As something similar has been said before… the reports of my demise have been grossly exaggerated. I will be spotty in checking in (no not actual spots) as I’m awaiting a friend of mine to rebuild his old pc that I can game/conference with.  In the meantime I’ll toss in my two cents as mu workdays are about as long as they used to be but paying ao much more in overtime.

I have choice words about my collection of books and the weight it has become. I, unfortunately, am a collector of them and will be looking at more in the future. Still more to move into place as I am at the point of needing a desk large enough for working on minis. I’ll also be getting a second DETOLF considering what I will want to diaplay. I pledge to not make a mess of the new place until after I get the new desk as I can’t set up the paint racks on the walls without the size of my working space.
For reboots that work the 2nd to 3rd and 3.5 did. I’ve yet to see L5R and 7th Sea as reboots but they look promising. I did think that the d20 reboot of Star Wars was good and then the FFG rehash did more to allow players to build even more customized PCs. I haven’t looked at Blood Bowl or Necromunda as rereleases but they shouldn’t have changed all that much.

I haven’t been in deep enough into a particular game system to consider have a moment of facepalm over the storyline.

Weathering is a great thing to work on. It can add quite a bit to a model if done with care to establish the age/wear on a material surface. I’m finding that there are very fun things that can be done that have the most interesting changes if you throw on a little bit of green for moss/algae due to water and rusting from exposure. With regard to the extreme I agree that it can just be something useless. Ork structures are great to work over for rust but there is a certain logic even to that. Hitting them with pigment to be done with them is lazy. A little variation on washes would be a great thing to play with. Starting with a standard steel metallic throw some brown, yellow or even a purple wash (in the deep recesses) would make weathered steel things stand out. Copper would come to life with greens and brass turning blue would make metals catch more viewers.