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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • For the first time in forever I am playing multiple games at the same time.

    Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos. I had that game as a kid but I don’t think I ever got any further than the first enemy. And it’s amazing! The whole game is dubbed. And it has four protagonists to choose from, each with their individual voice lines about basically any situation or item you come across. And all the NPC’s lines match them and they address you by name.

    And the graphics are super beautiful. Pixel graphics but with great details and animations. Like when you get your spellbook you get a super elaborate T-1000-like animation of some droplets forming a scroll.

    X-Wing via XWVM: The old X-Wing game with updated graphics and quality of life improvements. Just awesome! It’s still an alpha but basically plays like a beta. I have hardly any bugs, just occasional crashes, and none are game breaking. And supposedly they are already pretty far along with TIE Fighter compatibility. Can’t wait to play that. TIE Fighter TC is nice and all, but stuffing everything into the X-Wing Alliance engine feels pretty clunky while XWVM just works.

    Cyberpunk 2077: My son bought it on sale and I wanted to try it as well, although I don’t really like cyberpunk. Too realistic. But the game is great. Plays like a combination of Deus Ex and GTA. I’d say it feels more like the original Deus Ex than the newer Deus Ex games. Maybe with slightly less open levels. But not much.

    Limbo: The game is about to be delisted from GOG so I got it quickly. It’s chill to play which suits me well. Love it so far.








  • With SEPA transfer your choice of “card” is totally irrelevant. This has been a thing for decades (at least half a century, even before SEPA existed) to transfer money from one account to another. It’s easy and straightened. Nowadays it’s even quick.

    I never understood why people felt a need for PayPal when you could just as easily send someone money. And if you wanted something with more customer protection there’s “Bankeinzug” for which I don’t even know if an English word exists. You basically give a company permission to pull the money from your account. In case of fraudulent activity you can retroactively revoke that permission.









  • And then the kids get annoyed when the movies are nothing like the show. There actually is a Jurassic World show and our kids were a little bummed out that Jurassic Park wasn’t like it, but the movie is good enough that it’s not too bad.

    But The Fast And The Furious show is some super high tech spy shit while at least the first movie is about car races. We didn’t manage to watch even half of the first movie.