The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

Seeing a new push for genAI coding agents as a wedge for acceptance of the tech. Articles like “if you haven’t used Claude in a while, you might not grasp how good it is now!”

These articles still miss the fucking point and sound like “these Thracian slaves are actually getting pretty good now!”


I learned recently that John Romero (the video game designer) supposedly has hyperthymesia, which makes his “Hi Sandy, I hope you’re well. This is incorrect…” replies all the more funny and brutal. I love the guy just for that.


Reading Classic RuneQuest: The Introduction Chapter

I’m coming back to my “Reading Classic RuneQuest” series after a hiatus caused by, you know, having to deal with my twelve other hobby projects 😄 Last time I read through the “Basic Role-Playing” booklet and now I’m finally getting into the actual RuneQuest book proper! Yay! But don’t get too excited, we’ll only do the Introduction chapter! Booo!

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Found some rhubarb jam in Squamish this week-end… One of my life rules is “if there’s rhubarb in it, I’ll buy some”!

Two jars of rhubarb jam, supposedly made in France.

Went to the Sea-to-Sky Gondola yesterday for the first time, it looks pretty good from up there.


I love walking the dog this time of year because he leads me to all the places where I can get a face full of spiderwebs

The good fluffy boy looking all happy

One of my movie obsessions is anything to do with time travel, time loops, and other time shenanigans, but I’m running out of stuff to watch, so hit me up with your best, preferably obscure or underrated time-fuck movies and TV series!

A shot from the movie “Triangle”, one of my favourite time loop movies.

The August chocolate subscription delivery has arrived, yay! Also, I found the delivery from last May mostly uneaten because I had somehow hidden it in the back of the closet? I guess that’s more chocolate for me, double yay!


Based on the first few comments on my recent piece on Glorantha’s “lore baseline”, I added some clarifications to the article! I hope it helps…