The Stochastic Game

Fortnite, recycling R-rated franchises to put in front of 12 year old kids. I still have no idea how this game is still going.

The great singularity approaches! The Steve Jackson merger foretold since the 1980s will usher a new era of gaming excellence!

“A new survey suggests that young people are shunning AI algorithms and online retailers to experience the joy of visiting bookshops”: fuck yeah. Every time I see an article about kids shunning big online silo ecosystems, it’s time to say fuck yeah.

The video of the SpaceX Super Heavy booster being caught back by the launch tower is absolutely amazing. Fuck Musk, but congrats to the SpaceX engineers for this amazing accomplishment!

I backed the Ars Magic Definitive Edition crowdfunding, but the thing that gave me pause was the marketing around a “massive” and “expanded” rulebook. I don’t want massive #TTRPG rulebooks! Why is everybody making rulebooks bigger with every edition? Can’t we go back to <256 pages?

Speaking of foreign interference, while everybody’s dealing with Russia, we in Canada do things a bit differently and are currently engaged in a whole thing with the Indian government. You know, FYI, in case you wanted to shake things up in your modern espionage #TTRPG campaign or something.

There are so many red flags in this story about foreign interference in Canadian political parties that I’m wondering how much more shit is going backstage. The next elections are going to be a mess.

Good morning everyone! The theme for this week’s morning has been “nice weather and lots of crows”.

I’ve been working on-and-off on a “samurai vs yokai” #TTRPG game for a little while now, and every time I do some research, I find yet another existing or upcoming game in that same genre. So I increasingly wonder if I should just abandon my idea and play one of those…

I voted for the BC Provincial Elections! Pretty easy pick in my riding since the only two candidates are the NDP incumbent, and a BC Conservative guy whose party is a newly formed mess with several bad actors, a problematic leader, and a program that looks like a half-baked copy of the opposition.