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Reply #30 on: August 02, 2019, 01:18:33 PM
I see a lot more idiots at Cons wearing leftist insanity glorifying communists than I do Nazi/Confederate stuff.
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Sigh... stuff like this does not help. What age were the "idiots" wearing the "leftist insanity glorifying communists" stuff? Most I'd gather were too young to even understand what they were wearing...
And just what is "leftist insanity glorifying communists" stuff?
Jackholes wearing SS anything know exactly what they are wearing....

Not necessarily.  Out here on the west coast, I’ve met a handful of middle aged radicals sporting Che shirts, hammer and sickle hats and pins, and even a Mao hat.  They all worked in education and After having had to endure their babble, I’m convinced they’re all adherents.  I also saw a fair number of young  cosplay girls dressed up as Nazis at a con in Osaka and I’m pretty sure they were doing it because of Hugo Boss, not Lebensraum. 

I try to avoid fanatics of any stripe.  I find them tiring. 



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Reply #31 on: August 02, 2019, 01:22:47 PM
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I try to avoid fanatics of any stripe.  I find them tiring.

This.

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Reply #32 on: August 02, 2019, 01:43:59 PM
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I try to avoid fanatics of any stripe.  I find them tiring.

This.

Hey, I've only worn my Starfleet uniform twice!

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Reply #33 on: August 02, 2019, 01:50:13 PM
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I try to avoid fanatics of any stripe.  I find them tiring.

This.

Hey, I've only worn my Starfleet uniform twice!

No one wants to hear about yer sexlife….

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Reply #34 on: August 02, 2019, 01:58:09 PM
He did it with a Horta.

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Reply #35 on: August 02, 2019, 02:04:53 PM
Ensigns are easy.

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Reply #36 on: August 02, 2019, 02:20:17 PM

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Reply #37 on: August 02, 2019, 02:25:14 PM
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I try to avoid fanatics of any stripe.  I find them tiring.

This.

Hey, I've only worn my Starfleet uniform twice!

Dude! I ran a game of Federation Commander at a con last year.  I spent a lot of time designing and playtesting a scenario for it beforehand with a few different groups and, after a bit of balancing, it was very well received.  Romulan players liked the risk/reward involved with the experimental weapon system.  Federation players liked the uncertainty/discovery aspect of the scenario.

 Day of the con came and I had a full slate of players signed up.  Sadly two of them were hardcore Star Trek/Star Fleet Battles nerds.  One spend several turns moaning about how the scenario background  was wrong because the Romulans wouldn't do that!  And they'd never have weapons like these on their ships!...blah blah blah.  Then both SFB players got ganked hard because they assumed some of the core rules between Federation Commander and SFB would be the same.  They weren't and shields in FC are far less robust than in SFB.  End result= total disaster of a session. 

God damned Trekkies...Just shut up and play the game.  I thought the scenario was pretty cool myself. 







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Reply #38 on: August 02, 2019, 02:30:06 PM
I thought the scenario was pretty cool myself.

looks very cool :bigthumb:

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Reply #39 on: August 02, 2019, 04:35:21 PM
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I try to avoid fanatics of any stripe.  I find them tiring.

This.

Hey, I've only worn my Starfleet uniform twice!

Dude! I ran a game of Federation Commander at a con last year.  I spent a lot of time designing and playtesting a scenario for it beforehand with a few different groups and, after a bit of balancing, it was very well received.  Romulan players liked the risk/reward involved with the experimental weapon system.  Federation players liked the uncertainty/discovery aspect of the scenario.

 Day of the con came and I had a full slate of players signed up.  Sadly two of them were hardcore Star Trek/Star Fleet Battles nerds.  One spend several turns moaning about how the scenario background  was wrong because the Romulans wouldn't do that!  And they'd never have weapons like these on their ships!...blah blah blah.  Then both SFB players got ganked hard because they assumed some of the core rules between Federation Commander and SFB would be the same.  They weren't and shields in FC are far less robust than in SFB.  End result= total disaster of a session. 

God damned Trekkies...Just shut up and play the game.  I thought the scenario was pretty cool myself.

Which is funny because other Star Trek nerds would have bitched to them about how Star Fleet Battles isn't real Star Trek.  ;D

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Reply #40 on: August 02, 2019, 06:46:04 PM
the thread in the WGers group on FB got nuked.  The surprise isn't that it got nuked, but that it took 48 hours to get nuked.

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Reply #41 on: August 02, 2019, 08:00:28 PM
BBMike - since you have kept your young, girlish figure - you can still fit into the Starfleet Uniform of your younger days.  Unlike Shatner who needed a "fat fold" in his uniform to hide his expanding dimensions.

True.  ;D

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Reply #42 on: August 02, 2019, 08:00:47 PM
the thread in the WGers group on FB got nuked.  The surprise isn't that it got nuked, but that it took 48 hours to get nuked.

Truth.

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Reply #43 on: August 03, 2019, 01:38:34 AM
the thread in the WGers group on FB got nuked.  The surprise isn't that it got nuked, but that it took 48 hours to get nuked.

goddamn SJWs running Facebook

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Reply #44 on: August 04, 2019, 12:32:08 AM
Dude! I ran a game of Federation Commander at a con last year.  I spent a lot of time designing and playtesting a scenario for it beforehand with a few different groups and, after a bit of balancing, it was very well received.  Romulan players liked the risk/reward involved with the experimental weapon system.  Federation players liked the uncertainty/discovery aspect of the scenario.

 Day of the con came and I had a full slate of players signed up.  Sadly two of them were hardcore Star Trek/Star Fleet Battles nerds.  One spend several turns moaning about how the scenario background  was wrong because the Romulans wouldn't do that!  And they'd never have weapons like these on their ships!...blah blah blah.  Then both SFB players got ganked hard because they assumed some of the core rules between Federation Commander and SFB would be the same.  They weren't and shields in FC are far less robust than in SFB.  End result= total disaster of a session. 

God damned Trekkies...Just shut up and play the game.  I thought the scenario was pretty cool myself.

Hey, I'm a Trekkie!  And I think it looked/sounded fun. 

(I haven't been to a con in forever, dang it.  I miss it...) 

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