The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery

My thoughts go to that house in my neighbourhood that, every morning for the past week, when I walk past it with the dog around 8AM, has a woodpecker perched on it, pecking happily and LOUDLY at the side wall.

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“Conclave” would have benefited from more clever, intricate, and less predictable plot and dialogue, but what it lacks there it makes up in interesting points about religious faith, great acting, and gorgeous set design.

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The Wailing makes rural South Korea look both beautiful and horrifying. It expertly goes through, like, 5 different film genres, comments on East-Asian folklore versus Catholic faith, all while being scary. I’m not a fan of the end twists but it’s still a great movie.

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TTRPG about me (it’s hard to pick…)

  • First: The Dark Eye
  • Last: Pendragon
  • Longest: Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, or RuneQuest (not sure)
  • Favourite game: Delta Green
  • Favourite mechanics: GURPS, YZE, TOON, Amber
  • Favourite setting: Glorantha, Harn
  • Favourite art: MERP, Maskwitches, Petersen’s Field Guide to Creatures of the Dreamlands

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My hot take on the current RuneQuest/Glorantha discourse is, of course, that RuneQuest is the worst system you can use to play in Glorantha, and that I don’t know why Chaosium sunk so much money into it when they have much better ones on hand.

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The Ugly Stepsister is a brilliant retelling of the Cinderella story, refocused on the titular stepsister and changed into a beautifully shot body-horror black comedy about living up to beauty standards in a patriarchal society. Loved it.

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I finally saw Black Hawk Down and, apart from the obvious few problems everyone knows about, it’s still an amazing war movie, and a technical tour-de-force. Impressive.

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Last year I watched all the James Bond movies in order and my summary is that they’re rather mediocre movies, but with some fun intro, catchy credits sequence, and occasionally there’s a good set piece or character or moment.

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