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Oh LORD. The Iphone is out and all of our problems are solved. No more world hunger, no more war, no more climate change. Finally we can achieve eternal peace in space while being wrapped in ceramic shielding on back and front... If you have the cash, of course....

WTF happened to the world?

Cheers!

Great to see our beloved phone growing, getting better and just feeding the anticipation!

12Gb of ram instead of just 8 is not the only good news :-)

Cheers!

I know I am late with this news, but in my defense I just learned about the passing of the great and fantastic Peter Cullen. At the age of 85 he left this world but left so much joy in the hearts of millions round the world.

I will always remember him and listen to the voice of the one and only Optimus Prime with a smile on my face.

Rest in peace my friend...

Oh dear lord, some people have problems undertanding what these phones are for.

There is one dude who takes clicks and the other brands way too seriously and missunderstood the purpose behind these devices.

be warned, I get pissed off here quite a bit.

cheers!

Damn... What can I say. That is a sick looking phone.

In all seriousness, THAT is a great looking device.

My thoughts on it's design as well on it's price tag over Kickstarter. It is a bit on the expensive side...

Cheers!

Good day everyone. I've been knee deep into my novel and finishing the second book, while waiting for the last remaining publishers to maaaaaybe contact me, if I am lucky enough.

Something happened along the way with a potential risky investment, or in other words: Co-publishing.

Not really an option for my budged here, but what the hell...

Not much else going on right now.

Cheers!

Damn! I wanted to record 20 minutes and got to over 50 minutes... my bad...

Time for Horror, time for Blood and time for a rant. Day of the Dead 4k has been a very disappointing release so far. And no, I did not purchase this thing.

Evil Dead Burn was a movie I watched last night with friends, but my experience was rather mixed. It's a well made production, but it's rather a messy depiction of a story. Not really bad, but not really good either.

Cheers!

Well well, we finally have some solid evidence for the existence of the Communicator... Niot that I ever ever had any doubt ;).

This thing looks just awesome. The Blackberry vibe is real and I can't wait for more demonstrations.

Cheers!

Sadly one of the finest actors of Great Britain past away at the age of 72. Always liked the guy, but have to be honest, I didn't follow his acting career all that much after Buffy ended. However I enjoyed his musical collaberation with George Sarah in 2002, which is something I'm going into a little bit.

Rest in Peace my good man...

Some thoughts on the afterlife while I was going through my novel. I came across some youtube videos and podcasts where people claim to have had very weird yet detailed experiences of the afterlife, plus discriptions of an organized society beyong anything else you might have heird about.

Wery weird yet, to be fair, unrealistic stuff. But fun to talk about.

Cheers!

Well well, more Clicks Communicator news has been uploaded by the Clicks team and things seem to be taking form and looking good. No real physical protoype yet, but I don't think we have to wait that long to see one.

Cheers!

Well, this was on my table for a while now. 160 files that are underwhelming at beast, yet to some degree intrresting, have been released for everyone to see. But what about the rest? where is all the good stuff and why should these puny files be a distraction?

Cheers!

Hey hey my keyboard junkies. More news came from team Clicks regarding our beloved phone.

Aside from that, some thoughts and rants to the usage of such phones and some private stuff.

Warmer days are ahead and we should enjoy that a bit more ;-)

Cheers!

Well, I thought I'd crawl back on here and talk a bit about my impressions on other youtubers experiences with this device. It should be mentioned that this is not the final profuct. Changes might be made to the final version of this phone.

Reviews are a bit mixed, however pretty much everybody enjoys the keyboard :-)

I know, I know... I'm beating a dead horse at this point. But I've been extremely annoyed by this ongoing and still increasing method of domesticating the population. The normalization of paying for anything. Content, cars, services, music. If you want to enjoy your private life, you got to pay up!

We need to break this insane cycle at some point, or we all go crazy.

Cheers!

Well well, it's that time again, where we talk about men and women and all their problems. Cheating is the name of the game.

An article here:

https://www.glamour.de/artikel/warum-gehen-menschen-fremd-11-frauen-und-maenner-nennen-gruende

tells about the resulst of a survey why some people decided to cheat. There are not that many quotes in generell, but some interesting answers, that show a significant difference between the perspective of men and women overall.

Yes cheating is bad. You know it, I know. We've all probably been there. I know I have.

A very short Episode about an older TV show, that did a superb job IMO bringen the Terminator storyline in to TV format. A shame it got canceled.

I think the show is more relevat today then it ever was back then. Maaaaaybe you should give it a try?

Cheers!

More news!

