Linas Gabrielaitis
gablinas.bsky.social
Linas Gabrielaitis
@gablinas.bsky.social
GeoPhilosophy, EcoGames, Toy Models, Earth Engines. PhD/Gamification Group/Tampere Uni 🇫🇮
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small man starts tower defence game and then decides to add towers to it three months later | godot, gamedev, powerlifting: twitch.tv/earend
December 27, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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🎉 New Paper Alert! ✨

“Plastic as a Sediment: A universal and objective practical solution…”

Now we can assess plastic as a sediment and better understand the relationship of its physical properties with its environmental distribution! ✨It’s so exciting!✨

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 19, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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LLM bots posing as 'polite disagreers' are worryingly convincing. I've already seen a fair few people engaging with them. Bsky obviously trying to moderate them but - how to increase literacy around how to spot them?

As the post says.....just ignoring all weird replies is a healthy start
A polite disagreement bot ring is flooding Bluesky — reply guy as a (dis)service
On the Bluesky social network, you may notice a lot of drive-by responses from accounts that rarely or never post — they just reply to other accounts. The reply pattern starts with a phrase like “I…
pivot-to-ai.com
December 7, 2024 at 11:31 PM
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Super excited to see the latest open-access title in the Electronic Communities of Making series Stuart Moulthrop + I edit at Amherst College Press: check out *Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method* from Milena Droumeva + lots of fabulous contributors - www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Playthrough Poetics: Gameplay as Research Method
Game streamers and live commentators are producing increasingly comprehensive analyses of gameplay, yet scholarship still tends to flatten the experiential media of video games into text for close rea...
www.fulcrum.org
November 20, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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Since a lot of gamedevs are coming across to Bluesky, here's a reminder that my sound effect tool ChipTone is good! And free! And runs right in the browser!

sfbgames.itch.io/chiptone
November 23, 2024 at 11:10 AM