Last week KamCon started with a bang: a concert of by the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, with local band Tayos opening for them. Too bad the acoustics were bad… I’ll have to try and catch both bands in other venues whenever possible!

After looking at several options for a website featuring payments and subscriptions, I understand why everybody’s raving about Ghost despite it lacking a whole bunch of basic features: it’s the cheapest option, and it has 0% transaction fees.

It’s amazing to see the amount of time, resources, and energy game-devs pour into CRPGs to get even a fraction of the immersive, reactive worlds we achieve in TTRPGs with, like, a handful of dice and a few bullet points in a notebook…

I was just reminded that we actually have a horror movie festival in Vancouver this month? It’s the Vancouver Horror Show (VHS), and it has some interesting entries this year! (ITHAQUA, DRAG, IMPOSTERS, and more)

I often mix up “Watership Down” and “Black Hawk Down”, and since I only know one of the two, I make wild assumptions about the other one which, frankly, would probably make it twice as good.

“Canada’s AI governance has a built-in conflict of interest”: we should really spend all that money to build generic data centres and team-up with the EU on alternative solutions to US tech.

This is lovely: a website that interactively explores the Catalogue of Ships from Homer’s The Iliad.