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Author Archives: Aki Vainio
The Stupidity of Modern Conspiracy Theories
It’s been over two months since Steve Albini dies, but I’m still listening to all the records he engineered (as he would call his production work). One of the bands I got back to because of this is The Breeders.
In All Likelihood, the Borderlands Movie Will Suck, But Your Arguments Suck Anyhow
Well, maybe not your specifically, but the ones you run into all the time.
My Top 10 Favorite Remakes
Let’s get controversial.
This Soon? Once More With the Ten Non-RPG Books for the GM (and I doubt this will be the last one)
All of them previous ones.
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth (the Finnish edition)
Seventh
Note: My touchpad is acting up weirdly, which causes the cursor to sometimes jump, which means that as I’m writing, I’m suddenly adding characters to somewhere I didn’t mean to. So, if there’s weird words somewhere, this might be the reason.
Mandatory Performative Pride Month Post 2024 Edition: Weird combination of Roxana Shirazi, Simon Fujiwara, Elisarion and Borderlands
Caveat: While I try not to center myself here, as Pride is definitely not about me, I can’t but contrast certain things to myself. After all, everyone has to experience the world through their own eyes, even if we know and understand that we are not the main character outside of our own lives. So, sorry to bring myself up so many times in the text below. I just couldn’t process this any other way. That’s on me. But hopefully I do manage to talk about something interesting here.
Last year I wrote about the Sexuality in Borderlands. The thing is that in many ways sexuality, as we know it, doesn’t actually exist in Borderlands.
Aki vs. Evil – Vincent Must Die
Or Vincent doit mourir in the original Frnech.
IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes classify this as a comedy, but Letterbox’d doesn’t. Here we are anyhow.
Spoilers.
Why Do So Many Prominent Leftist YouTubers Play D&D?
That is an actual question. I can’t promise you an answer.
Mandatory Performative Pride Month Post 2024 Edition: Queer Movies
I didn’t really know what to call this one. It is about movies, but I would have wanted to find a better header that capsulates what I’m trying to say here.
Mandatory Performative Pride Month Post 2024 Edition: Great Albums from Queer Musicians
I’ve limited this to albums I’ve discovered during the last year.