Jonne Arjoranta @jaranta@scholar.social

Bayes: https://xkcd.com/2059/

This week's #blogpost is another short trip into the #Fallout4 universe! Looking at secret codes, deciphering, and the fascination of "secret messages" in #archaeology and #pseudoarchaeology.

https://animalarchaeology.com/2018/10/15/fallout-finds-deciphering-the-past-and-present/

#Fallout #VideoGames #ancientlanguages

Neat map of history of western philosophy in the form of connections of builds on/refutes #heyfeedfox https://www.denizcemonduygu.com/philo/browse/

A mastodon fork where toots could be categorized as "publications", "presentations", "posters", "updates", etc. That would be a #ResearchGate killer

One year after publication, I'm finally allowed to share freely the full text of "Rethinking #Age in #HCI Through Anti-Ageist Playful Interactions".
I'm very proud of this paper, and especially of its methodology at the crossroads of interaction #criticism, pragmatist #aesthetics and #ludology.

Interested in designing #games that make people think about how does it feel to age? Have a look at https://www.gabrieleferri.com/blog/?p=2243

Modern academic writing: this article will study a subsection of a subsection of a category in one instance, and it will painstakingly footnote every step along the way towards a tentative conclusion

Old timey academic writing: the purpose of literature is

For anyone who's not already in the blast radius of this, here's a summary of the latest scandal surrounding the methodology of academic journals, especially those that the hoaxers locate in the realm of "grievance studies." Thoughts?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Sokal-Squared-Is-Huge/244714

Want to work on #virtualreality #VR and, who knows, #worldpeace? There is a #PhD #scholarship available at the Nanyang Technological University Interdisciplinary Graduate School under my supervisor, Vivian Chen. Project details here: http://cohass.ntu.edu.sg/Programmes/Graduate-Programmes/IGS/Documents/AY2019_03_Utilizing%20virtual%20reality%20and%20video%20games.pdf #gradschool #academia #games #gamestudies

I used twine to make this slide for class to explain how dialog tree romance games pretty much always work

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I met a traveler from an icy land
Who said—"Two dry and fleshless pits of plum
Lie in the dustbin... near them, on the floor,
Half stained with purple juice a napkin lies,
Whose tears and wrinkles tell
That its user well those plums enjoyed;
And on the napkin, these words appear:
I have eaten the plums
That were in the icebox;
Look on my works, ye Hungry, and despair!
Nothing beside remains."

INTERVIEWER: "OwO"
JACQUES DERRIDA: Ah, yes, a complex topic. First, I must apologize for my English. Secondly, it is difficult to address the matter in a satisfactory manner on the spot. When someone says, "OwO", it is the opening of an experience. A question is to come, is *now* to come, always to come--à venir. When one answers "what is this", th--[insert 30,000 words about messianicity, différance, and khôra]

As a professor at a public university, my number 1 job seems to be wading through corporate spam for shoddy e-education this and i-textbook that.

Watch this new documentary "Paywall: The Business of Scholarship" (#OpenAccess, free stream) https://paywallthemovie.com It covers a fair amount of ground. Could be an eye-opener for many people but also if, like me, this is a subject you're familiar with, you might still appreciate the variety of points it makes. I especially was interested in some of the voices speaking about the issues in countries that cannot afford Elsevier, etc. & how that access (lack thereof) directs their research.