Married men selling off there hobbies.

[Mana KnightParticipant 333]

The thing that makes me so sad.
“Sure! Sounds good…but I will have to check with the Missus first.”

And then “Yeah, she’s fine with it!” (if she is feeling nice) Like this is a wonderful thing and how great of her to let you out to do this!!!

[OldBillParticipant]

Among my hobbies is wargaming. It combines my love of history with competition. There are a lot of different types of wargaming too. I’m a “hex map & chit” guy while others spend lots of money and time painting little figures or “minis”. Both are fun, but I’d rather play a game than paint little lead or plastic army men.

Minis can be beautiful and a nicely painted army on a table properly “dressed” with terrain is something to see. I guess for the men who prefer minis, wargaming is more of a combination of craftsmanship, history, and competition.

Anyway, minis represent an investment of both time and money. What’s the one thing wives hate? Time and money not invested on them, of course.

Every convention I go to has wife-mandated sales on display. Hundreds of minis representing hundreds of dollars and hundred or hours are carefully lined up with price tags attached while some broken man sits nearby. Guys try to sell completed sets, but usually end up selling off individual stand holding 3-5 minis each.

That carefully collected and painted 1809 Austrian army, 1944 US paratroopers company, or 1879 Zulu impi is sold off in a few stands at a time to satisfy the childish demands of the fiendish c~~~ waiting at home and that pathetic man cave tucked into a corner of the basement becomes just a little more like a prison cell.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[Ranger OneParticipant 16836]

OldBill wrote:

Among my hobbies is wargaming. It combines my love of history with competition. There are a lot of different types of wargaming too. I’m a “hex map & chit” guy while others spend lots of money and time painting little figures or “minis”. Both are fun, but I’d rather play a game than paint little lead or plastic army men.

What is your favorite era/theater to wargame?

All my life I've had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. Now I'm like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitation, no doubts. The path is clear. And what are you? Alive. Everything else is negotiable. Women have rights; men have responsibilities; MGTOW have freedom. Marriage is for chumps. If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them and stab them in the heart-R'as al Ghul.

[AlexeiParticipant 28]

Complete insanity to allow your wife to dictate what you can buy, use, or play with.

[OldBillParticipant]

Ranger One wrote:

What is your favorite era/theater to wargame?

For me the game is more important than the era or scale. I want a well designed and challenging game more than one which covers a certain topic or conflict.

WW2, the Napoleonic wars, and the American Civil War are vastly over represented in wargaming so, if you play wargames, you’re going to play games set in those eras whether you’re drawn to them or not. Certain games, such as Advanced Squad Leader, have an almost cult-like following. Their players play that game and no others.

There are a number of excellent COIN or counter-insurgency games which share many of the same rules which have been released over the last several years. Topics include Vietnam (duh), the “war” on drugs in the Andes, Afghanistan, and others. I’ve only been able to play them a few times because it’s next to impossible to play them solo. While my limited experience with them makes me want to play them much more often, arranging that has been hard.

Thanks to my own experiences, I also prefer games with limited “C3I”. That is, I prefer games in which I don’t have perfect control over my forces and can’t “see” everything my opponent has.

Finally, I don’t get to play face-to-face as often as I’d like, so I prefer games which are either designed to be played solitaire or can be played that way with a reasonable amount of effort.

Avalon Hill’s decades old Midway is a good example of the type of game I enjoy. It has nicely limited “C3I”, each player has his own map and can’t see his opponent’s forces. You must conduct searches to first find the enemy and then agonize over whether you should launch your air strike against them. Spotting only one of your opponent’s multiple carriers can give you ulcers!

Another game I’ve enjoyed for years is XTR’s Chaco War. The game models not only the fighting but the overwhelming importance of supply in that useless 1930s war between Paraguay and Bolivia. Supply is something generally overlooked in wargames, but this game manages to neatly fold supply into game play.

Joe Miranda’s Wars of the Imperial Age is another series of games I’ve enjoyed over the years. The system covers the Austro-Prussian War, the Wars of Italian Unification, the Russo-Turkish War, and the Franco-Prussian War. The units are mostly divisions and the scale operational. You don’t have perfect control over your forces nor do you know much about your opponent’s forces other where they’re located. While you can try to move your troops and order an attack, the results are sometimes not what you wanted.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[FaxmodemParticipant 1415]

Alexei wrote:

Complete insanity to allow your wife to dictate what you can buy, use, or play with.

I guess that’s why marriage is hell. Cant do anything with out the wife’s say so. But hey, his loss my gain.

Us men didn't start the battle of the sexes, but we're clearly going to win it via the simple tactic of just leaving the battlefield in contempt."

[sjt1975Participant 2536]

Faxmodem wrote:

Married men are having to sell all their hobbies off, so their wives can get easy money.

