Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My contract with my university for a tutor position stipulated that it could claim ownership of any invention I make during this employment. And as far as I know that's standard for universities and lots of other fields. 000
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 27/08/2026those into their own custom Magic sets, but the prospect of getting excited about my favourite intellectual property holders signing a crossover contract will never not be at least a little bit embarassing, no matter how well Middle Earth aesthetically fits into the game. 001
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I get those likely aren't optional from WotC's perspective, which is why this just reads as inherently cynical. I've come to realize my problem with Universes Beyond fundamentally boils down to the same thing, where I really love people putting their passion for stories and worlds into translating 100
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Which really gives away the game here because I can't possibly take the cheeky edginess at face value if I KNOW any actual edge has been washed out by the corporate moral laundry. Beyond that, this kind of goof just does not work with their copyright and trademark in the corner. 110
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Towards the end, the Polygon article about this drop mentions they wanted to bring back a Playtest card that said "You are fucked.", but that of course didn't pass the censors so they instead put "YOU ARE EXILED" on a Path to Exile. www.polygon.com/mtg-magic-se... 110
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Same thing in German with the 2nd person plural being the antiquated version primarily associated with medieval times nowadays and 3rd person plural being the current formal addressing. 010
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Me googling "Earthquake damage" and being irritated the first result isn't Bulbapedia telling me "100" 140
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 05/08/2026It's not really *the* word and is almost exclusively used by even just a subset of vegans. I think the point is to make the ideological underpinnings of animal exploitation visible rather than branding it as neutral or default, but most people outside that group will probably just be confused by it. 000
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 02/08/2026A lot of backlash probably comes from people who only saw this clip out of context with the framing of "he fucked up and copy pasted the response into his script", whereas watching the video, it makes perfect sense to me that he meant his guest, but also why it doesn't register that way to everyone. 010
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 02/08/2026So what I think happened is that he filmed the segment with this disagreement in mind, as a response to what his guest said, which is the pushback he appreciates. But enough time has passed that this isn't apparent and appears to come out of nowhere so it sounds like an AI response to some people. 110
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 02/08/2026so he pushes it to a "future Hank" segment where he'll have done some more research. So there's somewhat of a hard cut and he explains the concept for a bit, and drops the relevant phrase about 2.5 minutes after the disagreement arose, in his room without his guest (because it was filmed later). 100
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 02/08/2026What happened is that in the video, he's talking to his guest Soupytime when they say "it's a made up word" and Hank replies "they're all made up", to which they gently push back, citing Bouba and Kiki as an example of some consistency. He says he doesn't know enough to give an ad hoc response 100
Reposted by JeskoBrandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-... 2037223073
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 29/07/2026A movie with this premise but it's just about landlords extorting the porn industry 010
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Damn, er hat's einfach wirklich durchgezogen. Wer hätte gedacht, dass der ultimative Ragebait ist, die Mannschaft nicht zu hassen lol 040
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Also fucked how we have the term "ageism" but it's only ever used in one direction? And how acceptable it is for people to proclaim their hatred for an entire group of actual human beings based on a single characteristic just because they'll stop belonging to the group eventually? 1300
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Like 2 or 3 years ago I saw a tweet calling children an oppressed class and did a double take because I had never thought about it that way before, and ever since then I've paid active attention to it and my god, it's maddening how pervasive this hatred of anything not sufficiently "adult" is! 1481
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 14/07/2026to designate people as narratologists from "outside" so you could show what you *wouldn't* be doing because they had gotten games wrong or something. This being one of those unhelpful if not harmful goals behind a debate (though I get that chasing academic funding sucks). 110
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 14/07/2026From what I remember it had formed even earlier (like 2003-ish), at least in academic circles, and from the way I've heard it recounted it was in many ways about securing a new academic field you could convince other academics was working on novel problems and theories, which is why it was important 120
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Aber in der Praxis sind das obviously keine trennscharfen Kategorien und werden auch öfter mal synonym verwendet, hier zum Beispiel bei der Hot Hand Fallacy, die ja close zur Gambler's Fallacy ist. 140
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Ich glaub technically gibt's einen Unterschied zwischen Bias und Fallacy. Bias ist mehr so eine Grundtendenz, zu einem warped Ergebnis zu kommen, während Fallacy ein konkreter Fehler ist, den du gemacht hast und der dich zu einem Fehlschluss führen kann, als Begriff aus der formalen Logik. 140
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 14/07/2026harmful goals/assumptions unproductively shouting at each other (or just one way) while gesturing in the vague direction of a thing but making little to no effort to actually get on the same page about what the thing is and why we want to talk about it". 210
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I think there's also a wide gulf between what you could do with a concept and how it's historically been generally used to make everyone grow very tired of it. Lots of videogame "debates" have been less "cool deep conversation we just had too often" and more "people with unhelpful if not actively 110
