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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 24/09/2026

I'd have put Anno 1404, but they didn't have the nice cover. Single entries are a stand-in for the full series (X, HZD, BG3). Honourable Mentions: VA11 Hall-A (no nice cover art available, wouldn't know where to fit), Stardew Valley (also, space problem). (Prbly more mentions the longer I think...)

The 9-games meme grid, filled with:
Anno 1800, The Witcher 3, X - Beyond the Frontier, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Outer Wilds, Return of the Obra Dinn, Nier: Automata, Baldur's Gate 3, and the Mass Effect Trilogy.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 16/08/2026

A Thing I've Read 15/26: All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge III), by William Gibson The third and final entry in the Bridge-trilogy returns characters of the previous two novels to the titular bridge, where something civilisation-shatteringly enormous is supposed to happen.

The cover of All Tomorrow's Parties, by William Gibson.
On a black background it shows on the bottom a massively overexposed photonegative of a part of a suspension bridge, turning more painfully white the further down one looks.
In the upper middle, author, title, and a quote are shown in very blocky letters, with the words "title", "author", and "quote" pointing to their respective elements.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 27/07/2026

A Thing I've Read 14/2026 There is no Antimemetics Division, by qntm This was originally an SCP fan-fiction, for proper commercial publication the serial number got filed off, but it's very much an SCP fiction.

The Cover of There is no Antimemetics Division by qntm
It shows a a dark forest expanding in the distance over hills, fog hanging around, under a sunset-sky in reds and yellows. Author and title are written in blocky letters on the upper and lower part.
Prominently in the middle of the picture and the forest stands a gigantic black monolith, slightly askew.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 22/07/2026

A Thing I've (re-)Read 13/2026 Valuable Humans in Transit, and other stories, by qntm A short story collection. A science-fiction short-story collection, to be exact.

The cover of Valuable Humans in Transit, and other stories, by qntm:
It shows a Very Large antenna complex, emerging in form of a high pole out of a bowl shaped valley, clearly artificially build, in front of a dust-and-ash-cloud that is rolling at an angle over the background and will soon hit the structure.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 30/06/2026

A Thing I've Read 12/2026: The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches, by Rich Larson This is a collection of 30 pieces of micro-fiction, between one and three pages long, all of them scifi-adjunct, none of them bad.

The cover of The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches, by Rich Larson.
It shows a broad-stroked, Blade-Runner-y, cyberpunk-y street scene, with author and title over it in big, shining white letters, and the first part of the title glitching out.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 10/06/2026

I can think of exactly one reaction to that. Seriously, if a statement one disagrees with is enough to leave the essay? Let them leave.

upper left: stick figure who has just interrupted a discussion saying something unhinged.
upper right: more stick figures having aforementioned discussion. on of them gives a thumbs up saying okay.
lower: single stickfigure is dumbfounded that their attempt to incite an argument did not work. the group is back at it, smiling.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 20/05/2026

A Thing I've Read 11/2026: Idoru (Bridge II), by William Gibson This is the story about a rockstar wanting to marry a virtual Idol.

The cover of Idoru, by William Gibson.
On a black background it shows on the right a photonegative of a long-haired person with big, dark glasses.
On the left, author, title, and a quote are shown in very blocky letters, with the words "title", "author", and "quote" pointing to their respective elements.
The quote says "cyberpunk doesn't come any more stylish than that" and is from a "Sunday Telegraph", and I have Some Questions about this.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 16/05/2026

Die schrittweise Entmündigung lässt nicht nach.

Eine Glocke mit dem Schriftzug "B.V.G." im Eisenbahnmuseum Darmstadt-Kranichstein, darunter ein Schild "bitte nicht läuten!".

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 19/04/2026

Wir werden schrittweise entmündigt.

Ein Photo einer Flugzeugturbine, mehr schlecht als recht sichtbar ist die Aufschrift auf einer Finne: "no step".

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 07/04/2026

A Thing I've Read 09/26 The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde I have *no* idea how to properly talk about this one. It sure is a Jasper Fforde-book. Okay. It is set in an alternative (and somewhat phantastical) Britain, and it follows the Literary Detective Thursday Next ...

