Victor Navarro-Remesal

Interview about Zen and Slow Games in the Game Studies podcast of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social by @gamestudies.bsky.social

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Zen and Slow Games Slowness and reflectiveness have always been part of the video game medium, though they have been used very differently throughout its history. In Zen and Sl...

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Slow games https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553568/zen-and-slow-games/

I had the great pleasure to talk to Victor Navarro-Remesal about his new book "Zen and Slow Games" on my podcast show #Gamestudies (powered by @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social )

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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
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We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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This is a Japanese adventure game (Paranormasight).

This is a visual novel (Steins;Gate).

Visual novels and Japanese adventure games. The two genres often look very similar, how are you supposed to tell them apart? Simple: if you can use a cursor to examine stuff, it's an ADV. If not, it's a VN.

I'm half joking but it's honestly a pretty reliable way to identify which genre is which.

"You have to quit ChatGPT, but AI is good, believe me!" Sure, mate, sure.

So sad to see @theguardian.com turned into a space for AI propaganda.

📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!

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100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max...

ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!

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Taito's Circus / Acrobat-like Plump Pop from 1987 is this week's Arcade Archives release. Bounce your character on the moving net to pop all of the various objects on stage. Looks cute but the difficulty is fierce
#プランプポップ
#アーケードアーカイブス
#アケアカ
#タイトー

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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Sánchez: La posición del Gobierno se resume en 'No a la guerra' - EFE Sánchez ha asegurado que la posición del Ejecutivo frente al conflicto bélico en Oriente Medio se resume "en cuatro palabras" con un "No a la guerra".

Sánchez: La posición del Gobierno se resume en ‘No a la guerra’.

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Öoo is also coming to PS5 and Xbox!
The PS5 version launches on March 11, and the Xbox version is planned for later in March.

La última vez que Estados Unidos se metió en una guerra en Oriente Medio atacando un país al azar todo salió tan fabulosamente bien que la derecha española está a favor de repetirlo.

Iwao Takamoto was one of the Disney greats. Films like Sleeping Beauty owe a lot to his meticulous lines.

The studio was a kind of home for him -- it was a big change. Just before, he'd been in the camps. We explore the story:
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If you wanna be radicalized against GenAI, try running an online business while these thieving shitbricks try to scrape your site at all hours of the day, creating a looping, endless DDoS.

Fuck generative "AI." It's all slop built on wholesale theft.

Horrible. Yo me he quejado en la 9 de que la 4 y la 7 no se puedan dejar en blanco.

En efecto. Por eso hay que aprovechar el punto 9 y quejarse del diseño de la encuesta.

Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."

"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
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"A New Dawn" : hand-crafted animation effects by Makiko Sukikara.
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The film, directed by Yoshitoshi Shinomiya, is coming in Japanese theaters this Friday.

El punto 9 sirve para decirles que están sesgados y que no dejan hueco para las visiones críticas.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

"In 51.6% of cases where someone needed to go to the hospital immediately, the platform said stay home or book a routine medical appointment..." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? Don’t get me wrong, I’m as invested in keeping my job as the next weaver. When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was pretty skeptical....

When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was skeptical. He said once he got it running, we’d be out of a job, so when the boys started talking about breaking into the factory and smashing the thing, I was on board. Until, that is, I saw the funny tapestries it could make.

Logo for Movie Adventure series.

Web page for "そこに君がいた" (There You Were).

Way before Takanari Ishiyama created Paranormasight, he wrote and composed a few installments of the "Movie Adventure" series. These were small novel games released by Genki for feature phones around 2001-2003. One of the most intriguing entries Ishiyama wrote was "そこに君がいた" (There You Were). (1/3)

Muchos ciudadanos habían encendido el televisor sin siquiera sospechar que la humanidad se enfrentaba a un retroceso en materia de derechos humanos. Gracias a los artistas nominados, se pusieron al día de todo.

Artículo completo en la web: www.elmundotoday.com/2026/03/los-...

The Legend Of Zelda didn’t create a genre, but it did help define it 40 years ago The Legend Of Zelda helped introduce the then-young action RPG genre to a generation of video game fans.

My latest for @theavclubgames.bsky.social is on the 40th anniversary of original The Legend of Zelda, and its role as a streamliner of the complicated, demanding, and burgeoning action RPG. This classic did not come out of nowhere, but was to action RPGs what Dragon Quest was for turn-based ones.

Source: @taiko_All on Twitter/X https://x.com/taiko_All/status/2027587059448484284

Don-chan has put together a calendar wallpaper for your mobile device(s) with the Taiko no Tatsujin 25th Anniversary key visual. He even marked his and Kat-chan's birthday (March 3rd) so you WILL. NEVER. FORGET. #taikonotatsujin #taiko765

Archipel's 1-hour documentary on Mahiro Maeda is out, and it's a must watch to understand the career of this underrated artist who has worked with Miyazaki, Anno... and many international projects, from an aborted "Dune" anime to "Furiosa" (Mad Max).
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Ja veus! Tant de bo Ninja Scroll, en efecte. Les reestrenes no només són una bona jugada comercial: són excel·lents esdeveniments culturals que creen i consoliden públics.

Per cert, us segueixo des de la distància, molt fan del Zinètic :)