The Stochastic Game

I forgot to watch this but it’s a little bit interesting, at least for fans of Ultima like me: Richard Garriott should be able to get the Ultima copyright back next year. It’s not much (all the juicy stuff is in the trademark, and I think it’s all only for the first game) but it’s still something.

“The Hell Mouth”. I love this.

Great news: Fastmail now offers a EU data region! The US data centre was a deal-breaker for some people I know, so this might change their mind (but check the caveats about backups). I’ve had my family on Fastmail for 13 years and it has been very good so far.

Some hard-core wargamers have a podcast about trying to run SPI’s infamous “Campaign For North Africa”. They finished the first 6-turn scenario after 2 years of play. They have more than a 100 turns left. The best quote: “We still don’t understand what the camels do.” Amazing.

My plans for @KamCon are coming into focus: I’ll be running Delta Green (Operation FULMINATE, plus two “demo games” of LAST THINGS LAST), and Call of Chtulhu (my own scenario The King’s Daughters). Also somehow I’ll be a guest on two panels, for some reason?

The “Worse On Purpose” guy wrote an article about reader memberships to finance the blog going on, and that includes a clarification about his use of genAI. Make of that what you will.

This week is the last game before everybody in my Friday group is back from summer holidays and we can resume our Pendragon campaign (Uther period!) I’m lazy, so we’ll probably just play through another one of the Dragonbane adventure sites we didn’t get to before.

“Countries Who’s Head Of State During WW2 Is Still Alive”: the story about Bulgaria’s Tsar Simeon II is quite something.

“Scientists Warn Carney’s Changes Will Bring ‘Wilful Extinction’”: Conservatives actively attack and defund environmental measures. Liberals just… ignore them, apparently, in favour of their industrial buddies. We’re well on our way to become the U.S. in a few years.

“The Last Museum” is surely going to be a very useful for anyone doing historical research for TTRPGs or whatever else requires historical research.