99% of all of our ancestors would kill to have a “boring” life where they can fritter away time and resources on stuff solely for their own enjoyment. We are so incredibly blessed and privileged to live when and where we do.
Stories, games and art are genuinely fundamental to human existance. Those 99% of ancestors strived to spend those resources on games toys and art. It's a good reminder that it's a privilege to be cherished.
This!! 100% this. We may be lazier now bc food etc is more readily accessible but it’s from a culmination of human effort over centuries and I appreciate it
I solo dungeon crawler and love painting the miniatures and writing quests for the hobby. My wife knows where I am all the time and everyone thinks I'm a big nerd. Wouldn't have it any other way - 47yrs old and got into the hobby 7yrs ago - loving it more every passing day.
As a child I would have cried for days at the thought of spending time alone, reading, eating vegetables and being in bed for 9pm. In my 40's it's my New Year's Resolutions.
I'm an architect, and during college, I used to love building models for studio projects... now, at my work, everything is digital, and no one builds models anymore (unless a client expressly requests it and pays a premium for it). When I discovered wargaming, it really clicked with me and scratched that itch... I've always loved board games with miniatures and used to paint them horribly back in the 90s when i was teen (hero quest, battlemasters, etc) as well as strategy games like chess... wargaming takes multiple things I love and wraps them up into a single package. Building terrain for my home table, building and painting minis, playing games with friends... It's all great 👍
What i love most about this hobby is the individuality of it all. After you build and paint, your models have their own story and can be any character you can dream up. Your models are a real extension of you, like learning songs on an instrument.
The community is a big part of the hobby. I used to play PC games and read a lot and I had no social life. Nowadays I am out almost every weekend meeting other guys who I would have never met otherwise.
I’m back into pc gaming and still looking for places around me to play 40K. Where I live is a bit of a tabletop wargame dead zone, despite having good stores within an hour or twos highway drive away.
Recently my brother bought a 3D FDM printer. In thinking of what to print, I decided to print custom miniature to maybe use for DND. I bought the paints, look up some youtube on how to paint. Procrastinated for very long, then one day I close my computer, sat down with the tools on the desk. My painting is horrendous, when I try to paint the shirt, the paint hit the glove, when I try to paint the glove it hit the shirt. It can be frustrating at times but when I look at the small miniature poorly painted on my desk, I am smiling like a little child. I even joke with my family, this painting is so bad if I buy this, I would had complaint about the lousy painting, but knowing that I painted this, all the difficulties and effort I put on it I cannot help but be so proud of myself. For the hours I spent painting, I am away from endless doomscrolling, my mind became sharp and quite, as if I am in flow state. How I wish to share this joy with others, if those that scream life is so stressful, can just get offline for the hours to sit quitely painting, their mind will enjoy the almost meditative painting time and the simple joy of seeing the final painted miniature. And if they so decided, they can even try One Page Rule to play with their miniature.
Варгеймы повышают образование (исторические по крайней мере). Развивают мелкую моторику рук и художественный вкус. И, как шахматы например, тренируют ум. Очень крутое хобби!
I've been painting for 2 years now and I haven't played a single second of Warhammer. I do build playable Kill Teams so I could play them if I find a group. Painting minis have become another outlet for my creativity and I'm so glad I stumbled upon this hobby! I hope you all have a wonderful new year!
It is an awesome escape where I can lose myself in a cinematic experience! And I have met and made some really great friends along the way. Can't beat that!
It`s about artistic expression and time with my friends for me. I did build four different tables so far and each one is telling a story. I kitbash and scratch build models and warbands for skirmish games. I organize campaigns and leauges with friends...It`s a great time :)
If I do a deep dive into my psychology regarding miniature wargaming, I think the painting and building of miniatures is the desire to create within a controlled environment as a solo activity without any interruption from other people in the process - adding that personal detail to one of your creations is very satisfying. The other side is the fantasy / sci fi side of it - which is the escapism side; I've lived in different countries and travelled extensively, lived in capital cities and small towns/cities across countries, worked in big skyscrapers etc and socialized with many different international settings. Lets just say after many life experiences - socially, I prefer wargaming, solo or with people I know. Life is short and you have to be truly honest with yourself regarding what you really like to so in your leisure time.
