Tobolds

My apologies for the title being a stupid pun in German, I'm aware that most of you won't understand it, and one can't really explain puns without destroying them. The title is about me *not* being at the Spiel 2026 fair in Essen, unlike the previous years, and thus not having much meaningful things to say about it. That won't stop me from writing this blog post. :)
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I started using computers in 1981, now 45 years ago, with a ZX81. After a few ZX computers, somewhere around 1987 I got the first computer that looked like a computer, an Amiga 2000. And while I used that computer for years, and played many games on it, there are only a handful of Amiga games I actually remember. Among those was an economic management game called Ports of Call. ...

American viewers of news this week might have seen images from town halls burning in France, and thought that France must be a horrible country. French teenagers and young people took to the streets in large numbers to protest against the state of the education system, and to express their desperation towards their financial and work outlook. I would argue, that while of course ...

My progress in Transport Fever 3 is somewhat hampered by the fact that I cannot play it for more than an hour or two before the game makes me nervous. It is in my character to want to do things immediately. I have a mental list of things to do, and when that list gets overloaded, I feel bad. Transport Fever 3 is one of those games where there is way too much things to do, and th...

Different people have different values. There are some fundamental values like "thou shalt not kill" that most people agree about, but even in that case there are fierce debates about allowable exceptions. And there are a bunch of minor values that differ a lot between people in function of cultural factors, age, and upbringing. So I hold a minor value that not very many other p...