Jonne Arjoranta 📚 @jaranta@scholar.social

Next Monday, I will be presenting as part of the Schoooooool With Many Holes in the Over Realism Conference about the transformative potential of play. It's free, if you happen to be in Helsinki.

https://amosrex.fi/en/events/schoooooool-with-many-holes/

https://amosrex.fi/en/events/performative-conference/

We're having our project's seminar today and this means starting the day with sandwiches while listening to a keynote about food in Dwarf Fortress. #GameStudies

I mean...

I hate Adobe Digital Editions with a passion. The only way to read digital books from the university is to use ADE, but it simply doesn't work even in the best of circumstances. I wonder what the IT support would think if I asked for software to rip DRM off books?

The book claims to be open access to me, but only when I look at it from out university network.

I'm not sure if this is a technical glitch or some Taylor & Francis bullshit, but I'll look into it.

In the mean time, if you want a copy, tell me and I'll send it to you.

The book "Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture," including my chapter on imagining alien experiences in videogames, is openly available for a limited time. If non/posthuman perspectives is your thing, go download it.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429243042

I started preparing a presentation for tomorrow and found a presentation on that same topic I already prepared earlier. Last week I started writing an abstract and found one I wrote in 2014 that I had no memory of.

I don't know, more sleep?

I'm sure I've read this argument in some game studies article.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/anything-2

I set out to clean my to-read list.

Goal: -100

Current total: +1

Ah yes, travel expense claims. My favourite thing to do with my time.

Nature has some very good infographics on the climate crisis.

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-019-02711-4/index.html

"A special thanks to all the authors who followed the formatting"

Wittgenstein was a teacher for a while. This is how I always imagined his lessons.
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/308

Sure, he's from the industry, but somebody should have told him that a keynote is not a marketing event.

I'm listening to the first keynote of a conference and he has spent most of the time telling us how awesome he and his work is.