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jaranta.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
Senior lecturer at https://jyu.fi & https://coe-gamecult.org/; title of docent at https://tuni.fi. Specialized in philosophy, game studies and digital culture. [bridged from https://scholar.social/@jaranta on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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I wanted to install a vim plugin, but I've forgotten how to do that.

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I already blocked them once, but I got another publishing invitation from "Journal of Game Studies". They are using the name recognition of the journal "Game Studies", but are definitely not that journal! They seem to be run by a commercial publisher and one of the editors in chief was kicked […]

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I thought I was on top of my TODO list, but turns out that Microsoft is just shit and had not synchronized a months worth of tasks.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Looking at how #LLM are promoted by their fans, I've come to the conclusion: Pretty much everyone from a #STEM background - myself definitely included! - owes the #Humanities a huge apology. I mean, I get it. When I was a young student of physics, it was easy for me to sneer at philosophy […]

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Ville Kankainen's public defence of his dissertation "Hybrid Play Experience and Design in Tabletop Gaming" will start in a few minutes. You can find the dissertation itself, and a link to the defence here, if you want to watch it online […]

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

"The best part about being an academic is that you're constantly being reminded of being ignorant." https://do-things-with-words.captivate.fm/episode/1-4-maria-lugones-and-david-graeber-miguel-sicart

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Today I learnt that "videogames have all but supplanted pen and paper role-playing". (A well known scholar, 2009)

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Public notice: If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Just ran into yet another 'there are too many old people in the world and we can't support them' piece, so it's time for a reminder that we have enough resources to support a growing elderly population. We have the material resources* to provide them with proper housing, food, medical care etc […]

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Hive mind: I'm trying to understand how intellectual property (IP) from government-funded research works in various countries (other than the US) for a white paper: 1. Who retains the IP? 2. Does the government receive a royalty-free license for general use? 3. Can the government force the […]

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

My Fediverse folder on Zotero has been growing and has now over 50 items, which probably means that I will never finish reading all items in that folder.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I didn't realize Unity had become an advertising company that also develops a game engine. https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Social media platform by level of resistance from the average user: Facebook: "Guess I heard something but my grandson says it's fine." Twitter: : racist bot tries to sell you NFTs: Bluesky: "everything is terrible and we're all going to die... but what can you do" Fediverse: : LITERALLY […]

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Me when I'm asked to give talk: This sounds interesting, I should agree Me when I have to actually figure out the talk: I don't want to give a talk ever again

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments