Jeremy Antley
@jantley.bsky.social
🇷🇺History PhD / Game Studies / Wargames / Left-Handed
🗺️Portland, OR
📝 Decoding the Haunted Screen (on external references in Magic: the Gathering) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9AxN4CA4vWjkEgbhfWK9TJlUsJ5q-c/view?usp=drivesdk
🗺️Portland, OR
📝 Decoding the Haunted Screen (on external references in Magic: the Gathering) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wE9AxN4CA4vWjkEgbhfWK9TJlUsJ5q-c/view?usp=drivesdk
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Jeremy Antley
@jantley.bsky.social
· Nov 10
About myself: I have a PhD in Russian History, studied peasant culture of the 19th century, and wrote my diss on the Oregon Old Believers. Now my interest is in analyzing simulations in historical board games.
I live in the PNW and work as a paralegal for a family law firm.
Nice to meet you!
I live in the PNW and work as a paralegal for a family law firm.
Nice to meet you!
Certainly feels like we are edging ever closer to John Brown territory.
January 24, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Certainly feels like we are edging ever closer to John Brown territory.
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Tune in today for @ckunzelman.bsky.social discussing material from his new book on Assassin's Creed, coming up in 20 short minutes on @romchip.bsky.social's Twitch channel.
📢 TODAY ONLY - @ 2PM ET 📢
🗡️📜🕹️ Cameron Kunzelman talks Assassin’s Creed, history, and how the franchise explores freedom, control, and conspiracy across time.
📺 Head to www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal to join the talk! 📺
💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/3PQ2HDE
🗡️📜🕹️ Cameron Kunzelman talks Assassin’s Creed, history, and how the franchise explores freedom, control, and conspiracy across time.
📺 Head to www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal to join the talk! 📺
💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/3PQ2HDE
January 23, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Tune in today for @ckunzelman.bsky.social discussing material from his new book on Assassin's Creed, coming up in 20 short minutes on @romchip.bsky.social's Twitch channel.
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📡 Signal blasting for new followers: I wanna do a lil intro abt ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social b/c we got an important fundraiser coming up in a few weeks.
It's a free, open-access journal dedicated to game history, and if you love games, here's why you should care 🕹️🎲🀄🎯
It's a free, open-access journal dedicated to game history, and if you love games, here's why you should care 🕹️🎲🀄🎯
January 22, 2026 at 4:27 PM
📡 Signal blasting for new followers: I wanna do a lil intro abt ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social b/c we got an important fundraiser coming up in a few weeks.
It's a free, open-access journal dedicated to game history, and if you love games, here's why you should care 🕹️🎲🀄🎯
It's a free, open-access journal dedicated to game history, and if you love games, here's why you should care 🕹️🎲🀄🎯
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That means: no institution pays our bills. We run on what we raise during our annual Twitch fundraiser, from donors like you
Our fundraising season starts TMW with a free, public talk by @ckunzelman.bsky.social about his new book on Assassin's Creed. Tix and more info here: bit.ly/4t0NwKn
Our fundraising season starts TMW with a free, public talk by @ckunzelman.bsky.social about his new book on Assassin's Creed. Tix and more info here: bit.ly/4t0NwKn
Select Tickets – ROMchip Presents: Cameron Kunzelman on his book Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed – Twitch
ROMchip Presents: Cameron Kunzelman on his book Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed – Twitch, Fri Jan 23, 2026 - **Tickets serve as calendar reminders for the event; they are not required to ...
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January 22, 2026 at 4:37 PM
That means: no institution pays our bills. We run on what we raise during our annual Twitch fundraiser, from donors like you
Our fundraising season starts TMW with a free, public talk by @ckunzelman.bsky.social about his new book on Assassin's Creed. Tix and more info here: bit.ly/4t0NwKn
Our fundraising season starts TMW with a free, public talk by @ckunzelman.bsky.social about his new book on Assassin's Creed. Tix and more info here: bit.ly/4t0NwKn
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📢 THIS Friday Jan 23 @ 2pm ET 📢
🗡️📜🕹️ Cameron Kunzelman talks Assassin’s Creed, history, and how the franchise explores freedom, control, and conspiracy across time. 🗡️📜🕹️
🎟️ TIX + Info: buff.ly/P2lVM1D
💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/QUhQANh
🗡️📜🕹️ Cameron Kunzelman talks Assassin’s Creed, history, and how the franchise explores freedom, control, and conspiracy across time. 🗡️📜🕹️
🎟️ TIX + Info: buff.ly/P2lVM1D
💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/QUhQANh
January 21, 2026 at 6:02 PM
📢 THIS Friday Jan 23 @ 2pm ET 📢
🗡️📜🕹️ Cameron Kunzelman talks Assassin’s Creed, history, and how the franchise explores freedom, control, and conspiracy across time. 🗡️📜🕹️
🎟️ TIX + Info: buff.ly/P2lVM1D
💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/QUhQANh
🗡️📜🕹️ Cameron Kunzelman talks Assassin’s Creed, history, and how the franchise explores freedom, control, and conspiracy across time. 🗡️📜🕹️
🎟️ TIX + Info: buff.ly/P2lVM1D
💸 Our talks are always FREE and PUBLIC. DONATE: buff.ly/QUhQANh
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All the fans are wondering: is Yoshi's Island part of the Mushroom Kingdom, or a sovereign country? Perhaps it is more a protectorate, or a vassal state? And what the FANS aren't taking into CONSIDERATION is that Yoshi has a GUN, so it's WHATEVER the FUCK Yoshi wants it to be
January 17, 2026 at 10:45 PM
All the fans are wondering: is Yoshi's Island part of the Mushroom Kingdom, or a sovereign country? Perhaps it is more a protectorate, or a vassal state? And what the FANS aren't taking into CONSIDERATION is that Yoshi has a GUN, so it's WHATEVER the FUCK Yoshi wants it to be
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this is Rowan signing off once again with "you can't understand the history of games without understanding how we physically interfaced with them"
January 6, 2026 at 5:32 AM
this is Rowan signing off once again with "you can't understand the history of games without understanding how we physically interfaced with them"
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Guys if you haven't watched it yet, this 4 part YouTube miniseries about how the first transatlantic telegraph line in the mid 19th century is like the tv show HOME IMPROVEMENT is one of the best things I watched in 2025 youtu.be/zmyBSrQodnI?...
