The Stochastic Game

The preservation of video game history relies on piracy: “87% of games made before 2010 are out of print.” I imagine that the many online games that don’t give access to their server code will just disappear… 😟

The scene of the crime. With an innocent boy.

Huh, I didn’t know that Canada restricts adoption for people from certain Muslim countries.

Are you sure you need that many balls, buddy? (we only took one when leaving home… he found the other ones on the way)

A few other nice pics from last week…

Last week we did a bit of cat-sitting for some friends, so as a change from the usual golden retriever pictures, here’s a picture of the cute little critter.

Huh, someone is keeping track of video game industry layoffs… 10k+ layoffs in 2023, and almost 4k so far, not even one month into 2024, and not even counting the recently announced layoffs at Microsoft (almost 2k).

“4 billion if statements”: I have to applaud this programmer’s perseverance and commitment to the joke.

The most anticipated #TTRPG games of 2024, according to the annual ENWorld survey… I’m very surprised by the top game, along with a couple of the other entries.

Reminder: the term “robot” is supposed to describe artificially engineered organisms, not mechanical automatons.