Oh interesting, Studio Aardman is working on a stop-motion animated Pokemon series, to be released next year. I hope it gives them a shitload of money to spend on other future projects.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
Just got my notification from the Government of Canada: export restrictions are now at 50% on TTRPG meta-currencies to the US. American players in your games only get half XP, bennies, hero-points, level bumps, and so on. Good on Carney to do the right thing!
I was only recently made aware of “Too Many Cooks”. Amazing.
My players, back in the early 2000s, when they realize that GURPS has optional rules for aiming at very specific hit locations: https://gizmodo.com/at-least-50-men-in-this-roman-mass-grave-were-hit-in-the-same-sensitive-spot-2000802847
Ouch… Rascal’s take down of Pirate Borg and its latest supplement Down Among The Dead is absolutely brutal but seems pretty much deserved and on point.
Carney to rename rest of Great Lakes as “Lake Legal Adult” so Trump will never want to touch them
The Beaverton sometimes rises to The Onion levels of funny
You can definitely determine how serious a news outlet is based on how they cover this Lake Ontario business.
People have no CLUE that Tim Curry was such a LEGEND.
Okay I’ll see myself out. Or not. Vale Tim, you’ll be missed.
On the one hand, Dean Blundell is a controversial guy who has a big mouth and smells a bit too much of “bro nationalism”. On the other hand, his Canadian take on the US/Canada trade-war is quite entertaining.
“How Canada can help Americans and defeat America”: this essay from Cory Doctorow goes into two of my favourite topics: fucking up DRM and other capitalist digital limitations on data and hardware ownership, and fucking up the US. Nice.
