The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery

Since some people asked about this on Discord, this is the Gloranthan card deck that the great Lee O’Connor did last year! It looks amazing. I only used it to play poker a couple times so far but it may be fun to hastily design some Gloranthan card game too? I hear Lee’s doing a Tarot deck next, which is exciting!

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The kids liked it (which is what matters) but frankly The Mandalorian & Grogu wasn’t very good. Kept wondering if they filmed the first draft of the script by mistake instead of the last. Also, did they just type “strong Jabba” in chatGPT and left it at that for Ratta’s character design? Ugh.

Movie post for The Mandalorian and Grogu.
Grogu eating junk food. Glad to see they stuck to the "use as many real puppets as possible" motto. It looks sometimes ridiculous next to super high quality CGI, but that's part of the charm I guess.
Sigourney Weaver is maybe wonder what she's doing here. Pablo Pascal is probably not here on set with her, and waiting to collect his check from an ADR booth.
Ratta the Hutt in the battle arena. He's a Hutt with... errr.... bicepts and pecs and abs. Makes zero sense. Looks terrible. But at least I like his fighting technique, rolling around and using his weight.

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Okay obviously I’m, like, 40 years late on this, but shit! Tasha Yar! One of my favourite Next Generation characters! Oh Armus, you absolute sadistic bastard.

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I’m continuing my first watch of all things Star Trek, now about 2/3rds into TNG’s first season. I love it! It’s in line with TOS, but with more 3-dimensional characters, expanded lore, and hints toward some story arcs. Why were fans ever upset about this?

Crusher, Troi, and Picard standing somewhere in the Enterprise. Of all the TNG characters, I think Troi is the only one I find "meh" so far.
Riker is looking super sexy when Beata, leader of the planet Angel One, summons him to her bedroom for, ahem, diplomatic reasons. This whole episode was ridiculously cheesy fun.
Data and evil-Data are chatting in a corridor in the Enterprise.
A whole bunch of people from the Enterprise crew are ready to beam out.

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Who’s fluffy, hates crows, and is racist against German Shepherds? THIS GUY

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The pre-show hike yesterday was nice! I saw some rabbits, and also possibly Emmanuelle Vaugier (sorry for staring like a weirdo when I’m trying to figure out why someone looks familiar 😅)

A view of the forest from a hiking trail in the Langley Bog
A little rabbit on the side of a hiking trail in the Langley Bog
A view of the Fraser River, with the north shore mountains in the background, from the Fort-to-Fort trail in Langley BC
Another view of the Langley Bog from the hiking trail

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Sound check done, ready for another gig! This one is gonna be long, with 3 sets… I might go hiking a bit before the show

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The 50th anniversary edition of Call of Cthulhu is releasing soon but those who pre-ordered it should have received it this week! Here it is in all its Swedish beauty! I don’t know how many limited editions of CoC there are but I have a couple 😅

The new 50th anniversary slipcase set. Apple for scale.
A close up on the Cthulhu Rising cover illustration by Ola Larsson
The new 50th anniversary edition with all the contents taken out: the Keeper Rulebook, Investigator Handbook, and the impossible-to-put-back-properly Keepr Screen Pack.
My Call of Cthulhu limited editions: - 20th anniversary, yellow limited signed version - 40th anniversary edition - 50th anniversary edition I think I missed the 25th and 30th anniversaries? Are there any other? I probably have enough anyway, especially when you consider I also have a few French editions! (no I don't have a problem YOU have a problem)

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“Conclave” would have benefited from more clever, intricate, and less predictable plot and dialogue, but what it lacks there it makes up in interesting points about religious faith, great acting, and gorgeous set design.

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The Wailing makes rural South Korea look both beautiful and horrifying. It expertly goes through, like, 5 different film genres, comments on East-Asian folklore versus Catholic faith, all while being scary. I’m not a fan of the end twists but it’s still a great movie.

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