One of the key elements of good character design is that you should be able to recognize them by their silhouette. George Lucas is a well designed character.

Journalism fail: you discover breakdancing and don’t care.

All TTRPGs are meant to be “play to find out”. That’s sort of, err, the whole point about playing a #TTRPG?

Netflix (2018): Thanks to stock value and a head start on streaming, we have more money than anyone to finance the white whale projects of Scorsese and Orson Welles, where box office receipts won't matter, only the art. Netflix (2024): Wanna watch a YouTuber fight an old man?

My teenage kid in real life: stays in bed and complains about having to take out garbage. My teenage kid in Persona 5: hangs out with friends and signs up for part time work.

I wasn’t paying attention to the changes in PC hardware these last couple years, so imagine my surprise when my employer sent me this 8TB storage to add to my workstation, while my home NAS still has giant old school hard drives with half that capacity…

Apparently cheese heists are a thing now? Where is this “cheese black market” they mention? Is it just average cheese cut with low quality cheddar to increase margins? (First slice is free!) Or can I get French imports of good, rotten, stinky cheese?... ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2024/11/1…

This is your reminderthat ever since video games moved to online services and proprietary servers, they effectively stopped being a form of art. They’re just “content” and “monetization” until they’re thrown away. Want to work in video games? Stick to... ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2024/11/1…

This article from NiemanLab titled "I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how." didn't start particularly well for me. It read less about ways to read the news, and more about the inability of some people to just, you know, keep th ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2024/11/1…

“The Reality Of Tariffs In Tabletop Gaming”: Steve Jackson Games’ Meredith Placko lays out what the next US presidency might mean for the #TTRPG and board gaming markets. sjgames.com/ill/archive/20…

“A little-known Canadian wartime tragedy left a lasting mark on international law”: this is an interesting bit of history that ties the modern International Criminal Court, WW2 Nazi war crimes, and a WW1 Canadian hospital ship. theglobeandmail.com/gift/38d5ba805…

The original “How To Train Your Dragon” animated movie is an absolute gem, and one of my favourite movies… of course they’re re-making it as a live action movie. It looks well done and seems to match the original shot by shot soooo… once again, what’s... ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2024/11/2…

This is a really cool typographic website for the history and presentation of a new typeface inspired by the old-school Heathrow Airport signage. airport.revolvertype.com

Out and about along the seawall

We have arrived! Food acquired.

Goodbye public market, hello little False Creek ferries. I love taking the little boats!

My Friday group played Mutant Year Zero for a few months a couple years back, and here are my notes on it! Hopefully this is interesting and useful to anybody planning to run it. #TTRPG ludovic.chabant.com/blog/2024/11/2…

The “Ambiguous Cylinder Illusion” is one of my all-time favourite optical illusions (the squares overlapping while the circles don’t really kills me!), but I had not seen the “interactive applet” that lets you inspect how the illusion works. Genius! futilitycloset.com/2024/11/22/rou…

“If you’re you're saying that you don't even have to pay a license to that person to use their work to create the product that's destroying the market for their work—I just don't understand how that can be fair use.” — Judge Chhabria