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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 1d

Now, if only Ubisoft leadership had a shred of humanity...

Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 1d

Mr. Game & Matcha

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 3d

S-rank connoisseur posting.

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 5d

When the carpet matches the drapes; dog edition.

A furry, gold, white, and grey dog stretches on a patterned carpet with a similar color scheme of orange, white, and greyish blue.

Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 6d

French!

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 7d

Me and doing academia after the third journal reject in four months' time:

a boy is swinging a bat at a ball on a tee

Alt: A boy is swinging a bat at a ball on a tee, misses by a wide margin. The weight of the bat sets him into a twirl. At the end of the twirl the bat weakly taps the ball off the tee, presumably having it land just off-screen.

media.tenor.com

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 8d

Mr. Onion, you can be the one to bring capes back.

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 10d

I think it's even worse than that, as it's not even fully his own sadism, it's what he expects the algorithm to want to put out to his audience. It's a nihilistic projection of the sadism of the attention economy. Vacuous and cruel.

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 11d

I was going to say it sounded like a little car twisting around an also little racetrack, but Excitebike is so much closer.

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 12d

I love PTA films, but Licorice Pizza is one that I bounced off of. The way it played the main 'romance' plot as something, well, romantic ticked me off. I know genderswapping arguments suck, but the movie would've creeped out a lot more people the other way around. Fully agree on plot looseness too!

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Felix Reer @ree-flx.bsky.social · 16d

We are very proud that the keynote will be held by current ICA Game Studies Chair Ruud S. Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social: “Uncharted or The Last of Us? Interrogating the Unrealized Potential of Serious Games.”

Hope to see you all in Palma!

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 16d

"All Nevernudes Go To Hell", the Bluth movie sequel everyone saw coming.

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 16d

Sounds like a great time! How kuch time do you devote to co-playing a game like RotOD? I've found that hard to gauge in the past.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 20d

gotta bump this back up on my TL again because it’s 40% near its goal…
If you like culture crit, backrooms, liminal spaces, and horror… this is up your alley!
it’s a wonderful collection of essays on the topic.
I wrote the chapter about games!

Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 27d

the crowdfund campaign for Darkest Margins is here!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/darkest-ma...
“DARKEST MARGINS is a collection of 24 essays from genre writers exploring expressions of liminality and liminal spaces in the horror genre, across cinema, literature, television, art and video games.”

DARKEST MARGINS

The aim is to raise funds for the 1st print run of DARKEST MARGINS: 24 Essays on Liminality and Liminal Spaces in the Horror Genre.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 23d

In a beautiful merger of Dead Internet with people's intense love of quoting famous authors, today's image search turned up this wonderfully juxtaposed gem.

A quote from George Orwell's 1948 book, 1984. It reads "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever." The quote is superimposed on an inspiring landscape image of a pier on a still lake with calm mountains in the background.

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 27d

This sounds like a great collection. Looking forward to getting this in!

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · 28d

Another warrior! Come to test yer mettle? When yer out there, rootin' about in once great Boletaria, spare a thought for world tendency. Dyin' as a phantom is fine. When you die in human form, though... Well, it's enough to make the world weep! *wheezing laughter that goes on a bit too long*

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · Sep 9

Imagine the amount of blue shells circling billionaires' mansions all hours of the day if that were true.

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · Sep 7

Recently found out this is not something we can opt out of for any of the major publishers.

The thing is, I know them doing this will not make my future work less valuable, but I also know people in positions of power in academia will think it does.

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

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Felix "InterVR" Krell @felkrell.bsky.social · Sep 3

Masterpiece

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcYl...

What it's like to be an AI artist

YouTube video by ToadBurger

www.youtube.com

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · Sep 3

A group of PS4s should be called a staircase.

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Nathaniel Poor @natpoor.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

anthonymoser.github.io

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · Aug 29

Ooh, "probability and association are inadequate to the goal of intelligence" is a nice one.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · Aug 25

“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.”
walzr.com/IMG_0001
this is beautiful 🥲

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walzr.com

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Ruud Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social · Aug 26

Right here, right now!