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  Re: Chef Mystique (or, Why Do I Wonder What Gordon Is Thinking Even When He's Happy to Tell Me?)

  Feel Good Moments

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  Andrew P. Haley The University of Southern Mississippi

  Saturday, June 29, 2013 — 9:02 pm

  shows seem virtuous. I could be watching a sitcom, but instead I am learning how to cook. ...
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  Scaling the E-Sports Skill Cliff

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  Neal Hinnant Georgia State University

  July 01, 2013

  2 comments

  time. I was entering into a highly competitive space faced with the task of learning the strategies of ... Fortunately, I had help; there are plenty of websites and forum threads dedicated to helping players learn the ...
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  Anatomy of the Perfect Clip

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  Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

  July 03, 2013

  1 comment

  point out that it's probably staged (look how Gangplank stumbles drunkenly instead of running ...
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  Re: Scaling the E-Sports Skill Cliff

  Excited to see this work

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  Nick Taylor North Carolina State University

  Wednesday, July 3, 2013 — 9:33 pm

  Neal- thanks for the great post. I'm curious to learn more about your work with LoL, since ...
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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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  Halo 4 Pro Gamers Compete Against Real American Soldiers

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  John Gaudiosi Gamerhub.tv

  July 09, 2013

  said it was tough to adjust to real-life simulations, as his first instinct was to run towards the ...
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  The Errant Pixel

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  Genevieve Yue Eugene Lang College, The New School

  August 08, 2013

  3 comments

  called stuck, frozen, or dead pixels, can sometimes be "woken up" by running screensaver ...
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  Tom Cruise: Out and Proud Scientologist

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  Alice Leppert Ursinus College

  August 14, 2013

  2 comments

  audiences and for the Church of Scientology. Upon learning that Stan is the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard, ... episode opens itself up to multiple readings—most prominently a critique of Scientology. Yet the running ...
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  Looking at People Looking at Animals

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  Randy Malamud Georgia State University

  August 19, 2013

  9 comments

  Looking at People Looking at Animals power I Can Haz Webcam gaze aquariums animals Curator's Note Edward Snowden’s recent revelations about NSA surveillance confirm that we live in an age of panopticonic fantasy. We want to see everything, and we exp ...
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  Re: Looking at People Looking at Animals

  Blackfish Screening

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  Lauren Sodano National Museum of Play at The Strong, Rochester, New York

  Monday, August 19, 2013 — 2:04 pm

  It appeared to be a self-selecting audience of people who knew what they were going to learn and ...

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