Video game companies going “extraction shooters are hot right now, let’s release our own!” is the business equivalent of buying a new dishwasher and then Amazon recommending you more dishwashers.

In Canada, “The Expanse” has been bouncing around platforms like crazy in the last few years. Now, you can only stream it on Prime Video, or buy ONLY seasons 2, 3, and 5 on Apple TV. No renting available. This is madness. Piracy is still the best user experience.

Since I received various messages about it, when I said the other day that RuneQuest is the “worst system to play in Glorantha”, I meant “worst design among the officially published Gloranthan games”. You can surely have very fun RQ games (I did). Do I need to write a “system matters” post?

My hot take on the current RuneQuest/Glorantha discourse is, of course, that RuneQuest is the worst system you can use to play in Glorantha, and that I don’t know why Chaosium sunk so much money into it when they have much better ones on hand.

Last year I watched all the James Bond movies in order and my summary is that they’re rather mediocre movies, but with some fun intro, catchy credits sequence, and occasionally there’s a good set piece or character or moment.

Hey, how about you shut-up, Health Canada.

We finally played the Spectaculars #TTRPG last week-end and it was pretty interesting! I’m not sure that it’s our jam past a one-shot or two, but it was fun! I had to spice up the rather bland first issue scenario though.

Just read an article about how “genAI will let us take back the open web” and…. ugh.

Thinking about a Mission: Impossible #TTRPG, I wonder whether it should be a straight up adaptation, or a “X but with Y” thing like “M:I but in Fantasy Renaissance Venice”. One reason is that since some M:I tech (like masks) feels magic, why not actual magic?

There are only two meals: breakfast, and dessert.