(1) TRACKING DOWN THE GOH. Craig Miller, who was just in Mumbai speaking at an animation event, is now en route to a Star Wars convention in Norway. As he explained to his Facebook readers:
[It’s] actually more of a “The Empire Strikes Back” convention — in Finse, Norway next weekend. Finse is where we shot the exteriors for the Hoth ice planet scenes. And I’ve been asked to be a Guest of Honor. (The other guest is Bjorn Jacobsen, who was head of Fox Norway and was Production Manager for Norway on ESB.)
I’m really looking forward to the trip. (Not the least for the planned “trip to the glacier via dogsled”.) Among the amazing parts of it is that Andreas Frølich, the event organizer, has gotten NSB, the Norwegian railway, involved as a sponsor. We’ll be traveling from Oslo to Finse on Friday via a special train car, fully decorated in “Star Wars” regalia. Bjorn and I will be the ‘guests of honor’ of the train trip as well, answering questions and such. NSB even has a page on their official website about it.
The Norwegian readers among us will get the most benefit from the railroad’s webpage about the event, NSB tar deg til Hoth. (There’s also the con’s own webpage.)
Den 17. februar kl 12.00 kan du være med på en galaktisk opplevelse på toget fra Oslo til Bergen. Da kan du reise i en egen vogn som er satt av til foredrag med Hollywoods Craig Miller, sentral i arbeid med PR rundt de tidlige Star Wars®-filmene. I tillegg blir det Starwars®-meny om bord for de som ønsker det og møter med kjente skikkelser fra Star Wars®-universet. Alt dette frem til Finse, eller Hoth® som det heter i den verdenskjente filmen spilt inn på nettopp Finse i 1979, med skuespillere som Harrison Ford og Carrie Fisher.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
(2) PRATCHETT FANS PAY TRIBUTE. The Guardian reviews the Pratchett docudrama Back in Black:
A couple of minutes into Back in Black, there’s a shot of Terry Pratchett’s head, outlined in twinkling lights hovering over his own memorial service at the Barbican Centre in London. It looks like a satellite photograph of some new country. As Auden said of Edward Lear: “He became a land.” And here are its people.
One of the charms of this docudrama is that it largely eschews the usual talking heads in favour of Discworld fans. Even the famous faces that do appear – Neil Gaiman, Pratchett’s consigliere Rob Wilkins, the illustrator Paul Kidby – first entered Pratchett’s orbit as fans. Whether it was the life-changing offer he made to collaborate with the young Gaiman on Good Omens, or the blessing to Stephen Briggs’s attempts to map Ankh-Morpork, or simply Tipp-Exing over an old dedication in a secondhand copy of one of his books so he could “unsign” it for its new owner, Pratchett showered his fans with favours like a Highland clan chief. It’s a clan with its own code of honour: to “be a bit more Terry” is to be kinder, more tolerant.
(3) I’LL DIE WITH THIS HAMMER IN MY HAND. Carl Slaughter spotted another cool video: “So you thought only Thor could lift his hammer. OK, so only the blonde haired, horn headed Norse god can tote it around on a permanent basis. But at least 10 other comic book characters have wielded that legendary weapon. OK, so it was always under special, temporary circumstances, and sometimes through loopholes. But lift that mighty hammer they did.”
(4) AWESOME TASK. The creators tell NPR about “The Joy (And Fear) Of Making ‘Kindred’ Into A Graphic Novel”.
Not surprisingly, artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings felt especially daunted by the chance to adapt renowned speculative-fiction writer Octavia Butler’s beloved Kindred for a new graphic novel edition.
“It was like, this is awesome, we got this project, it’s, like, our dream project! Yayyy!,” Duffy said. But excitement quickly turned to panic. “I have to do what now?” he also said to himself.
“Octavia Butler is … one of the greatest American writers to live, period,” Jennings said. “She was literally a genius. The way that she would use metaphor and allegory and how she tackled some of the most horrific things about human existence through science fiction and fantasy? She was a master storyteller.” Butler, who died in 2006 at the age of 58, was the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur “Genius” grant and the recipient of several Hugo and Nebula awards.
