Lost one of my fave earrings when I was in Malta and was so bummed. Today I went to the store I got them (in Turkey) to beg if they could make me another (they were handmade) and they had a random single from the same pair. Not a set 😮 Wtf but okay

DiGRA 2026 (Ireland) CfP is now live Full paper and abstracts deadline: 1 December 2025 Workshop proposals deadline: 15 February 2026 www.digraconference2026.com #games #gamestudies

In Turkey after some time, and, as yuzh, I can't seem to keep up with what a particular amount of liras could buy or which websites/apps are still (or now) banned

My motivation: Statistics are useful for many things, however sometimes it’s important _not to zoom out_ and to stay with one name at a time. Instead of comparing this list with other lists, to look closely at each item in the list. The interaction of turning the crank feels very powerful to me.

Lifting weights so that I can carry Holly's zooplus packages upstairs

Too cold to bike without gloves (apparently) 🥶

I was looking up if Spiel Essen posted anything about why they removed 4-day passes and I wasn't even thinking I could be there all four days this time but this explanation...yikes 😬 (I'd say that's the whole purpose of a pass)

#Cfp: Call for Book Chapters - #videogames, #gamedesign, game communities, & playthings that trouble what we mean by #nostalgia “ #Games and its Nostalgia for the Future” is edited by yours truly and likely published with Play Story Press. Abstracts due Nov 3, 2025 Full CfP: shorturl.at/NCkzU

Bruh

Someone left their tribbles in front of the gym

Time to share some of my HP with others. Also, who should I send a blood donation-themed card? 🤔

The new issue of Countertext includes a paper by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone and myself on libraries in digital games - their significances, (non-)functions, meanings. It's not open-access (boo), but ask and you shall receive www.euppublishing.com/toc/count/11/2

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

bin in gut einem Monat in Freiburg, um dort über das Politische in Horrorgames zu sprechen: uni-freiburg.de/ucf/college/...

📢 Tomorrow I will be speaking about fictional games and speculative literature. Join us online at 17:30 CET [email protected] @konstantinosd.bsky.social @indigitalgames.bsky.social #gamestudies #scifi

Landing planes while waiting for trains

It was nice to be back in Wroclaw after (calculating...) 14 years (?!) On my way to Prague now 🚄

Just following the #Ceegs2025 dress code

But when will I see you again 🥺

WHY CAN'T I PET THE BELL BEAST

I've part-digitised three on-paper poem RPGs based on three 2022 games I love. You can read/play them here: shotscarecrow.itch.io/micro-rpgs1

Today's office: on top of my longboard (waiting for Ausländerbehörde to open so that I can get a ticket and keep on waiting 💩)

Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

I'm not procrastinating, I am delaying my tasks due to Silksong

This rule book is clearly too long to read 💤

We're excited to announce the Games for Palestine charity page is now LIVE on Itch. Over 300+ games with proceeds going to UNRWA USA in support of Gaza relief. Thank you to everyone for your support. The bundle launches on Sept 2nd 9am PST. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

realistic Star Trek

@dilan-c.bsky.social and I are co-organising a seminar on @saranahmed.bsky.social at next year‘s ACLA! 😱 We want to assemble an international team of Ahmed-nerds and killjoy enthusiasts. Please send us your abstract and join us in The City of Conferences, Montreal! ✨ www.acla.org/seminar/028c...

Baby Steps is now releasing on September 23 on PS5 and PC! [Nate is allergic to hornets]

World Central Kitchen got fired on in Gaza by Israel, had members killed, and went back anyway because people shouldn't have to starve to death. This is an amazing humble bundle.

Obsessed with this part of the Silksong trailer

We’re thrilled to welcome Sonia Fizek (TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences) as a keynote speaker at #GamesBeyond! 🌍 Don’t miss her talk “Caught Between Distant and Planetary Play” 📆 5 Sept. 2025 | 11:15–12:30 | Y311, Uni Konstanz

She's reluctantly enduring my questions about how she's so cute

Now that Silksong is confirmed to be real, can we also have Dirigiblocks??

The countdown is on! Join us in 48 hours for a special announcement about Hollow Knight: Silksong! Premiering here: youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c

Saturday Rheinschwimmen 🌊 look at my new Wickelfisch! (Bag to keep your stuff dry as you float down the river--just Basel things.)

Tough!! I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 16th 2025) in less than 16 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Gitting gud I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Aug 9th 2025) in 03:23 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Society if Gü made their ramekins stackable.

Someone on the GMTK Discord shared a great hack: Google doesn’t show AI summaries if your query contains swear words.

New low just dropped

would they be friends? fr tho everytime a game has a little journal the protagonist fills with sketches and musings, my ass is THERE. I keep a journal like that too :) (reposted from my tumblr) #reddeadredemption2 #rdr2 #rdr2arthurmorgan #arthurmorgan #maeborowski #nitwmae #nitw #antiAI

Gamescom, after I decided that Gamescom is unnecessarily tiring, offers nothing special for me, and I'll skip it this year: (JK, I can imagine a line I'd never want to wait in)

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I spend a lot of time talking about all the things historical games do wrong when representing (or, mostly, not representing) women in the past - for a change, here I wrote about some games which I think do something better and more interesting in their depictions of historical women & girls!

Neckar sunset and fake beach

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

📢 If you would like take part in the workshop, please follow the link in the first comment, read the description, and send an email to [email protected] detailing in around 150 words your relation to postcolonialism and/or postcommunism and video games. DEADLINE JULY 24