The Stochastic Game

The video of the SpaceX Super Heavy booster being caught back by the launch tower is absolutely amazing. Fuck Musk, but congrats to the SpaceX engineers for this amazing accomplishment!

I backed the Ars Magic Definitive Edition crowdfunding, but the thing that gave me pause was the marketing around a “massive” and “expanded” rulebook. I don’t want massive #TTRPG rulebooks! Why is everybody making rulebooks bigger with every edition? Can’t we go back to <256 pages?

Speaking of foreign interference, while everybody’s dealing with Russia, we in Canada do things a bit differently and are currently engaged in a whole thing with the Indian government. You know, FYI, in case you wanted to shake things up in your modern espionage #TTRPG campaign or something.

There are so many red flags in this story about foreign interference in Canadian political parties that I’m wondering how much more shit is going backstage. The next elections are going to be a mess.

Good morning everyone! The theme for this week’s morning has been “nice weather and lots of crows”.

I’ve been working on-and-off on a “samurai vs yokai” #TTRPG game for a little while now, and every time I do some research, I find yet another existing or upcoming game in that same genre. So I increasingly wonder if I should just abandon my idea and play one of those…

I voted for the BC Provincial Elections! Pretty easy pick in my riding since the only two candidates are the NDP incumbent, and a BC Conservative guy whose party is a newly formed mess with several bad actors, a problematic leader, and a program that looks like a half-baked copy of the opposition.

The “pharmacare” bill has just passed into Canadian law, making medication like insulin or birth control covered under the public health system. Remember this was an NDP/Liberal alliance project. Conservatives were mostly absent, and in fact gave spurious reasons to not implement it. The current Conservative party has had very little to contribute to the country for years.

“Guide dog owner says Louie may be her last unless behaviour of ‘service dogs’ changes”: I’m a regular donor to CNIB (whose president is interviewed here) and it’s sad to learn that people with badly trained service dogs are making life difficult for those with good service dogs.

“Steam adds the harsh truth that you’re buying “a license,” not the game itself”: good on Steam to do this right away (I’m wondering how many other online stores will drag their feet), but frankly I would love to see the term “purchase” more strongly regulated too…