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Miscellaneous Musings: Top 5 Chocolates you can (easily) get in Germany And now for something completely different! I’ve been asked by one of my readers to provide a list of my favorite German chocolates you can get around here. Well, turns out that most of them are handcrafted, rare chocolates that you can basically find nowhere…and that would...
I awoke early in the morning, giddy as a boy heading out for the first day of school. I strapped my exhibitor’s badge in and ventured forth with Jonathan and Dashiell to check out Indy and get some supplies before erecting the booth with BJ and Daniel – and, as a German hailing from one of the most notoriously unfriendly...
Miscellaneous Musings: Gencon Part I – The Trip to Indy “When I go looking for my tribe, there won’t be much that I will find.” – recently, I stumbled over this little line in one of my favorite bands’ new album and it immediately resonated with me. There is a very reasonable theory in cultural science that has disseminated...
Dear patreons, dear readers! I am back from Gencon and I had the time of my life there! It has been like homecoming for me and the chance to actually talk to some of you has been most excellent, as Bill and Ted would say. I’m not kidding when I’m saying that this was a truly superb experience…and hence, I’ll...
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by endzeitgeist · Published July 28, 2016 · Last modified July 29, 2016
Tales from the Tabletop: Year One (Comic) Okay, now for something completely different: This book clocks in at 60 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 7 pages advertisement (unless I’ve miscounted, 1 page back cover, leaving 50 pages of content, so let’s take a look! So how does this book work out? Well, basically, AAW Games publishes...
Miscellaneous Musings: Captain America – Civil War So, I saw Captain America: Civil War. Before I embark on my ramblings, let me make one thing perfectly clear – I am not opposed to the MCU-movies; in fact, I want to see them prosper. That being said, I left the movie theater with a distinct sense of being underwhelmed...
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by endzeitgeist · Published June 3, 2016 · Last modified June 16, 2017
Review/Miscellaneous Musings: The Dracula Dossier – Dracula Unredacted (System-neutral/GUMSHOE) #3 of my Top Ten of 2016 This massive hardcover clocks in at 476 pages (489 in pdf form, with cover etc. being counted among the pages), so let’s take a look! This book was moved up in my review-queue due to me receiving a print copy in exchange for...
Miscellaneous Musings: Triple X: X-men, Xenophilia and Xenophobia Part III – Ideologies In case you haven’t read the first and second part of these ruminations, here are the Links: Part I Part II All right, so we’ve analyzed the types of prejudice featured in the movies and come to a conclusion regarding potential reasons why they simply don’t...
Miscellaneous Musing: Triple X Part II – X-men and Prejudice Last time around, we observed how dichotomies work in the context of X-men movies and the failure to properly evoke the oscillation between Xenophobia and Xenophilia in them. Here’s the link, in case you missed it! Today, we’ll take a look at prejudice and jealousy, a crucial leitmotif...
Welcome, dear readers, to the first in many posts discussing miscellaneous components of geek and nerd culture in an opinionated and hopefully, informative manner! Okay, I’m going to begin this series of posts with an easy one – basically the intellectual equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel: I will try to make a point for why the first...
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