Mark Danger Chen
@mcdanger.bsky.social
Games scholar, academic editor and coach, book cover illustrator, webmaster, PC builder, and Assistant Teaching Professor at Appalachian State U. Need input on a project? Hire me!
Letters to students: https://markdangerchen.net/letters/
Letters to students: https://markdangerchen.net/letters/
AI Thoughts (and news)
Hi all! I'm reorganizing this website a tad. I wrote something about AI, mostly for students. (Comments welcome!) I'm available for hire as an academic editor and ed tech consultant! I am a new Teaching Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University! Another letter to…
Hi all! I'm reorganizing this website a tad. I wrote something about AI, mostly for students. (Comments welcome!) I'm available for hire as an academic editor and ed tech consultant! I am a new Teaching Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University! Another letter to…
AI Thoughts (and news)
Hi all! I'm reorganizing this website a tad. I wrote something about AI, mostly for students. (Comments welcome!) I'm available for hire as an academic editor and ed tech consultant! I am a new Teaching Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University! Another letter to students will be written soonish. 🙂
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November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
AI Thoughts (and news)
Hi all! I'm reorganizing this website a tad. I wrote something about AI, mostly for students. (Comments welcome!) I'm available for hire as an academic editor and ed tech consultant! I am a new Teaching Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University! Another letter to…
Hi all! I'm reorganizing this website a tad. I wrote something about AI, mostly for students. (Comments welcome!) I'm available for hire as an academic editor and ed tech consultant! I am a new Teaching Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University! Another letter to…
some thoughts about AI. draft. needs comments! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
AI Thoughts
AI Thoughts Mark Chen markdangerchen.net Hi all. As you know, the whole world is sort of crazy right now. We have a very divisive political system, people are struggling to make rent and buy food,...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
some thoughts about AI. draft. needs comments! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Games that have stood up to time well have been the Wadjet Eye and other AGS ones. I'd never played A Golden Wake before, but that was really good and a great history lesson. And the Blackwell series has been oh so good still! Also, playing them with Dave Gilbert's commentary has been awesome! 3/3
June 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Games that have stood up to time well have been the Wadjet Eye and other AGS ones. I'd never played A Golden Wake before, but that was really good and a great history lesson. And the Blackwell series has been oh so good still! Also, playing them with Dave Gilbert's commentary has been awesome! 3/3
The 3D Tex Murphy games are pretty unplayable due to their low resolution and wild mouse controls (came out before Half-life WASD and mouse-look). The only one I got working well was the kickstartered Tesla Effect (2014), and it was fun and funny but in a so bad it's good sort of way. 2/3
June 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The 3D Tex Murphy games are pretty unplayable due to their low resolution and wild mouse controls (came out before Half-life WASD and mouse-look). The only one I got working well was the kickstartered Tesla Effect (2014), and it was fun and funny but in a so bad it's good sort of way. 2/3
Need a respite from the craziness of the world? I've been revisiting old adventure games. Some haven't held up well; some are still amazing. The Secret Files games' interface still works well, but the tiny resolution and atrocious writing really hinder the series. 1/3
June 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Need a respite from the craziness of the world? I've been revisiting old adventure games. Some haven't held up well; some are still amazing. The Secret Files games' interface still works well, but the tiny resolution and atrocious writing really hinder the series. 1/3
I only slapped my face three times and frantically threw my arms around and then covered my head with my blanket once before I realized the mosquito I was hearing was actually someone using a saw outside.
May 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I only slapped my face three times and frantically threw my arms around and then covered my head with my blanket once before I realized the mosquito I was hearing was actually someone using a saw outside.
I sure hope this was due to randomness, Uber...
May 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I sure hope this was due to randomness, Uber...
tfw you prep a packet very carefully, literally a decade in the making, to send to a courthouse in LA, mail it yesterday and realize today that you forgot to include the processing fee
April 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
tfw you prep a packet very carefully, literally a decade in the making, to send to a courthouse in LA, mail it yesterday and realize today that you forgot to include the processing fee
I've accepted a position to teach in the Media Technology and Learning program at Appalachian State University starting in August! It'll be great to come home to education while still focusing on games and new media! Thanks to everyone for all the help along the way!
April 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I've accepted a position to teach in the Media Technology and Learning program at Appalachian State University starting in August! It'll be great to come home to education while still focusing on games and new media! Thanks to everyone for all the help along the way!
