(Tämä kirjoitus julkaistiin alunperin Imagen saitilla olleessa Pikseliparatiisi-blogissani 9. 6. 2016.) Olin jatkoilla Tukholman Dramaten-teatterin takana olevassa baarissa, kun noin kolmikymppinen kevyessä hiprakassa oleva nainen tuli puhumaan minulle. Hän kysyi, olinko ollut Gertrudes möhippa -larpissa. Ja olinhan minä. Vaatteet paljastivat: Pelin pukukoodin mukaisesti olin kokonaan valkoisissa, ja larppi oli ollut näyttävästi esillä Ruotsin mediassa. Jopa niin Continue Reading
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Research Blog Antarctica #151 – Mystery in Antarctica
Comic book: Francis Bergése: Mystery in Antarctica (Cinebook, 2015) Buck Danny is an American ace pilot and the hero of a long-running series of French comic books. Mystery in Antarctica is Buck Danny no. 51. Like with any pop culture phenomenon, once it runs long enough it acquires its own Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #150 – Anibal 5
Comic book: Alejandro Jodorowsky & Georges Bess: Anibal 5 (Humanoids Publishing, 2015) This is a collection of two Anibal 5 albums, published in English by Humanoids. I read the first one in Finnish translation as a child, and its mix of softcore sex and scifi weirdness made a big impression on Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #25: LARP
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. Larp is a Polish Continue Reading
Roleplaying Game Movie Night #24: Treasure Trapped
I and some friends have a project of trying to watch all movies, tv episodes and other stuff with moving pictures related to roleplaying games ever made. We’re pretty far along on this goal. I’ll write here about old and new things we’ve found and watched. Treasure Trapped is a Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #149 – Whale Wars, season 4
Tv series: Whale Wars, season 4: U.S.A. Whale Wars is a documentary tv series following the anti-whaling campaigns of the environmental group The Sea Shepherds. Season one to three were pretty amazing stuff, with dangerous confrontations in the Antarctic Sea. In season four, it feels as if the series is Continue Reading
2015 in works that made me feel something
In retrospect, one of the best things about being fifteen or sixteen was the way you’d see a movie and your mind would be blown by the sheer awesomeness of it all. You hadn’t seen so many things, so everything appeared new. It was wonderful to experience all these ideas Continue Reading
Halat hisar returns in 2016!
Check out the announcement and the new website here. Sign-up starts early next year, game itself in June 2016.
Non-Digital: The Visionary Worldbuilding of 2nd Edition AD&D
I started roleplaying with the Finnish edition of Dungeons & Dragons, and graduated to playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition as soon as I learned enough English to read the books. While there’s been good and interesting stuff done in the 3rd, 4th and 5th editions of the game, Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Becoming a Perfect Human
Recently, me, Jaakko Stenros and Tuomas Puikkonen did a larp called Täydellinen ihminen (The Perfect Human). The idea was to delve deep into the clean, bright world of office stock photos. For a few hours, our participants would become these happy, smiling, efficient and joyful people. They would embody a Continue Reading