Murder and intrigue in Crusader Kings III, a whacky reading, and a recommendation for you to check out a mini-series about dinosaurs.
Where do you want to go today? I’m not really going anywhere, but perhaps a nice walk now it’s nice weather.
Last game you played? Crusader Kings III. I periodically pick it up, and yesterday I was doing so well… A brilliant strategist and promising commander inherited the duchy. However, he was deftly evicted off the land of the living, during the prime of his life, by some poison swirling in his wine. Who did it? No clue! Now his poor toddler daughter is at the helm, and I hope she’ll encounter a better fate.
A task you’ll finally get around to this week? Hopefully, I’ll be tackling some forms that need to be filled out.
Quote from a reading you’d recommend? “This piece is titled “The Touch-Screen Generation: What’s This Technology Doing to Toddlers’ Brains?” The title could have been, might as well be, “Are We Giving Heroin to Touch-Screen Kids?” Lateralization and jouissance together haunt this query. Are we making children too much like us, this piece worries—making them drugged-out, pleasure-seeking hounds, and therefore too adult in their wasteful bliss? (Give yourself a moment to absorb these contradictions. We who are too childish, when it comes to games, are making kids adult in allowing childish pleasure.)”
Stockton (2017). “If Queer Children Were a Video Game”
Something the team is working on? Hopefully on picking up the streaming again soon, as we had to cancel last week.
What’s a great bad movie you’d recommend? Not a movie, but a mini-series: Dinotopia. It’s amazing and terrible at the same time, it has an adorable triceratops baby, a utopian society, a heap of plotholes, and so much more to offer!
What is an ice cream flavor you haven’t ever had yet but want to try? Great question, although I’m not sure I have an answer! I feel like I’ve tried the flavors I’d want to. Instead, I’ll say this: I want there to be some vegan Snickers ice cream in stores.
Quote from something you’ve written? “After this fine moment of tree-indoctrination (is it the pollen?), we continue our playthrough with an enthusiastic feast of exposure. And just when you think you cannot really be surprised anymore by this game: Fredward goes to school, like every day. However, today, one of the students is having a very bad time (facing corporeal punishment for his Sin of not paying sufficient attention)… which means that our teacher is now on fire, set ablaze, one might say, while said student is laughing hysterically. Using magic, Brian attempts to light the whole school on fire, and for heavens know what reason, we stop him. This is the moment we end the stream, still exasperated that we missed out on talking to the Martin-Luther-Lady and in exchange got a dose of pollen-brainwashing instead.” For an older blogpost, together with Sophie, about this merry game.
What’s something you used to be good at but can’t do now? The sheer speed with which I could learn new words/grammar, it’s not happening anymore.
What question should be swapped out for another? I’d like to swap out “Where do you want to go today” to “What’s a prediction you have for the future?”
Hello! My name is Corine Gerritsen and I am responsible for the subproject ‘Mechanics’ in the project of Playful Time machines. I got both my BA degree in history and my RMA in Ancient Studies at Utrecht University. I started focusing on the past in video games during my internship at VALUE, and the topic stuck. Always up for checking out new, old, small, big, whacky, and serious ludic renditions of the past.
