Charline Foch
@chafoch.bsky.social
Games User Researcher at Tencent Games | PhD in games | movies are my favourite language
Update: I have finished Ghost of Tsushima, and it is now one of my all-time favourites. Ghost of Yotei on PC soon pretty please.
Now onwards to Silksong and giving Elden Ring another try.
Now onwards to Silksong and giving Elden Ring another try.
I have two missions over Christmas vacations, and it's finishing Ghost of Tsushima and finally crafting that one weapon in Warframe I apparently need to progress through The New War, the mats for which I've been farming for an ungodly amount of time. Please I just need that FISH.........
December 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Update: I have finished Ghost of Tsushima, and it is now one of my all-time favourites. Ghost of Yotei on PC soon pretty please.
Now onwards to Silksong and giving Elden Ring another try.
Now onwards to Silksong and giving Elden Ring another try.
The true test with my roommate will be whether or not she hates me for the (delicious) cheese I just got for Christmas. She said she liked cheese and the smell of it, but does she. Is she truly ready for the Mont d'Or experience.
(It's not that bad just stronger than your odorless british cheese)
(It's not that bad just stronger than your odorless british cheese)
December 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The true test with my roommate will be whether or not she hates me for the (delicious) cheese I just got for Christmas. She said she liked cheese and the smell of it, but does she. Is she truly ready for the Mont d'Or experience.
(It's not that bad just stronger than your odorless british cheese)
(It's not that bad just stronger than your odorless british cheese)
10min to process my passport renewal request and less than a workday to accept my online registration as a French citizen abroad. What on earth happened to French administration. When did we become efficient with paperwork. What alternate reality have I stepped into.
December 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
10min to process my passport renewal request and less than a workday to accept my online registration as a French citizen abroad. What on earth happened to French administration. When did we become efficient with paperwork. What alternate reality have I stepped into.
I have two missions over Christmas vacations, and it's finishing Ghost of Tsushima and finally crafting that one weapon in Warframe I apparently need to progress through The New War, the mats for which I've been farming for an ungodly amount of time. Please I just need that FISH.........
December 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I have two missions over Christmas vacations, and it's finishing Ghost of Tsushima and finally crafting that one weapon in Warframe I apparently need to progress through The New War, the mats for which I've been farming for an ungodly amount of time. Please I just need that FISH.........
And they are definitely not the tools sold to execs to cut down on production time, creativity time, and human labour (and costs) either.
Accudentally deleted my own post because I'm dumb. I initially wanted to add that there are cool things in genAI (that my more competent academic colleagues can talk aboit better than me) but they are not the tools sold to us as "the inevitable march of progress"
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations.
Learn about how gender, age, and gaming motivations shape the perception of Gen AI in video games.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
And they are definitely not the tools sold to execs to cut down on production time, creativity time, and human labour (and costs) either.
Accudentally deleted my own post because I'm dumb. I initially wanted to add that there are cool things in genAI (that my more competent academic colleagues can talk aboit better than me) but they are not the tools sold to us as "the inevitable march of progress"
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations.
Learn about how gender, age, and gaming motivations shape the perception of Gen AI in video games.
quanticfoundry.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Accudentally deleted my own post because I'm dumb. I initially wanted to add that there are cool things in genAI (that my more competent academic colleagues can talk aboit better than me) but they are not the tools sold to us as "the inevitable march of progress"
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
quanticfoundry.com/2025/12/18/g...
Living with a roommate in your 30s is underrated, because who doesn't love having another human being in the flat texting you "I'll be ready in 15, I've been slacking on being alive" from their room when it's time to decorate the fake Christmas tree.
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Living with a roommate in your 30s is underrated, because who doesn't love having another human being in the flat texting you "I'll be ready in 15, I've been slacking on being alive" from their room when it's time to decorate the fake Christmas tree.
I was pretty sure that the Frankenstein story would be in good hands with Del Toro, but wow. You really can't go wrong with Guillermo Del Toro and a monster story about vain, ambitious, arrogant men and the consequences of their actions.
Also, what did they feed Jacob Elordi for this movie.
Also, what did they feed Jacob Elordi for this movie.
November 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I was pretty sure that the Frankenstein story would be in good hands with Del Toro, but wow. You really can't go wrong with Guillermo Del Toro and a monster story about vain, ambitious, arrogant men and the consequences of their actions.
Also, what did they feed Jacob Elordi for this movie.
Also, what did they feed Jacob Elordi for this movie.
Delightful Warframe community moment is when, when waiting for a new teammate to figure out how to vote on a mission, other teammate whips out a shawzin (a... space guitar?) and starts playing the Beverly Hills Cops soundtrack while my character does a little dance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmyS...
Beverly Hills Cop • Axel F • Harold Faltermeyer
YouTube video by HD Film Tributes
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Delightful Warframe community moment is when, when waiting for a new teammate to figure out how to vote on a mission, other teammate whips out a shawzin (a... space guitar?) and starts playing the Beverly Hills Cops soundtrack while my character does a little dance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmyS...
Windows periodically tries to blackmail me into doing updates by slowly cutting off very random things. First, Netflix refuses to work. Then, Youtube stops being able to play videos. Next, sound just stops working entirely! And eventually I cave and do the update and everything is fine again.
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Windows periodically tries to blackmail me into doing updates by slowly cutting off very random things. First, Netflix refuses to work. Then, Youtube stops being able to play videos. Next, sound just stops working entirely! And eventually I cave and do the update and everything is fine again.
