Telegraph wants to Ban Bloodbowl!!!11!

[spubbbba]

Ok, the topic title may be a little hyperbolic.

The Article in question is talking about WHFB and 40K, though I'm sure it would apply to all GW games too.

Also it is clearly a satire, not that you'd know that from some of the commentators. Sadly their reactions to him mocking those who game (including the author himself) just reinforces the stereotype.

[robsoma]

Don't you realise that the average raging nerd is unable to comprehend satire.. Just ask the agribowla three...

[Warfreak126]

That guy is an idiot. Just by looking at him shows that he was one of the undesirable people through school anyway. Spent all that money to get a PHD .... and then writes about Warhammer ... give me a break.

[Glowworm]

Ban it!!

Yeah, then WE will be the cool guys.....

[Shteve0]

The guy's clearly an idiot. The way to really have an impact on miniature wargaming is not to ban it, you need to bring it out into the open. Regulation - and taxation - is the real key here.

The government has been fighting this phoney war on toy soldiers for too long, and generations have been damaged by their callousness. Who wins? Only the dynastic model barons in their grandiose central American mansions, creaming the profits off the misery of the weak and entrapped.

Let’s face it, we all saw Scarface, and the subtext is obvious – “say hello to my little friend” isn’t about the guy's gun, it’s about a dwarf crossbowman, clearly – and that isn't cocaine on his desk, it's finecast dust. Frankly, it’s about time we fessed up and acklowledged that this is a war we cannot win in the shadows. We need safe zones where people can wean off the habit with non-addictive alternatives, a seven step programme delivered in a non-judgemental environment where people can accept they have a problem, and an education programme where users can learn how female humans are actually proportioned, you know, in real life and that.

Or something.

[Glowworm]

Your a genius...

That response was funnier than the original article

[Spiky]

an education programme where users can learn how female humans are actually proportioned, you know, in real life and that

It's a shame you're not based in the UK - I'd vote for you to run our country in a flash

[Loki]

Females are real

You'll be telling me next that dragons and ogres are just made up!

[Spiky]

You'll be telling me next that dragons and ogres are just made up!

They can't be, otherwise how do you explain Dragon Ogres?

[TheDoc]

I have just read the article. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA this guy should become head of BBC comedy. The satire is excellent.

His major issue was about the money he spent, the lack of "action" as he puts it, and GWs business model. To top it off he still likes the game as he bought the undead army. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

You can picture the scene.... A teenager is hunched over an angle poise lamp as he paints the last standards and sigils on his bretonnian army. Immense concentration etched on his brow. With one last stroke from his brush he leans back and cradles his aching and sore back. Pride fills him as his army is complete. Now he can battle any one for a fictional piece of land or castle. Maybe just maybe the gaming club at university will have a tournament?

University comes and he goes to the union signs up to the gaming club at freshers week and goes for a drink with his hall chums. He meets a girl, he takes her back to his room, he's all hot, clammy and about to strike for the gold when she notices them! The little warriors of his youth (and no this isn't prison lingo) and bursts into laughter all his hopes shot to the ground as he bcomes flacid as a wilting flower.

This is a wonderful revenge article. He even has a go at the painting as he sees that this is a waste of his hard effort and time he could have drunk cider in the park and shagged some local slapper. Priceless.

I hope he has a follow up article "why don't girls still like me? Is it just me?"

[Indigo]

I just thought he was a petty little prick who gets off on causing others grief.

[Heff]

I just thought he was a petty little prick who gets off on causing others grief.

Have we been looking in a mirror again?

[Axtklinge]

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Let’s face it, we all saw Scarface, and the subtext is obvious – “say hello to my little friend” isn’t about the guy's gun, it’s about a dwarf crossbowman, clearly – and that isn't cocaine on his desk, it's finecast dust. Frankly, it’s about time we fessed up and acklowledged that this is a war we cannot win in the shadows. We need safe zones where people can wean off the habit with non-addictive alternatives, a seven step programme delivered in a non-judgemental environment where people can accept they have a problem, and an education programme where users can learn how female humans are actually proportioned, you know, in real life and that.

Or something.

Priceless!