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Netzwerk-Effekte halten X groß. Und es ist schlichtweg immer noch die einzige Plattform, auf der Sachen passieren. Man wird nicht Millionen von Menschen dazu bringen, sich aus moralischen Gründen von der größten Microblogging Plattform zu einer linken Bubble zu bewegen.

Battlepasses are possibly the greatest method of gamifying games.
"Time to play the game that I hate... hey at least it's only 20min for the dailies..."

Apocalyptic Escapism? Futuristic Imagination and Apocalyptic Media at the End of History

The paper: door.donau-uni.ac.at/detail/o:5811

And the full anthology (27 papers):
door.donau-uni.ac.at/detail/o:5827

A short paper of mine from a conference last year just got published!
It's about the politics of apocalyptic desire in videogames, with special regard to the Fallout franchise, the Cyberpunk genre, and Disco Elysium.

(open access, link below)

Game Studies be like, Call of Duty is imperialist and Sim City is neoliberal. Ok Sherlock

“I asked ChatGPT.”

“I asked Grok.”

I asked my 18k pages pdf of the collected works of Theodor W. Adorno.
We are not the same.

gimmick as in single-purpose account, not derogatory!

they have everything there but its soooo slow and i dont wanna send them crypto

Step 3: Wow I wrote two pages in like no time!
Step 4: Extended pause because that shit was easy and you're gonna finish in no time
Step 5: Oh no

Very true, thank you for your input!

accomplish what Hegel did (a subversion of Descartes subject/object logic, among others), but as an anti-Hegelianism

I think Alexandre Kojeve did irreparable damage to post-WW2 philosophy by projecting his Heideggerianism on a superficial reading of Hegel, spawning a generation of intellectuals that waved him off as sublimated existentialism. The result was a school of mainly french thinker who tried to

"We must have a new mythology, but this mythology must be in the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason."

Hegel, Schelling, Hölderlin: The Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism, 1796

Hawkenheimer & Tuahdor W. Adorno: Crit on that thang

I would love a place in there! Thank you for compiling this!

They yearn for European tap water

#218,012!

Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain cosplay incoming

Bildungspolitik der FDP in a nutshell

Jeder TikTok = -1 Tag Lebenserwartung

"Schaun se, Hegel. Kennen Sie auch gar nicht, was?"

*gulp!*

Correction: "Heideggerianism, and, by extension: Jazz, are bad"

i think humans need free time, or the absence of coercion, to feel intense emotions that are not surface level

wer will mit sowas auf der demo stehen

man merke die FDP Beteiligung