I think the fact that there's going to have to be corporate high level meetings about what to do because one player is retiring is so wonderfully ironic and surreal.

Honestly worried for the hiccup in the field when he retires, feel like its going to make a serious difference

Great game idea ✨️

I want to make sure I'm covering aspects that people are curious about, interested in hearing about &/or stuff that would be actually helpful to folks

Asking the tough questions as always!

the mc escher of games discourse

Honestly, the best result 👏

She'll be right!

How I forgot Happy of the End (2024) when I literally have watched it like three times, have read all the manga & have tattoo plans for it, I have no idea

📌Clockwise from top left, but in no particular order:

Kiseki: Dear to Me (2023)
The Journey to Killing You (2025)
The Heart Killers (2024)
KinnPorsche (2022)
My Personal Weatherman (2023)
LoveSea (2024)
Between Us (2022)
Only Friends (2023)
Perfect Propose (2024)
Our Dining Table (2023)

You're living rent free it seems! Can't wait till she finds my ahrc funded phd.

Absolutely not to say we don't welcome new voices - which we always need - but dear god its basic academic grounding to check if something has been said before. 9/10 times it has, and often its been said really well. There's so many niches left to explore, why not work on them?

I think its a real issue within game studies that we are constantly having a turnover of people coming into the field, contributing something (that has often been discussed previously) then leaving. The amount of times I've heard that 'no one is studying religion in games' is worrisome.

Of all the ways to do BDSM badly, making it appear chaste is uhhh, yeah. I mean, I don't mind when media makes it overly romantic, or sentimental - but chaste? Kinda feels like that goes against a lot of the great parts of it. Surely (delicious) transgression is one of the aims here, or am I crazy?