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A Tale of Two Chicagos: one, in the throes of revolutionary struggle, the other, crushed under the boot of state power.

(love seeing two simultaneous games of Chicago '68 at my local game shop!)

Udo Kier’s one and only tweet:

A window in Carlisle Cumbria, photo by Alan Bowe

I’m intrigued by how the “miniature” editions supplement their full grown counterparts. Will they be expansion modules?

Reading this morning: Eurymedousa, mother of the Myrmidon, was seduced by Zeus who had transformed himself into an ant. An ant. Leda and the Swan, ok, ridiculous, but ok. An ant. Greeks…

Federal agents used chemical weapons on Chicagoans at least 49 times — even after a judge said to stop.

Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders. blockclubchi.co/47PoaXb

I may have to add “Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars” to this list. Beautiful design work by @mropla.bsky.social

Ok ok. In no particular order (and subject to change momentarily):

Pax Renaissance
John Company 2ed
Lisboa
Inis
Root
Sekigahara
Bohnanza
Carcassonne (Hunters and Gatherers)
Barrage
Pax Penning

Aww yeah. So glad you picked that up

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… I think she’s trying to type out her name

Taking suggestions for cat names! She’s springy, sweet, and apparently loves Jazz.

🚨new cat alert🚨

If you’ve been waiting to pick up Sykes-Picot, this is a great time to do it! Definitely check out Persuasion by @xoe.gay!! Or Oblique or Table Battles or or or so many other great games from Hollandspiele!

@sd

What a great experience at @sdhistcon.bsky.social! Finally had a chance to play Cross Bronx Expressway, the John Co. Mega-Game, Bowie, Tierra y Libertad, and even run a double demo of Chicago '68...

Huge thanks to all the convention staff, players, and designers for making this happen!!

Playing Fruit by Dan Bullock in San Diego.

Some last minute prototyping before I (hopefully) fly out to the San Diego Historical Gaming Convention ✊

Sous les pavés la plage with @fredserval.bsky.social & @joedewhurst.bsky.social

At @sdhistcon.bsky.social 🎲✂️

I’m a day behind you! Hoping those unpaid air controllers are on it 🤞

See you soon!

One for the ages

YouTube video by Desperajoe What do we believe? (Vice Scene)

Happy Dick Cheney is Dead Day. He tried to get Kamala over the line. She thanked him by name during the debate. But it just wasn’t enough. “What do we believe?” A whole class of people laughing hysterically and slamming the door in everyone’s faces.

A celebration of the Summit Award, highlighting board games that matter and push the boundaries (like past winners by @fredserval.bsky.social and @downtowntbrown.bsky.social), and what winning it for an anti-fascist game like Land and Freedom means in this climate. sdhist.com/alex-knight-...

The work of games (in the age mechanical reproduction) is to pierce through these two frameworks in the manner that cinema did in the early half of the 20th century. Games are reproducible, mass / public oriented, and posessing cult value. In this way, our task is to make art more like games.

Great article. For me, it's a question about related domains of production and social capital. Art is a game (really, a form of play), but it's a game that is presented as either 1. dead and behind a pane of museum glass or 2. belonging to a gated world of MFAs, curators, and the art market.

That’s what Patreon is for ;)

“Jimi would play Risk on acid, and I never—and me personally—ever beat him at all. He was unbelievable at it. He was a military man, you know, he’s a paratrooper, and I don’t know whether you know that about Jimi, but no one ever beat him at Risk.” -Graham Nash

(h/t Knut Osmo via FB)

Will you bring it to SDHist?

Got to play two games of Old King’s Crown back to back

Congrats!! 🍾

David Cronenberg reviews board games

MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON: Donald Trump is using ICE as his private militarized occupying force. The only other entities that are funded greater than ICE are the United States military and China's military. But we are saying emphatically clear: We do not want troops in our city. We will not allow our cities to be occupied. So, here's what we need to do in this moment. If my ancestors, as slaves, can lead the greatest general strike in the history of this country, taking it to the ultra-rich and big corporations,

The coolest part about living in Chicago is having a mayor who orders you to go on general strike while quoting the 20th C’s greatest work of Marxist US history , WEB Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction