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My YouTube algorithm gave me a weird looking thumbnail video and I don't know what moved me, but I decided to check it out. This was "90s" by The Lazy Boys. I loved it immediately and put it in my Favourites. After a while I tried looking up some more info, but it was very difficult to find. Partly because it's so niche, but also because it seems like Japanese bands are not really marketing per se in Western media? Anyway, after a while I got this Gemini blurb: The Lazy Boys is a Tokyo-based…

As you might have seen I've been playing a bit of Wardogs lately. I've spent 155 hours in the game since September 10th. Yes, if you do the calculations, that's a lot. I've had some.. um.. free time. 🤔 There's a lot of things I like about the game, it's basically the Battlefield that I remember, that I wished for since BF4. It's a more engaging game than #Squad, but it could also use some more pointers from Squad itself. I'll just start with a list of things I like. Because the other list will…

(Spoiler: TLDR) 👆 A website that looks like a desktop, where you mostly see a browser, but there's also a floating div that acts as a chat app. People can use the 'in-game' browser to go to community related things, one of which is a fake domain registrar, where people can 'buy' a domainname and have it go to their profile page. This idea actually came about roughly the same day I had my Zombie Town idea, but that was a bit more substaniated than this and had priority. However, with the same…

The reason why is that I really like a) the idea of money as the game's main resource, and b) the idea that you can play the game in different playstyles. What is Wardogs? If you don't know, Wardogs is a King Of The Hill style game where 3 teams fight over a circle in the middle of the map. The playstyles that I mentioned are basically a fighter, a builder, logistics (trucks or helis). Each playstyle gives you money and XP in different ways, so you can earn money by driving a logistic truck…

🟦⬜🟥 After researching camping gear for most of the early months of the year, we made our decision and planned a holiday trip to Normandy, France. Panoramic view of Dives-sur-Mer and Cabourg (Opens in new tab) First panoramic views of France Classic tunnel picture We chose Normandy because we really wanted to go to France, but not too far. Last time when we took the kids to Wuppertal, it was a 3-hour ride. Normandy was 7 hours, 8 if you included the stops, which we really had to do every 2…

Content warning Depression, burnout It's been a while since my last post, which coincides with the beginning of a burnout. It officially started in February, and it's still something I'm recovering from. So here's a fresh start, one that takes courage, because I really didn't want to write about this. However the writing was on the wall as they say. The initial embers of this burnout already happened in 2018, I was trying to chase a salary increase that I knew I deserved. Definitely in…

After 6 years, I finally hit the slopes again in Gerlos, Austria. It was a great trip with family and friends and we had lovely weather! ⛰️