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Joonas Laakso

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I’m really into tabletop RPGs and miniatures. I do people stuff at Next Games, a Netflix Game Studio. Career in HR and game development. My team got a 9 from Edge. Helsinki, Finland. RPG bloggery at https://www.roleplayletters.com

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Latest posts by jlaakso.bsky.social on Bluesky

I thought my DS-1 was broken. Turns out it only needed contact cleaner spray

10.02.2026 20:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to see Death(true)² in a cinema this week

09.02.2026 08:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah that whole campaign setup is what keeps me thinking about it. The system is rather nineties, not sure I could stomach it anymore.

08.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tonight it dawned on me that we had accidentally created a party larp. Players hung out in the kitchen having night snacks and dancing well past what the game required #ttrpg

06.02.2026 22:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t like it that I feel like my body has decided to start waking up at 5:30 to make it to morning gym before work. Not looking forward to getting through the day with less than 5h of sleep, again (I’ve actually gone to bed by 10….once)

06.02.2026 05:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I read Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel. I liked it for its world building and theater and comic book motifs, even if the story fell a little short for me. I struggled to connect with any of the characters. #booksky

05.02.2026 21:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The freezer is broken, after all. Enough already

04.02.2026 15:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ventilation didn’t break; that’s just overdue maintenance but need to get service for it. Heating wasn’t broken either, just district heating being wonky and me not knowing how to operate the system properly. Still, had to get a guy come in and take a look.

03.02.2026 21:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What a goddamn week with the house. Maintenance needed for: heating, plumbing, ventilation, fridge, and now the freezer decided to need defrosting just before bedtime. And it’s only Tuesday night. Bonus: I serviced my FDM printer today. At least that started working, and the replacement part was 5€.

03.02.2026 21:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Order XXXX Confirmed

Been keeping an eye out for a physical FIST!

03.02.2026 20:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

goats all the way

02.02.2026 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We watched Weapons tonight. That was a quality horror piece, not something I’m used to seeing out of modern Hollywood.

31.01.2026 23:10 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I believe I aged a year or so, fighting with tables for my first Affinity releases. Going to give this a go in my next thing for sure. Thanks for sharing!

31.01.2026 21:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#ttrpg confession time. I don’t get along with Forged in the Dark, and the popularity of the system eludes me. The core mechanic just shuts me down, dropping me out of the fiction, my brain doesn’t work that way. Slugblaster changes it enough to appeal to me.

30.01.2026 22:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

dude. Leave it to you to make fantasy interesting. I've had this on & off concept of "how do I make fantasy gaming interesting to my story game friends with whom we mostly explore relationships and intimacy", and let's just say this is relevant to my interests

30.01.2026 12:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Getting ready for the next playtest of our intimacy based #ttrpg We alternate between “this is sheer genius” and “no one will play this”. Trust the process…

29.01.2026 20:39 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Uhh. Can’t imagine watching it right now where you are, was anxiety inducing enough from over here.

29.01.2026 06:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Your posing owns

28.01.2026 19:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Evening gym after a ten hour workday feels like shedding capitalism

28.01.2026 19:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No face blindness I’m aware of! Idk. I just completely bought the characters, and never stopped to wonder about the actors. Movie magic!

28.01.2026 18:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What can I say. Good actor! (Also I don’t read entertainment news I guess, looks like that’s all anyone is talking about)

28.01.2026 09:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

so I've seen Sinners twice and only just now realized that both brothers are played by the same actor

28.01.2026 07:26 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
Cloth patch for USCSS Fidanza, a fictional starship in the Alien RPG.

Cloth patch for USCSS Fidanza, a fictional starship in the Alien RPG.

We played Rapture Protocol, the first Cinematic Adventure for the Evolved Alien RPG. How did it go? #ttrpg www.roleplayletters.com/2026/01/27/a...

27.01.2026 18:47 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

uhh yes

27.01.2026 13:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rewatched Sinners. That’s still a damn movie.

24.01.2026 21:57 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I read The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. That was an excellent sci-fi romance without almost any of the speculative bs time travel tends to spiral into. Loved the real world connection, it really added weight to the fiction. #booksky

24.01.2026 12:15 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I rarely watch movies now. Saw One Battle After Another tonight and that was a good movie.

23.01.2026 21:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Aaahh the 128D was our first home computer. No point in it, no, but at least it was unique, as everyone else was rocking C64s

23.01.2026 14:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What the hell is Apple doing on MacOS? Spotlight has become completely useless

23.01.2026 09:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I promised myself I would not make the gym part of my personality, but I have to say this: I was dreading this work week, but working out in the morning before getting to the office has significantly helped in dealing with all the things. Same function as looking forward to band practice

23.01.2026 07:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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