Broadway Binge

I recently spent 2 weeks in New York City to feed my nostalgia and revisit this place that I kind of grew up with. I used to stay with a...

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A Rant About T-Shirts

I'm not a fashionable person, I wear t-shirts and hoodies about 98% of the year. I can't handle dealing with all the fancy outfits and whatnot that you'd find in...

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The Drowning Empire

The Drowning Empire series by Andrea Stewart is a trilogy of novels consisting of The Bone Shard Daughter, The Bone Shard Emperor and The Bone Shard War. I was interested...

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Good bye, good dog

A week ago, we said goodbye to our 13 1/2 year old dog, Bifi[note]pronounced the same as beefy[/note]. She was a street mutt, named after the African country Biafra by...

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Shakespeare in the mud

What strange fate has had me slumber upon this gem for two decades? The subject of my thoughts is Deadwood, a TV show first aired in 2004. Being almost 22...

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Stephen Fry's Greek Mythology Books

Greek Mythology and I have a complicated relationship. I definitely learned about Greek myths in school at some point, and to this day I still have a fairly basic book...

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Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Whenever I make my chocolate cookies, I get a lot of requests for the recipe. A long time ago, this was a recipe that I got from the internet[note]"Wendy Gaynor's...

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TTRPGs beyond DnD and fantasy

In my previous post, I posted mini-reviews about roleplaying games that I've played that are not DnD, but that are mostly fantasy. This post is part two of that post,...

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Fantasy TTRPGs beyond DnD

I've been playing DnD for quite a few years now and blogged about my DnD characters about a year ago. A lot of roleplayers are currently going through a bit...

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Good and Evil: Baldur's Gate 3

Is there even a point in blogging about Baldur's Gate 3? This game is over 2 years old, and surely it's old news by now? Perhaps, but I'm probably not...

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Chief of War: An Accomplishment for Pacific Islanders

I love to watch historical TV shows, especially those that are a bit gritty and not stereotypical period dramas[note]A stereotypical period drama for me would be anything containing British or...

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New York Nostalgia

Eight times I've been to New York in my life so far, and I feel the relationship that I have (or had) with this city has taught me a lot...

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Dissertation defended!

Yesterday five years of hard work finally came to a conclusion in the defense of my dissertation. Being a PhD student was the most challenging thing I ever did in...

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Read Dead Redemption 2

Rarely have a been carried away by a video game as I have been by Red Dead Redemption 2. What an absolutely amazing, outstanding, and somewhat heartbreaking game. Admittedly, Arthur...

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Data Science with Doctor Who (2005)

As a long time fan of Doctor Who (2005), I hit a wall watching the show around 2020. I really wanted to like the new (Thirteenth) Doctor, but somehow the...

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The pros and cons of AI generated images

Since its release of v4, I've been an avid user of Midjourney, one of the currently most popular image generation tools aside from DALL-E and wombo.art. The current popularity of...

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The World of Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West

About a year and a half ago, I first discovered the world of Horizon in the video game Horizon: Zero Dawn. I was absolutely enamored with this world. It's so...

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Interview with the Vampire, re-told

One of the most famous vampire books of recent cultural history, Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire has received a new adaptation last year by American TV network AMC —...

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Mord mit Aussicht

Ich gucke ja viel Zeug (wie man sieht, wenn man sich mal durch meine Reviews klickt), aber etwas das ich sehr selten gucke, sind deutsche Produktionen. Es gibt ungefähr 2...

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The many layers of Arthur Morgan

I would like to express a massive SPOILER WARNING for this entire post. If you ever plan to play Red Dead Redemption 2 and would like to not have your...

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The search is over: The journey to my new job

I'm happy to report that my job search is finally over! As of July 2023, I am employed again! I'm now working as a developer in the field of conversational...

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A novel development

It's been a very long time since I read novels out of my own free will. Having been forced to read some pretty annoying stuff during my time studying literature...

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Arc of a Scythe

In the city where I live, there are quite a few public bookshelves. Whenever I leave my apartment or just happen to pass by one of them, I check them....

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Lord of the Rings: 20 Years Wiser

Lord of the Rings is such a vast and epic topic, where to even begin? And what can I write about it that hasn't been written about it yet? I'd...

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Eight years of pen pals

About eight years ago, I revived a very old hobby of mine: writing letters. I used to have a few pen pals when I was a kid in the nineties[note]yes,...

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Mistborn

Everybody loves Brandon Sanderson, don't they? Well, as my enthusiasm for reading had been rejuvenated in the past year, I have been spending a lot of time on literature websites...

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Unwind

The Unwind Dystology was by far one of the weirdest things I've ever read. It's a captivating, easy to read series aimed at young adults, but despite that, it's nowhere...

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From the Chronicles of Dawnmaster Aeneas, The Morninglord's Chosen

SPOILER WARNING: This entire post contains heavy spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3, and in particular The Dark Urge origin! Proceed to read at your own peril! Written in the Year...

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6 Mindbending TV Shows

If you, like me, enjoy watching weird and mind-bending TV shows, often with a bit of a sci-fi twist, I have a few mini-reviews for you of shows that I...

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Romantasy is not for me

I jumped on the Fourth Wing and Romantasy bandwagon in 2023, when I was researching cool books to read. Back then bookstores were plastered with these novels, so I honestly...

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