@ludensprof
Associate Professor of History at Centre College. Written on: baseball in colonial Taiwan; American missionaries in interwar China. Interested in national identity, science fiction, video games. Associate Editor at www.historyrespawned.com
History Respawned is back, kind of, in dude in his office chatting form! Just a short message to say hello, going to post videos about once a week.
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This is a very good encapsulation of how a lot of us feel about the impact of AI on a day to day basis which is that using it to find information can be more helpful than Google but a lot of that is because Google has gotten much worse
At one point it was “Death Stranding” by Chvrches, every day, for like a year. It’s a great song but also I was depressed.
My current rotation for the song I play after dropping my daughter off to school, one of:
Jellybelly by Smashing Pumpkins
The Winner Takes it All, ABBA
Just depends on my mood.
BTW it is EXTREMELY common for academic papers to declare Lara Croft the first playable female game character (a very easy fact to debunk). As a grad student I wrote a paper that traced every appearance of this "fact" to a single paper, which is why you don't only engage with academic texts!!
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
Indeed. It makes perfect sense to me that rock’s mainstream popularity declined due to political correctness to be superseded by - checks notes - rap music.
There are a lot of guitar bands around. Lots of good ones. I suspect the larger issue is that we made it very hard to make money as a musician
"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard
Guys I did not expect Chiang Kai-shek to feature so prominently in my timeline tonight.
In light of the recent Chang Poasting:
Professionally, I try to explain the war and its consequences in objective terms: the logic might prove flawed, but surely it exists. And yet I can't escape the conclusion that a lot of the people leading us to war are simply underqualified and unserious. They don't have a clue what they are doing.
A war no one asked for, started in an attempt to improve a president’s poll numbers, and now children we allegedly want to free are dead.
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Man, I really want an “inspired by real events” episode of Law and Order now.
Sending love to my former colleagues <3
The February 26 Incident of 1936, which happened on this day ninety years ago, was modern Japan’s most serious coup attempt and led to four months and twenty days of martial law.
Incredible stuff. I guess it’s hard for Bill, what with him staying on the left and everyone else moving.
I just learned a bunch of things about Dan Ariely and I’m really glad I like my job. I’m also grateful for my job.
Young scholars are working so hard to get academic jobs, and every R1 seems to randomly tolerate people who make career-ending mistakes every few years.
Wow. I mean it’s one thing to think it (who cares) and another thing to WRITE AN EMAIL SCOLDING SOMEONE ABOUT IT.
I think this meme is basically true to the story thus far. Which is bananas. #RAM #Gaming #AI
This is called a community college and if we funded them properly we wouldn't need private individuals to offer these kinds of services.
all the kinds of modern Indie Games:
-"roguelike" (slot machine)
-feelings
-unlock/tech tree simulator
-"god we hope northernlion plays this"
-crunchy first person shooter
-morrowind built by a single lunatic
Hey all!
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“Hmm, I’m looking to make a heavily gendered snotty comment about a female captain; maybe I should invoke a different female captain for cover!”
Whether it’s actresses who play captains, or it’s lawyers or doctors or moms or writers or athletes, I can assure you: Women know this trick, dude.
It’s the bad that plays the song over the end credits. I know not everyone had the same experience but it hit just right with me
Faunts - Mass Effect
This week's @vgim.bsky.social, sponsored by k-ID, was a simple one.
I interviewed @mackeza.bsky.social to discuss Super Nintendo, her outstanding book about the Big N. And it was, unsurprisingly, a great chat.
Read the piece here: videogamesindustrymemo.substack.com/p/why-ninten...
Looking forward to someone at CBP starting a war with Mexico in order to protect our precious bodily fluids.
