The Stochastic Game

Prince is a Creep (in a good way)

Speaking of old-school French tech, I was just reminded of the 2005 “Nabaztag”, a sort of precursor to Alexa and other home assistants. It could also light up with different colours and, yes, move its ears.

This is hard-core old-school French stuff: a small box you can plug into an old Minitel (a sort of French-only precursor to the world-wide-web) to bring it back to life.

Renfield (2023) was absolutely fantastic! A hilarious premise featuring everyone’s favourite bug-eating vampire servant, ridiculously fun action scenes, a brilliant Nick Cage performance, and so many references to classic Dracula movies. I’ve already watched it twice.

Today’s one-line bug fix is brought to you by the whole of yesterday spent fighting a multitude of tools to start a simple debugging session on a PS4 devkit, yay!

Good morning… from a few days ago!

The number of GoFundMe campaigns for game designers seems to have gone up in the past few years, and it’s less “beloved designers are getting old” and more “if you’re a creative then move out of the US for fuck sake“

This is an interesting article about the “food culture” of the US vs other countries, but the most telling aspect is that it only deals with restaurants, even though 90%+ of what you eat is probably prepared yourself.

It’s hard to remember now but mid-2000s Microsoft was wild: XBLA, Media Center, Zune, UMPCs, and, yes, Home Servers with children’s books. Many goods ideas with bad execution, no follow-through, or both.

I was wondering lately what happened to the promising Cortex Prime system, and it turns out Graeme Barber has a good write-up of the situation. #TTRPG