Associate Professor of German, Niehoff Professor of Film & Media Studies at U of Cincinnati; Scholar of East German cinema, science fiction, and role-playing games. He/Him. Bi. Wears a hat.
Evan Torner
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What a pleasure to finally share our cover artwork for Swords Without Master, by the incomparable @elemei.bsky.social!
Swords! Sorcery! Foes defeated! Danger looms! Wonders undreamt of wait to be discovered!
Truly, everything you can expect from the game.
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These guys are called FLORADINN.
You can think of them like the “Rudinn” of Chapter 5.
Their favorite thing is FLOWERS.
They usually don’t get what’s going on, but they are chill and don’t care.
I like these guys.
(2nd try, with the right link)
The Transformative Gaming folks at Uppsala University got their second textbook out. 450 pages on game design. Free PDF or print-on-demand.
Alarmed that there's a #Ropecon talk by @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social and I in the bibliography.
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#Barocktheorie Every moral philosopher of the 16th & 17th century knew that. And basically every playwright.
Amidst many German units' re-visiting of Dennis Gansel's The Wave (2008) in this moment, may I also suggest Michael Verhoeven's The Nasty Girl (1990)?
The far right is not just peer pressure & conformity, but an active, violent conspiracy to suppress the past.
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I think everyone is pretty wary of pseudo-peace-deal announcements that appear to be little more than blatant market manipulation. I could be wrong!
Germany's research minister Dorothee Bär says German students' situation is "very privileged" and has rejected reform of the Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG), in the process turning many studen...
IT WAS late in the evening and the aggressive intent in the voice on the other end of the line was unmistakable. 'We are going to do something to you that you will never forget,' it growled. 'We are g...
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People prefer to use “sycophantic” AI systems that reinforce their pre-existing beliefs.
In a new paper (n=7,227), we found that people enjoyed interacting with sycophantic AI chatbots more than interacting with neutral chatbots or “disagreeable” chatbots that challenged their beliefs.
Vida Cruz-Borja
Jay Van Bavel, PhD
President Trump said he called off a third night of airstrikes on Iranian targets and signaled that a deal was close between the U.S. and Iran. https://to.pbs.org/3SAlp6M
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President Trump said he called off a third night of airstrikes on Iranian targets. In the Oval Office, he again said that a deal was close between the U.S. and Iran, and that it might be signed this w...
