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Re: Sustained Viewership: (Re)Playability of Video Games

Yes — those labels are

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Lindsey Decker Boston University

Thursday, January 11, 2018 — 3:38 pm

Minecraft, have you run across the HermitCraft server / group? I think they really fit with what you're ...

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Law in the Text

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Tom Streeter University of Vermont

August 27, 2010

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It's a Wonderful Life (here, run backwards, for reasons that will soon become clear). The film, ... running the film in heavy rotation during the Christmas season as a cheap way to fill their airwaves. So ... legal force out of the shadows? Running the clip backwards, foregrounding the normally ignored legal ...

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To Give Anything Less

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Scott F. Parker University of Minnesota

August 02, 2012

a blazing 26:17. Rupp’s 5,000 race at the Trials was the bigger story. Running at what has not been his ... running one of the bravest races ever run. Any medal for Rupp would surpass Pre’s result. But in order to ...

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Longer Length, Reduced Risk?: Mini-series as Pilots

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Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

September 14, 2012

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narrative chessboard for a series run. Added to this textual strategy, critical reception and industrial ... Animals ' ratings over the course of its run leave the option of pick-up in question, there remains ... three hours long. From the length and the distance betweeen initial airing and series run, producers ...

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The Life and Death of Ocarina of Time Speedrunning

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James Lantz Independent

July 05, 2013

speedrunning games. In particular, players competed for the fastest time in an Any Percent run of the game, ... Over years of exploration, discovery and technique, this run evolved into one of the most nuanced and ... technical runs in the speedrunning community. It was filled with highly technical and impressive glitches ...

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"I am a Real (White) American": Hulk Hogan and the Rhetoric of Americanism in the Post-Cold War Era

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Nick Rangel Houston Community College

October 09, 2015

face protagonist challenging all manner of foes. Hogan’s first major run headlining in the World ... first title run were largely white males for whom ethnicity was not emphasized (1). This is particularly ... a notable accent. Hogan’s third run with the title occurred after a title reign by his fellow babyface rival ...

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Timing Effects in "Many Worlds Mario"

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Christopher Hagenah UC Santa Barbara

May 10, 2010

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experience of the normative “video game level” by compressing each failed run with the one successful run, by ... a normal level run (e.g. 2 minutes). Second, it represents two opposing time schemes converging into one ... run the many layers of code. Just as the logic of “Many Worlds Mario” compresses the 20 minutes of ...

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Re: Streaming Babel