Reposted by JeskoKevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Climate emergency cancels Reform's "cancel the climate emergency" meeting - council members were due to vote on Thurs on a Reform motion to rescind the climate emergency. 10349183
Reposted by JeskoBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/06/2026And the same data that's being used to "verify age" today will be used by ICE tomorrow to figure out who to round up for a concentration camp: www.wired.com/story/ice-as... You can't protect kids from online surveillance by spying on them. You just *can't*. 24/wired.comICE Asks Companies About ‘Ad Tech and Big Data’ Tools It Could Use in InvestigationsA new federal filing from ICE demonstrates how commercial tools are increasingly being considered by the government for law enforcement and surveillance. 111650
Reposted by JeskoBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/06/2026Problem is, there's no such thing as internet "age verification." What we call "age verification" is actually *mass surveillance*, so invasive and pervasive it makes the ad-tech industry's surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia: pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/b... 5/pluralistic.netPluralistic: “Privacy preserving age verification” is bullshit (14 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 214082
Reposted by Jesko✨Danny (WoC era)✨ @juforier.online · 15/06/2026Ich suche immer noch eine*n Zwischenmieter*in, die von Anfang Juli bis Ende September mein WG-Zimmer in Köln bewohnen möchte! ~550€/Monat, 20qm, vollmöbliert und eine tolle Mitbewohnerin ( @unknownflower.online !!) Schreibt mich gerne an für weitere Infos :3 #köln #wohnungssuche #zwischenmiete 11416
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Ich hab das noch nie gehört aber ich sehe instantly die Vision omg 020
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Basierend auf den likenden Accounts wirkt es für mich so, als wäre der Post im Discovery Tab angezeigt worden. Das ist auch der Typ von Post, der eigentlich nur interessant ist, wenn man die Person dahinter kennt und über deren Leben cared und for some reason ist der Tab absolut voll davon. 060
Reposted by JeskoUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20/06/2026He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. 08021
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I don't think there's absolutely no merit to what he says in the video, but because he never defends his foundation and barely makes explicit arguments, it all appears really muddied and has this weird primacy of games as simulations/rules which is just needlessly exclusionary. 120
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026why they would always want to. I don't think "mario touches the goomba" is a shortcut and what we "really mean" is the hitboxes touching, but to him, the hitboxes are happening on a deeper level and the sprites are "not real objects", but they seem about equally as real/fake as the mechanics to me. 110
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026kind of an implicit argument as to why it matters less, but I don't buy it if it is. The pixels happening on my screen are just as real as the machine processing mechanics and I don't inherently care more about one or the other, I don't even think most people consciously make that distinction, or 110
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026mechanics, but usually aren't the aesthetics a large part of the point of playing the game, if not *the* point? You need mechanics so that something is happening, but they're in service of something just as much as aesthetics can be. I'm wondering if all that talk about fiction being not real was 100
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026they "lie" by implying a "truth" that isn't there on the mechanical level. And this is probably why the conclusion feels so jarring, because he hasn't made that assumption explicit or given reasons for it, and it seems pretty suspect as a generalization. Sure, *some* players care mostly about 100
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026translation is as accurate as possible, IE every bit of aesthetic information maps onto a corresponding bit of mechanical information as closely as possible. His assumption throughout seems to be that players are generally interested in the mechanical layer and the aesthetics can become an issue if 100
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026cut between mechanics and aesthetics of a game. So in that sense, what is mechanically happening on the level of hitboxes is the "objective truth" of the game and then the aesthetics on the level of sprites are an imperfect translation of that truth to the player. Aesthetic honesty is when the 100
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The way I understand it this "one truth" is basically just mechanics again, in the way that the computer is executing code to generate a gamestate and then audiovisual elements get generated on top of that. In his analogy to objective reality and our perception of it, he seems to be making a hard 100
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Ohh ja true man kann das auch komplett umgekehrt interpretieren, hab ich gar nicht dran gedacht lol 020
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026rauskriegen als aus Rhythm Heaven. Ansonsten werden bei solchen Fragen häufig Disco Elysium und Outer Wilds genannt, aber die hab ich noch nicht durchgespielt. 150
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Ansonsten schließe ich mich Clair Obscur, Blue Prince und insbesondere 1000xRESIST an. Das wären nicht meine ersten Wahlen, wenn ich eine möglichst hohe Chance haben will, dass die Empfehlung positiv ankommt, aber dafür werden die meisten Leute, wenn sie sie mögen, wahrscheinlich mehr aus ihnen 150
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026damit eigentlich immer eine gute Zeit haben. Die Spiele sind sehr simpel zu bedienen und wenn man nicht große Perfektionsansprüche an sich hat auch sehr kurzweilig ohne Filler. Da gibt es für die meisten Leute wenig, was ihnen aktiv missfällt, aber ohne langweilig oder generisch zu sein. 140
Jesko @gumlong.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Franchise neu sein könnte, aber dann ist mir aufgefallen, dass die Antwort in beiden Fällen (aber vor allem im ersten) vermutlich die Rhythm Heaven Reihe wäre (Fever ist der beste Teil, aber Megamix ist am einsteigerfreundlichsten). Ich glaub, sofern man Rhythmusspiele nicht total hasst, wird man 140
