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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · 1h

yapping like it's my job (it is my job)

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · 18h

❣️‼️😊

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 19h

every video game is just a different type of gay bar

Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 1d

This the kinda shit people say to me in the smoking zone outside the gay bar

Baroque screenshot of a floating green skirt girl in a dark dungeon telling you "You were extracted from our soul. We are insane. It's your fault we became insane."

Same girl as before but now she is saying "You want to cut me? That's fine. You probably want to kill me, right? Then kill me. If you killed me, I think I'd be glad."

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VALUE Foundation @valuefnd.bsky.social · 1d

Last session is under way! We begin with @copperkeerthi.bsky.social discussing Hamlet in the Hypertext!

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · 1d

getting weird @ #TIPC4 this afternoon, and we're streaming all of today's wonderful programming over on twitch.tv/streamingthepast! come hang out at the event of the season 🎭🎮💀

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · 9d

it's been such a delightful month for my e-reader. i love when words

keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · 9d

september reads 🍂

📖the empress of salt & fortune, nghi vo*
📖mongrels, stephen graham jones**
📖the restaurant of lost recipes, hisashi kashiwai
📖butter, asako yuzuki*
📖the kamogawa food detectives, hisashi kashiwai
📖when the tiger came down the mountain, nghi vo*
📖the vanished birds, simon jimenez**

keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · 9d

september reads 🍂

📖the empress of salt & fortune, nghi vo*
📖mongrels, stephen graham jones**
📖the restaurant of lost recipes, hisashi kashiwai
📖butter, asako yuzuki*
📖the kamogawa food detectives, hisashi kashiwai
📖when the tiger came down the mountain, nghi vo*
📖the vanished birds, simon jimenez**

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · Sep 1

this thursday i will attempt to hold off my deeply unprofessional tirade on crowdfunding in indie game dev for a generous 15 minutes. stream is 2 hours though so you will absolutely get to hear it

playfultimemach.bsky.social @playfultimemach.bsky.social · Sep 1

And we're back! Our first stream of the new academic year addresses the question: What game's release have you looked forward to the most? We'll also play the game Sword of the Sea. Come and join us on Thursday (yep new day!) 15:00 onward, as always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · Sep 1

august reads 🌾

📖idolfire, grace curtis*
📖the grapes of wrath, john steinbeck*
📖crocodile tears, anthony horowitz
📖scorpia rising, anthony horowitz
📖hamnet, maggie o'farrell***

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · Aug 2

july reads ❣️

📖floating hotel, grace curtis*
📖snakehead, anthony horowitz
📖everybody wants to rule the world except me, django wexler*

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Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social · Jul 21

I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.

Reviewer 2's Review of Red Dead's History — History Respawned

I promised myself I would never write a negative book review. I promised my PhD advisor I would never write a negative book review. I promised I would always find a silver lining in any piece of aca...

www.historyrespawned.com

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · Jul 20

Come watch the videos of this year's Generation Analog, and stay to watch those of the previous 4 years!

It's great podcast listening for those interested in games scholarship.

#GenerationAnalog2025
#StayAnalog

www.youtube.com/@analoggames...

Analog Game Studies

The official journal of Analog Game Studies. Scholarly content about tabletop, live-action, performance, and generally awesome games. Read more at our website analogamestudies.org.

www.youtube.com

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · Jul 6

talking actual play, sex, and comedy futures at #GenerationAnalog2025 next week!

Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · Jul 3

#GenerationAnalog2025 "PUNK" is a little over two weeks way! Thursday, July 17, 2025! Don't forget to register for this free online conference: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #GameinLab #analoggamestudies #gamestudies

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · Jul 4

that's a wrap on #DiGRA2025. ft. stellar conversations, great food, and my pronoun sticker minigame, which i am tentatively calling "I MEAN--"

keerthi's printed conference badge in a plastic card sleeve, on a red lanyard. the badge is covered in 4 they/them pronoun stickers, which are purple text on a yellow background.

keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · Jul 3

voor iedereen die op tweetalige skeets hoopt, blijf hopen

keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · Jul 3

juuune reads

📖the obelisk gate, nk jemisin***
📖the stone sky, nk jemisin***
📖split tooth, tanya tagaq*
📖de bliksemdief, rick riordan

keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · Jul 3

must a conference talk be "good"? is it not enough to sit somewhere with ac and see a beautiful font, huge?

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · Jul 3

juuune reads

📖the obelisk gate, nk jemisin***
📖the stone sky, nk jemisin***
📖split tooth, tanya tagaq*
📖de bliksemdief, rick riordan

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · Jun 29

so stoked to be at #DiGRA2025, with an interactive discussion on trans/gressive utterances for the Queer/Trans Game/Studies workshop and a presentation on my pilot study to rep @playfultimemach.bsky.social 🎮🎲

the first slide of a presentation titled "Table Talk: Hacking tabletop for transgenderism". The slide features two polyhedral dice (a d20 and a d8) along with a motif of a crossed road that crosses the page.

the first slide of a presentation titled "Iterating the Past: Game Analytic Methods for Historical Game Studies". the slide features a promotional image of Bayek from AC Origins with his back to the viewer. The image has been heavily modified to include gaze-tracking circles that emulate an eye-tracker, a graph paper overlay, and images taken from statistical analysis software.

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Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · Jun 3

It's finally done!📝

In this blog post, I apply my theory of an archaeological gameworld mental model to Blue Prince, and argue that half the fun of the game is in what happens off-screen:

florencesmithnicholls.com/2025/06/03/d...

Drafting the Archaeological Mental Model of Blue Prince

Back in January 2023, I ran an online study in which I got participants to play a game about a ruined village and tell me what they thought happened to it. That game was Nothing Beside Remains, a 2…

florencesmithnicholls.com

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · Jun 1

may reads!

📖project hail mary, andy weir*
📖stormbreaker, anthony horowitz
📖point blanc, anthony horowitz
📖skeleton key, anthony horowitz
📖the city we became, nk jemisin
📖eagle strike, anthony horowitz
📖scorpia, anthony horowitz*
📖ark angel, anthony horowitz
📖the fifth season, nk jemisin***

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Possum Creek @possumcreekgames.com · May 27

We're proud to announce that Possum Creek will be publishing LAST TRAIN TO BREMEN by @seaexcursion.itch.io. Four doomed musicians flee from the devil in this dramatic RPG, soon to be available in print for the first time!
bit.ly/bremen_bk

Get Ready for Last Train to Bremen

From Possum Creek Games - Get Ready for Last Train to Bremen

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · May 28

could you scrape the oreo creme off and mix into the mascarpone bit? might up the oreo factor

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · May 6

got to nerd out with @miriammthsn.bsky.social on all things labor, aesthetics, and method recently 😌 take a listen:

S03E10: Visualizing the Invisibilized

Talk Media to Me · Episode

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · May 1

a slower month but full of stellar books 😌✨️

keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · May 1

april reads!

📖faithbreaker, hannah kaner*
📖light from uncommon stars, ryka aoki*
📖parable of the sower, octavia butler*
📖the martian, andy weir
📖mickey7, edward ashton*

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keerthi sridharan🌻🇵🇸 @copperkeerthi.bsky.social · May 1

april reads!

📖faithbreaker, hannah kaner*
📖light from uncommon stars, ryka aoki*
📖parable of the sower, octavia butler*
📖the martian, andy weir
📖mickey7, edward ashton*

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