Join the gang on a journey into the grim, dark future in which there is only war. Digressions in this one mainly include a not-at-all successful attempt to get Rachel up to speed on the lore of Warhammer 40K, D&D, and Warhammer: Fantasy Battles.
Reading list:
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https://web.archive.org/web/20160518214822/http://cardboardsandwich.com/features/games-workshop-the-humble-origins-of-a-global-gaming-empire/
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https://web.archive.org/web/20160518214819/http://cardboardsandwich.com/features/blood-dice-and-darkness-how-warhammer-defined-gaming-for-a-generation/
- Bell of Lost Souls: Warhammer 40K Op-Ed: Lets Talk About The Community’s Nazi Player Problem
https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2021/11/warhammer-40k-op-ed-lets-talk-about-the-communitys-nazi-player-problem.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Ri-x0RCd8Yk&feature=emb_title
- Vice: The Wahammer 40K Community is Trying to Weed Out its Far Right Faction: https://www.vice.com/en/article/9358ke/the-warhammer-40k-community-is-trying-to-weed-out-its-far-right-faction
- Harvard Kennedy School: Research note: The spread of political misinformation on online subcultural platforms https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/research-note-the-spread-of-political-misinformation-on-online-subcultural-platforms/
- B2O: Containment Breach: 4chan’s /pol/ and the Failed Logic of “Safe Spaces” for Far-Right Ideology
https://www.boundary2.org/2019/07/dennis-erasmus-containment-breach-4chans-pol-and-the-failed-logic-of-safe-spaces-for-far-right-ideology/
- The Untold Truth Of Games Workshop: https://www.looper.com/448990/the-untold-truth-of-games-workshop/
- Chainmail’s fantasy supplement: Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '70s. Silver Spring, Maryland: Evil Hat Productions, LLC