Ramblings of General Geekery

KamCon only starts later this afternoon so surely I can keep tweaking my Delta Green scenario a bit more, right?


My final KamCon schedule isn’t too packed, which is good. I’m running DG and RQ, as is tradition, and playing a couple others. Somehow I’m also speaking at a panel, because they couldn’t find anybody more qualified than me to fill the last seat! Yay! 😅


I thought people piling onto the new “War Of The Worlds” movie was maybe be overblown, but after watching the Honest Trailer and Pitch Meeting videos for it, maybe it IS one of the worst movies ever? Which sort of makes me want to watch it?


In last night’s RuneQuest #TTRPG game, our heroes temporarily allied with the Ogre Conspiracy embedded in their tribe in order to take down the local Lunar priest. The plan is to use the Trickster Shaman Assassin in the party plus some Chaos magic. All good, right?


Network of Time: connecting two people through historical photographs… this is amazing. For instance, you can connect Lovecraft to Taylor Swift in 7 photos! It would be 6 if it had a photo of HPL with Derleth in its archive!


I still need to decide what Delta Green scenario I’m running at KamCon! I usually do either “Sentinels of Twilight” or one of my own — lately it’s “Intramuros” but it needs more tweaking. I guess I should do the tweaking and test it again? That’s what cons are for right? 😅


Bots are getting fucking annoying. Before we had to deal with bots probing for vulnerabilities, now we also have to deal with genAI bots aggressively harvesting data. I have to do a little sysadmin work to kick them out…

CPU graph of the server running my blog, podcast, and various other websites and services. Usage has been around 80% for two days, with a peak yesterday to 160% or so, which triggered alerts. After a little bit of work, CPU usage is now back down to a more normal 15%. Fuck genAI.

I’m on holiday in Brittany, visiting old stuff. Here, have a menhir with some obviously devil-and-angel-possessed pair of magic sheep guarding it. One tells you about your death, one tells you about your deeds.