Bertine van Hövell

Oh so the reason why I considered narrative techniques were the culprit was because the Dutch research said there was no effect from news consumption *unless* you're looking at readers of tabloid media but they were not sure why

But the English papers just assumed it was de facto all news media

Based on research and comparative analysis, yeah? Likely the same mechanism? But I never chased a masters to do proper research because I decided to make games instead lol

Basically I wanted to know why tabloid news readers scored so highly on things like believing the world was more violent than it is, and I wondered whether the type of narrative techniques used in tabloid news vs other new media could trigger a cultivation effect.

It was about whether the Cultivation theory could be observed with consuming news articles and broadcasts. If I remember correctly the difference was "yes, provided..." versus the original "no, unless..."
This was 15 years ago so hopefully someone ran the research again

For my thesis, I found that the original Dutch research was mistranslated into English. The translated paper, due to a nuance error, reached the opposite conclusion. And so I had to toss out a bunch of English language papers because they relied heavily on the translation's conclusion.

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!!

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Trend bullshit aside, Dubai is not the only city floundered by expats and influencers who exploit the working class and wealthy people flaunting their wealth for the world to see.

But the way people talk about Dubai, you'd think it's a one of a kind hellhole with that combination of things.

@aceottorney.bsky.social Do you have anyone in your network who can take a look at this?

It's kind of wild that Unreal has blueprint, which is not unlike how a lot of narrative tools work, yet doesn't support actual narrative development

I very much relate.
What makes tool design for narrative hard is that narrative requirements change per title. My own tool doesn't even support all the types of work I've done in my career.

But a lot of frustration can be mitigated by choosing an existing tool during pre-production

This is worth mentioning to your friends who traded their ChatGPT for Claude subscriptions - Claude helped kill all of those little girls at school in Iran. Anthropic isn’t ethical AI.

awww ffffffff! Hope you stay safe!!

Hellloo I'm about to ~announce~ my side project and I'm looking for journos and press interested in cozy horror/fake OS/visual novel/set in the 90s style games. If that's you hmu! Or if you know of folks pls lemme know!

I'm building my own list but I'm bound to miss the perfect person.

Hope you all stay safe!!

Top marks

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

The majority of your skin is inside your body; the walls of your guts and whatnot

And therefore most health issues are really dermatological issues

the danger of mass surveillance, btw, especially mediated by machine is not just "they will find all dissenters and punish them"

its also "the machine will make up false dissenters, and get innocent people in jail / embroiled in 20 yrs of lawsuits vs the govt" who are otherwise doing nothing

pfffffffffffffffffff dude!

it's only gallows humor if you're actually on the gallows. Otherwise it's just sparkling punching down.

I try not to spiral fully into conspiracy theory but bombing Iran and then putting out an article that’s like “the point of Purim is murder” on CNN is fucking crazy work. Like they are fully just trying to make people more antisemitic

Fuck :(

85 girls were still alive yesterday. They were still alive yesterday. They were still alive yesterday. They were still alive yesterday.

This world doesn't need to be this way. This world is created by machine men with machine hearts.

They were still alive yesterday.

this isn't a distraction from epstein class pedophilia it's an expression of the epstein class worldview

Feel what you want to feel about the place but like regular people live in the UAE too.

Beyond influencers and expats, there are people who made their lives here.

Keep your fucking jokes to yourself.

If this was planned for months it means that the ongoing negotiations between the US and Iran were meaningless and that an illegal war started by the US was always going to be the outcome.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

The Iranian people deserve better.