Charline Foch
@chafoch.bsky.social
Games User Researcher @ Tencent | PhD in games | movies are my favourite language
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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October 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Are you a disabled content creator OR a creator passionate about accessibility? DM us!
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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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Our team are running user research concerning games accessibility. This is a paid research session open to UK residents. Please register your interest below if you are interested in taking part.
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RI971: UK-Wide Digital Accessibility Research - £100
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October 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Our team are running user research concerning games accessibility. This is a paid research session open to UK residents. Please register your interest below if you are interested in taking part.
@researchi.bsky.social
www.researchi.co.uk/projects/RI9...
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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
www.science.org
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.
www.cdprojektred.com
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)
Thank goodness we have a three days weekend ahead so I can finish Clair Obscur before Silksong monopolises my one braincell.
August 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thank goodness we have a three days weekend ahead so I can finish Clair Obscur before Silksong monopolises my one braincell.
Sorry Sam but a PhD is not a sign of superior intelligence, it's just a sign that you are obsessive enough to nitpick at a problem for three or four years in the weirdest ways you can think of. A very stubborn duck could get a PhD. Maybe all academia is a whole bunch of very stubborn ducks.
The only thing PhD-like about ChatGPT is that it can probably regurgitate most of the papers it has pirated and plagiarised.
ChatGPT will never think critically about research methods, or wake up in the middle of the night and go 'but wHAT IF...' at a weird problem no one else is thinking about.
ChatGPT will never think critically about research methods, or wake up in the middle of the night and go 'but wHAT IF...' at a weird problem no one else is thinking about.
a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .
media.tenor.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Sorry Sam but a PhD is not a sign of superior intelligence, it's just a sign that you are obsessive enough to nitpick at a problem for three or four years in the weirdest ways you can think of. A very stubborn duck could get a PhD. Maybe all academia is a whole bunch of very stubborn ducks.
The only thing PhD-like about ChatGPT is that it can probably regurgitate most of the papers it has pirated and plagiarised.
ChatGPT will never think critically about research methods, or wake up in the middle of the night and go 'but wHAT IF...' at a weird problem no one else is thinking about.
ChatGPT will never think critically about research methods, or wake up in the middle of the night and go 'but wHAT IF...' at a weird problem no one else is thinking about.
a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a bulletin board with a lot of papers on it .
media.tenor.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The only thing PhD-like about ChatGPT is that it can probably regurgitate most of the papers it has pirated and plagiarised.
ChatGPT will never think critically about research methods, or wake up in the middle of the night and go 'but wHAT IF...' at a weird problem no one else is thinking about.
ChatGPT will never think critically about research methods, or wake up in the middle of the night and go 'but wHAT IF...' at a weird problem no one else is thinking about.
All I heard was Silksong this year and my heart is FULL.
August 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
All I heard was Silksong this year and my heart is FULL.
Revised thesis publication shenanigans continue: 2 weeks wait to get the formatting checked and approved, had to email them to get things moving... and be told to delete two words and change the order of name and title on the title page. Academia you are ever so silly.
August 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Revised thesis publication shenanigans continue: 2 weeks wait to get the formatting checked and approved, had to email them to get things moving... and be told to delete two words and change the order of name and title on the title page. Academia you are ever so silly.
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if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
if you watch the tech industry long enough you learn the promised benefits never materialize but the unforeseen harms continue to be perpetuated long after the companies move on to the next big thing yet governments are too worried about scaring away investment to do anything
Can we just burn these systems to the ground, and only release them again once they 1. are fit for purpose (whatever their purpose is, because nobody seems to agree on that), 2. are sustainable, 3. don't deeply harm anyone who isn't a white cishet able-bodied man in areas like healthcare?
Women's health being downplayed you say? Well I never.
AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds
Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Can we just burn these systems to the ground, and only release them again once they 1. are fit for purpose (whatever their purpose is, because nobody seems to agree on that), 2. are sustainable, 3. don't deeply harm anyone who isn't a white cishet able-bodied man in areas like healthcare?
They gave Smoker his goofy signature two cigars and Laboon sounds like Godzilla, I can die happy and 2026 needs to be here now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfeC...
ONE PIECE: Season 2 | First Look | Netflix
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August 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
They gave Smoker his goofy signature two cigars and Laboon sounds like Godzilla, I can die happy and 2026 needs to be here now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfeC...
World War 2 bombshell impacts in Rouen, but fill them with Lego.
August 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
World War 2 bombshell impacts in Rouen, but fill them with Lego.
Me submitting my thesis to the open access White Rose service and wondering 'okay, what new hoop are they going to have me hop through NEXT'.
Finishing a thesis really is nothing but an endless series of admin tasks just to make sure you feel that Dr title is really deserved, as if the past 4-5 years of research isn't enough.
August 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Me submitting my thesis to the open access White Rose service and wondering 'okay, what new hoop are they going to have me hop through NEXT'.