Eldar

The next edition of Warhammer 40,000—the 10th in Games Workshop’s venerable tabletop miniatures game—is set to hit shelves this summer, bringing with it a sea of rule changes that will make the intimidatingly dense game feel quicker and cleaner to play. From what little we could tell braving the tables of Warhammer Fest 2023 to try it for the first time, it seems like the company might be on to something.Rahul Kohli Loves Star Wars & WarhammerFollowing the reveal of the massive launch box Leviathan this past weekend,…

Image: Games WorkshopBeginning with Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader in 1987, 40K—as it’s commonly abbreviated—is a sci-fi tabletop wargame, now in the ninth edition of its ruleset. Players build, paint, and collect armies of various human and alien factions, then pit them against each other in competitive battles, vying to control areas of a board or wipe out their opponent’s forces. Unlike Dungeons & Dragons, which utilizes an array of dice for decision-making rolls and combat, everything in Warhammer 40,000 uses…

Image: AmazonThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has ended its first season, and with it lifted the lid on mysteries that have hounded viewers for the past seven episodes before it. But it also revealed another secret, binding them all in darkness: that what we’ve watched was less of an actual season of television and more like a really long pilot.That’s not to say there haven’t been highlights in Rings of Power’s debut. It and its characters have often stalled on repeating the Tolkienesque themes of hope in the…

Image: AmazonRings of Power has spent its entire season reminding us that it, at its core in manners similar to Lord of the Rings as a whole, is a story of enduring hope in the face of seemingly unyielding darkness. This week is much the same, but it also takes a lot of time to allow its heroes to wallow in the fact that seemingly unyielding darkness really, really sucks.“The Eye” is almost entirely about the fallout of last week’s climax in the battle for the Southlands, which saw the land literally and metaphorically…

Image: AmazonThe Lord of the Rings is a story about disparate societies coming together in the name of good—and casting aside generations of mistrust and prejudice to do so. Hobbits being unlikely heroes, Dwarves standing side-by-side with Elves, Rohan riding to Gondor’s aid, it’s an idea key to the fabric of the narrative, and so it makes sense that Rings of Power is making it key to its own story too.“Adar,” the third episode of The Rings of Power, feels very much in step with its premiere last week in that it shares a…

Software EngineeringA Story About Responsibilities and the Engineer’s Role In ItRecently, I was tasked with interviewing for a Senior position at the current company I work at, and I actually thought to myself — what makes a good Senior Software Engineer?I’ve gone through the whole deal — I’ve been a Junior, Mid, and then a Senior Software Engineer, and I saw all kinds of different “definitions” for the aforementioned roles.I came up with a few things, which I believe should be common in the industry for describing this…