The Stochastic Game

A federally funded EV-charging station network across Canada sounds nice, but I hope they will also look into how some EV brands are looking into stupid shit like proprietary chargers…

“More than one in four NDP supporters said they’d likely change their vote to Liberal to try to block the Conservatives from winning.” Damn right. For every one thing Poilievre makes sense about, there are two things that are, like, “let’s copy US libertarianism”, so fuck that.

Here’s one of the only legit uses of all these new fancy AI tools…

Good morning! Great inversion layer over the lake today…

I didn’t expect to love Succession as much as I did. The first two seasons flew by as I gleefully watched these horrible super-rich people be absolute assholes to each other and to the world. But where other TV series might have fallen into grand-guignol satire, this one stays very grounded, under a thin veneer of witty dark humour. Brilliant. Oh, and “fuck off!”

Reading up on the Eclipse Phase #TTRPG, it looks like Transhuman Space with some added horror and space opera, which is an intriguing combination… it sounds very interesting, if you’re OK with dense “everything plus the kitchen sink” settings. I still want to play Transhuman Space one day, though!

Everybody playing Cities Skylines 2: “It’s so buggy! And the performance is so bad!”

My kid, who played CS1 with a trillion mods that utterly tanked the game: “It’s actually totally fine!”

Our youngest kid has pulled a long con on us, doing all kinds of household chores without being asked for the past two weeks, only to finally ask for Cities: Skylines 2 yesterday with his cutest voice.

Good morning!

The Deer Lake Park eagle is on patrol again!