The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

I was wondering why my Mastodon notifications weren’t working these past few weeks and apparently its streaming service had stopped running all that time. Yay, Mastodon. Don’t change.

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The Burnaby South by-elections were a bit of a joke, with only a 30% voter
turnout, the PPC lady reaching 10%, and the whole liberal candidate debacle…
Jagmeet won as predicted so at least we’ll get to see if he can do something
with the NDP now:
http://enr.elections.ca/

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Last week I finally ran the classic Call of Cthulhu scenario “The Haunting”. My players stayed in the house for a few minutes and after weird shit started happening they said NOPE, hacked the front door, and ran outside. 😅

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The nightmare horrorshow that is the Apple TV remote

A rant on Ars Technica:

I wanted to love the Apple TV remote. It was sleek and futuristic. Plus, it
had an accelerometer and its own little trackpad. Besides which, I didn’t
think I’d really need the remote, anyway, since I could simply tell the TV
what I wanted to watch. What wasn’t to love? Turns out, pretty much
everything.

I largely agree. After Apple added 3rd party app support on the Apple TV, I
considered it for a bit (I don’t care about the iTunes eco-system, I’m mostly a
Plex + Netflix kind of guy, but I’m interested in getting AirPlay/mirroring
working between my iPad and the TV). However, after test-driving the new remote
and asking friends about it, I realized I didn’t like it at all. It really felt
like one of those times where Apple designers care more about how it looks that
how it gets used. The Roku remotes are not perfect but immensely better as far
as I’m concerned.

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