Your favourite 'influencers'

Fimm McCool

Fimm McCool

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Hate the term myself, but it will do for a general 'people who put stuff on Social Media' term.

Who do you like reading/watching/listening to and why? Specifically wargaming/rpg, less specifically GW/Warhammer.
 
if you don't use the term and just mean people who do videos and blog posts and stuff.. very limited. no offense to anyone but I prefer ones which give a range of information and ideas more then the 'influencer' style which are people telling me "You should do this" or "you should buy that". I prefer "I like this BUT" and "have a look at this. It might be good, or might not but here are some things about it"
 
I struggle to find any hobby podcasts that I enjoy.

The majority of ones that I have tried have been discussion/interview style ones.
I have found that they are too amateurish.
I don’t mean that in a negative way as such, but an interview style media piece can be messy when not done by a media professional.

The podcasts I have listened to have awkward silences, people talking over each other, very fake laughter at each others jokes, in house gags, mispronounced product names, awkward silences and people talking over each other.
Couple that with strong accents and droney voices and I just can’t manage to sit through some of them.
Oh and bad music.
I have turned some off as I felt awkward/embarrassed at listening to them.

The ones I have found more enjoyable are ones where the podcaster is doing a piece to mic.
Just them talking clearly and concisely.

I am not saying I can do better, far from it.
But it is difficult to do an interview without any interview skills, and do a piece to camera without media skills, and I do feel it is a skill, and this must be made harder when you can’t see the other person.

Much of the above also applies to YT videos.
 
Fimm McCool said:
Hate the term myself, but it will do for a general 'people who put stuff on Social Media' term.

Who do you like reading/watching/listening to and why? Specifically wargaming/rpg, less specifically GW/Warhammer.
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The only podcast I regularly listen to is Bedroom Battlefields, it doesn’t take things too seriously.

On YouTube there is yourself obviously, Tileas Troubles , Paul Stanley, The Joy of Wargaming and Bandits Keep actual play (original D&D solo campaign)to name but a few.
 
There's a fair bunch of blogs I read. Tilea's Troubles, Leadplague, Sho3box, Give 'Em Lead, Tales from the Cantwara Sector, Malacasa's Oldhammer Blog, and lots more, though a fair few of us have gone quiet of late. (I'm trying to break that trend with my own blog. I went quiet, but I'm back, dang it!) There's a few podcasts I follow, but they're not really game related, unless you count Tilea's Troubles, which I both read and then listen to when Padre posts the YouTube version.
 
I missed the reading part, my bad.

Though to be fair the only blogs I read are warhammery.
I think the majority crop up on the newsbot feed and possibly there are a few others that do not.
 
Could I point out that I think no-one here who runs something which might be classed under this, is gonna be too upset when they aren't mentioned ^_^ Kinda just wanted to say that cause I do have some personal bias here.
 
Not so much influencers as blogs that influenced me enough that I switched from 15mm fantasy to Oldhammer.

Mars Miniatures - http://mars-miniatures.blogspot.com/
Up until 2020 this blog ran a campaign mainly using Oldhammer rules and miniatures based on the reclamation of Moria but pulled in characters from other fantasy sources.

Unfortunately the other 2 and no longer available
The M Word - https://web.archive.org/web/20191116142838/http://merlinthemad.blogspot.com/
A narrative campaign using the authors own ancients rules with fantasy modifications in his own setting.

Swords Under Distant Suns - https://web.archive.org/web/20240321015921/https://swordsunderdistantsuns.com/
The Greywater Chronicles was a massive dungeon crawl using the old Melee rules and miniatures from the 70s and 80s.
 
Fimm McCool said:
Totally, also I probably know all those anyway so looking for fresh stuff I may have missed.
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Are you familiar with Colonel O'Truth? His series on Lord Smudgington Smythely-Smythe's Hydraulically-Motorvated Sextupedal Land-Traversing Vacational Domicile is top notch, but he's not an Oldhammerer, so maybe it'd slip through the cracks around here. Some great stuff on kitbashing and scratch building. The Governor General of Sector Six also has some really great stuff, and might have fallen through the cracks by virtue of being inactive a while, and more American than your typical Brit. I don't think either of those is listed here. RC Sci-Fi is another really good one that I think isn't on here. He does some movie-grade models, and goes into detail about how to make them and build them. Not Oldhammer per se, but fantastic information on making dreams real.
 
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