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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 7h

Good lord. I tried to be explicit and emphatic with my writing class this semester to avoid thinking about what we were doing as "content." Such an ugly word.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 17h

Note that I am not complaining about having my new job - but damn I had definitely forgotten what marking actually large cohorts of assignments was like.

adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 1d

It hurts, but it's sort of like diagnosis an illness after years of "WTF IS WRONG WITH ME?"

I vaguely remember "phonics" being looked down on at some point in my early teens. Did not realise this was the alternative.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I learn something about the entrenched curriculum in American primary/secondary school I feel... well, like there are reasons that Trump is president. Seriously.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 1d

This is *WILD*

We've been teaching "vibe reading" here?! Absolutely enables people to make up what they think the actual word on the page might be, which takes us somewhat farther than a reader-response, postmodernist, deconstructive perspective would even go for.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 2d

remember that article that explained why this was happening?

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, and I mean this unironically, if people would scrutinize political journalism and government as carefully as they do games press and devs/publishers....

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 2d

That should say they're "soloing" dungeons. Apparently also doing mythic+ keys with 5 tanks.

adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 2d

Jumped into WoE Legion Remix partly for a project partly for fun. Convince myself to level a caster in this fast-paced experience. Find out tanks are so OP they're working dungeons...

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 2d

When I say I've moved a lot (too much...). 11 years go this week I moved into a flat in Alexandria NSW. Last week I moved into a house we bought in Perth. Lived at 5 different addresses in the USA between those two points.

adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 2d

"If I'm going to hell, I want my oubliette to be GOLD PLATED." Trump, probably.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 6d

So there might be some over-invested PC gamers complaining on Reddit about it but, will they cancel a subscription over it? Even if they do, what's the pickup from having this game on console? Imagine Switch-owning kids with modern (fast, casual-friendly) WoW.

adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 6d

I advanced a theory a couple days ago that WoW and Diablo are heading to some kind of nexus. This is another thread to that idea.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 6d

It feels VERY much like the end of high school. Fond memories, can't go back, probably wouldn't if it were possible.

I'm just at a weird limbo crossroads (again) with moving, so it would have been a nice security blanket while I rebuild in person connections.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 6d

I wouldn't think latency is a major consideration anymore (regarding GCD), because I mean, Diablo is fast as hell.

I would have hated this idea a couple of years ago but Diablo 3 was a revelation. Felt like an old beat-em up with fantasy RPG graphics you know? Great couch times.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 6d

Just had a wild thought: in light of the proposed changes to streamline/simplify class skills and removal of mod support... Is WoW headed for consoles?

At the very least, it could be playable with a regular controller, based in Diablo's success.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 6d

The critical mass just isn't quite there anymore. Not sure whether it's possible to recapture that magic.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 6d

My contribution to the discourse is as follows:

adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 6d

Oh a BlueSky post doing a little bit of numbers - is it the link to my academic paper that's related to the Assassin's Creed thing?

Oh. No. It's the goofy response to the Matrix Frog pepper spray situation.

adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 6d

Sick I still have hair, only my knees hurt, and here's a mix CD I burned!!

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 6d

Wrote an academic article on this phenomenon including Ubisoft among others. Guess they found the limit of 'bothsidesism' here with this topic at this moment in time.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Signifying nothing: the hyperreal politics of ‘apolitical’ games

Developers of AAA videogames which feature recognizable military forces, governmental law enforcement agencies, and geopolitical conflicts routinely make claims that their works do not make “politi...

www.tandfonline.com

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 6d

Up to now I have never actually had it! Tested the very few times I had a questionable cold... Worked remotely for a long time etc. So maybe I'm the last undamaged brain and it's everyone else wearing their underwear on the outside now.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 6d

Let me know when they're ready to introduce Toussaint Louverture as an assassin.

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 6d

Ubisoft could not have handled a Reconstruction Era Assassin's Creed:

aftermath.site/assassins-cree...

adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 6d

Is this happening? Is there a gas leak in my office? Did I take a pill of some kind??

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 7d

A no joke, absolutely serious dream. I cannot wait to feel like I'm back in a bit of a groove in higher ed here.

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adamruch.bsky.social @adamruch.bsky.social · 7d

Found it.

Complaining online: still the best way to solve all your problems!

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