I'm a military modeller since my childhood, in the 80s. I didn't know board games or miniatures games back then. I discovered miniature wargaming in the late 80s and for me, it was the ideal hobby, combining my interest in models, figures, history, tactics...
I love that this hobby of ours is not just 1 thing, as you said, we play, we paint we model... there is a lot to it and you can do a great deal of it at your own pace. I have some hurdles in life, and the fact that I can spend half an hour every now and again just painting or building gives me something to distract my focus, it is (for me) better than meditation. 90% of the hobby can be done alone, really 100% can, because solo gaming is fun! And for the 10% of the time I can organise friends, and cope with social situations, I can game
Thanks for the video. My favorite part is the very fact that it's a niche hobby, amd that means there's less people who can tell me I'm doing something incorrect. The hobby iMY hobby. There's no WRONG. I can't kitbash wrong. I can't paint something wrong. I can't spend too much or too little time on something. It's my decision if I'm satisfied with my choices, and if someone else likes my decisions also, that's a bonus, but it doesn't really matter.
before this recent indie surge, the commercial element of buying minis, updating rules, etc pushed me away. But it ended up inspiring me to take up sculpting and write my own systems. This hobby has a very special quality of infinitely scaling with whatever you want to make of it.
In grade 7, a few other guys got me into the inquisitor game, the old 54mm one. From there, i got a white dwarf magazine. The rest is history and financial ruin.
I got in to Warhammer in my 40s because my teenage kids wanted to play and so I used it has a bonding thing. It’s a pretty fun hobby though I do build and paint much more than I play.
And Im happy for You Scott. The hobby is for YOUR enjoyment. Nobody elses. As long as it brings YOU happiness, then you're doing it right. If you are happy about a mini you painted, then no amount of criticism can take that away from you. All the best to Ya in the coming year!
I love creating my own lore and world building. I'll go way back looking through old pulp magazines for obscure forgotten weird short stories to give me inspiration. Then I'll enjoy selecting the perfect minis and ruleset.
Ive always wanted to have both warhammer 40k 3rd ed n warhammer fantasy 6th ed armies fully painted. So far ive collected all I wanted in 18 months, assembled, and primed all my armies n organized them into boxes. I am now on the painting phase n when thats done ill be able to play a new game everyday. Alsp found out bout Mordheim n skirmish games that also sparked my creativity n inspiration. Most of all I love kitbashing and making my armies unique n my own.
I’m more into the painting side. I have a bunch of Marvel Crisis Protocol; have never played a game of it. I just enjoy painting the Marvel characters.
I love collecting... I love kit bashing but dislike assembling..lol I love the community and most of all I love the tales of battle that we share over a cold drink!
I want to see awesome interactions on the battlefield, the minute to minute action that may or may not change the tide of the greater battle. Like you I don't much like painting but I consider it a necessity in order to enjoy the hobby and a sort of common courtesy you can extend to your opponent.
The almighty TH-cam algorithm has brought me here! Man, I’m pretty much in the same boat, except I got to miniature wargaming in my mid 30s. I absolutely hate assembling, enjoy painting (I don’t necessarily love the process like some people, but I learned to enjoy it) and playing. But most all all, I LOVE finishing armies and putting them in a table! There’s this level of satisfaction that is hard to explain. Only people like us will get it! I also refuse to play with un-painted models (and crappy terrain). It got to the point that I HAD to paint models for Talisman to play with my kids before we even tried the game lol! 😅 I enjoy thinking, tactics and most of all - interactions with other humans and having fun together!
I remember some thing that a friend of mine told me once. He was having a conversation with his father-in-law and he asked him what he did him as a hobby or a spun and he told him about more hammer and the fact that you know he said that’s game free young children he said real men that’s not a hobby for real men.. he said a proper hobby is something like growing flowers or gardening or something like that. That’s not a proper hobby for men a hobby for men and this is the way to do it because it gives you tactics moving of troops and lots of weapons some people don’t get it and they never will.
