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Gonna get back on my bullshit by live-posting the first-ever student-led game studies conference at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social — GS1: Game Studies in Action. [ Organized by Prof. Karina Popp ] (Apologies to those who liked/shared earlier posts, they were messed up / had to delete! See again below)

26/4/25, 2:47 pm20 reposts57 likes

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美

@halfrobot.com

26 Apr 2025

First up, an analysis of irony-poisoning, front-stage / back-stage (c.f. Goffman) collapse and constant truth obfuscation under panoptical hierarchies of control in fishtank.live (You can read abstracts of any of these w/ author names at https://gstudies.one/)

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美

@halfrobot.com

26 Apr 2025

Love to see it: dealing with heteropessimism by playing otome games and also by going to otome raves where cosplayers take on the roles of the male love interests (distributed-takarazkua vibes, imo)

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美

@halfrobot.com

26 Apr 2025

Disrupting immersion and the distancing effect in Danganronpa V3. The characters are alienated and so are you! Complete with Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt (which ofc just means distancing effect). f&*K immersion, man

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美

@halfrobot.com

26 Apr 2025

In-depth examination of mechanics & affective states involved in the RTTP (“Reacting to the Past”) pedagogy for live role-playing games set in history; getting past simplistic ideas of empathy to look at the merger of intense bleed-feeling and reflective distance to spark critical thinking

Jiggety Jatters. The worst name.

@jessefuchs.bsky.social

26 Apr 2025

if I didn’t have to podcast for 2-3 hours smack in the middle of this, I’d be there, so especial thanks for your service this time 🫡