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Post by Meadow on Aug 20, 2008 15:32:40 GMT
I like Tony Kempster's website, but I'm sorry, there's some interminable bores on there. Yet another discussion has regressed into a 'AFC Wimbledon should not have started off as high as they did thread'. You can almost hear them screaming 'football purity' from here. Anyway, this was our flag-maker extrordinaire's take on it, posted on our guestbook. Fools! Fools!! You think you're are all so very brave posting on the TK messageboard but you don't know what you're doing. Surely you must be aware that the people you are dealing with are all Level 3 'Highly Regarded Groundhoppers'? Their dominion extends unto the 14th Step, their word is law, and (such is their power and influence) some of them even refer to the almighty one as 'Tony' without shame or fear of retribution. Your barbs and quips wil be shrugged off by their 'Impervious Anorak' protection (+4 die roll to protection) and god help you if you come up against a Level 5 'Superior Ground Hopper' because they can exchange the Anorak for an 'Imperious Blazer with Badge' (Double defense throw +2). When you are exhausted their main attacks will be the debilitating 'Low Continuous Moan' which will leave you sickened and debilitated (-5 from your Constitution Rating), or the shattering 'Shrill Shriek of Indignation' (This affects Health & Constitution but Superior Ground Hoppers are limited to three shrieks per annum). The favoured close combat weopon remains the silent but deadly 'Rolled Single-Sheet Programme'. To have any hope of surviving you should aim to destroy this programme whereapon they will usually refuse to engage in combat and move off in a huff.It may be possible to keep them in a perpetual state of transit by continually promising, then renaging on, the offer of a free programme but this is a high-risk stratagem that could potentially backfire. Don't forget that the Superior Ground Hopper will also be protected by a mystic 'Aura of Smugness' which you may find hard to penetrate. If you are going to do it, good luck but don't forget it's your sanity they're after. and his tagline Old trick of theirs - If you see two men and a dog watching a game....they'll probably be disguised as the dog  NOT in any way aimed at Coops, who describes himself as a teamhopper. |
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Post by ambersalamander on Aug 20, 2008 21:36:52 GMT
excellent!
I'm not sure whether to admit that I've just started getting back into the sorts of games he's taking the mickey out of with the dice rolls etc! But it looks like I just have, so... *shrugs*
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Post by medibot on Aug 21, 2008 3:54:13 GMT
Classic. These are the sort of people who will drive 100's of miles to a field to watch a village team and then not count it if they don't get a programme or miss kick-off. It's a special kind of nutter |
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Post by ewelldon on Aug 21, 2008 8:36:47 GMT
Medibot, what on earth are you doing up at 5 to 5 in the morning?
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Post by thevicar on Aug 21, 2008 9:47:56 GMT
excellent! I'm not sure whether to admit that I've just started getting back into the sorts of games he's taking the mickey out of with the dice rolls etc! But it looks like I just have, so... *shrugs* Heh. If it helps, I know quite a few nutters of the ilk that consider table top gaming to be not quite 'intense' enough. They prefer to dress up and play in real time. Takes all sorts I suppose. If you're getting into dice based games again, you might consider having a look at Harn, played around with it for a couple of campaigns and its quite fun (and more towards the realistic than D&D and its like). Haven't had time for gaming for several years but I still read that quote thinking 'that's not right; surely he should be talking about THAC0' - I fear this affliction will forever haunt me. My strangely normal wife considers it a bit 'odd', I wonder why  |
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Aug 21, 2008 11:51:47 GMT
...And the famous Tinpot Tangentiality striketh again! as a veteran Runequest battler of years past, I can understand the passion for table topping! However, things do move on and my son is an ardent Warhammer chap at present; though I suspect that much of the appeal is getting to paint the characters and design battlegrounds. Personally, as I approach my middle years, I find myself (and junior also) are being drawn towareds World of warcraft. Online it may be, and requiring of a regular subscription, but it is also a game which can be played by a number of pals over a great distance! Graphics more than acceptable and easy to control. Just one of the increasing number of uses for the new fangled interweb.  |
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Post by ambersalamander on Aug 21, 2008 12:47:16 GMT
This is exactly it, Hawky. To be fair, it's really Leo's fault, not mine There have been several trips to Games Workshop  He is constantly moaning that it's all rubbish compared to 15 years ago, and is frantically searching the attic for his old rule books. |
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Post by J Esaj PRA on Aug 21, 2008 13:53:33 GMT
Careful, your geek is showing!
