The Stochastic Game

It took 5 minutes for me to explain this amazing joke to my family at tonight’s dinner, but their face when they got it was totally worth it

That article on the upcoming Star Wars UEFN games is brutal but entirely unsurprising. And given Disney’s track record in the video game business, I expect them to pull their investment out of Epic in the next year or two.

The Lismelder tribe and the neighbouring foul Upland Marsh, home to Delecti the Necromancer and his zombie hordes, are now described in this wonderful sourcebook by David Hall and friends! I’ve got a couple of illustrations in here, check it out!

“Print Gallery Of An Artist” is a game described as “a brief exploration of recursive spaces”. It will hurt your brain in the first minute, and then you’ll realize the absolute fucking genius of it.

“Meet a millionaire who wants Canada to tax the rich”: nice to see some rich people who get it. Mark Carney wasn’t my top choice for PM because he’s too close to the ultra-wealthy, but I think he can be convinced of the benefits of higher tax brackets.

Hostile Volume, a game where you must simply set the volume to exactly 25% and hold it there for 3 seconds. Rage-quitting is offered as a bonus.

I never really gave movie taglines much thought, but Nancy Friedman makes some interesting points here… I just wonder if we simply don’t remember that 90% of taglines were shit too across movie history?

I discovered the “Worse On Purpose” website through this piece on how backpacks are often worse now. I went in a rabbit hole of backpack nerdery a few years ago, so this piece, along with the page of “brands worth buying”, seem pretty legit to me.

The Accursèd Alphabetical Clock, created by Ryan Bateman, who is clearly totally deranged according to my wife.

Coyote vs. ACME trailer! The movie they didn’t want you to see! 😂 Looks fun!