21st Century Digital Boy

Since I keep seeing horrendous misconceptions pop up about how game censorship, ratings and the like work in Germany, I felt the urge to clarify matters hopefully once and for all. This should be a fairly comprehensive explanation of how games are rated, “banned” and banned in Germany and how the entire “robots for blood [...]

Take that, bitches

So I bought Tomb Raider: Anniversary recently. On the Wii. After they heard about that, friends of mine mentioned that Eurogamer slagged it very bad. I was worried for a bit, until I actually played the game.
I’ve played to about halfway through the Egypt episode now, and I’m afraid I’ll have to be a dick [...]

So I was at Bloodstock Open Air last week and had crazy amounts of fun. The Korpiklaani moshpit was FUCKING EPIC, big <3 to all involved. Happy Little Boozer and Beer Beer in particular were glorious. Pretty much my other favourite band of the weekend was Finntroll - even though their show wasn’t quite what [...]

QTTabBar (XP, Vista) is a freeware addon for Windows Explorer which adds tabs, a quick search bar, a drop-down menu for navigating subdirectories, preview tooltips for various image formats, a customisable application launcher and god knows what else. Really, really nice little thing. The only thing I don’t quite like is that there’s no option [...]

So I’ve (re-)discovered a clone of my favourite shmup EVAR not too long ago and figured I should share the love. This game is EXCELLENT. WELL DONE. ACE. KILLER.
Typhoon 2001, being a clone of Tempest 2000 (that being an excellent remake of the 1981 arcade game Tempest by the similarly-excellent Jeff Minter) is about Shooting [...]

This is pretty freaking awesome. Reduced the amount of space I take to store all of these Tesco bags (which I use as trash bags) massively, and they’re easier to get to than “in a large plastic bag below the sink” as well.

So I had a bunch of old breadrolls lying around that I was going to throw away. I had already opened the bin when I realised - wait, no, bread dumplings! The recipe of which I shall now share.
Dumplings (6-8pcs)

6 dry breadrolls (a day old is good, works with older ones as well)
1/8l milk
2 [...]