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TI3 is Awesome

I’ll make a proper review later, just a little note here that my first proper game of Twilight Imperium 3 (proper as in “not me playing against myself”) was awesome
I learned some lessons regarding what makes sense when teaching the game, found out that the things I linked in my last post on [...]

John Searle’s Chinese Room

I attempted to show in a paper that my counter arguments to Searle’s Chinese Room don’t prove that there can be such a thing as strong AI, but that at least they go to show that Searle’s attempt at proving there can’t be has failed, and as such the question whether strong AI can exist is as of yet still unresolved.

Circumventing Google’s Monopoly

I just wrote this as a comment as an answer to a post on Meinungsfreiheit.li about the Google monopoly – and I think it might fit here too. His point was that Google is collecting data from everywhere, about everyone, and while that’s well-known for some time, there are working countermeasures too.
The Problem
A better title [...]

Review: Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2

My first review on this blog, and I’m starting off with something easy: Team Fortress 2, the most recent hype shooter by Valve. This game was released October 10, 2007, and originally available only as part of the Orange Box or through Steam. Meanwhile you find it solo in stores as well.
So, it’s [...]

Twilight Imperium Tech by Unit

Skip the intro if you’re “just” interested in what this thing actually is And if all you’re really looking for is a tech tree, I suggest this one.
Intro
So I bought Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition last week nearly two weeks ago (gee…), and got to play some … well, solitaire test games with 1v1 [...]

It Starts…

OK, we’re all set I’m quite happy with the way the site turned out now. Setting up WordPress was a breeze, I found a theme that I quite liked in Elements of SEO, adapting it wasn’t a big problem – the header image is a screenshot from that UT3 map I made, VCTF-Harbour.
The [...]

Hello World Indeed!

So I have a blog again, after what must have been years without. Gonna set up themes and whatnot first, before I start writing for real. The current design is not mine and therefore just temporary, although I must admit it looks quite nice.
I’ll do very irregular updates, mainly longer posts about things that bug [...]

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