yup, i need more help with Eng. Lang. A/S coursework, this tiem it is 40k tho, and assay on why i play it
im under my minimum words (just over 500 but minimum is 1k) and would like your opinions/suggestiosn on it
'Beardy Cheese'
‘Beardy Cheese?’ I hear you say,
‘What kind of title is Beardy Cheese?’The answer to which is its actually slang, slang found in a hobby of mine. Strange isn’t it how just working somewhere or playing something can give new meaning to every day words.
‘Beardy’ to us means someone who, by experience, subtly bends the rules or tries to get around them.
‘Cheese’,
‘Dairy’ or anything along those lines means that the person simply abuses and exploits the rules.
The hobby I play is Warhammer 40,000, it was created by a company called Games Workshop, who have created many other games including Warhammer, Blood Bowl and The Lord Of The Rings Strategy game. I’m sure many of you have heard of or seen it but for those who haven’t or simply can’t remember it’s basically collecting, assembling, painting and playing with little plastic men. We build them with glue (and I’ve stuck my fingers together more times than I care to count) and paint them with special paint designed specifically for Games Workshop products.
Now then I’m sure some of you are sitting there with one (or two if you are easily shocked) eyebrow/s raised thinking
‘He collects little plastic men?’ and then breaking down into degenerating laughter.
In all honesty though I do little playing of the game. The reason I enjoy 40k (the short term for Warhammer 40,000, I’m sure you’ll agree its easier on the tongue) is because of the abundance of
‘fluff’.
‘Fluff’ is another one of those clique slang words and phrases that doesn’t mean what you think it does. A little kid pleading to his/her parent/s if they can keep this fwuffy wittle animal as a pet is, at which point you feel like ripping out all your hair after they use their whiney little voice and puppy dog look to get their way, is an example that springs to my mind (I have a young step-niece and nephew and therefore a lot of experience with the above kind of example) . No, it basically means the background/stories and non-essential information to do with the game, for 40k is a table-top strategy game that will make you hate dice for the rest of your lives or make you pray to the famed ‘Dice Gods’ every single day.
40k have an immense amount of history/background/stories
(‘fluff’) of the official and unofficial (read: fan fiction) kind, and that is what I love about it. Well, that and the abundance of super-humans, disgusting aliens and space elves.
There are nine ‘races’ in the universe of 40k, here are the names and a brief (read: poor) explanation of each.
The Tau (rhymes with ‘ow’), blue skinned pony-tailed three toed hippies; The Necrons (Neck-Rons), basically soulless robots with attitude (think ‘Terminator’ without the human skin); The Humans, us in about 38,000 years time; The Space Marines, genetically modified 9ft tall super-humans and probably the most common army; The Craftworld Eldar (Ell-Dar), who are, at the risk of being chased by my fellow gamers and burnt for heresy, space elves; The Dark Eldar, basically evil Eldar (if I told you any more I’d have to give this essay an ‘18’ certificate); The Chaos Space Marines, evil space marines with a wide assortment of demons and evil gods to help them; The Tyranids (Tier-‘N-Ids), think a cross between and anthill and the film ‘Alien’ and you wont go far wrong; And finally the Orks, these guys are basically giant fungus with arms, legs and a war-loving personality.