The cover of The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde.
It shows a stylized hilly landscape with a lake in the background, several trees on the side, and yellow flowers. Through the middle of it bursts a sports car, painted in red, green and blue psychodelic stripes, around it white tears like the backside of a torn canvas.
The author's name is written in white block letters on the top, beneath that is the title in black-and-red-rimmed yellow letters, the words wedge-shaped in two blocks forming most of a rectangle.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 15/03/2026

Eine Sache die ich gehört habe 08/2026 Die Känguru-Rebellion, von Marc-Uwe Kling. Viel schönes dabei.

Das Cover der Känguru-Rebellion, von Marc-Uwe Kling.
Es zeigt auf weißen Hintergrund ein in grellem Pink gespraytes Känguru, das seine im Boxhandschuh steckende rechte Pfote in die Höhe reckt.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 04/03/2026

A Thing I've Read 07/26: Virtual Light (Bridge I), by William Gibson This is not a Sprawl-tale. I am both happy and sad about that. This is, as per the cover-quote, a tech-thriller, and it is very much set in a cyberpunk-ian dystopia, ...

A Cover for Virtual Light, by William Gibson.
Is shows in what looks to me like a photo-negative a small bike tire with a brake disc nearly as big as itself in the upper part.
In the lower part the author, the title and a quote from Wired magazine about the book are printed in blocky letters, each of them pointed at by the words "author", "title", and "quote" followed by a ">>".

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 16/02/2026

Today was a good day. #spoilers for two more arcane Outer Wilds achievements and a very early Hollow Knight one.

A screenshot of Outer Wilds Echoes of the Eye, taken when getting the 1/900 achievement.

A screenshot of Outer Wilds, taken when getting the Hotshot achievement.

A screenshot of Hollow Knight, taken when getting the Falsehood achievement.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 15/02/2026

A Thing I've (re-)Read 04/2026 Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson Okay, bear with me, this is a WILD one. Snow Crash begins with the story of how our hero and protagonist Hiroaki Protagonist loses his job as a deliverator for the Nova Sicilia franchulate...

$A cover for Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson. It shows on a beige background red abstract shapes, not quite but somewhat fractal-ish, and some very small icons and textpieces as if on microfinche.$

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 15/02/2026

A Thing I've Watched 04/2026 KPop Demon Hunters A well animated movie with almost disturbingly catchy songs, and despite some moments of "wait what" a pretty decent story about, well, a group of demon hunters who in this day and age work their magic as k-pop band...

A poster for KPop Demon Hunters.
It shows the three protagonists in their demon hunting gear with weapons drawn in front of a promotional poster of their band, Huntrix, showing closeups of the three in their stage-outfits.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 30/01/2026

scary scary scary scary

Ein Photo von einem Computerbildschirm. Darauf ein Icon "Install Linux Mint", der Cursor schwebt daneben.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 25/01/2026

A Thing I've Watched 03/2026 Pacific Rim del Toro's take on a Kaiju-vs-Jaeger-movie (read: "del Toro's take on Evangelion") was an absolute insane joy to watch. It has giant monsters, giant mechas piloted by pairs of pilots, giant monsters fistfighting with giant mechas, ...

A Poster for Pacific Rim.
It shows one of the Jaegers, the Gipsy Danger, prominently in the foreground, stepping through coastal waters. In the waters behind it are two other units, and a fourth one being lifted in by helicopters. The vague outline of a city is visible in the background, a in the front an already small fishing boat is dwarfed by the towering Jaeger.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 25/01/2026

A Thing I've (re-)Watched 02/2026 Repo! The Genetic Opera This absolutly wild ride of a self-styled goth rock opera was even more wild than I had remembered. A world where you better stay on top the payments for your replacement organs, otherwise the repo man will come to take it back, ...

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 25/01/2026

A Thing I've Watched 01/2026 Tron: Ares It's been a long while since I've watched something this irrelevant. There's a skeleton of an interesting story somewhere in there, and it sure looks vaguely like Tron-movie 🤷‍♂️

A poster for Tron: Ares.
It shows the titular character looking out over a bay in front of a city, over which a Recognizer and a bunch of flying thingies are looming. He holds a triangular Identity Disc, and next to him a Light Cycle is parked. Every single Tron-Element displays red markings, and a red haze colours the picture.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 22/01/2026

A Thing I've (re-)Read 04/2026 Burning Chrome, by William Gibson The short story collection that, well, collects Gibson's stories that built the foundation for the Sprawl-trilogy. It contains ten stories, of which I remembered the grand total of three - re-read books, you're in for surprises.

