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10 May 2023

The Castle in the Sky

The topic of job search kept me occupied for several months now. During this whole process I often thought about which jobs would be a great fit for me other than those to which I usually applied. In particular, while I was in Berlin two weeks ago for an internship that is about to end, I visited a small board gaming club, and inspired by that, an outrageous idea started brewing inside of me. It made me think about what I would do with my life if I had unlimited funds and wouldn’t need to worry about my career. Actually […]

20 April 2023

The many layers of Arthur Morgan

I would like to express a massive SPOILER WARNING for this entire post. If you ever plan to play Red Dead Redemption 2 and would like to not have your enjoyment of it ruined, I urge you to NOT continue reading! Just to put things into context, I would like to point out that I have not played Red Dead Redemption (1), and I only familiarized myself with the story of this game after I played Red Dead Redemption 2. If you know all the games, you will know that knowing certain things will change your perception of certain characters […]

29 March 2023

Disconnected

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16 March 2023

Mord mit Aussicht

Ich gucke ja viel Zeug (wie man sieht, wenn man sich mal durch meine Reviews klickt), aber etwas das ich sehr selten gucke, sind deutsche Produktionen. Es gibt ungefähr 2 deutsche Filme, die ich in den letzten ~30 Jahren wirklich gut fand, und ebenso ungefähr 2 deutsche Serien (Der Tatortreiniger und Dark). Als Fan vom Tatortreiniger habe ich schon vor längerer Zeit von der Serie Mord mit Aussicht gehört, da sie von denselben Produzenten ist und denselben Schauspieler hat (Bjarne Mädel). Ich weiß ehrlich gesagt nicht, warum ich so lange gebraucht habe, um mir die Serie endlich mal anzusehen. Und […]

9 March 2023

Interview with the Vampire, re-told

One of the most famous vampire books of recent cultural history, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire has received a new adaptation last year by American TV network AMC — producer of another bunch of shows full of undead, The Walking Dead and its numerous spin-offs that I lost track of. Interview with the Vampire was previously adapted as the 1994 movie with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst, which I enjoyed back in its day. As this movie is almost 30 years old now, AMC seemed to believe it was time for something more modern, and IMHO they […]

2 March 2023

Back to Work

Today is my second day of re-entering the workforce, and it’s been challenging for me – mentally and physically. Yesterday I started to work in an agency for UX, branding and conversation design, and will continue to do so full time for the next three months. My focus will be on conversation design, chatbot user experience, and related topics. I believe that this will be an interesting and educational time for me, and is a good fit for my experience in linguistics and research, as well as for my background in design. However, on a mental and personal level, going […]

28 February 2023

Friendship

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23 February 2023

Stone and Sky: Andor

I am by no means a Star Wars fangirl – at least not ever since George Lucas sold his soul to Disney. I do love the original trilogy, with Empire Strikes Back being my unrivaled favorite of the Star Wars saga. However, I stopped following most Star Wars content that Disney continues to throw at us after The Last Jedi. I actually enjoyed the latter—it was very funny, perhaps too funny—but I did not even watch The Rise of Skywalker after I heard that it basically retcons all of Last Jedi and seems to overall have made bad plot decisions. […]

16 February 2023

The World of Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West

About a year and a half ago, I first discovered the world of Horizon in the video game Horizon: Zero Dawn. I was absolutely enamored with this world. It’s so strange and primordial, yet it’s so familiar that it makes you feel like a stranger on your own planet. Horizon is the world about 1000 years into the future, in which an apocalypse has caused humanity to be reverted to tribes of hunter-gatherers. And discovering that world was an absolutely fascinating experience, which went hand in hand with the story of this game. In this game, you play as Aloy, […]