The birth of the internet, according to Jon Bois
YouTube video by Secret Base
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January 6, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Guys if you haven't watched it yet, this 4 part YouTube miniseries about how the first transatlantic telegraph line in the mid 19th century is like the tv show HOME IMPROVEMENT is one of the best things I watched in 2025 youtu.be/zmyBSrQodnI?...
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The #ttrpg that's been at the top of my wish list for years is about to finally release, so I wanted to give a brief plug for "Stonetop" so other people who find it as exciting as I do can get in on what might be a limited print run. 1/
January 3, 2026 at 5:37 AM
The #ttrpg that's been at the top of my wish list for years is about to finally release, so I wanted to give a brief plug for "Stonetop" so other people who find it as exciting as I do can get in on what might be a limited print run. 1/
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Deadball with my 5yr old today. Llewellyn Shark Stars v. Goose Hollow Hussars. When Puk Vulman singled with two outs to put runners on the corners in the bottom of the Fifth, my son pulls Justin Verlander for Wade Davis and gets the K to end the inning, preserve the tie. Future manager material!
January 5, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Deadball with my 5yr old today. Llewellyn Shark Stars v. Goose Hollow Hussars. When Puk Vulman singled with two outs to put runners on the corners in the bottom of the Fifth, my son pulls Justin Verlander for Wade Davis and gets the K to end the inning, preserve the tie. Future manager material!
Deadball with my 5yr old today. Llewellyn Shark Stars v. Goose Hollow Hussars. When Puk Vulman singled with two outs to put runners on the corners in the bottom of the Fifth, my son pulls Justin Verlander for Wade Davis and gets the K to end the inning, preserve the tie. Future manager material!
January 5, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Deadball with my 5yr old today. Llewellyn Shark Stars v. Goose Hollow Hussars. When Puk Vulman singled with two outs to put runners on the corners in the bottom of the Fifth, my son pulls Justin Verlander for Wade Davis and gets the K to end the inning, preserve the tie. Future manager material!
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ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
June 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese.
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity
ME: you want anything
VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import
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Thank you all for your patience! Without further ado, it's This Year In Videogame Blogging 2025, complete with a bonus This Week In Videogame Blogging, December 28, 2025!
critical-distance.com/2026/01/01/t...
critical-distance.com/2026/01/01/t...
critical-distance.com
January 1, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Thank you all for your patience! Without further ado, it's This Year In Videogame Blogging 2025, complete with a bonus This Week In Videogame Blogging, December 28, 2025!
critical-distance.com/2026/01/01/t...
critical-distance.com/2026/01/01/t...
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What they also had was an unprecedented and unrepeated blank check budget owed to the Batmania drifting off Tim Burton’s movies. We’ll probably never see anything like it again. Read @dandock.bsky.social’s book next year, I AM THE NIGHT, for the full context of how this programming miracle happened.
Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
January 1, 2026 at 3:25 AM
What they also had was an unprecedented and unrepeated blank check budget owed to the Batmania drifting off Tim Burton’s movies. We’ll probably never see anything like it again. Read @dandock.bsky.social’s book next year, I AM THE NIGHT, for the full context of how this programming miracle happened.
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New @romchip.bsky.social issue just dropped and it's a big one! Come for @lainenooney.bsky.social's epic interview with Leigh Alexander, stay for Hanae Kramer's dive into the Japanese hobby culture around "superguns".
www.romchip.org/index.php/ro...
www.romchip.org/index.php/ro...
ROMchip
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is a platform designed for the advancement of critical historical studies of games.
www.romchip.org
December 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
New @romchip.bsky.social issue just dropped and it's a big one! Come for @lainenooney.bsky.social's epic interview with Leigh Alexander, stay for Hanae Kramer's dive into the Japanese hobby culture around "superguns".
www.romchip.org/index.php/ro...
www.romchip.org/index.php/ro...