A cover for Burning Chrome, by William Gibson.
The publisher stays on-theme with yet another disorienting collage of facades and roofs.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 21/01/2026

A Thing I've played 01/2026 Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye (DLC) This one is... difficult. I love the story, and how it broadens and contextualizes the story of the main game. I adore the location, which as a singular place works well to integrate it in the setting, but leads to...

A promotional picture for Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye.
It shows the hatchling in their suit wading through a dark and forested wetland, holding a lantern in front of them.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 21/01/2026

A Thing I've (re-)Read 03/2026 Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson The third book of the Sprawl-Trilogy... I don't want to say "wraps up", because that's not what's happening, but it finishes telling the events set in motion with the Straylight-run.

The cover of Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
As the other two Sprawl-series-covers, it shows a disorienting collage of rooftops and facades.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 12/01/2026

A Thing I've (re-)Read 02/2026 Count Zero, by William Gibson Where the first book of the Sprawl-trilogy was very narrowly focused on Case, the band of runners he got pressed into, and the Straylight-run, the second book takes a vastly different approach:

The cover of Count Zero, by William Gibson.
As the one for Neuromancer, it shows a very disorienting collage of rooftops and facades without any apparent respect for perspective.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 08/01/2026

A Thing I've Read 01/2026 Neuromancer, by William Gibson Technically a re-read, but also the first time I've read this fundamental, genre-building piece of cyberpunk in the english version.

The cover, or probably rather A Cover of Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
It shows, I think, a very disorienting... It is very disorienting, by design, and it shows either a top-down photo of rooftops or a collage of rooftops and facades, and I think it's the latter.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 02/01/2026

Account 3 Jahre nicht mehr genutzt. Account jetzt endlich mal komplett zugemacht. Symbolbild.

Das große X, das im CCH den Saal X kennzeichnet, daneben ein Schild "formerly known as twitter".

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 31/12/2025

A Thing I've Read 19/2025 The Fortunate Fall, by Cameron Reed This one was recommended as a non-techbro-y cyberpunk novel, and that's a pretty good description.

The cover of The Fortunate Fall, by Cameron Reed.
It shows a close-up of a human eye overlayed with camera objective.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 09/12/2025

A Thing I've Read 18/2025 Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu After reading Dracula a while ago I made the plan to also read the other works of historic vampire fiction, and Carmilla is in many points quite clearly an inspiration (and known to be one) for Stokers far more well known work.

The cover of Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
It's a black-and-white print illustration, showing two young women, one sitting and one standing, amids a forest. In the background, a funeral procession can be seen.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 02/12/2025

Pilot! If I decide to go again, I'll probably aim for Engineer or Marine.

A Larp-character, wearing an orange jacket over a black tee, dogtags, mirror shades and a cap with two nametags "Romero" and "Control".

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 01/12/2025

A Thing I've (re-)Read 16/2025 Nona The Ninth (Locked Tomb III), by Tamsyn Muir The story of A— in the body of H— following the events of second book, the story of the last few days in the life of Nona and her "family" of Camilla, Palamedes and Pyrrha trying to figure out...

The cover of Nona The Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
It shows in front of a space-y background with a blue nebula and a planet or moon the titular character, a slim woman with long black hair and golden eyes. She wears a dark t-shirt with a print and an oversized jacket falling from her shoulders.
Nona is framed on the left by the six-legged dog Noodle and on her right by a skeleton.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 29/11/2025

from an ad for a kickstarter, where creators clearly have lost all contact to what cyberpunk even means 🙄

"Inspired by Cowboy Bebop and Akira, our award-winning cyberpunk series follows an elite Neo Tokio police unit hunting a mass mind hacker."

