Hi! I'm Povuh, a 30-something guy from The Netherlands. Videogame tinkerer, music lover, runner, (Indie)Web RSS feed hoarder. Ever since I discovered t...
If you look online, it's easy to find recommendations for good multiplayer / co-operative videogames. My girlfriend and I have especially enjoyed playing games like Portal 2, It Takes Two, Rayman Legends, Overcooked and the Trine series. What we've found however, is that there are a bunch of games we enjoy playing together that are not multiplayer games at all! Because of this, these single player…
Lately I've been playing a lot of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom . It's a huge open world game that's fun to explore, with secrets hidden all over the place. One optional feature I'm really enjoying is the Pro HUD setting . This turns off most of the HUD elements such as your health bar (outside of combat), thermometer, control reminders, and most notably the minimap. Having minimaps…
On Saturday Feb 7th we were at the yearly Midwinter Prog Festival here in the Netherlands, featuring five prog rock / metal bands. I often joke it's organized specifically for me, because every year I am already a fan of half the bands, the Tivoli Vredenburg venue is a 10 minute bike ride away from our house, and it's always around my birthday! This time the lineup featured three Norwegian bands…
It was just a random thought: What is the oldest thing I own? I'm sure everyone has some old things stored away somewhere. Then I saw 82mhz's post on the same subject so it feels like the perfect time to share! I'm going to answer a slighty variation on this question, though I think the answer is basically the same: What is the oldest thing I own that I actually use or appreciate somewhat…
While researching a trip to the Scottish Highlands in 2019, we read about the village of Carrbridge and it's yearly Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championship . As someone who loves porridge, I was instantly sold! Though I'll admit, the porridge I have most mornings (Brinta instant porridge, with milk, microwaved) is likely considered heresy by true porridge aficionados. In the end, we…
It was last Saturday at 06:20 in the morning when my phone received a text from the water company Vitens. It stated that the drinking water was contaminated, and 125.000 connections in the city of Utrecht and surrounding areas were affected. By the time I read this message hours later, many supermarkets in the city were already running out of bottled water. Now, it was not a severe contamination.…
October seems like the perfect month to play some scary games, so here are my thoughts on the games I played! Still Wakes The Deep You're part of a team of Scottish workers at an offshore oil rig, and someone has drilled too deep in the ocean floor, awakening something in the progress! The game has some light puzzle, platforming and stealth elements, but otherwise it's mainly a 'walking simulator'…
At the moment there's a global outage of Amazon Web Services , which is disrupting a lot of services online. In the gaming space, most notably affected are big online games like Fortnite and Roblox. As someone primarily playing single player games, I thought I would be fine. Unfortunately, Ubisoft decided it was very important that their offline single player game 'Prince of Persia: The Lost…
This Saturday was a lovely sunny autumn day in the Netherlands. A perfect day to go for a small cycling trip and see the trees changing colours. We went to visit the Bomenmuseum Gimborn , which is a nice nature area that takes us roughly 1.5 hours to reach by bicycle (at a casual pace). For cycling in the Netherlands, a great way to navigate is by using the fietsknooppunten (bicycle nodes)…
At this point, I feel my RSS feed collection is basically a fully featured newspaper or magazine. There's news, opinion pieces, reviews, and articles on all sorts of specific topics. The only thing missing is a sports section that I would skip every time! It also features a bunch of online comics, which offer a welcome break from the longer reads. Today The Oatmeal had an interesting one, where he…