Fimm McCool
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Just don't mention Pony Wars...
Fimm McCool":22qjz90q said:Just don't mention Pony Wars...
Asslessman":3ol7qxx4 said:From the numerous excellent answers here, I see one point, we are now able to ask this question without it reaching heated and pointless arguments. we can discuss racial stereotypes in the warhamer background (pigmies, orientals and all) and that now.
Brilliant.
zoggin-eck":3ol7qxx4 said:His "Is this Oldhammer?" post yesterday is pretty interesting, too. I'm just out of being one of the "wanks waiting to get lucky" as he puts it, but I can still appreciate the point made.
Erny":3dxffl4d said:It's like constitutions, America wrote theirs down and have to keep amending it and changing it and are frequently bound by it in exceptional circumstances that would require latitude to resolve in a better way.
Zhu Bajie":3hvtwln0 said:Asslessman":3hvtwln0 said:we can discuss racial stereotypes in the warhamer background (pigmies, orientals and all) and that now.
Brilliant.
Again? We've already done that in a reasonably mature manner here: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2162&hilit=pygmies not that it's not worth doing
Erny":3hvtwln0 said:Oldhammer means everything and nothing.
Erny":2xiyri5r said:Oldhammer means everything and nothing.
Zhu Bajie":3g0fuzou said:Erny":3g0fuzou said:Oldhammer means everything and nothing.
The meaning is somewhat predefined by it being a portmanteau of the words "old" and [war] "hammer", which is generally what people in a gaming context will understand it as - "Old Warhammer".
Zhu Bajie":2wgakgmr said:Erny":2wgakgmr said:Oldhammer means everything and nothing.
The meaning is somewhat predefined by it being a portmanteau of the words "old" and [war] "hammer", which is generally what people in a gaming context will understand it as - "Old Warhammer".
Citadel Collector":30w0g0u3 said:Zhu Bajie":30w0g0u3 said:Erny":30w0g0u3 said:Oldhammer means everything and nothing.
The meaning is somewhat predefined by it being a portmanteau of the words "old" and [war] "hammer", which is generally what people in a gaming context will understand it as - "Old Warhammer".
Except of course that meanings of words can and do change.
Erny":3dla22uz said:I'd argue that to you oldhammer means as you say old versions of warhammer, with your arbitrary cut off point. You coined the term and I'd be inclined to agree for the most part, that's what it is for me too.
Erny":3dla22uz said:However oldhammer is also a community and we have got more out of this community that calls itself oldhammer than from our various slightly aligned blogs from before taking on this joint moniker together. It's grown and many of the people that produce interesting and inspiring projects have a different understanding of what it means. They have joined a community with a name rather than as we did, used a name to describe a community.
So for most and for me Oldhammer is the community that has enabled us all so it is everything. If oldhammer is just a restriction to play one of three editions of one game...
Community is exactly the word I didn't have at my fingertips at the time! Without the contributors to the forum and (though I haven't joined it) the Facebook group, there wouldn't really be any such thing as Oldhammer to argue about. I've written a fairly substantial article about this on my blog - since its becoming something of a rite of passage for us 'Oldhammerers' these daysOldhammer is the forum I came across whilst I was trying to discover as much as I could about the 'magical age' of gaming... This forum has allowed me to explore these ideas with like minded individuals
Well, it may be a position that one can choose to adopt, but it doesn't make it true; like Holocaust denial or vaccination paranoia. A gaming forum is a community of sorts; you go along and join, make a few statements and you've made a contribution to that community. Even when its only a temporary thing you have formed part of that community whether you want to be seen as such or not.Zhu Bajie":24mfdm4c said:But then Thatcher said there was no such thing as society, so that's just a position one can choose to adopt for whatever reason.
area23":bernsrwj said:But is it vegan?
dieselmonkey":1wbumadt said:area23":1wbumadt said:But is it vegan?
Don't worry, if it was, it'd fuckin' tell you.
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