Huh, that’s quite interesting: the American Football huddle was invented by “deaf players [needing] to hide their visual communication from opponents even more than hearing teams.”
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
This Slashdot comment by Steve Wozniak about his outlook on life is exactly why he’s pretty much the only Apple personality I don’t despise.
Overheard in a parking lot: “It looks like something that would change into a Transformer”
I think this kid invented the Transformer-Transformer? The Meta-Transformer? The Transformer-Mimic?
Holy shit, Jackson Goldstone’s winning downhill mountain biking run is absolutely bonkers!
Hahaha, the reason I never realized that Alan Tudyk was “Sonny”, the lead robot from “I, Robot”, was that he was specifically excluded from all the promo campaigns…. because he was “testing higher than Will Smith” 😅
Good of Fede Alvarez to not direct the next Alien movie. The franchise was started on the premise of changing directors and styles, so it would be good to continue that tradition! That’s what makes the Alien franchise unique.
“Sam Altman, Tim Cook, and other tech leaders lauded Trump at a White House AI dinner”: All of those tech CEOs are greedy fuckers and spineless sacks of shit. I can’t wait for the guillotine to make a come back.
One way I often diverge from “rules as written” is with GMing techniques. If I run a #TTRPG from 1982, I don’t magically forget about floating clues, fail forward, fiction first, and anything else I’ve learned that isn’t explicitly written in that 1982 rulebook. In that sense, I house-rule a lot!
I usually run a #TTRPG as-written and occasionally tweak a couple minor things later (although some may not consider them “minor” in some cases). I sometimes add rules (e.g. a custom subsystem for one adventure). That’s it… except RQG. Oh my gods, RQG needs so much house ruling to work.
“Blocky Planet: Making Minecraft Spherical”: achieving this simple premise is a very impressive feat of programming, math, cartography, and several other cool nerdy domains, plus a healthy dose of inspiration. Absolutely genius.