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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Party! Our special issue on party studies is out from Eludamos! Post your fave party reactions!

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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can't get enough of the cover for my book, THE AGE OF IMMERSION, out June 2027! Designed by Rob Farmer, it's a shimmering, pixellated play on Monet's Water Lilies, one of the OG true "immersive" artworks. And yes, long subtitles are *in*. astrapublishinghouse.com/product/the-...

Book cover of The Age of Immersion: Make Believe Worlds From Medieval Cathedrals to the Las Vegas Sphere by Adrian Hon. The words are blue and shimmering, with a pixellated background of Monet's Water Lilies.

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happening right now! Chiara Locatelli giving a talk on "Re-Mediating character identity in roleplaying games" www.youtube.com/live/YMVZFa4...

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OASIS Lunchtime Talk: Re-Mediating character identity in roleplaying games

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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes I made the Goffman joke gif because I am a fun loving person and a treat to know and not increasingly weird in my taste of humor thanks to working full time in academia

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is my new favorite thing.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not for the first time, I'm struck that Thomas Aquinas was wasted as a theologian and should have been a trad game designer. This was prompting by seeing he defined 5 sub-classes to Gluttony.

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Great day today! We had a full day RPG research workshop, where we presented and discussed work-in-progress by RPG scholars working on topic such as metaplot, representation, interferential reading, museum performances, designer reflections, and festivals/conventions.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

since some people apparently have "lives" & "families" & "friends" and so didn't spend the weekend smearing germs around a little screen & missed it, we've extended our DriveThruRPG flash sale for another 24 hours with all issues, including our latest, 1/2 price www.drivethrurpg.com/en/publisher...

a clever person, or at least their disembodied hand holding an iPad that is displaying the bold, bright and rather amazing cover to Wyrd Science issue 8 by Tom J Newell

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Queer Film Club got together again yesterday. We watched Chained Girls (1965), The Living End (1992), and Rosebush Pruning (2026). There was no planned theme, but one emerged as i always does: queer murder. miscfilmclub.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/c...

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Chained, Living, and Pruned

I had chosen three films for us to watch without any kind of explicit theme. Usually one emerges anyway. This time it was queer murder. We started with Chained Girls (1965, dir. Joseph P. Mawra), w…

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I did not know that The Hobbit with Jansson's drawings in back in print in English! Yay! Her version of Gollum is so different that her wonderful illustrations were out of circulation for decades.

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Aargh. Menin taas VR:n huijaukseen. Hankin vime hetkellä lipun ja jouduin ottamaan ekstraluokan paikan. Mutta en ottanutkaan paikkaa siitä oikeasta ekstraluokasta (rauhallinen, hyvät istuimet, mukava, kahvi) vaan ravintolavaunun toisesta kerroksesta, joka on jostain syystä myös kalliimpa aluetta.

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Semi Co-op @semicoop.com · 14/09/2026

New comic! We don't envy people who have to write rulebooks for board games...😇 📜 You can read this week's blog post at: semicoop.com/comic/tabletbottom-games/ #boardgames

Four players sit on the floor beneath a table, while the board game sits on top of the table. One player says, “I'm never asking ChatGPT for a rule clarification again...” A caption reads, “While the rulebook clearly said to place the board at the center of the table, it gave no indication where the players should go.”

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ylekov @ylekov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mikä määrä alkoholia voi korvata murenevaa järjestökenttää

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sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

[rings bell] theoryslop! theoryslop! come get yer theoryslop while it's still hot!

one page. header reads "RPG DESIGNER THEORYSLOP ALIGNMENT CHARTS & SHEET." gray text under the header reads "You have 20 points to assign to each stat array, Pendragon-style. For tri- or otherwise multi-polar arrays, express the stats as ranges, e.g. “Gamist 1–7 / Dramatist 8–9 / Simulationist 10–20.”
subheaders followed by lines for writing read: "Designer: / Project: / Link:"
subheader reads "Binary Traits," followed by a list of silly game studies paired descriptors and space to write stats: "Ludologist / Narratologist // Game-as-Activity / Game-as-Object // Proceduralist / Anti-Proceduralist // Diegetic / Endogenous // Suitsian / Non-Suitsian // Closed Lusory Goal / Open Lusory Goal // Toy-Game / Meta-Game // Character-Locked / Authorial // Problem-Solving / Story-Telling // Rulebooks / Adventures."
subheader reads "Special Twinned Binary Traits (the Bartle Zone)," followed by gray text reading "Assign 20 points to each axis, but make a single roll when testing the combined traits." following is a two-axis chart, north-south reading "Social / Non-Social" and west-east reading "Aggressive / Passive."
in the second column, a subheader reads "Multi-Polar Traits" followed by shapes with stats at their corners: triangle, "Dramatist / Gamist / Simulationist"; square, "Agon / Alea / Mimicry / Ilinx"; hexagon, "Classic / OSR / Trad / Nordic larp / Neotrad / Storygames"; square, "Gamer / Actor / Socialite / Immersive."
a subheader reads "Skills," followed by a big list of 32 skills, with space for stats next to each: Academia, Acting, Art Direction, Blog, Cartography, Copyediting, Credit Rating, Day Jon, Game Studies, Graphic Design, Illustration, Layout, Line Editing, Livestream, Marketing, Networking, Operations, Organizing, Podcast, Printing, Production, Proofreading, Shitpost, Shortform Video, Social Media, Thirst Trap, Video Essay, Web Dev, Writ. (Adventure), Writing (Lore), Writing (Rules), Other: "
gray text reads "Sam Sorensen, September 2026"

same theoryslop designer sheet as before, this time filled out in handwritten green, for me, Sam. I skew towards problem-solving, goal-driven play, as well as towards adventures, imaginary worlds, and simulationism. the notable inclusions in my skills lists are a +6 in game studies, a +4 in academic, blog, layout, line editing, and adventure-writing, and a +2 in "museum," my "other" skill

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I got a spot on The Androids Trilogy, which is a set of three larps being rerun next July in Gothenburg by Atropos. Very excited! androids.atropos.se Nowadays I tend to do one or two big larps per year, so technically I am set for 2027.

