I wasn’t lying when I said that I go to the cinema almost every week! :D Tomorrow I’ll watch the new Deadpool movie.

These ones I really enjoyed in the last few years:

• The Whale (whole room was crying at the end)
• The Quiet Girl (surprise Irish movie that made my emotions come out)
• Spy x Family - The Movie (great humour)
• Civil War (shocking images, the mood change was brutal)
• The Boy and the Heron (my first Miyazaki experience, what a wild ride)
• Wonka (I’m not into musicals, but this was awesome as fuck)
• Inside Out 2 (great orchestral soundtrack, well-written and relatable)
• No Hard Feelings (worst trailer of all time, but the movie was very wholesome and funny)
• Furiosa (I’ve watched that in IMAX with Dolby Atmos. FUCKING awesome.)
• Robot Dreams (Cute animation + Twin Towers, nice combo)
• Encanto (Disney + great plot + emotions)
• To Catch a Killer / Catch the Killer (great crime movie!)
• Barbie (they criticize Mattel and it’s really empowering for women, I liked it)
• The Batman (dark, gritty, brutal - that’s how it’s supposed to be)
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (I can’t even describe how awesome this is)
• Dungeons & Dragons (I never played DnD, but this was well-written, creative and entertaining)
• The Super Mario Bros. movie (great humour and Jack Black does an awesome singing performance)

These movies are solid. Not great, but still very enjoyable:

• The Fall Guy (cool stunts!)
• Challengers (a bit weird, but I liked the message at the end)
• Fly Me to the Moon (solid acting, interesting premise, not every joke works)
• The Bikeriders (a movie about a biker gang. Cool.)
• Dune Part I + II (great SciFi flicks, but veeery long)
• The Teachers Lounge (we produce one good movie per year here in Germany. This is one.)
• The Holdovers (good acting, but the plot was stolen from someone else, sooo…)
• Migration (very well written for a childrens movie)
• Next Goal Wins (funny soccer movie)
• The Creator (omg, those visuals!)
• A Haunting in Venice (good mystery crime movie, but don’t expect to be able to solve the riddle by yourself)
• M3GAN (another murder puppy movie, but pretty modern)

And these movies are pretty bad or just disappointing:

• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Family Drama: The Movie)
• Problemista (I wanted to like it, but it’s just weird, unfunny and incoherent)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (the disappointing fourth entry of a great trilogy)
• Miller’s Girl (this movie is just an excuse to put Jenna Ortega in tight outfits)
• Demon Slayer: Hashira Training movie (half of the movie is just a rerun of the last episodes, fuck you)
• Madame Web (bad writing, bad CGI, bad everything)
• The Beekeeper (Jason Statham kills everyone, but it was just boring)
• Wish (all bad things about past Disney movies combined into a soulless new one)
• Killers of the Flower Moon (way too long, laziest fucking ending I’ve ever seen)
• The Equalizer 3 (Walking around and nothing happens - The Movie)
• Falling for Figaro (an opera movie with the most cliche romance plot ever, total garbage)
• The Little Mermaid (all underwater scenes are dark as fuck, what is this?)
• 65 (Jurassic Park with no budget and Adam Driver)

…and then there’s also “The Zone of Interest”. I wouldn’t say I enjoyed it, but it’s definitely an experience. You could’ve heard a hairpin drop at the cinema and it was packed with people. No one bought popcorn. I wish every fascist here in Germany would be forced to watch that one and think about their stupid beliefs.

I believe the Despicable Me series peaked with the second one. Everything after that feels like soulless cashgrabs to sell Minions merch.

The only good thing about the fourth movie is the opening music.

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I like movies and I like the atmosphere at my local cinema. I’m going there almost every week. Most of the time I bring my own snacks. I think they just ignore me because I’m like…their best customer, lol. :D

I do order a drink every time. But eating popcorn or nachos every week sounds like a nightmare, and that’s all they have there.

When I was in my 20’s, I always gave 200% at the jobs I worked at. I was young and naive and believed I would eventually be rewarded for all the hard work I put in, even on weekends and night shifts.

