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Small academic moment: happy to announce that this article is finally out for the "ITALICA" journal! "Language, Play, Storytelling: Tabletop Role-Playing Games in the Italian L2 Classroom" Find it here (and if you don't have access, let me know): scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/iss...

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what's wrong babe? you've barely touched your rarohire rochi terochichimomo

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Playing the Middle Ages: Pitfalls and Potential in Modern Games is now available in paperback. 14 chapters on the Middle Ages in Modern Games from a host of excellent scholars. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/playing-t...

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East Asian Studies- FeRN seminar next week! Ran Zwigenberg (Pennsylvania State University) "Nuclear Minds: Anxiety and Transformation in A-bomb Psychology" @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

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マヨネーズ×赤鳥居 #今日のマヨネーズ #マヨネーズ #キユーピー

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Further proof that the "fake gamer girl" trope is as old as gaming itself

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some talking points other than the obvious if you need them: - this is governmental overreach - this increases the chances of having to strip at the airport for everyone - what about intersex people - this is wasteful and inefficient and a dumb use of government resources

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After just getting it fixed a year and a half ago, my car appears to be back to having electrical issues, so that's awesome. Love it when my car just turns itself off while I'm waiting at a stoplight. Nothing better.

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Another problem with AI: The more students use AI, the less they trust themselves to do the work and do it well. Which is ironic, because AI shits out trash. It's terrible for the academic self-confidence of developing minds, which is often low to begin with.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Failure! at the in-class activity

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I was just saying to a friend (who may or may not be impacted by impending layoffs as their employer was reliant on federal contracts), that this job market feels worse than the pandemic. What makes this especially infuriating is that, unlike the pandemic, this was all completely avoidable.

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This is the only thing that has made me laugh in like 3 months.

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

We're supposed to despise, fight, and depose the Tessier-Ashpools... yet we have basically created, idolized, and elected them...

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Me begrudgingly accepting that maybe students actually don't NEED to read all the MOST challenging surrealist literature I throw at them and maybe I'm just bittergourded as an academic

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Thinking back, honestly, one of the best things about grad school is that I met some of the most incredible, awe-inspiringly brilliant people I have ever known there. What an immense privilege. My friends are so damn cool. I wanna be like them when I grow up.

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OK, seriously, it could stop snowing now, and I would be okay with that

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If you’re in PA please make hella fucking noise about SB213 which is designed to fuck transgender people, both binary and non. (and bc fascism is fascism it starts with trans people but it will hurt everybody).

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

OK, now you have my attention, yes please

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My article on Mock Foreigner speech is now available open access at Language and Communication! In it, I build on the mock language framework to explain what's up with the linguistic features used to invoke (white) foreignness in a Japanese media context. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Sooooo.... early stretch goal announcement, if the Kickstarter campaign does well, we'll be putting out Japanese translations of the games. Seeing What Should We Have Tomorrow? get picked up by Japanese players has been a highlight of my gamemaking and I want to continue to support that!

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Love conferences 🫠

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@mariakalberto.bsky.social and my Dossier on “Actual Play as Actual Art” is in the latest issue of @jcmsjournal.bsky.social. So thrilled to spotlight careful readings of @dimension20.bsky.social @criticalrole.bsky.social & New York By Night by stellar scholars. quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/issues/

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An excellent op-ed by two of my colleagues in the STS Hub on the CSU system's irresponsible, ill-advised AI initiative: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... "It is important to ask whether investment in AI is more important than investment in people."

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OK, seriously, it could stop snowing now, and I would be okay with that

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As a non-DMing aspiring-but-not-really-DM... this is how I play D&D lol.

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It's a great chapter, too!

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Man, is there anything better than a knight with a handlebar mustache and big, floppy plate mail boots?

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Bring back DEI so we don't D-I-E 🤷🏾‍♂️

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Jorts come watch tv. Jorts let’s clean your ears. Jorts put your toys away. Jorts do your timesheets. Jorts you’ve been in the hippo all day. Why are they so obsessed just let me stay in the hippo

submitted 17 days ago • 184 comments

All these guys are fucking insane and they’re gonna destroy so many lives

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GO FUCKING BIRDS

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Michigan is home to medical device manufacturing giant Stryker, in case anyone was curious. Biomed is one of our biggest industries statewide.

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K! So! We spent this week figuring out how the tariffs, inflation and other bullshit is going to affect business. Time to thread. For those not in the know, I'm the Director at Hachette Boardgames USA and I import games for foreign publishers and market and sell them in the US. 1/?

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My co-author Dom and I made the authors' version of our chapter in the Monstrosity in Games and Play book finally freely available! Dom has already uploaded the chapter to his website (see below), I'll follow soon on my website. Give it (and Dom's other works) a read if you're interested. :)

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the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

submitted 21 days ago • 577 comments

I mean, literally, the answer to this is "I am federally prohibited from telling you anything about my students without a subpoena or judicial warrant; if you have a subpoena or judicial warrant, please submit it to [Legal Officer/Office] to ensure it is in compliance with all relevant federal laws"

submitted 28 days ago • 31 comments

Wake and Run, 2021. Scratchboard and ink. Smol: only 5” square. Yes, inches. #sciart

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Not the main point, of course, but the fact that Japan has drawn nary a threat of a Trump tariff perfectly reflects how much Americans in general now see Japan as a mostly non-important side show (having once been seen as our biggest & most serious economic threat).

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He sings the songs that remind him of the good times, he sings the songs that remind him of the better times

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This may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we COULD ask Mothra for help

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