STS Reading, Week 7: โGenesis Effects: Growing Planets in 1980s Computer Graphicsโ by @kbuse.bsky.social, in which Prof. Buse examines (among other things), Mandelbrot's angry letter to future Pixar folks about the crapola Genesis Sequence in Star Trek 2: Wrath of Khan.
muse.jhu.edu/article/7952...
Wow, this looks like such a cool class! Thanks for teaching my article. I hope it goes well :)
folks: we're serious. We got 3 hours to meet our minimal budget needs for another year of ROMchip. Wanna help?
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๐ Text a friend who loves games.
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Just in time to be in conversation with Meta's backing off of Horizon Worlds--new from me in Games & Culture: "Metaverse Engineering: Epic v. Apple, Ontopolitical Play, and Gaming the Law."
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
User @backintimeag: The text โKirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesotaโ over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.
In case anyone was wondering how itโs going over on American Girl doll Instagram
Gotchaโletโs dig into that step by step.
1. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ป๐ผ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐๐ต, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. Youโre not just immobileโyouโre immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. ๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐บ. That makes total senseโitโs a natural human impulse, and youโve been through a lot.
This sounds like a really great course! Iโd love to see the syllabus, not least for the genre innovation of including character creation / gameplay advice in it!
We'll be talking a lot about The Banished Vault this week, and it's on sale until Sunday.
It would mean a lot to us if you shared the game among your friends! I promise a "hey check this out" message is the number one way to get a niche game in front of people who are interested in it.
If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts folks: I'm running for member at large! I'd be thrilled to represent you. To me SLSA is a weird, wonderful interdisciplinary home & a space for supporting each other that makes it all feel worth it. Votes are due 5/1 - thanks for considering! (link ๐)
Caves of Qud Hugo Award finalist for Best Game or Interactive Work
Caves of Qud is a Hugo finalist for Best Game or Interactive Work!! ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
LIVE AND DRINK :)
Ho... some are straight-up unapologetic about it. @kbuse.bsky.social had an interesting take on the cross-fertilization between the fields.
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
For folks interested in 4S this year, @kbuse.bsky.social, Ari Gass, and I are running a track for Game Studies and STS. Consider applying!
Ever since I was a boy I knew I wanted to be part of a tendency in recent criticism
Are you a SFWA member or do you know one? I wrote a case for nominating Caves of Qud for the 2025 Nebula Award for Best Game Writing.
(please repost)
kitfoxgames.medium.com/the-2025-neb...
UChicago Cinema & Media Studies is hiring a Professor of Design at the Asst or Assoc level! We are looking for practitioners in visual design and/or digital media making. Apply by the end of the month. More details including a full EoE/Vet/Disability Statement are at apply.interfolio.com/153358
Come teach for UChicago's Media Art and Design program! We're looking for a Lecturer in Media Arts and Design practice (as well as media theory and history, potentially). Apply by the end of the month. More details including a full EoE/Vet/Disability Statement are at apply.interfolio.com/148866
A screenshot of a google search The search bar says, โfood names end with umโ Al overviews are experimental. Learn more Here are some fruit names that end with "um": Applum, Bananum, Strawberrum, Tomatum, and Coconut.
Love what google is up to these days
the same cycle but as a spiral going down to 'IT'S TOO LATE TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE'
A more advanced model, thanks to my increased access to raw computational power
Canโt stop thinking about her
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yCDw...
