Let's delve into the mailbag once again and have a look at what you've been sending this week! If you feel like buying me a beer: www.patreon.com/NorthernExile... If you want to join the discussion: discord.gg/sgEcbQbzfH
I remember the first time I ever saw warhammer 40k I was at a Yugioh tournament with my friends. Didn't place high, and someone stole my friend's $100 card he got recently out of his deck, but in between rounds I got to see a convoy of unpainted space marine vehicles get surrounded and dunked on by a bunch of leviathan tyrannids. 5 years later I'm like "I wanna play that game!"
I know it’s super nit picky and didn’t know if someone already said, but an MP5 isn’t technically a rifle. It’s classified as a sub machine gun. To my knowledge there’s a few distinctions, first is the round, it shoots a 9mm pistol round, rifles tend to have a cartridge with a large bottom that tapers towards the actual bullet, pistol/sub machine gun ammo tends to be “straight wall” and doesn’t taper. I just wanted to let you know!
I would also believe that the SF guy was himself ex-military and not simply an open-carry enthusiast. Civilian with ex-military friends here, but most of these guys are also trained in gauging the level of threat, as in "is this threat worth termination." Despite reaching for his gun, something which DOES get people shot and killed in the USA (it's a guarantee if you do that to a police officer), SF guy instead wrangled him out of the door, preserving the autist's life while also ending the threat to himself. While I myself am pro-gun and give carriers the respect they're entitled to as my fellow human, I do express concern that the average open-carry enthusiast does not have threat-assessment training; many interviewed criminals have been more concerned with being shot and killed by their victims than by police officers. Police (are supposed to) and soldiers have the training to assess whether or not lethal force is necessary, but it does not seem like an expectation that an average joe should have split-second threat assessment training.
That story with the kid stealing and repainting my model would have resulted in a hate crime, had he tried that with one of mine. It would have been *really* obvious, too, because my Space Marines are all done up with Bretonnian helmets and bits.
see i went into a new LGS store that opened up to play a game, had concealed gun on me, someone saw it and got triggered or something so the MGR asked me to put it in my car. Like if something were to happen i would be the one to save everyone but ohwell :P
@@jmaccsarmiesofArda Be courteous. Be polite; but have a plan to at least fight everyone you meet. You never know who woke up this morning looking to stir the pot.
I don't understand the Forgeworld ban logic - you cannot sell out-of-production GW models either, yet they are perfectly legal to use. If a kid asks: "hey, I would like to buy this metal dwarf" (used by someone in AoS for example), you have to tell him "sorry, no can do" anyway. So why is Forgeworld treated any different, especially when ultimately the money land in GW group regardless.
I think the difference is they can buy it. "Hey that's a really cool dwarf" "I know, it's OoP though, but this is the newer sculpt" You don't lose any sales to elsewhere. Even if they don't buy the newer dwarf, the money is still in their hobby budget to buy something else. "Hey that's a cool dwarf" "I know, it's Forgeworld" "Oh sweet, I'll buy that" They've now walked out of the store and given their money elsewhere. Which means that money is no longer in their hobby budget, so they can't spend it at your store at all. Not saying I agree, but there's some logic to the difference.
I've pretty much only worked overnight in my professional carreer. I've come to prefer it to the occasional day shift- so much less bullshit overnights.
@@bopaintsminis I worked overnights for an IT company, for which I moved to days eventually. I will give you that there was way more fires to put out during the day than the overnight. My whole issue was what it did to me physically. I gained like 80 pounds, I could never sleep, I was angry all the time.
Contractor performing hot work and asking the client to provide a fire watch, after they screwed up (intentional/accidential, no matter) and severed data lines? Negative. We had a similar situation at our post that resulted in shorting out of a control panel that controlled inner and outer doors (it's a secured facility) and the contractor had the gall to send an email stating to the effect of "Well, we *could* fix it but we're not familiar with the system but we can try to repair it but can't make promises, so we'll have to be held harmless if we make things worse." Sadly the site supervisor doesn't have much of a spine so he just wants to have these guys show up and finish the project while we get to babysit these clowns and call them on the carpet when they leave gaping holes in walls and not clean up areas after they finished working. SF folks are pretty savvy chaps and they're good at evaluating situations and acting appropriately. I've had a dickhead steal a few of my models (Brakar, Ratskin special character from first edition Necromunda and a couple Goliath heavies)...pissed me off but the store did eventually ban that asshat.
Sometimes yes. But others, like the one I frequent, have pretty big communities and run frequent events (pre-pandemic.) I support them for that reason.
Kinda zoned out early in the video, then my ears picked up "Iron Lord Asphyxious" ... felt the same kind of weird as the first time hearing Duncan Rhodes mention the Army Painter.
As a person who pays a LOT (often more then the models themselves cost) to have my army pro painted if someone had ruined my models I’d probably take them to small claims court
I remember when we had a power cut when I worked at Safeway. We had no way to scan items to find out the prices, so we just had to eyeball their trolleys and guess the value and take cash. Of course we had to make sure to significantly under-value everything as to not risk accidentally over charging people. We were letting people have a whole trolley full for £20!
Love this Dear Judy format haha, maybe could do one around Hobby Gripes as well? Things that really boil your piss as a Warhammer player in terms of hobby, gaming, community and GW
The amount of rage I had listening to the stolen CM story. I am wondering why the manager didn't talk to this person before with them annoying the OP at the table. Love how they helped fix the issue though.