(5) IMPORTANT STORIES. Tony C. Smith, a Hugo winner for the Starship Sofa podcast, has opened a Kickstarter appeal to fund an anthology, Everyone: Worlds Without Walls. So far, contributors have pledged $2,197 of the $3,746 goal.
The District of Wonders is a world where we know that diversity makes us richer. It’s a world where there are no walls, no barriers, no guns, no hatred. The District of Wonders is a world that values equality, and seeks to recognize and welcome people of all backgrounds, religions, races, cultures, and expressions of humanity. It’s a world that values truth. Everyone has a story in the District of Wonders – and every story is important. Everyone is important.So what I’m asking now is that you join me in standing against injustice and discrimination in the way that the District of Wonders does best – by sharing stories.
If successful, this Kickstarter will fund an e-book anthology of stories that offer a greater representation of ALL the people of this beautiful rich world
The District of Wonders will draw upon its incredible network of authors and actively seek new voices to bring you a scintillating showcase of what it means to value everyone. With talent and tales from diverse nations, cultures, races, and experiences, this anthology will explore and celebrate how we are greater together – and, conversely, the need to tear down walls of ignorance, prejudice, and injustice.
(6) TODAY IN HISTORY
February 11, 2009 – “This was the first time Ray saw the plaster cast of what became the 8-foot-tall bronze Father Electrico,” recalls John King Tarpinian, who was there. “To the right is his caregiver, Santiago. The guy with the camera is John Sasser, who is still working on the documentary. You can barely see the artist, Christopher Slatoff. Chris is best known for his life-size religious statues.”
(7) LAST WEEK IN HISTORY A missed anniversary:
- February 5, 1967 – The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premiered.
The Beatles didn’t appear live to sing “Hey Jude” and “Revolution.” They’d gotten disinterested in touring by 1968, so they made these new things called videos, and gave them to only one TV program in the United States. Not to The Ed Sullivan Show, which had helped launch Beatlemania and the British invasion four years before — but to the Smothers Brothers.
That same year, George Harrison of the Beatles showed up unannounced — not to sing, but to support Tom and Dick in their fight against the CBS censors. By then, the fights had become almost legendary. Tom confessed to Harrison that on American television, they didn’t always get the chance to say what they wanted to say, and Harrison advised, “Whether you can say it or not, keep trying to say it.”
(8) GOT THAT RIGHT. A picture worth a thousand words, from Goodreads.
Don't be a monster. (via @LorynBrantz) pic.twitter.com/P1ZauLVra4
— Goodreads (@goodreads) April 3, 2016
(9) ILLINOIS FIGHTS BRAIN DRAIN. Not all legislators share your opinion that they have more pressing issues to work on — “Illinois lawmakers designate October ‘Zombie Preparedness Month’”.
Illinois lawmakers are encouraging the state to be undead-ready by passing a resolution declaring October to be “Zombie Preparedness Month.”
The state House voted Thursday to approve House Resolution 0030, which calls for October to be declared “Zombie Preparedness Month” as a bid to encourage the state’s residents to be prepared for more realistic natural disasters.
“If the citizens of Illinois are prepared for zombies, than they are prepared for any natural disaster; while a Zombie Apocalypse may never happen, the preparation for such an event is the same as for any natural disaster,” the resolution reads.
(10) OVERWROUGHT. The art is prime, but not nearly as purple as the prose.
https://twitter.com/9_volt88/status/830137930970779648
https://twitter.com/CranBoonitz/status/830163870622875649
OneAngryGamer declares “SJWs Are Furious E3 2017 Is Open To Real Gamers”.
…Typically, some SJWs were not pleased that real gamers would be able to finally bypass the uninformed, fascists gatekeepers known as game journalists, and see and experience the games and technology for themselves. No longer would gamers have to rely on misinformation, sociopolitical commentary and identity politics pervading the coverage of E3….
Other SJWs found it to be a mistake, a blasphemous call for the hydra of consumerism to emerge from the far corners of the interwebs; a stake to the heart of game journalism’s oligarchy; a raping of the gated clique that once controlled the foyer of information that lactated from the bulbous PR udders dangling from the publishers’ visceral bloat that drips begrudgingly through the sphincter of the media and out through the curdled lips of their blogs….
