by the 1970s you also have Marvel writers like Engelheart having a right old time of it on LSD and filling their boots (sandals?) with reheated eastern mysticism whilst writing titles like Doctor Strange

woohoo, mes dents sont pas mal

I'll take that today...

oh no

come on, the man invented the mobject

Melinda Gates, I'm I guess you could say she wasn't technically "in the circle" but her feelings about him certainly seemed to play a part in her ditching Bill, no?

is suppose

couldn't figure out which was right here...

more slurs thrown in is like the standard rebuttal to any left or indeed non-partisan attempts to study, document or otherwise treat games seriously they've completely ceded all ground to people who have zero reason to give their side anything even vaguely resembling a fair hearing (though do)

very interesting things to say about how those beliefs shaped RPGs and do to this day & not just in a RW=Evil way

but because the right has taken such an anti-intellectual stance across EVERYTHING, and certainly in games where

'it's just a game bro, you're overthinking it bro' except with a few

start whose beliefs, whether consciously or not (and probably more the latter), did have a hugely important role in creating and shaping the medium

and there really are not very many artistic mediums, especially ones created in the modern era, where you can say that

and I think there are nuanced

Something that I do find mildly interesting/amusing is that I think once the early scene spread beyond those first basements there were clearly people with a wide spectrum of political beliefs involved

BUT there very clearly were a lot of people of a conservative/RLibertarian bent involved from the

or do it like bands when there were two with the same name in different countries and you ended up with eg Suede being called The London Suede in the states