"So who here IS "Bob" in a poor loser story?" Topic

I will admit that, as a kid, I lost my temper at a few games, and I am willing to bet others here have too.

So, I have been a "Bob". Anybody else want to 'fess up?

I did have a dice throwing moment in my youth. The dice shattered and went all over the place…

Other than that, a few shouting matches, some muttering under the breath, vows of never playing again, thats about it.

I guess that I am a tame looser… then again, I am more of a mellow gamer with a brew in my hand, and dice in the other.

My hand's up!

Still suffer from rushes of blood but have learned to count to ten, sometimes twenty and occasionally fifty.

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For those wondering about the context.

I threw a die few times when I was in high school. Now I realize what an insufferable little snot I must have been.

Cursed a blue streak after losing an ancient game back in the 70's.

Life's far too short to get wound up over a game of soldiers.

I blew my cork when I got double-crossed by my friends in my first Diplomacy game many years ago. Oh well…

Kingmaker is the only game that caused me to boil over, and even then I realized what was happening in time to prevent a full scale eruption.

My philosophy now is that I play these silly games to lower my blood pressure, not raise it. If I'm getting worked up about a game, then I shouldn't play it.

I think the choice of "Bob" as a tag for this is unfortunate.

I have been Bob in the past. Not now though.

I'm in support of Bob Applegate's comment with the choice of "Bob" being unfortunate

I think it should be harry or tom or even dick but not Bob

Kutusov
or other wise another Bob.

Ditto on the Bob choice.

I'm certain I was quite an awful loser in high school (so to speak) but have worked hard at being better at losing (I have lots of practice!).

I agree.

I think the choice of "Bob" as a tag for this is unfortunate.

No, it just highlights how many of you poor sports there are. ;)

For my part, I tend towards cooperative (or at least team-based games) or refereeing. I'm quite easy-going, even about losing…as long as I'm playing good sports. Once I think someone is too invested in "winning", I tend to get my dander up. o_o

Bob's your Uncle!

what does that mean anyway?

heard it uttered by Scrooge's laundress/charwoman, Mrs. Dilber when he give's her a few extra quid after his "redemption"

If you ever wish to cure your "Bobism", play a dozen or so games of Munchkin with some friends, after a few beers. By the cycles end, you'll expect treachery and cheating at every turn, and thus not blow your top when things don't go your way.

I was a "bob" once – in what was supposed to be a learning game for a new set of rules – and the opposing players called for my side to be sanctioned for violating the rules – when no one really knew them yet and it was supposed to be for FUN. I blew up and left – if we weren't going to be having fun and calling people for "cheating" in a "let's learn these new rules" game – I was out – and didn't want to participate.

There are buttons that when pushed get my ire up; however not toy soldiers.

I always find it funny when someone else losses it though. It's a great excuse for a; "Duuuuude!"!

Plus I roll increadibly poorly, if the roll needs to be high I roll low and vice versa. So the game is all about laughs with buddies, nothing serious.

Let me present myself……. Hi.. i'm " a Bob"… but a nice bob….. and don't mistake that for boob. Thanks

Allegedly from Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury who, while Prime Minister of Great Britain, appointed his nephew Arthur Balfour as Minister of Ireland in 1887…

Balfour made reference to the Marquess as "Uncle Bob"

I.e. you're all set if Bob's your uncle…

James

I think the choice of "Bob" as a tag for this is unfortunate.

I agree. I have seen far more of those types acting like a Dick.

-Bob H

Near 40 years ago. Diplomacy game with all slots full. We're over at at friends house and my wife, playing Germany, gets support from the host to invade Belgium. When the time comes, he changes his mind. By the time this happened I was out of the game and playing frisbee in the back yard with another loser. Look up and here comes my friend. "You out"? "No" "Why are you out here?" "Your wife threw me out of the house". "Wha? It's your house!" "You go tell her that. I'm not going near her until she cools down."

We don't play games like that much anymore.

@Connard Sage

And, of course, as represented by your TMP performance, you never get upset over anything unimportant.

ahh…

Listen, if you ()*&*(#&#%*@&s call me Bob one more time, I'm gonna smash your &*(*&SD&*# minis with this here rule book that I don't agree with and ruin this whole *(&#&#%&*# tournament just 'cause I ain't winning!

I have been I tamer Bob in the past. But no physical and no breaking of things. I had to pay for the bloody things, now way am I going to break them. But shouting matches yes, dice throwing once or twice, sulking oh yes and never play again. how many times have I said that for Successors. Awesome game but I have lost all 70 games I have played. Won once though and was a sore looser:)

Yep. Have cursed and thrown dice far in the past. Nowadays I just quietly sulk if my dice throwing is as bad as usual.

