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Spent the last couple weeks binging on the archives for this blog. It was a fantastic read. The author does a great job of researching primary and secondary sources, and has a real talent for clear writing that digs into the details of people, games, and technologies. Totally recommended.

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Seconded! Jimmy Maher is one of the writers that I'm extremely happy to support with Patreon's "blind" model, where the author gets paid $X for publishing an item regardless of its content.

I don't read everything he writes (recently there was a series about WWI fighter aces that I didn't have the patience for)... Yet I feel it's absolutely proper to pay for anything he chooses to publish. That's the only way an author can have the freedom to pick his topics without having to think about its short-term commercial viability in terms of clicks/shares/donations.

Thanks for suggesting patreon! Used it for the first time with him.

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