Evan Torner
Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
- GAMEr vs WARrior Debate, started by Jeff Perren in the 3rd Domesday Book newsletter, 1970
- Short game pitch: An adaptation of The Writer Will Do Something, but for higher-ed program management
- Play always rests on the paradox that it is ephemeral and fleeting, and yet also an absolutely rich vein to be mined by all kinds of forces, both benign and hostile.
- And this lack of healthcare subsidy actually makes *everyone's* co-pays go up, as anyone who's had to cover a recent health bill can tell you. Moreno was always a toxic pick for ultra-gerrymandered Ohio, and now he's inflicting precisely the pain on all of us that his donors bought and paid for.
- Top Senate negotiators say an effort to renew expired healthcare subsidies has effectively collapsed www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reading higher-ed policy news in 2026 is very much like "How to Anticipate and Then Experience a Leopard Eating Your Face"
- Overwatch 2 is the most hazily non-sequel sequel ever begotten on this Earth
- "Kapos have their own rooms, where they can hoard supplies and receive young favorites." -Alain Resnais, Night and Fog (1955)
- When the culture war and the anti-democracy war are the only ones you're willing to fight....
- Can relate