I like a little bit of it all. 11 years and I've played a couple 40k games and a handful of aos games. I like gaming, and then figuring out what I can do with what I got. After it's lore because it's cool to hear stories and painting is cool because I learn a new skill. However a bunch of stuff has a good amount of color but a few things are done. I only have a couple models that are unpainted however that doesn't stop me from use because I can't wait to use this new piece in game. Assembly can be fun especially with bases. I've had my fair share of bases that I didn't wanna add anything to but need to use for the model 😂
I enjoy the literal physical world-building of miniature games. Digital games evaporate after playing. Not minis. Plus, one can mix and match an assortment of genres: Fantasy, sci-fi, western, war, horror, zombie, alien invasion, you name it.
Personally, I really like collecting and assembling an army (painting I do it but not my most favorite part) but the funnest is playing games with my friends. We have a smallish group of about 6 guys. 4 old folk like me near 50, and 2 young low-end 20s who are getting into the hobby. We all play 7th, so we don't spend money on new rules or models...3d printing gets us anything we need. Still loving the hobby. Also getting into boardgaming lately, a hobby with a bit more reach social wise. But I will never give up wargaming unless there's noone left to play with!
im picking it up at 27, ive been doing art all my life and i only rockclimb as another hobby, ive been in an art rut since i graduated art school and ive been needing a big project to work in my free time, i enjoy the lore and rolling dice
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I enjoy looking at my finished models and like to think about potential games and sometimes even play them. Currently I paint some 15mm oldschool Necrons and Imperial Guard that I 3D printed for Mass Brutality. 👌
I got into Wargaming when I saw the first Rogue Trader box of plastic marines at my local model shop. I was REALLY young. I didn't even know it was a game. I just liked building models and these were cool looking little dudes. Nothing brings people together more than bitching about GW!
Playing out a narrative story. I use to be play with what I've painted, but limited time has changed my stance on that. I do now use unpainted stuff as I know I won't get a chance to get it done at present
For me it was always the storytelling side of the hobby. Who’s this guy/unit, where does it come from, how does it fight/support/whatever and how can I reflect this CHARACTER in a game. Beats pretty much everything else in the hobby for me. 😅
i like that empty feeling in my gut after spending a whole whack of money to finish a collection of minis for yet another game i won't learn to play, just increasing my gray pile of shame. It's that same feeling of losing everything at the casino every night... except i have something to show for it and the potential it will one day become something. lol
There were some dudes that were very into (european) football, calling my hobby "childish". Then I asked them how do you call grownup guys running on the grass after a "rag" BALL? Because of what? Emotions? Excitement accompanying football matches? Maaan... Let me recall our - mine and 2 of my friends - campaign of "Descent: Journeys in the Dark (2nd edition)" via "Road to Legend" app, when after literally dozens of hours we got to the very end of the game and my character (Ravaella) was the only one standing with few HP-points left and I rolled a MISS while I was targeting heavily wounded group of monster with AOE (Rune Master) attack whitch could end the battle... I thought the table with whole boardgame will fly through the window and me right after that table 😆 Our most epic fail to this day.
I envy those with regular groups. I’m still searching my region for a good place to meet up every weekend. Worst is there’s stores the next state over and seems like those prevent any good ones from taking off near me. If I wanted to play dnd or go back to mtg I’d be golden. 40K….not so much.
I am a martial arts teacher. I'm also a table top gaming enthusiast. People have an idea what man is like. Watch/do sports, love cars, wrestle bears etc. A real man actually does what he feels is good for him while being open about it. Knitting, cycling, cooking or even table top gaming doesn't make him less worthy. And about boring life... this is not boring. This is awesome - to us. Watching sports is extremely boring and brainless to me. Be proud of your hobby, and life. It's awesome.
For me, I got into Wargaming after seeing a Italitan created a statue of Trump as the God Emperor of Mankind and for me, I personally love the lore of the Emperor and "how do you try to beat a enemy that already won". I like the Idea of Wargaming but I need to get a job and place so i can properly set it up. I am more into DnD after seeing Baller Gate 3 but I am roughly a "Tinkerer and Homebrewer". I want to make the best most fun system for my table and eventually the world. I just love tinkering snd making things work... because I say so 😂 Also personally I am a Madman so I tell people who dont get me "Why are you so boring I cant define you in 3 words or less", i love how words and meaning can do the 8 fold path so you just invert their statement and bam, instant insult 😮😅😂🎉
Haha. I'm glad you enjoyed blazing your own path in life! And that's funny about the Trump parade float or whatever it was, when I saw that a couple years ago I wondered if it would accidentally get anybody into the game. Lol. I guess it did.