Then I got burnout, because I was working at a pace my body just couldn’t sustain anymore.

It changed my life drastically. I learned to value my health and free time and to prioritize that over the needs of my employer. I learned that hard work doesn’t neccessarily bring you any benefits, it mostly benefits your employer. I also learned that nobody cares when your health is fucked up - for your employer, you’re just a cog in the machine that can be replaced.

Nowadays I only work four days a week and I don’t give a shit about what happens on Fridays anymore. Server is down? Not my problem, get someone else to fix it.

I also learned to stand up for myself. I’m not getting paid like a monkey anymore and if you promise me a raise and then pretend like that never happened afterwards, you’ll have my resignation on your desk, printed out by the company printer right in front of you.

Hell yeah, such an amazing show!

Same here. They’re terrible with security updates, but their hardware is actually pretty solid. I flashed OpenWRT on my router and I’m golden.

Kill the violators of the standard, resuscitate them and kill them again!

Especially if you have an office job. Get a really good and really expensive office chair with a flexible back and adjustable arm rests so you’re not sitting in the same position every time.

And also, take a walk every day. I do that every time on my break and haven’t had back problems in years.

Take care of your damn teeth. They’re important.

I’m 34 and I already lost half of my teeth. By 40 they’ll probably all be gone. It’s definitely genetics, but also very much the lazyness in my youth that caused this.

If someone in their twenties reads this: Brush your fucking teeth, seriously. I had a phase in my life where I was living with constant pain for almost a year and almost went insane. Nobody should have to live like this.

Relatable. I’ve been working in IT for over eight years now. I didn’t study it because I didn’t qualify for university and people constantly told me I am so bad at math that I would never work in the field. Here I am, doing exactly that, just because I was really interested in computer stuff in my youth and learned something new almost every day just by myself.

I was also able to study at a design school for two years. I have already used this knowlege to design brochures, logos and various other things for customers successfully. My art teacher in school always said to me I would never be able to do something like this because she just didn’t like my art style.

I’m glad I never listened to all of these people and did indeed follow my passion. The added bonus is that I actually like my job (most of the time).

No more religious things.

So we’d have to dissolve Apple as a company. I’d be fine with that.

We already have standards for media, we would just have to enforce them more rigorously.

laughs in dual Xeon v4’s

There is a curated list of “no-bullshit” mobile games, without microtransactions and all of that horrible stuff: https://nobsgames.stavros.io/

My favorites so far:

• Monument Valley 1+2
• Riptide GP: Renegade
• Badland
• Galaxy on Fire 2 HD

• Shadow Man
• Turok 1 + 2
• Quake 2 (that OST kicks ass)
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Descent 3
• Commander Keen 4-6
• PowerSlide
• Ubisoft POD (Planet of Death)
• Terminal Velocity
• Tron 2.0

The biggest part of my childhood was Shadow Man. It was the first game I ever played that built a big world to explore with excellent narration and a good sense of progress. It felt rewarding to finally play all the way through to the end after many months. Some of the levels and music gave me nightmares as a child, but it was worth it.

I enjoyed a lot of story-driven games since then, but this one will always have a special place in my heart. It’s so cool that NightDive remastered it recently.

It’s so funny that they act like they’ve reinvented the wheel by introducing a feature Android users had for years.

• proper adblocking with AdAway
• ability to patch official apps to remove ads and improve the usability with ReVanced
• being able to root the device and use HttpToolkit to analyze the data that flows from apps to the web
• extensive customization (I can choose my own launcher and keyboard application)
• proper file management, especially with Total Commander
• watching Dolby Vision .mkv files with mpv
• price (iPhones are all way too expensive)
• Apple’s stance against repairability

And this point is more hardware-related, but I’ve started to really love my Nothing Phone and its LED lights on the back, which produces amazing photos because the light is much softer than the small flash used by other phones. There isn’t a single Apple device with a feature like this. You could probably get a case, but it’s nice to have this integrated into the phone.

Im only just now getting into TikTok

Please don’t, for your own health’s sake. There is nothing of value on that platform.