Ett Ode till Ugglebjörnen

Mitt i natten - ibland - vaknar jag och tänker på rollspel i allmänhet och monster i synnerhet. Det är ett privilegium att vara en del av en hobby som kommer på grejer som ugglebjörnar. Det verkar vara standard i fantasy. När fantasin eller referenserna till J.R.R. Tolkien och Robert E. Howard tar slut är... Continue Reading →

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Toxic Gaming Culture

I’m sure that some of you, maybe even most of you, have seen the continued faux pas from notable (and unfortunately Swedish) gaming personalities such as Markus Persson and Felix Kjellgren, a.k.a. Notch and PewDiePie lately. Notch more or less abandoning any pretenses at being anything but a bored and kind of lonely guy in... Continue Reading →

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Achievement Unlocked!

I've been quoted in a Master's thesis. Or rather this blog has. Scoot on over to Frida Markendahl's Making (a) difference in games Feminist game creation and other interferences with the Swedish video game industry’s reproduction of gendered sameness and read my wise words. I sound really smart when she quotes me! I have a... Continue Reading →

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Diversity Dungeons – Part 3

A purple bag with dice spilling out of it.

The Politics and Misconceptions of Gender One of the problems with Desborough's text is that it presupposes through implications. At the start of the chapter on gender, Desborough states that wanting to make games more inclusive when it comes to gender comes at a cost. It's as if Desborough is arguing that the lack of... Continue Reading →

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Rest in Peace, Corey

An image of four suits from the game Anthem, hovering in front of a majestic landscape.

This is the first time I've ever experienced the death of a colleague. Friends, yes. Grandparents and my father, his brother, yes. But I worked with Corey, and that changes how his passing impacts me and the world around me. I'm not going to get long winded in this post. BioWare has already released a... Continue Reading →

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Tilldelat utrymme

A clay figurine of an angry woman with bared teeth and arms raised.

Jag blev helt fascinerad av en tråd som startades i rollspelsforumet rollspel.nu igår, svensk tid. Tråden är behjärtansvärd, det finns ett syfte med den som är berömvärt och ändå slås jag - som jag skriver i mitt svar (det enda svaret i skrivande stund) - av att för att få utrymme inom mansdominerade utrymmen så... Continue Reading →

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