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Ian
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Wrote a lot professionally. Write a little now. Adjunct. Doctor of Communication. https://stuckness.ghost.io/what-this-is-who-i-am-who-i-am-is-what-i-am-is-who-i-am-context-collapse/
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 2h
I was too busy to do it on the proper day this year but below is my memorial to Greg Stafford, one of the most fascinating and important people I've ever called a friend or colleague. I repost it every year.

Seven years gone, still missed, never forgotten.

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Greg Stafford
This is a little bit different from the normal posts, in that it's not about miniatures or wargaming. It's about a man who played an enormou...
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 57m
We are in an interstitial period where the networks and institutions that once sustained the social order and facilitated shame have collapsed. Everything is up in the air for now though I think it will eventually stabilize. Durkheim's "anomie" feels like an appropriate description of right now.
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Life Grips @ptrkbrn.com · Nov 14
Yeah I fuck with the MCU. The
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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 2h
Stop! Thief!
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 2h
Oh shit!
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SUGAR @sugarcopperblue.bsky.social · 3h
Sugar is back! New music at sugarcopperblue.com PLUS May 2026 live shows in NYC and London. All the info is here!
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 2h
There are still good nuggets tbh. But I sort of feel I'd never need anything more after getting the guide to glorantha. It's marvelous.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 2h
I was too busy to do it on the proper day this year but below is my memorial to Greg Stafford, one of the most fascinating and important people I've ever called a friend or colleague. I repost it every year.

Seven years gone, still missed, never forgotten.

porchhammer.blogspot.com/2018/10/greg...
Greg Stafford
This is a little bit different from the normal posts, in that it's not about miniatures or wargaming. It's about a man who played an enormou...
porchhammer.blogspot.com
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 2h
No could be about it!
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 15h
Going to drift into a delirious sleep watching Rhett and Link name as many cheeses as they can
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 15h
Told the kid I saw Alan Cumming and she started Besvis laughing
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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 18h
Kind of amazing that the photo Politico used of one of these folks -- the one who made a joke about gas chambers -- is from an event that Politico sponsored last summer.
Peter Giunta participates in a CNN-POLITICO Grill discussion at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 16, 2024. | Rod Lamkey Jr. for POLITICO
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 16h
That was definitely something I picked up on in I think the Beasts of War forums
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 17h
Anyway, this is where we'll see in five years!
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 17h
The tank for sure stood out to me. But again, and I'd have to peek back through the CH lawsuit (ugh), I don't think GW can claim "gun with lasgun bulb on the end"
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 17h
Sure, no doubt. I just mean that we've already had that particular argument and GW mostly lost. If they want to have another go in an EU court on the same basis, ok. It simply strikes me as strange that if that's the case there are others who seem more 1:1 GW style sculpts.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 17h
Sure, but they've avoided that for 10 years because they took the replication argument to court in the US and (mostly) lost. And I'd say Ghamak's minis are less GW than Chapterhouse's.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 17h
Got it and makes sense. I'm curious if because of that difference a successful case can be read in that maximal worst case reading. And, thinking out loud, if GW know that. It's not like they're going nuclear on another American studio eg.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 17h
But what I do know is that GW's anxieties seem different from the outside than 15 years ago, which is of course representative of how different they are.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 17h
I don't know! That's part of why it's so interesting, because it doesn't seem to be a copyright claim. I have to revisit what Ghamak is saying, but I believe the lead sculptor points out some subtlties to the cited law in his patreon post. This is also where I'm not a lawyer and need to shut up.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 20h
Part 2: I gave my presentation (partly) on how I'm not sure Games Workshop cares about people making GW style miniatures. Then in real time they sued someone for doing just that.

Oops. But also maybe not oops. On analog games as platforms.

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When your academic presentation is maybe wrong, or Games Workshop sued someone again
My presentation at the Games Workshop Research Day last weekend was on the Chapterhouse case. Very, very briefly: Games Workshop lost (most of) a lawsuit against a small manufacturer of conversion "bi...
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morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 18h
Right.
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 18h
I'd have zero if I had my druthers
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kyleraiser III: kyle on Earth @kylebutoverhere.bsky.social · 18h
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 19h
whatever dymphy
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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 19h
In an even more just world nobody would be suing anyone for inspiration!
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