The hurdles I face whenever I try to teach myself Infinty come down to 2 points:
1: Terrain. Not just owning the right amount of the right sized terrain (I have a lot of eadzone, but the floors are 3″ tall, which is a bit much for infinity), but understanding how to place it so it is fun and no one model can dominate the whole table by mistake. There’s a harsh learning curve there
2: Hacking. I feel like this is supposed to be as simple as casting spells in D&D, but its always seemed much harder to understand. I picked up Operation Icestorm assuming it would tach me every aspect of the game, but it never touched on hacking. Very dissapointing. I hope they find a way to smooth out learning these factors in N4.

On the subject of a possible Star Wars reboot I have some thoughts. Bear with me. I’m going to get to my point eventually.

Disney love owning iconic characters they can stick on merchandise and sell forever, or have people in costumes play them at theme parks, or that they can recycle in new mdeia for decades to come. Disney princesses stay suspiciously just underage forever. Mickey Mouse will never change. Even the Marvel characters are iconic because of their costumes and powers. The person inside could be replaced and people would accept that, especially now the multiverse is open.

With Star Wars, the characters are tied to the actors. Disney have started releasing famous scenes from Star Wars as short animations but maintaining the voices from the film. This is an attempt to establish the characters separate from the actors for a new generation so they can keep reusing the characters no matter how old or dead the actors become and no one will mind. They don’t just reboot it or reshoot it because they know they cannot, without there being riots, and without it being “not Star Wars”. They are trying to change the way we see the characters so they can make more content with the classic characters and people will accept it without thinking about it.

Now here comes my tin foil hat (With tin foil mouse ears). Disney have been perfecting their anti aging technology for a while now. They are even trying out CGI versions of dead actors in their movies to test the tech and test our reaction and acceptance of the tech. What if they have long term plans for this? What if when Warzan gets invited to appear in Star Wars 17 he has to sign a contract that says they own the rights to his face and voice and they can reuse it in any way shape or form for that character, and they can include him in the rest of that trilogy and he never needs to appear on set again and won’t get paid for future appearances. You know how they can get someone to record all the phonetic sounds and they can now use their voice for anything in SatNav? What if they do the visual equivalent of that, feed it in to a computer,and then an actor is never needed beyond that, or at least never needed after their first movie as that character is a success? We could have had young Harrison Ford in the Han Solo movie. We could still have Bogart, Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin etc all still making new movies. Franchises never need die or change just because an actor decides to stop, or has the cheek to age. Nothing could stop Disney from milking any character ever again.

As a side conspiracy, I suspect Disneys youthing tech has been in place for a while now and has been being used for many years without us knowing. How many celebrities out there do not appear to have aged when they should have by now? Paul Rudd is famous for this. He looks the same now as he did 20-30 years ago. What if Hollywood has been preserving its assets by faking their marketable looks and youth to us, even outside of movies?

This tin foil hat is getting in the way of my painting. It keeps clipping the lamp and giving me small electric shocks so I’m going to take it off, press play on your next video, and get back to work.