Recent content by geierkreisen

Don't know if the following deserves its own thread, so I'll post it here. Having seen Iron Man 3 yesterday, there are quite a few ideas running around in my brain. I'm especially bugged by reviewers who can't forgive the film and its director one single flaw: to change the concept of the...

- transport costs: Most of the paper I buy in Germany has never had to cross continents (Skandinavia --> Germany) to get to where I am, unlike electronic gadgetry that is almost exclusively made in Asia. Short route transport by truck or train beats long route transport by ship or plane any day...

The OP's idea of an American revolution reveals a stunning simplicity...of the OP's mental faculties. A. A revolution of a majority of the American people against their government is improbable because you live in a democratic country that is divided into two partisanships of nearly the same...

You made me a sad panda there. What you are writing is basically what I wrote some posts ago. But that's okay. You're still my hero.

Eat a lot of potatos and potato-based food. Cheapest surefire way to put weight on as it has one of the highest carbohydrate counts in food as well as some handy vitamins. I suggest potato knödels with gravy (...

My 2 cents: 1. Sleep deprivation = obesity. Find the right sleep cycle for you (Everything over 6 hours/day should be fine. I can't sleep over 8 hours without getting the meanest of headaches, though). When I get home from work, I often powernap for 20-30 mins to recharge, not more. If...

I don't eat as consciously as I want to most of the time and sometimes also buy food which is too cheap and tastes like crap. But when I started investing more in food, on the other hand, I found out that buying fresh seasonal vegetables is actually way cheaper than buying meat at the same...

1. In every country with a working health care system, you have to declare if you do extreme sports and your insurance goes high up. Private insurance, on the other hand, doesn't even insure people with known (physical up until now) addiction problems. If you don't want the government to tackle...

I'm German and I don't find kraut offensive, because it...well...it's funny. Way funnier than having idiots making Hitler jokes as soon as there is news about Germany on the Escapist. N24 is indeed as close as you can get to Fox News and I have a habit of staying as far away as I can from...

I am not a citizen of this country which has been terrorized and traumatized by 9/11. But I still honestly feel glad that you and your people can feel satisfaction and even some kind of closure, most of all those who have lost someone during the attacks or the subsequent times. It was a...

Might be because the development team has a lot of credibility here in its homeland Germany and Risen (as well as the Gothic series) was rather successful here as well. I must say that I'm a bit astonished that the trailer was shown in Germany with an English dub though. But aiming for an...

I had to watch a German dubbed version of Rango 5.30 PM in the afternoon with a two-thirds empty theatre and way too many families with small kids. ...and I totally forgot everything while watching the movie. I once said that the day I'd enjoy a dubbed masterpiece I'd twist a knee-cap off...

This idea screams for an Elric-style dark roleplaying game in which you are introduced as a saviour to your fantasy kingdom, having won the ultimate war against a dark race of thingamajiggs. The problem is, one of their sorcerers which you had killed in the "final fight" (AKA the tutorial)...

Apology accepted. My reply wasn't quite nice as well. See, we neither have that strong First Amendment right to free speech in our constitution, nor do we have a very strong libertarian movement. But I am a Green social liberal which puts me in a rather difficult position here: artistic freedom...

1. Censorship is circumvented regularly and as such nothing problematic here in Germany 2. (and the rest)...I was being sarcastic, because I just hate it when Germany is treated like a police state, near-third-world country, mini-version of Sovjet Russia, or still-somewhat-Third-Reich-y...