The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

Friday’s Monster of the Week #TTRPG game wasn’t very inspired (that’s the downside of low-prep games: sometimes I just don’t get any good ideas on the spot), but I managed to drag multiple characters’ silly backgrounds into a weird scary plot twist!

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Huh, that suspicious “iCloud photos deleted years ago resurface” bug might be a local database corruption. I’m inclined to trust Apple a lot more on this than any of the other companies hungry enough for “AI” training data that they would definitely lie about deleting anything.

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Good morning! Here are a few more pictures from the fluffy good boy’s long weekend adventures…

The good boy golden retriever walks up a trail on bush-covered hills near Kamloops, BC
A view from the northern hills above the South Thompson River valley near Kamloops, BC
The good boy golden retriever looks down at all the elevation we gained during our hike so far. The photo is actually tilted so the slope of the hill is even steeper than what it looks like.
We see a few deer in the distance up the hills, between rocky outcrops and bushes.

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This list of Adobe software alternatives maintained by XdanielArt is going around again! It’s very well done and useful, but remember these alternatives are not necessarily viable. E.g. Affinity Photo/Publisher are great but will only get you 80% there, and none of the Lightroom alternatives are good IMO.

An infographic with way too many bits of text and icons to be reproduced here. Ask XdanielArt for a text version maybe?

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Last week-end, the good fluffy boy met a bunch of new weird animals. He was NOT impressed, and immediately alerted me of the danger.

The good boy golden retriever looks at some horses coming his way. Panic ensued.
The good boy golden retriever is sitting on the other side of the fence from a couple of goats. He looks relaxed but that was only for 3 seconds.

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Having a dog means potentially doing a 2 hour hike with a bag of dog diarrhea at your belt

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I enjoyed the Barbie movie but originally found its message to be pretty ham-fisted (beyond the shock of a movie about Mattel dolls even having a message to begin with). But this excellent video essay points at Barbie actually being too subtle for some… plus lots of other good and insightful stuff.

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