Review. Shadow Captain is book two in the Revenger  series. The sequel to  Revenger . If the monniker YA (Young Adult)  applies to Reve...

Review. Another book in another series. YA, which is fine, but it suffers from an overdose of naivety. Unfortunately.

RPG Comparing different versions of a map of a fantasy world?!? Pretty useless, this, but hey! I always wanted to do this, so when I ...

Review. The first entry in what appears to be a very long series of romance / fantasy novels. Not sure yet how good or bad they are as a...

Domotica + Dutch De afgelopen weken was het heel warm in Nederland. Maar... wanneer is het nou handig om een raam open te zetten? Wanneer h...

Review. Thief steals a memory and tries to stop a murderer from killing all four queens. Okay but not exceptional.

RPG /  5e in NL  / Dutch. In 5e heb je attack rolls en skill / ability checks. Hiervoor gooi je een 1d20, en tel je eventueel een bepaalde w...

I am not a Linux expert and never will be. But this old Netbook that's gathering dust might just get a second chance at life, so I d...

Review. I’ve picked up all three on a Dapperite’s suggestion (I think it was Jan, but not entirely sure).  Let’s start with the verdict:...

Dapper #166 has arrived (yeah, that  thing )... And I personally raised the artist who provided the front cover! Which wasn't easy ...

RPG +  5e in NL  + Dutch Na een jaar of 20 (!) nauwelijks gespeeld te hebben was het afgelopen week zo ver: ik heb (eindelijk) weer een kee...

Review. Great popcorn movie, and surprisingly true to its anime / manga roots. It didn’t do very well at the box office, so I fear we’...

Dutch De Marantz SR6011 / SR7011 (en waarschijnlijk ook de andere modellen als de SR5011, SR7010, SR7012, SR7013 enzovoorts) hebben een ...

Review. I’m getting a little superhero- tired. The Umbrella Academy is, fortunately, quirky enough to stay enjoyable. All superheroes ...

Review. He's Harry, Jim, but not as you'd know it. Sharp  and Marked  are the sequels to Clean . A future PI, former drug addi...

RPG +  5e in NL  + Dutch MeetUp is an-sich niet echt bijzonder: een website waar mensen met dezelfde interesse elkaar treffen, en afspra...

Review. What to make of this one... a fresh take on the superhero / super-villain trope, with a villain who might just be a hero. Or not...

Music After 15 years of of live concerts, rehashes and other activities Parsons finally went back into the studio and recorded The Secret...

Review. Enjoyable, somewhat nerdy space opera with lots of popular culture references and some hard SF. Include some politics, some aliens, ...

Review Though story-wise it pretty much amounts to nothing,  Cats is still a spectacle to behold. So when the London West-End cast visite...

Book Review Since Harry Potter there have been many books inspired by the tale of a young boy becoming something special in a magical settin...

Review. I'm not sure what to make of this book. The author Jake Bible wrote a number of series, and this is the first book by his ha...

Review. I've talked about this before I think (and if I did not I should have). Noir  turns out to be a superb series, contemporar...

Audiobook Review + Adrian Tchaikovsky A human generation ship returns to a terraformed world where spiders have become the dominating int...

Music Today it's all about music... Manage your collection, rip music, play music online, find new stuff, etcetera. So... Spotify, Ja...

Review. With Heroes and Heroes Reborn  finished it is time to look back. What did I think of Heroes when it surfaced, back in 2007? ...

Review. In Flipside a group of people travel back in time through a kind of 'time bubble'. The actual flipping mechanism is inte...

Review. Now here's a pleasant surprise. I've always been partial to detective stories, and SF or Fantasy 'noir', and thi...

Review. There are actually two series of books staged in the same universe. Thus far I've only read book one of the second (spin-off...

Review. The cover blurb says it all: kids are not supposed to rescue their parents. Well, in this case they do. This is a YA but it...

Review. It’s military space opera, small federation fighting big evil commonwealth, hotshot pilot becomes captain after an accident. I...

Review. Turn retirees into cannon-fodder. It's some  kind of pension, I guess...

Gaming. Review. Remember  Alan Wake ? In 2010 Remedy Entertainment and Microsoft Studios released  Alan Wake  for XBox and PC. That's al...

SQB has been updated to 0.22x. It now can launch multiple instances of Sox, vastly improving conversion speed (3 to 4 times faster in typica...

Review. Nuttall continues. The guy is  productive, I'll give him that. He either makes a lot of money, or needs to write to just c...

Review. I did watch The X-Files - Fight The Future  a the second time. (The first time back in 1999.) It was disappointing then, and it ...

Question... Assume your console sits in in the living room... and your mother in law has a Tupperware party... and there's this brand ne...

Review. Cary Caffrey isn't a household name. Not surprising being an indie, self published author, and since 2011 a mere 3 books in ...

3D Printing + Domotics +  DIY I always found 3D printing fascinating, but with too many hobbies I just never found the time to delve a ...

Review. DeChancie wrote a spoof on Star Trek , featuring the starship 'Repuls(iv)e' with its not so very capable captain, poor c...

Review. In 1999 (wow, that long ago?) I saw the first X-Files movie called Fight the Future . I wasn't that impressed. I recently...

Time travel will put everyone's brain in a knot... Here's a list of all shows I know of and / or have watched in which time tr...

Review. Can a single episode redeem a show? Yes. It can. Travelers was discontinued on regular television, but it survived on ...

Review. Sorry. I wasn't very impressed with the second season, and would have given up if I did not hear such great things about thi...

Non-games... or software that helps me to create documents, images, 2D and 3D models, preferably free... Hey, I'm even willing to pay ...

Book Review I read two different, very  different books by the same author. At first I wasn't even sure if it was the same author as...

The new Kodi is here! Keep in mind that, although Kodi looks and works mostly the same, there are some differences between the different p...

Review. In 2003 I watched the anime series  Sol Bianca - The Legacy . I never saw the 90's series it was a sequel to (couldn't find ...

Gaming + PS4 +  Dutch Ik ben de trotse bezitter van een originele PS4, een eerste generatie model welke me trouw gediend heeft de l...

Column. How many nukes do we need to destroy the world? That depends…