I love this Hobby however i am at the same time fully aware it is an utter waste of time and simply killing time until I die. So I wrote books and self published and they sold well enough (made no money) but was glad they would live on after me. that eventually became pointless. My mother died and she was a great woman but worked as a cleaner and her memory would die,with me and her 2 grandchildren (not mine, I'm barren) think of all the billions of people who have died throughout history and u can see how insignificant ou r lives our. 'think of time as a corridor 100 billion miles long...think of your life in its entirety and alone inch thick.' there you go. Aologies, it's all very traumatic and poor. Be nice, I'm not doing well.
Nice video. While I love your optimism, the massive over representation of the white middle class male in the hobby is a shame. I'm not smart enough to know why this is a thing but fingers crossed things will continue to expand in this regard.
I’m old enough not to have to justify my life choices to anyone.
The best thing about our "boring hobby" is that the people who consider it boring are usually the types I don't want to do anything with anyway.
Haha. Too true
99% of all of our ancestors would kill to have a “boring” life where they can fritter away time and resources on stuff solely for their own enjoyment.
We are so incredibly blessed and privileged to live when and where we do.
SO true!!! We take a lot of this for granted.
Stories, games and art are genuinely fundamental to human existance. Those 99% of ancestors strived to spend those resources on games toys and art.
It's a good reminder that it's a privilege to be cherished.
This!! 100% this. We may be lazier now bc food etc is more readily accessible but it’s from a culmination of human effort over centuries and I appreciate it
It's a male passive hobby like fly fishing,plane spotting, stamp collecting. Loners.
I solo dungeon crawler and love painting the miniatures and writing quests for the hobby.
My wife knows where I am all the time and everyone thinks I'm a big nerd.
Wouldn't have it any other way - 47yrs old and got into the hobby 7yrs ago - loving it more every passing day.
Sounds like a fulfilling life, good for you!
As a child I would have cried for days at the thought of spending time alone, reading, eating vegetables and being in bed for 9pm. In my 40's it's my New Year's Resolutions.
😄😄😄
I can relate but I have small kids.... 😀 So not yet...
I'm an architect, and during college, I used to love building models for studio projects... now, at my work, everything is digital, and no one builds models anymore (unless a client expressly requests it and pays a premium for it). When I discovered wargaming, it really clicked with me and scratched that itch...
I've always loved board games with miniatures and used to paint them horribly back in the 90s when i was teen (hero quest, battlemasters, etc) as well as strategy games like chess... wargaming takes multiple things I love and wraps them up into a single package.
Building terrain for my home table, building and painting minis, playing games with friends... It's all great 👍
What i love most about this hobby is the individuality of it all. After you build and paint, your models have their own story and can be any character you can dream up. Your models are a real extension of you, like learning songs on an instrument.
The community is a big part of the hobby. I used to play PC games and read a lot and I had no social life. Nowadays I am out almost every weekend meeting other guys who I would have never met otherwise.
Excellent!
I’m back into pc gaming and still looking for places around me to play 40K. Where I live is a bit of a tabletop wargame dead zone, despite having good stores within an hour or twos highway drive away.
Recently my brother bought a 3D FDM printer. In thinking of what to print, I decided to print custom miniature to maybe use for DND. I bought the paints, look up some youtube on how to paint. Procrastinated for very long, then one day I close my computer, sat down with the tools on the desk. My painting is horrendous, when I try to paint the shirt, the paint hit the glove, when I try to paint the glove it hit the shirt. It can be frustrating at times but when I look at the small miniature poorly painted on my desk, I am smiling like a little child. I even joke with my family, this painting is so bad if I buy this, I would had complaint about the lousy painting, but knowing that I painted this, all the difficulties and effort I put on it I cannot help but be so proud of myself. For the hours I spent painting, I am away from endless doomscrolling, my mind became sharp and quite, as if I am in flow state. How I wish to share this joy with others, if those that scream life is so stressful, can just get offline for the hours to sit quitely painting, their mind will enjoy the almost meditative painting time and the simple joy of seeing the final painted miniature. And if they so decided, they can even try One Page Rule to play with their miniature.