So the Clicks is getting supposedly a polycarbonite frame, while the Unihertz Titan 2 Elite comes in 2 CPU varieties?

Very interesting! I guess it's going to be the battle of the keyboards in 2026!

Cheers!

Amazing news about the upcomming Clicks Communicator and it's CPU. I'm more hyped then before, even though no solid information has surfaced concerning the RAM.

However, the power difference of the current info between the Unihertz Titan 2 elite and the Clicks is quite huge.

I'm not going in depth in all aspects, aside from single and multi core performances, which should be everybodys main concern. If nothing else changes, this is huge news.

Cheers!

Hello everyone! My thoughts where running around in circles for a few days, since I've been having a feeling of beeing stuck in life, due to my dayjob. My hobby is fine, my project is fine, but my dayjob ist starting to really piss me off, so I'm think about change.

Living in a hamster wheel of a 9 to 5 job, can get boring and dull at times. Do you feel emotionally numb from performing the same tasks over and over again?

If you do and are single, maybe having the realization that you need to get your blood up from a change is not such a bad idea?

Cheers!

Yes sirybob! I made my preorder and am looking forward to get this thing in my hands. In this episode I did some keyboard comparion with Unihertz and found an intresting detail that makes me want to try the clicks even more.

The rest in this episode is purely aimed at my current state of the novel and some Blu-Rays I enjoyed.

Take care out there and enjoy! Cheers!

I love my movies, guys. Collecting does make my heart jump a little. Not a very long or dramatic episode, but it doesn't always have to ;-)

Enjoy my fellow movie geeks!

I had to upload this, because I have been wrongfully bashing the Titan 2, while my focus should have been the Titan 2 Elite. It's a different phone that aims to be a Blackberry clone, but again, my doubts still stand and I don't think my criticism is misplaced. We are still dealing with a company that doesn't keep it's word.

The last part of the podcast is just me and my everlasting fear of aging. Yes... I can't shake that off.

Cheers!

Unihertz just announced 5 years support for the Titan 2. I'm pretty sure this is nothing but a cry of desperation, since they are only doing this inspite of Clicks same offer. They are expecting a decline in orders, because not everybody is convinced of Unihertz and their questinable quality.

Looks are not everything. Although the Titan 2 looks nice, after many negative experiences I don't think crying around with their sudden 5 year support is believable and a little too late. I simply do not trust them anymore.

Well boys and girls, how is everyone? I'm excited, because I have seen a new keyboard based phone that could possibly be worth the wait and breathe new life into the dead BlackBerry memories.... oh boy oh boy, those were the days.

Make no mistake, I was critical for very long. I still see no potential in Unihertz anymore, because their devices or poorly manufactured and just DO NOT WORK properly, als they should. I simply do not trust them anymore and don't want to invest my money on something like that.

And so I moved away from keyboards all together and used Sony for quite some time now.

The new Clicks Communicator however is the fist phone that gets me actually excited. It's fresh, it's deisgned by someone who knows his stuff and Blackberry, Crackberry Kevin is on board as well as Micheal Fisher from Mr. Mobile. Those two guys have a vast experience in the field and know exactly what BB fans are looking for.

So let's sit back and talk about this. Is it worth it? Should we buy? Maaaaaaaaybe we should ;-)

Hey folks, it's that time of year again, where I just sit back and enjoy some alone time.

This episode goes through some private undertakings, a short trip, my work, my grandmother and news about Peter Gabriel :-)

Oh yes, this might be a fantastic year all together!

Cheers!

My thoughts and ramblings on UBI and what life could be like in this purely utopian future.

Not really far away from us at all...

Cheers!

Movies I have seen that i fully recommend are:

The Man from Earth & The Archive

These films are both quite entertaining to watch, even though the frist one is an absolute masterpiece from star to finish. Low budget, but f*cking good in it's dialogs.

That's all for now.

Cheers and happy watching!

Man oh man, it has been a long time since I've uploaded anything. But I sticked to my word and kept writing as much as I could, with the time that I had. I've been rewriting the first book for a second run, while the second is already over 250 pages big. However I'm currently looking for publishers as we speak. So best of luck to my self xD

Some new movie purchases in here, and a personal note. That's all for now ;-)

Cheers!

Hey everyone. It's been a very long long time, since I uploaded anything. I've been too busy writing and working. Since this whole scocial decay is wearing me out and there is almost nothing you can do about the madness we are surrounded by, I decided to just focus on my book. I'd like to talk more about it, but it is still too early for a reveal.

