But truly, anyone who believes in the idea of left-leaning faculty has never attended faculty governance meetings or read their output.

I think the X-Men movie was still in theaters at the time.

I remember, compared with 1998 (Blade, Fallen) and 1999 (Fight Club, The Matrix), that Hollywood in 2000 seemed to suck, but that didn't matter because it was the summer before I went to college and everything seemed rosy in my book.

Without stating your age, post a movie that was just released when you turned 18

They quietly murmured among themselves, as books tend to do

I was snarking earlier, but now I'm also staring at my bookshelves and asking the little guys "Which ones among you wish to rest beside my rotting corpse for the next 2000 years?"

Analog Game Studies

The wonderful thing about this year is that you'll now begin to see our *previous years'* AGS issues populating the new site as we finish the process of adapting them.

For example, here is last year's special issue on Queer Analog Game Studies, ready to read:

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Please bury me with *my* favorite books k thx bye

Long live Ukraine as the leader and defender of the free world

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seb pines is the ttrpg creator we all need to be watching and playing rn

Playable Theatre Symposium Highlights - YouTube Here are just some of the amazing sessions from the Playable Theatre Symposium series of events. Access the entire archive by becoming a Playable Theatre or ...

Trying to change that!

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"What do you study?"

"Tabletop role-playing games."

"Oh, like D&D?"

"Kinda. They come from the same roots but--"

"OH you mean 'game-y wame-y theatre exercises that aren't legitimate objects of study!'"

"*sighs* Would it help if I made a Citizen Sleep reference?"

"Now THAT'S a real game!"

If you work in games and want food for thought, there's no food tastier or more nutritious than the Kaleidoscope podcast right now.

Every episode has been an absolute banger so far, brilliant thoughtful discussions with great guests. Kudos @jon.inkle.co and @sagarberoshi.bsky.social !

It would be better if politicians worked for the American people, rather than the health-profiteer industrial complex.

Y'know, so most of us can buy food.

I got into game studies because there were scholars who'd dismiss, with a gesture, the games that let me tell intricate stories with total strangers, while then eagerly pointing at this 3D-modeled corporate game product in which you chose to turn little girls into power ups: "Now THAT'S a story!"

Living the (thoroughly automated) dream!

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Day 107 #MusicVideoTime

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From the dice community on Reddit: Lou Zocchi has died Explore this post and more from the dice community

Word is that Lou Zocchi passed today.

He was one of the earliest distributors of RPGs, helping them to get out to players across the country.

He published foundational early RPGs like Space Patrol and Superhero: 2044 (the latter the first superhero RPG).

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Day 106 #MusicVideoTime

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Archive work. Sorting thousands upon thousands of digital & physical files, so everything is properly secure and catalogued and ready for posterity. I tend also to read them when I am going through them, etc.

The one larp I'd never be able to design would be an adaptation of the Don Bluth film All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989), and I don't need to explain why.

A Clearing of the Ground | Christopher Benfey Small liberal arts colleges face so many challenges today that their precarious survival may be more surprising than their escalating demise. The

“The shuttering of Hampshire College … feels different, not so much another liberal arts domino falling as the symbolic end of a whole tradition of progressive education in the US.” www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

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Day 105 #MusicVideoTime

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The Stalinesque gigantomania of American and Chinese tech industry culture is not financially and environmentally sustainable. It's a path that risks breaking the tech sector and global economy with it.

Whoever aims for smaller instead will win big.

These spaces, these silences, these "WTF is going on?!!" moments, these moments when empathy and indifference are channeled....

They'll haunt you.

The chief lesson of poststructural critique is that silences, fragments, and gaps speak louder than speech, wholeness, and cohesion.

What's wild is that the thoughtful player of GAME slips into that frame of reference as a *survival technique* for repeated in media res encounters.

This video-game experience is a master class in *elision* -- just... massive, ambiguous holes in the storyline that let the player fill in with their own horrifying conclusions. (It's often better *not* to explain this or that element.)

I am still shaking a bit from the whole thing.

"There must be a firewall put in place by Congress to prevent this kind of hostile political takeover of the Kennedy Center from ever happening again. I hope that more of my former colleagues come forward too, even if anonymously."

Reading @brkeogh.bsky.social’s new book on Game Studies, and it does A LOT of important work just untangling the various strands of the field. As an “academic practitioner”, it’s greatly clarified the divide between game studies (playing games) and game design studies (making games)

Sánchez: “The Far Right and the Right are not shouting because they are winning. They shout because they know their time is coming to an end.”