Archive for Björn Hansson
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Björn Hansson
Sweden
Jakobsberg
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Girls like dolls.
Young girls that is. Too young girls.
Women do not like dolls. Especially not when grown men are playing with them. If they, on top of that, are pretending to kill orcs and collect magic swords with their dolls...
You see where I am going.
Boardgamers have a hard time as it is. It ain't easy picking up chicks with the line "yeah, I'm a boardgamer". If we want to play and attract girls at the same time we need to do it in a more stylish way.
What type of gamer will get the most quality ponahnie?
The normal guy standing in a bar playing a game of Hive, Backgammon or some other minimalist abstract game while sipping on a martini
OR
The Descent: Journeys in the Dark or HeroQuest playing guy shouting "Whoopee! My necromancer just found a +1 sword after killing the troll" while pointing at a large pile of small plastic dolls?
Of course people are free to play whatever they want. But the thing is the ladies got us all mixed up!!!
When I out of boredom and adulthood left the friggin roleplaying and miniature games behind, I hoped to rid myself of the most extreme nerd aura. I wanted to be portrayed as a sophisticated gamer. But it's frakkin' hard to convey that picture when the dragon killing and orc bashing crowd are following me across to boardgame land. Goddamn Ameritrashers!
So my plead to all you fans of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Runewars and god knows what else, is: TONE IT THE F**K DOWN!
Leave the minis and all talk of dragons and elves at home. Play euros or abstracts when in public.
Let's polish the boardgame hobby so that it registers on the pussy or dick radar (whatever you prefer)!
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Björn Hansson
Sweden
Jakobsberg
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So I'm in the middle of a divorce.
I have no home right now, been living with friends for about a month. I have no savings whatsoever, but in order to take care of my kids I had to buy an apartment. Now the bank owns not only my ass, but most of my soul as well.
I can only work part time since I have an eight month daughter to take care of. I have older children as well.
Oh, and I'll lose my job at the end of august.
But hey! At least the weather is nice.
So now I'm stuck here with an apartment that I can't afford and with unemployment looming at the horizon. Enter: Keynes.
I think it was John Maynard Keynes who invented the idea of public spending as a countermeasure to a financial recession. (An idea that I personally subsribe to by the way).
Of course Keynes was talking about the public sector and macro economics, but I thought I'd apply it to my own life:
My economy looks bleak - better buy some boardgames!
I think ol' John would have liked that.
Since I wasn't sure if Keynesian economics worked as well with euros as with abstracts I made sure to buy games from a lot of different genres. This whole circus started back in April and since then I've managed to lay my hands on the following titles:
Hornet Leader: Carrier Air Operations
Rise of Empires
At the Gates of Loyang
Retsami
Space Hulk: Death Angel - The Card Game
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game - The Hunt for Gollum
and Pandemic (as a gift for the people who are housing me)
Well, has it affected my economy. I don't know. I don't feel that it has gotten any worse. Is there some cosmic force that fills the financial gaps in my wallet?
Or it could just be the fact that I have yet to pay my first mortgage on the new apartment.
All I know is: I have a lot of new games and I'm having a lot of fun with them.
Well that's the end of my first blog post. In the next one I think I'll discuss dungeoncrawlers. Hope to see ya'll then!
Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:36 pm
