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stupid happy to have my proposal for Save the Games conference at The Strong Museum of Play accepted! really excited to talk about a schema for encoding video game playthroughs and how it can be applied
Photo of the signing of the 1933 Treaty on Friendship, Non-Aggression and Neutrality, colorized
And a foreign student said to me
Was it really true
There are
At first I thought this was some Temu thing because of the orange background. Then I thought “I guess most executives are probably all ‘man the temu spinner didn’t give me 100% off OH WAIT I GET A SECOND SPIN’” and it makes sense
The whole thing is a scam. March 10 was invented by Nintendo to sell video games. #mar10
Hegseth the kind of guy who was cheering for WOPR in Wargames
cool, thinglink's pricing jumped 1000% for the plan I was on, and they locked down all of the public-facing image annotations a class has been doing for the last few years because no way in hell am I paying for that 🫠 #dh #ephemerality
I’d like a coffee
In a meeting:
Them: the <system> is an archive right
Me: no the archive is the archive
My favorite part is when one of the colors fucks up and makes the entire pen unusable, which is also a metaphor for higher ed administration
“Like boats and planes are both constant monuments to hubris, but a plane, its goal is to be in the air just as long as it needs. And then you get it back on the ground where it belongs. A boat's always mocking God in the sea.”
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faculty: we love librarians they're our colleagues
also faculty: f*ck you I'm not going to fill out the form you created to do the thing I need for my class, I'm just going to send you emails so you can fill out the form for me
hey @oharawe.bsky.social what are we proposing?
Thanks to @feitclub.bsky.social I knew this existed and now I can watch a castlevania musical instead of working today youtu.be/uC_MQ3qK110?...
I definitely had the burger but the face was more pissed off, probably because the UK elected thatcher for the 3rd time
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I’m assuming ALLIEN^5 STRIKER is a space-horror-soccer game, and PAC is demonic Pokémon
I think you’ve convinced me to get one to put up against the AP
Me in 1991: plays Mega Man Dr Wily’s Revenge on the GameBoy for 5 minutes, turns it off, wonders if my copy of the Tiger Handheld Karnov has batteries
Until at last, I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin on the mountainside
“I Didn’t Beat Bionic Commando and Explode Hitler’s Head Just to Have a GameBoy Be Made Out of Weapons That Kill Kids”: Antifacist Encounters with Embodied Play
That’s fucked
Me trying to explain to my daughter how video game history works youtu.be/i6q_2zZXHMg?...
Digital humanities is freaking out that you’re going to have to do 5 years worth of WordPress updates on a project site and then realizing you can just bump up the very deprecated PHP to a slightly less deprecated PHP and delete a plugin you weren’t using anyway
A 60 minute meeting that was done in 5 minutes and drug out to 15 to get it just beyond “this could have been an email” threshold
Library conference swag idea - branded reusable food containers for everyone who makes two plus meals out of the lunch
it really feels like us library kids who were doing DH summer camps a decade ago were the gifted and talented class who were told we could change the world, and look at us now, with a crumbling higher education infrastructure, AI slop, and "DH, is that still a thing?"
