My first 5 RPGs:

1. The Dark Eye (L’Oeil Noir in French)
2. MERP/Rolemaster
3. Cyberpunk 2020
4. Vampire: The Masquerade
5. 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)

Ossi Hiekkala has a blog post about his illustration work in the recently released “Lands of RuneQuest: Sartar”. Lots of pretty paintings to gawk at (while waiting to receive the book), and some interesting anecdotes. Ossi’s art is frankly the number 1 reason for me to buy the book!

“Electronic Arts Closing BioWare, Laying Off Hundreds”: this doesn’t come as any surprise (there was very little chance Bioware was going to survive long enough to ship any other game) but it still is sad. Call me back once capitalism is done with the games industry.

Another day, another company trying to extract more money out of our data. Today’s company: eBay! Go to your Account Settings and turn that shit off. Well, assuming that toggle actually does anything, because we’ll never know, right?

“Anthropic IPO filing: the disaster in numbers”: $4.6b in revenue (at best), $12.65b in operating expenses, and $500+b in commitments they can’t possibly cover. Meanwhile, the Conservatives always lecture us about “government spending” and “balanced budgets”, LOL.

“Copyright and the Vibe-Coded Adobe Clones”: A good summary of the problems waiting for these vibe-coded clones we’ve seen popping up. Still, I’m grabbing some popcorn because things might get interesting.