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Yesterday I tried going to a LGS to help some friends try out wargaming (specifically Grimdark Future, the actual rules for 40K as a game are terrible). The guy who was agitating for it in the first place didn't turn up, nor did another guy. Turned out, my only day off was also the day of a tournament, so there were no available tables and I had to cancel on the one guy who would have turned up. I should have just gotten lunch instead with that guy, but I was in a miserable mood by that point and didn't want to take the risk of being unpleasant.
My miserable mood snuck up on me. The last time I'd been to that store (it has display armies you can borrow and good terrain) it was 2021. I'd seen the store's policy was that either masks OR vaccination was required, it was a little ray of hope for me that we were exiting the pandemic/lockdown conditions; my J&J card would let me sit in a basement and play plastic army dudes unmasked.
But by the time I got there, there had been a slight uptick in reported COVID cases in the city, and the store had a new sign on the door; Masks AND vaccination required. The unvaccinated need not apply.
It was, frankly, one of the reasons I stopped engaging with 40K, MtG, and ("F")LGS culture in general, even when the pandemic ended. I hated how obedient and cowed most geeks were, and how over-eager store staff was to go above and beyond on Taking COVID Seriously; normies didn't have to deal with this, they could go to their sports bars and whatever else it is normies do without wearing stupid cloth things on their faces just to soothe the anxiety of neurotic hypochondriacs who were staying home anyways.
One thing I had liked about the culture of wargaming was how mixed the culture was; blue collar and white collar, some ex-military, some artsy people, all of them united by their appreciation of chainsaw swords and Catholic Space Nazi aesthetics.
Anyways, I go back to this place in the Year of our Lord 2026, and the entire staff, and 25% of the upstairs mtg/board game clientele, are still masking up. The entire staff is also trans, for some fucking reason. At least there were no masks downstairs in the crowded basement of cis male tourneyfags, (with more racial diversity than the upstairs crowd).
It just reminded me of bad times, and how if these people had their way, those times never would have ended.
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