The title says it all. Yesterday I went to the movies and watched »John Rambo« (aka »Rambo« in the US). Oh my God, what a splendid movie! More than half a year ago (or even earlier?) I saw the first trailer and it swept me off my feet. It was absolutely oldschool like the former Rambo parts, but with a lot more violence and gore. Being a fan of the old movies, the decision to watch it came straight away.
This morning I traveled with some friends of mine to Hamburg city. Although we’re all soccer fans, this was not the reason for visiting the city state. I personally think, HSV just stinks, except when they are loosing against Werder Bremen or winning against Bayern München. Nevertheless we wanted to take a look at the Miniatur Wunderland, located in the famous «Speicherstadt». Miniatur Wunderland is a model railway attraction in Hamburg, Germany, the largest of its kind in the world.
As some of you have probably noticed Stefan Raabs SSDSDSSWEMUGABRTLAD (“Stefan sucht den Superstar, der singen soll was er möchte und gerne auch bei RTL auftreten darf”) recently finished with Stefanie Heinzmann as its winner. There were obviously many talented singers at the final elimination stage and the 18year old Swiss won with hear song «My man is a mean man» which I really like, although I normally don’t listen to this kind of music in general.
On myvideo.de, a German pendant to Youtube you can take a look at the final performance of My man is a mean man. I really like the song and wanted to listen to it from time to time. Therefore I tried to save it to my hard disk, but withouth the Flash video (for this kind of task you could use something like UnPlug if you use Firefox, and I think you should do that). So as I was using Windows XP I could easily set my stereo output of my soundcard as the recording input. But setting this under Vista took me some time, because some steps have to be performed to record what is currently played.
A couple of days ago was our (almost) weekly Dungeons & Dragons gaming session. Our party at that time consisted of 8 heroes, although we’re only 4 players and one Dungeon Master (DM). Therefore every one of us plays two characters. This ensures a good mixture of different character types for almost every possible situation were different skills and abilities are required. My two characters were:
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The other characters of our party are a few levels higher than mine. The average level was probably between 11 and 13. The main problem on the last Saturday was the fact that our DM is a little bit unconscious about taking into account the challenge rating of our enemies. So we had to fight about 15 enemies lead by a cleric with a challenge rating (CR) of about 16. For people who are not familiar with an appropriate challenge rating: an enemy group with a CR of 16 is a suitable challenge for 4 to 6 characters of the same level (16 in this case). As you can probably reason, this was a pretty tough task. At the end of the encounter 2 of our characters had passed away. Unfortunately one of them was my fighter Nethard.