Menacing Ogre? That card creates a neat subgame and isn't typal or morph.
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Putting a final exam I'm Blackboard. The "✨ Auto-generate question" option from the assessment drop-down menu is, I assume, a direct line to the Provost to inform them that the instructor is incompetent. Does anybody out there know for sure?
Family Enters Crisis Talks After Learning Restaurant Has 45-Minute Wait http://theonion.com/family-enters-crisis-talks-after-learning-restaurant-ha-1819577952/
Concise story from NPR about tuition cost changes over time. It's one thing to hear that tuition at 4-year universities has risen by 100% over the last 30 years, and it's another to see it visualized and put in context with tuition at Purdue, Harvard, etc.
I've been playing Q-UP, a brilliant and deeply weird incremental game with an esports theme.
It starts with a simple coin flip and spirals into a fugue of emergent mechanics.
I'll post some thoughts here as I idly play…
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
My presentation is today at 12:30 p.m. EST, when I'll be talking about the pre-history of collegiate esports. Did you know that both Nintendo and Sega put on intercollegiate competitive events for scholarship money + a new car? I'll be talking all about it :)
Thrilled to be presenting today at the premier conference in the study of #esports, the Esports Research Network Conference! #EsportsEDU
This is being livestreamed *right now* & continuously through Friday in successive handoffs between global regions. Catch it at twitch.tv/esportsresearchnetwork
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Amazing insider's perspective on the Pro Tour from @jimdavismtg.bsky.social featuring Reid Duke. I know I'll be citing this one I'm the future!
youtu.be/3crdirj9quM?...
Shout-out to Netflix subtitles for making "squelching" part of our national lexicon.
Today a piece from @teamliquid.com's Newsroom came out talking about collegiate esports degree programs, and I had the pleasure of being interviewed for it! teamliquid.com/news/world-c...
The piece came out great - it weaves together many perspectives and addresses challenges in the space.
This article is kind of jumping to conclusions based on a handful of preview cards. Certainly there are design challenges to making a universe with four distinct factions/elements/nations work within Magic's five colors. But whether this set has risen to or failed that challenge is still unclear.
Local Professor Competes for $400 in Prizes on MTG Arena
I competed in this weekend's Arena Direct on MTG Arena. As I try to get there in the video, I talk about something I've previously published on - the professional history of MTG. The game is what I would call a "peripheral esport."
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.
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
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.
Introducing the latest and greatest in generative AI technology: you
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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].
