The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

I was there in the early 2000s when companies sent code to be written in India. A few years later, problems started piling up because Indian teams moved on from contract work, and nobody here knew the codebase anymore. Anyway, now code is written by genAI, but that will always be there, at the same price, right?


This sucks pretty bad: many comicbook and TTRPG publishers have large amounts of inventory in consignment with bankrupt Diamond distributor, who may liquidate it to pay their loans… so these publishers are themselves in big trouble šŸ˜•


Headphone review forums are like “well these $200 headphones are fine, I guess, but there’s a noticeable lack of sound quality compared to these $500 headphones”


I just watched K-Pop Demon Hunters with the youngest kid and everyone’s correct: it’s a lot of fun! (well, assuming you like K-pop and demons at least a little bit, obviously)


The fluffy good boy is trying to look extra good, just in case he gets a Lee’s Donut. Of course there’s no way he will get any because, well, it’s mine, and it’s got custard in it.


I just stumbled on this old pin which I think is from the ISD volunteer program of Eve Online I was part of, like, more than 20 years ago… good times.