Who are you?

People wonder why I dislike Mr. Maliszewski. Now assume you were a Democrat, what would your thoughts be about Mr. Blagoyevich?

Anyhoo, the tastelessness and lack of general spine is most obvious in statements such as:

Overall, I have mixed feelings about Rhialto the Marvellous. There’s no doubt that it contains some of Vance’s best and most humorous prose. The interactions between the immensely powerful and self-absorbed wizards is priceless and almost worth the price of admission alone. With the exception of „Morreion,“ though, I can’t say that the stories themselves particularly engaged me, with „Fader’s Waft“ being notably tedious at times. But perhaps the stories themselves aren’t the point so much as Vance’s luxurious prose and skill in producing dialog at once beautiful and vapid. If nothing else, the book is great inspiration for a campaign involving powerful magic-users in a decadent and dying world.

Let me translate: He doesn’t like Vance, even when he is at his best, but is too afraid to admit the fact.

What a spineless asshole.

Auferstanden aus Ruinen

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
und der Zukunft zugewandt,
danach laßt uns alle streben
Deutschland, einig Vaterland.
Denn es muß uns doch gelingen,
daß die Sonne schön wie nie
über Deutschland scheint,
über Deutschland scheint.

Deleuzians of Grandeur

I was wrong! I was of the opinion that the D&D-Retro-Movement was making distinctions that did not exist in the minds of the people back in the day based on rulessets aka „OD&D is a construction“.
Alas, while perusing my copy of Murphy’s Rules by Steve Jackson Games again, it became crystal clear:

Even in the days of the old Space Gamer magazine, people would closely read the rules of D&D and interpret and attribute them according to different editions. There are very clear distinctions made explicitly between AD&D, Basic D&D (aka BECMI nowadays) and most importantly Original D&D (italized in Space Gamer cited from Murphy’s Rules).

As making spoof-comics is as rock solid as reception goes, there you have it. I was wrong, and Original D&D always existed in the minds of the wargamer public. Now, the history of reception for Red-Boxians might be different. But to those who would read and write to Space Gamer in 1982, it was already established fact.