keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸
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they | phd @ leiden | hacker-bard | forever gm, habitual gamer, biweekly artiste
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hello! keerthi here 🌻 - phd candidate at leiden university working on untangling pastness in videogames in/and player experience - freelance opinion writer on ttrpgs that can/will/have saved the world - chronic yapper, baker, break-out-into-song-er - when all the rest is done i also make music.
12 months ago
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hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you!
edu.nl/7w3yn
about 24 hours ago
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it's my birthday (for 6 more minutes) so here is the cake i made and ate with loved ones after a screening of chicago (2002). all of this is a brag im the luckiest guy alive!
9 days ago
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Dr. Emily Friedman
24 days ago
This is FATAL for the true sickos.
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yapping like it's my job (it is my job)
27 days ago
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Robert Yang
27 days ago
every video game is just a different type of gay bar
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VALUE Foundation
28 days ago
Last session is under way! We begin with
@copperkeerthi.bsky.social
discussing Hamlet in the Hypertext!
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getting weird @
#TIPC4
this afternoon, and we're streaming all of today's wonderful programming over on
twitch.tv/streamingthepast
! come hang out at the event of the season 🎭🎮💀
28 days ago
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it's been such a delightful month for my e-reader. i love when words
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about 1 month ago
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this thursday i will attempt to hold off my deeply unprofessional tirade on crowdfunding in indie game dev for a generous 15 minutes. stream is 2 hours though so you will absolutely get to hear it
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2 months ago
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Bob Whitaker
4 months ago
I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.
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Reviewer 2's Review of Red Dead's History — History Respawned
I promised myself I would never write a negative book review. I promised my PhD advisor I would never write a negative book review. I promised I would always find a silver lining in any piece of aca...
https://www.historyrespawned.com/home/2025/7/21/reviewer-2s-review-of-red-deads-history
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Analog Game Studies
4 months ago
Come watch the videos of this year's Generation Analog, and stay to watch those of the previous 4 years! It's great podcast listening for those interested in games scholarship.
#GenerationAnalog2025
#StayAnalog
www.youtube.com/@analoggames...
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Analog Game Studies
The official journal of Analog Game Studies. Scholarly content about tabletop, live-action, performance, and generally awesome games. Read more at our website analogamestudies.org.
https://www.youtube.com/@analoggamestudies/featured
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talking actual play, sex, and comedy futures at
#GenerationAnalog2025
next week!
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4 months ago
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that's a wrap on
#DiGRA2025
. ft. stellar conversations, great food, and my pronoun sticker minigame, which i am tentatively calling "I MEAN--"
4 months ago
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voor iedereen die op tweetalige skeets hoopt, blijf hopen
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4 months ago
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must a conference talk be "good"? is it not enough to sit somewhere with ac and see a beautiful font, huge?
4 months ago
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so stoked to be at
#DiGRA2025
, with an interactive discussion on trans/gressive utterances for the Queer/Trans Game/Studies workshop and a presentation on my pilot study to rep
@playfultimemach.bsky.social
🎮🎲
4 months ago
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Florence Smith Nicholls
5 months ago
It's finally done!📝 In this blog post, I apply my theory of an archaeological gameworld mental model to Blue Prince, and argue that half the fun of the game is in what happens off-screen:
florencesmithnicholls.com/2025/06/03/d...
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Drafting the Archaeological Mental Model of Blue Prince
Back in January 2023, I ran an online study in which I got participants to play a game about a ruined village and tell me what they thought happened to it. That game was Nothing Beside Remains, a 2…
https://florencesmithnicholls.com/2025/06/03/drafting-the-archaeological-mental-model-of-blue-prince/
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Possum Creek
5 months ago
We're proud to announce that Possum Creek will be publishing LAST TRAIN TO BREMEN by
@seaexcursion.itch.io
. Four doomed musicians flee from the devil in this dramatic RPG, soon to be available in print for the first time!
bit.ly/bremen_bk
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Get Ready for Last Train to Bremen
From Possum Creek Games - Get Ready for Last Train to Bremen
https://bit.ly/bremen_bk
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got to nerd out with
@miriammthsn.bsky.social
on all things labor, aesthetics, and method recently 😌 take a listen:
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S03E10: Visualizing the Invisibilized
Talk Media to Me · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4OCVqseREwR9uHgEiQrqq8?si=jvT3YgZaQUKAT8UCRmXzMQ
6 months ago
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a slower month but full of stellar books 😌✨️
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6 months ago
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Lin Codega
7 months ago
the absolutely limitless bog of transphobic vitriol that is jk rowling means that we cannot fuck with harry potter on any level and JOURNALISTS ESPECIALLY should be interrogating every single person associated with the new show about where her money goes.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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come hang at our cozy Easter stream this Friday! i promise not to freak out at
@times-new-roman.bsky.social
about curfew 💐🌱🤞🏽
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7 months ago
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i have no explanation for this except that these deeply mid books have a sauce to them that is keeping me going
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8 months ago
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Brendan Keogh
9 months ago
Honestly, I think even those of us who were saying gamergate is a training ground for/and direct path to outright fascism are probably a little bit surprised at how literally correct we actually were.
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anyone wanna take a guess at how much hamlet i can drop off the dome? come hang out with us on the first stream of the "spring"!
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9 months ago
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january reads! (* highest rated) 📖goddess of the river, vaishnavi patel* 📖legends & lattes, travis baldree 📖those beyond the wall, micaiah johnson* 📖godkiller & 📖sunbringer, hannah kaner 📖how to become the dark lord and die trying, django wexler* 📖shoestring theory, mariana costa
9 months ago
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concluded my 5 year monster of the week campaign today! thank you, Ruin. ft NPC cosplay, The Google Doc, and miso chocolate chip cookies.
9 months ago
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lucy dacus
10 months ago
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VALUE Foundation
11 months ago
We are very excited to announce The Interactive Pasts Conference 4! Join us October 8-10 2025 at Leiden University for 3 days full of games and the past! The
#TIPC4
theme is The Fellowship of Past and Play & the Call for Papers is now open:
interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
CfP: deadline March 15
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breakfast of champions (pecan & pumpkin with maple whipped cream) + nano progress (behind)
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12 months ago
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maybe the thing getting me through the week is the joy of doing hands on research in a super cool lab and seeing the fruits of my labor in real time.... maybe it's the two pies im baking first thing saturday. unclear!
12 months ago
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hello! keerthi here 🌻 - phd candidate at leiden university working on untangling pastness in videogames in/and player experience - freelance opinion writer on ttrpgs that can/will/have saved the world - chronic yapper, baker, break-out-into-song-er - when all the rest is done i also make music.
12 months ago
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oh god im not gonna be funny on here either am i
about 1 year ago
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