I got my copy of Rosewood Abbey a couple weeks ago! This is a TTRPG based on Brindlewood Bay, in which you play Medieval European monks and other religious-adjacent figures investigating mysteries. Obviously, it’s heavily inspired, among other things, by The Name Of The Rose and Cadfael (both their literary and cinematic versions)
This is an interesting way to measure environmental impact: “Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.” The graph from the 70s to now is especially interesting.
“Lethonomia”: A tendency to forget names.
I see a lot of YouTube ads for Uber teen accounts, and it makes me so mad. One could write an entire book about everything wrong with society that led to Uber making teen accounts.
“Ben Burtt Looks Back on the Memetic Legacy of the Wilhelm Scream”: “But even when I stopped, my crew would put it in because they felt it had to be there. I couldn’t stop them. I created a monster.”
“The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art”: this is a great article explaining what pixel art is ACTUALLY supposed to look like, and why it’s done the way it is. Plus, it explained a problem I found when replaying Monkey Island on a modern PC!
“Apple memory holed its broken promise for an OCSP opt-out”. Apple’s not having a great public image month…
I forgot to post this month’s chocolate drop from Origins Chocolate Bar! These are all chocolates produced locally in British Columbia!
Y’all know I’m a big fan of the Ultima games, and recently I’ve fallen into a rabbit hole of research and nostalgia about it. Here’s another retrospective video I’ve been enjoying a lot. It’s especially wonderful to hear Finntrovert discover how amazing the writing gets with the 4/5/6 trilogy.
Oh my, Apple is going after Patreon’s subscriptions, asking for its 30% fee… plus, probably, the Core Technology Fee in the EU 🤣 Apparently there’s no limit to Apple’s greed, because there’s no limit to capitalism. Graphs gotta go up!