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The Androids Trilogy – Walk the rainy streets of the City

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

MIT Press is hyping our book! Such a great honour to be featured next to The Well-Played Game, one of my all-time fave books on games and play. It originally came out in the golden year of game books, 1978, same year as The Grasshopper and From Ritual to Record.

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Elokapina / XR Finland @elokapina.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Meiltä kysytään usein, voiko toimintaamme tukea rahallisesti. Nyt se on mahdollista! Elonvaalijat ry on saanut poliisihallitukselta jatkuvan rahankeräysluvan. Voit siis keräyksen kautta tukea toimintaamme sinulle sopivalla rahasummalla. Tilisiirron tiedot täällä: elonvaalijat.fi/posts/rahank...

Tue suomalaista ilmastoaktivismia lahjoittamalla Elonvaalijat ry:lle!

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What a gift to game scholars everywhere. Such an expression of a moment, we will all find ourselves pointing at this at some point.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 04/09/2026

what the fucking fuck www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

James' board game SE!ZE is getting a particularly fancy launch party in Milan. Always interesting when games are used as marketing tools. Takes me back to 2010 when Nokia staged Conspiracy for Good larp/ARG in London to sell-- a new phone? Point and scan tech? The game does look intriguing!

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

saving this phrase on a local dispensary for future use

Sign reading “a healthcare adjacent experience”

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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am withdrawing my paper proposal from Warhammer Conference 2026. My reasoning can be found below. In a way, this has been one of the most stressful decisions of my academic career. In one way, the answer was clear to me since I found out about this.

To Dr. Ryder:

I am deeply saddened to do this, but I must withdraw my paper proposal for this year’s Warhammer Conference. I have been attending the conference every year since its inception, and as you are aware, this is the premiere conference in the field where I am currently writing my doctoral thesis.

My withdrawal is based your signature of the open letter in support of Nathan Cofnas, which I feel misleadingly frames his suspension as an issue of academic free speech, where as Ghent University has stated that their reasoning was based on shoddy work ethics and work that would bring university’s reputation into disrepute, i.e. “race realism” and other frankly racist and dubiously scientific works. I believe that many well-meaning scholars have been misled by primarily making this a case of academic free speech.

Moreover, Nathan Cofnas was the instigator for a mass harassment campaign of dubious merits that led to the death of Professor Jason Arday, which I find disgusting, horrible and unforgivable. I am unwilling to associate with anyone who shows support for Cofnas under the guise of academic free speech. The far right have shown their capability to use free speech as a smokescreen to harass, target, and demonize whole groups of people, and this is just another example of it. To see “academic free speech” being used as a reason to support this odious man is unacceptable to me. Without speculating on your motives, I have to listen to my own principles in this matter.

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It is always weird to be reminded that three of the five Nordic countries are, in fact, monarchies.

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Photographing a larp in progress is its own skill. The photographer need to not be there while simultaneously reading the events, vibes, and importance of the scene they are witnessing.

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I just noticed that my coffee table book, Nordic Larp, which came out in 2010, won the Diana Jones award, and has been available as a free download for over a decade, has been downloaded more than 30 thousand times. trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024...

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm reading a book that blew all its deadlines and came out much later than it was supposed to. In the introduction the say that the publication is "marked by an experience of delay". I will totally adopt this turn of phrase.

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Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Allaolevan kuvan valossa tää on karua tekstiä. ”Poliisipartion saavuttua: väkivaltainen käyttäytyminen jatkui. Poliisi käytti henkilöön etälamautinta. Tilanteen jälkeen: henkilö oli loukkaantunut, ja ensihoito kuljetti hänet jatkohoitoon. Hän kuoli myöhemmin sairaalassa.”

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Syyttäjä arvioi poliisin voimankäyttöä Espoossa tapahtuneen kuoleman jälkeen – Espoon sanomat – Espoonsanomat.fi

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

25 years years ago

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Latest report from the RPG Film Club is also up on my Misc Film Club blog. miscfilmclub.wordpress.com

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Report from the latest meeting of the RPG Film Club! We started, as is traditional, with Nyarko-san Another Crawling Chaos (2012). This is a harem anime based on the Call of Cthulhu RPG. Even though we are up to episode 10 of the first season, I still struggle to believe that this series exists.

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is so gloriously stupid I just want to over analyse it.

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Always put pics in your chapter! It greatly increases the chances that the editor chooses a spread from your chapter when marketing the book. (Both photos taken by me in different art exhibitions in Finland.)

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Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Ensin lapselta murretaan viisi luuta kädestä ja sitten laitetaan käsiraudoissa poliisiauton takapenkille. Ja sitten puhutaan monta päivää muunneltua totuutta siitä että soitettiinko paikalle lanssi vai ei ja jos soitettiin niin kuka soitti.

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Tom Ewing's fantastic, frankly heroic, work of ranking over 120 events of American comics is nearing the end. At number 7 we have the best comics event of all time, Inferno.

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