Blog entries by Taleweaver
So...nephew and niece came over for (after)Christmas. Ages respectively 4 and 6. We played Mario kart 8 on the wiiu. Or at least attempted. Honk if this sounds familiar...
Me: *hands controller over to everyone*
Me: okay...let's start a race. Just some basic options (*selects multiplayer, grand...
I've just read Fear, by Bob Woodward. It was available in my library, and an actual book, in Dutch, is still more convenient to read than e-books. It's an interesting read. On Trump I've read The fifth risk (by Lewis), A very stable genius (by Leonnig & Rucker) and Game theory in the age of...
So before all hell broke lose early this year, I thought it’d be a good idea to take a look back at not just the a list of my favorite games of the past ten years but to list up ALL my favorite games. But as soon as I started inventarising, I realised it’d be an impossible task. There is no...
Introduction:
Yup...the yearly tradition no one's waiting for is upon us again: my yearly rundown of my favorite games I've played this year.
Despite this weird year, I really haven't played more games than otherwise. Three reasons compensate for my extra free time:
1) since 17th of January I'm...
INTRODUCTION
Not that long ago, I wrote down a well-meant "fuck you" aimed at anyone who purposefully declined on (ever?) getting vaccinated against corona. And it's easy to write off these people as "less intelligent" or "paranoia", but of course it's never that simple. I mean...my own father...
It comes at the surprise of no one: Trump refusing to admit defeat. He never did, and...I don't think anyone thought he's going to. Ever. It's just not his nature. Ask him about any of his tremendous amount of defeats and he'll deflect it onto scapegoats, say you're misinformed or ridicule you...
It's not fun to admit it, but it has to be said: Belgium sucks at any continuous plan regarding covid. :(
Oh, we've flattened the curve, alright. Mid march we went into lockdown and it...mostly worked. That first wave came and went. April was the peak in terms of hospitalized patients, May...
(warning in advance: yeah, it's going to be one of THOSE blog posts. Just stop reading if you don't care, okay? I only care about people who care to begin with)
Well...I'm sure the blog post title has people riled up. But before you post how right or wrong I am, just hear me out, mkay? It's...
Introduction
Okay, I admit it: I've added to the controversy about the US mail voting controversy. More specific: I created this poll about it. I had anticipated polarized results, but honestly didn't expect it to be this bad. If I had known that a large majority of republicans want to vote in...
So Trump wrote a book. No...not Donald. His niece, Mary. In itself, it's not much different from the conga line of mostly past-employees who paint the same picture of the guy (oh, btw...John Bolton confirmed in his book what was already known: Donald Trump did blackmail Ukraine). And even the...
I remember when my girlfriend first asked me to come to a baby shower with her(1). I agreed, expecting it to be at the new parents' home, a handfull of friends and family taking turns saying "oooooooh", "what a nice baby! :D " and "oh, look...(s)he smiled at me! how cute :D " while being served...
(warning: huge rambling political rant ahead. Avoid if allergic)
Intro
It's rather strange, but I tend to follow US politics more than Belgium's. I've seen Donald Trump rise from a badmouthing asshole pissing on other republic nominees, then pissing on the democratic nominee (Hillary Clinton)...
I'm an European (Belgian, more specifically). When talking politics with foreigners - especially USA - there's one thing I really don't like to repeat so much but which I pretty much have to: The USA doesn't have left-sided politicians.
Things are polarised between democrats and republicans...
I've mentioned tabletop simulator a few times in more recent polls. It's busy overtaking my nr. 1 played steam game, and not because I often idle for hours because baby needs attention or that I'm making mods myself. No...most of the time is spent on trying and playing board games. And that's...
It's been nearly 2 months since Belgium went into lockdown (march 17th). Two months of staying at home, practicing social distancing, and so on. And I'm getting tired of it. And that's worrisome, as I'm really NOT in a bad position.
The short recap: our daughter was born on the 17th of January...
Intro
Yup, I can see you thinking: "oh, here he goes again. Old fart Taleweaver railing on the "advantages" of board games over video games. And now he's recommending...a blend? Better get some popcorn". Well...as long as it keeps you reading, I'm fine with that. :)
And to make this blog even...
Well...the title basically says it all. And since there's no objective way to look at this, I gotta start with something that some tempers don't seem to get through their skull:
I'M NOT A FUCKING DEMOCRAT, OKAY? :angry: I'm from Belgium. The average democrat is a "regular" rightwing citizen on...
It's an answer not many people know, even though the riddle isn't that hard:
a virus population grows to double its size in 24 hours. After establishment in a productive environment, it grows to half the size of the test-tube in 128 days. When does the test-tube overflows?
If it's a comfort: I...
So it has come to this...
I can't really remember the first time I heard of covid-19...or corona, as it's commonly referred to. It was probably somewhere in January, and pertaining to China. I didn't take it seriously. To a degree, I still don't. But I'm starting to become a minority.
In any...
INTRODUCTION
A year and a half ago, I posted my concerns about humble bundle. I described how it was as I got in, and how it had slowly evolved. The writing was, not coincidentally, not very long after its acquiring by IGN...but still long enough afterward so that all the first-hour doom&gloom...
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BigOnYa:
A woman with no arms and no legs was sitting on a beach. A man comes along and the woman says, "I've never been hugged before." So the man feels bad and hugs her. She says "Well i've also never been kissed before." So he gives her a kiss on the cheek. She says "Well I've also never been fucked before." So the man picks her up, and throws her in the ocean and says "Now you're fucked."+2 -
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BakerMan:
anyways, we need to re-normalize physical media+1
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BigOnYa:
Agreed, that why I try to buy all my games on disc, Xbox anyways. Switch games (which I pirate tbh) don't matter much, I stay offline 24/7 anyways.+1
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cearp:
@BakerMan - you can still "own" digital media, arguably easier and better than physical since you can make copies and backups, as much as you like.+1
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cearp:
You can buy drm free games / music / ebooks, and if you keep backups of your data (like documents and family photos etc), then you shouldn't lose the game. but with a disk, your toddler could put it in the toaster and there goes your $60
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rqkaiju2:
i like physical media because it actually feels like you own it. thats why i plan on burning music to cds -
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SylverReZ:
@rqkaiju2, Physical media is a great source for archiving your data, none of that cloud storage shiz.+1 -
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BakerMan:
guys, should i change my pfp to one of these or keep it the same?
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. Saves on time, soap, water and money having to wash them. 