Western Canada Living Quiz! You need to open this bear-proof garbage container but it’s frozen shut. Do you:

1) Urinate on it to melt the ice

2) Lick the ice away

3) Punch the garbage container

A bear-proof garbage container covered in snow and ice.

4 February 2025 ∞

Good afternoon! Don’t forget to roll around in the snow today. You’ll feel better.

A silly good fluffy boy rolling around in the snow to put his scent on his favourite wooden stick of the day.

A silly fluffy good boy running in along a snowy path in Deer Lake Park, BC.

4 February 2025 ∞

With US tariffs coming, I think we’ll see 3 kinds of Canadian politicians. Those who want to plead with the White House bullies. Those who act tough in return, but don’t have much else to say. And those who articulate ideas for national relief and targeted retaliation. You should ignore the first two.

1 February 2025 ∞

A young Sartarite woman herds a hairy cow back to her farm… a painting by me for an as-of-yet unpublished adventure book… #Glorantha #TTRPG

1 February 2025 ∞

I’m going to run my first game of the Spire RPG tomorrow! Looking forward to it. Anybody got any good advice? #TTRPG

A picture of two books and a booklet: rulebook for Spire, the Strata sourcebook, and the quickstart.

30 January 2025 ∞

I’m sad but totally not surprised by today’s news about Bioware. And make no mistake: the official communication from EA is full of corporate speak, but people were definitely laid off or assigned to projects they’re not interested in. Good luck to y’all out there.

29 January 2025 ∞

You came to hunt Bluepaw, but Bluepaw will hunt YOU! A drawing by me for the cover of To Hunt A God! #Glorantha #TTRPG

29 January 2025 ∞

Good morning from the fluffy good boy!

A good boy golden retriever sitting by a trail in Deer Lake Park, BC, while the sun rises behind him

29 January 2025 ∞

UE5 Gameplay Cameras: Parameterization

This is the third article in my developer diary about the Gameplay Cameras (GPC) plugin for Unreal Engine 5. It comes a day late because my workspace is in the middle of a big refactor — nothing compiles and I can’t take screenshots! 😅 In the end, I used some old screenshots and videos I had captured a couple weeks ago… oh well.

One of the big improvements in GPC that you’ll see in UE 5.6 is what I call the “parameterization” of Camera Rigs. This is a fancy made-up term that refers to the various ways you can pass values and data into a running Camera Rig, and somehow use that to affect its behaviour. Let’s look into it!