Gebe am 25.2. einen Vortrag in der OAG, Tokyo (18:30). Teilnahme vor Ort oder via Zoom möglich!
#larp, #japan, #transcultural, #trpg
oag.jp/events/prof-...
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Gebe am 25.2. einen Vortrag in der OAG, Tokyo (18:30). Teilnahme vor Ort oder via Zoom möglich!
#larp, #japan, #transcultural, #trpg
oag.jp/events/prof-...
The 10th Youth Culture Symposium: Transborder Urban Spaces and Digital Creativity in Japan and Germany
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Symposium: 15:00–17:30,
Networking: 17:45–19:15
@Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa (Kyoto)
(with simultaneous streaming)
URL: yamaoka-memorial.or.jp/en/event/202...
【第10回 若者文化シンポジウム～日独の越境する都市空間とデジタル創造～】
日独の若者文化とライフスタイルの変化を探り、研究成果を公開するシンポジウムです。
■日時：2026年3月11日（水）
シンポジウム 15:00～17:30
交流会 17:45～19:15
■場所：ゲーテインスティトゥートヴィラ鴨川（京都）
オンライン同時開催
■URL: yamaoka-memorial.or.jp/event/2026/0...
Wishing all our authors, reviewers, and readers some relaxing days and inviting submissions for a double-issue on the history of, in and with analog RPGs!
著者・査読者・読者の皆さまに、心安らぐひとときをお祈りするとともに、アナログRPGの歴史／RPGの中の歴史／歴史とともにあるRPGをめぐるダブル特集号へのご投稿をお待ちしています。
urlr.me/duCnrj
#larp, #trpg, #analoggames, #history
The video recordings of the 2025 JARPS Symposium are now available!
2025年度のRPG学研究シンポジウムのビデオ録画が公開されました！
#gamestudies, #trpg, #larp
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
The Edu-Larp Conference will happen again in 2026! On April 15th in Gothenbrg, Sweden! Registration and the call for program is now open. Sent in your program proposal before January 4th.
edularpconference.com
JARPS 2025 Symposium "Tools of the Trade" Key Visual
Join the next JARPS 2025 Symposium (online, free) on "Tools of the Trade: Props, Techniques, and Inspirations for Analog Role-Playing," Nov. 22, 2025.
「アナログロールプレイングのための七つ道具：小道具，技術，インスピレーション」についての『RPG学研究』2025年度シンポジウムに参加してください。2025年11月22日（オンライン、無料）。
#jarps, #larp, #trpg, #gamestudies
urlr.me/nXNvuP
Plakung Cup Osakaポスター
イベントプログラム
発表者紹介文
👾11/24大阪・hoffma_osaka👾
バンコクのレトロゲーム王プラクーン主催『非公開』ストリートファイター大会🎮
17時〜僕による特別トーク「ゲームとトランスカルチャー」開催🔥
本大会「PLAKUNG CUP OSAKA」は、バンコクのSAV Galleryの協力により、アート・プロジェクト『Here Comes a New Challenger』（Qenji Yoshida, 2025-）の一環、文化・芸術活動として開催されます。
#PLAKUNGCUP #格ゲー #トランスカルチャー
www.instagram.com/p/DQeN2bfk1-4/
“Well-meaning” people are using machine translation to write Wikipedia articles in languages that they don’t speak themselves, accelerating the degeneration in quality of the web corpus for several languages with relatively few native speakers.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
It is our pleasure to announce that JARPS is now listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
『RPG学研究』がDirectory of Open Access Journals（DOAJ）に正式に掲載されたことを、ここに喜びとともにお知らせいたします。
#OpenAccess, #AcademicSky, #trpg, #larp, #edularp
doaj.org/toc/2434-9682
Willkommen durch die Botschafterin Petra Sigmund
Gesprächsrunde der Panelist*innen
100 Jahre DAAD Jubiläum und Residence-Talk in der Deutschen Botschaft Tokyo zum Thema "Wissenschaft in Bewegung - Chancen und Herausforderungen internationaler Mobilität" #DAAD100
Just adding some tags to this symposium announcement! #larp, #gamestudies, #analoggames, #trpg
I had already removed all uploaded PDFs a while ago but with the new academia edu terms, I had to delete my account. Check the comments for a workaround to do so without first having to agree to the terms.
