If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

I'm going to start appending "merely" in front of "Abolish ICE", to make it clear that *is* my "reasonable centrist compromise position".

Really love how GW has apparently abandoned the notion of digital rulebooks.

This is such ass...

The vengeance of heaven is slow but sure.

This is actually a weirdly boring time to specialize in International Relations because there's no actual intellectual substance to any of this. Like, yeah, man. Shit's fucked. Fucker's nutso. That sort of insight is why I'm a fancy-pants political scientist you should all respect and consult.

@badsquiddogames.bsky.social At the risk of the peegs being set on me again - I think a Empire-style women's Blood Bowl team would be cool. Mostly because I want to name a team the "Altdorf Ladies Firearm Enthusiasts Society" (aka The Gun Show).

I love architects. They are like "I can Fix Society if I just make the Right Shape of building" it's adorable and sad

In honor of the new female Custodian models, I delved into the depths of the archive of my long-dead Hateful Bird Site account for the time when I did some back of the napkin math about how much of a "retcon" this truly is. Spoiler: It's not. Like probability and narratives? Read on.

This is a little series that seems to be kicking off over at Goonhammer that we are going to keep our eyes on! BattleTech: Metals for the MechCommander Who Has Everything! Check it out and let einherjarvalk know we sent you! www.goonhammer.com/b... #BattleTech

reject modernity return to web 1.0

I have some bad news. One, if you need to use ChatGPT for your graduate application letter, you are not ready for graduate school. Two, no, not "everyone is doing it" and those who don't do it aren't "losing out." ChatGPT is not an advantage.

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

The Adeptus Custladies have finally arrived in Warhammer 40K.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Two years and over at @goonhammer.com we‘re still saying everyone is welcome in historical wargaming, with the exception of Nazis and misogynist fucks. www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-h...

Some of us are, sadly, quite well aware. Watching my country voluntarily become a pariah among western democracies is heartbreaking.

Something that really frustrates me when games like this crop up is that their defenders almost always jump to a generic "history is harsh, historical games tackle tough subjects" defense. I already said I don't think topics are always off limits in my second post. That's not what this is about.

WW2 British Vehicle Markings Deciphered - a thread 🧵 Using the Tank Museum's Comet as an example, we can see the following: 1 - Arm of Service Flash 2 - Bridge Classification 3 - Formation Insignia 4 - Serial Number 5 - Tactical Sign 6 - Vehicle Name All explained in turn below... [1/10]

Not sure how you can rationalize still maintaining a regular presence over there!

This is also John Stallard, by the way. Source: www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-h...

One unfortunate feature of the cultural dominance of Warhammer 40k in miniaturing is that so many talented sculptors in the 3D printing scene are just churning out 40k stuff with the serial numbers filed off. Entirely understandable in terms of business, but sad nevertheless.

Well, I'm done supporting Warlord Games. Comically, I had just an hour ago recommended them on Discord as a great source of single sprues.

Ugly desk shot - but currently painting a bunch of Scots and @badsquiddogames.bsky.social shieldmaidens. Creating a 6 point shieldmaiden warband for SAGA for my 10yo daughter, who basically only wants to play as women miniatures, lol. She's a girl who plays historical wargames with me

I just read that there's no women into historical wargaming, and then noticed I AM FADING AWAY HELP I KNEW I DIDNT EXIST avenge meeeeeeee

I dunno, man. It just feels as though even allowing for the fact that your product could feasibly be of interest to women has the potential to open up an entirely new customer base, rather than being antagonistic toward the very idea. I've never run a company so maybe there's cooties on that money.

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

@skankstank64 · Mar 27, 2024 yfw plane/train autism existed in ancient greece but it was with ships instead

what people perceive as rightwing anti-intellectualism and anti-expertise trends are 100% seeping into the overly-online-left in the form of whatever this is and the related ‘if stories are about a topic or character they are endorsing that and if you try to analyze it you are also endorsing it”

New year, new Lost to the Nails Hobby Bingo Card, full of the usual level of in-jokes from an infrequently recorded podcast, and a large number of squares amenable to "Okay, but hear me out..." levels of self-justification.A

i can't describe for you the weirdness of visiting one of the (relatively few) parts of the world that has a high background level of regard and gratitude for the U.S.A. It feels like stepping into a mirror universe.

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

So last night in a literal fever dream, I came up with a brilliant mechanic for a sci-fi colonization RPG. You see, one of the problems is, as our heroic crew starts exploring their new world, extracting resources, finding lost tech, etc., it gets...cumbersome.

Memorable Games of 2025 #4: Agincourt. Originally, we’d been planning Lewes 1264 for The Other Partizan, but it became clear that we weren’t going to be ready in time. Fortunately Scrivs had a huge Agincourt collection… #wargaming #nerdlings #miniatures #spreadthelard

Imperial Titans in 40K are like, only as tall as a WW2 destroyer is long. Which calls for naval 40K nonsense. Massive ships disappearing in a cloud of steam as *multiple* Volcano cannons reduce a coastal fortress to slag...

Who needs AI when we had stuff like this? I’ll take photoshop edits over the slop any day

Ffs I'm only just awake and instantly trying to hunt down the train gacha knuckleduster

ai? Oh, you mean the brain melting machine? The stuff turning you into soup? The beep booping you need to come up with ideas for you? Inspiration for you? Research and learn for you? You yearn for the slop? Our ancestors etched drawings onto stone walls, and yet here you are, generating. Pathetic.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

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Battle Lab ~ Gatekeeping vs Inclusivity in Wargaming How open is your gaming table, really? And how active are you about bringing players to your table? wp.me/pae4WL-doz

I’ve just competed the set-up on Amazon KDP for the paperback of Junction Jeopardy. The cover price will be £8.50, which is as low as I can keep it for the spirit of the ‘Coffee Break’ cost and I’ll be earning less than £2 a copy – so will need to sell fahsens! Should be available from Christmas Eve

Doing some pre-Christmas reading and really enjoying the latest issue of WS&S. Great theme, interesting articles and, best of all, there is also a naval scenario included! If you don't have one, get yourself a subscription, it's the best wargaming magazine out there.

Atlantic Sentinels. So far we’ve made two crossings, sunk three U-Boats, and lost two freighters.

Spending a quiet night clipping counters. If anyone is keeping track, "Atlantic Sentinels" by Compass Games takes approximately 1.5 episodes of The Last Kingdom (a known standard unit of measurement).

Hear me out: Quards of Traitors Toll.