The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

I just realized that the excellent mini-series “The Lost Room” and the promising but abandoned “Parallels” TV movie/pilot were both done by the same guy, and now I really need someone to throw money at Christopher Leone to make more cool weird shit.

Poster for The Lost Room, a 3-episode mini-series that came just before, and probably helped kickstart, the whole SCP and creepypasta internet culture
The poster for "Parallels", which is basically "Sliders" but the parallel universe travelling device is a whole building, and it stars Jessica Rothe, both of which are good enough to grab my attention

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Yay! I have joined the ELITE club of people who say cool stuff like “where did I leave my darn reading glasses?” or “can you get my reading glasses from the table?” or “my knee hurts!” or “what?! speak up!!”

Excited about this new chapter of my life.

A pair of Flexon glasses (with the case) on a white table. There's also a Kobo e-reader, currently set on Asimov's "Foundation and Empire".

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Out-of-context Dragonbane session quotes from tonight: “you can’t have a rebound chicken, you need to mourn first”, and “let’s use chicken as AOE attacks!”

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Tonight’s Dragonbane dice-rolling went well! Also, my players plan to fight the Dead Eyes Cave’s monster by chugging chicken at it, only looking at the chicken and casting Thunderbolt on each one, so that the bolt bounces onto the monster 😂 Of course I’m not going to allow that 🤣

A Spot Hidden roll with a bane (advantage) where both dice rolls were 20s, i.e. critical failures

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Yes of course, it’s obviously a “similar ETA” to take little detours at each intersection, as opposed to driving straight… did Google enable GenAI in Maps?

A screenshot of Google Maps showing "equivalent" routes where you turn right at the next intersection, and then left to go back on the road you were on.

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“I love <XYZ> as a TTRPG system because it’s easy to hack!”

Bruh, almost all systems are easy to hack, except the super-specific modern indie games you probably don’t play.

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When I don’t make rhubarb pies, I make peach melbas. It’s very commonly found on dessert menu in French restaurants, but pretty much nowhere to be seen in North America so I have to take this matter into my own hands!

A hastily homemade Peach Melba, which is vanilla ice-cream, raspberry coulis, peach halves, and whipped cream.

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The morning god peeled off the night’s plastic wrap a bit too fast and now the sky’s all messed up.

A good boy golden retriever on a park trail, with some altostratus undulatus clouds above
The sky above the park, featuring the long striped patterns of altostratus undulatus

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Hahaha so Unity announced version 7, and between “it’s all compatible, you won’t have to rebuild everything” and “here’s some genAI stuff but you can ignore it if you want”, I can’t help but think it’s a direct shot at Unreal Engine 6.

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