I’m with you. I love miniature wargaming. I love it all. When people talk trash I just tell them I don’t care what they think…and I honestly don’t.
Thoughtful video. I want to like the painting and miniatures… but so far I just love the books and lore
Варгеймы повышают образование (исторические по крайней мере). Развивают мелкую моторику рук и художественный вкус. И, как шахматы например, тренируют ум. Очень крутое хобби!
I've been painting for 2 years now and I haven't played a single second of Warhammer. I do build playable Kill Teams so I could play them if I find a group. Painting minis have become another outlet for my creativity and I'm so glad I stumbled upon this hobby! I hope you all have a wonderful new year!
It is an awesome escape where I can lose myself in a cinematic experience! And I have met and made some really great friends along the way. Can't beat that!
Sounds like a perfect recipe for a fulfilling life!
Thanks!
Wow, thanks Michael! I've never had anybody do that before!
It`s about artistic expression and time with my friends for me. I did build four different tables so far and each one is telling a story. I kitbash and scratch build models and warbands for skirmish games. I organize campaigns and leauges with friends...It`s a great time :)
If I do a deep dive into my psychology regarding miniature wargaming, I think the painting and building of miniatures is the desire to create within a controlled environment as a solo activity without any interruption from other people in the process - adding that personal detail to one of your creations is very satisfying.
The other side is the fantasy / sci fi side of it - which is the escapism side; I've lived in different countries and travelled extensively, lived in capital cities and small towns/cities across countries, worked in big skyscrapers etc and socialized with many different international settings. Lets just say after many life experiences - socially, I prefer wargaming, solo or with people I know.
Life is short and you have to be truly honest with yourself regarding what you really like to so in your leisure time.
Bringing people together and having fun absolutely has a place in a hectic and sometimes uncaring world.
That's a nice display case to your right (screen left). Do you know where you got it?
Thanks! They are Funko Pop display cases but obviously I use them for miniatures. I got them on Amazon and you can search that term.
Do what you enjoy, if you're old enough you won't care what anybody thinks and if you're not old enough yet someday you will be.
Sometimes, it’s there to say hello to me when I get home.
I'm a military modeller since my childhood, in the 80s. I didn't know board games or miniatures games back then. I discovered miniature wargaming in the late 80s and for me, it was the ideal hobby, combining my interest in models, figures, history, tactics...
I love that this hobby of ours is not just 1 thing, as you said, we play, we paint we model... there is a lot to it and you can do a great deal of it at your own pace.
I have some hurdles in life, and the fact that I can spend half an hour every now and again just painting or building gives me something to distract my focus, it is (for me) better than meditation.
90% of the hobby can be done alone, really 100% can, because solo gaming is fun! And for the 10% of the time I can organise friends, and cope with social situations, I can game
I love batch painting. Just bought 100+ Orkaz for Black Friday
Thanks for the video.
My favorite part is the very fact that it's a niche hobby, amd that means there's less people who can tell me I'm doing something incorrect. The hobby iMY hobby. There's no WRONG. I can't kitbash wrong. I can't paint something wrong. I can't spend too much or too little time on something. It's my decision if I'm satisfied with my choices, and if someone else likes my decisions also, that's a bonus, but it doesn't really matter.
That's a great way to look at it!
before this recent indie surge, the commercial element of buying minis, updating rules, etc pushed me away. But it ended up inspiring me to take up sculpting and write my own systems. This hobby has a very special quality of infinitely scaling with whatever you want to make of it.
In grade 7, a few other guys got me into the inquisitor game, the old 54mm one. From there, i got a white dwarf magazine.
The rest is history and financial ruin.
I got in to Warhammer in my 40s because my teenage kids wanted to play and so I used it has a bonding thing. It’s a pretty fun hobby though I do build and paint much more than I play.
And Im happy for You Scott.
The hobby is for YOUR enjoyment. Nobody elses.
