Spielsachen: The Future of the Future

As of a few days ago, what was called “Future” in my modulargrid designs has become the present (almost). Which begs the question: what does the future of today – the future of the future if you will – have in stock? Mechanical and Wiring Integration The components that are not the A-100 need to […]

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Review: Hitman

How stupid is it to name the sixth main installment in a (video game) series just like the series as a whole? Independently of the answer to this pressing question, I’m reviewing Hitman (the 2016 video game), not the series. Overview Hitman is built like the preceding games and also shares a similar story. Timeline-wise, […]

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Review: DiRT Rally

I’ve been playing games from the DiRT series of rally games (in turn, a successor of the Colin McRae Rally series) for quite some time. More specifically, I enjoyed playing both DiRT 2 and DiRT 3, at least for what they were: action games in which you steer something resembling a car over a road […]

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Review: “Inherent Vice” (film)

When Thomas Pynchon writes a new novel, it’s always a big event. And although some critics have found derogatory terms for his last two works, Inherent Vice and Bleeding Edge, characterizing them as “Pynchon light”, they will nonetheless remain mass-incompatible with a myriad of persons, parallel plots and sub-plots, which all seem to entangle, mingle, […]

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