I wasn't going to weigh in on the recent, still ongoing debates around AI in games, its (seemingly very) limited use in Big Walk, and the IGF Awards but then Brendan Keogh wrote what I think is a very good piece about situating technology within historical systems and
I am not, as a rule, an Autumn Man. I am a Spring Dude. I love spring in North Carolina. Just before it gets hot, the new leaves a pale green which filters the sunlight and makes everything shimmer. Those cool mornings and breezy afternoons. But something strange happens to
I'm happy to announce that I've signed my first book deal with MIT Press for a tentative 2028 release. It considers the miniatures wargames industry as a craft industry, and is based on my dissertation. I've had the deal essentially sealed for the better
I've got quite a lot I want to write about this week, not least about a book deal I just signed, but I'm just off a plane from London via JFK and I can't do the more structured, longer stuff just yet. Let me
I'd meant to write about Interview with the Vampire (TV version) at least two years ago but kept putting it off. On rewatch two, I'd taken pages of notes, then never did anything with them. Doing a third rewatch, the first with my now old enough
I don't think popular culture looks the way it does without John Blanche, Games Workshop's legendary artist who died today. That is mostly for the better, a bit for the worse, but entirely important. I'd go so far as to say that he was
Ash over at Guerilla Miniature Games has a side channel called Inside Tabletop, in which he and a buddy who owns a games store talk shop. I was quite taken with their most recent video, provocatively titled "When did you fall out of love with 40k?" Now, some
In light of a recent story about Wizards of the Coast openly boasting that Dungeons & Dragons is better viewed as a live service, I'm sharing the text of my presentation at the 2026 UNC-Greensboro Game Studies Conference. It's partly about this, even if it&
A debate kicked off on Bluesky today about what the official song of the Millennial generation is. I don't link to posts as a rule because it's been my experience that even a meager amount of added attention can make social media intolerable, but the initial
I don't generally like to write about annoying things on the internet, but I want to make an exception because this particular instance patched into something else which annoyed me on the internet. There's a bad piece in Jacobin about how rock is back, the nails
The talk of the town this past week has been the Coachella set which Nine Inch Noize put on. A hybrid project of Nine Inch Nails and Boys Noize, birthed from their tour together last year, the set was blistering. It set the internet alight. Perfect choreography, perfect lights, perfect
Someone I was friends with 30 years ago has started a farm commune. From the outside, it also looks a little like a cult. The farm in question consists of one (1) shack, one and a half (1.5) gazebos, one (1) tractor, and one (1) patch of flowers. If