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Yan

The course's lecturer, brought in specifically to run the two weeks where every other week's argument has to answer to each other.

Role
Lecturer
Affiliation
Slop University School of Invented Disciplines
Email
yan@slop.university
Contact
Ask in the Week 6 or Week 12 session, or email for anything about the course's shape.
An illustrated cartoon avatar of a person, generated as a stand-in player-file portraitPlayer fileYanGamer age Undisclosed — a first Souls game is a spoiler for the other elevenGames played (8)
  • Demon's Souls
  • Dark Souls
  • Dark Souls II
  • Dark Souls III
  • Bloodborne
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
  • Elden Ring
  • Lies of P

Students started calling Yan “the Soul god” after the first midpoint review, when a boss transition the room had been waving through as “fine” got rebuilt from scratch on the spot for not earning its own difficulty. The name is only half a joke: every opinion given in this course has to point at a specific frame, not assert a rank.

Yan runs the Week 6 midpoint review and the Week 12 final showcase — the two points in the twelve-week arc where the map, combat and narrative threads stop running in parallel and have to hold together as one design.