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 22/11/2025

Wir werden schrittweise entmündigt!!!11eins-elf

Verbotsschilder an einem Baggersee, von oben nach unten:
Surfen verboten
Betreten der Eisfläche verboten
Schwimmen verboten

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 12/10/2025

A Thing I've Played Outer Wilds This is.. so good. You play as the inhabitant of a (very small) solar system, trying to figure out what the hell is going on. And that's all I can say without spoilers.

A Poster for Outer Wilds.
It shows in an oil-painting-style the protagonist roasting marshmellows in front of a campfire in a forest, with the spacecraft parked next to him. In the sky some of the planets of the game's solar system can be seen.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 07/10/2025

A Thing I've Read 15/2025 Shift (Silo II), by Hugh Howey The second book of the Silo trilogy is just as much of a page-turner as the first one. It starts in more-or-less current times and expands along several locations and timeslines on the background of the setting, ...

The cover of Shift, second book of Silo-trilogy, by Hugh Howey.
In blue and white colours, it shows a walkway between two slanted walls made from large elements. On the end of the corridor there is a double-door, above which a bright white light illuminates the scene. Two thirds of the way the silhouette of a person can be seen, moving towards the door.
On the lower edge of the cover the author's name is written in solid white letters, and above that the book title, starting solid white on the bottom and being overlayed towards the top with a CRT colour matrix.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 04/10/2025

A Thing I've (re-)Read 14/24 Stories Of Your Life and others, by Ted Chiang After Eclipse I felt a need to re-read the titular Stories Of Your Life, which was the inspiration for Contact, which was an inspiration for Eclipse. And then I already had the thing open, so why not.

The cover of Stories Of Your Life and others, by Ted Chiang.
It shows the title in the middle and the author in the bottom in big yellow block-letters, the lines filled up by thick yellow blocks, in front of a white root-structure on black ground.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 08/09/2025

A Thing I've Read 13/25 Wool (Silo I), by Hugh Howey The world is a giant underground silo. The outside is toxic. The order of society must be preserved at all costs, lest humanities last outpost crumbles to dust. Of course nothing goes ever wrong.

The cover of Wool, by Hugh Howey.
In the fore-to-midground a barren, rocky landscape is seen, with hills rising to both sides of the cover. In the middle, and in some distance, stands a human figure with its back to the reader. A bright light shines into the valley.
The further up one looks the more the view is overlaid with CRT matrix, its red-green-blue slits clearly visible on the upper side.
In the lower part, laid over the rocky terrain, is the name of the book written, with a similar effect: bright on the bottom, a CRT-matrix clearly visible on the top of the letters. The author's name is written in bright letters below.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 07/09/2025

A Thing I've Read 12/25 Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke I've decided to read this one after the good people of Poltergeist announced a larp based on it and a lot of people were very excited, and now I do see why.

The cover of Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke.
In front of a dark blue night sky with golden stars stands a column, on which a (a statue of a?) faun stands upright with one hoof, the other raised in the air. The faun has pale skin and blond hair on its head and its lower body and legs, and it's playing a double-ended flute.
Along the bottom of the cover are the stylized swirls of a roaring ocean.
The name of the author is printed on the top, the name of the book on the bottom.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 01/09/2025

A Thing I've (re-)Read 11/25 Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir The second time around this book continues to be an absolute fever dream, but knowing what's coming (and maybe a few hours of wiki-binging beforehand) really did help to make a lot more sense of everything.

The cover of Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir.
In the background the gray of a dead planet in front of stars, with blue veins across it and a blue star barely flaring across its lower edge. In front of that the protagonist, Lady Harrowhark, The Revered Daughter, a young women with short black hair and a skull painted on her face, clad in black garments, bones forming a ribcage over her chest, and a white coat slung over her shoulders. Across her back she carries a large, two-handed sword.
Around her are rather less than more complete skeletons, skulls and bones pieces, floating around her and her outstretched hand.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 29/08/2025

A Thing I've Listened To The Watcher in the Rain, by Alec Worley I think someone recommended this w40k audio horror story to me, at some point? Anyway, I've finally managed to listen, and it's a solid story with excellent production design, ...

