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3 DAYS OF ROMCHIP for the 3 days until our FEB 22 TWITCH FUNDRAISER // give now donate.romchip.org Day 3 // Selling the First Programmable Game Console // Dec 2023 @atariarchive.org interviews the Fairchild sales manager about selling the 1970s Channel F console romchip.org/index.php/ro...

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Today and yesterday I've been interviewing Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour competitors at a Pro Tour testing house in anticipation or Magic Con Chicago. Will be sharing about this at future conferences. Magic's brave experiment in esports may have failed, but competitive Magic lives on nonetheless.

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The square-circle-triangle-X set during the Kendrick Lamar halftime show seems like it can't be coincidence on the football field. Love how he's using every shape in the choreography. Ends with "Game Over": this halftime show was child's play at a sport that has become coterminus with its videogame.

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Every time I design a hyperintelligent supercomputer to play Overwatch 2, it only lasts an hour before it quits and says "Strange game, Dr. Knutson. The only 400 IQ move is not to play." Anybody have a suggestion for how to fix this?

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Trump Boys Take Turns Shouting ‘Penis’ At Inauguration

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It's about this time every year I look over my syllabi, account for my obligations, take a big sip of water, breathe and anxious sigh, and remember "Oh right, this job is for crazy people."

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Marshawn Lynch in "It's in the Game: Madden NFL" ep 4: "In the league, in the pros and all that, they be thinking that they talk big shit. You ain't never heard no shit talking like a little eight, nine-year-old on the internet." 💀 💀 💀

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Feeling rested and recharged from our family's trip to Playa Del Carmen this winter break. First time for all of us in Mexico and the first international trip for the kids. Heading back today! Looking forward to seeing folks back home and returning to routine with new energy.

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Got a solid 5h of sleep and I'm going live again! Remember you can always donate even if you can't catch a stream (link in quote tweet) So far we've raised 10,619$ for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention! Every dollar donated helps those in need #stopsuicide

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Merry Christmas from us to you 🎄🎁💙 We launched Trending Topics today, and you can find it by tapping the search icon on the bottom bar of the app or the right sidebar on desktop.

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My favorite overlooked Christmas classic: Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas. Saw it so many times as a kid on bootleg VHS, and it never stops pulling at my heartstrings.

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I don't have a LOT of free slots in my (Intro to) Game Studies course, but I'm open to recs for Spring 2025. What games do you think the students should play? Digital or analog (I'm a switch!) Needs to have a short core gameplay loop, and doesn't veer off into hyper-edgelord territory. Pitch me!

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Madden docuseries episode 2: the story the series tells about the origin of the PlayStation is completely unlike the story you can read about in a bunch of accounts of games history. What we usually hear is that Nintendo and Sony were working together to do a disc player for games, but Nintendo...

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Today I learned that Microsoft Excel can't open a file whose directory path is more than 259 characters. Because Blackboard creates folders and files with ridiculously long names, a student assignment I was grading exceeded this strange limit. Never thought I'd have to rename a file just to open it.

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Apparently there is a four-part docuseries on Prime about EA's Madden franchise. I feel a professional obligation to watch it, so I'll make a short thread about episode 1. First of all, yes this series is a long-form commercial for Madden 25. EA employees are emphasizing this year's improvements.

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Shoutout to whatever modern-day John Hancock scrawled "OG FORTNITE" on UND's year-end community card that asked "What kept you moving this year?" youtu.be/dOv-AqDUcZM?...

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Today's #dadjoke, sponsored by Dad Jokes of the Upper Midwest: "Where do you even get a mistletoe?" "Off a mistlefoot, I guess." Did you know that four out of every five dad jokes are eyerolled? You can help support the cause this holiday season by donating to Save Our Dad Jokes dot org slash

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Bluesky, when was the last time you felt bored out of your mind? Does that happen to adults anymore?

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Why does Simpsons Funday Football exist? This is the weirdest simulcast I've ever seen, and as a fan of The Simpsons and someone who consumes plenty of football, I have no idea who this is for.

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"22% of Gen Z students surveyed are interested in pursuing a career within the esports industry" and "58% believe a career in esports is more accessible than traditional areas of work such as law and engineering." Study conducted by Tencent & Ukie in the UK. esportsinsider.com/2024/12/tenc...

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Hello and Welcome to the SCMS Video Game Studies SIG Bsky account! Please Pardon us while we get up and running here.

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Next chapter in the overlap of esports and TCGs: first Hearthstone, then MTG, now this. But if this TCG could go digital and develop its own pro scene, that would be a real esportsception. Strangely, they haven't found a US publisher yet and intend a 2025 release - I wonder who they end up with.

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If the to-do list you're writing is so long that you feel the need to take a break when you finish jotting it all down, you just might be stressed.

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Day two of struggling through a book I recently picked up on a topic I want to learn more about. Might be putting this one down...

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Most underrated part of the vacation: not receiving 20 emails by noon.

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Outlook's little chiding message to send emails during regular business hours seems like it was developed to encourage a better work-life balance. In practice it is a guilt trip to get us to better disguise the fact that we are simply working irregular hours as expected in these 2024 jobs we have.

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We don't see #X as a safe space for disabled people anymore and are therefore moving to #BlueSky. #esports #gaming

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🦋 Looking for some great accounts to follow? May we suggest all of the #Gaconf speakers we've managed to track down so far? A great mix of game devs, accessibility advocates and disabled gamers all in one place! #gamedev #a11y go.bsky.app/JCwPeM3

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Clever way to preserve the most beautiful parts of the state before the EPA's official policy is changed to "drill, baby, drill."

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