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Category: Less about games

  • Plasticity

    Oh, something I forgot from the previous entry: plastic sleeves. I’m faced with the problem again. Do I want to keep the nice boxes or do I want to put the cards in plastic sleeves? It’s always rather annoying. It would be great to keep the games in their boxes, but then I’ll worry about…

  • Roleplaying days are over

    That’s it: I’m not a rpg gamer anymore. I finally sold my Wraith books, thus removing most of my rpg collection. I’m left with Kult 2nd edition rule book, which I’m selling as soon as possible (so if you’re interested in buying it for, say, 15 euros + postage, contact me). EDIT: It sold immediately,…

  • Top 10 list 06/2003

    Sunda to Sahul (1) Go (10) Sticheln (6) Zértz (-) Tichu (4) Taj Mahal (2) Mexica (-) Samurai (-) Bohnanza (8) New England (5)

  • Ilmaisia porno kuvia

    You can find ilmaisia porno kuvia (free porn pictures, that is) that way. Or not, actually it’s just an experiment among the Finnish weblogs — how well will that blog rank for “ilmaisia porno kuvia” on Google after a month. To keep this even marginally game-related: I played Mare Nostrum today. I’ll explain it all…

  • Back home

    Hi, I’m back home. Rome was splendid, I definitely recommend it. Especially if you like pizza and ice cream — last week we mostly ate pizza and the very delicious Italian ice cream. You can get really good pizza in Finland, but Finnish ice cream is nothing compared to the Italian. Of the various sights…

  • Letter from Germany

    Something I wanted to share with you before I leave: I got a letter today from Friedhelm Merz Verlag — the company behind the Spiel in Essen. I was quite surprised. Turns out they had sent me a voting ballot for the Deutscher SpielePreis 2003, because I voted last year. Nice. I was going to…

  • I’ll Get My Coat

    I’ll shut up for a while, now. I’m going to Rome with Johanna, so the blog will be silent all next week, while I’m going to have lots of fun. It’s a good thing I got to play Capitol in the FinDipCon, so I’ll know the sights. Also, we’ll be making a one-day trip to…

  • Growing old and bitter

    I went through my Boardgamegeek ratings and updated them a bit. Seems I’m becoming more critical: my average rating went down from 7.30 to 6.99. Quite a few games dived from 7 to 4, for example. It was an interesting exercise…

  • Game studies

    The game studies group meeting went well. My talk was rather unstructured, but hopefully someone got something of it. There were about eight people there, some of which were already quite familiar with board games. Different point of views, though. Petri seems like a fan of American school of board game design, citing games like…

  • Top 10 list 05/2003

    Sunda to Sahul (1) Taj Mahal (10) Mare Nostrum (-) Tichu (7) New England (-) Sticheln (2) Löwenherz (6) Bohnanza (5) Wildlife (9) Go (3)