Stuart Ellis-Gorman

The West is marshalling all this effort and tearing any pretence of international law to shreads all to empower an apartheid state that has been openly committing genocide for the past several years.

Any notion the West was some kind of moral arbiter of the world is dead and buried.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Thank you both so much! After a life/work related hiatus we've got another episode in the tank awaiting editing (by me, when I can get some time) and we should be finishing the next game in the next 1-2 weeks.

We do have some big games waiting in the wings, tho, so this pace will slow eventually.

Ive never felt so seen in a work of media as I did in Chibodee Crocket. Representation matters.

I assume you also prefer the serious grounded stakes of G Gundam, one of the most serious shows.

(I love/hate G Gundam. I love that it exists, so happy I watched it, probably won't ever watch it again)

I really enjoyed it back when I watched it (on DVDs I rented from Netflix, blast from the past).

I watched most of Brotherhood but never finished it.

I can see the merits of both, but I probably also preferred the original.

Man, I should probably have also included Ruroni Kenshin (yikes) on my list as well.

Also, showing up for original FMA. Respect.

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

It was my first love. One of the first anime I ever saw and the first one I ever bought on DVD. Such a great show, and amazing music.

I also saw the movie and read the Manga but they're pretty different.

I'm woefully out of date with what's current, but Yu Yu Hakusho is one of the all time greats. It probably peaks a little over halfway, but the final arc does a good rally at the end for a satisfying (if abrupt) finish.

I thought they stopped making anime c.2010?

The vibes of that first episode are, I think, maybe in the top 10 anime moments of that era. The music, the visuals, just the whole thing. It's perfect.

I never finished the OVAs, I got distracted as they were coming out and never finished them.

Follow up, top 10 but only movies this time

1) Akira
2) The Night is Short, Walk On Girl
3) Promare
4) Princess Monoke
5) Kiki's Delivery Service
6) Redline
7) Ranma 1/2 Big Trouble in Nekonron, China
8) Summer Wars
9) Patlabor
10) Spriggan

10 anime to get to know me (in no order)

1) Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
2) RahXephon
3) Yu Yu Hakusho
4) Full Metal Panic
5) Gintama
6) ZZ Gundam
7) Ping Pong the Animation
8) Gungrave
9) Escaflowne
10) GTO

I think Hellsing (2001) may be too 00s edgy for me to enjoy it now, but man did I watch it a lot in high school..

I sometimes throw them in on top of games I'm selling as well - if Im sending someone a game I bought with my own money and there's room in the box, it's a great opportunity to send them something extra at no cost.

I often "sell" them for the cost of shipping because people are weird about free games.

Free, but buyer pays $15-20 shipping: suspicious, probably missing components, not worth the risk.

$20, seller pays shipping: a bargain, a steal. Another game for the vast collection!

People Power by Kenneth Tee — Stuart Ellis-Gorman I have a messy relationship with GMT’s Counter Insurgency (COIN) series. I have enjoyed my plays of COIN games, but I also rarely want to immediately jump back in and play a given game again. This is ...

Took a break over the (Lunar) New Year holidays, but I'm back with some reviews of games I played earlier this year. First up is People Power from @gmtgames.bsky.social - a great entry point for COIN, but probably not going to make my top 5 COIN games: www.stuartellisgorman.com/blog/people-...

Hey.

Tell people when they do good job.

When you like the stuff they make.

When you like the characters they’ve created.

The stories they’ve told.

Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.

Trust. They don’t.

Tell. Them.

Wargaming often hides behind the claim of "political neutrality." It’s the "I just like the history" defense. But choosing what history to simulate & how to market it is an inherently political act. I want 2 talk about how "Héroes de Baler" (NAC Wargames) is sold vs. what it actually simulates 1/n

The Confederate War Effort Was Not a "Rich Man's War" and a "Poor Man's Fight" Here is another brief dive into Civil War historiography to expose another widely misunderstood subject.

Back by popular demand. Here is another brief exploration of one of the most widely misunderstood aspect of the American Civil War. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

I am trying to find a digital copy of Laurence Constant-Ancet's "Félix Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau : un itinéraire, de la Révolution à la monarchie de Juillet" with some urgency. If you can help feel free to DM!

5 authors I’ve read at least 5 books by:
Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
Dashiell Hammet
William Gibson
Tracy Hickman & Margaret Weiss

Either Tracy Hickman or R.A. Salvatore are probably my most read author - I devoured D&D novels as a teenager.

Coming soon: Walkable City - the Urban Planning Boardgame Asymmetric Cooperative boardgame about building a city without cars.

Announcing Walkable City - a 2-4 player coop game published by Fowers Games and designed by me!

Build out public infrastructure as different modes of transit - Waling, Biking, Bus & Light Rail - get denizens where they want to go. Follow the project below!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fow...

I heard some mathematicians speaking the other day and they said something that made me think of the scale of billionaire’s rot:

“The difference between one million and one billion is about one billion.”

Go get this very cool and very weird and very thought-provoking game! Limited print run in this one.

I'd definitely be interested if you can turn anything definitive up!

The assumption about William Gold's father comes from the 1327 lay subsidy (Jennifer Ward, "The Medieval Essex Community, p58-59), where a "Willelmo Cok'" was taxed at "Villata de Beuchaump Willem" and Castle Hedingham.

every year with this dude, some new shit just comes out of his mouth and you keep thinking, why is he still here? his words are like noxious farts, you'd think he'd be embarrassed and leave but no

Wow, this guy really hates people. I'd feel pretty crummy if I were one of the talented designers he was dumping on.

Baltic Brawl | Baltic Empires: The Northern Wars of 1558-1721 Baltic Empires has interested me for quite a while after it had landed on the P500. The big attraction for me was cutting into a piece of history that is left by the wayside too often. I also have lik...

Might eventually cobble together a blog, depends on how regular I end up doing these!

Little review on Brian Asklev's upcoming Baltic Empires from GMT
boardgamegeek.com/thread/36612...