Will be presenting a paper, "Monstrous Desires in Pornographic Videogames", at the DiGRA 2026 conference
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Published something different to my typical research topics: "Engaging Youth in Urban Planning Discussions with Minecraft: Challenges and Opportunities"
journal.seriousgamessociety.org/index.php/IJ...
Lately, Firefox has been really slow, so I decided to try Floorp (floorp.app) which is Mozilla-based browers with some added customizations and tweaks. So far, so good. Superfast compared to FIrefox, at least so far. Supereasy to move to as Mozilla add-ons etc. just work.
This is from the UK. There might have been copyright infringements in the process but the plaintiff dropped that part of the complaint and they could not prove evidence that copying has happened in the UK.
The judge ruled: “An AI model such as Stable Diffusion which does not store or reproduce any copyright works (and has never done so) is not an ‘infringing copy’.”
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
DiGRA 2026 (Ireland) CfP is now live
Full paper and abstracts deadline: 1 December 2025
Workshop proposals deadline: 15 February 2026
www.digraconference2026.com
#games #gamestudies
The paper is available on dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...
My presentation at Avatar Aesthetics workshop (#digra2025) www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ch...
The next flight is also so the first delay did cause v unrecoverable issues (just made me run again through FRA)
Let's see if I will be in Malta today: Your connection is at risk.
I think the design of those games are very intentional but I don't like the control design; however, there are emotionally powerful scenes in Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain.
Played also on PS, and normal difficulty feels like I am missing fingers.
I just hated the controls overall in Heavy Rain. In many cases, the controls in it were worse than in Fahrenheit (although it also has super annoying controls in certain sequences) so I haven't bothered...
My professor's lecture (that was given after promotion): A retrospect on my research
www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ga...
Proton offers end-to-end encrypted emails, drive, and documents editor (no spreadsheets etc, just text editing), and calendar. Proton headquarters are in Europe. Might be worth to consider instead of Google & Microsoft ecosystems (although proton can't replace all) proton.me
In defence of Custer's Revenge, the head of the production company said, 'We no more promote sexual violence in our game than Pac-Man promotes cannabilism.' www.upi.com/Archives/198...
Basically I have seen a few interpretations of the situation that follow the basic logic: Trump & his team could not get anywhere with Russians so they tried to force Ukraina to give up so that Trump can boast about the piece deal (and that he does not care if the piece deal works in long term).
I am not sure if there would be anything to be done if, for example, this analysis is correct www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaCb...
EPP method is quite similar to thematic analysis and the described process to large extent works with the thematic analysis (e.g, instead of analyzing data per participant and combining at the end, analyze all participant data simultaneously)
According to a Finnish newspaper, the US is demanding University of Helsinki to remove certain words from grants announcements (e.g. climate change)
www.hbl.fi/artikel/usa-...
From the land of free speech.
Chromosomes are fixed but sexual organs are not present at conception (also, what would be people with XXY, XYY? Is there some other possible combinations).
Trump declares all people as female in his executive order. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkBK...
Studying games: formal analysis and stimulated recall. A method lecture at PhD winter school www.slideshare.net/slideshow/st...
The theme song for 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJUQ...