“You know nothing, Jon Snow”
“Actually I know that tainted sources of water seem to be related to outbreaks of cholera around London’s Soho”
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
It’s decided, this year for my Christmas/birthday gift to myself, I’m getting custom frames to put all my Ultima cloth maps on a wall! For now it will include Ultima III through IX, plus Shroud of the Avatar. I’m hoping to eventually also get Ultima Online’s map.
UE5 Gameplay Cameras: Upgrading to 5.7
Oh hey, look at the time! Another post in my developer diary for the Unreal Engine camera system, and a whole release went by that I haven’t posted anything about. Oh well, let’s see if I can pick the pace back up later. In the meantime, here are some notes and highlights for the Gameplay Cameras (“GPC”) plugin in the Unreal Engine 5.7 release that just went out.
Once again, while the GPC plugin is flagged “experimental” and, therefore, we don’t guarantee any backwards compatibility for it, I made a reasonable effort to keep most things working. Still, there are a couple of breakages we’ll talk about here. Also, if everything goes according to plan, the plugin will graduate to “beta” in 5.8, so fingers crossed!
In yesterday’s RuneQuest game, the Yelmalion PC marched with a warband to meet Harvar Ironfist in a heroquest. An identification contest was issued and with cunning nerdy bullshit the players tore down Harvar’s god-forming. The PC is now Yelmalio, Harvar is the False Sun, and killing is starting!
I wasn’t super into “I Saw The TV Glow”, but it did do “weird-vibes” pretty well. So this upcoming adaptation of Charles Burns’ “Black Hole” looks very intriguing! I’m overdue to re-read that book anyway…
This is from last week but it’s great to see the Python Software Foundation having a spine, unlike a lot of the bigger tech corporations out there. I just donated some money for their trouble, and I invite you to do the same!
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m happy to share this: “Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial”
Can’t wait for James Bond to use that to get out of some underwater death trap or something.
That little eye-octopus guy was indeed the true star of “Alien: Earth” and frankly the only character I liked in this whole thing. He was the only reason I watched the first season.
“Who ruined Tim Hortons?” This is absolutely great and oooh wow does it go places…
(and yes if you guessed “capitalism”, you’d be correct)
“Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent”: Oh nice, Carney can make some good decisions sometimes (even though half of this hailed from the Trudeau era). Also, check out the extension to the Canada Strong Pass for domestic tourism.