The Stochastic Game

Hahaha, the reason I never realized that Alan Tudyk was “Sonny”, the lead robot from “I, Robot”, was that he was specifically excluded from all the promo campaigns…. because he was “testing higher than Will Smith” 😅

Good of Fede Alvarez to not direct the next Alien movie. The franchise was started on the premise of changing directors and styles, so it would be good to continue that tradition! That’s what makes the Alien franchise unique.

“Sam Altman, Tim Cook, and other tech leaders lauded Trump at a White House AI dinner”: All of those tech CEOs are greedy fuckers and spineless sacks of shit. I can’t wait for the guillotine to make a come back.

One way I often diverge from “rules as written” is with GMing techniques. If I run a #TTRPG from 1982, I don’t magically forget about floating clues, fail forward, fiction first, and anything else I’ve learned that isn’t explicitly written in that 1982 rulebook. In that sense, I house-rule a lot!

I usually run a #TTRPG as-written and occasionally tweak a couple minor things later (although some may not consider them “minor” in some cases). I sometimes add rules (e.g. a custom subsystem for one adventure). That’s it… except RQG. Oh my gods, RQG needs so much house ruling to work.

“Blocky Planet: Making Minecraft Spherical”: achieving this simple premise is a very impressive feat of programming, math, cartography, and several other cool nerdy domains, plus a healthy dose of inspiration. Absolutely genius.

I thought people piling onto the new “War Of The Worlds” movie was maybe be overblown, but after watching the Honest Trailer and Pitch Meeting videos for it, maybe it IS one of the worst movies ever? Which sort of makes me want to watch it?

You like maps? You like space? Here’s the Atlas Of Space, an awesome interactive map of our solar system!

Of course Microsoft Word wants to save your files to the cloud automatically and by default. That’s how they’ll get your stuff to train more genAI, since that’s how public and employee performance are measured these days. The enshittification, and the war against simple local files, continues…

“EU slaps Google with €2.95B fine despite Trump trade threat”: Nice! Maybe that will help Mark Carney find his elbows again and do what he said he’d do.