Now lunch is done, more #FROG2022 / #FROG22 talks from here in #gamestudies land.

Fascinating paper from Nikita Stulikov, a Russian scholar speaking from Montenegro, on rising totalitarian propaganda usage in Russian game cultures and media. Particularly depressing/interesting use of game images in popular militaristic videos (mask images from games used to hide identities of mercenaries by Russian pop-propaganda groups as one interesting example).

Excellent blog post, a valuable read for new arrivals on #Mastodon like me: https://hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

As one of the crowd of nightclub refugees “pouring in to the quiet houseparty around the corner, cocktails still in hand, demanding that the music be turned up, walking mud into the carpet, and yelling over the top of the quiet conversation"... I pause to wonder if I should ask permission before reposting this on Twitter. Then I remember that I've set my toots to automatically cross-post.