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Cruising

Let's talk about Cruise Ships. Due to a combination of my dads bucket list, my moms aversion to flying and the general wish of families to occasionally do things together, I've found myself on one of those, because the alternative was a very long road trip

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Obsidian as static site generator for my roleplaying game

For a while now, I've been tinkering with my own roleplaying game, Raiders of Arismyth. One of the things I realised early on was that I need a good way lookup rules and other information quickly. Find the proper tables, skill descriptions and so on, and to be

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4 Tage, 4 Spielrunden

Ich war von Mittwoch bis Sonntag auf einer Klein-Con mit etwas über 50 Freunden und Freundesfreunden. Es wurde gegessen, getratscht, und vor allem natürlich: Gespielt. Mittwoch: Troubleshooters - Der Geisterritter Ihr kennt all die francobelgischen Comics die in den späten 60ern spielen und Agenten, Journalisten, Zeitreisende und andere wagemutigen Leute

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Langes Rollenspielwochenende in Bielefeld

Es war mal wieder soweit, diesmal allerdings in anderer Zusammensetzung: Ein paar Dutzend Leute trafen sich und spielten. Insgesamt hat es bei mir zu drei Runden gereicht: Raiders of Arismyth als Zufallsrunde Ein Programmpunkt war das Rollenspiel-Blind-Date: Zufällig wurde so Gruppen zusammengestellt undu Spielleitungen zugeordnet. Als sich abzeichnete, dass die

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Writing a roleplaying game

As you might have noticed, I've been busy in my free time with my completely self-written new roleplaying game "Raiders of Arismyth". Unlike "Mail Order Apocalypse", which was me applying a wild hair setting idea to an existing ruleset, this project has a different

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Self Descriptions made Easy

I have a "Manual of Me" in my professional e-Mail signature for a while now. That describes when and how to reach me, and how I communicate or set tasks. What it doesn't do in depth or any detail is describing what I'm really

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Eine Lanze für Orks

Danger Zone und dnalorsblog schrieben vor einiger Zeit über das Für und Wider bezüglich der Orks, in Reflektion auf einen der Essays in Roll Inclusive. Und auch der Deutschlandfunk spricht über das Thema. Im Endeffekt gibt es folgendes Spannungsfeld: * Othering ist Mist, macht Empathie kaputt und sollte eigentlich nie eingeübt

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My 3D printer wishlist

3D printing things is one of my hobbies. And while I am reasonably happy with the printer I currently have,there's always a new and shinier resin 3D printer around the corner. But they rarely manage to really excite me in the way that I actually want to

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I'm not a Warhammer player, but...

...I unironically like the old Warhammer 40K universe depictions and canon. You know, the Rick Priestley, John Blanche era. Where everything was bad, grimy, gloomy and evil. This is peak Leman Russ, as he should be: Not this: Warhammer 40,000, as depicted and conceived in the 80ies absolutely was

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Living in the suburbs

Slightly more than a decade ago, I moved from one of the more out there parts of Hamburg back into a more central part. And I loved it. I gained about one to two hours of free time thanks to a shorter commute, I had all the shops and places

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I have my own Mastodon instance now

One of the cool things of federated social media is that each instance can have their own rules and conventions. One of the bad things of federated social media is that each instance has their own rules and conventions. What do I mean? I started out on octodon.social and

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I'm writing another game!

It is a few months since I finished Mail Order Apocalypse, and apparently, writing games is a tiny bit addictive: I'm already about 70 pages into writing the next game. (For comparison: MOA clocks in at 106 pages, a lot of them being random tables) So, the next

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Management books you should read, and what to learn from them

I've been on a small bender on this, and this is what I learned, in short. Reading my summaries could spare you the time of reading the actual books, but I don't recommend it - they are chock-full of useful language and terms to describe situations,

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I've been...

…so many people over the past few days again, it was delicious. It was that time again, where a plethora of nerds descended upon the non-existent town of Bielefeld and gathered to eat, drink, be merry - and play games! The food was delicious, the drinks came in just the

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Organisational Purpose and the Kano model

If you work in product management, you should make yourself familiar with the Kano model. Noriaki Kano, a Japanese researcher and consultant, published a paper in 1984 with a set of ideas and techniques that help us determine our customers’ (and prospects’) satisfaction with product features. The resulting categories have

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Manual of me

I'm working with computers and humans for long time. That has shaped a lot of my opinions and habits. In order to get the best experience of working with me, here's a handy manual: Working hours I'm neither a classical night owl, nor an

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reduce anxiety and nerdsniping

A part of my job is asking people things along the lines of "can you look up if XYZ is feasible" or "what would you need to do XYZ" or "can you make me a proposal about this?". And there are always two things

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Mail Order Apocalypse is live!

If you have followed this blog for a while, you know that I do a lot of crowdfunding as a backer. Kickstarter alone lists over 200 projects that I have backed in some way. Well, now it is time for me to jump into the other end of the pool:

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Spam everyone and use your filters

For over two years now, polypoly is working as a remote-only company. Most of the time, this works well, but there are of course wrinkles and roadblocks. The major one is in how and where we communicate. We have all the tools: Email, Chat, a wiki, a ticket system, a

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Home Office - redux

About a year ago, I shared how my home office setup looked. It is now not only a year later, but I also moved back to Hamburg and moved everything into a combined office&hobby room. And with that, I also upgraded a few key features of the space.

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Warum man nicht neutral über Blockchain oder NFTs berichten kann.

Immer wieder sehe ich Journalisty und Medien, die versuchen "neutral" über Blockchain oder NFts zu berichten. Im besten Falle geschieht dies, da man diese ja nicht einfach direkt kritisieren könne, ohne dem Publikum das ganze vorher einmal zu erklären. Ich (und sehr viele andere) sehen NFT und Blockchain

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Spaß mit Technik: Neuer Wohnzimmeraltar

Vor 10 Jahren meinte die damalige Freundin, dass Split-Screen Spiele auf einem 23" Bildschirm doch irgendwie meh seien. Ich kratzte ein wenig Geld zusammen, ging zum örtlichen Tech-Discounter und kaufte einen knapp doppelt so großen Fernseher. Bewusst das Auslaufmodell, das kostete nochmal weniger. Jetzt in der neuen Wohnung schaute

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Hamburg

So, jetzt alle: Ich wohne ja seit Februar 2015 in Berlin. Ist schon schön hier, aber wann immer wir meine Eltern besuchen, oder zum Nordcon fahren, fragt die Freundin mich "Warum wohnen wir eigentlich nicht in Hamburg?" Gute Frage. Wahrscheinlich wegen dem Job (der ja lange Zeit erforderte,

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Hacking Runs for Fun and Profit

A key element of modern games is often the heist, caper, or in the case of cyberpunk-esque games, the "run". The common part here is that the target is usually a complicated and large system, full of people, computers, security systems and other components. In movies and books,

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My 3D printing setup

I have had 3D printers in the house since 2015. But it took 5 years and a lot of frustration until I finally got to a setup where I am happy with what I am doing. It began with a positively tiny M3D Micro - a very basic, consumer-grade 3D