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Kick that Pig!

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:43:06 +0200

American Football has fascinated me for a long time, but I never really investigated on the fascination. Until recently. I've been a huge fan of the GFL-series (Galactic Football League) by Scott Sigler for a long time (wrote a blog entry about it a few years back...), and so has my friend Shinan, who a while ago wrote that he had started watching the real deal - inspired by Siglers' books. He had picked a team at random and started following their progress. I decided to follow suit.

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Got to get them all!

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:37:03 +0200

Many have told tales of being caught in the money-pit that is Magic: the Gathering or indeed any other CCG (Collectible Card Game), TCG (Trading Card Game), CMG (Collectible Miniatures Game) etc. Marriages have been ended, careers lost and credit trustability questioned because of excessive spending on these. I'm the other way around. For years I tried to get in to collecting in a game.

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Year 2011 in Review

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:51:02 +0200

Last year I did an end-of-year review, where I listed the video-, boardgames and movies that I liked the most that year. The year is not yet completely over, but I don't think my opinions will change that much in these next few weeks. So here you go, my year 2011 in review...

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Freeze!

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:49:03 +0200

Having watched some YouTube-video recently I got inspired to get back into a game I bought a while back, after Total Biscuits WTF is-video (oh, how much money that man has cost me!) but had since been forgotten. So many games to play, so little time to do so. I'm talking about the most excellent indie tactical turn-based strategy game Frozen Synapse.

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NaNo Game Over?

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:23:07 +0200

As I was listening to episode 7 of the The Shared Desk - a writing podcast from noted authors Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris - I asked myself the same question as they did about NaNoWriMo; Why is NaNoWriMo during probably the busiest month of the year?

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National Novel Writing Mo... First Week

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:05:01 +0200

Today marks a few milestones. It's been a year since I moved to Porvoo (which the municipality remembers by leaving us without water - guess it's back to drinking beer?), eight months since I started at my new job and one week since I started writing my first NaNoWriMo novel.

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A Slow Race

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:45:04 +0200

My second Play by E-mail (PbEM)-game came to a conclusion, and this time I lost. We played one of my favorite wargames, Clash of Giants II by GMT Games, which I've played (for real) a couple of times before. I knew the system would work very well as PbEM, so I was eager to try it out.

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MahNa-MahNa Na-No-Wri-Mo

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:25:08 +0200

Many years I've seen it come and go, thought to participate, but ultimately for one reason or another (usually none whatsoever) haven't. I'm talking about the National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo. When I was a kid I used to (a) write short-stories (b) write choose-your-own-adventure books and (c) draw comics. I miss that creative vent, as the only thing I do that's even close nowadays is make websites occasionally.

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The Struggle of Twilight

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:46:00 +0300

I recently wanted to get back into PbEM-gaming (Play by E-mail), as my gaming time has been significantly lowered since I moved away from my gaming group. Happily, that isn't much of a problem. I downloaded the Vassal Open Source Boardgame engine and posted an invite (more like a plee) on Boardgamegeek.

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An un-review

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:28:09 +0300

I don't remember where I first saw these, but I know I've seen them elsewhere, so I won't take credit for coming up with the concept. I used to play a lot of different and new boardgames - I don't anymore. I've moved to a new location and haven't found any gaming groups as of yet (...not that I've been particularly looking...) so it's easier to write reviews of games I haven't played than the other way around.

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