In a Washington Post article titled “Meet the queer, nonbinary, pansexual characters of ‘Borderlands 3’” (basically an ad) before the release of the game, Lor (who is deadnamed in the article as well as in the game, only getting to use his chosen name in the New Tales From the Borderlands game, which no-one has played voluntarily – which actually means that it doesn’t fulfill the definition of a game) is one of the few NPCs mentioned. He is not the first trans character in the franchise, but he is the most prominent one.

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Moomin (or Muumi) are very popular in Finland. It is a Finnish creation after all, more precisely the work of Tove Jansson. On top of a museum in Tampere and some permanent exhibitions at various museums, there’s always a temporary exhibition about Jansson and/or Moomin going on somewhere.

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There’s been a lot of speak of warriors from the current US government. This isn’t new. A senator (Tom Cotton) even called us Finns a ‘warrior race’ when the discussions over our NATO membership were going on. It might work as a form of propaganda, but the thing is that they don’t exactly treat their soldiers like they warriors.

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Okay, not everything is behind a paywall but the reviews are.

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There’s a fun little website called SteamDB. Now, since you need to volunteer your data to them to use the website, I’m not advocating for it. Use it at your own peril. However, I did and it did give me interesting information.

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Just based on pure stats.

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For the record, I’m not for it, but I do get there are situations where it might actually work.

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