[Thanks to Carl Slaughter, John King Tarpinian, JJ, and Chip Hitchcock for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Ken Richards.]
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Is there a way that US folks can see the Pratchett Back in Black video? I tried the link in the previous scroll and got a banner that said it was restricted to the UK for rights reasons. I get that, but I’d still like to see it eventually….
(2) PRATCHETT FANS PAY TRIBUTE
(To shamelessly copy from the last scroll) Although having someone “play” him seemed rather odd at first, I think it worked, and the scenes in his own words were generally the best ones.
Amusingly, they played the original “doesn’t even write in chapters” quote that used to be sarcastically included in the “praise for…” section. I think Pratchett wanted to put the boot in about that one more time!
Oh, hi. Just finished watching HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO again.
Just such a great movie. Damn.
“Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three.”
[threestalk]
@Cassy B.
No joy on Gaiman’s tribute here either (and all the UK proxies a quick search is finding look questionable). Maybe as a consolation to read – a link I found while searching for the other:
Terry Pratchett isn’t jolly
(ETA: alternative fifth!)
(10) OVERWROUGHT
Ummm, wut?
(As far as I can tell, this is some GGer declaring victory because he’ll be allowed to buy a ticket to E3 this year, but with a “blasphemous call” and “visceral bloat” it might just be bad Lovecraftian fic instead)
8) Bookmarks pic
I hate bookmarks. When I turn the page, they make the paper stick up in an unsightly way; and if I move them so that they don’t do that, it’s easy to lose them.
However, I don’t dogear my books either. What I usually do is just glance at the page number when I close the book. I can usually remember it when I come back; or if not, I can come close enough that I can find my actual place.
And of course in recent years an increasing fraction of my reading is ebooks, for which the whole question just doesn’t arise.
(3)
That was badly researched even for clickbait. They left out many people the biggest two being Beta Ray Bill and Odin. Cap has lifted the hammer more then two times as well. And the fact that nonliving things such as non-selfaware robots can move the hammer if they are strong enough to lift it.
(3) Hammer in My Hand
No mention of Beta Ray Bill?
(Ninjaed!)
(8)
I use a slip of 20-lb paper for the bookmark; when I’ve finished, it goes between the last page and the flyleaf, so it’s there next time I read it. (Frequently, it’s the store receipt for the book.) I have a number of bond from work, when one or another plotter was cutting 1-inch strips for some reason. (Recycling!)
I use the library hold slip for books I get as holds from the library. For other hardcovers I’ll use whatever’s handy — a straw paper, a sales slip, a Kleenex if there’s nothing else around.
For beat-up paperbacks, I’ll dog-ear the pages, because it’s a beat-up paperback.
But I do like e-books, and that’s one of the many reasons why.
I’ll use most anything handy that won’t damage the book, with the store receipt or the library hold slip being common choices.
Or rather, I used to. Now I mostly read ebooks.
I buy books from Book Depository and every book delivered also has a bookmark included in the package. These are the current ones.
On the increasingly infrequent occasions when I read paper books, these days I use book darts.
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Darts-Bronze-Line-Markers/dp/B0030J1J30/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486878471&sr=8-1&keywords=book+darts
Whenever I go to Worldcon, I score a bunch of heavy cardstock bookmarks and postcards set out for free by authors and creators at the notices stand and on the Dealers’ tables. Which is nice, because whenever I use them, it reminds me of the things I did and saw at Worldcon. I got a nice Impersonations postcard at MACII despite not having ever read any of the author’s works before, and the synopsis on it was enough to get me to try the Praxis books. 🙂
No bookmarks. I remember approximately where I was and then just turn the pages until I come to the correct one.
Just back from seeing Hidden Figures. Very good – very funny and moving.
Pixels are big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big they are I mean, you may think it’s a long scroll down the road to the Fifth Comment , but that’s just Godstalk to pixels .
JJ: When you read more SF by Walter Jon Williams, expect the unexpected. He is a master of many styles. It’s all good. His short fiction is especially worth seeking out.
Also, I would like to invite you to join a special society, those of us who are waiting for the third Metropolitan book to be published. All you have to do is read the first two.
No bookmarks, I just tear off and burn the pages Ive read.
Works for me.
