Last day in Boston before heading home to Copenhagen.<\/p>\n
So leaving the cool Comparative Media Studies<\/a> at MIT in favor of the cool Center for Computer Games Research Copenhagen<\/a>. It’s a hard life I’m living, I know.<\/p>\n Random observations:<\/p>\n -I hadn’t really heard U.S. radio since I was a kid, but it turns out to be EXACTLY like the radio stations in Grand Theft Auto: The commercial stations are terrible, the ads are, well, ads, and the public broadcast radio NPR is pretentious and claims to be non-commercial while sporting tons of ads anyway. The first time I turned on NPR, there was an ad for a renaissance fair – just like in GTA3. In other words, reality was a complete mirror of the game and I’ve felt completely at home here for that reason.<\/p>\n -On 4th of July at the Charles River in Boston, 4 jet fighters flew over the crowd just as we finished singing the Star Spangled Banner. It did add some oomph.<\/p>\n -The only reason I could sing along on Yankee Doodle is that I played lots of North & South<\/a> on the Amiga. See! Games can really help you in your meeting with other cultures!<\/p>\n -People here are much better at introducing themselves and striking up conversation than people in Denmark.<\/p>\n -Recharged my Gameboy batteries and got Warioware, inc and Namco Museum for the trip home.<\/p>\n -Being in Boston and at MIT has been pretty great. 6 months where I got a lot of work done, met interesting people, and generally experienced life as it always is in its own unpredictable ways. It’s 22 degress (74 f), the sun is shining from a blue sky and it is somewhat sad to be leaving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last day in Boston before heading home to Copenhagen. So leaving the cool Comparative Media Studies at MIT in favor of the cool Center for Computer Games Research Copenhagen. It’s a hard life I’m living, I know. Random observations: -I hadn’t really heard U.S. radio since I was a kid, but it turns out to … Continue reading “Boston, ich muss dich lassen \/ Arrivederci, Boston”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}