From the workbench of the esteemed Horati0nosebl0wer

Trailing off the thoughts of why I found issue with the Hebrew army difficult and the idea of human play, I came up with this. The Freedom Fighting Farmers of Judea – an anarcho-communist semi-autonomous tribal agrarian collective, as much as I want to try and pull in Monty Python I’m not sure if that would be well received. I will give my apology to the Future Farmers of America as I used their name as a springboard for the insanity. The important part is that it makes me laugh and gets me over the hurdle of my writer’s block. The ludicrous name and the association with ridiculous humor pushes this problem out of my system. I will, contrary to the farmer ensemble, use a dedicated military looking set of miniatures for the mere fact that it would read better as an army.

Frankly I think what these exercises in army building are is to excuse buying things attached because I find pleasure in the play of the idea I come up with. Maybe this is a map of why people collect as they do. “How do I rationalize buying this?” is another creative venture to try and gain the positive sensation of dopamine. The creativity circle does not balance well by itself. The downside is that physical reality is limited by time (for building/painting/modifications), space and money.

The deep dive might be to say to ourselves a limit needs to be had with a select set of something. All the choices available mean we chase all the things and can’t have fun with what we have. I’ll say that idea applies to far too many things in the world but let’s just limit it to gaming. Maybe this is why GW stands as a monolith because people are generally unaware of other options or the options are too diverse.