The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

I recently took the fluffy good boy to Queen Elizabeth Park! Lots of new things to smell and, you know, pee on.

A good boy golden retriever sitting in front of the dome at Queen Elizabeth Park.
A good boy golden retriever sitting on the plaza overlooking Vancouver at Queen Elizabeth Park.

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This month’s chocolate delivery! Again, courtesy of Origins Chocolate Bar in New Westminster.

A set of chocolate bars: - Marou (which I generally like a lot), 70% Dark Chocolate - Zotter: Rum Coconut Vegan... I don't have high hopes for that one... - Castronovo: 70% desert criollo cacao - Manoa: Pa'akai sea salt

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So far the Apple Intelligence ads I keep seeing on YouTube are so super cringe. It looks to me like the feature is marketed to assholes and grifters.

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Humble Bundle is doing more and more shady stuff… not only do they default to “not very good” splits between creator, charity, and themselves, they also have this dark UI pattern where the sliders are totally not on the same scale:

A screenshot of Humble Bundle's "custom amount" sliders which allows users to reallocate the amount of money going to the creators, the charities, or themselves. The slider for Humble Bundle's share looks similar to what the charity gets, but in really they get more than double the amount!

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The lair of nécromant-witch lies within a grove of tall dark trees. Some days a thousand crows cry, keeping the souls of her victims past and future at bay. Some days the eerie silence cannot be broken. Always the fog clings to the cursed marsh around it.

The grove of tall trees in the middle of Deer Lake Park’s wetlands. There’s a whole bunch of crows making a huge racket sometime there. You can see a few of them fly away every few minutes.
The grove of tall trees in the middle of Deer Lake Park’s wetlands, another day when there are no crows.

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