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I love living with another game dev because it means going out to get bubble tea and when we come home she goes to play the new Pokemon and I start Ghost of Tsushima and we can exchange impressions later. And plan to play Split Fiction together over Christmas.
October 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I love living with another game dev because it means going out to get bubble tea and when we come home she goes to play the new Pokemon and I start Ghost of Tsushima and we can exchange impressions later. And plan to play Split Fiction together over Christmas.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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I finally finished Expedition 33, and I need 33 hugs. And to see if I can replay just that final sequence to make the *other* choice and get that ending.
a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a dark room in a video game .
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a dark room in a video game .
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October 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I finally finished Expedition 33, and I need 33 hugs. And to see if I can replay just that final sequence to make the *other* choice and get that ending.
Research into humans fails when humans are removed from the research. Gee. Who could have seen that one coming.
People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
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October 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Research into humans fails when humans are removed from the research. Gee. Who could have seen that one coming.
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People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".
Fundamentally, the headbanging Right doesn't believe Autism (or ADHD) exists. Or in so far as it does exist, a human conspiracy has created it.
We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'
'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.
We're back to their core outlook that 'It didn't exist back in the good old days so can't exist now.'
'It must just be some modern woke Marxist nonsense'.
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 AM
People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".
If this isn't the single coolest job title in the world.
Posted this today. Please apply.
www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2027...
www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2027...
CD PROJEKT RED — Award-Winning Creator of Story-Driven RPGs
As the team behind The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, we create revolutionary RPGs with memorable stories that inspire gamers.
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September 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
If this isn't the single coolest job title in the world.
I did get a PhD this year, but this accomplishment just got supplanted by the fact that the adjudicator ruled in my and my roommates' favour in a dispute, and our former landlord who tried to con us out of around £1700 worth of deposit lost. She's not getting a single dime of it. Ha.
September 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I did get a PhD this year, but this accomplishment just got supplanted by the fact that the adjudicator ruled in my and my roommates' favour in a dispute, and our former landlord who tried to con us out of around £1700 worth of deposit lost. She's not getting a single dime of it. Ha.
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We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically:
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f
Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at james.archer@rockpapershotgun.com
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f
Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at james.archer@rockpapershotgun.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We're shortstaffed on RPS and need some rad PC-minded freelancers for urgent review work. Specifically:
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f
Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at james.archer@rockpapershotgun.com
- Borderlands 4 (yes I know it's out already)
- Dying Light: The Beast
- Silent Hill f
Standard rate is £200 GBP per review, make yourselves known at james.archer@rockpapershotgun.com
My state of mind before I hop back into the game this weekend: I dreamt that I ran into Cornifer and that he was humming to the tune of The Wellerman. How are your Silksong adventures going.
September 12, 2025 at 6:51 AM
My state of mind before I hop back into the game this weekend: I dreamt that I ran into Cornifer and that he was humming to the tune of The Wellerman. How are your Silksong adventures going.
I've had Hornet for 45min and I'm already in love.
But also I need a map, where is my man Cornifer -
But also I need a map, where is my man Cornifer -
September 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I've had Hornet for 45min and I'm already in love.
But also I need a map, where is my man Cornifer -
But also I need a map, where is my man Cornifer -
I finally caught the culprit and it's a guy riding around the neighbourhood on his mobility scooter with a massive sound system attached to the back of the scooter (with led lights and everything) blasting the music at full volume.
I've been in this new flat for a month and a half, and I have yet to solve the mystery of which one of my neighbours plays 'Sherry' by The Four Seasons every Saturday morning around 9am while passing under my windows. I'm not mad about it, it's just incredibly specific.
August 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I finally caught the culprit and it's a guy riding around the neighbourhood on his mobility scooter with a massive sound system attached to the back of the scooter (with led lights and everything) blasting the music at full volume.
TW: suicide and self-harm.
The chat logs are chilling. How this tech is still allowed to be rolled out before the necessary safeguards are in place is beyond me. If despite the waterfall of red flags you still decide to use ChatGPT, please be safe while doing so, because it isn't.
The chat logs are chilling. How this tech is still allowed to be rolled out before the necessary safeguards are in place is beyond me. If despite the waterfall of red flags you still decide to use ChatGPT, please be safe while doing so, because it isn't.
ChatGPT essentially advised a sixteen year old on how to take his life—including by telling him how to make a noose and to avoid talking to his parents, even when he wanted to.
And then he did.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
And then he did.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
August 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
TW: suicide and self-harm.
The chat logs are chilling. How this tech is still allowed to be rolled out before the necessary safeguards are in place is beyond me. If despite the waterfall of red flags you still decide to use ChatGPT, please be safe while doing so, because it isn't.
The chat logs are chilling. How this tech is still allowed to be rolled out before the necessary safeguards are in place is beyond me. If despite the waterfall of red flags you still decide to use ChatGPT, please be safe while doing so, because it isn't.
I just finished Act II of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and its epilogue(s).
What.
WHAT.
(if you know, you know)
What.
WHAT.
(if you know, you know)
a close up of a person holding a fluffy orange kitten .
ALT: a close up of a person holding a fluffy orange kitten .
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August 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I just finished Act II of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and its epilogue(s).
What.
WHAT.
(if you know, you know)
What.
WHAT.
(if you know, you know)