Only when I play DBM and try to figure out the rules. That's once a decade, so the world is safe for another 8+ years. I will admit to excessive wandering around at club meetings if playing games which bore me.

The last time I lost my cool on a game was when I was in the 4th grade and I slugged a kid on the playground for being a . He deserved it, but I still felt bad.

I almost took the head off one gamer during a game, but it wasn't anything to do with wargaming… more along the lines of him calling ANZACs a bunch of (insert name i cant use according to the TMP rules) in casual conversation.

To make it worse, the said idiot was in a room of three people who were serving Aussie soldiers.

Confession time:

I love a good Risk game, but to this day I still get riled up whenever it gets down to a three way game and the two other players gang up on me. Then… well, I might slam a hand on the table or other hard object (not to mess up the board, just in frustration), then laugh about it and go on. Fortunately, I've never thrown dice, disrupted the table, yelled, or stomped away. Sulked for a moment, maybe, but that's the worst of it.

Back in my high school days, my gaming buddies played D&D and Traveller. While I was away (don't recall where or why… might have been summer camp), they started playing Space Opera and invited me to join. I had some Kzin-like alien character with a vibrosword (or something like that). We were doing a night assault on a criminal's compound, and while I admit I didn't understand the rules at all, whenever I tried to do something I was told my character didn't have the skill or opportunity. Whatever I tried went against me— largely because I was clearly operating against the GM's set script. The whole night I sat there basically doing nothing, getting more and more frustrated. When the GM and the "lead" player started discussing the historical background of some mysterious ancient aliens which had somehow become central to the storyline (while the rest of us sat there and watched), I finally lost it. I told them that if they wanted to write a novel they could do it without me and stormed out.

I played many other games with my buds, but never again did I touch Space Opera.

Yeah, why 'Bob'?

What fool came up with that name anyway?

@Connard Sage

And, of course, as represented by your TMP performance, you never get upset over anything unimportant.

How sweet, I have my very own stalker. Despite, by your own admission, having stifled me, you still can't resist taking a peek at my timeless prose…and replying to it

OK. I'll bite. Please point me to where I've got upset about anything much in the three weeks since you joined TMP. Sarcastic? Yes, guilty. Upset? No.

I'd also take this opportunity to point out to the hard of thinking that internet personae are often quite different to real world ones. They must be, because anyone who kept popping up in real life pointing out someone else's shortcomings whilst ignoring their own would be a very odd fellow indeed…and probably missing a self-preservation gene or two.

Will that do?

Don't bite that hook! Too late…

Nah.

I used to have a hair-trigger temper when I was a kid, but one day when I was about 12, on the cusp of murdering my brother (he was already beaten, and I wasn't stopping) I realized that I didn't know what I was mad about. Didn't seem much point in continuing, then.

Since then, it's been obvious that it's just a game, and there's no point getting upset. Applies to most of life, really.
-Kle.

I will admit to leaving a game of "ZOMBIES!!!" when the five other players thought it was funny to either prevent me from moving, or send me back to the city square, every turn. By the time turn eight had come, I had moved all of two squares from the starting point, was knee deep in zombies, and all the gear within two tiles had already been looted.

Yes, yes. Very comical. I'm glad you're all enjoying the game. I hope you all continue to enjoy it after I leave…

Led to an interesting discussion about sportsmanship.

"How sweet, I have my very own stalker."

Wow, Connard…I'm jealous….wish I had my own wargamer stalker…I get so fed up with all these women who follow me around, having an ugly, pedantic, B.O. infested wargamer chasing me would make a nice change

I'm a very bad loser on video games (especially on Halo vs my brother. He routinely beats me 25-3 using the battle rifle and just shooting me in the head. It gets old REAL quickly). I tend to be more mellow with miniatures. They're less competitive I guess.

There's one kid at my club who REALLY blows his top at the drop of the hat. Start an off-topic conversation because you're bored of his pedantic freakishly obsesive style of play? He shouts at you to pay attention. Kill some of his dudes? He shouts. He kills some of your dudes? He shouts because his dudes 'should have killed more'. It really is pathetic. Sadly club rules don't allow for banning him for such things.

You could just punch him….doesn't necessarily make you a bad loser….

Sadly that *is* something you can get banned for, otherwise everyone within earshot would beat the crap out of him every time he plays a game. Luckily, he only plays Star Wars minis, which I don't play, so I can mostly avoid him, if no his booming voice and body odour.