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They do, but before the bill they didn't pay taxes in years when their net earnings were $0 or less. Under the new bill, someone who wins $100k but also loses that same $100k in a year would have to pay taxes of $10k even though their net income was $0. This would push many out of the career.

U.S. to Review Social Media Posts of Student and Scholar Visa Applicants

The State Department under Rubio is resuming the processing of student and visiting scholar visas after a halt of nearly a month. But it's now checking social media accounts of applicants to look for what it calls "hostility" to the U.S. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/u...

All will be bedazzled.

The most exciting part about a summer to-do list is not yet knowing which items I'm going to end up leaving unfinished this time around!

Grades in ✅️
Productive writing retreat this week ✅️
Last-minute end-of-semester grant submitted ✅️
Talk given at the Scholastic Esports Expo in Manitoba ✅️

Aww yeah, now I can enjoy the rest of this work trip and get summer started in style. Have a great break, academic friends!

Here's a little spelling trick: whenever I try to spell the word "occasionally," I say to myself "don't fuck this up like you did last time," and I carefully think through how to spell it: O-C-A-S-S-I-O-N-A-L-L-Y then I press space and see the little squiggly red line reminding me that I'm hopeless.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

AI and the Tommy Boy-ification of Higher Ed.

What's it called when Billy Mays can't be there in person to get a tough stain out but sends a surrogate instead?

Proxy Clean

dakotacollegiaterl - Twitch DCRL | SEASON 6 | CROSSBAR KINGS VS SILVER LEVELING | DIV C | LAN

Happening on UND campus today and tomorrow: the finals for Dakota Collegiate Rocket League! m.twitch.tv/dakotacolleg...

One of the most hype, high-energy esports events in the collegiate scene and super proud that UND gets to host it.

You Are Generative AI by Kris Lorischild A Large Language Model Simulator

Introducing the latest and greatest in generative AI technology: you

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Anna Anthropy, Game & Narrative Designer, Writer and Educator "Anna Anthropy is a prolific creator across many formats who makes big things using simple tools. I envy her knack for taking an existing system and, with a few simple twists, turning it into a balloon animal uniquely hers." —Tim Hutchings, author of Thousand Year Old Vampire Whether digital or tabletop, I’m interested in exploring trans and disabled bodies in play and the boundaries of games as a narrative form. Contact me: collectfruit@gmail.com w.itch.io on the internet @cyborgurl on bluesky Teaching DePaul University Game Designer in Residence 2016 - 2025 As a term faculty member, I helped build one of the most renowned game development programs in the midwest, creating and revamping courses and interviewing and hiring new faculty members. I served as one of several faculty advisors to the entire Game Development student body, planned events and booked speakers, and advised numerous independent studies and thesis projects. Classes taught: Games Literacy, Advanced Game Design, History and Design of Role-Playing Games, Playgramming, Writing for Games, Game Dev 1, Game Dev Capstone. Games ndie Games (2009 – 2013) Flash games for the web, with a particular interest in representing queer identity and relationship dynamics. Mighty Jill Off (2019). REDDER (2010). Newgrounds. Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars (2012). Adult Swim Games. dys4ia (2012). Newgrounds. Triad (2013). Queers in Love at the End of the World (2013). Tabletop Role-Playing Games (2018 – present) Concise, experimental story games with an emphasis on non-traditional game mechanics. Princess with a Cursed Sword (2020). Tavern at the End of the World (2020). I LOVE YOU, ALIVE GIRL (2021). Hibernation Games Anthology. The Maw (2023). The Fool’s Journey (2023). Forgotten Palaces (2024).

Books Rise of the Videogame Zinesters. Seven Stories Press, 2011. A Game Design Vocabulary (with Naomi Clark). Pearson, 2014. ZZT. Boss Fight Books, 2014. Make Your Own Twine Games! No Starch Press, March 2019. Make Your Own Scratch Games! No Starch Press, June 2019. Make Your Own PuzzleScript Games! No Starch Press, October 2019. Shows and Exhibitions Harpy Diem (with Babycastles). Secret Project Robot (New York), 2012. Filthy Pixels. Bit Bash (Chicago), 2017. Hey! Play! Chicago Design Museum, 2017-2018. It’s Complicated. Likelike (Pittsburgh), 2018. Indiecade Presents: A Decade of Game Design. Museum of the Moving Image (New York), February 2018. I Was Raised on the Internet. Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), June - Oct 2018. Design / Play / Disrupt. Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Sep 2018 - Feb 2019. Chicago New Media 1973-1992. Gallery 400 (Chicago), November-December 2018. Polymorphism: Queer Encounters of Intimacy in Games. VGA Gallery (Chicago), Jan - April 2019. Bit Bash. Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago), August 2019. Rules to Play By. Flow Gallery (St. Louis), September 2019. Pink Screens Queer Film Festival. Cinema Nova (Brussels), November 2019. Indie Game Revolution. Museum of Pop Culture (Seattle), 2023-present. Skills Affinity Publisher / InDesign p5.js / Javascript Streamlabs Paint Shop Pro / Photoshop Excel / Google Sheets Yarn Spinner / Ink / Twine HTML / CSS Awards Lifetime Award, Arse Elektronika (2012) Game Changer Award, Indiecade (2013) Trans 100, We Happy Trans (2016) Global Illumination Award, VGA Gallery (2017)

