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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · 1d

Just when I was about to find Act II in #Silksong way better than Act I (I really liked the Cogwork Dancers), here comes Mount Fay where you need the trashy, unreliable Clawline mechanic. And I am back to: Wow, who playtested this shit?! #MountFrust

Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · 7d

Hmm. It took me around 43 hours to reach Act II in #Silksong. HowLongToBeat puts the complete main game at 27 hours. Don’t those people explore the map? I spend, e.g., over 10 hours hunting for certain abilities (I can’t actually get in Act I). Tzz.

Silksong Screenshot: Hornet next to the beaten Last Judge boss.

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · 9d

Noch eben schnell ein paar Slides zusammenklöppeln, für die #Drupal User Group heute Abend. 19:30 Uhr. Online.

Startseite der Präsentation: CSS zum Angewöhnen

Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · 14d

Wow. Another shop with even more expensive items. If I want them I can now farm, again, another 1.150 rosaries, another 30min or so gone, again. This. Is. So. Much. Fun! #Silksong

Screenshot from the videogame Silksong: A shop with expensive items

Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · 20d

TIL: William Moulton Marston, who created Wonder Woman and her Lasso of Truth (with artist Harry G. Peter) in 1941, had also contributed to the development of the polygraph (lie detector) in the years before.

Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · 22d

I am amazed at how much I hate #Silksong now. Eighteen hours in, and I only continue to play out of spite.

Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 17

I’ve put the Nerd Quiz from #dcruhr25 online. 50 questions about pop culture, #Drupal & Web stuff, and some trivia. With a few annotations.
This needed to work only on my laptop. So this is not responsive, not optimized, ~50MB. Just zoom in/out. Navigate with arrow keys.
talesof.me/nerdquiz/dcr...

Nerd Quiz @ DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025

50 Questions about pop culture, Drupal, the Web, and the World

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 15

??? Du warst doch weitgehend auf denselben Special-Interest-Veranstaltungen wie ich. Wer im Glashaus sitzt …

Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 15

Das war nun das siebte DrupalCamp in Essen seit 2010; das Fünfte, das ich mitorganisiert habe. Recht beharrlich für so ein Special-Interest-Camp.

Drupal User Group Ruhr / DUG Ruhr @drupalruhr.bsky.social · Sep 15

DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025 is over. 2 Days, 73 Participants, 2 Keynotes, 26 Sessions and Discussions, 2 Get Togethers, 1 Nerd Quiz. And 12 Sponsors, who made it all possible. A big Thank You to everybody who participated in and contributed to the event. See you next time.
#drupal #dcruhr25

The phrase »thank you« over lots of cards with the titles of the sessions from DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025

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Reposted by Nicolai Schwarz

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 15

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Line chart showing that there's been a rapid escalation in how quickly the world installs a gigawatt of solar power capacity.

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 11

Das nächste Nerd Quiz ist fertig gepackt und wartet auf seinen großen Auftritt morgen Abend.

Drupal User Group Ruhr / DUG Ruhr @drupalruhr.bsky.social · Sep 11

DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025 will feature a new Nerd Quiz on Friday evening. Build teams of three, answer some questions, and win some prizes. More info about the last two quizzes and the new prizes here: drupalcamp.ruhr/en/nerdquiz
#drupal #dcruhr25

Reposted by Nicolai Schwarz

Drupal User Group Ruhr / DUG Ruhr @drupalruhr.bsky.social · Sep 10

We have published a timetable for DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025. Please note that we have a Barcamp component in the morning, where new sessions, discussions, BOFs etc. will emerge. So some sessions might move around a bit. #dcruhr25 #drupal
drupalcamp.ruhr/en/timetable

Timetable | DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 8

13h in and I am calling it: #Silksong is one of the most unfun, most annoying games I have ever played! It is beautiful & has lots of good parts. But the annoying stuff overshadows everything else. I will play a bit longer, just to see if I stumble upon the area where they have hidden the fun. #meh

Screenshot of an annoying platform sequence

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 8

#Silksong #haha Seen on Reddit.

The reason it took so long to come out
emoji:troll:
Team cherry was trying to beat the game before they released it.

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 7

At the moment (8 hours in) I agree. I didn’t expect to have this level of no-fun with the game. I have lots of other games in my backlog. At this moment I am close to: I don’t care about Silksong anymore.

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 6

#Silksong: The Bird Wave Challenge in Greymoor is the most unfun shit I have played all year. Those erratic movements are killing me. I already wasted more time on this than on all the bosses that came before. #AllRageNoFun

Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 6

Seven hours in and #Silksong is more annoying than fun. Everything is way too expensive. Getting hit while healing is such a bad experience. Fetch 25 items quests are lame. And that fucking birds …
Still a good game, but boy, Hollow Knight felt much better.

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 5

Fine. Beat her three minutes later. But still. I don’t like that fight. Too erratic for me.

Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 5

Wow. That Lace fight is draining all the fun out of #Silksong for me.

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 5

I am actually looking forward to present my super fancy frontend solution to a backend problem.

Drupal User Group Ruhr / DUG Ruhr @drupalruhr.bsky.social · Sep 5

With so many Best Practices floating around at DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025, we decided to counter those with some light-hearted »Bad Practices«. Don’t try this at home! #dcruhr25 #drupal
drupalcamp.ruhr/en/sessions

DrupalCamp Ruhr 2025, Lightning Talk: »Bad Practices
Showcase«, Images/Avatars of Nicolai Schwarz, Jan Stöckler and Tobias Zimmermann

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 5

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a little add-on for this theme called »Tonic« (but it seems that project name is already taken).

drupal.org @drupal.org · Sep 4

Big news for Drupal core: Gin will become the new default admin theme, replacing Claro. With work underway to bring Gin into core by Drupal 11.3, we’re excited about the improvements this will bring to the admin experience.

Read more about the plan here: www.drupal.org/about/core/b...

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 4

It would have been really funny if Steam had prepared a Silksong reference for this error page. Soemthing like a shrugging Hornet. #steam #error #silksong

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 4

Silksong will kick off the weekend for me at 4 p.m. And I am one of those who would have easily paid 30, maybe 40 Euro for the game. #justtakemymoney
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGe...

Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Trailer

YouTube video by Team Cherry

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Sep 1

In diesem Jahr habe ich zum ersten Mal nicht all meine Folien in 45 Minuten geschafft. – Es waren 204 Slides. Zwar nur halbseitig, aber jeweils mit neuem Inhalt.

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Nicolai Schwarz @talesof.me · Aug 27

Muahahaha. Ich habe im Januar 2022 meinen Schreibtisch zusammengebaut. Bis auf ein optionales Element. Das habe ich nun nachgeholt. 5 Minuten Arbeit, es anzubringen. Plus die zwei Stunden, die ich gebraucht habe, um die Schrauben wiederzufinden. #WasDuHeuteKannstBesorgen