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I’ve seen a few websites that demonstrate how corporations
I ve seen a few websites that demonstrate how corporations can extract personal information and track you even without cookies, but this one is definitely the best one so far.
This is what’s going on in the Mitchester Arms
This is what s going on in the Mitchester Arms TTRPG pub tonight don t ask.
These past couple years I’ve been writing “timetables” for
These past couple years I ve been writing timetables for my convention one-shots, so I can better manage pacing and not get rushed at the end. Here s the one I have for Delta Green s Operation FULMINATE. Comments welcome!
I forgot to watch this but it’s a little
I forgot to watch this but it s a little bit interesting, at least for fans of Ultima like me: Richard Garriott should be able to get the Ultima copyright back next year. It s not much (all the juicy stuff is in the trademark, and I think it s all only for the first game) but it s [ ]
“The Hell Mouth”. I love this.
The Hell Mouth . I love this.
Great news: Fastmail now offers a EU data region!
Great news: Fastmail now offers a EU data region! The US data centre was a deal-breaker for some people I know, so this might change their mind (but check the caveats about backups). I ve had my family on Fastmail for 13 years and it has been very good so far.
Some hard-core wargamers have a podcast about trying to
Some hard-core wargamers have a podcast about trying to run SPI s infamous Campaign For North Africa . They finished the first 6-turn scenario after 2 years of play. They have more than a 100 turns left. The best quote: We still don’t understand what the camels do. Amazing.
My plans for @KamCon are coming into focus: I’ll
My plans for @KamCon are coming into focus: I ll be running Delta Green (Operation FULMINATE, plus two demo games of LAST THINGS LAST), and Call of Chtulhu (my own scenario The King s Daughters). Also somehow I ll be a guest on two panels, for some reason?
The “Worse On Purpose” guy wrote an article about
The Worse On Purpose guy wrote an article about reader memberships to finance the blog going on, and that includes a clarification about his use of genAI. Make of that what you will.
This week is the last game before everybody in
This week is the last game before everybody in my Friday group is back from summer holidays and we can resume our Pendragon campaign (Uther period!) I m lazy, so we ll probably just play through another one of the Dragonbane adventure sites we didn t get to before.
“Countries Who’s Head Of State During WW2 Is Still
Countries Who’s Head Of State During WW2 Is Still Alive : the story about Bulgaria s Tsar Simeon II is quite something.
“Scientists Warn Carney’s Changes Will Bring ‘Wilful Extinction’”: Conservatives
Scientists Warn Carney’s Changes Will Bring ‘Wilful Extinction’ : Conservatives actively attack and defund environmental measures. Liberals just ignore them, apparently, in favour of their industrial buddies. We re well on our way to become the U.S. in a few years.
“The Last Museum” is surely going to be a
The Last Museum is surely going to be a very useful for anyone doing historical research for TTRPGs or whatever else requires historical research.
“Canadian wildfire misinformation is mutating online, thanks to AI
Canadian wildfire misinformation is mutating online, thanks to AI slop : you probably won t learn anything you didn t already suspected, but it s always good to see a little bit of investigative journalism these days.
“Honest Government Ad: AI Data Centres”: Hahaha, “Banker Daddy
Honest Government Ad: AI Data Centres : Hahaha, Banker Daddy and Oil Karen is very on-point 😂
“Thousands sign petition calling for Pete Hoekstra’s removal from
Thousands sign petition calling for Pete Hoekstra’s removal from Canada : this article s got the link to the House Of Commons petition, in case you wanted to sign it.
The Silo TV series is really good, but instead
The Silo TV series is really good, but instead of a mini-review I ll just say that when we ve watched a couple episodes and it s 11PM and I tell my wife we should go to bed, she becomes feral, screams at me, and pounces on the remote to start a third episode.
Seeing a new push for genAI coding agents as
Seeing a new push for genAI coding agents as a wedge for acceptance of the tech. Articles like if you haven t used Claude in a while, you might not grasp how good it is now! These articles still miss the fucking point and sound like these Thracian slaves are actually getting pretty good now!
I learned recently that John Romero (the video game
I learned recently that John Romero (the video game designer) supposedly has hyperthymesia, which makes his Hi Sandy, I hope you re well. This is incorrect replies all the more funny and brutal. I love the guy just for that.
Reading Classic RuneQuest: The Introduction Chapter
I m coming back to my Reading Classic RuneQuest series after a hiatus caused by, you know, having to deal with my twelve other hobby projects 😄 Last time I read through the Basic Role-Playing booklet and now I m finally getting into the actual RuneQuest book proper! Yay! But don t get too excited, we ll only do [ ]
Found some rhubarb jam in Squamish this week-end… One
Found some rhubarb jam in Squamish this week-end One of my life rules is if there s rhubarb in it, I ll buy some !
Went to the Sea-to-Sky Gondola yesterday for the first
Went to the Sea-to-Sky Gondola yesterday for the first time, it looks pretty good from up there.
I love walking the dog this time of year
I love walking the dog this time of year because he leads me to all the places where I can get a face full of spiderwebs
One of my movie obsessions is anything to do
One of my movie obsessions is anything to do with time travel, time loops, and other time shenanigans, but I’m running out of stuff to watch, so hit me up with your best, preferably obscure or underrated time-fuck movies and TV series!
The August chocolate subscription delivery has arrived, yay! Also,
The August chocolate subscription delivery has arrived, yay! Also, I found the delivery from last May mostly uneaten because I had somehow hidden it in the back of the closet? I guess that s more chocolate for me, double yay!