As long as it brings YOU happiness, then you're doing it right. If you are happy about a mini you painted, then no amount of criticism can take that away from you.
All the best to Ya in the coming year!
What a wholesome comment! Thanks for that! Here's to a wonderful New Year for you too!
I love creating my own lore and world building. I'll go way back looking through old pulp magazines for obscure forgotten weird short stories to give me inspiration. Then I'll enjoy selecting the perfect minis and ruleset.
Ive always wanted to have both warhammer 40k 3rd ed n warhammer fantasy 6th ed armies fully painted. So far ive collected all I wanted in 18 months, assembled, and primed all my armies n organized them into boxes. I am now on the painting phase n when thats done ill be able to play a new game everyday. Alsp found out bout Mordheim n skirmish games that also sparked my creativity n inspiration. Most of all I love kitbashing and making my armies unique n my own.
Nice!
I’m more into the painting side. I have a bunch of Marvel Crisis Protocol; have never played a game of it. I just enjoy painting the Marvel characters.
I love collecting... I love kit bashing but dislike assembling..lol I love the community and most of all I love the tales of battle that we share over a cold drink!
I want to see awesome interactions on the battlefield, the minute to minute action that may or may not change the tide of the greater battle. Like you I don't much like painting but I consider it a necessity in order to enjoy the hobby and a sort of common courtesy you can extend to your opponent.
The almighty TH-cam algorithm has brought me here! Man, I’m pretty much in the same boat, except I got to miniature wargaming in my mid 30s. I absolutely hate assembling, enjoy painting (I don’t necessarily love the process like some people, but I learned to enjoy it) and playing. But most all all, I LOVE finishing armies and putting them in a table! There’s this level of satisfaction that is hard to explain. Only people like us will get it! I also refuse to play with un-painted models (and crappy terrain). It got to the point that I HAD to paint models for Talisman to play with my kids before we even tried the game lol! 😅
I enjoy thinking, tactics and most of all - interactions with other humans and having fun together!
I remember some thing that a friend of mine told me once. He was having a conversation with his father-in-law and he asked him what he did him as a hobby or a spun and he told him about more hammer and the fact that you know he said that’s game free young children he said real men that’s not a hobby for real men.. he said a proper hobby is something like growing flowers or gardening or something like that. That’s not a proper hobby for men a hobby for men and this is the way to do it because it gives you tactics moving of troops and lots of weapons some people don’t get it and they never will.
I like a little bit of it all. 11 years and I've played a couple 40k games and a handful of aos games. I like gaming, and then figuring out what I can do with what I got. After it's lore because it's cool to hear stories and painting is cool because I learn a new skill. However a bunch of stuff has a good amount of color but a few things are done. I only have a couple models that are unpainted however that doesn't stop me from use because I can't wait to use this new piece in game.
Assembly can be fun especially with bases. I've had my fair share of bases that I didn't wanna add anything to but need to use for the model 😂
I was about 5 when i told my mother that evan when i grew up id still be playing with toy soldiers
😄😄😄.
I enjoy the literal physical world-building of miniature games. Digital games evaporate after playing. Not minis. Plus, one can mix and match an assortment of genres: Fantasy, sci-fi, western, war, horror, zombie, alien invasion, you name it.
Personally, I really like collecting and assembling an army (painting I do it but not my most favorite part) but the funnest is playing games with my friends. We have a smallish group of about 6 guys. 4 old folk like me near 50, and 2 young low-end 20s who are getting into the hobby. We all play 7th, so we don't spend money on new rules or models...3d printing gets us anything we need. Still loving the hobby. Also getting into boardgaming lately, a hobby with a bit more reach social wise. But I will never give up wargaming unless there's noone left to play with!
im picking it up at 27, ive been doing art all my life and i only rockclimb as another hobby, ive been in an art rut since i graduated art school and ive been needing a big project to work in my free time, i enjoy the lore and rolling dice
I enjoy looking at my finished models and like to think about potential games and sometimes even play them.
Currently I paint some 15mm oldschool Necrons and Imperial Guard that I 3D printed for Mass Brutality. 👌
What?! Awesome! I'd love to see them when they are finished.
I will never look at the price of bananas the same again 😂
Haha.
