This morning my wife sent me this, laughing her ass off, and I don’t like it because I’m in it, and she knows it.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
“”I don’t want to work at this place anymore:” EA workers decry mismanagement and corporate greed after mass layoffs”: I am not surprised in the least, and it frankly echoes a lot of other devs working at places similarly being stripped down by capitalists.
In the future, everything you do is only for feeding the genAI data centres. Last week, Facebook. This week, Epic Games.
Going to live in the forest is looking more and more attractive by the day.
Epic and Microsoft: “genAI is great!”
Also Epic and Microsoft: “no, wait, not like that!”
It’s amazing how the BC Conservatives didn’t so much get a landslide victory at the elections (they got less votes than when they lost last time!), as much as the NDP achieving an abysmal defeat, with more than a quarter of their voters just… not showing up at all? Amazing.
Runic Rants: This 800-Pages, 5.7-Kilos Slipcase Set Is A Great Source For A Light Gloranthan Setting
The Guide to Glorantha is a wonderful beast, and I figured I should write about it. It weighs over 5.7 kilos1, it’s over 800 pages long2, it has thick glossy paper, it’s full of glorious cartography, it won the prestigious Diana Jones award in 2015, and somehow it was how I was successfully introduced3 to Greg Stafford’s mythical world of Glorantha.
It’s also a great source for your next light little campaign setting! Does that makes zero sense? Of course not! Let’s crack this monster open.
My first 5 RPGs:
- The Dark Eye (L’Oeil Noir in French)
- MERP/Rolemaster
- Cyberpunk 2020
- Vampire: The Masquerade
- Call of Cthulhu
(it’s all quite hazy in the middle, there was some Amber and Star Wars somewhere too)
For those who voted for the BC Conservatives, remember that their economic platform was mostly… wishful thinking and made up numbers, sprinkled with cuts to public services?
The next few years are going to be “fun”. Remember the rule of thumb: left wing governments barely ever make things better, but right wing governments almost always make things worse.
David Eby, last month, talking about calling a snap election (which historically doesn’t work out well most of the time)
