testing Why I don't identify as sysadmin anymore I used to be a sysadmin. And I like to think that I was pretty good at my job. These days, my work is much more managerial with a strong emphasis on communication. The command line and I only meet occasionally, and I have to get help whenever I do
testing Gangs & Bullshit One of the nicest and also to me most intriguing RPG publishers I know these days is Paolo Greco with his Lost Pages. His stuff is whimsy, well made and often bafflingly strange. Where Lamentations of the Flame Princess stuff is heavy-metal gore weird, the Cthonic Codex for example
playing Tales from the Loop Playtest For all of you who live under rocks: Tales from the Loop is a roleplaying game based on the retro-scifi artwork by swedish painter Simon Stålenhag. The world portrayed are the 80ies we saw when we watched E.T. or, more recently, Stranger Things. As a result, you will
playing How I imprinted on (not only computer) RPGs Back when I was a kid (well, teenager), I had an Atari 800XL and played a great many list of games on it. The one that hooked me most though is a rather obscure one: Alternate Reality (The City) and it's sequel Alternate Reality (The Dungeon). For me,
testing Subsonic & Caddy - oh my... Dangnabbit. Subsonic has the nasty habit of generating certain URLs in a very hardcoded way. The login screen for example. If you call index.view and are not logged in, it redirects you to $ServerSubsonicThinksItIs/login.view. That will be localhost, if you want to do the "oh yay,
playing Subsonic with Caddy Ok, now that there is Let's Encrypt, I thought that I shouldn't have to do this certificate hackery all the time when Subsonic updates or the StartSSL certificate expires. Caddyserver is the first Webserver/Proxy that I found that has most of the process automated and
playing 10 things you didn't know about rape, RPG and - ach, screw this! A few days back, this thing made the rounds: Games sure are classy. In case you missed it, here's the summary: Someone was selling a game module on DriveThruRPG that was named "Tournament of Rapists". Someone else got upset about this and complained to DriveThruRPG, who.
thinking That Ashley Madison thing... Oh, that Ashley Madison thing is really something that got the Internet going. And this here, that is one of the very few actually funny reactions. The rest is either * explaining how those cheaters got what they've had coming, or * gleefully looking up folks and saying "gee,
playing Playing ViewScream As there weren't enough players for Haralds planned bi-weekly Labyrinth Lord game, he decided to run ViewScream instead. ViewScream, which is just now running the Kickstarter for the 2nd Edition, is a game that is explicitly designed to be played via videochat. Rafael Chandler is surely no
random Welcome Home.. Those were more or less the first words that were shouted at us, when we all left the bus. For more than just a few, it was really a homecoming, but for me it was more the reassurance that I would be welcomed here, in this dusty, colourful and surprisingly
thinking My take on the shirtstorm... Last week, science did awesome things. Or rather: Reaped the fruits of having done awesome things 10 years ago. We landed a spaceship on a comet and had it talk back to us. That is really, really awesome. And during this event, the lead scientist did a sartorial booboo: He
random How to fix the (social) web I just had the most amazing idea (according to my standards, that is. YMMV): This is how we fix the social web For starters, let's have a look what makes different components awesome: * Social Networks are great at providing us with a stream of activity from those we
thinking Drones and the future I have a nasty suspicion: Automated and possibly armed Drones will be a fact of life at some point in the future. We see the rise of 3D printers, capable software and chips, cheap hardware, cameras... We already see a wide spread of drone types in the hands of enthusiasts
random Gozerhead... After a roughly two-year long abstinence, I recently caved in again, and bought a black t-shirt with nerdy print on it. Today, it arrived: I dig the nifty packaging it came in too.
watching Game of Thrones on TV - No feminist rants yet? Warning, possible spoilers below! I'm kinda wondering: There hasn't been a feminist rant regarding the HBO premiere of George R.R. Martins A Game of Thrones. Why? Because the TV version changes some things for the worse. Granted, any book adaption simply has to change things,
reading Laddie vs Lassie hmm.. So far I always thought Laddie the Wonderdog was a parody of Lassie. Now I wonder if everything I thought to know is wrong: Laddie the Super Dog
reading Webcomic Montag: Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! There are things mankind is not meant to mess with - the fabric of the universe, taxes, the wife... If you fail to observe this, the appearance of elder gods may very well be the result. Hence I give you the Unspeakable Vault of Doom (yum, humans!) and.. ...Hello Cthulhu. Alas,
random Google searches... Found this in my search statistics: Ok, invoking Rule 34, here you are... Happy now?
Politics Today: Being Bernd! Today, I'm being Bernd, and I'm telling you this in english, because I expect the german folks to already "get it". Bernd is, at least a bit, the geman variant of the "Guy Fawkes Anonymous". Actually, he's a living misanthropic
finding Gender-Choices I just registered at Gog.com to snag a free copy of Tex Murphy 1+2. Turns out they've transcended the normal gender choices in their registration process:
thinking Is the use of Adblock theft? Andrew is quite firm on this: The widespread use of Adblock will bring down the "free" internet, as big sites will find themselves unable to pay for necessary expenses like bandwith or the wages of their authors. If you want a chuckle, take the time to browse through
thinking Hotlinking I'm an easygoing guy really. And I'm usually pretty relaxed when it comes to reusing stuff on this page: As long as you notify me, or give credit, it's good in my book. But there are some unwritten rules on the 'net, which