Weekly Post 1

Recap

I am toying around with the structure of these posts, bear with me. I also didn’t properly start taking notes yet (I didn’t decide to start this website till Wednesday), so I should be more satisfied with the blogs and myself starting next week o/.

This is the first week of my last semester. I really enjoyed getting back to university, to lectures. I am a bit slower than the people I started with, but amazingly enough you make so many connections that I met people I already knew in every single course I enrolled in. The exams don’t look that daunting, two professors aim for oral exams which suit me way more than written ones.

I met up with a fellow student on Saturday, in Sternschanzenpark at a free table tennis table. It was excellent fun, and I wasn’t quite as rusty as I had feared.

A big happening was the P&P role-playing game on Sunday. This is the first adventure in this system for the group, and I am DMing, so I spend the week going over everyone’s characters to make sure everything works out. I made sure their background stories were fitting, chose the adventure and educated myself about the setting. It went fairly well, we didn’t get as far as I’d hoped, especially because I wasn’t sure enough about a lot of rules in the opening fight. But they had a lot of fun, so Angbarer Bock is a recommendation, especially as a short starting adventure. Sorry about the German link I doubt there is an English one.

Weekly thought

A video from Eddy Burback about getting rid of his phone for a month. I did enjoy the style of his documentary about it. The music tailor-made for that essay was top-notch. I am wondering how much this relates to me though, since we have very different lifestyles. I used to be very detached from my phone growing up (there were days I didn’t use it because I didn’t bother charging), and I am still not indulging in main stream social media apps. I do doom-scrolling via Reddit and Mastodon, and I enjoy watching YouTube videos while doing everyday tasks.

I think I could still live easily without that right now, the parts I would probably miss it most for are using it to authenticate myself, and navigating to places/seeing where certain shops are around me. But it does sound like an interesting challenge.

Currently watching/reading/listening/eating

• I am currently watching Wretch play Rosewater, a point and click adventure. It has a very cool setting. I watched his lets play of Sherlock Holmes, and was really impressed about his pop culture knowledge, he caught so many small things in the world I missed. I like watching a series of him from time to time since then.
• We made some very yummy Swedish potatoes. We put them in a sauce made from vegan (sour) cream and throw some salty bacon alternative on there, it is amazing.
• And we watched the Minecraft movie. I wouldn’t say its worth watching it for the movie itself in a cinema, but the atmosphere/crowd experience in there is better put in words by Jamie Fussell (this was a random click on a YouTube recommendation) then I ever could. CHICKEN JOCKEYYYY. I guess.

Bigger media

We finished Splid Fiction. We will probably come back for the achievements, but we agreed that it’s a big recommendation, as its predecessors. They decided to get really creative with a lot of concepts in the big finale which I really appreciated.

We are watching Andor currently, for me, it is a rewatch, my friend didn’t watch it yet. The second season is coming out soonish and I really look forward to it, I have high hopes it is as good as the first season is.

Projects

• I made a small bug fix in the PTB project. It ain’t much, but it’s honest work
• I actually released this website on Thursday :D

And this is it. I will see you all next week, hopefully I have taken notes for this post by then.