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Tourists.
Warhammerers?
The initial buy-in, especially at a Games Workshop/ Warhammer store is astronomical.
You'll need paintbrushes to start - here, try these, the most expensive paintbrushes you'll ever buy. And paints too, how about our mindboggling range of expensive paints?
When I took up mini painting again as an adult, with dirt-cheap acrylic paints and brushes, and achieved far better results than I ever did as a kid with the "proper" stuff, it was a real eye-opener.
One time I saw a guy who made a papier mache Necron Pylon.
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Mike sounds like a douche to be honest. Fuck Mike.
richginners, P2W hobbyists, hof-rince's.
Invited a new guy to MTG Commander night. Showed up with a deck full of expensive cardboard because a deck he found online had all of them. Cool dude and still plays with us with more reasonably priced cardboard now.
There is a term borrowed from the finance world that may or may not apply
"Whale"
Gear dads. At least in the music gear world
Payforwinners.
But yes, if it doesn't specifically hurt the community, then prob don't gatekeep.
In cycling, this person is called Fred or sometimes Dentist.
What's crazy is "Fred" used to mean the exact, literal opposite. It's the only word I know of that has come to mean the full opposite of what it meant (except maybe "literally", but that's usually used for emphasis)
Fred used to mean the dude who showed up in jeanshorts on a huffy, who everyone was like "are you sure you want to join the group ride?", and then he ends up pulling the pack the whole way. Somewhere along the line it ended up meaning dentist, which is the slow dude who buys all the expensive gear. I literally don't understand it.
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Not exactly, but strong overlap between this and "gear heads." They obsess over the tech, specs, and ofc gear. Ask them about anything subtler than that and it's clear they don't actually care about the activity in itself - just getting swept up in hype cycles and flexing on other gear heads.
Can also mean people that are really into cars or motorcycles, but I don't think it's as pejorative in that case?
Not to bash on newbies, but it's definitely a thing. It's really only sad if it causes them to waste their money on something that ultimately isn't for them. If they're actually enjoying themselves then that's cool.
Anyway I love gatekeeping on this kind of shit because I have a privation fetish, so grain of salt on my opinion.
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In Emergency Medical Services (EMS) we have a name for them. "Wackers" or "Buffs" both being masturbatory references.
All the gear, no idea
The opulent newb.
I'm kind of surprised nobody has suggested "tryhard".
fast pass tourists
You call them people with ADHD :p
Someone sounds like a jealous little bitch.
A tourist. I don't agree with the sentiment, but it is another I have heard
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