Postdoc at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, studying NPCs with AI-generated dialogue.
Editor: Eludamos
PREORDER SCHOLAR'S CODEX: https://www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/scholars-codex
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The entire paper is peppered with resonant but vague statements (as in the excerpt below). Also, no data or analysis scripts have been made openly available.
Was this paper perhaps AI-generated?
In any case, I'm pretty disappointed with Games and Culture
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
The only way one person can have a trillion dollars (or indeed a billion) is if they stole it from the rest of society, and the rest of society should forcibly take it back.
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
And here's where you can buy the book!
THE SCHOLAR'S CODEX: www.tuneandfairweather.com/products/sch...
Appreciate it, Ryan, I'm really glad you like it! Very proud of it.
Just received physical copies of our volume of essays on the games of From Software, out now on @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social - and it's an even more gorgeous thing than photos can convey. I was planning on doing some work today but might just stare at this on the shelf instead.
Scholar's Codex (@tuneandfairweather.bsky.social) is out! Edited by @domford.bsky.social, @gua-le-ni.com, @nelevdm.bsky.social and @danielvella.bsky.social, with an essay of mine on the relationship between Darkness and humanity from Augustine of Hippo to Elden Ring.
Blown away by how good this book looks in the flesh, how good it looks in my growing @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social collection, and on my shelf (sorry, no T&F display, my bookshelf is strictly alphabetical).
Elisa Mekler
Brendan Keogh
I don't want to pretend this *isn't* shocking or ghastly but, like, when digital media experts are expressing concern generally about the data a game like Pokemon Go is collecting from day one, this is precisely the kind of end game they are thinking about.
Dom Ford
"It is hard to wrap your head around how big a billion is, let alone a trillion, so it’s worth pausing to really take in just how obscene this sum is," writes Arwa Mahdawi. "If you spent $1m every single day it would take you more than 2,700 years to spend a trillion dollars."
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Brendan Keogh
In Scholar’s Codex, academics from around the world have come together to explore the themes, lore and ruined majesty of classics like Bloodborne, Dark Souls and Elden Ring. These are games that are d...
This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history
When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
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Just got my beautiful copy of The Scholar’s Codex from @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social. Congrats to the contributors and editing team for pulling this off! From what I’ve read so far, it’s very compelling. I love seeing academic works meld with and celebrate fan culture like this.
Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG WORLD 2026
Very much looking forward to this first event about the Scholar's Codex, and in Rome of all places. I'll go hunting for some Souls-coded ruins in the days after this.
Ryan C. Wright
Dom Ford
Join us in #Rome on June the 3rd for a 'Bonfireside chat' with the authors of the Scholar's Codex!
The event starts at 4PM at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Rome (Vicolo Doria), feat. @domford.bsky.social @danielvella.bsky.social, @nelevdm.bsky.social & more!
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