Episode 24 is now available, featuring an interview with @friede.bsky.social focusing on all things TTRPG, Actual Play, Critical Role and, of course, Utopianism. And it's not even Thursday yet! open.spotify.com/episode/1Njk...

Episode 24: Emily Friedman, Actual Play, Critical Role, and Utopianism

Utopian and Dystopian Fictions · Episode

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c) anything else similarly visible at 20,000 feet.

Thinking about the time i went to a planetarium and someone booed when they showed the earth

It’s really starting to grind me down

In Parre, somewhere in northern Italy

i just realized i never posted this here Cover art for 'Scholar's Codex' @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social 30x40cm ink on claybord

FromSoftware and Romanticism, Dark Souls II and Walter Benjamin’s theory of history? Justin Fenech reflects on Scholar's Codex and the depth of the FromSoftware Games in new @geeknative.bsky.social article. www.geeknative.com/240233/a-wor... @gua-le-ni.com @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social

A Word on The Scholar's Codex - An Accessible Academic Study on FromSoftware Games

Art historian Justin Fenech reviews The Scholar's Codex, an accessible academic study offering fresh perspectives on FromSoftware games and game design.

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First hike of this summer #Ceratello

✈️ FR 7325 from Malta to Milan Bergamo

... And sometimes the abyss screams back.

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

Scholar’s Codex is a beautifully illustrated, philosophical exploration of the FromSoftware universes curated by game studies researchers @gua-le-ni.com @danielvella.bsky.social (U of Malta), @domford.bsky.social (U of Bergen), and @nelevdm.bsky.social (Tilburg U). www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/ac...

New book decodes FromSoftware’s Lore and Philosophy through discarded items

A new deeply philosophical exploration of the FromSoftware games by leading game scholars

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"[...] the oblique terror of a game whose rules are unknown and its stakes everything."

Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two

'viktor shtrum'@viktorshtrum.bsky.social · last mo.

Ok wait NOW he really is watching himself watch himself on Fox News.

Now available at Adriana Hidalgo: Stefano's philosophical exploration of digital worlds translated into Spanish by Ana Miravalles!

Stefano Gualeni@gua-le-ni.com · last mo.

Friends who speak Spanish, a book of mine was translated in your beautiful language (in Argentina). It's about existing with and within games, and in case you're interested, you can find it here: www.adrianahidalgo.com/libro/el-vid...

Friends who speak Spanish, a book of mine was translated in your beautiful language (in Argentina). It's about existing with and within games, and in case you're interested, you can find it here: www.adrianahidalgo.com/libro/el-vid...

EL VIDEOJUEGO DEL MUNDO Stefano Gualeni | Adriana Hidalgo

El videojuego del mundo explora cómo el juego, como toda tecnología de la ficción, moldea la mente humana y orienta el curso de nuestro deseo. Los mundos virtuales no son espacios etéreos de mero entr...

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Saturday walk (plus swim) in Ras il-Pellegrin #Malta

Preserving this for posterity.

❗Nueva fecha límite DigraES26 para el envío de comunicaciones: 13 de julio a las 23.59 de cualquier parte del mundo. 🔗 Más información en: digraes26.my.canva.site/inicio

David Kreamer, a professor of hydrology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, agreed that when "you go back in history to the dinosaurs and things like that, that's a lot of pee." >> www.livescience.com/planet-earth... <<

Has all the water on Earth been peed before?

Water, water, everywhere … has all of it been peed out at least once?

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Saturday morning, a beach of our own (in Selmun, #Malta)

Happy Bloomsday, everybody!

Here's an interesting Maltese saying I found: “Ġebel ma' ġebel ma jiltaqa', iżda wiċċ ma' wiċċ jiltaqa'” (Stones do not meet, but human faces do >> meaning that the world is small and people will eventually cross paths).

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

✈️ KM 613 from Rome back to #Malta

✈️ KM612 from Malta to Rome

After eleven years in #Malta, I finally completed my initiation ritual. This 'baptism' of sort consisted of experiencing firsthand (and not through myth) the island quaking from the blowing up of one of its many and notoriously unsafe #fireworks factories. Fun! timesofmalta.com/article/powe...

Watch: Powerful explosion rocks Magħtab area as fireworks factory blows up

Rescuers looking for people believed to have been on the site, several properties damaged

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