Having a lot of fun playing Demonschool. Wonderful game to play on the deck, with fun characters and surprisingly fun writing combined with engaging combat mechanics.

I don't understand how much it can feel like my parents and I live in different worlds. Like we speak the same language but on a completely different wavelength. And it's not a recent development, it's been always like that. My siblings don't have that issue with parents, but also not with me either

Steam Replay 2025 was at first a surprise, but I guess it checks out. It's been busy, stressful enough year that my top 3 is solely chill building games. Also, in general, just less hours in Steam games.

I'm gonna focus on games and stuff here and have my writing and books etc related stuff on my alt account @nominova.bsky.social

I'm gonna focus on games and stuff here and have my writing and books etc related stuff on my alt account @nominova.bsky.social

Graduation ceremony done 🎉

Time to start get ready for graduation ceremony today. Feels unreal.

Whether you think she’s subjectively too pretty or not pretty enough or over sexualized… the fact this is -always- the conversation while discussing women and even female characters is exhausting. Women are, and will forever be, more than their appearance. Talk about something else.

Anyone who enjoyed Minthara in Baldur's Gate 3 would enjoy Viconia DeVir in Baldur's Gate 2. The two women hit some similar notes due to them both being drow, but they are also vastly different. Viconia one of the first to teach to me as a kid how multifaceted video game characters can be.

Woke up to the horrific news of a terrorist attack at a Hanukkah event in Sydney 💔 Baruch Dayan HaEmet.

TGA was wild! What I am looking forward to the most: FOTOR with Casey Hudson at the head?! Sign me up. I'm always in for any new Remedy stuff, but Control is one of my favorite games. Total War: Warhammer 40k looks really cool. Funnily I'm not really into 40k, but for strategy games it just works.

Our public broadcasting streamed sunrise in Helsinki today because seeing the sun is a rare enough event.

Someone, and my department too, really came through for me and arranged it so I can wrap up the one missing class within coming week. I feel like I've spent a lot of goodwill I hadn't known I had 😅 Oh, got my thesis grade today too and I'm very content with it too. All's well that ends well 🙏

Trying to get anything resolved at the university is such pain because getting email replies from anyone takes like at least a week usually. It's not their fault, there's million emails and they're wicked busy, but as a student it really sucks.

If anyone has tips on how to get into the genre or what you like in it in particular I’d love to hear! 🫶

Fever thoughts have brought me to the realization I am the last generation of people from my home village. It is almost completely empty already. We have all moved out but I have had the privilege of hearing the stories and the history, very human-scale mind you, nothing epic, from older people.

Ever had a genre you just can't get into? That's super heroes for me and I'm not sure why. I just can't. Even if I recognize like advantages supes have, like ability to use familiar real life locations and themes. I really liked Spider Man Miles Morales game and the setting was a big part of it.

I got sick with stomach flu or food poisoning idk and everything else aside, I had forgotten how _boring_ this can be. No energy to do anything but also after hours of just lying on the couch I'm just so bored.

Went out earlier today for tea and cheese cake at a lovely tea room. Everything was delightful 💚

A capture the flag video game from brothers, the lead singer and the manager of Imagine Dragons respectively? I have to say this caught me off-guard.

Okay. Queen's Domain looks amazing. Like, PS1/PS2 era looking fantasy RPG is pretty much in my wheelhouse 😍 store.steampowered.com/app/1799840/...

PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted so far hasn't had anything hugely impressive, but PC Gaming Show does have a track record of showing games I've found to my liking. And if nothing else, at least Amelia Tyler is there 😄

Substructure looks interesting. A Factorio-like not from a hateful bigot might be of interest to a lot of people 👀

You know you're in need of rest when you have to make coffee after having had a Monster to start your day 🥱

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

No offense but I think we underestimate how many of our current problems, both cultural and political, are downstream of the decline in reading, the decline in learning and the loss of interest in the humanities.

Excuse me, that’s my load bearing clenched jaw

It always grinds my gears when people talk about how "researchers" (meaning only historians) underestimate oral tradition, or "never talk about stories" and so on. Like, it is a blind spot of history, because frankly that is not what academic history is about. That's what _we_ in folklore are about.

I have serious issues with hypermobility and my wrists are obliterated after this high-intensity period of working on thesis and essays 😭 I guess I need to contact a doctor about this, too.

I've begun practicing meditation again and it somehow led to me realize how much I just am a city person. I love being in a city, hearing the tram and the cars, even the distant construction sounds. Scrape of a snow plow. Wind between the buildings. And I was born a rural farm girl 😅

I can't believe this has to be still said in 2025 Common Era, but fantasy does not mean the story world doesn't need its own internal logic and rules. It also does not mean that the story does not have to follow said rules. People who like and people who dislike the genre use this as a cop out.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you have seen Arch Enemy Eluveitie Swallow the Sun Insomnium Amaranthe

Happy thanksgiving all! Hope your travels are safe and food plenty. Post pics for the rest of us 🥹

People don't talk enough about the struggles in married life, like how I am very hungry now but I'm waiting my wife to come home so that we can have lunch together.

This seems about right.

It feels like almost poetic to be on one hand writing a critical essay on constructed ideas of the past and of the folk that have been integral processes of romantic nationalism. Ideas of timelessness. On the other hand I am listening to a video on how everything decays, from culture to buildings.

"Are you telling me part of why AI hallucinates is that nobody on the Internet ever writes the words 'I don't know'? Because nobody ever admits they're out of their depth?" Listening to Hank Green talk with Nate Soares about AI is all too real.

I have been eating rice and beans for lunch for a week now. Been just warming up frozen veggies and adding salsa in and it's been nice every day. Most importantly, it's wicked easy and pretty affordable. Switching from Tex Mex flavors to East Asian this week, and continue eating rice and beans 😎

"AI will never be human" oh really

Ha-ha, the road I took here is full of twists and turns. Failed to get into an IT program when I was 19 just to realize I don't want to work in IT during that gap year. Got into history program the next year. I've been always into history and several people in my extended family have degrees in it.

share a tv series you've watched from beginning to end more than once

What's a movie gag that never fails to get a chuckle from you?

Demonschool seems like a perfect game for the holiday season for me 👀 Now let's hope I don't bite the bullet before, because I do need good Steam Deck games away from home

It is impossible to cite someone with surname Friesen and not type it, every time, accidentally Frieren first

I think I'm going to start using StoryGraph again, now that it has better features to actually see what your friends are reading too. Anyone using it? 😊

Thesis has been officially turned in, I just have to write two (pretty long) essays and then I'm pretty much ready to graduate 🤯 Of course, this close, these essays feel extra long 😅

Honestly, depending on the pricing I could see getting a Steam Machine instead of a new gaming PC at this point in my life.

My supervisor left a comment saying ctrl + f found 22 instances I used a same expression in my thesis. I cut it down to like 5, and added an entirely new instance of using it.

I have this irrational fear that I'm focusing on wrong ideas, that "better" ones could be just around the corner.

Quote with 5 games in your backlog! 🎮 - Expedition 33 - Kingdom Come: Deliverance - Mafia trilogy - Triangle Strategy - Suzerain Top of my backlog. While I've been mostly playing HoMM3 and WoW and Valheim, I did manage to start Final Fantasy Tactics! 👀 Really enjoying the rema... -ster? -ke?