I got into Wargaming when I saw the first Rogue Trader box of plastic marines at my local model shop. I was REALLY young. I didn't even know it was a game. I just liked building models and these were cool looking little dudes.
Nothing brings people together more than bitching about GW!
I guess bringing people together is good no matter how you do it! LOL
Playing out a narrative story. I use to be play with what I've painted, but limited time has changed my stance on that. I do now use unpainted stuff as I know I won't get a chance to get it done at present
For me it was always the storytelling side of the hobby. Who’s this guy/unit, where does it come from, how does it fight/support/whatever and how can I reflect this CHARACTER in a game.
Beats pretty much everything else in the hobby for me. 😅
Stress relief
i like that empty feeling in my gut after spending a whole whack of money to finish a collection of minis for yet another game i won't learn to play, just increasing my gray pile of shame. It's that same feeling of losing everything at the casino every night... except i have something to show for it and the potential it will one day become something. lol
thats a massive legion army 😂
There were some dudes that were very into (european) football, calling my hobby "childish". Then I asked them how do you call grownup guys running on the grass after a "rag" BALL? Because of what? Emotions? Excitement accompanying football matches? Maaan... Let me recall our - mine and 2 of my friends - campaign of "Descent: Journeys in the Dark (2nd edition)" via "Road to Legend" app, when after literally dozens of hours we got to the very end of the game and my character (Ravaella) was the only one standing with few HP-points left and I rolled a MISS while I was targeting heavily wounded group of monster with AOE (Rune Master) attack whitch could end the battle... I thought the table with whole boardgame will fly through the window and me right after that table 😆 Our most epic fail to this day.
I envy those with regular groups. I’m still searching my region for a good place to meet up every weekend.
Worst is there’s stores the next state over and seems like those prevent any good ones from taking off near me.
If I wanted to play dnd or go back to mtg I’d be golden. 40K….not so much.
Great vid
I am a martial arts teacher. I'm also a table top gaming enthusiast.
People have an idea what man is like. Watch/do sports, love cars, wrestle bears etc. A real man actually does what he feels is good for him while being open about it. Knitting, cycling, cooking or even table top gaming doesn't make him less worthy.
And about boring life... this is not boring. This is awesome - to us. Watching sports is extremely boring and brainless to me.
Be proud of your hobby, and life. It's awesome.
I started in my 40’s
Alg for the algorithm
For me, I got into Wargaming after seeing a Italitan created a statue of Trump as the God Emperor of Mankind and for me, I personally love the lore of the Emperor and "how do you try to beat a enemy that already won". I like the Idea of Wargaming but I need to get a job and place so i can properly set it up.
I am more into DnD after seeing Baller Gate 3 but I am roughly a "Tinkerer and Homebrewer". I want to make the best most fun system for my table and eventually the world. I just love tinkering snd making things work... because I say so 😂
Also personally I am a Madman so I tell people who dont get me "Why are you so boring I cant define you in 3 words or less", i love how words and meaning can do the 8 fold path so you just invert their statement and bam, instant insult 😮😅😂🎉
Haha. I'm glad you enjoyed blazing your own path in life! And that's funny about the Trump parade float or whatever it was, when I saw that a couple years ago I wondered if it would accidentally get anybody into the game. Lol. I guess it did.
@@LetsTalkTabletop atleast it wasnt because of she who thrists 😂
If a man don't understand the appeal of wargame, he is not a man.
I love this Hobby however i am at the same time fully aware it is an utter waste of time and simply killing time until I die. So I wrote books and self published and they sold well enough (made no money) but was glad they would live on after me. that eventually became pointless. My mother died and she was a great woman but worked as a cleaner and her memory would die,with me and her 2 grandchildren (not mine, I'm barren) think of all the billions of people who have died throughout history and u can see how insignificant ou r lives our. 'think of time as a corridor 100 billion miles long...think of your life in its entirety and alone inch thick.' there you go. Aologies, it's all very traumatic and poor. Be nice, I'm not doing well.
Nice video. While I love your optimism, the massive over representation of the white middle class male in the hobby is a shame. I'm not smart enough to know why this is a thing but fingers crossed things will continue to expand in this regard.