Apparently it’s time for stupid American centrism to come for genAI takes.
Listen, it’s OK to find your own nuanced position on the topic, but if your thesis is “mmmh actually both sides are too extreme”, you can fuck off into the sun.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
“You got a real attitude problem, Prince Adam! You’re a slacker! No Prince has amounted to anything in the whole history of Eternia!”
Now that I’ve watched “Masters of the Universe” (1987), I’m totally going to adopt “I’ll be there in half a chromon” and “this will be ready in a preton” as normal things to say.
I finally watched “Masters of the Universe” (1987) and holy shit! It’s so bad in so many ways that it’s actually quite impressive. Probably one of the best “popcorn & laughs” movies out there. To think Moebius and Frank Langella were involved in this. Anyway, the post credits scene is horrifying.
A Conspyramid of Chaos in Glorantha
Chaos in Glorantha started as the pretty clear-cut mark for the “bad guys”, a tool for gamemasters to scare their players, and for those players to kill some monsters without remorse. But I’m a Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green player at heart, with some early formative years spent on Vampire and Cyberpunk, so I want my grey moral areas, my secret cults, my conspiracies, and my mission-giving patrons that turn out to be corrupt assholes! So let’s look at how to make Chaos in Glorantha a bit more insiduous and nuanced.
“Sherlock Holmes Villain Moriarty Crime Series in the Works”: superhero movies and stories with “bad guy isn’t actually THAT bad” will continue until billionaires are seen as the people who can legitimately lead society.
“Steven Guilbeault says climate change a generation-defining fight as he quits Liberal Party”: It’s going to be funny when more and more MPs jump the lines and, 10 years later, the Liberals are basically the new Conservatives, and the Greens are the new NDP. Or something.
It’s always annoying when some rare early edition of a well-known TTRPG surfaces, but it goes up for crazy prices on eBay. Hopefully Chaosium can do another “Classic Kickstarter” for that one?
“Search engine DuckDuckGo would withdraw VPN from Canada if lawful-access bill passes”: Right now it’s mostly VPN providers voicing their opposition to the stupid Bill C-22, but make no mistake: it also affects a shitload of other services. I encourage my fellow Canadians to contact their MP about it.
- “Did my wife show up again”?
- “Err, what’s up with your wife?”
- “Well, she’s a bear”
…and other quotes during tonight’s game of Pendragon #TTRPG