Download

If you scroll down a bit (or check yesterday’s posts), you’ll probably come across remarks about the game download I did while writing and publishing those posts. Should you wonder about what happened, here is the story:

I estimated the download time quite well, the download was complete around eight o’clock yesterday evening. But it somehow went wrong, because I couldn’t start the game afterwards. So I uninstalled it again and downloaded it once more this afternoon. Unfortunately I forgot I was still downloading something and pulled the plug from my wireless LAN. Because of this, I had to start the downloading again.

The download is still running while I write this (but it’s almost finished at 97%). I just hope everything works out this time.

Third time’s a charm, or so they say. Maybe I can finally investigate about the crystal skull this time…

Edit: No such thing as luck, I've uninstalled the game for good this time.

Very late spring cleaning

No matter which of my blogs you follow (except for “Writer’s Blog,” which is new), you might have seen the changes I’ve made in the designs.

I was just fed up with the old ones and changing layouts in easy enough in Blogger.

I plan on writing more regularly again and I wanted to make a clean cut and start over anew.

Enjoy the new looks while they hold, I have no idea when I’ll make the next changes!

Economy in Germany

It’s not that bad in Germany – but close.

Update on the "Killerspiele"-problem

Well, as I have been neglecting this blog for quite a while, I’m right now doing an update on the two crusades I still follow. This post is about “Killerspiele.”

The discussion in the media has died down quite a bit by now. But then, elections are past, so the politicians don’t have to swing opinions for the next four years any longer.

The last non-politic initiative to ban “Killerspiele” has not fared that well, though. A citizen’s group ordered a huge container in which people were supposed to throw their games, in order to have them destroyed later on. The container was huge, so the three to ten (depending on whom you ask) games that were actually thrown inside did look quite ridiculous. Not a real surprise, though, because the people in Stuttgart (where this took place) are well known to be closefisted (and computer games cost around 30 euro each in Germany).

Public awareness has shifted from the whole thing, there are other, more important problems right now (with the economic crisis and all that). But the basic problem still remains. The basic problem is that people above a certain age usually have no experience of their own with computer games. Therefore, if an ‘expert’ comes along and tells them something is like this or like that, they just believe it. And most experts questioned regularly on the topic have their own, prejudiced view on computer games (or their own interests at heart).

As long as this does not change, people will think all computer games are inherently evil. And as long as that happens, I will not give up my crusade on “Killerspiele.”

Birth of a new blog

Should you, by chance, check out the link lists of this blog, you might realize there’s a new link faaaar down there. It’s the link to my new blog.

After I’ve realized I wasn’t born to write a soap opera, I’ve buried “Surely not Barbie’s Diary” and started a blog about writing instead. So, if you’re interested, check out “Writer’s Blog” right now. Admittedly, I’ve just one post up there at the moment, but others are sure to follow.

New post might occur suddenly in this blog as well – you’ve been warned!