warhammer 40k making me smarter

[planet psyrum]

I used the word piecemeal for the first time in a sentence. Thanks 40k

[DarkLink]

Veritably inspiring;).

[Kataklysm]

Thats great that it is expanding your vocabulary. However if you have been in the hobby long enough you actually will start to revert to screaming "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD" at the drive-thru girl at taco bell....:D

[pyroclasm]

You also get really fast at basic math, and subconsciously adding up to even 100's of points...

[fuzzbuket]

whilst this may be a sorta joke thread i do put down the fact that im really good at problem solving and maths because of far too much portal, dawn of war, supcom and 40k :P

so dont use armybuilder! do lists in your head and youlll benifit from that :D

-fuzz

[Mystery.Shadow]

I recall taking a Probabilty and Statistics class in College 20-some years ago. Never thought it would be useful for anything but an "Easy A".

Lo and behold. It's so dang useful for playing 40k !!

[ElectricPaladin]

You can learn lots of great words from nerdy hobbies. I learned "sept" and "cairn" from Werwolf: the Apocalypse, for example.

[Loshkins]

Truth be told it helps with math, just being able to the easier stuff but really quickly and on the fly. That and the statistics help a bit too, just as practice.

[JamesP]

I got into gaming when I was seven thanks to my older brother bringing a copy of D&D home from school. He moved on to other hobbies and I stayed hooked on gaming. Apparently my teacher asked my mother if there was any reason why I had suddenly started including words like constitution, dexterity, cleric, paladin, assassin (that apparently raised a few eyebrows) etc.

[amrogers3]

Yep, that college stats class did come in handy ;)

[ComradePenguin]

If you start playing a game like this early enough it will definitely improve your vocabulary. I started when I was in the seventh grade, so I developed my adult vocabulary while reading through scores of codices and rulebooks. The only problem... me teachers didn't like that I spelled "color" and "armor" as colour and armour :p

[Ch_DokWreckshop]

Always fun to squeeze in a discussion words like lictor (no not the stealthy bugger, but the magistrate bodyguard in the roman empire). Whithout counting the fact it is very usefull to learn English (and true use "dark" words when you are writting up)

[Kawauso]

If you start playing a game like this early enough it will definitely improve your vocabulary. I started when I was in the seventh grade, so I developed my adult vocabulary while reading through scores of codices and rulebooks. The only problem... me teachers didn't like that I spelled "color" and "armor" as colour and armour :p

That's how all us 'real' English-speaking countries do it. ;)

[Fstiger]

If you start playing a game like this early enough it will definitely improve your vocabulary. I started when I was in the seventh grade, so I developed my adult vocabulary while reading through scores of codices and rulebooks. The only problem... me teachers didn't like that I spelled "color" and "armor" as colour and armour :p



Once I started reading some of my gw material in the original back in the day , my English arguably improved since I started to write things like armour in the" proper way". British English is the benchmark around here in teaching English as an 2./3. language.

Much more interesting is the topic what you lost academically by wargaming.

In my case it was the already waning respect for a biology teacher of mine who read aloud to the class some nice bits out of my brand new codex chaos in the days of 2. edition when fluff was good and great... My fellow students were by a large margin amused at my expense. Shall she burn in ...(cue in evil laughter) :mad: . Ah the psychological scars of a wee lad back in the day.