new pinned post: my cv! my current employment ends in june and i'm looking for work and gigs! hire me to do narrative design / writing for digital or tabletop games, commission me to make an art game for a gallery, invite me to speak remotely at your school. or simply write me into your will and die

Sick! Lmk if you want to party up in Mario Kart day one.

Been a while since I stayed up for a midnight preorder/release! Luckily got through with one retailer while my other Switch 2 order sat in a cart I couldn't check out. Okay, off to bed. Looking forward to telling the kids the good news in the morning :)

Sorry, it's just been one of those [lifetimes].

NPR CEO Katherine Maher addresses future of federal funding for public media Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House proposal to eliminate federal funding for public media.

Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House proposal to eliminate federal funding for public media.

“Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government,” Harvard attorneys wrote to federal officials. “Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms.”

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I'm more diligent about it for in-person conferences than remote. I did it for an esports conference last spring but almost none of my esports colleagues at the time were on Bluesky. If I go to QGCon this year I'll likely live-post it, and I applied to another in Denmark this year that might happen.

Thanks so much, it means a lot! I see it as both a way to keep me listening intently to all the panelists and as kind of an informal service to the profession, so I'm glad to hear it's useful to you.

Saw the #minecraftmovie with my family and was actually shocked at how much audience participation happened throughout. It was like Rocky Horror-levels with the tweens and teens applauding every little inside reference. Might sound annoying but it was exciting to experience.

Halcyon Daze: The Final Voyages of the Galactic Starcruiser A feature-length documentary about the closure of Disney's Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser and the fandom it left behind

Friends at #scms25... if you heard me talking about the doc I am working on and wanted a quick link here we are: www.kickstarter.com/projects/car...

Interactive story about life and loss. To experience time is to feel it. Pull in opposing directions. Threat of missing moment, broader themes of passing of time. If one embraces time, it can be experienced joyfully, even in a life cut short.

Final art form game explores is narrativizing time itself. Embellished, fictional biography he writes toward end of life. Upsets her, wants him to write a true one.

Music, writing, and visual art feature prominently in game.

Directions to close eyes provide relief, clear access to audio material.

Pain of reviews has physical and emotional valances. Both dry eyes and failing to conquer the game. [Okay this game sounds heartwrenching.]

There are a few non-blinking forms of interaction. Some cursor interaction and keeping eyes closed.

Cozy observational rhythm juxtaposed with temporal stress. Game is in many ways a variation of "walking sims" but stripped even of locomotion. Still here are rhythmic strategies of cozy genre.

Game is watching for player's blink, futile challenge of ever mastering time. Ticking clock: need to blink

Before Your Eyes not simply an exploration of loss but of living more harmoniously with time. Cherish all moments.

Late capitalism preaches gospel of efficiency. Games have not been immune here. Ludic temporalities, like Scully-Blaker's radical slowness [queer time too, I would add].

Before Your Eyes ruminates on our relationship to time. Days have a tendency to slip away from us. Time is all too easily lost. Benny's mother harbors regret about starting a family instead of throwing herself into musical career. Time as dwindling resource AND cherished in the moment.

Before Your Eyes, tragic tale of young life cut short by disease. Affective dimensions of time and human messiness. Witness several of Benny's birthdays. Parents motivated by rhythm and time. Familiar objects mark passage of time, too.

Hegemonic game time, chrononormativity as examined in Time Binds, dominant temporal mode in game play.

Citing @rainforestsb.bsky.social, radical slowness.

Moments when affect gets swept into representation. Affect theory reveals complex relationships, such as feeling time and fighting time.

Next in P19 of #scms25 is John Vanderhoef: Blink and You'll Miss it: Feeling and Fighting Time in Before Your Eyes.

In Before Your Eyes draws our attention to blinking. Blink and you'll surrender. Benny conveys biography through a player's eyeblinks. Registered blinks advance key moments.