Video games studios: <are risk adverse and want to lay-off people willy-nilly, so use contractors for 80% of their production>
Video games press: “THIS GAME WAS MADE WITH A VERY SMALL CORE TEAM!”
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
Dog in fog / dog above fog
“Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First”: A little classic from the Onion, which is relevant again for my fellow French people!
Congrats to the neighbouring city of Vancouver for ousting Ken Sim and electing their first Green Party mayor Pete Fry! (plus mostly Green and COPE councillors!) Here in Burnaby, we apparently just went with the same old formula we’ve had for the past decade 🤷🏽♂️
That popular post about renaming vibe-coding into “cuck-coding” is funny, but my wife tells me it should really be “porn-coding” because you give some vague instructions before watching someone else do it. 😅
I learned a couple things about #UE5 while figuring out how to install my “revived” version of Gameplay Cameras in a codebase. Short answer: it’s actually super easy! #gamedev
I see that vibe-coding the Epic Game Store is turning out great, already?
Reading Classic RuneQuest: How To Create an Adventurer
I was distracted for a while with things like finding a new job and releasing some Call of Cthulhu adventures, but I’m now back to reading RuneQuest 2nd edition! We are finally out of the Introduction chapter (and some digressions about it), yay! Let’s enter the game proper! The next chapter is about character creation, so let’s get rolling.
A couple times, lately, when walking the good fluffy boy (pictured) in the forest, I hear someone playing the flute, and the first thing that comes to mind is “No, I am NOT going to get dragged into some bullshit satyr-themed urban fantasy or folk horror story, not today!”
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!