Don't make me post the 'lightening bolt' video...
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Post by coops on Aug 21, 2008 16:10:29 GMT
Nice to see I'm excused!
I've met a lot of the blokes on TK's forum on my travels, they are, on the whole, perfectly decent blokes, most of them indulge in two passions which most of us on here would connect with, mainly football and the consumption of decent brands of alcohol! They may be strange and have incredible foibles but some of them are friends of mine!
Of course, as with all people who have a passion for something, they are highly opinionated, and unfortunately for some fans of the new fangled "AFC" clubs, some Groundhoppers believe that all new clubs should start at the very bottom and work their way up from there rather than being elevated into step six or seven on account that they have a ready-made fanbase and a decent ground (which they invariably groundshare, and let's not forget that going into a groundshare in order to gain promotion is not allowed by The FA so there's a bone of contention straight away.)
Personally I'm not of this opinion because in most cases there are vacancies in the leagues they enter anyway so they are not denying another club promotion, but I can see where the critics are coming from, if I started a team tomorrow in West Bromwich I doubt my club would be fast-tracked into the West Midlands League without first being made to battle our way through several divisions of the Birmingham AFA. But because AFC Liverpool and FCUM have fans and a famous name they haven't had to piss around in the Liverpool or Manchester Leagues have they?
It's not so much Wimbledon, they did actually enter close to the bottom rung in their area (although if they had decided they were a London club rather than a Combined Counties club it would have been different!).
It was a very funny post by that Dons fan though!
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Post by Meadow on Aug 21, 2008 16:26:10 GMT
It was a very funny post by that Dons fan though! The reason for posting it. |
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Post by medibot on Aug 22, 2008 5:21:56 GMT
Medibot, what on earth are you doing up at 5 to 5 in the morning? Because i was feeling very Olympic! This morning it's cos i got in from a trip to the pub with a mate and crashed out with the light one. Cue bright light waking me up at half five. |
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Post by medibot on Aug 22, 2008 5:28:27 GMT
As an aside, i seem to be completely lacking in whatever it is that makes playing with little models and wandering around pretend worlds seem fun.
That said considering my almost phobic reaction to the cult like promotion of such games when i had to go into a Games Workshop with a mate to buy scenery for a design model maybe i've just been traumatised as a child at some point.
There used to be a massive Games Workshop in Sutton so it's possible!
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Post by votp on Aug 22, 2008 6:17:05 GMT
I don't remember a Games Workshop in Sutton but then its not the sort of thing I would look for. I am too a bit phobic about 'gaming' but horses for courses I suppose, we all have our obsessions hobbies.
Back in the earlier days of the interweb one of my colleagues at work liked to potter on a real-time text based adventure game (whatever that is) which involved people from all over the world, Unfortunately he wasn't geeky enough to know how to protect his account and amongst all the "You turn left and are faced with the Dragon of Doom" type messages there was "Has anyone seen my jumper?" and "I quite fancy a fish finger sandwich". Kept me amused anyway.
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Post by ambersalamander on Aug 22, 2008 11:42:42 GMT
As an aside, i seem to be completely lacking in whatever it is that makes playing with little models and wandering around pretend worlds seem fun. Imagination  You never read fiction either, do you dear? Maybe you just prefer the real world. That's why you support Sutton. |
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Post by medibot on Aug 22, 2008 14:48:05 GMT
Nope, bar an honourable exception for Mr Fry, i much prefer reading about things people have actually done rather than what they have imagined in their heads. Probably doesn't help that i finde "conversations" that didn't happen so hard to believe. I'm far too cynical and logical to suspend reality for entertainment purposes* *Except obviously with daydreaming about girls i've no hope with |
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