Conflating "challenged" with "offended" has gotta be one of the most exhausting rhetorical shifts of the last 25 years

戦争はクソゲー

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

The circle of death is:

Cut faculty (or non-replace) so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so you cut faculty so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so then the market has spoken.

Sega’s One-Sided Story Sega’s story is not a straightfoward tale of betrayal, blundering, or anything simple.

Just going to give this another signal boost as we're in for another round of if only it wasn't for the Japanese then Sega would still be making consoles.

This is an excellent collaborative research piece from @playhistory.bsky.social that examines SoA and SoJ from a more nuanced perspective.

For the cost of one Harvard Professor of the Constitution Only Applies to White People, you could endow 10 professorships of any less commonly taught language at any university in the USA

I created a deep linked and searchable table of contents index for issues of the prewar "Japan Magazine" found on Internet Archive, with over 200 issues and several thousand articles. Useful for history students working only with English sources:

froginawell.net/indexes/japa...

#japan

To write it would betray its perfect non-existent state, I couldn’t possibly do that to my research

My paper currently exists in its perfect state- entirely in my head and not written yet

I'll bet itasha are some of the least-stolen cars because nobody wants their getaway car for the bank robbery to be the anime tiddymobile

UK Games Expo Tokyo Game Market Seeking Reviewers for UKGE, TGM レビュアー募集中 [images of box covers for Finger Pirates, Fenceology, Nebular Colors, Leaning Tower of Pizza, Gachapon Trick, North American Railways, Gouda Gouda!]

Are you a game reviewer attending UK Games Expo 🇬🇧 and/or Tokyo Game Market Spring? 🇯🇵

Playte is fielding requests for review copies on their Instagram—including copies of my newest release Nebular Colors 🌌

www.instagram.com/p/DXELyWBkjt...

*Seeing power lines in Japan* wow just like in Serial Experiments Lain!

*Seeing a staircase in Japan* wow just like in Kimi No Na Wa!

*Seeing a small room in Japan* wow just like in The Tatami Galaxy!

*Seeing a depressed person in Japan* wow just like in Welcome To The NHK!

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

A message from Tuna Acisu asking for help maintaining cherry blossom record in Kyoto Japan.

A figure showing the cherry tree record since 812 from world in data.

A 1200+ year climate record is at risk. Do you know know anyone in Japan who could help? See below.

Outlook, why do you even have an option to disable Copilot if you're just going to turn it back on every time I log in?

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸

We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto.

The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written. I delved through it via card catalogues and microfiche. Now it's all on for-profit journal catalogues that my institution can't afford.

Them: morning, Brian!
Me:

Me (playing Gone Home in 2014): What a brilliant play on Gothic affect to tell a sensitive story of queer love in the "don't ask, don't tell" 1990s!
Me (playing Gone Home in 2026): This house has the bones, but that knob-and-tube wiring is going to cost a fortune to replace.

Aside from the large size of today's protest in Tokyo, something else that stands out to me is seeing protesters push against police blocking their way, step over barriers, and stand in places where police told them not to stand. Usually don't see such civil disobedience at mainstream protests here.

When Dave Arneson purchased some wacky 20-sided dice in London, then later used them for his Blackmoor game, there's no way he even considered someone might be throwing one in space 50+ years later.

And talking about the gaming style he co-created.

Gurney's art, as well as that of Tony DiTerlizzi, were massively influential to me as a kid in ways that I'm only recently coming to recognize. There's something so whimsical in their styles that doesn't devolve into the saccharine, and I'm here for it.

Reading “Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time” by James Gurney (Dinotopia 1) James Gurney’s Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time (1992) is an incredible illustrated utopian novel of an adventurer’s arrival and education in a land where dinosaurs and humans live sid…

"You did it! You crazy son of a bitch, you did it!"

An essay in which I write about James Gurney's illustrated utopian adventure fiction novel DINOTOPIA: A LAND APART FROM TIME and tell you why it's pretty fucking awesome. Plus, images of lots of Gurney's art, including his sff covers from the 80s!

“Why are teens taking over Hyde Park?”
Bc you cut basketball nets and removed hoops in their hoods? Bc you’ve banned/restricted them from your cafes and bookstores and restaurants? Bc they’re competing for jobs alongside adults like it’s the fucking Hunger Games?

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Happy to be able to fly to colleagues at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, next week, to give two workshops on analog games and SL/FL pedagogy - focusing specifically on how to leverage different types of games for specific learning goals.

The events are free and open to all. :)

Online commenter: *calls an interpreter a translator*
Me: Interpreter!
Radio host: *calls an interpreter a translator*
Me: Interpreter!!
*repeat this hellish cycle until I die*
Speaker at my funeral: *refers to my interpreting practice as translation*
Me: *shrieking in agony from the beyond*

We've mostly developed three things in the twenty-first century: an app that erases labour, a digital wallet that evades taxes, and an algorithm that abuses your attention. But we've developed each of them over and over again.

That's where I keep all my stuff.