Today is the anniversary of Greg Stafford’s passing so I think of him as I do some prep work for our Great Pendragon Campaign game! Probably one of the most difficult campaigns I’ve run, but also one of the most rewarding. Our knights are visiting Summerland in 482 to spy on the Magician King!
One of the houses in my neighbourhood is ready for Halloween and they’re NOT fucking around.
Google Japan continues their yearly tradition of silly keyboard with the “Conveyor Belt” keyboard. Gotta type the keys as they pass by! Don’t miss! There are more silly keyboards to check out on their channel.
“AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible”: a realization that the shitty genAI slop we can all easily spot can also be replaced by more insidious genAI stuff that’s harder (but still possible… for now) to spot with a few extra prompts. Maybe it’s time to go offline.
“New tax on millionaires to fund health care in B.C.”: A new tax bracket for earnings over $1 million is a GREAT idea so this definitely has my vote (we should add one for federal taxes too!), but Eby has been so hit-and-miss that I’m frankly not sure it will actually happen.
“NASA’s Curiosity Rover Catches Stunning Martian Dawn”: some great pictures of Mars. As in: PICTURES FROM ANOTHER PLANET. Never ceases to amaze me.
While thinking of a possible upcoming article about Broos, I looked up their first appearance in Nomad Gods, remembering how I got very lucky with not just an unpunched version of the game, but one that (unknown to its seller!) contained a second set of unpunched chits!
“Zippy the Porcupine”: a homebrew, legally-different-enough Sonic game on the ATARI 2600 which, apparently, is a machine that had 128 bytes of RAM. There’s no “k” in there, it actually had just ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT BYTES OF RAM
There’s a tree in the park nearby that is OBVIOUSLY some sort of ancient giant feathered serpent monster that was frozen and turned into a tree long ago. I mean, LOOK AT IT. It comes out slithering from deep inside the bushes, and goes up like a snake about to attack!
You can tell nostalgia fucks up people’s ability to reason because… well, we all know the original Saint Seiya theme song absolutely rocks, right? And yet, in France, people my age (me included) will happily & loudly sing along to the total shit-stain that is the French version. BEHOLD.