The Stochastic Game

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.

There is an increasing amount of customer-facing changes coming to many “big tech” products & services in the EU. The fact that these corporations are OK with the hurdle of maintaining geofenced feature variants tells you all you need to know about what they get from the rest of the world.

I had forgotten to fill the questionnaire for the Home Of The Bold #Glorantha free-form happening at Chaosium Con 2024… it’s now done! Can’t wait to learn what I’m gonna play! #TTRPG

“C23: a slightly better C”: wait, what? C is getting “auto”, “constexpr”, “static_assert”, compiler attributes, and more?!

Looks like something’s up again with the Hugo Awards, possibly worse than the Sad Puppies incident of the mid-2010s. This article seems very thorough in explaining the situation, even though what’s up with the Hugo administration team is still very obscure.

Sadly the ongoing Discworld Humble Bundle is US-only and Kobo-only so I can’t buy it… but remember that I can always play the Discworld #TTRPG, powered by (of all things!) GURPS! Yes!

The thing about golden retrievers and snow is that they come back looking like Christmas trees, covering in jiggling snow ornaments on their ass.