Will be presenting a paper, "Monstrous Desires in Pornographic Videogames", at the DiGRA 2026 conference

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.

AI firm wins high court ruling after photo agency’s copyright claim Ruling in case brought by Getty Images against Stability AI is seen as a blow to copyright owners

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 Conference | Maynooth University Join the DiGRA 2026 conference at Maynooth University, 14–18 June 2026. Theme “Intersectional Pleasures.” A global hybrid event for game research, culture, design, and industry.

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...

Parties and Play: How Single-Player Games Use Partying and Party Games Parties and partying show up in many single-player video games, but they haven’t been studied much. In this paper, we explore how parties are shown and used in games. We looked at 22 games to find pat...

link.growkudos.com/1f8d83dih34

Character Engagement and Embodiment: Towards Understanding the Aesthetics of Engagement presentation slides from a presentation at the Avatar Aesthetics workshop (in DiGRA 2025 conference) - Download as a PDF or view online for free

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...

Courier by lankoski A surrealistic maze/puzzle game

The screenshot from the 1st slide is from lankoski.itch.io/courier

Game Design Research: Reflections and Direction Game Design Research: Reflections and Direction - Download as a PDF or view online for free

My professor's lecture (that was given after promotion): A retrospect on my research
www.slideshare.net/slideshow/ga...

Proton: Privacy by default Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.

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

National News Briefs - UPI Archives The president of the California company that produces the adult video game 'Custer's Revenge' makes no apology for the idea but says he may pull it from the...

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).

Trump humiliates Zelensky to save his doomed peace process YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen

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)

Qualitative analysis with EPP and Taguette Qualitative analysis with EPP and Taguette - Download as a PDF or view online for free

Qualitative analysis with EPP method and Taguette www.slideshare.net/slideshow/qu...

Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys Japanese investors sold a record $61.9 billion of the securities in the three months ended Sept. 30.

It seems so that it is not just note-taking: www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...

USA kräver att Helsingfors universitet rensar bort ord ur stipendieannonser Ord som klimatförändringen prickas • Ett stipendium har dragits in.

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).

Idiot Trump Signs Order Declaring Everyone In The Country Is A Woman YouTube video by Farron Balanced

Trump declares all people as female in his executive order. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkBK...

Trump Withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

Trump plays Russian roulette www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

Studying Games: Formal Analysis and Stimulated Recall Interiviews Studying Games: Formal Analysis and Stimulated Recall Interiviews - Download as a PDF or view online for free

Studying games: formal analysis and stimulated recall. A method lecture at PhD winter school www.slideshare.net/slideshow/st...

Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump's Inauguration The far right is celebrating what it views as a clear signal from the X owner and Donald Trump associate, who made the gestures on stage Monday.

The USA is not well www.wired.com/story/neo-na...

Dead Posey - Welcome To The Nightmare (Official Video) YouTube video by DEAD POSEY

The theme song for 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJUQ...