My favourite big sci-fi movie bad trope is “protagonist gets hired at the last minute to lead a super important mission that was years in the making”. That’s solid project management, there, Bob… (and yes, I know why it makes sense narratively speaking)
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
Finally, the next step in banning plastics from B.C. is in place. Keep going!
Mozilla has become slowly worse over the past few years, but this latest Firefox shenanigan is extremely disappointing. The actual feature is actually interesting if you check it out, and the Web could benefit from it, but being opted-into it silently is definitely not OK.
Would you say that people who ask a question and then answer it immediately are weird? Yes, I would, and yes, they are.
It’s weird to me that Mastodon still doesn’t have multiple timeline algorithms. “No algorithms” isn’t the opposite of Meta/Twitter/etc’s algorithms: it should be “algorithms you control” vs “algorithms you don’t control”. Bluesky understands that with its Feeds.
On TTRPG Reviews and Actual Plays
My friends over at the Titterpigs podcast did a recent episode on “played vs unplayed reviews”, and in a sort of interesting synchronicity, the Modern Mythos podcast just released an episode on actual plays. It’s interesting because I see all three types of content as being on the same scale of “game prep”. Let me explain.
This summer is too hot, so it’s time for some nice refreshing clafoutis!
The new ThunderVolt ride in Playland is short but pretty awesome. The 1.3G launch is amazingly fast. POV videos don’t do it justice…
“Oh wow did you see what happened yesterday? Very sad”
“You mean the Trump a…”
“SHANNEN DOHERTY DIED 😞”
(Yes, Charmed was one of my guilty pleasures back in engineering school)
“French Alphamagic Squares”, aka “how some mathematicians have way too much free time”