We all love to hate. More educated people than I have debated the workings of this specific trait of human nature on almost every topic imaginable.  I don’t believe they covered Tabletop Wargaming.  If they did, please direct me to the material.  Thanks.
Autobots or Decepticons, The Starship Enterprise or a Star Destroyer.  Superman or Spiderman.  Our kind, the kind that never really grew up, loves to have favorites.  We also boo the opposite of said things and do this with great enthusiasm.  Sure, we came
a long way from “This rules” and “This sucks”, but many a gamer still gets boiled down to this basic way of regarding hobby related stuff.  Exhibit A, almost every social media channel in existence.

And I say: “Why not?”

As a teacher, parent and proud member of the best generation ever spawned on the planet (Those called X) , I get bombarded by overly sensitive people on a daily basis.  From kids needing psychological attention because they aren’t picked for a class assignment by their peers to tweens going in a frenzy because I used the wrong word in a certain context.
The latter being my own offspring.  I love you guys but come on: Sometimes a person is just short and not “vertically challenged”.  It’s so easy to say the wrong thing.  Even if you say the right thing, that word can be taken as wrong.  If someone wants to misunderstand you, they can and will.  Throw in the fact that most of our communication is through typing stuff
on a keyboard and you must agree.  We’re forked.

So, thinking about all of this, an idea came to mind.  An idea that stuck around and became a creative exercise of sorts. Let’s go the other way and make it a TFS episode!
Bare with me.

We play this game called Trench Crusade.  A game that takes a bunch of concepts most other games steer well clear of and throws them into the mix.  Nudity, faith, violence, gore, you name it…and makes an adult game of it.
It caters to an adult audience, and most of the time we manage to be civil about it all.  Why?  Well, as being who want to be a part of society, we are trained to behave ourselves.  Stronger still, we are guided to look at the positives.
Nobody likes a negative Nancy, right?  (My apologies to all the Nancies in the world.  You really are getting a bad rap there.)  In your job, you have to be positive.  In your relationships, you have to be positive.  Parenting?  Do it positive.
I positively am so fed up with it sometimes.  As a teacher, I learned that you have to vent at times.  You need to get it out of your system or it eats you alive.
Since I want to be playing TC for a long time to come, here it goes…

I don’t like most of the sculpts, I hate the fact that I needed to pay 35 Euros toll-tax to get my plastic delivered, I despise people that start calculating odds before EVERY damn roll, I can’t paint as good as half of the guys on Facebook, I hate facing the Artillery witch in combat, I hate using the Artillery Witch in combat, I’m scared that FFI will fuck up the game, I fear the influx of 40K toxics in my game, 
when is that fucking book coming out?…………(goes on for a while)

Disclaimer:  Yes, we like the game.  Yes, we are positive chaps, yes we are going to have a lot of fun next episode.

Join us, won’t you?

Fred