John Harney

So Say We All!
While waiting for the next BSG game in 2026, I recommend Deadlock. I had a great time playing it, and I should get the DLCs. In fact, they're on sale today. 🤔

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

Oh I need to watch that

I know! That’s what I watched it on. I’m going to watch In The Mouth of Madness next, I’ve never seen that.

I think I might watch Vampires as well. I saw it and I do remember it but I want to see how it lands now.

John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness highlights:

- Alice Cooper stabbing a dude with a bicycle
- Walter, in general
- the Donald Pleasance and Victor Wong double act
- the mirror special effect
- the dream footage
- the last fifteen minutes

If you're cancelling Game Pass today, grab a cheap indie game or two, and then put the rest of the money toward supporting indie games media by subscribing to your favourite podcasts/websites/etc.

So I’ve somehow never seen John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness, something I am in the midst of correcting.

So far this is entirely my jam, but (atrocious, irrelevant but accurate take incoming) the grad student dialogue is hilariously bad.

"To avoid the appearance of a monarchy, it was long-standing tradition to only feature portraits of deceased individuals on currency and coin. That tradition became law with an 1866 Act of Congress."
“No coin issued may bear the image of a living former or current President,” says 31 U.S. Code 5112

A photo of the first page of AF's MPEG and movie CD (and CD32) focused featuring with a photo of a TV with an CD32 in front of it and an image of the Starship Enterprise 1701 Refit flying out of it. Cinema snacks are stood next to it to emphasise the home entertainment angle. "We are standing on the brink of a video revolution."

A snap of the 'Introducing MPEG' section where it emphasises how much of a game changer being able to encode 25MB/s of raw video file footage into something that a CD drive's 172k/s for a single speed drive transfer speed can handle without losing too much audio/visual quality.

Welcome to the Future - FMV.

I love finding features like these in old mags. Here in Amiga Format's April 1994 issue, we've got a feature on their hopes that the CD32 will be a home entertainment system for movie CDs, but also on the maturing MPEG standard and just why it's such a game changer.

Nice college you’ve got here, be a real shame if anything happened to it.

Dreams of a Young Republic - Nebraska Press The Congregation of the Mission, a Catholic order known as the Vincentians after their founder Saint Vincent de Paul, began missionary work in China in 1699....

It is launch day for my book! I am very happy with how this turned out. American Catholic missionaries living in Interwar China, whose (understandably) greatest fear was that Communists would take over.

www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

Moscow Indicates Retaliation if Europe Uses Russian Assets for Ukraine

Yes, Russia threatens that if anyone acts to counter Russian aggression then Russia will get aggressive and it'll be your fault. Heard that before.

At this point, how does anyone buy that Russia hasn't been really trying against Ukraine and Europe? That they could win but are holding back instead?

Three apparent members of a family, a dad, roughly 9 yo girl holding a doll and crying, and a mom, apparently of Latino background, surrounded by three armed, uniformed, masked men, members of border patrol.

Do these men feel big, in their uniforms and battle rattle, their masks and their sunglasses, hauling away a little girl and her doll?

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

A screenshot of the video game Cloudpunk, developed by Ion Lands, on PC. The screenshot shows the upper reaches of a soaring city at night. Rain streaks down beneath oppressive, rolling clouds. The city of Nivalis flickers and flashes with neon lights.

I recently finished the video game Cloudpunk by Ion Lands on PC. It’s a fun, thoughtful cyberpunk tale of a delivery driver’s first night in Nivalis, a failing & collapsing city that spares no one.

I loved moving through the neon city in my flying car, making deliveries and questionable decisions!

A black and white photo of a baseball game, you can see that it is mid pitch with a pirate at bat

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

This is insane. This is absolutely insane. Why are masked men chasing people who are just working a job?

Friends, l'm getting closer to manuscript _Designing Historical Games for Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Educators_
Doing last big add-content read-through edit on paper.
Anyone want to help inspire w/ a comment or (even better) question abt book & what it's all about? (reskeets?)
#gamingthepast

"but bsky sucks!" is making me despair.

You don't have to be here either if you don't like it, man. None of these places matter any more. Call your friends and go the bar. Watch a show. Go on r/audiophile. Whatever.

RIP to a goddamn hero.

When I am being judged for going to hell, this will be exhibit A.

Charleston quite famously wanted to enforce it's fugitive slave laws in Boston

(Jeff Bezos looks directly into your eyes as he pours a gallon of water onto the ground so a robot can tell you “the Pentagon Papers are papers from the Pentagon.”)

So, so tired of the “our almighty leader is a delicate flower” routine.

An event-full day here! Talk+data art exhibit= @sararribas.bsky.social's #DHmakes-ing digital+historical social network analysis tangible; on zoom= @jenniferisasi.bsky.social & @craftytechwiz.bsky.social #ByteSizedPedagogy ⚡talks on cool DH teaching approaches; in our makerspace=🪡🧵 pencil case wkshp

This is insane behaviour. Just completely nuts.

So it looks like copies will start shipping at the end of the week!

My book is about a group of American missionaries living in mid-century China, and the extreme levels of (understandable) cope they dealt in as the communist revolution approached.

Video Games Europe launches Pixels to Policy campaign The campaign is "the ultimate showcase of Europe's video games sector," says the continent's largest trade body

Video Games Europe has launched the Pixels to Policy campaign, which aims to "explain the industry to people who aren't familiar with video games."

www.gamesindustry.biz/video-games-...

I was never a fan of citing Twitter activity as an indicator of public mood or even online behavior, really… but how on earth can NYT and others continue to do that when it’s a known fact Musk drives users to right wing content?