There's some weird bug I've had for over a year where Epic says Dragon Age Inquisition is installed but it isn't and hasn't been in a long while. I assume there's some broken link between it and the EA app. To get rid of it, I'm finally installing it again just so I can uninstall it.
March 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
There's some weird bug I've had for over a year where Epic says Dragon Age Inquisition is installed but it isn't and hasn't been in a long while. I assume there's some broken link between it and the EA app. To get rid of it, I'm finally installing it again just so I can uninstall it.
Just finished a new build! VOTOMS Burglary Dog
Loving this hobby while listening to video game and bad movie reviews.
Loving this hobby while listening to video game and bad movie reviews.
February 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Just finished a new build! VOTOMS Burglary Dog
Loving this hobby while listening to video game and bad movie reviews.
Loving this hobby while listening to video game and bad movie reviews.
times of uncertainty, devastation, and suffering can be moments for transformation and creative response www.themarginalian.org/2025/02/06/v...
The Stubborn Art of Turning Suffering into Strength: Václav Havel’s Extraordinary Letters from Prison
“I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me,” Oscar Wilde wrote from prison. “There is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try and make in…
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February 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
times of uncertainty, devastation, and suffering can be moments for transformation and creative response www.themarginalian.org/2025/02/06/v...
NBC Producers Deny Using AI In New Series ‘Detective Fireman Lawyer Chicago Los Angeles Show’ theonion.com/nbc-producer...
NBC Producers Deny Using AI In New Series ‘Detective Fireman Lawyer Chicago Los Angeles Show’
NEW YORK—Issuing a categorical denial of the accusations, NBC producers announced Thursday there was absolutely no usage of artificial intelligence in the new series Detective Fireman Lawyer Chicago L...
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February 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
NBC Producers Deny Using AI In New Series ‘Detective Fireman Lawyer Chicago Los Angeles Show’ theonion.com/nbc-producer...
Ars Technica: As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders
Ars staffers take aim at some of the web’s worst predatory practices.
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February 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Ars Technica: As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Love gaming communities on reddit, esp posts from users who share fan art and memes. :)
www.reddit.com/r/RogueTrade...
www.reddit.com/r/RogueTrade...
From the RogueTraderCRPG community on Reddit: I made Marazhai, Abelard, Heinrix and Yrliet in the Sims 2 this time + more silly captions :D
Explore this post and more from the RogueTraderCRPG community
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February 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Love gaming communities on reddit, esp posts from users who share fan art and memes. :)
www.reddit.com/r/RogueTrade...
www.reddit.com/r/RogueTrade...
Found on Reddit lol
February 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Found on Reddit lol
Latest letter to students: markdangerchen.net/2025/02/02/w...
February 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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I'm a little concerned I have a model kit/gunpla problem now as money is short but I just bought two kits from an online store for the first time
January 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I'm a little concerned I have a model kit/gunpla problem now as money is short but I just bought two kits from an online store for the first time
While working on a job talk, I've been doing the Heisei series of Godzilla movies that feature the psychic Miki (six movies from 1989 to 1995), sort of hoping there was some continuity... There isn't really, but dang these are fun dumb movies. Highly recommend!
January 29, 2025 at 3:09 AM
While working on a job talk, I've been doing the Heisei series of Godzilla movies that feature the psychic Miki (six movies from 1989 to 1995), sort of hoping there was some continuity... There isn't really, but dang these are fun dumb movies. Highly recommend!
As some of you know, I was scammed very hard 2 yrs ago by who I thght was a friend. Changed phone, limited socials, deleed some public-facing stuff... got on anti-anxiety meds, gained 30 lbs, and sued to get $ back. I'll prob never see the $ again, but at least I'm getting better. Down 15 lbs!
January 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
As some of you know, I was scammed very hard 2 yrs ago by who I thght was a friend. Changed phone, limited socials, deleed some public-facing stuff... got on anti-anxiety meds, gained 30 lbs, and sued to get $ back. I'll prob never see the $ again, but at least I'm getting better. Down 15 lbs!
My first two gunplas! 1st is what they recommend 1st: HG RX-78-2 from original series. 2nd one is RG Astray Red Frame that is supposedly a really complicated one before they improved the RG frame design but was honestly not that bad!
January 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
My first two gunplas! 1st is what they recommend 1st: HG RX-78-2 from original series. 2nd one is RG Astray Red Frame that is supposedly a really complicated one before they improved the RG frame design but was honestly not that bad!