I use bookmarks… but, often, I won’t bother, I’ll just read on until I reach a convenient stopping place. The back cover usually works.
10) “Hardcore” video game fandom is a fascinating example of fannish entitlement gone berserk, and a good reason to start thinking critically about what fandom involves. (Granted, marketing played an important part in feeding that entitlement – but that’s true of other fandoms too.)
I use a teabag. Sometimes I use a dry one if I can’t find a wet one.
Bookmarks: The funny thing about this, for me, is that my Kobo reader uses both symbols. Tap the screen in the top right corner and it’ll display a dogear to indicate that you’ve marked your place. Pull up your Annotations list (which also includes highlights and notes), and the place-marker symbol looks like a ribbon with a notch at the bottom.
With treebooks, of course, I use a bookmark of some kind. I used the same one for several years, but before that I commonly used receipts or whatever else I had close at hand.
3) @JJ @Tom
Indeed, the range of SF styles in Williams’ oeuvre is quite broad. It makes it hard to pin him down. Consider that the Maijstral novels AND the Praxis novels feature universes where Human space is part of an alien Empire, but with completely different polities, aliens, cultures and feels to the series.
RE: Bookmarks: After continually losing my nice metal bookmarks I’ve bought from places like the Met and the AMNH over and over, I kind of use whatever is close to hand now.
…I used to be able to remember where I’d left off and that habit became so ingrained that I still think I can remember where I left off…
…but now, sometimes, I can’t even remember the last scene I’d read…
Today I am blaming “real gamers” for the diminishment of my mental faculties.
BOOK MARKS FOR THE BOOK MARK GODS.
I never fold down pages. My mother would kill me from across the continent.
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Worldcon 75 is doing sponsored benches also. And sponsored craft lounges.
http://www.worldcon.fi/exhibits/sponsored-benches/
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I read a paper book last month for the first time in over two years. I ended up tearing a strip from a piece of junk mail to make a workable bookmark for it.
Even then, I found myself poking the page with a finger more than once, wanting either the dictionary or else to search in the book.
@Soon Lee: So do I; at this point I must have a couple of dozen. I hope my current order comes with the Day of the Dead-inspired bookmark – that’s just gorgeous.
@10 – The interesting part of this was a link to a Freedom of Information Act request for documents from the FBI investigation of Gamersgate.
See: http://www.oneangrygamer.net/2016/12/fbi-closed-gamergate-case-due-to-no-actionable-leads-evidence/18282/
The pdf of the FBI investigation (redacted in parts) is linked.
The conclusion was a handful of prankesters and trolls did the actions. There were no actionable leads. And the individuals who were identified had no intent to do harm and were not charged. The investigation was closed.
I had not heard about this and was somewhat surprised it had not been mentioned here. The posting is from December, 2016.
@10 – The “game journalism” thing seems weird. I write a lot of game reviews in a segment of that world (wargames & rpgs). Unless people are rushing out on day 1 or preordering stuff based on game magazines, it does not have much of an impact.
There are bunches of reviews of games done independently on Steam and on many independent websites and forums. You can’t trust publisher forums all the time, but the other forums are usually quite accurate. Good reviews can drive a lot of sales, and bad reviews can kill sales. People ask other players on non-publisher forums all the time for reactions on games.
I don’t use book marks. If I cannot remember where I was, I start over.
(So far my delightful medical condition has not screwed up my ability to remember plot)
I finished Appendix N by Jeffro Johnson this week. A very interesting book on the influence specific books had on Gary Gygax’s Dungeons and Dragons. I had read most of the Appendix N books before reading Johson’s take.
His book attempts to discern the specific influence each book had on D&D. He also examined each book for inspiration for a gamemaster in different RPG genres. He also gave his opinions on the books themselves.
I bought several other more obscure books from reading Appendix N. I’m about 20% through Creep Shadow! by Abraham Merritt among others.
Monster! I lick every page I read like a civilised person. This also works with a Kindle, so long as you lick the left-hand side.
My version also works with ebook. You just need an awful lot of Kindles.
I did have a friend who would tear off the page after he had read it. Usually they were cheap paperbacks, but it would still make me cringe. (What if you have to go back and read something that happened earlier?)
