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Just gonna say it: the naked over-reliance on AI to "polish up" human communication has made me so incredibly skeptical of human communication as of late.

I'm so tired of "smoothed out" emails, papers, abstracts, and notes. =/

I have similar thoughts around PhD influencers, it's all a strange performance of authority

Do you have an estimate of when full manuscripts would be due? Very interested, but also in the throes of finishing my dissertation.

getting ugly zotero back would fix me

one day i'll have the mental fortitude to play a Pathologic game for more than 20 minutes

Megan Giddings' Lakewood is the only book to actually give me nightmares. It's a wonderful psychological horror about the ways the medical industry and the government have abused Black people in the US.

Cronenberg movies ranked. A list of 23 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Crash (1996), Naked Lunch (1991), Videodrome (1983), Scanners (1981) and Crimes of the Future (2022).

i also became Cronenberg feature-film complete so if you wanted to see my ranking of those letterboxd.com/jackofhart/l...

Every movie I watched in 2025 ranked These are all of the movies I've watched and I'm ranking them from best to worst. My ranking method is highly objective (obviously). Once a movie was placed it couldn't be moved.

i ranked all 84 movies i watched this year if that's something you wanted to see letterboxd.com/jackofhart/l...

research / brainstorming / thinking is also maybe the most enjoyable part of a creative project to me? kinda sad to beg AI to take it from you

i'm just going to pretend he's mad at actual horses and find out nothing else about this

I work from home and use the pomodoro method and I take 5-10 minute breaks and either clean or stretch.

Stewpot: Tales From a Fantasy Tavern The adventurer's grind is hard. For years you stumbled through hostile lands, living off stale rations and struggling to get a few hours' sleep. Now its time to kick off those heavy boots, hang up you...

Stew Pot is great one shot about running a tavern as retired adventurers! tabletopbookshelf.com/products/ste...

Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it

The hottest trend in speedrunning is flipping a coin Unfair Flips isn’t fair, but it is fun.

New article in The Verge about the Unfair Flips speedrunning community!!

www.theverge.com/games/814111...

The log lady from Twin Peaks facing the camera. She is a woman wearing a heavy sweater and glasses. She clutches a log in her arms protectively. She is saying, “one day, the sadness will end.“

Director David Lynch from one of his daily weather report videos. He is turning to a window, looking outside and saying, “but I don’t think today’s the day.“

The cover of Kathleen Stewart's Ordinary Affects. It is a white cover with a black and white image of three children in a suburban yard watching a tree burn.

On the other end I don't love the font but the cleanliness of Ordinary Affects is really nice

The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age is peak 90's cyber covers and an all time mouthful book title.

IT'S SO GOOD probably my favorite not scary horror movie

i bake my own so I freeze it all except half a loaf at a time

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

oh and Montreal is rad. good city.

FINALLY if you are an org who's like "oh masking as a con is impossible" you're wrong. Everyone masked, there were hepa filters everywhere, people tested before coming. i'm sure it wasn't easy or perfect but the priority meant I knew that qgcon and other attendees cared about a collective safety

at qgcon it was the opposite. i tried to stay far away while people were playing. I shared empathetic stares and shrugs afterward, we didn't need a conversation to know it was a shared experience. so I defaulted to giving the player space instead of being compelled (or asked) to explain myself

showing Poke. Stroke. Grasp. there as well gave me a new experience of showing that game in queer spaces. In normative game spaces I have to babysit my intense gender dysphoria game because cis-het players can have a lot of questions about my experience, my creative process, etc.

the other folks on my panel on queering controllers were the best. it was basically the QGCon Sara Ahmed Fan Club. It's the first time I've been apart of a panel and immediately we all tried to figure out how to continue working together afterward. just good vibes all around.

the q&a portion of every panel was positive and full of love. it made moderating conversation a breeze. panelists always had questions for each other which is my favorite.

what a lovely place and experience! the organizers were fantastic, all of the talks and games were inspirational. i was just overall impressed with the quality of work withing queer game making/studies.

qg con thoughts thread...

Experimental Games Showcase SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE

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