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<WRAP centeralign><fs xx-large>ULTRABLOG</fs>\\
Tidbits here and there from my life that don't fit on any other particular page.</WRAP>
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====== Why don't I just say that I'm German? ======
When I introduce myself, I prefer to say that I'm "from Europe" instead of "from Germany". This blog post goes into why I prefer to do it that way.\\
29.05.2026, [[blog:why_don_just_say_german|>> Read >>]]

====== Grocery store discount strategies and why we really just get mad at ourselves ======
An incident at the grocery store made me think about why we get frustrated, and I realized that we, in most cases, really just get frustrated at ourselves. Since the incident involved another customer getting frustrated at <del>themselves</del> "App Discounts" I also used the opportunity to go into detail about why they are used.\\
28.04.2026,  [[:blog:grocery_store_discount_strategies_why_we_really_just_get_mad_at_ourselves|>> Read >>]]

====== Revamping First Strike - Why Stellar Commanders is the better First Strike ======
My ideas for a rework of Blindflug's game [[First Strike]] had a surprising amount of overlap with many of the design ideas Blindflug implemented into their First Strike sequel [[Stellar Commanders]]. It turns out they identified the same design problems in First Strike that I identified, and they had similar ideas on how to fix them.\\
07.04.2026, [[:blog:revamping_first_strike_why_stellar_commanders_better|>> Read >>]]