The Stochastic Game

Players: (coming up with subtle plans to handle the evil NPC in the room)

Wizard: (casts a minor spell to help but rolls a critical and sets the room and everyone in it on fire)

Players: Well that works too

I knew about the special Zeiss lens that Kubrick used on Barry Lyndon but I didn’t know about the special candles! Anyway, here’s Jan Harlan talking about the whole affair.

Oooof. The Notepad++ website was compromised between September and December 2025, so if you installed or updated it during that time, you may want to… err… do something, like re-upgrade it or, you know, replace it with Vim 😅

The GDC 2026 “State of the Industry” report is pretty rough: a quarter-to-a-third of people got laid off in the past two years, and genAI is used everywhere but most people hate it. On the upside, almost everybody wants unions, and both Unreal and Godot are trending up.

Richard Garriott, of Ultima fame, basically explains why gamers are the worst.

The Onion’s short “documentary”, “Jeffrey Epstein: BAD PEDOPHILE”, is hilarious and stupid and silly and also probably weirdly accurate in so many ways.

Do you know “Another World”? One of the best video games of all time? Well here’s a collection of behind-the-scenes footage that Eric Chahi used for reference and rotoscoping!

Pernicky Ric’s gaming room is totally mind-blowing… especially if you like Harn!

My American friends (and maybe those of us working in US companies too) may want to know about the National Shutdown coming up this Friday: general strike across the US to defund ICE. That’s your last card before reaching for guns, so make sure to play it right.

“Phantom Obligation” is a nicely written and beautifully designed article that, basically, asks: “why do RSS readers look like email clients?”. It’s as much an eye-opening question as it is an interesting answer.