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Eric Stein (he/him)
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Producer at EA SPORTS
Games researcher
Former game development instructor
Tabletop game designer
Occasional poet
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steinea.bsky.social
I had a really annoying conversation at a conference with someone who insisted that I formally define what I meant by a "game," and I refused, and then later I wrote this out of frustration

steinea.itch.io/a-game-perhaps
A Game, Perhaps by Eric Stein
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steinea.itch.io
November 4, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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mealofthorns.bsky.social
Check out this nice review of FICTIONAL GAMES that @steinea.bsky.social did for ARB a while back: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2023/05/26/i...
Imagined Agency: Review of Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone’s Fictional Games
Eric Stein Under Review:Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play. Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone. Bloomsbury Academic, January 2023. Throughout the media we enjoy, fr…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
October 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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camerontellis.bsky.social
Astronaut meme: "Wait, it's all perception?" "Always has been"
October 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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adashtra.bsky.social
Silksong true ending as praxis, in this essay I will
September 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
steinea.bsky.social
And of course I should emphasize, Zenodo is still the best, though a bit less "discoverability" friendly compared to other platforms. Their terms, though, are why I always post there first as the canonical source for my open access research.

about.zenodo.org/terms/
The Zenodo service (“Zenodo”) is offered by CERN as part of its mission to make available the results of its work. Use of Zenodo, both the uploading and downloading of data, denotes agreement with the following terms: 1. Zenodo is an open dissemination research data repository for the preservation and making available of research, educational and informational content. Access to Zenodo’s content is open to all, for non-military purposes only. 2. Content may be uploaded free of charge by those without ready access to an organised data centre. 3. The uploader is exclusively responsible for the content that they upload to Zenodo and shall indemnify and hold CERN free and harmless in connection with their use of the service. The uploader shall ensure that their content is suitable for open dissemination, and that it complies with these terms and applicable laws, including, but not limited to, privacy, data protection and intellectual property rights. In addition, where data that was originally sensitive personal data is being uploaded for open dissemination through Zenodo, the uploader shall ensure that such data is either anonymised to an appropriate degree or fully consent cleared. 4. Access to Zenodo, and all content, is provided on an “as-is” basis. Users of content (“Users”) shall respect applicable license conditions. Download and use of content from Zenodo does not transfer any intellectual property rights in the content to the User. ... Terms continue at https://about.zenodo.org/terms/, too long to include whole thing in alt text.
September 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
steinea.bsky.social
I'm not an expert in this stuff, but PhilPapers and KC Works make me more comfortable than ResearchGate.

Links here:

philpapers.org/help/terms.h...

about.hcommons.org/terms-of-ser...

www.researchgate.net/terms-of-ser...
September 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
steinea.bsky.social
ResearchGate terms
If you are a Member, you can add Member Submissions to the Service. You retain all ownership rights in your Member Submissions. However, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable license to use your Member Submissions (including to host, reproduce, distribute, modify, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your Member Submissions for the sole purpose of making available and improving our Service. You also grant Users a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license to access your Member Submissions through the Service and use the Member Submissions solely in connection with using the Service.
September 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
steinea.bsky.social
Knowledge Commons terms
By posting User Content on the Network, you grant MSU a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use the User Content in accordance with these Terms on the Network, in all formats in which the Network is available, until you remove or delete it, which use includes but is not limited to reproducing, distributing, transmitting, publicly displaying and performing, and incorporating the User Content into a collective work. Whenever possible, we will credit you as the author of the User Content you provide, and, by posting User Content on the Network, you grant MSU the right to use your name (as provided in your user profile) for that attribution. If you delete your User Content, cached versions of or references to the User Content may not be made unavailable. Some User Content, such as files uploaded to KC Works, may not be removed or deleted. Please contact us for assistance.
September 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
steinea.bsky.social
PhilPapers terms
Regarding texts (for example, full articles) submitted to the PhilPapers Archive or PhilArchive: the PhilPapers Foundation acknowledges that it obtains no intellectual property rights to these texts. However, when submitting texts to our services, you give the PhilPapers Foundation a worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to host and display these texts. Users have the right to request that texts they submitted be removed from PhilPapers and PhilArchive.
September 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
steinea.bsky.social
I put PDFs on Zenodo first, searchable by name, and linked from my ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4131-2695

I syndicate to PhilPapers and Knowledge Commons, which from a quick re-scan of ToCs have much better policies. I also syndicate to ResearchGate, though their ToCs are a bit more concerning...
September 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
steinea.bsky.social
Looking back, looking at the map as it expands, has a very similar feeling to doing a big hike and looking back from a high point at where you've come, like woah, that was really tough, but also I made it here!
September 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
steinea.bsky.social
Yes, exactly this! I am not good at these kind of games, but it's been amazing how learnable these totally wild fights feel. Final Widow phase was impossible until suddenly it wasn't.
September 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM