chord Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Agreed I dislike when people call them Sigmarines it's very negative especially when I first started playing AOS (1 year ago). I also dislike when people drag old world stuff into AoS. Not the models but the lore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus of Paint Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 53 minutes ago, chord said: I also dislike when people drag old world stuff into AoS. Not the models but the lore I'm intrigued by this comment, could you clarify? Do you mean reinventing / reimagining Old World concepts and races to fit AoS, or more literal copy-and-paste? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rokapoke Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 I hate when people ask questions, etc., regarding summoning points. Rather than use the actually-defined terminology (which then fully clarifies how the points apply), people assume it only refers to summoning and develop incorrect ideas to match. They're reinforcement points and apply to any new units you set up during the game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chord Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 2 minutes ago, Circus of Paint said: I'm intrigued by this comment, could you clarify? Do you mean reinventing / reimagining Old World concepts and races to fit AoS, or more literal copy-and-paste? I guess when people want the characters or lore brought over to AOS. You see this a lot with the Aelves and talking about characters (I am not familiar with old world) and how they should continue what they were doing in the Mortal Realms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus of Paint Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 I much prefer for the characters that do come back to have changed or otherwise be reinvented for the Mortal Realms. Look at Malekith, he got renamed Malerion and literally became a shadow-daemon! Way more interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperHappyTime Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 On 3/23/2017 at 3:16 AM, Turragor said: Any turns of phrase set your teeth on edge? "Ghettoization" being used to describe the fracturing of the old armies. So many awful ties here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HobbyHammer Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 On 23/03/2017 at 7:07 PM, HeadHunter said: My other pet peeve is the inability to delete duplicate posts. This unfortunately might be my fault... I accidently deleted a whole event thread once and Ben took the delete option away.., Sorry! #notsorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HobbyHammer Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 For me its Alpha Strike and calling units Squads.. But agree with soooo many other points on here. especially #netlist, WAAC, filth etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 I really don't like people saying "fluff", "fluffy" and "flavour text" instead or lore, story, thematic and narrative - because they basically totally diminish the setting, and the "suspension of disbelief". But on the flip side I hate when people make jokes about which Primark is best etc because I have no idea what they're on about - I just like the game and the toys! Also, somebody said "raped" at my local GW and I wanted to be sick - if it had been one of my students I would have kicked them out of class, but I didn't want to make a scene in the local store - he's a nice chap otherwise. Maybe the managers should put up a "code of conduct" on the wall like cons do now. Also people should watch the ableist language for dwarfs, overlords, squats etc - I've heard stunties and probably worse. Also "Elves are [homophobic word]". Basically burn the community to the ground is what I'm saying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuneBrush Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 4 minutes ago, Iain said: I really don't like people saying "fluff", "fluffy" and "flavour text" instead or lore, story, thematic and narrative - because they basically totally diminish the setting, and the "suspension of disbelief". But on the flip side I hate when people make jokes about which Primark is best etc because I have no idea what they're on about - I just like the game and the toys! Every time somebody says fluff a kitten dies... (this comes from a panel of Black Library authors ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dez Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 20 hours ago, Ollie Grimwood said: The don't like "Ward Saves" or most WFBisms for AoS rules. AoS isn't WFB 9th ed and it's a misconception that I believe is the cause of a lot of misinterpretation of the rules. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Haha I run into this one all the time, especially when teaching the WFB players AoS. Even did it wrong myself for a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus of Paint Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Lord Kyre was the main reason I decided to actually sit down and read the Cinderfall short story! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amysrevenge Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 To this day I can't stop myself from saying Leadership instead of Bravery. It's just so automatic and I notice it after the fact and it angers me every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galas Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 28 minutes ago, Iain said: Also people should watch the ableist language for dwarfs, overlords, squats etc - I've heard stunties and probably worse. Also "Elves are [homophobic word]". Basically burn the community to the ground is what I'm saying Can you explain me what its the problem with Stunties? Isn't that how Orcs call the Dwarfs? I'm not a native English speaker, so if Stunties has another peyorative meaning in real life I'm not aware of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Unless I'm completely misinterpreting, I guess "stunties" is short for stunted growth which is probably a no-longer-used phrase for real medical conditions that people might have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DynamicCalories Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Aye, and Orks using stunties goes way back to the 1980/90s (I remember reading the stories around then) and so pre-dates the more PC movement of the current day. It's a weird one because it's less obviously harmful than calling Elves prancing or etc, or a number of derogatory terms, but could still obviously seen as ableist. Also worth noting that, contextually, Ork are awful, so it at least fits with their character. The amount of coded language the community uses with regards to "girly" and stuff like that is still ridiculous, saw a post where some guy said that"his wife would kill him" for the kit he'd recently bought and was kinda surprised at the responses. Edit: i keep getting hit by the filter by accident Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuneBrush Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 The word "Stunties" comes from various books and stories when Orcs referred to Dwarves. There's quite a few common words used to describe different races - Long Shanks, Green Skin's, Beardlings, etc. Most of these are Old World references but I'm pretty sure we'll have AoS ones. The important thing is to keep it in a "game environment" and not apply it in a derogative manner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 I think with "stunties" because it used to be canonical, it's going to be hard to shift. I highly doubt any AoS book will use it. There's probably a GW social media manager pulling their hair out every time they post new overlords stuff and the community are like "yay stunties!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DynamicCalories Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 On the flipside of things we don't like: I weirdly like Orruks as a name quite a lot. I know "ORKS ORKS ORKS" is a lot more football hooligan-y, but given the look of the modern orruks, I find the idea of them chanting "oRUKS oRUKS oRUKS" a bit more intimidating. There's something about the extra emphasis you can get from contrasting that second syllable against the first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galas Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Orks... Or... Orruks... Rruks... Uruks... Uruk-hai! Age of Lord of the Rings confirmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amysrevenge Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 That's actually the funny part - going from Orc to Orruk is actually dipping back in the Tolkien well for another drink, not moving away, the way Aelf and Duardin move away. I was listening to LotR audiobooks recently, and there are many call-outs to uruks and other similarly pronounced words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turragor Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 54 minutes ago, amysrevenge said: That's actually the funny part - going from Orc to Orruk is actually dipping back in the Tolkien well for another drink, not moving away, the way Aelf and Duardin move away. I was listening to LotR audiobooks recently, and there are many call-outs to uruks and other similarly pronounced words. Hmm Aelfs is close still. Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drúedain Not dwarves, but like dwarves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick in York Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 ælfe is the Anglo-Saxon/Old English for elf. And as far as I can remember from my studies it is pronouced more like 'elf' than 'A-elf'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turragor Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 æ is probably close to ä which sounds close enough to elf I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulsmith Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 æ is probably close to ä which sounds close enough to elf I guessIt depends whether they're using the old English variant, but ae is ash, and pronounced as the short a. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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