Why I’d never pre-order anything anymore, and why you shouldn’t either. Pre-Orders are ruining our games. — New games are always ever so exciting. What wouldn’t we give to just start playing right after the announcement? So, we instead soothe our urges of “getting that game — now!” by pre-ordering it. Money is spent, the game is reserved for us and we feel like we have accomplished…

Supporting unions and collective bargaining benefits every employee more than individual negotiation. The American opinion on labor unions has to change; unions are beneficial — Large companies like Amazon, Delta Airlines, Tesla, Kellogg's, and Walmart oppose their employees joining labor unions. Even worse: These companies are actively trying to discourage their employees from unionizing by punishing those that do!

Documenting other people’s misery feels awful but it’s necessary to inform the world about what’s happening. How do crisis photographers manage to go through with it? I couldn’t! — Fairly recently, I’ve experienced a large-scale natural disaster firsthand myself. It was by no chance deliberate. Routines ceased to exist; normal life just stopped. There was nothing I could do. I just wanted to get my mind off things. Sitting at home and doing nothing was getting on my nerves…

Allegedly, only about 5% of Medium writers make more than $100 a month. I am not one of them, but I will be — after some time. With sheer quantity. — It’s just a numbers game. The more you write, the more you earn. A single story doesn’t even have to earn $50 a month or even $10 a month. You just need to have enough stories that earn little but consistently. And you need a lot of them. On top…

I chose Medium because there were no restrictions to writing. No restrictions to address a large audience. No restrictions to getting paid for your writing. — So, recently, out of the blue, Medium announced changes to their Partner Program once again. Instead of being able to earn directly for your first metered and viral article, you’re now forced to get 100 followers and publish once every six months to be eligible for their Partner Program.

The recent “Odyssey” expansion highlights the fundamental flaws of Elite Dangerous and Frontier Developments. The seven-year-old game will probably not live till its tenth birthday. — I wish you could prove me wrong. The good days are over. Elite Dangerous will probably only go downhill from here. So far, I have spent more than 64 days (1540 hours) of my life sitting in front of my computer playing Elite Dangerous. I did everything the game had…

Curation doesn’t matter — at least for me it doesn’t. You’re better off optimizing your stories for search engines if you want to go viral. — Key to being a good writer is not necessarily just to write quality content. It’s to be seen. …

Natural disasters will become a regular occurrence in Germany. We should prepare accordingly, stop climate change and act now. The problem has finally arrived in our backyards. — It all started with some light rain in the early morning hours on the 14th of July 2021. I got to my car, drove to work. It slowly started to pour. The streets went under; within minutes the street was flooded. At first, I didn’t think much of it. Heavy…

Star Citizen’s Release is like nuclear fusion, just a couple of years away. But despite pumping more and more money into this project, it might be doomed to fail. — Delays are common. Many promises have been made, but most haven’t been fulfilled so far. And yet, Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) receives more and more funding — both from individual players as well as “large scale investors”. Five years ago, people said “Star Citizen would finish in two years”; yet…