Sunday Sermon: Some people are just dicks!

In all walks of life there are asshats, dicks, tossers, wan... you get the picture. That guy who shoves past you to get on the train, even though everyone else has queued properly and he's just got there. The arse who plays his iPod just loud enough so you can hear the tiny sound of his rubbish dance music grating on the inside of your skull after a hard day at work, you ask him to politely turn it down... he turns it up! Minor transgressions I know, but these sorts of things happen so often that it all just lends credence to those who argue that are becoming more self-centered and selfish, or just a little less tolerant... you know... depending on whether you are one of the many asshats who frequent this globe we call earth or not. Real life sucks, especially so in these harsh economic times, most of us will have a 'release', whether that's watching your favourite soap opera, reading trashy novels... or collecting little toy soldiers. It's these little pleasures in life that make what we have to put up with bearable.

In our little hobby we have to really be decent to one and other, or it just wouldn't work. So what happens when your haven or hobby is turned upside down or violated? Well there's one such story that's sort of doing the rounds right now over at Dream Pod 9. For those of you who haven't followed the link, or don't want to, one of Dream Pod 9's Pod Squad, or their volunteer games demo guys actually had a case full of his miniatures stolen... while he was at a store running demo games. Now, I don't know about you guys, but I have a strangely personal relationship with my painted miniatures. I feel a love for my little toy soldiers that I really don't feel for any of my other material possessions. Is it a little strange? Maybe, but the reason for this is obvious, we put so much of ourselves into our miniatures don't we? It's not just an object with a monetary value, it's something personal. So having them stolen hurts just a tad! Now on a happier note the awesome chaps at Dream Pod 9 swung into action and did their best to replace the stuff that went missing, plus Dream Pod 9 painting studio Blue Table Painting offered to paint them up at a very small fraction of the cost they'd normally charge.
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