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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2025-02-05 at 09:25

I didn't realize Unity had become an advertising company that also develops a game engine.

https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2025-01-17 at 09:17

Me when I'm asked to give talk: This sounds interesting, I should agree

Me when I have to actually figure out the talk: I don't want to give a talk ever again

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-12-18 at 08:02

First time seeing "enshittification" used in a student assignment.

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-12-15 at 10:44

I found two books!

The Disappeared by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and The Automatic Detective by A. Lee Martinez are published in formats I can actually read!

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-12-15 at 10:26

I found many great book suggestions from this list. I will now buy all of the ones that I can own, and not only rent, as ebooks. I expect it to be a very short list.

https://www.greghickeywrites.com/best-sci-fi-crime-novels/#1-10

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-11-29 at 09:51

As a game culture researcher, I find this narrative incredibly harmful. It suggests that misogyny in online game spaces is simply an issue of some individual low-skill male players and not a pervasive part of the culture. The study explicitly rejects social explanations in favour of evolutionary psychology ones, which are favourites among bad science journalists, who prefer simple explanations over complicated ones.

https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/113562458968907273

@Daojoan

[#]GameStudies

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-11-26 at 13:50

I wrote a review of The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola. It's a great book about making sense of rules, but leaves a lot questions unanswered. The book is also freely available, if you want read it.

https://jonne.arjoranta.fi/2024/rule-book/

[#]GameStudies

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-11-21 at 12:56

Ah yes, the "why is my LaTeX installation broken"-ritual I do once every year around this time.

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-11-20 at 08:51

The keynotes for Nordic DiGRA 2025 have been announced: Kishonna Gray, Kristine Jørgensen and Velvet Spors.

https://www.nordicdigra2025.org/keynotes/

[#]GameStudies #ndigra2025

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-11-20 at 08:43

It seems I block around three new predatory journals every day.

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-11-19 at 08:51

"Because ChatGPT has no understanding of anything, it does not know actual answers to your questions, only plausible answers. It will generate true and false answers indiscriminately. This will set your learning back."

https://www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11-14-student-guide-not-writing-with-chatgpt.html

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-11-18 at 09:12

If someone with a doctorate wants to work on game studies for 1–3 months and do some research together with someone from here or prepare a funding application, University of Jyväskylä is looking for visiting fellows.

https://ats.talentadore.com/apply/jyu-visiting-fellow-programme-2025/ZYk0RY

[#]GameStudies

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-11-12 at 10:02

It's great living in the future, where the library will just run out of whatever subscription they had and a e-book I've used for years suddenly just disappears from their catalogue.

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-11-04 at 15:11

This just in: LGBTQ+ people are just people.

https://scholar.social/@geneforanarchy/113424867233674765

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-11-04 at 15:07

The Nordic Gender Fund now open for applications. With this funding, I'm sure I could find at least three new genders.

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-10-25 at 07:39

I'm grading student work and one of the assignments is to read and summarise a scientific article. We've given them a list of acceptable sources (because we know they can't recognize scientific articles on their own). A significant portion has chosen articles written by me and I don't quite understand why. Do they assume that I would be flattered into giving them a higher grade?

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-10-17 at 08:12

I read this on my RSS reader.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-10-17 at 07:16

I think I've reached a point where most of the email I get is predatory journals asking for submissions.

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-10-10 at 05:58

Ugh, Internet Archive has been hacked. I guess expect phishing attempts soon.

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Written by Jonne Arjoranta 📚 on 2024-10-09 at 13:05

Here's a good article on the actual agonies of AI, instead of the wishful worries the advocates would rather have us focus on.

"There are a few things they all want us to know: AI is not magic. LLMs are not sentient beings, and they won’t become sentient. And the problems with these technologies aren’t abstractions — they’re here now and we need to take them seriously today."

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/amp/

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