“Notebook Sketch LXIII-1”

Raiders of the Lost Ark

I was going to write a review of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, but then the client I was going to be writing it for pulled the job and I went to a music festival instead to have some fun. I think, in the end, it all worked out for the best, because, according to this, the movie is entirely missable:

Wow. That was fast. My Discourse hoster Communiteq has fixed my issue of Discourse comment embeds not working. It was indeed a bug in the most recent stable Discourse update. They’ve patched it on my forum instance.

I’m having some issues with the Discourse embeds that are supposed to include forum threads as a commenting feature. Currently, I am suspecting a recent Discourse update. But I really don’t know what has gone wrong. Please have patience with me while I try to fix this. And if you can help, please get in contact …on the forum?

The amazing Pewy has created three emotes for me and I absolutely love how they turned out! They will be deployed immediately on my Twitch channel and I’ll use them here on the blog as well, of course. I am so happy about this!

A word of warning: I would probably not respec my character in Diablo IV at the moment. When I did this recently, I lost all additional skill points I had accrued beyond pure levelling (via map renown and the like). They are just gone. Apparently, I am not the only one with this problem, but Blizzard hasn’t even acknowledged that it exists, as far as I know. It most definitely does, though. And it is extremely annoying. Skill points are pretty important in that game…

“BREAKING NEWS: Portal to Hell Opens in Sky above Düsseldorf on Diablo IV Launch Night”

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:

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.

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!

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…

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.

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

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

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

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.

Karlsbad, July 2022