new ones (i know he left during 4th edition at least but i think they may have released a new eldar codex too). If things have changed i'll just look up a PDF online. Turns out he works in my city strangely enough.

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Edit: Turns out 2 of the 3 items i was selling (the 2 later ones i tried selling) both got sold today. The other one seems to be a no go so far and even though there's a 15% transaction fee i seem to be making a ton. I must have made over 70k in gold through this which is fantastic. Can't wait to see what i can buy with this.