The Stochastic Game

Technology Connections on renewable energy: I like the way he frames things here, it’s an interesting way to think about renewables. What comes after the fake ending shouldn’t be anything anyone doesn’t know already though.

Speaking of “Prince of Persia”, here’s a compilation of behind-the-scenes footage!

I’m really enjoying Ars Technica’s “War Stories” from classic game developers. Here’s Jordan Mechner explaining how the game design of “Prince of Persia” was influenced by the Apple II’s memory limitations.

Since TTRPG “crunch” is back in the online discourse, I guess I could share again this old blog post of mine where I split crunch in different categories: system crunch, silo crunch, and options crunch.

Yaaaayyy Jenny Nicholson is back!

TFW probably a good portion of the people laid-off by Epic today are looking at Video Game Worker Unions…

So Epic Games laid off 1/4 of their employees this morning… including me! If you’ve chatted with me in the past about #UE5 cameras, I’m figuring out how to continue working on that. And if you need a #gamedev who knows cinematics, animation, cameras, and more, hit me up!

Sure enough, one of the drives in my NAS failed during the night. Luckily I live within two blocks of both Canada Computers and Memory Express so I grabbed two Ironwolf drives and one of them is currently used to rebuild the RAID array 🤞🏽

Fuck me, my NAS is detecting some potential upcoming failures on one or two of my drives… luckily, it seems that the crazy storage prices are mainly for SSDs, and good ol’ NAS drives only went up by a (comparatively) small margin. But still…

Me when it’s sunny, walking the dog: “Listen to that, the birds are singing! So beautiful! So relaxing!”

The birds, probably: “OMG LONG LEGS AND KILLER TEETH ARE HERE! RUN! HIDE!”