EPIPHANY: wargamers are fucking brillinat

[General Biakal]

"makes a new geeky friends.... its nice!"


i recently had an epiphany. Pretty much the overwhelming impression i have when i look back at the period since i started wargaming is how many friends I have made.

40k has led me DIRECTLY to two people i would class as "Close Friends" as in i see them at least once a week and am i very regular phone/txt contact and at least two others i would class as "Casual Friends" that i text once or twice a week and see every couple of weeks in person.

not to mention another certain person whom i speak to via FB chat almost daily (Mr M-T-L himself...)

but on the grander scale I think back to just about everyone i meet/have met at Lenton, in other stores and a decent majority at the club i used to go to (which was ruined by a small but very powerful clique of Fantasy players who were, to a man, Twat-Bastards) have all been very decent, cheerful, friendly people.


The other week i left my Jaguar unlocked by mistake outside the Lenton HQ for HOURS.... and found no one had even noticed.. in Nottingham, the so called crime capital of the UK.


At the club i used to leave my phone, my car keys and all that stuff virtually unatended and so did everyone else.


in the epic que for FW stuff at the recent Forge World Open day i got chatting to quite a few people (and got harangued by one weirdy virgin mental who you just KNOW had his dead mums pants on) and generally have found just about everybody (adults only) to be friends iv not met yet (ugh)

so as a group i say-


GEEKS, I SALUTE YOU!

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Agreed, personally Wargaming and RPGs have made me lots of new friends over the years, both directly and indirectly. A good 99% of the friends I've made since collage have been through the hobby and my oldest friend I'm still in contact with from school was (of course) a member of my first real gaming group. Pretty much all my friends over the years (and even several girlfriends) have shared my interest.  
I think once you've found you've got the hobby in common with some one, you normally find you've got many other things in common besides, similar taste in movies and TV, music, computer games, books and many other things.

One of the many great things about the hobby as a whole is  it encourages making friends. Main stream culture may think of gamers as social outcasts, but I've found gamers to be the most social friendly people I know. After all you need a friend to play a game of 40k, you need a group of friends to play D&D and you find your circle of friends constantly increases as you meet more people though the hobby.

GW's increasingly younger paid-for-by-parents plastic-Spacemarines collecting customer base maybe ruining it for a lot of us, but forget out them. The real hobbyists are the ones that have stuck with it for years, the ones who are always have something to say or some advice to give on the hobby when you need it, the ones who'd appreciate what we are doing here on The Lost and the Damned Forum. These are the people who make the hobby fun and great to be apart of, these are the people this forum is for.