Annie said:
yeah I don't understand the wargames sneering either, you get it a lot with videogamers, and as my fella likes to rant "At least we go out and socialise with other human beings
Sadly this is human nature, people are in general very narrow minded and do not like what they consider to be out of the "norm", it really doesn't matter how the categorize the person, a nerd, a chav, a hippie or whatever. You certainly get this within games workshop gamers. I've had a remark made to about me because I used to take more than one armylist to games night, I actually used to take 3/4 different khorne armies, apparently I was a powergamer? No one actually bothered to find out why, I actually different lists which ranged in power. If I was going to play someone who had played like 2 games of warhammer It's hardly going to be fun for him to play a all mounted Khorne army so i would whip out my infantry list with a lot more marauders, If someone was abit of a cheeseball I might whip out the all mounted army. I recall once at a gaming club in london against a
TK player I saw he had loads of chariots, I actually took my dragon ogres off and swap them for Minotaurs because I knew having a unit that would go round and pop everyone of his units would be dull for us both yet I was dubbed again with the same brush.
Then you have from a more external point of view, it happens, if I'm honest after meeting some of the people who play wargames I'm not that surprised that people look at other people with the same hobby with a negative light. Seriously just walk into a GW on "vets" night and you will quickly understand why people form the opinion that people who play with toy soldiers are weird.
Certainly not all of us are, I had a guy from Dakka Dakka come round my house last week, he is one of the few people who has actually accepted food from me and we actually ad a laugh about all the odd balls you meet playing warhammer.
they're just sat in a darkend bedroom fiddling with their joystick"
I had to quote this separately as it made me giggle, I have a perverted mind however...