The Stochastic Game

After looking at several options for a website featuring payments and subscriptions, I understand why everybody’s raving about Ghost despite it lacking a whole bunch of basic features: it’s the cheapest option, and it has 0% transaction fees.

It’s amazing to see the amount of time, resources, and energy game-devs pour into CRPGs to get even a fraction of the immersive, reactive worlds we achieve in TTRPGs with, like, a handful of dice and a few bullet points in a notebook…

I was just reminded that we actually have a horror movie festival in Vancouver this month? It’s the Vancouver Horror Show (VHS), and it has some interesting entries this year! (ITHAQUA, DRAG, IMPOSTERS, and more)

I often mix up “Watership Down” and “Black Hawk Down”, and since I only know one of the two, I make wild assumptions about the other one which, frankly, would probably make it twice as good.

“Canada’s AI governance has a built-in conflict of interest”: we should really spend all that money to build generic data centres and team-up with the EU on alternative solutions to US tech.

This is lovely: a website that interactively explores the Catalogue of Ships from Homer’s The Iliad.

I’m looking into Ghost for a new website I’m working on… It’s annoying that it doesn’t support password authentication or footnotes, but a big blocker is no asset/media management to re-use images and not get duplicates. People have been asking for it for the past 7 years. Ugh.

Hahahah my wife has gone back to university for a career change, and is in a Discord server with other students from her classes. She has to ask our kids to translate some of the posts from GenZ-speak to English 🤣😅

“Bad art is better than AI art! Draw something fun!” (seen at KamCon)

My 9 video games. But ask me again another time and half of these games would be different!