The cover of The Watcher in the Rain, by Alec Worley.
It shows a view of a city in the Gothic architecture elemental to the w40k-setting in pouring rain, with a figure standing on presumable the top of a roof in the foreground. A giant eldritch entity is reaching for it from the background.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 29/08/2025

A Thing I've (re-) Read 10/25 Faery Apocalypse, by Jason Franks On a whim I've re-read this story of a bunch of mortals visiting faeryland and bringing all sorts of doom to it. Still a good and easy read, but obviously a rather dark one.

The cover of Faery Apocalypse, by Jason Franks.
It shows an idyllic scene in front of a setting sun, the orange glow illuminating trees and hillsides. The hills emanate a blue sparkly glow upwards.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 11/08/2025

A Thing I've Read 09/25 Radicalized by Cory Doctorow A collection of four dystopian novellas that's been on my list for ages, and they've not aged a day since release. Especially the titular radicalized, about an armed uprising against the US healthcare system...

The cover of Radicalized, by Cory Doctorow.
On a red background in white letters the author on top and the title on the bottom, and between them in a two-by-two grid four white circles with black icons in them representing the stories: a slice of bread with the "forbidden"-sign on it, a superhero silouette, a pill with the hand of a drowning person reaching up from the bottom, and a skull with the white parts represented by human silouettes.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 11/08/2025

A Thing I've Read 08/25 Wir waren jung und unerschrocken: Skipper von Traditionsschiffen erzählen von Martina Boetticher Eine Sammlung von Erzählungen und Lebensgeschichten aus der Traditionsschifferszene, wie das damals(tm) so war und wie das heute alles schwieriger ist.

Das Cover von Wir waren jung und unerschrocken: Skipper von Traditionsschiffen erzählen von Martina Boetticher.
Es zeigt ein augenscheinlich altes Photo eines Traditionsseglers, mit viel Film-Grain, auf See mit gesetzten Segeln.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 10/07/2025

A Thing I've Watched 06/25 Love, Death, and Robots S04 It was... alright? I feel a bit like the concept has run its course and maybe it's time to get off the horse while it's still alive.

A poster for Love, Death, and Robots, Season 4.
It shows on a black background three candy pieces: a heart with the letters L and V, a cross with the letters D and T on one arm, and VOL and 4 on the other, and a block with two eye-like holes with the letters R, B, T and S.
Above it the line "Volume F*** / May 15".

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 03/05/2025

A Thing I've Watched 05/25 Porco Rosso

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 03/05/2025

A Thing I've Watched 04/25 Nimona

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 29/03/2025

A Thing I've Read 04/25 Machine Vendetta, by Alastair Reynolds The third and so far last Prefect Dreyfus Emergency brings me finally back to the point of having read everything Revelation Space.

The Cover of Machine Vendetta, by Alastair Reynolds
It shows the silouette of a man from behind, looking at a floating, glowing ball, almost a miniature star, surrounded by floating displays full of numbers.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 29/03/2025

A Thing I've Played: Assassin's Creed Origins On the one hand, there's not a lot to say. It's an Assassin's Creed game. It's set in Ancient Egypt in an attempt to tell the story of how things came to be, backfilling the series-defining artefacts away from being biblical into being ancient.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 08/03/2025

A Thing I've Read 03/25 Frostbite, by Nicola Twilly A book about refrigeration, the history thereof, and it's impact on every single part of the food chain. A good read, with tons of interesting things to learn along the way.

The cover of Frostbite by Nicola Twilly.
It depicts title and subtitle, and author, separated by a giant block of frozen berries.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 27/01/2025

A Thing I've Watched 03/25 Arcane Season 02 How dare, Riot. HOW? DARE!? The second season is every bit as excellent as the first one. Animation, music, story, style, everything.

A poster for Season 2 of Arcane
It shows from bottom to top Vi swinging power-fists, Caitlin aiming her rifle at something off-picture, Ambessa looking grim, and Jinx looming over all of them.

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SpaceSjut @spacesjut.de · 23/01/2025

A Thing I Watched 02/25 Arcane S01 (re-watch) This thing holds up as perfectly on the second run as on the first, and oh boi did I forget how constantly hard-hitting this was. Hopefully I'll now manage to ge relatively quickly into S02, finally.

A poster for Arcane S02
It depicts in its middle Jinx performing a finger guns-gesture, surrounded by mirror shards depicting the rest of the cast.

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