I won't come back online for the rest of the year, unless I have finished my novel and can finally look for a publisher. Until then I hope you all are happy and healthy. Take care of yourselves and stay focused. Stay happy. And of course, stay safe.

Goodbye for now.

Dean

I was thinking about a very disturbing nightmare I once had. It's possible that I have talked abut this before, but for some reason... It won't let go of me. So I decided to talk about it one more time.

After this part I rant about a rather useless article that I found once again on the vastness of the internet. About the dangers of beeing single too long and the cliches it brings with it. As seen and read on so many other articles...

Cheers!

Man I love this old show. I just finished watching Angel season 1 to 5 after so many years and i really have to say, it's worth every second. I personally enjoyed it a lot more than Buffy, but that is because of the darker tone the story overall had. Aside from some really crazy episodes like the puppet episode on season 7. (genius)

I'll start rambling about the new reboot being planned, some of my favourite actors passing away over the years, due to the shocking news of Michelle Trachtenbergs passing.

But what can you do? As sad as it is, it's a part of life... She did die way way too young, but we can't do anything about that...

Enough for now... Cheers folks!

Hey everyone. I've been hitting episode Nr. 100 in this podcast, but I can't seem to find anything remotely cool to talk about, except that I have been thinking a lot about mortality lately. And with it, the choices I made and the time I have left to create something of meaning for myself. Because I am and always will be an artist by heart.

Time is short and it only becomes shorter. So take all opportunities you can to reach any goal you desire before it fades away. No other person can do that for you, except yourself.

On Marriage.com, I found an article that I find a bit difficult to take seriously. Take a look here:'

https://www.marriage.com/advice/relationship/emotionally-broken-man/

I'm not saying that these points are invalid, but I don't see how this article helps shedding light on current issues in society. Not all men going through rough phases become emotionally broken. Using a term like "broken", suggests the person in question is scared for life. Is that always the case?

Some of these examples describe situations that we all can face, or have faced before, but that doesn't mean somebody is broken.

What this article does best is to give some hobby psychologist a reason to judge a friend, or their own partner of becoming emotionally broken. Even if just one of these examples here could be true, doesn't mean to the end of the world, or a necessary labling of "broken" to be applied to an individual.

But hey... I could also just be overdramatising..

Hey, I'm back sooner then expected.

I wanted to talk about a guy from work whom I offered friendship which he squandered completely due to jealousy and paranoia.

Unfortunately, he will never be able to learn from his mistakes.

Scammers are getting worse and worse on platforms like Facebook dating, Instagram or Telegram and many many more.

My experiences are often the same, with reoccurring patters. This crap will never stop any time soon...

boy oh boy, I'm getting slow here...

Th fist half of this episode is about my only blood brother in the family and our falling out. It's the first 30 minutes.

The other half is about a subject, that I firmly disagree with. A.I. will not be able to replace teachers. Why I am in favour of A.I. over a human being and how we as a people could benefit from it.

Never underestimate the A.I. brothers and sisters ;)

Something that I always love to do, is play and experiment from time to time with PC Hardware and Linux.

Currently, I'd like to replace an old system with a newer and better one, for retro gaming, Internet, Netflix and other streaming sevices, as well as playing real media such as blu-rays.

Before we get there, the first 20 minutes are updates to my life and some woman I'd like to date, but probably won't happen. The other story is a guy at work who is freaking out and blaming me for things I never did. But hey... You got crazy people all around... what can you do...

Hope you enjoy!

So there I am back again at my desk after returning from my vacation in Athens.

It was a blast for me to see my friends there and had a great time. This episode is all about that trip, the food, the landscape and some other things :D

If you haven't been there, get off your ass :D

Hello everyone.

I find it quite troubling, that we live in a world in witch some people claim hobbies aren't so important, or not having hobbiees doesn't matter too much.

It's the question as to how you regenerate yourself with distracting activities.

But I don't think that anyone should just look for pure distractions. And I think I might be able to explain why.

Cheers!

Francisco Ibáñez was during my teenage years my absolute favorite artist in thr world. My favorite comic book artist, that is.

His gag-comic style was so profoundly exciting and provocative, brutal and insanely creative, that it knocked me off my feet when reading them for the first time. He was the main reason, why I started to see comic book art as a profession, instead of just a hobby.

(look who is talking, I ain't making no money xD)

I just learned that he sadly passed away last year, which broke my heart. the guy was just increadible and maybe you can find some joy in his work as well.

Cheers!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Ib%C3%A1%C3%B1ez_Talavera

Eric Barone is the developer behind Stardew Valley. It took him 4 years to develop the game and a very tight cycle of dedicated work. Even managed to maintain a relationship with his long term girldfriend, to my surprise xD.