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"People didn't put politics in their gaming in the old days".
The year is 1969, a 25 year old Jim Dunnigan designs the wargame "Up Against the Wall, Motherf*****", a game about the student demonstrations at Columbia. One player plays the Administration and the other the Radicals.
The year is 1969, a 25 year old Jim Dunnigan designs the wargame "Up Against the Wall, Motherf*****", a game about the student demonstrations at Columbia. One player plays the Administration and the other the Radicals.
December 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"People didn't put politics in their gaming in the old days".
The year is 1969, a 25 year old Jim Dunnigan designs the wargame "Up Against the Wall, Motherf*****", a game about the student demonstrations at Columbia. One player plays the Administration and the other the Radicals.
The year is 1969, a 25 year old Jim Dunnigan designs the wargame "Up Against the Wall, Motherf*****", a game about the student demonstrations at Columbia. One player plays the Administration and the other the Radicals.
I’ve known for a while that making time for reading makes me happier, so I’m getting back on track with Sara Ahmed’s *The Promise of Happiness* and I swear this was not intentional.
December 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’ve known for a while that making time for reading makes me happier, so I’m getting back on track with Sara Ahmed’s *The Promise of Happiness* and I swear this was not intentional.
Analog counterpoint: “…far simpler paper simulations could achieve similar effects by fostering emotional experiences, indelible moments which prompted participants to internalize a worldview far more convincingly than any outside instruction could achieve.” reallifemag.com/command-and-...
December 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Analog counterpoint: “…far simpler paper simulations could achieve similar effects by fostering emotional experiences, indelible moments which prompted participants to internalize a worldview far more convincingly than any outside instruction could achieve.” reallifemag.com/command-and-...
The ‘crunch’ scenes on the bus would be incredible.
if i had a chance to write a john madden screenplay, i'd make it a screenlife film of him selflessly programming the madden games all by himself as the ungrateful and ignorant public complains about their bugs and glitches
December 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The ‘crunch’ scenes on the bus would be incredible.
Day after Christmas, spending time listening to Flora Hibberd’s absolutely marvelous *Swirl* on the new turntable. Easily a top album of 2025.
(Also, my kitchen is being remodeled and everything is jumbled, misplaced, and temporary, much like the placement of the record player and receiver)
(Also, my kitchen is being remodeled and everything is jumbled, misplaced, and temporary, much like the placement of the record player and receiver)
December 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Day after Christmas, spending time listening to Flora Hibberd’s absolutely marvelous *Swirl* on the new turntable. Easily a top album of 2025.
(Also, my kitchen is being remodeled and everything is jumbled, misplaced, and temporary, much like the placement of the record player and receiver)
(Also, my kitchen is being remodeled and everything is jumbled, misplaced, and temporary, much like the placement of the record player and receiver)
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If you’re reading this on Christmas morning, do me a favor and grab the family tv and throw the MAGES AND MURDERDADS video playlist up on there. Lotta visual gags for the whole family, and it’s like 150 hours long. m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Mages and Murderdads - YouTube
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December 25, 2025 at 5:58 AM
If you’re reading this on Christmas morning, do me a favor and grab the family tv and throw the MAGES AND MURDERDADS video playlist up on there. Lotta visual gags for the whole family, and it’s like 150 hours long. m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Kid Icarus is weird, it's all rough edges, it plays like it doesn't want you to get through it. All of that is the reason to play, though, not to avoid it. There's a good game in here if you can stomach failure, one that experimented and refused to be either approachable or just one thing.
Retro spotlight: Kid Icarus
Kid Icarus is a good game, so long as you can stomach failure.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Kid Icarus is weird, it's all rough edges, it plays like it doesn't want you to get through it. All of that is the reason to play, though, not to avoid it. There's a good game in here if you can stomach failure, one that experimented and refused to be either approachable or just one thing.
Someone please photoshop this group of people into the scene in *The Money Pit* where Tom Hanks is trapped in a carpet stuck in a hole in the floor. That is the only appropriate image for these ‘architects of AI.’
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Someone please photoshop this group of people into the scene in *The Money Pit* where Tom Hanks is trapped in a carpet stuck in a hole in the floor. That is the only appropriate image for these ‘architects of AI.’
Checking out the new Conway the Machine album today—also have the new Nas/DJ Premier album on queue as well. It’s been a fantastic year for hip-hop and while I’m loving these albums the best in the game, for me, is still Boldy James.
December 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Checking out the new Conway the Machine album today—also have the new Nas/DJ Premier album on queue as well. It’s been a fantastic year for hip-hop and while I’m loving these albums the best in the game, for me, is still Boldy James.
I’m at a children’s party. We are hunting for a unicorn to save it. The unicorn is actually a piñata. The children must now beat the unicorn with a stick to extract the candy within. Did I say this was a children’s party? This is actually an MBA course.
December 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I’m at a children’s party. We are hunting for a unicorn to save it. The unicorn is actually a piñata. The children must now beat the unicorn with a stick to extract the candy within. Did I say this was a children’s party? This is actually an MBA course.