Good morning lovely people! Fun fact: rain-forests look best when it rains!
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
Oh hey, today is not only GURPS 4e’s birthday, it’s GURPS 4e’s 20th birthday! Has it been that long already? Oh my! Happy birthday old man! #TTRPG #GURPS
Tired: the “Evil Sexy Spider Lady” fantasy trope
Wired: the “Evil Spider who Forces its Victims to Look Like Sexy Ladies” fantasy trope
There’s a “Cosmic Horror Sale” over at DriveThruRPG, possibly for the occasion of H.P. Lovecraft’s birthday tomorrow. The sale lasts almost two weeks and contains cool stuff like Delta Green, Alien RPG, Yellow King RPG, and of course Call of Cthulhu, among others. Check it out!
Hello wonderful people! It’s been a pretty nice temperature for the last week here, I’m happy.
Yummy tree season is here!
Quick Look: Rosewood Abbey
I got my copy of Rosewood Abbey a couple weeks ago! This is a TTRPG based on Brindlewood Bay, in which you play Medieval European monks and other religious-adjacent figures investigating mysteries. Obviously, it’s heavily inspired, among other things, by The Name Of The Rose and Cadfael (both their literary and cinematic versions)
This is an interesting way to measure environmental impact: “Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.” The graph from the 70s to now is especially interesting.
“Lethonomia”: A tendency to forget names.
I see a lot of YouTube ads for Uber teen accounts, and it makes me so mad. One could write an entire book about everything wrong with society that led to Uber making teen accounts.
