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!
“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters at a private dinner in August that investors are “overexcited” about AI models and that “someone” will lose a “phenomenal amount of money.”
He means taxpayers, when the inevitable bailout occurs, not himself or other executives.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...
He means taxpayers, when the inevitable bailout occurs, not himself or other executives.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...
Google’s Sundar Pichai warns of “irrationality” in trillion-dollar AI investment boom
Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters at a private dinner in August that investors are “overexcited” about AI models and that “someone” will lose a “phenomenal amount of money.”
He means taxpayers, when the inevitable bailout occurs, not himself or other executives.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...
He means taxpayers, when the inevitable bailout occurs, not himself or other executives.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...
I still vividly remember watching a friend play this on PS2 and thinking, “damn, I must own this game.” I did not play games like DMC but it was so captivating, and the gameplay so fun, that I couldn’t resist buying it.
ICYMI: "Devil May Cry’s excellence is defined by its ingeniously designed world and flawless usage of ludonarrative harmony."
Vincent Dilworth digs into what makes the original Devil May Cry so good:
Vincent Dilworth digs into what makes the original Devil May Cry so good:
Cool As Hell: The Excellence of The Original Devil May Cry - Unwinnable
A cool, calm and collected, red-coat-wearing badass who executes demons on behalf of his slain mother and brother.
unwinnable.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I still vividly remember watching a friend play this on PS2 and thinking, “damn, I must own this game.” I did not play games like DMC but it was so captivating, and the gameplay so fun, that I couldn’t resist buying it.
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
"attention all bombshell milfs currently hunting with cruel determination for the most successful stock trader in manhattan," I say from every speaker in grand central station, "he is currently boarding the train to poughkeepsie" but it is a recording: I am already gone, on my way to new haven
November 15, 2025 at 2:47 AM
A Tale of Two Cities (1859)
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It’s officially out!
Excellent new titles releasing today:
-Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis, fiction by Larry Millett
-Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed by @ckunzelman.bsky.social
-By Their Work: Indigenous Women's Digital Media in North America, edited by Joanna Hearne and @karrmencrey.bsky.social
-Mysterious Tales of Old Minneapolis, fiction by Larry Millett
-Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed by @ckunzelman.bsky.social
-By Their Work: Indigenous Women's Digital Media in North America, edited by Joanna Hearne and @karrmencrey.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It’s officially out!
Played my first game of Deadball with my 5 year-old son and his Shark Stars hit a walk-off 3-run home run (hello, Bobby Witt Jr.!) against my Zebra Mussels. We ran with just the basic rules this first go-around but it was a great first experience. Excited to play again!
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Played my first game of Deadball with my 5 year-old son and his Shark Stars hit a walk-off 3-run home run (hello, Bobby Witt Jr.!) against my Zebra Mussels. We ran with just the basic rules this first go-around but it was a great first experience. Excited to play again!
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Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
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Hi friends! I am absolutely the worst at this myself but remember if we collectively decided we wanted to, I did create a #gamingthepast feed for BSky to aggregate. I'm trying to be better about that, because community is so important for history and games work. bsky.app/profile/gami...
November 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Hi friends! I am absolutely the worst at this myself but remember if we collectively decided we wanted to, I did create a #gamingthepast feed for BSky to aggregate. I'm trying to be better about that, because community is so important for history and games work. bsky.app/profile/gami...
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Everyone interested in #gamingthepast. Did you know that www.playthepast.org still lives, 15 years after its launch and Gilles Roy is steering the ship to provide us with new thoughts and analysis on games and history? 1/
Luo Chenchen is a master’s student in world history at East China Normal University, studying French history, public history and historical theory. He is deeply passionate about historical strategy games. He is committed to seriously examining the significance of counterfactual history for historical theory. [1] I saw the Emperor–this world-spirit–ridingContinue Reading
www.playthepast.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Everyone interested in #gamingthepast. Did you know that www.playthepast.org still lives, 15 years after its launch and Gilles Roy is steering the ship to provide us with new thoughts and analysis on games and history? 1/
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THE BANISHED VAULT is on SALE for 33% off. Buy it! Buy it for a friend! Help support development on future games.
store.steampowered.com/app/2341070/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2341070/...
Save 33% on The Banished Vault on Steam
A strategy game of exploration, endurance, and space travel on an interstellar gothic monastery. Explore solar systems, harvest resources, construct outposts, and face hazards in the challenging unive...
store.steampowered.com
June 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
THE BANISHED VAULT is on SALE for 33% off. Buy it! Buy it for a friend! Help support development on future games.
store.steampowered.com/app/2341070/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2341070/...
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A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
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WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO SELLING OUT THE FIRST PRINT RUN OF THIS BOOK! Please continue to buy it and send it around. It is available on all store fronts you might want to purchase it at!
ALERT! ALERT! We're in the last days of being able to preorder my book EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED: ON ASSASSIN'S CREED, which is a book about the Assassin's Creed franchise and how games reflect and impact the real world! Click this link and use the code MN93450 for 30% off! z.umn.edu/14943
Everything Is Permitted
An entertaining deep dive into the world, gameplay, and evolution of the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed video game franchiseA hooded figure stands i...
z.umn.edu
October 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO SELLING OUT THE FIRST PRINT RUN OF THIS BOOK! Please continue to buy it and send it around. It is available on all store fronts you might want to purchase it at!
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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/
Wrong Road — Real Life
The phone is a car: a symbol of freedom and convenience that transforms into an inescapable burden
reallifemag.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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/
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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!
acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...
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!
acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...
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…
acoup.blog
October 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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!
acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...
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!
acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...
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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.
The Assassin’s Creed series was a canary in the coal mine for our modern, engagement-obsessed world. @ckunzelman.bsky.social explains:
October 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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.
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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.
October 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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.
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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.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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.
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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.
Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."
Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books
Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.
www.publicbooks.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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.
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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?...
Through the Omenpaths is a Fascinating Mess
YouTube video by Spice8Rack
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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?...
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?...
Through the Omenpaths is a Fascinating Mess
YouTube video by Spice8Rack
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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?...
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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/...
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 ...
sites.libsyn.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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/...
History is actively being replaced with lore.
It's perfectly coherent to argue that taking down slave-owner statues is "destroying history" whilst erasing exhibits about the horrors of slavery isn't,- provided that history, to you, is a story to weaponise & not a process to understand.
September 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
History is actively being replaced with lore.
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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.
The Aurora Plastics Corporation, later Aurora Products, was known for their slot cars and licensed model kits. But the publication of a board game would change everything.
youtu.be/TH3QT05C25w
youtu.be/TH3QT05C25w
SKITTLE: the board game series that destroyed its publisher
YouTube video by Hollandspiele
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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.
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STALKER [1979; dir. Andrei Tarkovsky]
Hang on a minute. This "Zone" isn't "Cool" at all! It sucks!
September 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
STALKER [1979; dir. Andrei Tarkovsky]