That’s sad. They’re selling-off their last bits of sanity, just to feed some woman with money that she’ll probably spend on meaningless rubbish.

[Anonymous 11]

These dolts have provided many a good deal. I’ve benefited very well from one.

Selling off his treasures while she’s at home being slammed f~~~ed hard during that shower with Chad is as beta as beta can be.

[ResidentEvil7Participant 9558]

This is one thing I see every once in a while on Pawn Stars; the man needs to sell something valuable of his because the wife says so and needs the money. It just p~~~es me off that these guys don’t stand up to their wives! Five will get you 10 that these women took the money they got from making their husband sell his stuff and spent it on shoes, purses and make up for herself. Women sure are selfish and crooked!

Same sort of thing happened to my dad when I was a kid. My mom threw all my dad’s valuable Hot Wheels and model airplane collection in the garbage and had my brother and I play with old classic game boards because she saw no value in them, and needed to make room for her stuff which was an ugly Barbie doll. Boy my dad was p~~~ed off, because they were HIS stuff and could of been worth something today if my mom hadn’t thrown it away.

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[bigboy83Participant 11312]

Women jealous of hobbies, what f~~~ing losers they are.

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[GeraldParticipant 3631]

OldBill wrote:

Ranger One wrote:

What is your favorite era/theater to wargame?

Avalon Hill’s decades old Midway is a good example of the type of game I enjoy. It has nicely limited “C3I”, each player has his own map and can’t see his opponent’s forces. You must conduct searches to first find the enemy and then agonize over whether you should launch your air strike against them. Spotting only one of your opponent’s multiple carriers can give you ulcers!

It has been so long since I heard Avalon Hill mentioned, I just got a chubby.

No longer can we walk away, we must run. Remove the motive power.

[LookAfter#1Participant 352]

Theres a lot of guys I work with who are almost in poverty. They never have any money, all because of the wife / girlfriend.
Thats what I like about being single… Next time I get paid I can spend my money on what I want.

[OldBillParticipant]

Gerald wrote:

It has been so long since I heard Avalon Hill mentioned, I just got a chubby.

Sad what happened to them, but it makes for a nice anecdote about how screwy corporate American can get.

So, there’s Avalon Hill. The premier wargame publisher in the US. Founded in the mid 50s, chugged along for decades, outlasted it rivals at SPI, had it’s own magazine, hosted conventions, was slowly drifting into the computer age, everything’s just fine.

It’s owned by Monarch Publishing, a one-lung printing outfit whose biggest seller is Girl’s Life, the official magazine of the Girl Scouts of America. Monarch never understood Avalon Hill, but it was a steady earner and didn’t take up too much space in the plant in Baltimore.

Avalon Hill didn’t just develop games, it bought the rights to good ones and re-released them too. Reps regularly visited a huge game expo in Germany looking for good properties. On one trip they spot Civilization – just not the Civilization you’re thinking of. This one is played on a board covering the Med and Middle East with all sorts of markers. It’s a Eurogame, think Settlers of Cataan except 20 years earlier. AH buys the rights and releases it in the US where it does well enough to merit an expansion.

Meanwhile at Microprose, Sid Meier’s is coding the Civilization you’ve heard of. The computer game is released and is a huge hit. Trouble is, it shares the same name with AH’s prior game, a name which is trademarked. So the lawsuits begin.

Monarch isn’t happy, although it’s a slam dunk case against Microprose, you still have to pay the lawyers. Filings and negotiations drag on until…

… Hasbro goes on a shopping spree. Computer games are big, so Hasbro decides to buy the best coding shops and makes an offer to buy Microprose. The people there are excited, it’s almost like an IPO in which they’ll make a lot of money. There’s just one little problem. There’s this trademark lawsuit with Monarch/Avalon Hill.

Hasbro’s legal beagles look over the files and make their suggestions. Monarch gets a call from the new high-powered legal team handling the trademark suit and walks into the meeting figuring they’re f~~~ed. They nearly have a heart attack when Hasbro offers to buy Avalon Hill. The price is so good, Monarch can’t sign the papers fast enough.

Hasbro has no interest at all in wargames or Avalon Hill. They just want the lawsuit to go away and go away it did. Avalon Hill gets shut almost as fast as Monarch signed the sales paperwork.

And that was it. A 44 year old company which always made money serving a niche hobby ceased to exist.

Hasbro later realized they had a good “name plate” and tried their hand at wargame publishing, but all the necessary talent and skills were long gone.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[~BSParticipant 3266]

the truly sad thing is how it’s accepted as “normal” when men say they need to sell xxx because their wife made them or they will buy yyy pending decision by the wife. F~~~ that. I will do what I want.

"He didn't marry until now, so he won't ever do it. Think about it, why would a man like him ever marry? It's too late to catch him. " ~some cunt

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