[Top X] Xceptions Prove The Rule

I haven't read nearly enough hobby blogs lately. This is shockingly neglectful behaviour, since there are dozens of the wretched things on the rolls, and I started out commenting on quite a few of them before I turned into the stodgy potato man I am today, rolling in on an increasingly erratic basis to transmit my own half-baked thoughts and then trundling off before someone could make chips out