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This Blog and Its Contents

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The second most read article on this site is my my article on one specific puzzle in the new Thief game. If I had to predict, I’d say based on projections it will be the most read article within a few days and its not really showing any signs of stopping.

But there’s a problem: I bet most of the people who have read the article were disappointed. They probably came here looking for a walkthrough of some sort, but instead they got my musing on the mathematics of that specific puzzle. Sure, the article includes a solution, but before getting to that, they have to read through me pondering about how to approach this problem.

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Genres and Me

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A warning: this is again some introspective bullshit I sometimes write and as such you might want to skip this. But hey, you never know, maybe this is interesting…

This is probably not a surprise to anyone who knows me even a little, but I consider myself a nerd and I’m quite proud of it. However, being thought of as a nerd brings a lot of baggage with it. For example, I’m expected to like sci-fi and fantasy.

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Thief (2014) Review

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I’m totally the wrong person to review PC games, because I don’t play a lot of them. I have, however, played through the previous Thiefs multiple times and on all difficulties, so I from that angle, I am the right person to review this.

This is based on one playthrough on the lowest difficulty level. I finished all the chapters, played a couple of them twice (because of reasons I’ll get to later) and finished all the sidequests. I have 21 achievements out of 37, but these include finishing the chapters.

Also, I was more than a bit under the weather when doing this, so that might have an impact.

Also, spoilers. Nothing major, and I’m not giving away anything gameplaywise, but still, some minor story spoilers.

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Inspiration Snowball

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This post will not be about finding inspiration. It will however be about the current state of my inspiration. 

Some time ago I started a new Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (2nd edition) campaign. All went well and we had a blast at the first time. Then we were looking for the second session and hit some bumbs while picking the date. Nothing too big on its own. But at the same time we had major issues with the security of our domain being breached. The only major outcome of this was the we lost our wiki.

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