I usually end up using the due back slip from the library. If it’s a book I own, then I tend to use the subscription card from a magazine. Or if all else fails, I leave the book face down, open to the page I was reading.
When I bought more used books, it was fun to find a previous bookmark, often from where the book was bought at one point. The book equivalent to the labels on old luggage.
Have you read Vernor Vinge’s “Rainbows End”? In it the Librareome project digitizes the UCSD Geisel Library by shredding the books, scanning the bits & reconstructing the books by assembling the fragments electronically.
See also: Shotgun DNA Sequencing.
@Peer Sylvester
My version also works with ebook. You just need an awful lot of Kindles.
Well exactly! If they weren’t meant to burn they’d be an Asbestos not a Kindle. Though I do believe the proper pluralization is Kindling…
@stoic cynic: Works even better if you read them on your Amazon Fire.
@soon lee: Not yet, its on my list. Have to get a hew kindle first though….
10 – OneAngryGamer is in full nonsense mode.
Typically, some SJWs were not pleased that real gamers would be able to finally bypass the uninformed, fascists gatekeepers known as game journalists, and see and experience the games and technology for themselves. No longer would gamers have to rely on misinformation, sociopolitical commentary and identity politics pervading the coverage of E3….
This paragraph makes no sense in many ways. Video game writers weren’t gatekeeping E3, it’s a trade show and they had to verify to E3 that they were media in order to be able to attend. This is run by the ESA, Electronic Software Association. It’s members are made up of video game publishers, not video game writers.
‘Real gamers’ apparently don’t include people who spend their lives writing about video games.
Most game journalists aren’t trying to keep the experience for themselves. The typical E3 writer experience is full of walking to different rooms and getting to meet with publisher media reps who get to tell you the same speech they’ve given all day, and you might get a pre-recorded video or a chance to ask questions. If you have time between running from one hall to another you might be able to stand in line to play a brief demo of a game, or find a spot to quickly type up your thoughts of the prior meetings and attached the information provided by the publisher (apparently the mis-information according to OneAngryGamer). At the end of the day you get to write some more to try and capture everything, then maybe attend a party were you drink and make bets over what’s going to actually come out.
Frankly ‘Real gamers’ now get demos they can download at home and access to the videos whenever they want to watch them from the comfort of their couch. They might not get the Cooking Mama Oven Mitt (not to be used as an actual oven mitt) or a free T-Shirt (XL and XXL run out early folks), but hey they get to walk a dozen less miles a day and don’t have to hear a bunch of scripted speeches and write until they pass out and start over.
(which was my experience but since I like writing about games was a blast)
Other SJWs found it to be a mistake, a blasphemous call for the hydra of consumerism to emerge from the far corners of the interwebs; a stake to the heart of game journalism’s oligarchy; a raping of the gated clique that once controlled the foyer of information that lactated from the bulbous PR udders dangling from the publishers’ visceral bloat that drips begrudgingly through the sphincter of the media and out through the curdled lips of their blogs….
Wow, that’s some imagery right there. I guess in this case the public gets access to the bloat directly? A lot of what’s displayed is geared towards trying to gets eyes on their stuff from writers, bloggers and buyers from Walmart/Target/etc and isn’t directed towards the open public, so I hope presenters were given enough time and information to prepare.
Most game writers I know don’t find it to be a mistake. Just that for the last couple of years publishers have found it easier to just market directly to the public by putting it online right away. E3 has become more of a relic of when they didn’t have so many ways of distributing that information so widely and required the press to help them move their marketing. Now not only can they do so directly, influencers such as Youtube personalities, they can just pay to help them market the game and control the message better. The ESA was late on that bandwagon, PAX and other conventions that are fan based came in and took the lead. Those who want to suckle on the bloated teat of publishers directly have several venues to do so now!
E3 mostly made this change because so many publishers have gone out of business. Which means that there’s less publishers purchasing space at the convention center. Others like EA are holding their own conventions successfully. Why be part of a mass of publishers seeking attention when you can go off and hold your own? Between losing big publishers, smaller ones disappearing, and other conventions doing the fan participation parts already on a large scale and better, some might be saying it’s a mistake because E3 was the only one that remained a trade show and by losing that focus enters a realm it’s already far behind in. Honestly though even remaining a trade show had writing on the wall when EA, Blizzard, Sony and other publishers starting to do their own shows, buyers like Gamestop doing their own, and PAX and others getting more fan attention.
