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Extremely Online 📱Twitch and the online left by Samuel Rafanell-Williams 📱Below the line by Rhian E. Jones 📱Twittering off by Tom Whyman 📱The Great Firewall of China by Jiannan Shi 📱Preservation of culture online by Florence Smith Nichols

this article and convo with one of the mouthwashing devs. oh my god. ohhhh my god archive.is/20241211144144…

the game awards has paused future class, which honors devs indicative of the "bold and inclusive future," and introduced a "game changer" award that went to a tencent biz dev guy. despite attempts to do good, TGA remains indebted to corporate interests aftermath.site/game-awards-20…

My LARP Funeral For An AI God is now published and free to download on itch: florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/funeral-for-an… I had a fantastic time running it at the Stockholm Scenario Festival, and hopefully will be putting it on in London at some point next year too 👀

I crocheted a Spirit Eel from Elden Ring

happy new year to those around the world already celebrating— returning, yes, to this Clifton classic—

Round-up post for 2024: florencesmithnicholls.com/2024/12/31/a-s…

if the Tulpar had Balatro nothing bad woulda ever happened, too busy playing Balatro. Space travel never invented, humanity busy playing Balatro. Game never made, devs too busy pla

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" 404media.co/meta-deletes-t…

insane find

Came across this just now. Really cool

Here's my piece in Red Pepper about generative AI as a black box archive!

I've made zines on my #CHI2025 paper research "Archaeological Gameworld Affordances," detailing a study of how players interpret environmental storytelling. If you're at the conference and would like one let me know, I'll be carrying them around all week!

At 11.10am today Florence Smith Nicholls will be presenting their paper on Gameworld Archaeological Mental Models in the Games Session in G318+G319, co-authored with mike cook. #chi25 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/progr…