I’ve been working on-and-off on a “samurai vs yokai” #TTRPG game for a little while now, and every time I do some research, I find yet another existing or upcoming game in that same genre. So I increasingly wonder if I should just abandon my idea and play one of those…

I voted for the BC Provincial Elections! Pretty easy pick in my riding since the only two candidates are the NDP incumbent, and a BC Conservative guy whose party is a newly formed mess with several bad actors, a problematic leader, and a program that looks like a half-baked copy of the opposition.

Those who talk about using AI to make video game content either (1) misunderstand both how AI and #gamedev tools work or (2) are clever bastards getting extra budget for the procedural generation tools we’ve had for decades

“Hypnotic” is NOT a good movie (unless you bring a few friends to shit-talk through it with pizza and drinks), but funnily enough the main plot-twist was similar to what I did once in a Delta Green #TTRPG game 20 years ago after a PC had been captured by MJ-12. Good times!

Going to touch some grass

This month’s chocolate delivery! Again, courtesy of Origins Chocolate Bar in New Westminster.

So far the Apple Intelligence ads I keep seeing on YouTube are so super cringe. It looks to me like the feature is marketed to assholes and grifters.

Humble Bundle is doing more and more shady stuff… not only do they default to “not very good” splits between creator, charity, and themselves, they also have this dark UI pattern where the sliders are totally not on the same scale:

I just spent a couple hours with a bunch of 13-year-olds, and after listening to their various discussions, my first thought is “I should really cut off all and any access to internet for my kids”…

Aliens landed here, their electromagnetic anti-gravity propulsion drive causing leaves to arrange in strange concentric patterns. That’s the only rational explanation. Dog for scale.