Herzlichen Glรผckwunsch, Kulturkampfminister @taz.de
@rbrandis.eu
๐น poetic realist. ๐ฎ makes games. โ๏ธ writes about theory, ideology & history. ๐ producer @playinghistory.bsky.social โ member of @achtungautobahn.com โ๏ธ researching history & games @uni-goettingen.de
Herzlichen Glรผckwunsch, Kulturkampfminister @taz.de
It's this Friday! ๐โจ
If it isn't the much talked about Zeitgeist delivering fresh games โค๏ธlovingly crafted and โpropagated by @maxhaiven.bsky.social and @plutopress.bsky.social to my door today ๐คฉ
I know what I'll bring to the next union meeting for educational purposes ^^
#boardgames #politicalgames
โ๐We stand with Ubisoft employees in France and beyond opposing unilateral layoffs, project cancellations, and enforced return-to-office policies pushed without meaningful social dialogue
Creative work needs respect, stability, and worker participation โ not top-down mandates!!!!
In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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On a dark background, a red tear goes across the image from left to right. To the left of the image: STRIKE - Ubisoft - February 10, 11, 12 To the right of the image: Rayman in a dynamic pose, throwing a good old fist At the bottom, the STJV's logotype
๐ฌ๐งโ๐ Ubisoft: unions called for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th. Here is the list of all the pickets around France โคต๏ธ
Cultural Heritage Meets Game Development. A collaborative event between the NFDI4Culture and the FemDevsMeetup. With the support of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Stiftung Preuรischer Kulturebesitz and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
We are thrilled to announce a collaborative event between the @nfdi4culture.bsky.social and @femdevsmeetup.bsky.social ! ๐๏ธ๐น๏ธ๐งญ๐
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20th February - 15:00h
๐บ๏ธ Berlin - Haus Bastian ( @kulturspk.bsky.social )
โน๏ธ Info & registrations: nfdi4culture.de/id/E6659
please don't rob yourself from the time to create things. and become little vaults of art at home. keep the dvds, buy books, save those pdfs, download the flacs, get drm-free versions of everything. reject the tool that saves you from thinking. any industry or market can fall, humanity should not.
"We will not be bullied into submission": Ubisoft unions call for massive international strike
aftermath.site/ubisoft-union-...
Immer gerne, DM ist auf dem Weg :)
Screenshot from the 2022 PC game "Pentiment" with title for a talk called "Historical Theory and Game Design" written below
๐ฌ๐ฆFirst talk of the year come up today ๐
I'm heading out to the @unicologne.bsky.social to talk at the Colloquium of Digital Cultural Heritage about one of dearest topics:
Historical theory and the design of historical games โค๏ธโจ
#history #historicalgames #gamestudies #gameresearch
Macht mich auch wahnsinning so was. Ist auch eine besonders passiv-laute Minderheit. Die meisten Menschen arbeiten aktiv zusammen, um Dinge zu รคndern. Deine elegant als post-defรคtistisch kategorisierten Menschen platzieren ihren Hintern meistens nur schรถn im Weg dieses Engagements.
Screenshot from Assassin's Creed Mirage showing the main character Basim cuddling a cat on his arms.
I might not be the an Assassin's Creed fan, it's more an abusive relationship being a historian. BUT Mirage must simply be the best game of the series because I can cuddle cuts. And man do I stop in the middle of a any mission to do so ๐๐โโฌ๐ฑ๐ธ #cats
greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
now say "35 millions year later" in the spongebob guy voice with the french accent
Abiturent Bentik wurde wegen Memes gegen die #Bundeswehr verurteilt. Laut ihm handelte es sich um ein politisches Verfahren: Der deutsche Staat wolle nicht, dass sich Jugendliche gegen die Aufrรผstung stellen.
Please seek help immediately:
aftermath.site/please-seek-he...
#saturdaypost
Cover of Writing Game Histories, edited by Esther Wright, Iain Donald, and Nick Webber. The top half features a minimalist black background with the title in script and sans-serif fonts. The bottom half is filled with a colorful, hexagonal map-style layout resembling a strategy game interface, populated with icons, numbers, and zones. A green vertical label on the right side reads "Writing History" connecting the bookโs theme to academic and game studies.
1753. WRITING GAME HISTORIES
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๐ www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/writing...
"An accessible guide to Historical Game Studies, exploring how games represent, shape, and create history across digital and analogue forms"
#Books #Booksky #Gaming #VideoGames #GameStudies #GamingThePast
#wednesdaypost
Vibe therapy by trucking
Washington sperrt fรผnf Europรคer*innen wegen angeblicher Zensur aus. Frankreich und die EU-Kommission kritisieren das scharf, Deutschland nur verhalten. Auch an den drei betroffenen Organisationen gibt es aber Kritik.
buff.ly/mOFwB4p
uuhh, awesome, even better โค๏ธ
Danke an die hunderten neuen Mitglieder, die in den letzten Stunden eingetreten sind und alle, die schon seit Jahren fรผr unsere Arbeit einstehen.
Diese Solidaritรคt ist die stรคrkste Antwort auf die Angriffe auf linke Strukturen. Sie zeigt: Die Rote Hilfe bleibt โ kรคmpfend, sichtbar, organisiert.
Wegen Trumps Terrorliste Banken kรผndigen der Roten Hilfe Solidarisch bleiben. Antifaschistisch handeln. Mitglied werden. Wir sind alle Antifa (Logo) Rote Hilfe (Logo)
Innerhalb weniger Tage kรผndigen Sparkasse Gรถttingen und GLS-Bank alle Konten der Rote Hilfe e.V. Der Grund: US-Druck รผber SWIFT. Auch DKP, ABC und weitere linke Organisationen sind betroffen. Das ist kein Einzelfall. Das ist politisch. Jetzt ist Solidaritรคt gefragt. rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...
Favorite game I played in 2025: Fear the Spotlight.
Good scope, smooth level design, top notch graphics. Check it out!
Mandatory crunch time to complete a demo is not what we sign up for as video game workers, yet it's a reality we're all too familiar with as studio execs exploit our passion for the games that we create and love.
And it won't stop unless we organize.
Oi! Pinterest! Why the actual fuck is this the default setting? Rhetorical question. FU
Tu lugar en el mundo segรบn tus ingresos.
Abrir el link puede ponerte de mala leche.
I don't think Larian's CEO understands how art is made:
aftermath.site/larian-ceo-ai-...