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  I just love #TurnBased #games so much more than anything else. Especially today, where everything feels fast, loud and overwhelming, I need games that actually give me time to #think. With #RealTime you react, with #TurnBased you #plan. That is a huge difference. I sit there, analyse the #situation, think three moves ahead, and when my #strategy pays off, it feels genuinely rewarding. On top of that: #TurnBasedGames are almost always more #complex and #deep. #XCOM, #BattleTech, #TacticsOgre, t...

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  #SciFi is my favourite genre and always will be. No other storytelling form dares to ask: what if we are not alone? What if machines think? What if humanity spreads across galaxies? It builds entire worlds from scratch, where physics bends, societies evolve in strange directions, and #technology reshapes what it means to be human. #StarTrek, #Gattaca, #Interstellar, these are not just stories. They are serious questions about where we are heading and what we might become. What pulls me deepest...

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  That is exactly why I prefer #SciFi over #Fantasy. Both have their place, and #Fantasy builds breathtaking worlds with real depth and imagination. But for me personally, SciFi just hits differently. It is rooted in science, in questions we might actually face one day. Fantasy stays a world. SciFi becomes a warning, a prediction, a hope. That connection to reality is what I need. TLDR; SciFi takes real science and stretches it to the extreme. Fantasy invents rules that are internally logical, b...

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  #GrandStrategy is the closest thing to a time machine I have ever found. Games like #EuropaUniversalis, #CrusaderKings or #Victoria give me an entire world and ask: what if? What if a small dynasty conquered Europe? What if one single decision changed the course of history entirely? You rewrite the timeline, pull on one thread, and watch everything unravel differently. Every campaign is a new alternate universe worth exploring. And then there are titles like #DistantWorlds or #Stellaris, where...

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  It's only #Wednesday, 22nd of April, and I already feel like it's been a month. 🙃 #Tintin #Haddock #Comics #Mood #Humor #MidWeek #Relatable

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  One of my biggest #gaming pet peeves in #RPGs: #helmets, #hats, #caps and #capes. Don't get me wrong, if the #stats are good, I'll equip them. But 99.9% of the time I will immediately hide them visually if the #game allows it. A rogue's worn leather cap, a #thief's hood, a #warrior's iron bucket on their head... all hidden. The only exception? If an #armor piece genuinely looks stunning, we're talking a truly unique, well-designed #outfit that a...

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  #OpenSource: Free for You, Profitable for Them. OpenSource means: #software where the #sourcecode is freely available and often costs nothing. Sounds great, but there is a catch. #Companies like #Microsoft, #Google and #Amazon fund large #OpenSource #projects not out of #idealism, but because they build profitable #cloudservices on top of them and pocket the money. Small #developers who charge for their work barely stand a chance against "free". Yet thousands of hours go int...

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  So this is what a #tech giant actually looks like. #Meta is installing tracking software on US #employee systems, recording mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes via a tool called "Model Capability Initiative" (#MCI), including occasional screenshots. Goal: train #AI models so future agents can autonomously handle work tasks. #Legal experts warn this likely violates #GDPR in the #EU. In #Germany, keystroke logging is only allowed in exceptional cases. The irony: #employees...

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  Fahrt zur Hölle! Das #Kabinett hat heute beschlossen, #Internetanbieter zu verpflichten, #IP-Adressen aller #Nutzer drei Monate lang anlasslos zu speichern. Fast zehn Jahre war die #Vorratsdatenspeicherung in #Deutschland ausgesetzt. Nun kommt sie zurück, weil die #Beeinträchtigung "unbescholtener Nutzer" angeblich "überschaubar" sei. #Massenüberwachung mit freundlicher Genehmigung von #SPD und #CDU. Ich wiederhole: Fahrt - zur - Hölle! Wie oft will man der #NoAFD bitte...