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Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
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When The Cat Comes (1963)! This film is so underrated
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Comp lit always felt like an Ivy-League-powered project that then some in the Midwest and elsewhere pulled into service of comics/film and other forms of modern humanities. Their chair took "revenge" on the other languages when they assumed power while I was in grad school, which hasn't left me.
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They seek to override faculty governance and close language programs because (1) language learning is *by its very nature* with its small class sizes economically inefficient, and (2) they don't believe everyday Americans should be able to communicate with others around the world.
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My friends in government consulting dismiss this as wishful conspiracy thinking, even though the swing-state votes are highly suspicious. Perfectly legal voter suppression and targeted media are the reasons given for why we're where we are.
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I actually cannot get over this picture. I keep returning to it, like a tic.
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"Where is, y'know, the VERB in this sentence?"
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I wrote something related for @theconversation.com back in 2014 - specifically, I argued that learning German helps native speakers of English understand their own language better. I still stand by that! theconversation.com/get-your-ton...
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Meta-motivations such as this are a reason that Nordic larp designers are obsessed with workshopping, calibration, and consent.
It's actually fine to want people and want others to want you, but that form of role-play then needs to be acknowledged and (to a degree) made to serve the larp itself.
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I saw the list and breathed a sigh of relief that I'd seen the vast majority of them. Not a lot stirring on the "best anime of all time" front in the past 10 years, but then it also means I have no FOMO either....
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We've all had dealings with the kind of pliable, craven, cruel middle men the ruling class pick to "manage" us and while we don't say it to their face, we despise them.
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I hear that, and I am mulling out loud what would be the *desired* state of affairs, since the current situation came about as a result of historical accident: the money's gotta come from somewhere! So does the reflection on the product later.
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Oh yes, this is us expressing frustration at the political economy that necessarily sustains games, not because the creators have a giant level of agency over those funding conditions. Y'all are doing great work! We're just kvetching that we cannot match it appropriately.
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Us academics seem to be for ex. discussing BitD as if it were brand new and are still waiting on peer review for our indie games work. In other words, attention follows the fund-raising cycle, and we are then the folks mulling over the pre-chewed remains.
Film and books work much differently!
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Yeah -- the digital platformization of TTRPGs have decoupled them from older human product rhythms. This also btw disrupts healthy cycles of game criticism, because our audience has moved on by the time any of us has *finally* gotten a hyped game to the table and written about it.
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"Here, let me grant your NES power-fantasy wishes!!"
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"Curious and compelling, if true!"
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THE target of Adam Curtis, above all, is Tony Blair. What he represents, and how the UK got him. Unfortunately, especially those of us working in white-collar orgs that have to make money, *most* of our admin is Tony Blair, along with the attendant assumptions and ideology.
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This was also the experience in 2003 btw
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"like a little kid!"