Based on the first few comments on my recent
Based on the first few comments on my recent piece on Glorantha s lore baseline , I added some clarifications to the article! I hope it helps
Runic Rants: Glorantha’s “Lore Baseline”
I recently wrote an article about how the RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha product line is getting bogged down with too much lore and not enough playable content. A comment I saw a few times in response to it is that Chaosium has to release more lore supplements to establish a baseline for Glorantha. Let s address [ ]
My Dragonbane players finally beat Dead Eyes Cave! One
My Dragonbane players finally beat Dead Eyes Cave! One of them was one roll away from death, but the other two made judicious use of their heroic abilities and spells. Getting to the monster s last 2 HP was quite dramatic! Quote of the game: did you blindfold the chicken?
Good morning! You may be happy to know that
Good morning! You may be happy to know that the good fluffy boy is, as usual, good and fluffy.
Everything I Learned About GMing Was With Call Of Cthulhu: Automatic Clues
I got into TTRPGs around the turn of the 1990s and, after my first few games, fell into a long tunnel of Call of Cthulhu gaming. I pretty much exclusively GM ed Call of Cthulhu from the mid-90s to the late 2000s, including a lot of Delta Green, which back then was a Call of Cthulhu [ ]
This week’s mail call was Free League’s Invincible TTRPG!
This week s mail call was Free League s Invincible TTRPG! It looks super great, and will probably be my group s next interlude game, especially if we manage to get together face-to-face.
The Wicker Man, but make it horny: this looks
The Wicker Man, but make it horny: this looks bonkers and I am intrigued.
I just learned that apparently the version of “The
I just learned that apparently the version of The Name Of The Rose that s on Amazon Prime has removed the sex scene, which would of course be ironic, given the movie s theme of religiously-driven censorship, if it wasn t just sad. Once again, piracy is the best user experience.
It’s blackberry season! Go around your neighbourhood and pick
It s blackberry season! Go around your neighbourhood and pick a bunch! Remember to taste before taking: some bushes are more sour than others. AFAICT, the more sun exposure (such as south-facing bushes), the sweeter the taste (but I need to look into it properly)
This is quite fun: a digital museum of video
This is quite fun: a digital museum of video game levels, that you can freely fly through and explore.
GenAI and “prediction markets” ruin everything, part 253: “What
GenAI and prediction markets ruin everything, part 253: What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all
“EA boss awarded $38.6M for layoffs and genAI bullshit”:
EA boss awarded $38.6M for layoffs and genAI bullshit : If I was still an EA employee, I think I would start heckling the town hall meetings until Andrew Wilson stopped showing his face in public, or I was dragged out by the security staff.
I just realized that the excellent mini-series “The Lost
I just realized that the excellent mini-series The Lost Room and the promising but abandoned Parallels TV movie/pilot were both done by the same guy, and now I really need someone to throw money at Christopher Leone to make more cool weird shit.
Yay! I have joined the ELITE club of people
Yay! I have joined the ELITE club of people who say cool stuff like where did I leave my darn reading glasses? or can you get my reading glasses from the table? or my knee hurts! or what?! speak up!! Excited about this new chapter of my life.
Out-of-context Dragonbane session quotes from tonight: “you can’t have
Out-of-context Dragonbane session quotes from tonight: you can t have a rebound chicken, you need to mourn first , and let s use chicken as AOE attacks!
Tonight’s Dragonbane dice-rolling went well! Also, my players plan
Tonight s Dragonbane dice-rolling went well! Also, my players plan to fight the Dead Eyes Cave s monster by chugging chicken at it, only looking at the chicken and casting Thunderbolt on each one, so that the bolt bounces onto the monster 😂 Of course I m not going to allow that 🤣
Yes of course, it’s obviously a “similar ETA” to
Yes of course, it s obviously a similar ETA to take little detours at each intersection, as opposed to driving straight did Google enable GenAI in Maps?
“I love <XYZ> as a TTRPG system because it’s
“I love XYZ> as a TTRPG system because it’s easy to hack!” Bruh, almost all systems are easy to hack, except the super-specific modern indie games you probably don’t play.
When I don’t make rhubarb pies, I make peach
When I don t make rhubarb pies, I make peach melbas. It s very commonly found on dessert menu in French restaurants, but pretty much nowhere to be seen in North America so I have to take this matter into my own hands!
The morning god peeled off the night’s plastic wrap
The morning god peeled off the night s plastic wrap a bit too fast and now the sky s all messed up.
By the way, Dario Visaggio’s “open letter about Unreal
By the way, Dario Visaggio s open letter about Unreal Engine 6 is pretty spot on: Epic is slowly shifting its focus away from empowering developers and toward serving a platform strategy. This is what a few of us (now laid off) had been complaining about internally for a year.
Hahaha so Unity announced version 7, and between “it’s
Hahaha so Unity announced version 7, and between it s all compatible, you won t have to rebuild everything and here s some genAI stuff but you can ignore it if you want , I can t help but think it s a direct shot at Unreal Engine 6.
The funny this is that historical inaccuracy IS historically
The funny thing is that historical inaccuracy IS historically accurate when it comes to the Iliad and the Odyssey, because Homer wrote the thing at least 400 years later, and got a bunch of details wrong about, like, Bronze Age warfare for instance!
Looking up tech news this week, it seems we
Looking up tech news this week, it seems we have the choice between dystopian communist AI and dystopian capitalist and/or nazi AI? That’s, err, that’s the choice here?