mastodon 4.7.3🇺🇸 🇬🇧 I'm a German medievalist lexicographer, fan of games and comics and social justice. Disabled. Only slightly weird. Pronouns: he/him
🇩🇪 Ich bin deutscher mediävistischer Lexikograf, mag Spiele, Comics und soziale Gerechtigkeit. Behindert. Nur ein bisschen seltsam. Pronomen: er/ihm
My wife and I looked through our tabletop games. Some went onto the give-away pile. Lots went onto the we-want-to-play-this list, since we couldn't really remember much about them. Might be candidates for purging or keeping...
We still keep some games more for sentimental reasons than anything else. Oh well...
#boardgames
Short article by Alex Andriesse on @publicdomainrev@mastodon.social, talking about how games have ingrained world views, sometimes openly propagating (or marketing) certain opinions. Some games have the players progress through history to reach whatever is considered the apex of evolution. https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/progress-in-play-board-games-and-the-meaning-of-history
@boardgamehisto@brettspiel.space @gamestudies@a.gup.pe @histodons@a.gup.pe #games #GameStudies #HistoryOfGames #histodons
https://across-rpgsea.com/ is a great website for discovering tabletop RPGs from Southeast Asia/ creators of SEA descent. #RPGSEA #ttrpg
Finally finished Harrow the Ninth yesterday, the second book in Tamsyn Muir's "Locked Tomb" series. I tremendously enjoyed it - highly distinct setting (necromancers, swordfighting, and queerness in space). The story is twisted, spiced up with puzzles and the occasional mystery. The writing is on point, deft, skilful, landing its punches.
#HarrowTheNinth #Harrow #GideonTheNinth #TamsynMuir #LockedTomb
In ca. 1996 a German fanzine celebrated the artwork that Bryan Talbot contributed to Das Schwarze Auge (The Dark Eye, the most successful German rpg) by publishing an issue that you could puzzle into a giant poster of Talbot's troll illustration. It's pretty amazing. #Fanzine #BryanTalbot #DSA
I'm really enjoying "Seven Days in Silverglen". It's a a sapphic monstergirl romcom #webcomic by Ari North (#walkingnorth). Ari's writing is sensitive and wraps emotional punches in soft colors and words.
I first got to know (and love) Ari's comics with Always Human, another webcomic. I'm looking forward to getting the print version of the second (and last) season this summer, to reread it in that format.
Hi, I'm a fan of games, also researching some historical games. Surprise, I also enjoy comics, animation, music...
I've been on Mastodon for a few weeks, but I'm still figuring out how to best use it. This account will primarily be about games, I guess, although I tend to boost a lot, meaning other stuff (e.g. things related to social justice) will stream down the timeline, too.
@publixpace@nrw.social
Die Pyramidenform stammt hierher: http://blog.createdebate.com/2008/04/07/writing-strong-arguments/
Die Quelle der Inhalte ist Paul Graham's "How to disagree", der sich an einer 'Hierarchie des Widersprechens' versucht.
Die Pyramidengrafik wurde bei Wikimedia Commons in etliche Sprachen übersetzt. Ich glaube, die Wahl der graphischen Darstellung lässt sich kritisieren (wir sind dann mindestens auf der dritten Ebene 😘 ), auch begründet, aber diese Kritik muss nicht an @teacherrogueone@bildung.social gerichtet werden.
Finally submitted my proposal for a talk at the upcoming Board Game Studies Colloquium. The presentation would/will be about medieval legends about saints gambling, and winning with a broken die.
https://boardgamestudies.jimdofree.com/
Of course, now I will, in all likelihood, have to write that paper. Future me won't be happy about that additional work. 😉
@gamestudies@a.gup.pe #BoardGameStudies #GameStudies #medieval
Entergalactic, the animated movie by Kid Cudi, is cool. Looks gorgeous, great soundtrack, entertaining script.
I'll put this account on hold for the foreseeable time. I created it when I was experimenting how having several Mastodon accounts worked for me, and for now I think it is better for me to use fewer accounts.
Contact/follow me on Mastodon via
@JonasJRichter@mastodon.pnpde.social
@JonasJRichter@pixelfed.de and
@jonasjrichter@vernissage.pnpde.social are picture-focused accounts.
Das Höllfahren ist ein Kartenspiel, dessen Geschichte sich bis ins 16. Jahrhundert zurückverfolgen lässt. Die älteste erhaltene Spielregel stammt aus dem Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts und erschien unter dem Namen "Das Höllenspiel" in der Schubertschen Druckerei in Halle/Saale. #Spielforschung #Kartenspiele #GameStudies
https://gespiele.hypotheses.org/2769