"Only a gamer would...." Topic

Paint shadows on a 3 dimensional object.

Your turn….

Complain 15mm is too small to paint, yet paint eyes and buttons on a 28mm fig.

Buy his daughter a Hannah Montana: Mall Madness game for ulterior motives.

…punish dice that make bad rolls.

sound like CIA analysts while dining in a restuarant.

…rummage around stores, garbage cans, etc. always looking for "good junk", put it all in a big box labeled "Bitz" and think it's one of the most valuable things he/she owns for the hobby because of its potential future value. 👍

Paint trousers and boots on a tank driver figure. In 15mm.

…buy a particular brand of packaged food because the empty containers make great sci fi buildings.

Buy the same miniature 3 or 4 times because he forgot where he put it and that he bought it already.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who does some of these things.

Say in entering with ma dame in a Zara shop: " why did they name it after an Italian cruiser?"

Critique the historical authenticity and special effects of war movies.

Look for useful wargaming items in the grocery store.

Tell war stories about games.

Bake a tray of sand in the oven.

Estimate ranges, line of sight and areas of dead ground on a walk in the country.

Look forward to the kids leaving home because it will make space to store stuff.

Estimate ranges, line of sight and areas of dead ground on a walk in the country.

Or the city.

There's a spot on the NYS Thruway I90 where there are three hills, a railroad, the thruway and a river converging into a choke point. Always wanted to use that terrain for a scenario using a armored train, river monitor, dug in hill positions and armored columns all firing at each other.

aahh well….

Only a gamer would continuously correct a 'journalist/expert' on CNN/Fox/PBS while they are describing a battle.

…. think that Patton is a terrible movie because the tanks are wrong.

sound like CIA analysts while dining in a restaurant.

My experience with CIA analysts in restaurants is that they spend all their time bitching about their supervisors. Only a gamer would think his dinnertime disquisition on the relative merits of the Martini-Henry and the 11mm Remington rolling-block makes him sound like a CIA analyst.

LT

Give his two tween daughters Ork warbands as a valentine's day gifts

After buying a large electrical appliance, spend more time looking at the polystyrene packaging than the TV/microwave/fridge…etc

Sneak into the garden to remove limbs and branches from his wife's favorite flora to make tree trunks.

Introduce painting services and manufacturers to your immediate and extended family via Christmas and Birthday wish lists.

I see I am not alone in my mania.
I will add; breaking down a cost of a night out by how many figures/minis you could have bought instead.

breaking down a cost of a (insert non game activity or product here) by how many figures/minis you could have bought instead

… buy new dice because the "juju" has gone out of the old ones, or was missing in the first place….

… say "gamey" and mean something other than meat spoiling….

Naming the different tanks, planes, and ships during war movies thinking his lady is the least bit interested.

…….drive the family to the Dordogne on holiday giving a running commentary on events at Vimy, the Somme, Tours, Orleans, Poitiers etc as we go past.

"Shame" their dice for rolling badly.

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Or microwave one and make the others "watch the execution" so they don't roll badly.

Expect his seventh grade History students to understand EXACTLY how a shield wall worked, or would take them outside to walk through 18th century battle field formations. Still . . .its fun^^

Will get in a furious argument about formations in 1813 and be mad about it for days.

Use his green dice because they roll better.

buy 20 Tea lites at the dollar store when he'll probably only use 5 of them.

Prime 50 figures and then let them collect dust for 3 years.

play any game just to be around friends.

bring Fluxx with him on vacation to convert non gamers.

…spend his lunch time at work writing spreadsheets to work out dice probabilities. And some work time to be honest.

Buy different coloured dice to match different armies.

Have THAT many dice

Know colours even Dulux don't do.

Buy his wife Ferrero roche because he has a use for the box (Mate's wife thought she was really lucky at the amount he was buying her)

Wash the containers the take-away comes in because it would be a shame to throw them away.

Have more Tiger IIs than Hitler.