Recently a large Anti-Competitive sentiment has taken over my LGC and its really pathetic. People who have always been playing to win and who just aren't any good or are have a hard time adapting to changes in the game are starting to cry cheese constantly against competitive players claiming that they just want to have friendly games while simultaneously producing and enforcing house rules that favor their own armies and claiming they don't (like draws don't count and those games resolve at victory points, ork and IG players wrote that house rule).
The problem with that is that its all bull****. The worst offender of this behavior (and also camp leader of these individuals) still optimizes heavily but refuses to accept that he does claiming a) because his units just have 'solid stats' and not special rules they aren't and b) because he has played Speed Freaks since the supplement they appeared in that his heavily optimized mechanized Ork Horde is fluffy. Hes also constantly churning out new vehicle rules.
This is one of the largest problems in my local metagame. The camp of hypocrites have verbally confirmed that they blatantly don't like units and armies that are effective because of special rules. They prefer brute force stats and dice rolling to the point some can be quoted as saying they think it should be the only style of army in the game. Some of them even think that the current Vanilla Marine and IG codices have to many special rules in them.
Similarly they claim special rules ruin 'the spirit of the game'. You see anytime a special rule takes an element of randomness out of the game and makes an opponents tactics more reliable they hate it and the only reason apparent while playing is they arn't good enough players to counter any kind of combined arms strategy that the dice have not **** on first.
These people, again especially the camp leader, are notorious for wanting to create and use their own mechanics their own armies favor to 'make the game better' without caring how it interacts with other armies. These same people also are notorious for having the worst house ruled d20 campaigns as they just do not grasp game theory. Similarly I know (because I've talked to them about it) they arn't able to grasp many of the concepts surrounding internal vs. external balance, especially the idea of a unit's role and value in its army being divorced from its literal stats.
So basically due to their numbers the people with the overall worst grasp of game mechanics are the ones dictating how things are going at my LGC, I'm really tempted to just sell my armies at this point because its not worth my time to go there just to listen to them gripe that the games evolving and have them force their ****ty house rules on me.