Things Roundup Oct 27 2025
Jim Daley at South Side Weekly presents a haunting aftermath of the ICE kidnappings in Chicago:
Who slept in this room? The child who played in the living room? The “sweet” family, cozy, all together? Perhaps this apartment was their first small bit of refuge after walking thousands of miles to America, getting bussed to Chicago, sleeping on police station floors and in crowded shelters, before finally finding a place to call their home. A cramped, shabby two-room apartment. But a home.
The family is gone. The people taken in the raid never showed up to their jobs that morning, leaving coworkers to wonder. The child, if they attended the school across the street, was absent. Someone’s student, someone’s classmate, someone’s child’s new best friend, is gone. Did their schoolmates wonder for a day or two before the realization sunk in?
A double bill from Grace Benfell, first on the omission of The Scouring of the Shire from adaptations of Lord of the Rings; and on the weaknesses' of Hades II's depiction of mythology. This second one provoked a very strong response from people in a way I found curious and also disappointing, many people are reading a different argument than is being presented. A friend put it best by saying it's not that Hades II is bad, but that there is missing potential from such a shallow depiction of mythology.
I've been playing some Mythic Bastionland, and Brendan McLeod has been writing session reports. It's a neat game with a few quirks, I'm looking forward to seeing more.
Paige Connelly is kitbashing missile toads.
Ian Williams talks about Games Workshops' lawsuits, the company's general view of itself and it's place in the wargaming market.