shadowmisstep

Did you assign every character a real NHL player that makes it better (worse)

I've now graduated! More importantly, my thesis on League of Legends Worlds and how regionalisation often parrots narratives of nations, race, and geopolitical tensions is now publicly available:

doi.org/10.7939/83217

Glad my constant hockey watching was good for something!

Weirdly, my instinct is the Flames goalie Dustin Wolf?

Racism loses once again. It feels good!

“Four Asians and One American” — Import Player Discourse in North American Professional League of Legends | Notion Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports, 2025, 3(1): 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1123/jege.2024-0046. © Human Kinetics, Inc.

My paper published in JEGE is now publicly available on my website. I take a look at the "TLCK" narrative in 2023 and 2024, and how imports, Asian diaspora, and White players in particular reflect modern anxieties about Asians and immigrants in North America.

shadowmisstep.notion.site/4kr1na

I would tweet this, but I suspect someone would feel really really victimised about it and I don't wanna deal with that

It is really funny for FlyQuest to get called out last year for cultural reductionism with their MSI jersey, attempt to excuse it by claiming they're paying respect to the Chinese zodiac, and IMMEDIATELY doubling down this year by using meaningless, unrelated snake iconography on the Worlds jersey.

Someone has to be

well you see, this is what winning teams do. they squeak out miracle wins on freak bullshit endings over and over because they actually kind of suck