The Stochastic Game

Homer: “As he spoke, Patroclus put on his armour. Achilles ran his fingers across Patroclus’ queer ass.”

English translators: “CUIRASS! Achilles ran his fingers across Patroclus’ CUIRASS!”

“Call of Cthulhu has too many skills!”

Me: OK, sure, thankfully there are also minimal #TTRPG systems out there

“Mothership is a great simple system!”

Me:

I haven’t played Rolemaster since high school. I remember character creation and weapon attack/fumble/etc tables, but I have zero memory of initiative every round or (gasp!) tracking the percentage of time spent on actions. I think our GM hand-waved all that shit away? #TTRPG

Rolemaster can’t be THAT complicated if all the rules fit in less than 20 pages, right? RIGHT? #TTRPG

Every time you go to sleep, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard releases a couple of new albums. At this point I’ve lost track of which ones I’ve listened to or not…

Woah the zoom lens on the iPhone 14 Pro is pretty good!

Oh I hadn’t noticed that Sithu Aye had released Senpai 3 a couple years ago… their music can get too easily repetitive but the Senpai theme always makes me happy!

“Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well“. Large social networks was always a mistake. We should go back to smaller communities like forums/mailing lists/etc. This is maybe why Discord is so popular with the new generation. They’re more clever than us.

Huh, this is interesting: a video about the curiously many times that Jack Nicholson glances at the camera in The Shining

Gandalf: a fun little password-guessing game