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Update May 2018: Storify shut down. I exported the tweets, but it may be buggy. Thanks for reading this livetweet thing, all these years later!
░░░ GAME IDEA ░░ ░░░░ JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE OUT ░░░░░ THEY PULL YOU BACK IN ░░░ ░░░░░░ AND IT FEELS GREAT ░░░░░░░░ TO STILL BELONG
Today is @pippinbarr 's job talk and somehow that puts me in a festive mood! As @ginaharaszti would say, "a hatful of shit," Pippin!
The @pippinbarr talk is about to begin.- Not going to be using a hashtag for this because I want more chars to type with. https://twitter.com/gersandelf/status/672484718009446401 …
- "That word-game-is something I want to complicate by the end of the talk. Hopefully it will become less clear." -@pippinbarr
- "Computers and computation and the things that they enable are things that we need to think philosophically about." @pippinbarr
- One of the early games @pippinbarr looked at was Grand Theft Auto San Adreas and investigated how interactivity communicated its values.
- In hindsight, returning to his computer science roots was a key moment of his practice, and he started building things. @pippinbarr
- .@pippinbarr approaches his work as a technologist, an artist, and a philosopher.
- All of @pippinbarr's games sit at a crossroads of all his interests and other weird stuff.
- The first @pippinbarr game I ever played was The Artist Is Present and I do recommend it. Please go check it out.
- There is now a slide in @pippinbarr's talk where there are only two words: "ecological validity"
- It's not usual in games studies to make games as a method of investigating games-this is something @pippinbarr is trying to change.
- .@pippinbarr is awed by how here in Quebec "research creation" is actually a thing and he thinks it's marvellous and is trying to get that $
- "I don't necessarily like people all the time." @pippinbarr
- "I don't know why, but I posted (Leaderboarder) on Reddit." @pippinbarr
- "I'm equally inept at everything so that's why I work alone. Ineptly." @pippinbarr
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