The Stochastic Game

Hahahah my wife has gone back to university for a career change, and is in a Discord server with other students from her classes.

“Bad art is better than AI art!

My 9 video games.

KamCon last week-end isn’t just TTRPGs: there’s also a big chunk of board games, wargames, video games, cosplay, and other nerdy stuff.

Before KamCon started last Friday, I went on a little hike above Kamloops with Francis, writer of “Horror in the Nunnery” (for Call of Cthulhu).

There was a problem with some PDFs missing from my scenario “The King’s Daughters” on DriveThruRPG.

I’m coming back online after a weekend at KamCon in Kamloops, BC, where I GM’ed Delta Green and Call of Cthulhu for 12 hours straight I’m catching up with messages and sleep now but in the meantime, enjoy some pictures from the convention!

The first volume of the Canadian Chronicles is out on DriveThruRPG!

As promised last time I teased it, the first volume of the Canadian Chronicles is now available on DriveThruRPG.

“I just chose words carefully.”: a short amazing tale about Super Metroid and monospace text justification.

Just learned about the efghij programming language, which, I guess, is “literally object oriented” in that programs are “written” by stacking everyday objects on top of each other.

I’ve been teasing it for a little bit but it’s getting closer and closer!

“After years of family doctor shortages, the North Shore has room for 20,000 new patients”: it’s nice when a government kinda sort of does their job.

“Here’s the full leaked document causing a stir in Alberta”: of course Danielle Smith wants to build a whole bunch of AI data centres in Alberta.

A nice sunrise in the park.

I have a joke about DELTA GREEN but… I don’t feel like telling it.

I have a joke about RuneQuest but my left leg hurts too much to tell it… wait, WHERE IS MY LEFT LEG?

“How Carney Is Changing Notions of Canada”: This is a good summary of how Carney is navigating the country right now, at least in terms of external / international strategy.

“EU chief says she wants Canada to become the bloc’s 1st associate member”: I have my problems with Carney but he’s definitely doing the work that we elected him for, so that’s good.

The good fluffy boy has now been renamed Drooly McDrool-Face

Catherine Ringer, singer for the band “Rita Mitsouko”, has recently passed away, so how about you watch and listen to this slice of late-1980s French music?

“Image Comics is pulling all new comics from GlobalComix after 3-year partnership changes”: this is from back in July, but I just realized it today.

The good fluffy boy says good morning!

Me: (stops buying TTRPG books online because the wife says we have no room left) The Purolator lady: “hey it’s been a while since I delivered a package to this house!”

Here are some cover reveals for the upcoming “Canadian Chronicles”, a set of three historical horror scenarios for Call of Cthulhu, made and set in Canada!

Just like all the other entries in his wonderful Ultima Retrospective, Majuular’s video on Ultima VII is super great.

“Fuck you and your AI”

Another gig night!

The Castle Map: a map of the world’s “great castles and fortresses”.

Here’s the nice story of ID’s “Quake Shareware” CD-ROM, which contained encrypted versions of all of ID’s games, easily unlockable with a phone call and a credit card number.

THE ORB TREE WAXES AND WANES ACROSS SEASONS

More on this “uni-context”: it’s interesting that Callard notes its rise not in recent time, but in the early 1900s.

“A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird”: Agnes Callard takes the concept of “context collapse” further and gets the “uni-context”.

Slugs and snails cross trails as part of the Sacred Ordeal of the Great Dry.

Good morning, from the fluffy good boy.

There are a couple days left on the European Commission’s public consultation on genAI for the “cultural and creative sectors”.

Google refuses to play embedded YouTube videos because I didn’t consent to targeted advertisement cookies.

“Aardman Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets This Month”: the prices are petty high, so only look at the auction website if you (A) have a whole lot of money to spare or (B) are ready to be sad.

The UN has voted for phasing out the Mercator projection in favour of the Equal-Earth projection.

The good fluffy boy had fun in the 30-foot pool at Lynn Canyon yesterday morning.

It makes sense that a wastewater treatment plant has become a total shit-show.

My wife: <starts a movie we ripped from a DVD> Our kid: “Why is the picture quality not very good?”

The park rangers at Lynn Canyon are desperately trying to prevent people from stupidly hurting themselves… every year the signs and fences seem to be slightly tweaked and adjusted.

I took the good fluffy boy to Lynn Canyon early this morning, he was very very happy.

From the delightful “Old School FRP” blog, an ad from Lou Zocchi’s Gamescience announcing D10s numbered in increments of ten “to eliminate once and for all arguments over which die is read first for percentages”.

The Canadian Chronicles are coming soon… three tales of horror for Call of Cthulhu, made and set in Canada and releasing at KamCon!

This upcoming CppCon 2026 panel looks very interesting: the designers of C++, C#, and Python (my 3 most-used programming languages) together on stage, talking about language design.

“A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots”: the point of genAI is always somewhere between “cooking your brain” and “advancing fascism”.

Don’t trust trust Google Maps or genAI when hiking, and use dedicated/specialized tools and resources instead.

“The Topologist’s Map of the World”: I had seen this before but it’s always wonderful to stumble upon it again.