Pet peeves: The return (Part 2)

Ain’t that how it always is.
“We removed your post for wrongdoings don’t do it again”
meanwhile they won’t tell you which post so you can not do it again.

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Can take any amount of time but if it comes around it comes around.

I studied music and burned out hardcore when it fell through and while I now work in finance/HR I’m only now just starting to get back into music after almost 4 years.

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I like painting warhammer, maybe playing with a friend every now and then, but the community really is quite unbelievable.

Setting aside the actual fascists, you have the unbelievably annoying HFYers, the ‘lmao you play tau’ lot, the toxicity around painting, the toxicity around not painting, the people still screeching about Age of Sigmar, and that is just the top of a long, long list…

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the reactionary way is not to understand why you are mad, only to be mad and have a target

I’ve unlocked the Sinnoh underground in Brilliant Diamond time to spend another 500hours down there like I did 15 years ago…

To be fair, Age of Sigmar was their Shadowlands so I can understand why the wounds go deep.

I don’t agree with that comparison. Age of Sigmar 1.0 was rough, that is certain, but in 2.0 it was doing far better than WHFB ever did, and now in 3.0 it is very much established and thriving.

I need season 2 of Arcane now

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Well yeah, of course it’s better now just like WoW will be better in two-three years time because you can only really go up in quality from what’s on the table. But that initial rugpull, that rough patch of seeing a setting and the characters inhabiting it get written into oblivion by a group of people that seems to harbor a strange level of disregard at best and animosity at worst towards the game you play is a real bummer, all the while they insist on new ideas that don’t really fit what you’ve grown to like and say “this is the new normal and if you don’t like it there’s something wrong with you.” It stings and I understand why people still bring it up even if the setting or its mechanics have stabilized since, even when it gets tiresome to hear people go on about it. I get it.

If it’s still around by then.

Let’s be honest, we both know this isn’t what happened. WHFB wasn’t selling. The Space Marine Tactical Squad box alone outsold the WHFB range. The Games Workshop Plastic Glue outsold the WHFB range.

Age of Sigmar was their alternative to cutting it entirely, because it was bleeding their money.

People make up these conspiracy theories about how GW hated WHFB or something. It’s weird. They’re capitalists, they chase profit. Any personal preference on their part doesn’t come into play in a company of that scale.

That is why it’s so different. It was their last shot at saving the IP, by trying something very different and hoping it becomes more popular.

Don’t misinterpret the hype for Total War: Warhammer in recent years for what the situation actually looked like back then.

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What do you play?

Electric guitar, bass guitar and piano

I play the electrical triangle, plugged directly into a mains socket. :sunglasses:

I’m not stating any facts at all, I’m saying that I have empathy for what the buildup and implementation of AoS must have felt like for people to still go on about it because I do the same thing about WoW and probably will until I grow old and senile.

You can prefer WHFB, my issue is with the toxicity around it. There’s some real vicious hatred towards AoS out there.

It’s also a nice hint sometimes, leading into what Stonetower mentioned earlier. You can dislike AoS and be a cool person, but I have found a strong trend in that uncool people in the Warhammer community tend to also fiercely dislike AoS, and more than once have I seen expletive-laden rants about AoS lead into gamer words and screaming about that one dark-skinned Ultramarine on a novel cover.

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Redundancy

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Do Raithwell’s Tomb and unlock 2nd job or carry on doing hunts for money and LP.

Decisions, decisions.

video game roleplayers are banned from trying to call things uncool as an insult

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uncool is my go-to compliment :sunglasses:

Jokes on them, I’ve never been a cool kid :joy: