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Jesper Juul

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Video game theorist, author of Half-real, A Casual Revolution, The Art of Failure, and Handmade Pixels. New book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64" out Dec 10th 2024! https://jesperjuul.net/c64 https://jesperjuul.net

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Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · Dec 10

My book "Too Much Fun: The Fives Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" about games and computers, is out today!

"The surprising history of the Commodore 64, the best-selling home computer of the 1980s—the machine that taught the world that computing should be fun."

jesperjuul.net/c64/

Cover of the book "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer"

Pages from "Too Much Fun" showing famous games.

Compute's Gazette and 64'er Commodore 64 magazines.

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Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · 1d

AI Rule #1: Cynical writers use AI.

Also: Who will pay for consulting, when AI can generate something just as default and vacuous for free? Or will consulting firms claim to offer something more personal, human, and special?

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/d...

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report

Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.

arstechnica.com

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Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · 19d

Stafan Höltgen has kindly reviewed Too Much Fun (in German).

"What is astonishing is both the breadth and depth with which the author presents the platform."

www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...

Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · 25d

You mean it's just a general lack of (data) literacy? I see the point. People also used to take Google to be an oracle.

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Raf @raf80.bsky.social · Jul 1

Lots of retro goodness in the mail today 😀 @jesperjuul.bsky.social @amigaaddict.bsky.social

Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · Jun 17

2) As I recall Piaget, he has a similar distinction (named in reverse!) between "regularities" (what governs the activity, such as throwing marbles) and "rules" (the goal).

Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · Jun 17

Probably yes (the rules are what govern the game). But it is perfectly possible to make distinction. I think there are two variations.
1) The Bernard Suits argument that there is a pre-existing "goal", and "the rules/game" - constitute a limitation of what players can do.
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Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · Jun 17

And why even ask us the question?

Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · Jun 17

AI naïvity: When we presented a detailed study about the Danish game industry last month, a young audience member asked us why we hadn't just asked ChatGPT? He apparently thought that AIs knew "everything", and didn't see any reason why you would gather new data. That is a problem.

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Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · Jun 4

Spoiler: This refers to AIs (as in LLMs) running on your own server, specifically Meta's Llama AI.

Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · Jun 4

Bullet point of the day: "Self-hosted llamas".

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Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · Jun 2

Thanks for letting me know! It is available from the publisher, but Amazon in Europe has it out of stock sometimes. I think Thalia.de has it
www.thalia.de/shop/home/ar...

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Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · May 24

The software is there, but the storefront can be improved. Don't take my word for it. Try putting a non-technical user in front of the site. Don't tell them anything and see if they a) realize that Nextcloud can be used for an office suite b) can sign up and get to said office suite on their own.

Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · May 22

I disagree. NextCloud a software platform for installing on a server, it's not something a regular end-user can use to replace an office suite.

Jesper Juul @jesperjuul.bsky.social · May 21

Yes, people refer a lot to the site, but it's incomplete to the point of doing more harm than good. The "document collaboration services" lists five items, the four of which are not relevant for end-users, and three of the four services I review are missing.

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