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Since we were only playing the most basic rules (it was our first time) I did wonder if it would be as much fun playing with more of the rulebook. There is a new simplified version coming out so I'm hoping that maintains the fun/complexity balance we found.

"A friend who plays more tabletop games than I do tells me that — in terms of the mechanics — as tabletop games go, it’s middling" absolutely, just played my first few games of Infinity recently (yes plural each game took around an hour) and was blown away by how much more fun it was to play. The next day we were trying to organise the next session. That never happened with 40K because the games were exhausting and more something you 'got through'.

However as the author says Games Workshop have created an incredibly engrossing setting which pulls you in and enhances all the other aspects of the hobby.

There was one evening in a small town is England where my fellow students convinced the staff in the local McDonald's that the student offer of one free hamburger did not require a purchase. We ate a lot of free hamburgers that night. Guilt aside, dare say they were the best McDonald's I've ever tasted

If one assumes that the 1/3 job losses were 'trimming the fat', I'd still argue that enforced liposuction constitutes bullying (if not outright assault).

The decision to cut the workforce may have been the right one but since the thrust of the article was the effectiveness of his philosophy I think it's only fair to highlight how it was applied.

> His turnaround also cut roughly a third of the airline’s workforce, about 16,000 people.

At first glance that looks an awful lot like bullying the hen

> This completely ignores the fact that probably the best way to learn is to be surrounded by people more intelligent than yourself.

It might feel great interacting with your intellectual peers, but being among your actual peers will train in you in the kind of interactions which will form the majority of your life.