Statistical Threats to Metawatch

January is often a time when graduate students everywhere begin frantically cramming for various exams with words like “Qualifying”, “Comprehensive” and “Defense” in their names, which means it’s also the season of detailed...

How Hobby Community Echo Chambers Happen

Recently, I had a discussion on Twitter (genuinely a discussion, not a fight, a small miracle for the hellish birdsite!) about the often repeated and very rarely sourced notion that the competitive scene is the economic engine behind Games Workshop – basically,...

On Games Workshop, IP and Fan Works

Let’s talk about Games Workshop, Intellectual Property, and social media’s impression that the sky is falling and GW lawyers are going to be knocking at the door any minute now coming for your Sanguinius/OC fanfic. First, a disclaimer: I am not an IP...

On Games Workshop, IP and Fan Works

Let’s talk about Games Workshop, Intellectual Property, and social media’s impression that the sky is falling and GW lawyers are going to be knocking at the door any minute now coming for your Sanguinius/OC fanfic. First, a disclaimer: I am not an IP...

In Defense of Coaching in 40K

There are a lot of things I don’t like about Competitive 40K. This is…known. The hot takes (irony, I know). Some of the toxic personalities and poor gamesmanship that comes from putting prestige and prizes on the line over a game of dice and toy soldiers....