Variance Hammer

Make a warship mid:

HMS Belslow

The outer covers of the paperback version of Battle Maps for Miniature Wargamers. The PDF will be available from my payhip/gladiuspublications site this weekend, paperback will follow as soon as Amazon finish their checks (next week?). PDF £15, paperback £22.50. (Deliberately paperback as there’s space inside for you to make your own notes and treat it as a workbook.) Watch this space for direct links over the next few days!

My latest: Battle Maps for Miniature Wargamers, a collection of 52 maps (one for every week of the year) with suggestions for how they can be re-interpreted for different theatres, periods and even genres. There are even suggestions for how the maps can be linked to create your own simple campaigns.

Experts warn against drinking raw milk after New Mexico baby's listeria death Consumption of raw milk has seen a resurgence in recent months with some promoting it as "liquid gold" on social media.

Experts warned against drinking raw milk before it killed this baby, too.

My organization doesn't outright prohibit this, but comes pretty close.

I am faintly surprised Warlord doesn't have a 100 Years War supplement for Hail Caesar!, given how much of it is "England, fuck yeah!"

Man I played the hell out of this game.

Excerpt from a Guardian story: "Norway’s head coach Magnus Brevik, assistant coach Thomas Lobben, and staff member Adrian Livelten were also banned for 18 months for their involvement in the scheme, which made the jumpers’ suits larger and therefore reduced their descent rate due to the bigger wingspan. One study in the scientific journal Frontiers found that every 2cm in suit size circumference reduced drag by 4% and increased lift by 5%. It said that a 2cm change in the suits was equivalent to an extra 5.8 metres in jump length. However Bild has now claimed that jumpers have switched to other methods to game the system when they are measured for their suits, data for which is taken by a 3D scanner from the lowest point of their genitals. They include injecting acid into their penises or putting clay in their underwear to make their measurements temporarily bigger and therefore their suits looser for when they compete. The newspaper quoted a doctor, Kamran Karim, who said: “It is possible to achieve a temporary, visual thickening of the penis by injecting paraffin or hyaluronic acid. Such an injection is not medically indicated and is associated with risks.”"

ski jump penis doping story only underscores the advantages of shape and drape over slim fit clothing

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Middle aged white men (and I’m 49, so I’m in the demographic) absolutely need ridiculous Dad Hobbies or they get squirrely. I think if you’re can’t prove you have a preexisting Dad Hobby or 2 by age 45, you get entered into a national hobby draft and get assigned one. It would solve so many things.

Axe and shotgun has an appeal to it too - nice preemptive it of closing fire or firestorm but not reliant on it.

Honestly, I’d try sort of gaming your choices out a couple times with blank bases or tokens?

An alien that’s not in Star Wars or Star Trek

That all being said, while I can see wanting carbines to exploit firestorm. But Tainted Flesh and Feral Warriors seems to cry out for lances.

So first of all, I will admit that my vibe for Militia Cav is very much "Here for a good time, not a long time" and very possibly a "Sure, I went 0/5, but who won best theme?" outcome.

"The Spying and Infiltration Legion all look like One Particular Dude" is such a painfully bad concept that I can't begin to wrap my head around it.

"The Special Relationship means I too would like to murder the odd civilian now and again."

There are a lot of men out there who do not see any of the logistics happening around them and they're like "wait, where the fuck did these hand warmers come from?"

Look at every kid wearing mittens, and that's your answer. From the people who have been silently keeping hands warm for centuries.

Follow you bliss friend

Where are you located?

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.

As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.

Here's what happened:

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".

This. The key is scorn, not disengagement.

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

The entirely mistaken impression that we played those games to get beaten by some South Korean kid with better macros.

You’d have to waterboard me to get me to write this.

This is such ass...

I mean like...main quest "finished".

Deadly Dragons plus Realistic Patrols plus insisting on walking for immersion...

I've never managed to finish a Skyrim play through.

ICE agent holding the backpack of that poor five year old they used as bait.

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.