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Presenting at #DiGRA in Valletta, Malta next week:
Wednesday 1100: Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion (full paper: lnkd.in/dhFfT8JM)
Thursday 1630: Follow the Bunny: Play and the Structuring of Affective Labour
(Draft: lnkd.in/dXshb4ar)
Excited to share the pre-print of my DiGRA paper titled "Domesticating Play at the Playboy Mansion," which explores how Playboy magazine integrated early domestic entertainment computing and board games into its concept of masculinity.
researchgate.net/publication…
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In today's Indelible Voice newsletter, we're talking about the courses and memberships I'm launching' on April 7!
They're suitable for all early-career academic writers, particularly non-traditional graduate students.
Learn more in this thread.
indeliblevoice.com/newslette…
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In today’s Vatnik Soup REBREW, I’ll re-introduce the American-British social media personalities, Tristan and Andrew Tate (@tatethetalisman and @cobratate).
They’re best-known for their social media grifts and allegations of human trafficking and rape.
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Rightwing assholes feel entitled everywhere, good to see that there are people in the NZ/Aotearoa parliament who aren't going to let the Treaty of Waitangi be (totally) sidelined by ACT and National.
This was published today with @SeliphD - analysis English Language commercial TTRPG publication from 1975-1986 to discuss the impact of the 'thief' character class to D&D HT @Dashiellsteven
Hello! The paper "Dungeons, Dragons, and Rogues: How Picaresque Literature Shaped the Thief Class in Dungeons & Dragons" that I have written with @T0MM7 has been published in Games and Culture! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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I liked how Raygun’s Olympic performance humiliated Australia as much as possible in the arena that our whole national personality is based on, & which vast public resources are shovelled into at the expense of, say, education & the arts
Link to the collective statement by the DiGRA (Digital Games Research Association) diversity collective who have resigned en masse. Games and play scholars please read, consider signing, and spread the word. #AcademicResearch #diversitymatters
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
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📘 Optimizing Play
✍ @real_chris_paul
An unexpected take on how games work, what the stakes are for them, and how game designers can avoid the traps of optimization. #OpenAccess edition available.
mitpress.mit.edu/97802625477…
The abstract for my keynote talk at #HoG (History of Games Conference) next week at @BirminghamCU
#gamestudies #playboy
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In Cluj, Romania, you can pay for your bus ticket by doing 20 squats. Disabled and elderly people get to ride for free.
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New book alert!
Metagames: Games about Games
By @AgaWaszkiewicz
@routledgebooks, 2024
routledge.com/Metagames-Game…
