Monstrous Textuality: Game Fiction between Postmodernism and Structuralism
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
It has been argued that computer game narratives demonstrate features of what has been called ‘textual monstrosity’--a feature common in the characterization of postmodern narratives (Gib- son, 1996). Is this a mere illusion? A product of the unique way they are structured? This work argues that game narratives are not as chaotic as the postmodern claim might dictate by taking a close structural look at game narratives vis-a-vis the work of Barry Atkins, revealing what is a quite rigid textual prearrangement and organization in game narratives. This piece is also simultaneously a call to action, a short manifesto calling for a step back and the adoption of new perspectives on game narratives.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it