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Good to see Tim doing well! He was super talented in high school!

Ok

??? What the heck is he even saying??

This is ridiculously good

Great lecture

This is a brilliant talk that I thoroughly enjoyed. As a person typically turned off from video games, this video (and others like Art Assignment's Argument for Video Games) really opened my eyes to how interesting and subversive and fun games can be. I really enjoyed the discussion about time, and how game play like speedrunning might subvert chrono-normativity. This was surprising to me at first because I was coming at it from an anti-capitalist lens, which I think queerness is inextricably linked to. Speedrunning, then seems like the opposite of queer because it fully embraces the concepts of capitalism that command we do everything as quickly as possible and completely ignore the rhythms, not of heteronormativity, but of nature more generally. I did appreciate, though, how you pointed out the contradiction that the process of getting good at speed running was actually extremely time consuming. Additionally, though capitalism is not directly mentioned in this talk I think it is heavily tied to this notion that some real life experiences are being gameified, meaning you can “win” them. Certainly the invention of monogamy (for women that is, men could often have sex with whoever they wanted) was tied to making sure a man could tell who his inheritance belonged to, thus enshrining the practice of “winning” a woman to give him children and pleasure when he desired it. I am absolutely obsessed with the realistic kissing simulator, especially the oddly intimate environment created by the closeness of the keys. It almost feels reminiscent of the rite of honor moment when as a child you have to watch a romantic scene on the tv with your parents sitting right next to you, but this time it is someone you don’t know and YOU are choosing how to interact virtually. Though many people have probably made out virtually on their sims (just me when I was 13?) it is so different when it’s a real person you can see.

The term "stone age" is oxymoronic evotards!

Btw to the person running this account, just in case you were not aware: If you make an upload "content for kids" that automatically removes the possibility to save the video in a playlist and also to comment underneath.

Note to self 47:28 helps me. Love when Nnedi speaks about her writing process.

28:20 "Technology is the Answer, but what was the Question?"

27:38 Cedric Price

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Why don't you get degrees in things that actually benefit society?

Just here to leave my dislike and be on my way.

what a clown show, video games aren't meant to be political. gamers on average might be smarter than you think and wont fall for this propaganda. we care about good games and dont look for developers to teach us how to think. all you will accomplish with this is that a few poor students will actually follow your directions and put their hard work and efforts into a game that nobody will buy

Lol Yea, cuz pong is ment to represent sperm swapping... For fuck sakes, you pretensious ass holes, cant keep you dirty progressive politics out of vidoe games... Mario + Princess Peach = Straight!

He's the best, thanks for sharing.

Bowker genious

It's great you are posting these lectures. I've been following ever since I attended Warren Sack's lecture in person last year. Please consider using a lavalier microphone in the future, to make them more accessible!

FYI to Ruth Greenwood. The Efficiency Gap is not a measure of wasted votes. It is a measure of proportional representation. It is calculated as EG = (% Democratic seats won - 50%) - 2*(% Democratic statewide vote - 50%). Using this formula it is easy to see that a state that is 60% Democratic and elects 60% Democrats returns EG = -10. The Efficiency Gap deems such a state as gerrymandered by Republicans.

fascinating stuff...I've been viewing a lot of Natasha's work on slot machines and the effects the addictive properties have on people. Always speaks very eloquently on the subject, with a level of balance and analysis that many other commentators lack. Would be really interested to know her thoughts on the availability of low stakes slot machines that kids can play - legally - in the UK and how this can affect the severity of the addictions. Although it can be argued that we have a low PG rate comparatively, I've came across research that suggests that age of entry is a major factor in later addictive behaviours, which ties in with much of what I've seen personally and professionally. Curiously, there's not a great deal of academic study into whether this is the case... if any reading wants to point me in the direction of some I'll gladly give it a read :)

That was interesting. Very theoretically loaded but it was a pity she couldn''t expand more into a debate of this situation. How is it actually affecting human beings? To what extent are these aggressive (can architecture actually be aggressive? that could be disputed as nonsense...it is the usage. Is it actually? If we cant get around the black box of who we are etc then how do we know if these things are good or bad. She acknowledges she isn't sure. But a debate or discussion of that is important. I got here as I found a book of her poetry which is interesting. Terse and intelligent (and lyric to some degree). It is good that Marxist concepts interact with say phenomenology and so on. Especially in a nation petrified of "communism" which means that the Capitalists are de facto, and always have been, keeping people at a distance (it is clear she is aware that the state of internet and other tech and societal states etc are a development of say "Kafkaesque" or Orwellian scenarios, or that they could be)....Invisible Man by Ellison is a book everyone should read. She should take note of those questions more (but it looked as though she is quite busy). I'm not totally sure of Ellison's thesis but it is a book that is, well, aside from its "meaning", is brilliant. A great read...But black boxes. In the mid 80s I worked on a microwave system which mixed digital and analogue tech. In the manuals we consulted as technicians, inside, there was a "Jungle Chip"! It may have been a joke by the manufacturer but such "black boxes" are mysteries to almost everyone, technical, engineers, unless they are say people like Turing...but there is always such a non-transparency. Ironically the language poets were also wary of transparency in language itself, her own was not too transparent, but I could follow it if I paused and replayed etc. She is clearly a very talented young woman. I am a writer also, although I go across genre per se and use all kinds of media (potentially)...Turrell I knew about. It is a pity should didn't expound on Turrell. What is his game? Books describing what he does with his huge observation places in the desert (aggressive places?) are fascinating. I think his aim is some deep awareness, maybe a la the art of Rothko or others. What she had to say could keep things going for weeks. Indeed it could be a whole course....As someone said, not only what she said but the way she said it, complex as it was, was quite beautiful....Very good. Very good indeed.

Orwellian 1984 is coming in 2018!

These freedom loving scumbags are on a mission to destroy everything that has made Western Civilization great. The first step is to suppress free speech so that we cannot point out their evil intent. Orwell was spinning in his grave as he listened to them rationalize their evil little Index.

Gestapo is Alive and well...................Go to hell Mein Furor.

bad audio.