Catching up slowly with a ton of comics (both paper and digital) I own but haven’t read yet. Today: some short David Lapham noir thriller!
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
I just spoke with my dad, back in France, where they are undergoing an exceptional bout of heat domes. Well, if you thought that sort of weather would make boomers change their views and vote for climate action, you are very very mistaken. We are fucked.
The egg came first, yes. I’m sure I’m not the only one who had come to this conclusion long ago.
“Gamers Sue Sony For Allegedly Breaking California Digital Purchase Law”: it should be a federal/national law in all countries that nobody can make an e-shop UI that talks about “purchasing” anything unless it gives you freely downloadable, DRM-free files.
“Findlay Steers BC Conservatives Hard Right to Her Party’s Peril”: Uuugh. Her pick for chief of staff is overtly anti-abortion (or at least was in the early 2000s), and she talks about “faith, family, and freedom”. This is the Conservative party at its worst.
“Fox’s $22B Roku acquisition aims to expand its reach into smart TVs, advertising”: It looks like we did well, a couple years ago, to switch from a Roku to an Apple TV (even though it is an inferior product in our opinion)
One of the few good new pieces of tech that Epic had been working on these last couple years has come out, and they named it “Lore”. It’s a P4 competitor built with gamedev in mind. I’ve been waiting for someone to go there since PlasticSCM’s demise in 2020.
The video by People Make Games about “Jerry’s Map” was quite amazing. I’d love to be as creative and weird as Jerry Gretzinger, and stay that way as I get older. Quite inspiring.
Studios using UE5 need to realize this right now: the problem isn’t that UE6 deprecates Actors/Blueprints in favour of Verse, or even that Verse is ugly af. The problem is that Verse is not designed to make AAA games. It’s designed to make UEFN/Roblox games. Sooo… good luck to Godot, I guess?
