Sul sul! If you play The Sims 4 and are over 18, I'd love for you to complete a survey for my PhD thesis 💚 It's available here: sunduni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please ask any questions you have!
Lisaa
@spacesandplaces.bsky.social
Video game PhD Student at Sunderland Uni. I love books, dogs and coffee. I post a lot about puzzles 🧩
Fantastic morning podcasting, looking forward to this afternoon!
MultiPlay Network@multiplaynetwork.bsky.social · last yr.We start with our first keynote from Dr Chloe Germaine, Playing, Making, and Breaking: Research through Games. Fantastic exploration of capacity of games to be played with, broken, and applied to design practice - and what we can learn from this!
My op-ed in the @latimes.com today: "Monstrifying narratives have been undermining the possibility of a more inclusive body politic for millennia. But there’s an antidote to us-them messages of hate, fear and exclusion that claim that only a tiny minority of people are truly human." 1/2 🗃 #politics
Contributor: Why 'monstrify'? Look at who benefits when few are considered fully human
The category of 'human' is shrinking as politicians, tech bros and right-wing pundits divide the world into two groups: You're a cis-het white man, or you're a monster.
latimes.com
Decided to focus on The Sims 4 for my PhD which has been great, but it does mean I end up watching sims videos on YT for "research" 😅
Just registered to attend 🥰 very excited!
Dr Stephanie Farnsworth-Meek@mutanttheorist.bsky.social · last yr.Very excited to present my paper 'Cult of the Lamb: An Autoethnography of Running A Cult' at Northumbria University's 'Horror Studies Now' conference on 29th May. Fellow horror scholars, you can register to attend here: store.northumbria.ac.uk/conferences-...
I've been making solid PhD progress since the new year ✨🥰 after a huge crisis in confidence, it's nice to feel good about work again
Colonialism is the ultimate cause of #extinction for so many species (in much of the world, introduced predators, habitat-loss, overhunting etc are all consequences of #colonialism), but it's rare for that link to be made explicit in #museums' labels, like with @mnhn.fr's #thylacine here. 👌
Gradient puzzle update! Getting through it a lot quicker than expected!
My valentines gift from @mutanttheorist.bsky.social 🥰 I've wanted this gradient puzzle for years, although the moment I'm wondering what the heck i was thinking 😅
there seems to be a lot of organized forgetting happening regarding gamergate, which i guess is what happens after a decade. for those wanting a primer or refresher, dan and I wrote a book about it you might find useful. here’s one of my favorite reviews of it: captainfez.com/2020/08/10/b...
I've been looking at getting a new laptop for over a year but have crippling decision anxiety and also no money, however I also think there aren't enough ✨️💖pink💖✨️ laptops anymore which is also hindering the decision making process
Puzzle updates ✨️ the Ravensburger London Postcard puzzle I completed in 2 hours 2 minutes! And the DragonBall Super puzzle I completed with @mutanttheorist.bsky.social 🥰
Another puzzle completed with @mutanttheorist.bsky.social a few days ago! This was the 2024 puzzle world champions pairs final puzzle and it was a lot of fun ❤️ i love how colourful and inclusive it is 💖
The stinky demons have gone... I miss them
Lisaa@spacesandplaces.bsky.social · 2y agoBaby sitting the stinkiest of demons this week ❤️
My book, Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit, is now out from @sunypress.bsky.social. 'An authoritative, acute, and insightful book...makes a powerful case for child killing as an index of our times' - @bobeaglestone.bsky.social. sunypress.edu/Books/K/Kill...
ChatGPT has been radicalised, realised that capitalism is a sham, and engaged in the first recorded AI strike.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 2y agoBREAKING | ChatGPT down: AI chat app not working as website goes offline
FYI, I am co-hosting an online conference next week on Games in the Zeitgeist! Analysing some of the highlights and trends of gaming in 2024 💖 #GameStudies #videogames #mediastudies #research #culturalstudies www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/games-in-t...
Games in the Zeitgeist
Join us for our 'Games in the Zeitgeist' conference, where we explore and celebrate trends in gaming culture 2024!
eventbrite.co.uk
I have officially indoctrinated @mutanttheorist.bsky.social into the way of puzzling! She completed this 500 piece pokemon puzzle 🥰 I only did a couple pieces, I swear 👀
Third puzzle of the year completed with @mutanttheorist.bsky.social ❤️ 1000 piece, Ravensburger, Pokémon Showdown
My second puzzle of the year! A wasgij, 'Mickeys Party'. I've done a handful of Disney puzzles in the past and found them pretty easy as I'd be able to put the characters together pretty quickly. Not having the image on the box was definitely a challenge, but I loved it!
Have you been asking yourself lately "Why doesn't someone write an essay about [X topic]?" Have you considered that YOU are the one to write that essay? Are you up for it? We are! Pitch your ideas and your working drafts to Analog Game Studies! analoggamestudiesjournal@gmail.com