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Quote from: MrWiggles on November 04, 2014, 09:23:46 pm

Quote from: Boksi on November 04, 2014, 09:07:26 pm

Quote from: MrWiggles on November 04, 2014, 07:44:21 pm

Brick and Motor stores are having to compete with on line retailers. Why go to a gaming store when rpg drivet hroughs will generally under cut them and always have a better selection?

Autocorrect much?

But a gaming store, a good gaming store that is, provides a good place to meet up with opponents and play your games. This might not be so important for RPGs, which can be comfortably played at home with the same few guys everytime, but tabletop games and card games benefit a lot from it. That's why I buy from my local gaming store.

Even now, Vassal and Virtual Tabletop, and roll20 other online services are even displacing the need for meat space for war games or board games.

They will never eliminate it, though. Playing the actual game is only half the fun. The other half of the hobby is the modeling and online services won't displace that in a hurry.

I agree. It's fun to try and mix parts together in ways that they probably weren't intended to fit. I have a Kroot squad for instance, and every model has bits and pieces from other armies stuck on as war trophies. Or in WHF land, I took an Imperial swordsman, lopped off the lower half of one of his legs, and replaced it with a bit of sprue. Instant peg-leg, instant character.

That last one looks like a dreadlocked polar bear trying to maul someone

I wasn't aware that you could get countries back in the original.

Quote from: Flying Dice on November 04, 2014, 02:09:56 am

Quote from: TamerVirus on November 03, 2014, 11:44:38 pm

Quote from: Orange Wizard on November 03, 2014, 11:42:42 pm

CoD has lasers now? Geez. They are running out of ideas.

It's only a matter of time before Call of Duty: sitting in a trench Edition

For what it's worth, I'd pay for a properly-done WWI shooter. Amusingly, it'd probably work best as an MMO.

That's what I was going to say, too. Bayonets and gas masks, plx.

I was about to suggest Darkest of Days, but then I remembered the bolded part...

Wonder if the Mount&Blade folks are working on this. I mean, they already have the line battles of musketmen, why not trench warfare?

Your claim to be a goddess in your personal text threw me off for a while, too.

You think you're confused, imagine how I felt when someone (Frumple, maybe) proclaimed me to be a goddess

I don't see a reason not to talk about it. Some other drivers (past and present) are making a claim that my company's per diem payment option failed to meet minimum wage requirements, and thus are suing. Drivers on the "per diem" plan basically get a slightly reduced pay per mile rate, and in exchange receive a daily lump sum designed to cover for over-the-road living expenses, mainly food.

I was only on this option for a couple of months before I took a regional route, which does not qualify for the per diem plan and thus I defaulted to the standard plan. Because of those couple of months, I am eligible to take part in the class-action suit.

I am NOT going to do that, however. I have no desire to get involved in a case that will likely take years to settle, and although I do have complaints about my job sometimes it has nothing to do with how I got paid back in those months. So yeah.