I guess that doesn’t feed OneAngryGamer’s victim complex though.
@Greg Hullender: “I found myself poking the page with a finger more than once, wanting either the dictionary or else to search in the book.”
I’m almost guilty of that myself – meaning that I feel the urge but manage to keep from actually doing so.
@airboy: “The “game journalism” thing seems weird. I write a lot of game reviews in a segment of that world (wargames & rpgs). Unless people are rushing out on day 1 or preordering stuff based on game magazines, it does not have much of an impact.”
I’ve been out of the videogaming market (aside from a couple of casual iPad apps) for several years now, but even I’ve noticed the concerted push to get gamers to preorder the Latest Big Game at Retailer Of Choice – usually by offering some shiny preorder-exclusive trinket that may or may not exist in a non-digital form. (“Preorder Batdude Goes Yachting at GamePlace and get access to the Batbabe Barbie sidekick’s exclusive BatThong uniform!”)
If you’ve got foyers lactating from udders, that’s a severe architectural problem. Check the building’s clocks for persistence of memory.
If the udders are dangling from something that itself is dripping from a sphincter, you’ve got even more serious problems. Gatekeepers would probably be advised to present unwary pedestrians from entering such structurally-questionable foyers.
Lips, on blogs or anything else, should be solid enough not to curdle in the first place. If it’s actually curdled, I don’t know what it is but it’s probably not lip. Perhaps it’s a blob of glup; the two have been associated in cryptobiology of the 1950s.
Please post safety warnings; this is obviously a hazard zone. Possibly a Nyarlathotpian hazard zone.
airboy:
I only buy 4-5 games a year, but all of them are pre-ordered. I prefer information from game magazines (or their sites), as they are less partial than fanboys or paid youtubers.
Since Walter Jon Williams was mentioned, I want to give some love to his novel Aristoi, which is one of my favorite far-future space operas. The book includes more ideas per square inch than most SF books while carrying a suspenceful plot and giving a shoutout to Alban Berg in the process. 🙂
I like bookmarks. When I was a kid I used to routinely memorize the page number where I’d left off, but I quit that a long time ago. Some of my bookmarks are souvenirs of particular book shops, and I enjoy those for the memories they evoke. I give a bit of thought to selecting the bookmark for each book, for odd reasons that might be hard to state. I realize this may seem nutty, but there it is.
I think the author must suffer from prolapsed internal hemorrhoids.
@airboy And the individuals who were identified had no intent to do harm and were not charged.
[CW: discussion of gaslighting and harassment tactics]
From this, we may assume that they didn’t manage to identify the ones Zoe Quinn recorded planning how best to drive her to suicide. Which is hardly surprising, but let’s not have any illusions about the work being done by “those identified”.
(I’ve watched practiced GG trolls go to work. The worst are the slimy ones who fake concern over the victim’s mental health to try to undermine their confidence. “No one said that. I’m worried you’re imagining things again. Have you spoken to your doctor?”)
More Meredithing: Kingfisher, Patricia McKillip’s new one, is $1.99.
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00X593B7W/sfsi0c-20
@Hampus – is the preordering thing a function of the type of game? Most wargames cannot be preordered. What generic types of games do you preorder?
My nephew preorders lots of shooter stuff which is highly mass-market and ordered through Steam or playstation to get the game faster. But this is all console stuff.
airboy –
@Hampus – is the preordering thing a function of the type of game? Most wargames cannot be preordered. What generic types of games do you preorder?
Turns out you can pre-order or play early release games on PC for a long time among all genres.
And that a majority of titles receive most of their sales in the week or month of release. Some games have a longer tail end like Just Cause 2 which did steady over time.
Personally I don’t care for pre-order bonuses as I don’t like content gated away that was developed and available on release of the title. But I understand it from a store and business perspective from the publishers side, even if I don’t like it.
War gaming pffft. You gotta pre-order niche Japan-only releases for import if you want to be a real gamer bro. That and real war gamers buy figures to paint if they’re serious and put in real time and investment instead of PC gaming. Step up your game.