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2026-05-04 23:02 UTC

@kworker@kolektiva.social @fishsauce@mastodon.social This is so good. While I agree with Crimethinc.’s analysis of the game and its genesis, as you’d expect, I also have a certain amount of reverence built up for Jim Dunnigan – he looms far larger, albeit mostly indirectly, in the story of my own life than can be accounted for in a flat reading of the politics of simulation. That CRT is like a piece of the mid-seventies dropped into 1969. It must’ve given them a little frisson.

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@adamgreenfield@social.coop 2026-05-04 23:10

@kworker@kolektiva.social @fishsauce@mastodon.social I wouldn’t want to push the analogy too far, but it’s interesting to consider the SPI of just a very few years down the road as The Man – the Establishment hairier game designers like Steve Jackson were trying to dethrone. @nyrath@spacey.space who was there at the time may have more insight into such dynamics, if indeed there were any!

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@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net 2026-05-05 00:20

@adamgreenfield@social.coop @kworker@kolektiva.social @fishsauce@mastodon.social @nyrath@spacey.space for folks who never discovered it, Mr. Dunnigan also built up StrategyPage.com later in his career, and might still be involved with. I love its style of news and topic focus, and very much a great example of the early WWW style still around: https://www.strategypage.com/

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