"Wargamming. Does it have a future?" Topic

Jesus ing Christ! This question and context coming from a guy who pounced on me for pointing out how funny a Ukrainian translation on a model direction sheet read.
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Tim

Yeah…And this coming from the guy who fell over himself lavishing praise on the editor in the most obsequious manner possible when he closed the CA board and then tried to join the Yahoo group set up by the exiles from the CA board.

Let me start you off with the first three letters H Y P….

I think "wargamming" occurs most often as a typo. People see what they expect to see. My wife is a technical writer. She told me of a presentation titled: "Hoping Robots". People were expecting it to be about hopping robots, and most didn't notice the typo.

My personal pet peeve is the use of "dice" as singular noun, as in "roll a dice" instead of "roll a die". This GW speak seems to be spreading like a virus.

In fact, dear Don Featherstone consistently used 'dice' instead of the correct singular 'die' in all his books. This is being corrected in John Curry's reprint editions.
In my experience this has been common, albeit incorrect, English usage for at least fifty years [I'm 55] in both everyday speech and family boardgame rules.
You can't lay this at GW's door!

What arthur1815 said.Singular "dice", AFAIK, has been the useage in British English for as long as I can remember,and I'm even older than arthur.

Well I'm 43, and here in the US, I've never heard it used other than by GW players in speech and in GW rules in print.

I didn't know it was a British colloquialism and that GW was just the vector of infection.

OED again

dice (noun) pl. same

A small cube with faces bearing one to six spots, used in games of chance.

Historically dice is the plural of die. In modern standard English the singular die is relatively uncommon. Dice is widely used for the singular and the plural

but then you colonials still call autumn 'fall', so it may take you a century or two to catch up

I used my *i-ma-gi-NA-tion*.

Not as good as the real thing.

Are ALL the Dyslexics who can't spell Wargaming the same people who have just had Chemotherapy and smell at Conventions? And are they related to the people who don't eat more than me, have Glandular problems and are Fat Bastards?

Pat

It would have a lto bigger futre if all the guys talking wargmes werent talking about its demise for the last 20 years. The wargame industry has been commiting slow sucide with Articles like A Farewell to hexes and the umpteen spin offs of it. The war with the PC is over. It was never that bad. The wargame community needs to shake of this shell shock and discuss the its future not its demise.

Supergrover! You are back! What a great day for TMP! How are you? Oh this is lovely!

I always meant to ask you – where do you stand when it comes to bathing? Do you do it once a week? once a month? and what about physique? are you a great big fat walrus of a man, or a svelte athlete?

Regarding your ability to spell, or read subject lines before trying to start an argument,I won't bother asking.

Pat

Historically dice is the plural of die. In modern standard English the singular die is relatively uncommon. Dice is widely used for the singular and the plural

So since "many mice" = "meeses", would "many dice" be "deeces"?

"(Greenwitch Mean Time)."

There are no green witches in Greenwich, only the Prime Meridian!

I think we should move next into discussing the future of "war-themmed gamming".

@ Mike
"There are no green witches in Greenwich, only the Prime Meridian!"
Who'd a thought I'd deliberately mispell something on a thread about misspeliing?
Comedy is never wasted on you, Mike.
God bless.

Cutting or just sarky? Maybe Cutty Sark, it is Greenwich after all.

"Comedy is never wasted on you, Mike."

Glad you liked my little joke :-)

That's an even better one….. Mike Snorbens making a Joke? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhhahahahahahaha (Breathes) Hahahahahahahahah.

Pat

You're a bad man Pat, and are surely going to Hell. When you arrive get the beers in, I'm bound to be thirsty.

"That's an even better one….. Mike Snorbens making a Joke? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhhahahahahahaha (Breathes) Hahahahahahahahah."

??? How strange. I don't know what I did to make you laugh so, sir, but I'm glad you're happy :-)

I've always been a fan of Wargammon, you know the stuff that comes from war pigs?

Any Sabbath fans out there?

Reviving an old thread I know, but I just found this on the Mantic Games website. They do a new range of plastic elves -

The figures can be collected, modelled, painted and used for gamming.

link

So you have something against seafarers getting together to play with their elves?

Well, I wish mantic all the best but I think by limiting themselves to elf-collecting "seafarers, especially whalers" they may be over-doing the niche marketing concept.

Every single Speell Chek program that I have used

I don't know if that is a cunning joke by the OFM, or just the internet showing it has a sense of irony.

Sure, they say that, but when the entire crew is saved thanks to a table top made out of pink foam, they'll be glad they were so selective!

Personally, I think Capt. Ahab (ret.) and Ishmael just started a gaming company, and Connard Sage just didn't get the joke.

- Bob

I'll help you wipe out "wargamming" if you promise to move on immediately to wipe out "turrent" (used in place of "turret").