Here’s a recording of my seven hour stream for the Diablo IV pre-launch. I took my barbarian up to level 17 before I got frustrated when I couldn’t get past the Amalgam of Rage:


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I finally got around to uploading the video for last week’s episode of The Private Citizen to YouTube. So I thought I’d better tell you about it on here, too. In this episode, I finally continue my long overdue coverage of the Twitter Files.

The Private Citizen 155: The Twitter Files, Part 5

The podcast returns with more coverage of The Twitter Files. On this episode, I am discussing how the US government used the FBI to exert censorship control over Twitter and many other tech companies to reinforce government narratives and silence critics.


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After a long time slacking off with work and other things like rock climbing, I’m trying to get into the habit of regularly streaming again. Which, hopefully, should also help with more regular releases for The Private Citizen. To kick things off again, I have scheduled some streams in the next few days. Tomorrow, I will be recording a podcast episode and on Friday, I am planning to stream a whole day of Diablo IV gameplay for that game’s launch. See you on Twitch!

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I’ve been getting back into doing more photography lately. One of the things I thought was missing on this site was a showcase of some of my favourite photos. So I went ahead and created a page for that.

In other news, I will probably have to change the top navigation a bit to actually have links to some of the new pages visible on the site…

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I know …it’s been a while… but, my podcast is back!

The Private Citizen 154: The Democratic Delusion

Many people seem to think that the democratic system of government extends beyond how the state is run and into civil society. In this episode, I advance the theory that this has caused a lot of people to fall prey to propaganda and misunderstand how journalistic reporting and scientific enquiry should be done.

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At Neoliet Boulder Bar, Essen (Photos by Doris Kluge-Scherschel)

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I made this interior floor plan of the Weeping Willow Inn from my our D&D one shot with Inkarnate:

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Holy shit. It sure seems like someone is a fan of Simon Stålenhag.

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The Mystery of Willow’s Grave, Part I

This is the story of the first Dungeons & Dragons game I led as dungeon master for a couple of friends.
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I’ve created this town map of Willow’s Grave for our initial one shot D&D game in my campaign setting of End-World. It was made with Inkarnate, which I learned about in a tweet from Pewy.

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Karlsbad, July 2022

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Climbing & Working

As usual, I’ve kept quite busy over the last few weeks. Here’s what I’ve been up to.
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In an effort to cut down on my mobile apps usage, especially of those apps that save tracking data, I’ve deleted Strava from my phone. I had previously used Strava to log my exercises publicly. If you want to still follow my efforts to get – and stay – fitter, you can now go to this page, where I will be maintaining a detailed personal log of my exercises.

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I had Midjourney generate a few fox wizard images for me. Some of these turned out pretty nice:

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It took a while for the idiocy of Musk to resurface after he, for once, did something good in the world. But now, he‘s gone and killed the Twitter Files project because of a competing social network feature that will never take off… Or, as Taibbi puts it in his inimitable way:

„I’ve done a lot of drugs and can’t remember ever reaching that level of paranoia.“

I also think Taibbi is right in stopping to use Twitter. They censored visibility filtered me too, so I should really try to do the same thing.

It’s not personal. I just can’t drive traffic for any site that’s censored me. These companies depend on our content to make money, and for years we’ve been rewarding all their dicking around with engagement and reality by handing them more eyeballs to sell. Frankly if all accounts walked away in these situations, the platforms would have to cut this nonsense out pretty quickly.

Meet the Censored: Me?, Racket News

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Episode 150 of The Private Citizen will be delayed – probably well into next week. I am very sorry about this. Especially considering I had originally planned to record and release it last Wednesday. But last week was incredibly stressful, with little sleep, as my wife was on call and busy with three heart transplants in the middle of the night in one week. And then this week is very busy for me and I feel a cold coming on for good measure.

I continue to be behind on my episode schedule and the topics I need to talk about are piling up like there is no tomorrow. But I promise, I will fix this at some point. Somehow.

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I’ve recently released two podcast episodes on the most plausible scenario of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage. This has been largely ignored in the legacy press, probably for fear what would happen to the US relations with Germany should this theory prove to be true.

The Private Citizen 148: An Act of War

Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, US President Biden authorised a plan to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines, which the US military executed last summer under cover of the BALTOPS 22 exercise.

The Private Citizen 149: The Nord Stream Cover-Up

To cover up Seymour Hersh’s report, the CIA planted a fake story about the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage with the press. Chancellor Scholz might even have discussed this cover-up with President Biden in person.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator Crashes Because of Capture One

If you have MSFS installed alongside the Capture One photo editing application, a weird Windows DLL bug causes the game to crash to desktop without any warning or error report. Here’s how you can fix it.
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Holy shit! The soundtrack of one of my favourite games, Disco Elysium, is finally on Spotify! I have no idea when that happened, because as I already own that soundtrack, I didn’t check regularly. But I am so glad more people have access to this wonderful album by British Sea Power1 now.


  1. They renamed themselves Sea Power in 2021, but just like with Prince or the Dixie Chicks, I refuse to acquiesce to this kind of stupidity. ↩︎

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I’ve read a lot about what J.K. Rowling has said. People have likewise told me a lot of things that J.K. Rowling has said. But funnily enough, when I then went and listened to J.K. Rowling, she never quite said these things. She said some things that I don’t agree with and others I do very much agree with. But she never said these terrible things people told me about. This leads me to believe that most people actually have no idea what J.K. Rowling actually stands for.

If you want to find out and if you’re not afraid to think for yourself and challenge some of the bullshit people believe and write about, listen to this podcast where she’s interviewed – quite critically, actually – by Megan Phelps-Roper, who’s a remarkable person with a remarkable story in her own right. Believe me, this is an hour worth investing if you care about the truth of things.

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