Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of games, the Cold War, nuclear stuff, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar
Malcolm Craig
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Over on the @handiworkgames.bsky.social blog, I am musing about running Hot War at conventions, in light of last weekend's Rolling in the Ruins organised and hosted by @breakfastruins.bsky.social
the only thing better than this would be Threads pour l'homme - the unmistakeable scent of despair, collapse, and death
#Misinformation - however well-intended - is still misinformation. Tell-tale-signs here are: the various flags of Bosnia-Herzogiva dangling everywhere, the total absence of Albanian flags, the fact that people are jumping around and are generally rather cheerful. #criticalthinking
Finally! An aftershave designed to appeal to my particular tastes.
Although, I don't shave. But anyway.
Like almost everyone else, I have absolutely no memory of this (short lived) RPG magazine. And it's from 1991-92, when I was consuming RPG stuff like it was fresh air.
2) When I was a PhD student I wrote a couple of reviews that I now really, really regret. I imagined at the time that I had to be ultra-critical, so kind of went to town on that. But now I'm at the point in my career where I'm not going to write a review of something I don't like.
1) Academic book reviews are a funny old beast. I'm writing up one at the moment, and I have nothing bad to say about the book. Yes, I know we have to approach the book critically, but anything I have to say on that front is just going to be nitpicking. It's great, and I'm happy to say that!
4) And I am not one who enjoys publicly slamming the hard work of a professional colleague. Of course, there are caveats. I've written reviews of work by established, senior scholars, work that was objectively shoddy and not befitting the writer. But I would rather avoid that!
This thread from @petraboynton.bsky.social is absolutely worth your time. Although with content warnings around sexual violence, abuse, and misogyny.
