Stuart Ellis-Gorman

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Hawk and Dove

Hello world! We are pleased to announce the founding of Hawk and Dove, a new historical game studio. We're just getting started on this journey, and we invite you all to follow along as we navigate the incredible world of board game publishing!

Check us out here: www.hawkanddovegames.com

I had the lunchbox as a kid. What a show.

The Gundam ‘bits box’ is full once more - so here’s a giveaway for the lot! Plus, well, a new & unopened Metal Robot Spirits Wing Gundam figure..! 👉 To enter, follow + repost (or quote).

Winner will be picked at random, next Monday 16th Mar, international post all ok! Good luck. 🍀

HELLOOOOOO NERDS!
It is Playte's tenth year in business and they are going to be publishing some wild stuff all year long, so let's not hesitate, and follow this thread for all the upcoming titles in the first wave of Playte games for 2026!

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.

I'm serious, read it all please

A very telling list for when my seminal gaming memories were formed. I've enjoyed games since, but only the Soulsborne stuff has really impacted me the same way. Other games just built on old habits and preferences.

These are also most impactful, often but not always favorite.

Current noir count has passed 191 in the past 6 months. Not sure if I'm going to write a sequel to this round up I wrote at the end of last year, but I have found a few more worth highlighting so maybe I will. Still so many more noirs to go, what a genre.

Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states

Today marks 1 year since the first Ask Me Anything (AMA) for AskHistorians in our push to very actively recruit guests, and where are we now? Today is the 90th AMA in that effort, helping us cross the thresholds of 35k upvotes, 8k comments, and 15k link shares in that year (and ~10m views)!

Chimera Con 2026 Potential Games, Dublin Ireland 16-17 May 2026 This list is to gather suggestions of games we could play at the 8th year of this board games convention with a focus on wargames and large/long boardgames. If you would like to suggest running a game...

Just 8 days left to propose games for Chimera Con 2026 boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/373...

Don't forget to register here! warhorn.net/events/chime...

How to Run D&D for Tons of Players (Without Losing Your Mind) YouTube video by Eric Vulgaris

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDMC...

I honed my years of running open table games into this new video. I go through how I improv a session when surprised and how I diligently hone what my game's about from initial idea to technical infrastructure to recruiting and communicating that vision out

roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

whoops

a crude illustration of a sad looking man unenthusiastically poking a flaming globe with a stick and saying "c'mon buy a magazine"

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Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

The West is marshalling all this effort and tearing any pretence of international law to shreads all to empower an apartheid state that has been openly committing genocide for the past several years.

Any notion the West was some kind of moral arbiter of the world is dead and buried.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Thank you both so much! After a life/work related hiatus we've got another episode in the tank awaiting editing (by me, when I can get some time) and we should be finishing the next game in the next 1-2 weeks.

We do have some big games waiting in the wings, tho, so this pace will slow eventually.

Ive never felt so seen in a work of media as I did in Chibodee Crocket. Representation matters.

I assume you also prefer the serious grounded stakes of G Gundam, one of the most serious shows.

(I love/hate G Gundam. I love that it exists, so happy I watched it, probably won't ever watch it again)

I really enjoyed it back when I watched it (on DVDs I rented from Netflix, blast from the past).

I watched most of Brotherhood but never finished it.

I can see the merits of both, but I probably also preferred the original.

Man, I should probably have also included Ruroni Kenshin (yikes) on my list as well.

Also, showing up for original FMA. Respect.

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

It was my first love. One of the first anime I ever saw and the first one I ever bought on DVD. Such a great show, and amazing music.

I also saw the movie and read the Manga but they're pretty different.

I'm woefully out of date with what's current, but Yu Yu Hakusho is one of the all time greats. It probably peaks a little over halfway, but the final arc does a good rally at the end for a satisfying (if abrupt) finish.

I thought they stopped making anime c.2010?

The vibes of that first episode are, I think, maybe in the top 10 anime moments of that era. The music, the visuals, just the whole thing. It's perfect.

I never finished the OVAs, I got distracted as they were coming out and never finished them.

Follow up, top 10 but only movies this time

1) Akira
2) The Night is Short, Walk On Girl
3) Promare
4) Princess Monoke
5) Kiki's Delivery Service
6) Redline
7) Ranma 1/2 Big Trouble in Nekonron, China
8) Summer Wars
9) Patlabor
10) Spriggan

10 anime to get to know me (in no order)

1) Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
2) RahXephon
3) Yu Yu Hakusho
4) Full Metal Panic
5) Gintama
6) ZZ Gundam
7) Ping Pong the Animation
8) Gungrave
9) Escaflowne
10) GTO

I think Hellsing (2001) may be too 00s edgy for me to enjoy it now, but man did I watch it a lot in high school..