Dr. Steve Mallory
@drstevemallory.bsky.social
Game Designer, Game Studies Academic, Historian, Digital Games and Fascism, Digimodernism, Assistant Professor of Design. Views are my own.
Three Video Games in a Trench Coat
Three Video Games in a Trench Coat
I'm in here too! Showing how History Games can be used to teach Historiography through play!
New article on larp, activism and deliberation in this collection, out in December!
Education and Analog Role-Playing Games: Theory and Pedagogy, Volume 1
Education and Analog Role-Playing Games: Theory and Pedagogy brings together scholars and educators who explore the educational potential of analog role-playing games (tabletop role-playing games and ...
www.routledge.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I'm in here too! Showing how History Games can be used to teach Historiography through play!
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If the motto of the first Trump regime was the cruelty is the point (Adam Serwer) then the motto of the second is every accusation is a confession: the weaponization of the federal government against political opponents, the Trump crime family, and the torpedoing of the economy and U.S. hegemony.
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
If the motto of the first Trump regime was the cruelty is the point (Adam Serwer) then the motto of the second is every accusation is a confession: the weaponization of the federal government against political opponents, the Trump crime family, and the torpedoing of the economy and U.S. hegemony.
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The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open
From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.
newrepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
What is it like in your head?
October 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
What is it like in your head?
I want to teach a class with this as the core text...
Deutinger's Handbook of Tyranny is still the best archive of hostile architecture and design that I know. I'd love an equivalent that'd be related to digital software and hardware.
Know tyranny in everyday structures and spaces! We're miserable for a reason.
www.artbook.com/978303778719...
Know tyranny in everyday structures and spaces! We're miserable for a reason.
www.artbook.com/978303778719...
October 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I want to teach a class with this as the core text...
I know I don't post here much. I should, but I don't.
Part of it is that it feels performative.
The other part is that I don't want the gestapo snooping on me.
Part of it is that it feels performative.
The other part is that I don't want the gestapo snooping on me.
October 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I know I don't post here much. I should, but I don't.
Part of it is that it feels performative.
The other part is that I don't want the gestapo snooping on me.
Part of it is that it feels performative.
The other part is that I don't want the gestapo snooping on me.
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Canvas is down. Whether related to the AWS outage or not I don’t know. Sucks that this is how university infrastructure runs now either way.
October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Canvas is down. Whether related to the AWS outage or not I don’t know. Sucks that this is how university infrastructure runs now either way.
I don't think we talk enough about Cultivation Theory and how it has turned vast swaths of people into completely unthinking blobs, like POTUS
October 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I don't think we talk enough about Cultivation Theory and how it has turned vast swaths of people into completely unthinking blobs, like POTUS
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It’s super bad to suggest someone is in hell, right, Republicans?
September 19, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It’s super bad to suggest someone is in hell, right, Republicans?
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It was about "protecting women's sports" in the same way gamergate was about "ethics in gaming journalism."
Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms
Province's new requirements are already having impacts on girls' sports in junior high
edmontonjournal.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It was about "protecting women's sports" in the same way gamergate was about "ethics in gaming journalism."
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Hint: if a group doesn't have any organizational structure, and instead affiliation is solely determined by ideological alignment, and the definition is deliberately distorted by its enemies, then declaring it a terrorist organization is solely a tool to dispose of political enemies
Trump says he’s designating “antifa” a terrorist group and launching a probe into finding of antifa activities. The FBI has long said antifa doesn’t really have a centralized structure or leadership.
September 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Hint: if a group doesn't have any organizational structure, and instead affiliation is solely determined by ideological alignment, and the definition is deliberately distorted by its enemies, then declaring it a terrorist organization is solely a tool to dispose of political enemies
Trump's idea of hate speech is as nuanced as Michael Scott's idea of it
September 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Trump's idea of hate speech is as nuanced as Michael Scott's idea of it
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The unreality of fascism requires martyrs and Kirk is now a martyr for the fascist state that is being built around us.
I would expect he gets a state funeral as well as all the pageantry that would go along normally with the death of a head of state because the fascist are building myths.
I would expect he gets a state funeral as well as all the pageantry that would go along normally with the death of a head of state because the fascist are building myths.
They‘re legit gonna have this guy lie in state.
HE WAS JUST A GUY.
What is going on.
HE WAS JUST A GUY.
What is going on.
September 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The unreality of fascism requires martyrs and Kirk is now a martyr for the fascist state that is being built around us.
I would expect he gets a state funeral as well as all the pageantry that would go along normally with the death of a head of state because the fascist are building myths.
I would expect he gets a state funeral as well as all the pageantry that would go along normally with the death of a head of state because the fascist are building myths.
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It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.
September 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.
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Wanna know more about Einstein's anti-racist work, usually in collaboration with the great actor/singer Paul Robeson? I wrote about it for Smithsonian! (don't tell the White House) www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
September 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Wanna know more about Einstein's anti-racist work, usually in collaboration with the great actor/singer Paul Robeson? I wrote about it for Smithsonian! (don't tell the White House) www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
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If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.
September 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.
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The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.
September 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The reaction to Kirk’s murder on the right is a reminder that Republicans are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.
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"There is a separation of white people and colored people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
- Albert Einstein, 1946
- Albert Einstein, 1946
September 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM
"There is a separation of white people and colored people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
- Albert Einstein, 1946
- Albert Einstein, 1946
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you cannot be disparaged by your own words... people cannot attack you with your own ideas
if ones words are repeated and they are viewed unfavorably that is not a reflection of the one who repeats
it is a reflection of the author
if ones words are repeated and they are viewed unfavorably that is not a reflection of the one who repeats
it is a reflection of the author
September 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
you cannot be disparaged by your own words... people cannot attack you with your own ideas
if ones words are repeated and they are viewed unfavorably that is not a reflection of the one who repeats
it is a reflection of the author
if ones words are repeated and they are viewed unfavorably that is not a reflection of the one who repeats
it is a reflection of the author
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It's only political violence if it targets white conservatives, otherwise it's the way things are.
September 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It's only political violence if it targets white conservatives, otherwise it's the way things are.
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Matthew Dowd was right. Stating facts about someone is not celebrating, and CK was unnecessarily cruel, racist, and dehumanizing. His “brand” of rage bait is no different than the KKK of yesterday years. He did nothing to make society better, and actively made it worse.
September 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Matthew Dowd was right. Stating facts about someone is not celebrating, and CK was unnecessarily cruel, racist, and dehumanizing. His “brand” of rage bait is no different than the KKK of yesterday years. He did nothing to make society better, and actively made it worse.
Can someone explain why Americans are treating Charlie Kirk with so much respect when he treated EVERYONE but conservatives, including children killed in school shootings, with so much contempt and indifference?
September 11, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Can someone explain why Americans are treating Charlie Kirk with so much respect when he treated EVERYONE but conservatives, including children killed in school shootings, with so much contempt and indifference?
“You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. I think it's worth it.” – Charlie Kirk
September 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death. I think it's worth it.” – Charlie Kirk