Another day, another company trying to extract more money out of our data. Today’s company: eBay! Go to your Account Settings and turn that shit off. Well, assuming that toggle actually does anything, because we’ll never know, right?

Video games studios: <are risk adverse and want to lay-off people willy-nilly, so use contractors for 80% of their production>

Video games press: “THIS GAME WAS MADE WITH A VERY SMALL CORE TEAM!”

That popular post about renaming vibe-coding into “cuck-coding” is funny, but my wife tells me it should really be “porn-coding” because you give some vague instructions before watching someone else do it. 😅

I see that vibe-coding the Epic Game Store is turning out great, already?

One of the houses in my neighbourhood is ready for Halloween and they’re NOT fucking around.

Last week KamCon started with a bang: a concert of by the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, with local band Tayos opening for them. Too bad the acoustics were bad… I’ll have to try and catch both bands in other venues whenever possible!

After looking at several options for a website featuring payments and subscriptions, I understand why everybody’s raving about Ghost despite it lacking a whole bunch of basic features: it’s the cheapest option, and it has 0% transaction fees.

It’s amazing to see the amount of time, resources, and energy game-devs pour into CRPGs to get even a fraction of the immersive, reactive worlds we achieve in TTRPGs with, like, a handful of dice and a few bullet points in a notebook…

Hahahah my wife has gone back to university for a career change, and is in a Discord server with other students from her classes. She has to ask our kids to translate some of the posts from GenZ-speak to English 🤣😅

“Bad art is better than AI art! Draw something fun!” (seen at KamCon)