Someone asked for recommendations regarding evening-long video game documentaries, and people were happy to oblige: EVE Online (6 hours), Alan Wake 2 (5.5 hours), Pokemon Brilliant Diamond (11 hours), Fallout (9.25 hours), and Robin Hood: Conquest of the Longbow (2 hours).

Apologies for not writing a newsletter last week, but I came down with a severe case of food poisoning. I was eating a donut which I presumed had a tart apple filling, but afterwards I was told it was actually peach. Peach?

I’ve been reading the Gospel of Matthew over the weekend, and there was one particular story that caught my interest: The Faith of a Canaanite Woman. In it, Jesus meets a Gentile woman who wants the Son of David to save her daughter. At first he refuses.

What is Man’s maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. Yes, I have been listening to Nietzsche. To lectures about Nietzsche, I mean. Not that I have started following his philosophy.

The final batch of FBI documents concerning Kevin Mitnick got released, and sent me down memory lane. Kevin gained notoriety as a hacker in the 80s and 90s, breaking into government and corporate data systems.

I’m busy writing the sequel to Datteln in der Bröselburg, so forgive me if I can’t pump out links at the usual rate. Today I rolled out of bed and fired up my feedreader, just to find new stuff to share.

I’m having trouble coming up with ideas for this week’s newsletter. Trump blots everything out like a black sun of shit. Like, seriously, why bother with anything else? It’s hard enough to keep track of his bullshit on a day-to-day basis. Read on for something else, I guess.

Recent events led me to revisit WWII history and the 1930s. Operation Bagration, D-Day, the Battle of Stalingrad - all kicked off by a man who liked doing the Elon Salute. As it is now called. Read more in this week’s edition of the R30 newsletter.