The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

I forgot to post this month’s chocolate drop from Origins Chocolate Bar! These are all chocolates produced locally in British Columbia!

A collection of 5 chocolate bars:

Black Jaguar “heirloom preservation”, 75%
Wallace, 92%
Sirene “fleur de sel”, 73%
Cocoaro “hojicha maple” and “theobrama blend”

Y’all know I’m a big fan of the Ultima games, and recently I’ve fallen into a rabbit hole of research and nostalgia about it. Here’s another retrospective video I’ve been enjoying a lot. It’s especially wonderful to hear Finntrovert discover how amazing the writing gets with the 4/5/6 trilogy.


Cleaning up the old home theatre PC in order to start playing retro games again in the living room… I hope this thing boots up!


My DAC was giving out static while turning the volume button, and I finally decided to investigate. I found a super quick solution in a 10 years old Reddit post! Thank you past Redditor.


Discontinuing PieCrust and Wikked

There haven’t been any blog posts about some of my open-source projects in a while and the reason for this is two-fold. First, I’ve been lazy about that side of my hobbies while I’ve been re-allocating my free time to writing and illustrating roleplaying game books. Second, I’ve actually discontinued a couple of my main projects: PieCrust and Wikked.

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Prep for my Friday group’s next interlude game: Mothership! After that, we try Spire! Sadly, the good fluffy boy is uninterested in helping #TTRPG