The news cannot show what is happening in Chicago because the FAA banned all non-government drones for 12 days over a 15-mile radius (100s of square miles). They don't want anyone watching them disappearing our neighbors. They don't want anyone reporting what they're doing. Please, don't look away.

student: why don't my job materials work? me: do you really want me to answer? student: please. me: you probably haven't matched the keywords used to describe your skills and compencies with those in the job ads you've applied for, have you? student: that's a good idea.

Mirek Stolee asks how do we archive ephemeral play like escape rooms? #gscpp #swpaca2025

a la Matt Payne #gscpp #swpaca

Payne asks how do we read pinball machines as historical, ethical, and cultural objects? #gscpp #swpaca2025

keep your grammar weird, Albuquerque!

it's like when people are always asking me, hey. . . this is #gscpp this is #swpaca2025

#gscpp and #swpaca2025 presenters from USU jump for joy at having most of their presentations in their recent past!

thinking about creating a podcast persona based on "cultural studies guy." like and subscribe? #gscpp #swpaca2025

Kocurek implies that many of our successes are big deals in very small spaces. #cylindersofexcellence #gscpp #swpaca2025

deWinter says "we may have a problem in games studies: we tend to study what we play, instead of playing what we should be studying" #gscpp #swpaca2025

Rafael Fajardo on Code-X: Chicanx Games as Contemporary Codices. yeeeeaaaahhhhh. #gscpp #swpaca2025

Jes Klass, from DePaul University, presents on their educational game design lab in "Building and Scaling an In-House Educational Game Studio at a University" #gscpp #swpaca2025

@playfulmike.bsky.social presents "Learning Design by Making Games from Trash, Found Objects, and Random Shit in Backpacks" #gscpp #swpaca2025

now here comes Catherine Pearce from Simon Fraser University with "Artistic Response as Collaborative Design Methodology: Creating Video Game Artifacts from Personal Stories" #gscpp #swpaca2025

collectivity and stuff like that. . . that's our Moberly. #gscpp #swpaca2025

Ancharski emphasizes the reflexivity facilitated and encouraged in TRANS worldmaking in D&D. #swpaca2025 #gscpp

sorry. the growth of social media. my bad. #swpaca2025 #gscpp

critiquing the grope of social media. #swpaca2025.#gscpp

Oh hot damn, this is my jam.. Keep me partyin 'til the AM Y'all don't understand, make me throw my hands In the ayer, ay-ayer, ayer, ay-ayer

Segura on how Gris facilitates cooperation between the player and protagonist and culminate in moments of agency. #swpaca2025 #gscpp

Orelup on religious transhumanism in the game Nobody wants to die. technology as secular religious savior. #swpaca2025 #gscpp25

we may have differing opinions about what is inspiring, and that should be ok, too. @gscpp.bsky.social

speaking of anthropometric manuals, here's one: wwwn.cdc.gov/Nchs/Data/Nh... @gscpp.bsky.social

Dayana Calle rocks Black Women Are Not Your Props: How “Resident Evil 5” Reinforces BIPOC Bodies as Tools of White Supremacy @gscpp.bsky.social #swpaca2024

so many great presentation slides this year @gscpp.bsky.social #swpaca2024

now here comes Marco Rodriguez with Lara Croft, White Savior, and Settler Colonial Theory in “Shadow of the Tomb Raider” @gscpp.bsky.social

here now comes victoria l. braegger with "Microsoft as a Microcosm: Intersections of Controller Design and Gamer Identity" @gscpp.bsky.social #sWpAcA2024

so much depends upon the lone blueberry at the back of the santa fe room at the abq marriott @gscpp.bsky.social

@gremlinmike.bsky.social is proving that he's really, really smart in response to Moberly's question. @gscpp.bsky.social

blasphemy and marxism really get Moberly excited @gscpp.bsky.social

live action Puzzle Farter play in @gscpp.bsky.social !!

jeebus, Ken! @gscpp.bsky.social

the fabulous Micheal DeAnda presents "Shocking Team Star: Assimilating Queer Utopias in Pokemon Scarlet/Violet." they accuse Team Star of assimilating queer utopias. scandal? @gscpp.bsky.social #swpaca2024

who else wants to explore an apocalyptic landscape from the comfort of their couch? Kelley Wood, that's who! @gscpp.bsky.social #swpaca2024

one of my favorite things about panels @gscpp.bsky.social is how moderators respond thoughtfully to each presentation. i see good people here. #swpaca2024