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Latest — 24 Jun 2026

Reading the Surfaces

Tokyo Melody and the Politics of Legibility Tokyo Melody: A Film about Ryuichi Sakamoto (1985) is both a portrait of a musician and a document of 1980s Tokyo, but its deeper subject is legibility itself — the conditions under which a person, a city, a nation, and finally a film become

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Mille Teefs: Rally Report

Team WAAAGH (Grimtusk & Skarfang) vs Team DAKKA (Burna & Zogwort) Venue: somewhere with pistachio shells on the table Round 1. All four engines turn over on the first kick. Four WAAAGH! cards hit the table almost simultaneously, which either means the deck was stacked or Orks have better instincts

The Hive Is Its People

Architecture, Bondage, and Harvest in Dan Abnett’s HIVE [WARNING: SPOILERS APLENTY] On first reading, HIVE feels like sprawl. This is by design. On second reading, the sprawl becomes visible as architecture. That may be the most useful way to approach Dan Abnett's latest Warhammer 40,000 behemoth.

Mille Teefs

A Poorhammer Hack Pack for Mille Bornes You found a copy of Mille Bornes at a thrift store for two dollars. Good. You're going to need a Sharpie. This is not a new game. This is a conversion kit — a few pages of instructions for turning a copy

An After Action Report

EARTH FEDERATION FORCES AUTONOMOUS TACTICAL COMMAND — SIDE 7 SECTOR DOCUMENT CLASS: RESTRICTED — INTERNAL REVIEW ONLY REPORT NUMBER: EFF-AAR-0079-09-18-7743 ORIGINATING UNIT: Side 7 Sector Defence Detachment, Mobile Suit Element PERIOD COVERED: UC 0079.09.18, approximately 0340–0612 local PREPARED BY: [UNIT DESIGNATE: GM-ACE-LEADER-

Decibels As Terms and Conditions

A concert is usually where one goes to witness a musician or band perform within a set of familiar contexts: the venue, the genre, the audience, the history of the room, the price of the ticket, the acoustics, the lighting, the ritual of standing or sitting among strangers. Even when

'BAGS: You Are Not the Weapon

A one-shot engine for MÖRK BORG Somewhere out there, an organization has a weapon. The Asset. It might be humanoid. It might even nod your way. Definitely not human. It's what the organization deployed. GM-controlled. Not a PC, not quite an ally, not a stat block.

Dispatches from the Agentic WAAAGH!

Authors' Note: Somewhere in the enterprise, the agentic transformation program has become a Warhammer 40,000 Ork procurement memo. The dashboard is green (naturally). The furnace is hungry. The Mekboy wants a bigger hat. The Code Nobz are laughing in a locked channel, until one of them notices they

Office of Frontier Corrections Incident Report

Reference: Incident Site 16 / Organ Rail (Morgan Rail Lic. No. 1616) Filed by: Deputy Comptroller Harness Veil Office: Frontier Corrections, Fort Gullet Date of Filing: [REDACTED PENDING REVIEW] Classification: Internal — Restricted Circulation SECTION I: INVESTIGATIVE SUMMARY This office dispatched a field assessment team to the last known coordinates of the

The Imperium and the Enterprise

A recent Warhammer 40,000 novel did something stranger and arguably more useful than immersing me in the grimdark of the far future: it made a cloud architecture I already knew visible again. Some might consider "good genre fiction" the literary equivalent of "nutritious fast food,"