Appreciate it, Ryan, I'm really glad you like it! Very proud of it.

The entire paper is peppered with resonant but vague statements (as in the excerpt below). Also, no data or analysis scripts have been made openly available. Was this paper perhaps AI-generated? In any case, I'm pretty disappointed with Games and Culture

Scholar's Codex (@tuneandfairweather.bsky.social) is out! Edited by @domford.bsky.social, @gua-le-ni.com, @nelevdm.bsky.social and @danielvella.bsky.social, with an essay of mine on the relationship between Darkness and humanity from Augustine of Hippo to Elden Ring.

Just received physical copies of our volume of essays on the games of From Software, out now on @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social - and it's an even more gorgeous thing than photos can convey. I was planning on doing some work today but might just stare at this on the shelf instead.

And here's where you can buy the book! THE SCHOLAR'S CODEX: www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/sch...

Very much looking forward to this first event about the Scholar's Codex, and in Rome of all places. I'll go hunting for some Souls-coded ruins in the days after this.

On June 2, CDN and Bergen Pride invite you to an evening of Queer Games and AI Resistance featuring talks by Daniella Gáti, Oliver Haimson, Joakim Johansen Østbye and CDN scholars Sérgio Roxo and Tom Legierse, with Lin Prøitz as moderator. www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Do you make games? Do you study or teach games? Do you create videos or blog about games? -- What theories or ideas help make good games? -- Share your opinion in our 10min online survey w @dooleymurphy.bsky.social & @florencesn.bsky.social res58.itu.dk/limesurvey/I...

Genre glitching: a new sign of AI-assisted writing? Thanks to @doremus-schafer.bsky.social and @srettberg.bsky.social who shared the two examples of this that I discuss in today's blog post. Please please please send me any other examples you see of this! jilltxt.net/genre-glitch...

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: It turns out the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus was in the database of books we illegally used to train our AI model.

Skål to jolly cooperation!

Thank you @mariakalberto.bsky.social for this lovely review of Mytholudics! Always extremely cool to hear and read about people engaging with the book. doi.org/10.1386/jgvw...

Preorders have started arriving, so this isn't some distant prospect you order and forget about for a year. You can have your hands on this delicious tome in a VERY REASONABLE timeframe.

That is correct. We sell our books DRM-free in our store at www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/... We always include a full-layout PDF and, where it makes sense, an ePub. Exact details are in the product listing.

IT'S IN THE WILD

Scholar's Codex is starting to ship to collectors in the EU/UK.

This is a fabulous PhD opportunity to study the history of Scottish video games and its intersection with museums. More details can be found at the following link. Click on 'Fully Funded PhD Research Studentship' on the left side: ce0173li.webitrent.com/ce0173li_web...

Inconvenience? I just had to dig seven pages deep to find the unsubscribe for one of the four TV subscriptions I need, I'm measured & optimized against in my supermarket, lamps, music, games, and travel. Every service I love gets enshittified to buy billionaires yachts worth 100 times my house.

If you're interested in applying for an MSCA postdoc with us here at the Center for Digital Narrative, read this and submit a statement of interest before May 1st! We'll get back to you within a week or so after that :) www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Where an idea is believed to come from matters. And when those origins are obscured, things get really interesting. That's the basis of my latest *open access* chapter, 'The Obscurity of Origins in Reality Formation: Slender Man and Digital Mythology'.

What kind of game-world book tempts you most? Lore – Art – Essays – Interviews? www.tuneandfairweather.com/collections/...

Are you an early career research who would like to spend a semester at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen? We have a call out now for a stipend to cover mobility expenses for 3-4 months in the first half of 2027. Apply before 15 May! skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=...

France to ditch US technology. "The State can no longer simply acknowledge its dependence; it must break free. We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. .. Digital sovereignty is not optional." Daniel Amiel, ministre de l'Action et des Comptes publics

Every time a journal makes me convert my .csv/.tsv supplementary files to Excel, a little piece of open science dies🥀 RIP reproducibility, my floating-point precision, and at least a dozen genes that are now formatted as dates.

Return to Yharnam ends tomorrow. Bring the event to a close with Scholar’s Codex and its academic analysis of Bloodborne. We hope your Hunt was a successful one, and that you crushed the Vermin where appropriate. www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/sch...

Anthropic using regex instead of their actual *language model* to detect negative sentiment in prompts.

here are a few spot illustrations that appear throughout the book :)

Lead image for the Dark Souls II section of Scholar's Codex @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social 5x7" ink on claybord DSII has lots of very memorable set pieces imo, but none quite as visually stunning as the Looking Glass Knight fight

happy birthday Dark Souls III and my favorite set piece in a souls game (5x7" ink on claybord - 2023)

Play HAMM-3R! 🚀 FREE + SHORT (5-10 mins.) >> hammer.gua-le-ni.com << An experimental game about tools and technologies made with @amidos2006.bsky.social, @demigiant.com and other friends at the @indigitalgames.bsky.social! 🔨

Are you interested in being a guest researcher at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social in the spring of 2027? Apply for our Fellowship! Funds cannot cover salary, but cover extra costs associated with spending a semester abroad for people with PhDs in full time jobs. Deadline 15 May. www4.uib.no/en/research/...

I couldn't resist

Next up at #CDNequinox are @domford.bsky.social and Haoyuang Tang on AI-powered NPCs in games. Dom will talk about the promise of AI characters and Haoyuang more about the actuality.

If you are using Grammarly, stop.

Illustration from Scholar's Codex - edited by @domford.bsky.social our very own @gua-le-ni.com and @danielvella.bsky.social, and @nelevdm.bsky.social Academics explore the themes, lore and ruined majesty of classics like Bloodborne, Dark Souls and Elden Ring. @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social

probably my favorite illustration I did for Scholar's Codex, for the Elden Ring section @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social "Marika bathed the village of her home in gold, knowing full well that there was no one to heal." 5x7" ink on claybord

Friends! The ITU is hiring! We're looking for a tech-savvy person who can help us develop the games program and the Center for Digital Play research profile: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!

And just like that, we've released our first public demo for Sparrow Warfare. From here on out we're building in the open. And you can be a part of that!

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

*taps the sign with increasing weariness*

Fuck Israel and fuck the US for their brazen, neverending killing and warmongering.

🚨 It's publication day! 🚨 My latest article has been published in the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds! 'What went wrong with Cities: Skylines II, according to players: How players understand game development in the context of a poor digital game launch'.

I cannot wait to hear this!

Want to know more about what we owe the dead (in their roles as players), and the problematic ethics of deadpool games? I've got you covered with this new article of mine! Have fun! #gamestudies

We need Spring and Autumn Olympics. An Olympic every year. Spring Olympics would be predominantly speedrunning and other e-sports. Autumn Olympics would be mostly TTRPGs and Magic the Gathering. Both Spring and Autumn Olympics would obviously include curling.