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UW Human Centered Design & Engineering @hcde.uw.edu · 7d

How do video games shape who we are?
HCDE & @ischool.uw.edu researchers found that 78% of gamers reported life-changing experiences from play—from coping with stress to building identity.
Findings will be presented at @chiplay.bsky.social later this month.

www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...

Q&A: How video games can lead people to more meaningful lives

UW researchers discuss their study which surveyed 166 gamers about how video games sparked meaningful changes in their lives.

www.washington.edu

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · 8d

There's an article about this paper now! Especially in the ✨current political climate✨, I try to remember what games (especially FF7) have instilled in me: hope in times of despair, and that fighting back can defeat the bad guys and their systems of oppression. www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13d

The folks who manage our building put a flyer in the elevator every week. Along with the weekly weather and notes about building rules being broken, they often add a quote. This is one I snapshotted a few weeks ago:

Cropped photo of a flyer. Black text on white paper with a shine and a light reflection of the photographer behind. The top lines mention trash room, dumpster, and “Thank you for your cooperation.” The text below reads: “To do the useful thing, To say the courageous thing, To contemplate the beautiful, That is enough for one man’s life.” - T.S. Eliot

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 27d

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences:

www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way

The mainstream media seems entirely uninterested in explaining Charlie Kirk's work.

www.404media.co

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Joey Schafer @schafer.bsky.social · 27d

“The problem that Democrats actually need to solve is how to effectively message in an information environment that is designed from the ground up to benefit reactionary narratives. If they don’t figure that out, they’ll end up… dreaming up middling solutions to non-existent problems.” Great article

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 27d

My latest newsletter is a response to @jerusalem.bsky.social on the politics of immigration, and why ticky-tack policy solutions won't save Democrats.

Policy Can't Solve a Propaganda Problem

On immigration and everything else, pundits are missing the point

stringinamaze.net

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · 28d

Has anybody ever gotten the chance to ask Fletz and/or Fitzpatrick why their levels of reflection are zero-indexed?

(not complaining, just a genuine question)

Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Sep 3

This kind of rocks. Hopefully it is not AI generated

Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Sep 3

When I legitimately need to study (like for my general exam) I like listening to bland lo-fi, but sometimes it gets too bland. I also like listening to video game instrumental, but sometimes I get too emotional and it makes me cry. The solution I just found: open.spotify.com/playlist/1M3...

Final Fantasy LoFi Mix

open.spotify.com

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'm at PAX West! Let me know if you are too :) (and come check out the foundry10 booth in the tabletop free play area)

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Aug 27

Luckily I was slouching so hopefully it's not as noticeable as I feel it is haha

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Aug 27

Recorded my CHI PLAY presentation video, realized I was wearing my "whiskey is liquid sunshine" shirt the whole time, wondered if I should rerecord it to *not* memorialize me looking like an alcoholic into ACM YouTube for posterity, then gave up and uploaded it anyways

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Benji Kaveladze @benji700.bsky.social · Aug 26

New preprint! A Crowdsourced Megastudy of 12 Digital Single-Session Interventions for Depression in American Adults

What's the best way to help someone overcome depression with just 10 minutes of their time online? We ran a trial (n=7,505) testing 12 diverse interventions.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Aug 20

Made a silly demo of what I'm working on right now - it's a tool for annotating while gaming, similar to annotating a book. As I mentioned in my last post, it's very inspired by ideas discussed re. critical reflection in The Well Read Game. Feedback appreciated on the MVP! youtu.be/LIdFdVaLWCI

Game Annotator (v1)

YouTube video by Nisha Devasia

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 12

8. This has been a short and honestly rather peevish thread, so if you want read more that has been written in a more equanimous tone, here's a short piece that I coauthored a few years ago, precisely about how we deal with this kind of duplicity.

To Fight Misinformation, We Need to Teach That Science Is Dynamic

Science is a social process, and teaching students how researchers work in tandem to develop facts will make them less likely to be duped by falsehoods

www.scientificamerican.com

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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · Aug 12

Please, I beg everyone panicking about “kids these days” to just display the full scale on the y-axis of their (not so) terrifying charts. Oh wait, maybe that story would not sell 🤔 mikemales.substack.com/p/how-to-go-...

How to go viral with dire-sounding – but phony – “statistical trends”

Those bent on creating anti-internet panics keep rigging their presentations.

mikemales.substack.com

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Josh Habgood-Coote @impractknow.bsky.social · Aug 7

Me not writing a paper:

Dr Juliette @ferrydanini.bsky.social · Aug 7

Epistemic chilling

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Aug 8

(Oh, and ofc everything by @rowandaneels.bsky.social, who is already tagged in this thread)

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Aug 8

- (Iten et al., 2018) and (Yin & Xiao, 2022) re. meaningful choices in narrative games
- (Happ et al., 2013) and (Bopp et al., 2019) re. empathy for/attachment to game characters
@pietervdheede.bsky.social feel free to DM me, I'm fresh off that project and happy to share thoughts/more papers!

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Aug 8

I've been summoned - thanks Elisa :) Some relevant/favorite references from that paper are:
- @dpossler.bsky.social's theoretical modeling around eudaimonic gaming experiences
- (Lu & Moller, 2024) re. narrative and SDT in games
- (Tyack & Wyeth, 2020) re. relatedness in single player games
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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Aug 5

"To this end" "There is an opportunity to design" :melting-face:

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Aug 5

I submitted one yesterday, thankfully about something unrelated in the interest of anonymous review haha - but yes I will definitely send some stuff over once I've created all the materials for the book club!

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Aug 5

!!! Thank you, I loved the book! I'm actually hacking on some tools to use in a game book club setting - I've been talking about running one for almost a year, but your book gave me tangible ideas for how to actually do it well :) hopefully I'll have interesting things to report back!

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Aug 5

Acknowledgments (although almost nobody is on Bluesky):
- My co-authors Michele and Georgia for dealing with the insane codebook
- My advisors @juliekientz.bsky.social and Jin Ha Lee for their kindness and guidance
- Jake Wobbrock, without whom I could not have figured out any of the stats

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Aug 5

Would love to hear folks' thoughts - I'm hoping to head further down this track for my dissertation work. I also just care about eudaimonic gaming experiences a lot, so I would love to hear folks' thoughts regardless of relevance to research or not :)

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Nisha Devasia @nishadevasia.bsky.social · Aug 5

In current work, we're building tools for helping kids reflect more deeply on their gaming to hopefully spur some of the processing required for those experiences to become personally meaningful. Fullerton & Farber's theory of player response is a huge inspo here. (see bsky.app/profile/docf...)

Matthew Farber @docfarber.bsky.social · May 20

🚨 New blog alert! "A New Theory of Player Response," about Tracy Fullerton @kinojabber.bsky.social and my new book! clalliance.org/blog/a-new-t...

A New Theory of Player Response - Connected Learning Alliance

In Tracy Fullerton’s and my new book, The Well-Read Game: On Playing Thoughtfully, part of The MIT Press’ Playful Thinking series, we propose a new framework of interpretive play. This framework is a ...

clalliance.org

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