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Painting in Miniature 1: Starting out with Skaven
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­I suppose I’ve always been miniature-painting-curious–even all the way back to my first trip into a game shop in junior high. Unfortunately, none of my friends played games back then, so the cool-ass D&D manuals, ASL expansions, and metal minis […]

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Here are some quick reviews of all the new games I’ve been playing lately. You can see the full A-Z list of past reviews HERE.  I am using the following Board Game Geek rating guide to …

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Mailbag Monday 84
January 28, 2019

Want to have your pressing questions answered by Isley Unruh himself? Send all queries HERE, and I will get to them as soon as I can on a future Mailbag Monday! This month on Mailbag Monday, we …

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The Art of Trolling 3: Trolling the Scotch Forums
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You know how, sometimes, on April Fool's Day, some asshole will come up to you and go: "Guess what, I had oatmeal this morning!" You respond with "oh, cool" (or, a "whatever" followed by …

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Memes I Missed 19: Underground Metal Memes 2
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While cleaning up my computer desktop recently (ok, fine, I was just doing my usual: drag and dropping everything into an "other" folder) I came across a few random metal memes that I made for …

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Minor Key Music 77.5: Merry Medieval Christmas
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As an apology for last year's Christmas playlist of underground black/death metal songs, I thought I'd do a list this year of songs that actually celebrate the birth of Jesus, rather than decrying his lack …

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Mailbag Monday 83 – www.isleyunruh.com 10th Anniversary Post!
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Ten years ago today, I moved my thriving (for certain definitions of "thriving") Myspace blog over to the big-time: a real website.  In honor of the occasion, I thought I'd revisit one of my most …

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Black metal is a grim, hateful genre of music where misanthropy is celebrated above all else.  In that spirit, today's post will examine those rarefied black metal bands who have committed to perpetrating that grimmest …

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This fall, instead of heading down to the big Boardgamegeek Con in Texas, my game group and I got an AirBNB in Saint Louis and played all our games there.  We figured it would be …

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After a carefully (and repeatedly) xeroxed black and white photo of yourself wearing a robe in the snow, a proper logo is one of the most important elements in any black metal band's packaging.  The …

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