The Stochastic Game

My kingdom for a French bakery in Burnaby

Good morning!

A very fun little video: “Tape Measure Spider-man“

“The Motte-and-Bailey Fallacy“, in case you needed a way to describe the way most right-wing assholes debate in public.

This website is brilliant: an interactive look at what video games boxes looked like “back in the day”, and all the good stuff you got inside! (by the way, I’m still looking to complete my collection of Ultima boxes, if you have some)

I have exactly zero sympathy for people about to lose their Airbnb businesses in British Columbia, but Ravi Kahlon is very correct that there’s a shortage of property managers, for those about to look for new jobs: our residence’s last 2 managers were absolute shit, and our strata is currently hiring a 3rd one.

“If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing“. Cory Doctorow is once again right about DRM. On the media side, I don’t think people realize how genuinely superior piracy apps are compared to the legal ones.

Camera settings, especially field of view, are important, y’all.

People made fun of Microsoft when they released Powershell more than 15 years ago but it supported full object pipelines from the start. That makes more sense to me than hacking hundreds of brittle parsers to make JSON.

I love True Lies (even more than the original French movie it’s based on, which probably nobody saw here), and yeah, that climax scene is crazy on screen, but it was apparently even crazier to shoot.