September 11, 2024: Ogre Miniatures Set 4 Now Available On Warehouse 23

• Mk I - x2
• Mk II - x2
• Combine Ranger Heavy Tank - x8
• Combine Banshee Missile Tank - x6
• Combine Raptor GEV - x8
• Combine Roadrunner GEV-PC - x6 (with 3 infantry each)
• Combine Gremlin LGEV - x12
• Combine Minotaur Howitzer - x4
• Combine Bigfoot Mobile Howitzer - x4
• Combine Yankee Light Tank - x12
• Combine Alamo Superheavy Tank - x6
• Combine Infantry - x14 bases with three minis each (total of 42)
• Doppelsoldner treads (can be used to replace the treads from Set 3) - x2

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September 10, 2024: Sometimes The Lack Of A Story Is A Story

I've been fascinated by the standoff between X (formerly Twitter) and Brazil – mostly because it meant a huge influx of people came onto Bluesky for the first time. The social-media platform has added millions of new users in the past few days, with some activity seeing a 10-fold increase from a week prior.

What's really interesting from my perspective is that the Bluesky computer systems have continued to remain functional during the surge. Minor glitches have arisen, but certainly nothing to indicate that their servers are on fire; it's continued to just work.

As much as we'd be thrilled if two million new folks were suddenly interested in (say) Gelatinous, I'm not at all sure our web server could handle that many folks curious about the wandering-slime dice game – certainly not without our IT folks furiously rejiggering aflame computers amid a shower of sparks like a Star Trek engineering . . . [more]

September 9, 2024: How Do The Orbital Mind Control Lasers Fit In?

Here's an article with a truck advertisement that proudly proclaims: "Pizza Hut: Official Sponsor of Dominoes." I'm sure you can guess what's going on, but it still made me do a double take. I'm not saying I see Illuminati games everywhere, but I'm not not saying that, either . . .

-- Steven Marsh

September 8, 2024: Theft Of Fire

At Imaginarium last month, I heard a couple of dozen quick pitches for "You should read this book!" I gave in to just one of them. I read the first chapter immediately, and hated the antagonist so much that I set the book down to finish later. (I didn't want her to have a redemption arc. I wanted her to go out the airlock.) When I finished the book, it was in one long sitting, and you know why? It's very good!
 
Theft of Fire is set in the fairly near future. Humanity made it to space, mostly out of desperation. The Asteroid Belt is being mined, and this story is about one of those miners and the worst day he ever had. Except things go downhill from there.
 
Devon Eriksen writes well and engagingly. There's no obvious comparison; I can't say "This is like so-and-so's work." He writes like Eriksen, and that's fine with me! From what I can see (he is an engineer, . . . [more]

September 7, 2024: 8-Bit Music Theory

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