"Edu-Larp for Impact" Keyvisual of a colorful tree.
Workshop Announcement (October 24-26, 2025, in Kyoto): Let me invite you to a collaborative design workshop on educational role-plays (#edularp, #larp) about climate change, health, and culture:
www.eclipse.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/events/desig...
山岡記念財団2026年度研究助成募集を共有します！
■研究テーマ：「日本と欧州(ドイツ語圏)の若者文化とメディア表現の研究」
■申請締切：2025年11月21日
■URL: yamaoka-memorial.or.jp/research_gra...
Let me share the Yamaoka Memorial Foundation's call for research grants for 2026!
Applications are welcome in Japanese, German, and English.
■Topic: "Research on Youth Culture and Media Expression in Japan and Europe”
■Deadline: November 21, 2025
■URL: yamaoka-memorial.or.jp/en/research_...
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Wissen alle seit Jahren. Nur die CDU hat das noch nicht kapiert.
"Die Gesellschaft sagt, „Junge Männer wenden sich wegen Feministinnen der extremen Rechten zu“ und nicht „Junge Frauen wenden sich wegen rechtsextremer Männer dem Feminismus zu“, weil die oberste Regel des Patriarchats darin besteht, Frauen für alles verantwortlich zu machen, was ein Mann tut."
t-online.de: "Ich werde mich durch Worte wie Sozialabbau und Kahlschlag und was da alles kommt, nicht irritieren lassen", sagte Merz weiter. "Der Sozialstaat, wie wir ihn heute haben, ist mit dem, was wir volkswirtschaftlich leisten, nicht mehr finanzierbar."
Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz hat heute mal eben im Vorbeigehen seiner eigenen Bevölkerung den Krieg erklärt
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
Preview DIJ research #Japanologentag
📅 Thu, 9.30 - 11 am (Media section @b-ok.de)
🎤 Nicole M. Mueller www.dijtokyo.org/people/nicol...
➡️ "Agentic AI im Metaverse – Beziehungen zur Künstlichen Intelligenz, antizipiert im japanischen Onlinediskurs" www.dijtokyo.org/project/japa...
Eine kompetente, unkontroverse und gesprächsbereite Frau musste sich zurückziehen, weil sich zu viele Unionsabgeordnete geweigert haben, mit ihr zu sprechen oder sich mit ihren tatsächlichen Positionen überhaupt auseinanderzusetzen. Und stattdessen bezahlte Lügen glauben wollten. #BrosiusGersdorf
Strategisch clever, wie die wenigen noch gemäßigten, sozial-liberalen Stimmen in der Union aufgebrachte DemokratInnen und VerfassungspatriotInnen mit "Wir müssen zusammenhalten"-Rhetorik einlullen, während die wahren Handelnden der Union die Republik zersägen und Richtung Autoritarismus umbauen.
Tatsache, dass Spahn von CDU-Führung noch immer gestützt wird, verdeutlicht, wie weit Union von ihren betonten Werten Anstand & Integrität entfernt ist. Es geht einzig um Machterhalt. Diese Reduktion von Politik beschreibt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social als ein Gift, das GOP in Trumpismus führte.
FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:
'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
One of the reasons the old White Wolf books had so many emdashes is that it was an easy punctuation mark to input specifically on Macs and we were a Mac studio. Also, there’s a ton of stolen WW material in numerous LLMs, so we’re a non-zero portion of why genslop uses emdashes — they train on it.
CLOSS LARP チャンネルが、LARPで心の安全を守る方法についてのビデオを発表しました。ぜひご覧ください。
#larp,#safety
youtu.be/eMK087fN12Q
Screenshot of an email from Academia.edu announcing that the platform fed my article”Do Kentucky Kami Drink Bourbon? Exploring Parallel Glocalization in Global Shinto Offerings” to an AI and generated a <5 minute “podcast” based on the content
Don’t want it, didn’t approve or ask for it, misconstrues my thesis, says my name wrong, makes weird jokes about sushi pizza and my area of expertise in a British man’s voice. Sooo do I delete my account now? What is it even good for anymore #AcademicSky