Jeremy Antley

Wrong Road — Real Life The phone is a car: a symbol of freedom and convenience that transforms into an inescapable burden

Feeling nostalgic for Real Life mag today. They let play with ideas like the "Joker theory of the administrative state: Capitalists sow chaos, without any particular plan for the “new normal” other than the ability to continually reassert their own dominance" reallifemag.com/wrong-road/

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…

This week on the blog: More Peasants!

This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.

Now with pie chart!

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I had a great time on Aftermath talking about how you can use Assassin’s Creed as a method of tracing the pathway to the world we live in.

I’d heard so much praise for this book and finally found time to read it. It’s a fascinating read that pushes us to reconsider the Eurocentric nature of Marxist accounts of production that often erase the history of medieval slavery.

Dolly rules and non parents probably won't know this, but she has a book club for little kids and she will just send them books for free. my kids have loved them. it's a good excuse to stop doing something and just hang out and read a book with them.

Stuart Hall took Thatcherism seriously & tried to understand its affective & aspirational appeal. Trumpism operates differently, as @cnewf.bsky.social notes, but the need to offer a cultural & political counter-strategy is key. I keep thinking about Hall’s adept use of new forms of media.

Yeah I missed that they discussed this on their Bandcamp page on August 15th.

They released this album through a new label and that label does not do Bandcamp releases. I was bummed about this for sure. They have tried to get the label to change its policy but to no avail.

You turned me on to them and I’ve been pumped for every release since Monsters. Their live album is fantastic as well and I’m super jazzed to see the live next year when they come to Portland.

YouTube video by Spice8Rack Through the Omenpaths is a Fascinating Mess

Umberto Eco once said, “the Absolute Fake is offspring of the unhappy awareness of a present without depth.” @spice8rack.bsky.social’s video on Magic’s legally-distinct-from-Spider-Man set, Through the Omenpaths, shows how encoding these ‘fakes’ reveals their lack of depth youtu.be/LNGowvILFXo?...

Last year I wrote about the encoding/decoding issues designers now face in the present moment of Magic’s external IP-ization with heavy integration of Universes Beyond sets drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9A... The ‘mimetic aesthetics’ employed in these ‘real/fake’ designs have far reaching implications.

YouTube video by Spice8Rack Through the Omenpaths is a Fascinating Mess

Umberto Eco once said, “the Absolute Fake is offspring of the unhappy awareness of a present without depth.” @spice8rack.bsky.social’s video on Magic’s legally-distinct-from-Spider-Man set, Through the Omenpaths, shows how encoding these ‘fakes’ reveals their lack of depth youtu.be/LNGowvILFXo?...

Paper Labyrinths: Sophie Abromowitz on Comedy & Mystery We talk with Sophie Abromowitz about stage comedy, worldbuilding through systems, FROMSOFT games as detective stories, and the origin of the hot dog.   Follow Sophie on Instagram () and check ...

This month on Paper Labyrinths, nic and I talk with Sophie Abromowitz about writing for games like Hot Streak and Monikers, worldbuilding through system and gesture, and who the George Smiley of Bloodborne is. sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...

Fantastic video! I was thinking about similar topics re: encoding/decoding of external cultural references in Magic in this essay I wrote about Clone and Haunted Screen—inspired in no small part by your Duskmourn video! drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9A...

I wrote an essay about this very idea last year with a reflection on the first card to capture my attention as a kid (Clone) and a card from Duskmourn that was a clone of a different sort (Haunted Screen) drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9A...

Ha, this was me last year with Bobby Witt Jr. vs. Aaron Judge.

Really special season for him for sure.

Post a duo.

History is actively being replaced with lore.

Re-upping for the weekend crowd. I am exceptionally proud of this one, a sweeping story about ingenuity and failure, great ideas and stupid ones, with a cast that includes inventors, scoundrels, art collectors, actors, ad men, and legendary comic book artist Dave Cockrum.

STALKER [1979; dir. Andrei Tarkovsky]

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Lower back tightness would help explain the command issues as of late, but you also have to wonder how long his back has been nagging him.

Slogurk, the Overslime from Midnight Hunt. 1UG Legendary Creature — Ooze Trample Whenever a land card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, put a +1/+1 counter on Slogurk. Remove three +1/+1 counters from Slogurk: Return it to its owner’s hand. When Slogurk leaves the battlefield, return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.

Unorthodox candidate: Slogurk. Here’s why:
1) Loves instant speed shenanigans
2) Is all about the value
3) Can transform into an absolute beater
4) Trample

Picture of Matt Strahm, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, saying “Pikachu’s not going to tear his ACL…Charizard’s not going to get a DUI” in response to a question on why he invests in Pokémon cards over baseball cards.

Thought this was a pretty good reason…

August 24th Welcome back readers. Two more weeks for the Queer Games Bundle. This is one case of line-goes-up I’m always happy to see. Check out our Patreon if you like what we do and want to help us con…

This week: Sixteen new picks on Atari RPGs, spectacle and vastness, the eroticism of game overs, and more:

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This is a worthy read, one of the first books I’ve seen to go beyond shouting HYPE or CON or BUBBLE.

The World Is Born From Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games (Video Games and the Humanities, 8) The World Is Born From Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games (Video Games and the Humanities, 8) [Kunzelman, Cameron] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The World Is Born From Zero: Understanding Speculation and Video Games (Video Games and the Humanities, 8)

I hate the bald devil as much as any, but for informational purposes: my book on science fiction games, THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO, is currently on sale on that platform for $15 USD which is a steal. amzn.to/3HxAKjA

I’ve slowly been writing a TTRPG based on the Battle of Qadesh (Egyptians v Hittites).
I’m interested in game-making-as-research-process, so have been recording my questions, led by the requirements of the game.
Inspired by @florencesn.bsky.social I’ve been distilling these into mini zines.

On August 16, 2016, Mary and I started a weird little board game company. We didn’t know if it would last. At best, we expected it to be a sideline, a way to make a little extra cash publishing other designers’ games, which would offset the costs of whatever weird, uncommercial things I came up with. Of course we hoped it might turn out to be more, but I don’t think either of us expected to go full-time within six months, or for weird, “uncommercial” things to quickly become our bread-and-butter. I certainly didn’t expect it to last nine years. Heck, I didn’t expect me to last nine years. Finding and accepting who I really was and what really made me happy absolutely saved my life, and that only happened because of people I met through Hollandspiele. And being my own boss meant I got to chase that happiness without being afraid of losing my job or my ability to stay housed. Things are, let’s face it, pretty dire for trans folks right now. Like many of my queer siblings, I don’t feel safe and I don’t know how to navigate the future that’s ahead of me. But the continued support for my weird games and for our weird little company has been a source of solace and comfort, not to mention some semblance of financial stability. Mary and I are so grateful for that. To express that gratitude, we’re having a little flash sale this weekend, offering some of my games at $9 off now through Sunday. 49 OFF: THE GRASS CROWN - NICAEA - ENDURANCE - DOUBT IS OUR PRODUCT - OBLIQUE

Can you believe Hollandspiele has been around for nine years? We're having a flash sale now through Sunday, offering a $9 discount on five of my games.