So far i haven't really gotten into a problem with GW store workers. It is about 15 years ago i was painting miniatures at the painting table. Besides me there was only 1 GW worker in the store. He was like 'i wanna play. Grab that Vampire Counts army from the showcase, make 500p. list and lets play' That was one of the best games of Warhammer i ever had. I won with 1 point difference.
The whole not allowing non gw models in a gw store kinda chafes at me. Like I get that they are well within their right to do that but having people in your store working on models will help grow the hobby and bring more people. Its better than having an empty store all day like the ones 3 hours away from me. Never have I ever walked in and seen anyone other than the guy minding the store. People on Facebook and discord and reddit don't organize games at these stores. They don't go and hang out there. They go to the local shops.
So I had my annoying GW story today. Last week I called the local GW store about the new eldar guardians (yeah, I know I said I would not give them any more money, but this is how I throw the store manager a bone once in a while). I got the voicemail saying the store was closed until 1 March. I left a message and forgot about it. Fast froward to today, 1 March. I just finished my second of three overnights, and I am mean, nasty, and tired. I take a quick shower to knock the covid off and crawl into bed. I put in some foam ear plugs and nod off almost immediately. I awaken to the most godawful racket, like a klaxon. "WTF?" I peak over the edge of the bed, and my phone is ringing. I forgot to silence it. I recognize the name. It's the GW manager. Me, groggy AF, "Hey ." I know I called about those Gaurdians. I'm sorry I sound like this. I work nights." I sound like the walking dead. "Oh, I'm sorry I woke you up. I'll have those Friday." Me: "Thanks. I'll see you Friday. And what's the model of the month?" Him: "
the last time i went into a GW storefront, the worker followed me around like it was my first rodeo. why cant they just greet you and let you be till you actually require help if i ask for it. ffs, not like im buying a new 100k+ car.
An honest mistake? I find that very odd. If you’ve been hired by GW and don’t know that the company once made a lot of their models out of metal, there’s some serious problem/disconnect there. I don’t think that was an honest mistake.
I got a lot of shit for my gold and sliver painted space marines about gold being a soft metal and them not being very camouflage like either of these are concerns for a average space marine army. Metals.... its the 41st millennium prove it isn't a material that looks like gold but vastly tougher or isn't simply paint over the armour. Like I said camouflage isn't a major concern for about 90% of space marine forces
Welders coming out of hours ro work without prior notice? Venting fumes into a store? Sounds like a building contractor taking the p155…… well within your rights to tell them to take a hike. I’ve worked in the construction industry long enough to know when someone’s trying it on…. In fairness to GW, they probably didn’t even know or even been informed about the “scheduled” works were happening
Yet the welding story with all that crazy stuff going on that probably is so true that they asked him to stay overnight because that's how they do it over here in the USA they work you like a dog
Why not give guy #1 the chance to switch out his nonGW models with his GW pieces? Granted A) the opponent is cool with it and (B) the player has GW models with him. Maybe guy #2 smelled bad? Otherwise his GW store was/is staffed by children. Story 3 was just getting interesting.... Story 4 was just unlucky. Also, buy a quality power strip and you wouldn't have had to replace a work station. In America mandatory overtime is pretty common, especially in lower paying jobs and poorly managed stores. As far as the construction guys... Lowest bidders win contracts and there are reasons why they are able to low-ball other companies. Story 5... Not everyone can get along and life goes on. Story 6 fat people are still people and people deserve at a minimum to be treated with respect if not kindness. Story 7 Marines enjoy 40k as well. Big at Quantico. SF guy should have been concealed carrying in that setting if at all as there's a very, very low chance of needing to defend a GW shop. As a Marine (07/2001-07/2005) I find it laughable that he was carrying there as it seems like he was fishing for chances to brag and bullshIt. I'm pretty sure he wasn't SF judging by the SF's I served with both here and overseas lol Story 8... THAT GUY! The only way to deal with him is to freeze him out. Don't react to anything they say. Repainting someones model without permission is so far over the line that I don't know how I'd react. I've had people ask to paint my stuff but never just do it. Story 9... Life happens. Phones suck.
I use a leviathan dreadnought in my local gw store. They seem fine with it, 1 worker even comment how he was looking forward to see what it can do in that battle against orks.
@@fenrisnorth yeah I think it's worth adding for me personally, I got into the hobby in that store. Bought my first everything there and learned to paint there. When I go into the store I make a point of buying something so maybe they're OK with it.
Depends on the manager. Official rule is if I can’t sell it off the shelf in store or source it from the GW website (not t forge world one) you can’t use it. But I’d never really enforce that
GW needs to get over themselves. If someone was painting a non GW model in their store, chances are they also buy and paint GW products. Promote the hobby and everyone wins. Insist on brand and lose revenue....
Nah. I think it is fair enough to ask someone to put a model away if you are building it - if you’re playing with a partial conversion with at least 50% GW plastic then I see no issue
@@pianospawn1 that's a consumer mindset, not a customer one. Models aren't food, and having a nongw model doesn't suddenly mean you are to "full" to buy a gw one
funny how peeps in the forces love two things 40k n movies both very unrealistic where as many of my family were in the military n 1 uncle in particular used to like movies n making model kits when he was a youngster but he always taught me anything to do with military was no joke he told me the realism maybe alot of soldiers these days the ones into 40k n movies dont haha
