Genuinely did not see that coming. Guess I'll take it

Larpocracy, the EU project I'm involved with, is throwing a larp festival in Krakow next year. Here is the first flyer. (Also, it will be bilingual, Polish and English.) The tagline translates to: play someone - be yourself!

"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." (Article 12, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UN)

Watched Del Toro's Frankenstein. The science was more believable than the snow.

Slowly building the Misc Film Club blog. miscfilmclub.wordpress.com

weathers changing. more time for gaming

HYYn tilanne on kauhea ja virheet tehtiin oman sukupolveni aikana. Mutta. Ylvan hallitus ei koostunut pääasiallisesti ”tyhmistä opiskelijoista” . Kannattaa lukea Ylkkärin kevään selvitystyö, jos haluaa ymmärtää tilannetta. ylioppilaslehti.fi/2025/03/yl-m...

arquebus - non-binary demon that helped the Ottoman Empire conquer Eastern Hungary in the 1500s

Todella surullista. Koko kaupungin kulttuuri köyhtyy kun keskustasta poistuu toimija, jolla oli muitakin arvoja kuin taloudellinen menestys. Ylioppilaslehden menetys toki vielä suurempi isku.

Last weekend my Queer Film Club had a meeting. Yeah, I have several film clubs. What can I say, I like watching films with friends. In this club we watch interesting LGBTQ+ films, movies relevant for queer cultures, and films that are interesting to read through a queer lens.

I could easily write a 9000 word essay with this meme as a prompt.

Turvallisuuspuhe ei ole uskottavaa, kun samaan aikaan demokratian perustuksista ja sitä kautta kansallisesta turvallisuudesta ollaan tällä tavalla valmiita tinkimään kustannussyistä.

Does every pawn in chess dream of becoming a queen?

A year and a half after the book's publication it finally happened: someone in sport studies has reviewed our book! Bo Carlsson's take here:

Something went wrong when I posted the thread about the latest RPG Film Club and I don't have the patience to try to find out what one can do about that. Anyway, anger is fuel, and now I finally got that blog started that I have been talking about for years. Here is the thread as a post:

For the first time in a decade, we had two RPG Film Clubs in one month! Our usual pace is more like four times a year. Anyway, this is the group where we attempt to watch any and all films and televisions series about role-playing games (and sometimes adjacent games).

Ticket sale for Knutpunk 2026 just opened, already got mine: knutpunkt.se

The Lost Boys is still awesome. It has been at least two decades since I last watched it, but i still knew every song and remembered surprisingly many lines.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Propaganda-virastosta, päivää! ”Kansalaisten kokemus talouspoliittisten ratkaisuiden epäoikeudenmukaisuudesta haastaa tällä hetkellä hallituksen omien viestien läpimenoa julkisuudessa”, paperissa sanotaan. Hallituksen oma viesti: meillä on hyvä hallitusohjelma, todellisuudesta ei pidä välittää.

There is something truly remarkable about Generative AI. Several years in this revolution, half of the US GDP dumped to make these tools free, and i can't think of a single generated artifact, text, image, sound, video that had a significant cultural impact.

Uusia kirjoja!

Excited to announce that Larpocracy will be holding a larp festival next May in Kraków called MyPo!nt. The event will be bilingual (English and Polish). mypointfestival.pl/en/

Miälenkiintosta. Lipsahtiko suhmurointi vahingossa ulos? 🧐

How many times does this game scholar need to define/characterise larp?

Call for papers: Mapping the Borders of Larp Research -The Academic seminar of the Nordic Larp Research Network.

A reminder of our open call for postdoctoral researchers focusing on cultural game studies, closing on Friday this week, 31 October at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2 (Finland time): tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

Tätä on muutaman kerran ihmetelty vuosien varrella. Aina se silti yllättää. Kotimaista vittuvoimaa!

This past week we had again a meeting of the RPG Film Club. This a group where we attempt to watch any and all films and televisions series about role-playing games (and sometimes adjacent games). We have been doing this for more than a decade, and there is no end in sight. 🧵

Kirjamessusaalis 2025. Vahva klassikkolinja tänä vuonna.

Niko Hallikainen on julkaissut kolmannen kirjansa verkossa ilmaiseksi! Hänen debyyttinsä, Kanjoni, on fantastinen ja toinen, Pitkä märkä salaisuus, on ässä, suuremmalle yleisölle sopiva. Tämä kolmas, Prima materia, menee heti lukulistalle. Ärsyttää vaan kun ei ole oikeaa kirjaa saatavilla.

Bad Gays are in my town. They are doing Tom of Finland on Sunday in Helsinki!

Now it is official! The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Games is now, like, actually, surely, coming out! (This has been in the pipeline since 2018.) I have a piece here on this brand new thing called 'magic circle'. Everyone will be talking about it.

Designers & Dragons: Origins crowdfunding is live and funded. This does look pretty darn nifty! However, the page states that "this campaign will not ship physical books to foreign [outside US] addresses", so I don't need to make a choice if I can afford this. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

Carmina Burana is the Eye of the Tiger of classical music.

Thought Bubble tees: @scottmccloud.bsky.social typo, corrected.

Saw the Worldglimpsing exhibit at ArkDes in Stockholm today. It is about experimental works that somehow feature role-playing speculative worlds. Of course, I had to see it as this is basically code for larp.

We have already entered the methane feedback doom loop. Probably the most important news item of the month. Which will generate almost no coverage in the media.

Irvailin jo yliopiston kriisiviestintää, kun oma viesti ei mene läpi. Nyt huvittaa Hesarin ihastuttava passiivin käyttö: "Helsingin yliopiston päätös irtisanoa kirjakauppa Sivullisen vuokrasopimus ja vuokrata tila halpakauppaketju Rustalle on pysynyt julkisuudessa jo viisi kuukautta."

Helsingin yliopiston Rusta-saaga on joka kohdassa niin masentava. Kriisiviestintää ostetaan kun ei haluta käydä dialogia vaan tuutata omaa viestiä.

For a group to play Monsterhearts, the players have to accept that the Turn Someone On move will as likely as not make their characters feel attraction to more than one gender. It requires Bi-in.

I have checked all the links and they work again!

Erinomaisen kiinnostava tutkimus taloustieteilijöiden vinoumista: ”samoja väittämiä hyväksyttiin merkittävästi harvemmin, jos lähteeksi oli merkitty ei-valtavirtainen taloustieteilijä tai jos lähdettä ei ollut mainittu. […] Mitä oikeistolaisempi vastaaja, sitä suurempi vaikutus lähteellä oli”

This is an interesting development. Odysseus larp is aiming to become a recurring event, taking it a step closer to mainstream immersive experiences.

Selvittäisikö tämänvuotiset hakuehdot Suomen Akatemian rahoitushaulle vai muuttaisiko metsään asumaan ja opettelisi elämään juurilla ja kävyillä?

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

I am impressed how Digra 2026 conference CFP went from dismissive of non-digital games to the most inclusive wording in Digra history (I think) in a dew days. Maynooth is looking great! www.digraconference2026.com

"VALTIOVARAINMINISTERIÖN arvioiden ja ennusteiden poliittisuus onkin käynyt ilmeiseksi. On helpompi syyttää Trumpin tulleja tai kotitalouksien säästämishaluja kasvavasta epävarmuudesta kuin myöntää, että ministeriön itsensä vaatimat säästöt ylläpitävät ja syventävät taantumaa."