If you have never heard of this guy and his efforts, check him out and search for some good articles or even interviews online. His success is truly inspirational.

Cheers!

The first part will be an update on my artworkt, including something that I have posted on instagram recently.

The rest is a rant about the ongoing debate in america: Is it better to be pro life or pro choice. I personally can't see a good argument for pro life in any way. In this day and age, I find it shameful that we still need to talk about this crap and why it is imprtant to let others make those choices, since it is their body and no one elses.

Germany had little to no problems with these things, since we pretty much managed it way better.

This topic however ties in very nicely in an article I have found a few days ago, about a woman who is sick and tired of the ignorance surrounding her and her "childless" life. Childfree is her statement to that and I have to say, with a lot of mature and meaningful reasoning behind her claim. I can resonate with her pretty well, because I have heard the same garbage for many years myself.

The link to the article is here:

https://www.eltern.de/kinderwunsch/leben-ohne-kinderwunsch--kinderlos--nein--ich-bin-kinderfrei---12361600.html

Since it's German, you might want to use a translator for the page.

Well... hang in there guys, this year has just begun and we haven't blown ourselves up just yet.

I raise my scotch to you

Cheers!

Yes, they are back. Old and grey but here to save the day.

Just rambling away at the new Frozen Empire movie comming out and how excited I am to see it. I cna't share the criticism from some folks on social media. What good does that do? We have the original cast once again back together in... well. what seems to be a longer screen time for the whole bunch. The new stars fit the universe just nicely, so this is really the absolut best we can ever get. So let them come back for one more adventure, let us just enjoy this thing and forget the messy real world for once, okay? Cheers!

I like ranting about this topic, since I strongly believe, that I know what money is good for and what you can and should do with it.

I noticd that I go a little off the railes sometimes when I rant and talk to much, but in the end I do mean well.

Money is a tool after all.

Cheers and c u soon!

Small update and some good wishes out there for the comming year. And I did talk about Perter Gabriels latest album. It was about time ;-)

Overall I hope you are all safe and sound, enjoy a new years party or just relax at home at kick back.

C ya next year

Dean

This is a sad episode about 2 men doing all they could for their wives, but lost in the end.

This episode contains the topic of suicide and depression.

If you are dealing with severe problems, mentel healt issues or any similar problem, do not hesitate to call this hotline (US citizens) 988

For Germany call 0800 / 11 10 111

Or check out these websites:

Germany

https://www.deutsche-depressionshilfe.de/

US

https://www.helpguide.org/

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/

There are many ways to deal with this, but sometimes a friend is the best option. Opening up can be hard, but it is still the better alternative.

Dean

Hello again. Long time no speak...

Today I wanted to get some ideas off my chest about which activities to follow when you are single.

It is vital to stay occupied is what I am trying to say here, as well as maintaining a stable and healthy lifestyle.

It might be true that I am mainly talking out of my ass here, because it all sounds really simple, even thought the battle with our own loneliness can be quite tough. But it changes nothing, it is vital beyond belief to feel at ease with yourself, no matter what kind of person you are.

I know it can be hard as hell to face life alone sometimes. But it does get better. You just got to work through it, just like in everything else in life.

Cheers!

A friend of mine from work, is behaving a bit like a jealous big baby, because I have spent a bit more time with a different person.

We are talking about grown men here, and this phenomenon is something I have experienced more often, with this level of educated people, this level of social competence.

Troubling, what there is SOMETIMES... not that much you can do about it :/.

I use this experience to connect it to people choosing A.I. as their personal human/friend replacement, which is already starting as we speak... Interesting times ahead!

Cheers ;-)

There is an article about persistent and present clichés of how many men still see women these days.

It was published/posted by the "Stern" magazine in Germany earlier this year. While some points are quite valid, not everything is that simple. You can't always bring the 1950's into an argument, as if all men have inherited the same dogma since this time period. Further more I don't think the 50's were really THAT bad to all women in society. The 80's and 90's were by far worse, but who cares about facts these days.

Do not be surprised about the article, because it has been written rather poorly and without much substance. It actually just illustrates the frustration in current times, rather then teaching anything new.

I have left out and over read one topic or claim in this article, where the author mentions: "beautiful women equal dumb and easy."

You can decide how relevant and accurate that statement still is for yourself.

The article can be read (maybe use google translate) right here below.

https://www.stern.de/lifestyle/liebe-sex/dating---schoene-muessen-dumm-sein----die-schlimmsten-klischees-ueber-frauen-33214962.html

Cheers :-)