Ramblings of General Geekery

“Zippy the Porcupine”: a homebrew, legally-different-enough Sonic game on the ATARI 2600 which, apparently, is a machine that had 128 bytes of RAM. There’s no “k” in there, it actually had just ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT BYTES OF RAM


There’s a tree in the park nearby that is OBVIOUSLY some sort of ancient giant feathered serpent monster that was frozen and turned into a tree long ago. I mean, LOOK AT IT. It comes out slithering from deep inside the bushes, and goes up like a snake about to attack!


I started slowly skimming through my GURPS Traveller books, and it was only today that I realized Alien Races 3 has a page of “Droyne Coyns”, usable for the Droynes’ particular brand of mystic divination! Amazing.


The collector’s conundrum: I have a punched version of White Bear & Red Moon that I can play, but my copy of Dragon Pass is unpunched… should I punch it to play with the newer rules and colour board, or should I leave it and stick to its predecessor?


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…

The Spongebob "imagination" meme

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)